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its Boris Yeltsin-era

constitution, and citi-

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Democratic activists who worked

on the 2018 senate campaign of

former state rep. Beto o’rourke,

who lost but came close enough

to show that the state’s politics

are quickly changing. at first she

laughed off the idea — she had

never run before and had no

desire to do so — but they remind-

ed her of the need for more Latina

voices in politics.

Just three years ago, catherine

cortez masto (D-nev.) became

the first Latina elected to the U.s.

senate, and just over a year ago,

Te xas elected its first two Latinas

to the U.s. House: Democrats

Veronica escobar of el Paso and

sylvia garcia of Houston.

“There are many moments

when i still doubt myself, that i

think maybe i’m not smart

enough, maybe i’m not the right

see identity on a

BY JENNA JOHNSON

DALLAS — When cristina Tz -

intzún ramirez meets with young

voters, she often asks them to

name a Te xas Latina who “speaks

for us, for the state.” They nearly

always respond with the late sing-

er selena.

“she is amazing, she had a

brilliant voice, but she’s been

dead for over two decades,” the

Democratic candidate for the U.s.

senate said at a recent Latina

networking brunch. “That hurts

that we can’t see ourselves any-

where in power.”

Tz intzún ramirez, 38, is trying

to change that, against what re-

main substantial odds. after a

career of organizing construction

workers and young voters of color

in Te xas, she was recruited to run

for senate last summer by fellow

A Latina Democrat’s challenge:

Who speaks for shifting Texas?

BY CHICO HARLAN

in moria, greece

greece’s critically overcrowded aegean is-

land camps, where europe’s m igrant crisis is

clearly far from over.

at the moria refugee camp on Lesbos, the

largest of the island facilities, migrants wait

in snaking lines for up to eight hours a day to

get their meals. They wait for breakfast,

come back to their shelters for an hour or

two, and soon head off to wait for lunch.

“a ll day waiting,” ayobi said. “in all the

time we spend in line, we could learn a new

language.”

They wait because this camp has mush-

roomed in size, growing seven times as

see greece on a

Refugee camps bungle the basics

Migrants wait in hours-long bread lines while tourists dine on seafood minutes away

giorgos moutafis for the Washington Post

The senator and his allies insist he

could, but his detractors say he is

too polarizing to win i n november

— and could severely cost Demo-

crats in congressional or state rac-

es if republicans use sanders’s

self-description as a democratic

socialist to paint all Democrats as

extreme.

The sanders insurgency is the

culmination of grievances that

have simmered for the past de-

cade among liberals who say

Washington has all but ignored

the problems of income inequali-

ty, health-care access and climate

change.

“The party has shifted to the

left, and i don’t think many of the

more traditional, legacy l eaders o f

the party got it,” said andrew L.

see sanders on a

BY ROBERT COSTA

AND PHILIP RUCKER

Bernie sanders has seized a

commanding position in the

Democratic presidential race,

building a diverse coalition that is

driving his liberal movement to-

ward the cusp of a takeover of a

major political party.

The senator’s ascendancy,

though years in the making, is

forcing a sudden reckoning in the

Democratic Party’s hierarchy, as

centrist politicians and their

wealthy benefactors grapple with

the upheaval brought by an elec-

torate not only hungry to defeat

President Trump, but also clamor-

ing for radical c hange.

Following sanders’s resound-

ing victory in saturday’s nevada

caucuses, and with polls showing

him on the rise, Democrats are

entering a season of open warfare

over whether sanders (i-Vt.) is

equipped to beat Trump in what

could be a brutal general election.

Sanders’s ascent

forces a reckoning

for Democrats

liberal tide may herald party takeover

Nevada win brings d ismay, hostility from moderates

election 2020

as night closed in on the migrant camp,

masses of people made their way to their

tents, climbing hills of denuded olive trees,

carrying dinner in plastic bags. Lila ayobi

showed her family what she had waited

three hours in line to collect.

Te n cucumbers.

“everything else was finished,” ayobi, 39,

told them. Her four children would have

nothing else to eat until morning, when

ayobi would rise at 5 to wait in line again,

this time for prepackaged croissants, one

per person.

Waiting and disappointment are a central

part of existence for the 38,000 people at

sergio flores for the Washington Post

texas democrat cristina tzintzún ramirez, right, is among a dozen

candidates running to unseat incumbent sen. John cornyn (r).

BY GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER

RICHMOND — an unlikely alli-
ance between a black Democrat
and white republicans from the
opposite end of the state has
Virginia poised to pull the lever
on casino gambling after decades
of resisting its lure.
The senate and the H ouse of
Delegates have approved ver-
sions of a complicated bill that
would permit casinos in five
cities — and potentially a casino-
like slot machine palace in
Prince William county.
The effort has drawn criticism
for not requiring competition for
lucrative l icenses, defying the
recommendation of a state com-
mission that studied the issue.
instead, the legislation largely
rewards a small group of inves-
tors and interests who already
had relationships with many of
see casinos on a

Economic

desperation

may spur Va.

casino deals

BY DESMOND BUTLER

AND JULIET EILPERIN

For climate change skeptics, it’s

hard to compete with the youthful

appeal of global phenomenon

greta Thunberg. But one U.s.

think tank hopes it’s found an

answer: the anti-greta.

naomi seibt is a 19-year-old

german who, like greta, is blond,

eloquent and european. But nao-

mi denounces “climate alarm-

ism,” calls climate consciousness

“a despicably anti-human ideolo-

gy” a nd has even deployed greta’s

now famous “How dare you?” line

to take on the mainstream ger-

man media.

“she’s a fantastic voice for free

markets and for climate realism,”

said James Ta ylor, director of the

arthur B. robinson center for

climate and environmental Poli-

cy at the Heartland institute, an

influential libertarian think tank

in suburban chicago that has the

ear of the Trump administration.

in December, Heartland head-

lined naomi at its forum at the

U.n. climate conference in ma-

drid, where Ta ylor described her

see seibt on a

Against ‘climate alarmism’: The anti-Greta

sebastien Van malleghem for the Washington Post

naomi seibt, 19, is working with a conservative U.s. think

tank to promote “climate realism” and draws comparisons

for her contrasting ideas to climate activist greta thunberg.

a migrant from

afghanistan warms

himself in front of a

fire at the Moria

refu g ee camp on the

greek island of

Lesbos. nearly

20,000 people are

being housed at the

Moria site.

caucus query: buttigieg campaign

questions nevada results. a

super tuesday: for candidates,

the race has become a sprint. a

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