Russell Contreras

I'm off to BlueSky @russcontreras.bsky.social Twitter (X) is filled with too many bigots and trolls. Watch this. Here's a piece I wrote last year about the myth of the open border. It's accurate. It also got me death threats. Watch replies now axios.com/2023/10/17/us-…

Many of us are still mourning the shutdown of @axios' #Latino/#Latina newsletter. Wishing all of its contributors, including @astridgalvan & @RussContreras a prosperous 2025. Continue to shine the light on our community's growing impact on the U.S. axios.com/2024/12/19/lat…

@astridgalvan @danielggarza And here you are again @danielggarza getting quoted in Axios Latino. Your boy @wadijr was always pitching you. axios.com/2023/08/03/lib…

@astridgalvan Yes, you were even interviewed on an Axios Latino live events and I tapped you for your thoughts many stories. I have no idea what happened to you @danielggarza youtube.com/watch?v=RiJcLN…

I'm sorry, you and your organization were featured in it many times. Seems like something the president of a Latino-focused organization should know?? axios.com/2023/08/03/lib…

@nicoleMfoy Gracias, hermana. People need to read their history!

Why is @RussContreras always reading my mind... You read any history of the Chicano movement or the UFW or something & there's a chapter on that time leaders called INS on folks they felt threatened the movement Immigration is not always a uniting theme axios.com/2024/11/07/don…

Decades ago, anti-immigrant sentiment was the status quo among many Latino civil rights leaders, even as they fought discrimination and segregation. So growing Latino support for some of President-elect Trump's harsh immigration policies is nothing new axios.com/2024/11/07/don…

@m_a_h_o_n_e_y Good luck @axioscharlotte !!!

🗳️ Polls open at 6:30am and there’s a line in Elizabeth. Voter guide: axios.com/local/charlott…

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to seek a major-party nomination for president of the U.S. in 1972. But did you know that Patsy Mink was the first Asian American to run for president that same year? A Black woman and AAPI woman ran 52 years ago h/t @NialaBoodhoo

National Guard units in several states and local law enforcement agencies are on alert or standby this week as authorities prepare for any violence by extremist groups upset about the election results axios.com/2024/11/04/pol…

The @AuschwitzMuseum will mark in January the 80th anniversary of the liberation as aging Holocaust survivors urge the world to recognize signs of potential genocides and racial violence, but the museum tries to avoid addressing specific current conflicts axios.com/2024/11/03/aus…

New: Harris is the "no comment" candidate — purposely and strategically—calculating it's safer to be vague on some policies than hit as a flip-flopper or left-winger. We asked about over 12 of her past stances the past 2 months. The no comment list: axios.com/2024/11/03/kam…

Harris' "no comment" strategy clouds how she'd govern trib.al/A5cduMa

Worth the watch: The last 4 of our congressional candidate conversations air tonight on @NMinFocus. A note on this year's election coverage: We would've been sunk w/o our correspondents. Thanks to @RussContreras and especially to my longtime friend & coconspirator @GwynethDoland.

A federal jury convicted a former Louisville police detective of violating Breonna Taylor's rights by using excessive force when he fired 10 shots during the fatal 2020 raid on her apartment axios.com/2024/11/02/lou…

Americans are divided on whether U.S. culture and way of life was better in the 1950s, with white Christians more likely to say it was, a new @PRRIpoll survey finds axios.com/2024/11/02/sur…

How come Americans in Mexico are "expats," but Mexicans in the USA are unwanted immigrants?