Xavier Martinez
@xavierjohnm
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News associate @WSJ, currently covering Congress
Both Washingtons
Joined June 2020
Thanks to Steve and the @latimes crew, R.B. Brenner, and @StanfordJourn for giving me the chance to tell a story that's been brewing for quite some time. I am so, so grateful
Stories often focus on people or places, but this @latimes Column One puts objects center stage: notebooks kept by a farmworker. Xavier Martinez writes about his abuelo, whose notebooks essentially became a diary of a family's struggle and rise.
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RT @MLNow: A man allegedly stole 4 packs of toilet paper from a Walgreens. DA Jenkins wanted him charged w/a felony carrying a 3-year jail…
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RT @RichardRubinDC: New from me: The emerging Republican growth argument isn't "tax cuts pay for themselves." It's "everything that's going…
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RT @AndrewRestuccia: A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approv…
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RT @samstein: NEW: The government is being strangled. Sources tell me: * PEPFAR programs are faltering * Head Start says 63 grant recipien…
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RT @l_e_whyte: NEW - White House preparing executive order to fire thousands of federal health agency workers With @betswrites
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RT @GeraldFSeib: Amazing reporting detail here: The night before Sen. Thom Tillis cast the fateful 50th “yes” vote to confirm Pete Hegseth,…
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RT @charlesornstein: Last day of publishing for my local print newspaper. Pretty wild to think about.
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RT @TimJHanrahan: 🚨🚨🚨 From @wsj @lindsaywise: Senate Republicans are now worried about how Sen. Tillis will vote on Hegseth, people familia…
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RT @MHackman: According to our math, Ice under Biden performed 467 arrests on average per day in 2023 (although the average fell to 310 in…
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RT @MarkMuro1: Voters want "MAGA lite," rather than extra-strength MAGA, write @AaronZitner and @xavierjohnm on new WSJ poll https://t.c…
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RT @MLNow: Nearly a third of San Francisco's city-contracted nonprofits surveyed by the city did not meet fiscal standards, a new report sh…
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The legislation would strip federal funding from schools that let transgender girls compete in female sports categories
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