Nevada, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Eric Kusunoki

...was from Tennessee, one group from Nevada , and they started singing. So ...

Christine Chen

...battleground states. So, like, Nevada , you're going to have a lot mor...

Gregory Craig

...me up—I think it was the day before the Nevada primary or caucus—and said, “We nee...
...I finally—again, this is just before Nevada —write him a letter. Because Obam...
...he was going to do this, it was after Nevada , and I think it was after Sout...

Austan Goolsbee

...that somebody sent from Henderson, Nevada , and we're going to try to figure i...

Felicia Escobar Carrillo

...on immigration policy in Las Vegas, Nevada . I was there. He was ready. Everyon...

Astrid Silva

...Big Nevada . Astrid Silva is a leading figure i...
...turned fifteen and a half, and here in Nevada we're able to go get our driver'...
...years ago, a DREAMer up in northern Nevada , and he would tell me that he neve...
...and things before any of the—because Nevada 's so different. People don'...
...so different. People don't understand Nevada . I think even I, who have grown u...

...sometimes I'm like, What the hell is Nevada doing [laughs], because we're s...
...started the Democratic Party here in Nevada , and were getting in their seventie...
... Dream Big Vegas and now Dream Big Nevada . Do you have a working relationshi...
...immigration attorney that founded the Nevada chapter of AILA here in the '80s. H...
...all answer. We were so enclosed in our Nevada scene that I don't think we knew wha...
...to Senator Reid. You have all of these Nevada people with all of these people tha...
...plans they had. Our messaging here in Nevada 's very different. And, yes, as year...
...were being used in other states. Again, Nevada 's a very unique state. People sa...
...not even thinking of working with the Nevada Legislature. And now to think we'v...
...I remember, it was 2008 and, again, Nevada . We have every candidate here thre...
...Senator Reid was a few feet away. I'm a Nevada girl. I grew up here. Area 51 is th...
...[Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada ] was an organization that I wa...
...in Carson City. It was during the Nevada Legislature. And I was at a funera...
...they call it, but a memorial, for a Nevada politician that had passed away, and h...
...in the governor's mansion—like, only Nevada . I was sitting in the governor'...
...me was the ability to open Dream Big Nevada , to eventually get on the path to it...
...fact, we're talking about Dream Big Nevada . Could you elaborate on the service...
...kick things off. Again, Dream Big Nevada , when I decided—all the other member...
...to take the next step for Dream Big Nevada —it was after the 2016 election. I ha...
...being the only undocumented person in Nevada that actually is the founder, an...
...they get elected—especially here in Nevada , people get elected at very youn...
...think the reason we were successful in Nevada is because we were educating people. W...
...many miles across, Las Vegas is, or Nevada —well, Nevada's way bigger. But howeve...
...across, Las Vegas is, or Nevada—well, Nevada 's way bigger. But however big La...

Michael Steele

...Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada . We only had three of those four—w...
...had three of those four—we didn't have Nevada . So we wanted—Tim and I talked abou...

Chris Hughes

...morning?” That was the thing, because Nevada was next. It was a really disorientin...
...fast, and a couple things had happened. Nevada 's on a Saturday and we claimed to hav...

Rebecca Tallent

...holding out hope for [John] Ensign from Nevada to come around on this. If he had vote...

Josh Earnest

...went from Iowa to New Hampshire to Nevada to South Carolina, but people had move...

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