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JD Vance, do you really think that you get to decided who deserves to be considered an American? You clearly don't think Angie Nixon makes the list. At a Florida rally this month you, the Vice President, told the crowd that the Jacksonville state representative and U.S. Senate candidate should "get the hell out" of the country -- that she doesn't "belong in America if those are your views." Her views, for the record, include wanting people to have health care and homes. Nixon is about as "from here" as an American can be. She is the granddaughter of Georgia sharecroppers, her family rooted in this country for generations. "It's really disheartening, especially knowing that I come from folks who helped build this country," she observed in an interview after Vance's rally speech. "All I want for people is to have access to quality health care, to have access to fully funded public schools, for people to have homes, to live in and not have to worry about living on the streets. There's absolutely nothing radical or extreme about that. And I don't consider myself a socialist, I consider myself a lifelong Democrat who puts people over party, people over politics, and people over profit." What she rejected most was his presumption: that belonging in America is his to grant or deny. "I don't need JD Vance's permission to belong here," she wrote. "We built this country. We bled for it. We worked the land, raised the children, and did the jobs nobody else wanted to do, all while being told at every turn that we didn't quite belong." As she summed up: "This is my home." It is safe to say that your ideas about who deserves to be American are in fact very un-American. (This is especially shocking to me given that your own wife is an immigrant and a woman of color. She and your children could be judged undeserving under the hateful words you chose to say or amplify. MAGA is making women if color and immigrants targets and you act as if those same radicals will not come for your own family some day. Are you truly so ignorant and short sighted?) Luckily for Angie Nixon (and your wife and children) our Constitution decides who is an American, not you. The majority of Americans reject this administration's MAGA, White Nationalist push to exclude anyone who isn't a White Christian from those considered deserving. If the politicians in our highest government offices (Yes, I'm looking at you JD) can't respect and uphold the Constitution, then they can't uphold their oaths of office and must be removed and replaced for the safety of the American people and the democracy we cherish!