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📱The Most Important Stories In One Place Read captions for full story ✍🏽 by: Kevin Ortega-Rojas Read on Substack👇🏾
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A REINTRODUCTION: This platform has blown up over the last two years, and I haven’t stopped to say hello.
My name is Kevin Ortega-Rojas, and I’m the founder of HeresWhyKevin. I’m a writer committed to making news and politics easy to understand. For the last three years, I’ve dedicated myself to covering stories that impact the most marginalized communities.
My goal is to eventually launch a digital newsroom that reports the stories that matter to us and creates opportunities for Black and brown journalists who have been forced out of their jobs. I want to build something that serves our communities — not the billionaires who want to control the press.
I’m also finishing my first book, set to be released in summer 2027. It’s about the current era of news and how social media has changed the way we get our information.
If my work has helped keep you informed and you want to support what I’m building, here are the best ways to help:
Subscribe to my Substack!
Beginning this week, subscribers will get a nightly newsletter recapping the biggest stories of the day, so you don’t have to keep up with everything I post here. Subscribe at HeresWhyKevin.Substack.com.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel!
That’s where I post interviews with political leaders and my show, ELR News with Kevin Ortega-Rojas, which drops every Friday. My panel series, Here’s Why, relaunches next week, featuring your favorite commentators and journalists.
And if you’d rather stay right here, keep sharing my work—even when the news is hard to hear. It helps.
Thank you for being here and supporting me.
Warmly,
Kevin
07 Oct 2026
Trump is putting shackles on Black people.
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#HeresWhy #Immigration #Haiti #AbolishICE #MAGA
02 Aug 2026
An UPDATE on that story from yesterday. Turns out one of the two teens that were unlawfully detained by ICE at a Target store was thrown out of the vehicle. Witnesses found him outside of a Walmart store.
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#HeresWhy #News #Minnesota #AbolishICE #Latinos
10 Jan 2026
According to the Washington Sun, Rep. Haley Stevens spent Monday night’s vote series in the Republican cloak room just off of the House floor. Stevens voted on two bills but was never spotted among her Democratic colleagues. Her office has also been abandoned after her staff quit on her last week.
Source: Washington Sun
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#HeresWhy #Politics #Democrats #News #Congress
09 Nov 2026
“The last thing people want to hear … is about the next election … they want to know what we’re going to do with the power they just gave us.” AOC told reporters outside the Capitol that now is not the time to ask her or any other member about future elections.
Video: CSPAN
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#HeresWhy #AOC #Democrats #Politics #Viral
09 Nov 2026
Matt Little was just elected to Congress to represent Minnesota’s 2nd congressional district. He is replacing outgoing Rep. Angie Craig. After the second day of orientation, Matt took to social media to make a simple request: “Don’t call me congressman. Just call me Matt.”
Little, an incoming member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, says he understands why people ‘lose themselves’ when they get to Washington. “Everything has your name on it … people laugh at your jokes even though they’re not that good.” In order to remain grounded, he is asking that he be referred to by his name.
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#HeresWhy #Politics #Progressives #Democrats #Viral
09 Nov 2026
DSA members Claire Valdez, Chris Rabb, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Melat Kiros spoke to reporters about their reluctance to support Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker at this time. The group says their position is not about naming another candidate for Speaker but about ensuring that their party is ready to set a ‘bold agenda.’
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#HeresWhy #Politics #Democrats #DSA #News
09 Nov 2026
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer posed for a photo op with incoming Democratic Senators. Schumer is hoping to serve as Majority Leader in the next Congress but many senator-elects say it’s time for change.
Schumer has taken credit for the Democrats winning a majority but he supported different primary candidates in many of these races including Illinois, Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota.
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#HeresWhy #Politics #Democrats #ChuckSchumer #News
09 Nov 2026
The end of MAGA
09 Nov 2026
BREAKING: CNN projects that Democrat Eileen Laubacher will defeat incumbent MAGA Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert to represent Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Boebert will leave Congress in January.
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#HeresWhy #BreakingNews #MAGA #BlueWave #USNews
09 Nov 2026
A discharge petition for a bill would provide permanent legal status for Dreamers is one signature away from unlocking a House floor vote.
Journalist Pablo Manríquez of @MigrantInsider brought attention to the fact that a discharge petition for the American Dream and Promise Act has reached 217 signatures. It just needs one more member to sign in order to move the legislation forward to a floor vote. The signature has to be a Republican.
The bill would give eligible undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a pathway to permanent residency and eventual citizenship. Right now dreamers rely on temporary protections.
This comes as the Trump administration says they’re willing to negotiate. According to Politico, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is open to a deal addressing DACA recipients’ legal status but “draws a line at amnesty.” Mullin says Trump has encouraged him to work with Democrats on immigration.
While on 60 Minutes President Trump said that his deportation policies were “too tough.” He said he is open to working with Democrats on a deal that could allow undocumented workers to remain in the country legally.
With Democrats set to control both the House and Senate, theres a possible opening for significant immigration relief next Congress.
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#HeresWhy #Politics #Immigration #AbolishICE #DACA
09 Nov 2026
RIGHT NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie is on the House floor reading the resolution to impeach Sec. Pete Hegseth. He says Hegseth has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office.”
Some Republicans say they’re ready to support the resolution and send it to the Senate.
Others, like Rep. Don Bacon, say it would be easier if Hegseth simply resigned this week.
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#HeresWhy #PeteHegseth #MAGA #Congress #USNews
09 Nov 2026
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