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sentences that state something as happening or true
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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary under Joe Biden, has been elected governor of New Mexico and will become the first Native American woman to govern a US state.
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Haaland → elect → state
Haaland, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent Gregg Hull, 60, a businessman and the longtime mayor of the city of Rio Rancho.
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Haaland → defeat → Rancho
Haaland, 65, had already broken boundaries as the first Indigenous cabinet secretary.
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Haaland → break → secretary
Her victory in New Mexico, where Native Americans make up 12% of the population, comes as Indigenous voters are asserting more power in elections nationwide.
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voters → make → elections
Haaland, who is a member of Laguna Pueblo, has been a rising star in national politics since 2018 when she was elected to Congress alongside a wave of progressive freshmen lawmakers, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
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she → rise → Cortez
After Biden was elected president in 2020, he named Haaland to lead the interior department.
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he → elect → department
Haaland invoked her experience as a single mother navigating Medicaid, WIC and Stamp before attending law school in her 30s throughout her campaign.
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Haaland → invoke → campaign
Haaland served as a tribal administrator at San Felipe Pueblo and became the first woman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation board of directors, before serving as the Native American vote director in New Mexico for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.
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Haaland → serve → campaign
After running for lieutenant governor in 2014, in a race Republicans ultimately won, she became the first Native American woman to be elected to lead a state party.
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she → run → party
Haaland’s election to Congress in 2018 saw her and Kansas representative Sharice Davids become the first Native American women elected to Congress.
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her → see → Congress
This election cycle, a record-setting 358 Indigenous candidates ran for office in local, state and federal elections across the country – including former Alaska congresswoman Mary Peltola and Minnesota lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan who were contending to become the first Native American women in the US Senate.
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who → set → Senate
Although Native Americans have made significant gains in political power in recent years, it’s been a long road to get here.
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it → make → years
Native Americans have only been allowed to vote across the entire United States since the 1960s.
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Americans → allow → 1960s
In New Mexico, Native Americans won the right to vote in 1948, when Miguel Trujillo, a second world war veteran and Isleta Pueblo tribal member, sued the state.
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Trujillo → win → state
In 2023, New Mexico became the first and only state in the country to implement an updated Native American Voting Rights Act, which gave tribes greater input on polling locations and redistricting.
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which → become → locations
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