Elections q a. This is our first time doing this panel so we are incredibly thrilled to be back we are very grateful to our host at net roots nation and also, thank you very much for Live Streaming the session. We will be taking questions. You can tweet us to our twitter account and we will try to get to your questions as well. In the spirit of the blogosphere, this panel has always been about interactivity. We dont do any speeches and presentations and we will just give quick introductions about who we are and then well get right to your questions because we think arming progressives with information about the election they need to be fighting in is whats going to make us the most effective we possibly can be heading into the 2018 midterms and beyond. My name is david and im the political director and i run part of our website. We put out a newsletter every morning called the morning digest which covers every key race for senate, house, governorship and also for theyre down ballot and
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
Q and a. We are incredibly thrilled to be back, and we are grateful to our hosts at Netroots Nation. Thank you tonetroo to Netroots Nation for Live Streaming this. We are taking questions. Well be taking questions online. You can tweet at us. This panel has been about interactivity. We dont do any speeches or presentations. I am just going to give a quick introduction about who we are and we will get to your questions. We think our main progressives with information about we are they need to be fighting in is going to make us the most effective into the 2018 midterms and beyond. My dame my name is david nir. Kosn the website, daily elections. We put out a newsletter every Morning Coffee morning digest that covers morning called the morning digest. It covers raises and more. Races and more. We are responsible for the daily kos candidate endorsement program, which i am sure will come up in the panel. The team here is all involved in helping us choose who we decide to support and who we f
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Between the people opposed ilLegal Immigration and just immigrants in general questioner that is an excellent question. That is often a concern, right, that we are talking about two very different kinds of of immigration here of immigration year. Undocumented immigration and ilLegal Immigration. An alibi analyses, even when they look at questions that only ask about ilLegal Immigration, the relationship stays the same. This is the research weve done that is so much with the framing is about that implicitly will be arrested think about immigration, we associate immigration with illegality and also latinos and a lot of psychologists have uncovered this implicit relationship that weve made between immigration, citizenship and the racial or ethnic group associated with that. Thank you. My concern or maybe my question is all immigrant populations have gone through process before they are culture aided and assimilated. Latinos have been coming in this area for many, many years, especially wi