among those who won, maria hinojosa. she chronicles the story all the way to unexpected freedom. >> i have a day to go home. i have a date to go home, november 20. >> oh, my god. amy: and we will speak with historian and 2019 macarthur genius fellow kelly lytle hernandez. her new book out today, "bad mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands." >> it tells the storyf a group of mexican dissidents who came to the united states in the early 20thentury against the dictator backed in mexico. it chronicles their social moveme here inhe united states and how the dictator mexico worked closely with the u.s. government to suppress their movement. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. russian missiles fell on the ukrainian port city of odesa overnight, destroying a shopping mall and two hotels and leaving at least one person dead. the assault came as russian forces reportedly crossed a key river in eastern ukraine's luhansk region

. >>> and joining the discussion now chairman hinojosa, chairman of the democrat party and gina hinojosa. this is father and daughter, thank you both for joining us. mr. hinojosa, you have seen so much in your time in texas. have you ever seen a situation in which public officials have been less accountable and less helpful in explaining as quickly as possible what actually happened in that school? >> no, never. this is the first time i've seen anything like this occur, particularly when you have so many different law enforcement agencies involved here. you know, we have the department of public safety which is the chief law enforcement agency in the state of texas. they are generally the people that when you come on to the scene, they charge -- they are the ones that are calling all the shots, and then they are blaming the head of the school district and police department which is a small, small department. this is a city of 16,000. you're not talking about a very big police department, so it's very strange to me that the largest law enforcement agency, the agency that's in channel of a

just ask veteran journalist maria hinojosa, who just won a pulitzer for her latest podcast, suave. that. right maria hinojosa and david swab a gonzalez, the namesake of the podcast, first met in 1993 well staying at a correctional institution in pennsylvania. at the time, suave was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old, a minor. they stayed in touch, as a source for other stories on the incarcerated population and then as friends. although the podcast focuses on one, man it is telling the story of thousands of other people sentenced to die in prison for a crime they committed as a minor. suave's got, regiment deeply personal and full of heart. that's what makes it so good. just listen to this exchange at the very start of one of the episodes. >> what's going on? just talk to me. suave, i'm talking to you, what is going on? >> i'm cool. >> suave, forget that maggie is in the room, forget that -- >> i'm cool, i'm cool. >> yeah, but tell me what just happened? >> i never thought i would be locked up in a room like t

joining me now, former republican congressman, david jolly of florida, a msnbc analyst and maria hinojosag denied catholic union over her defense of reproductive rights. i wonder where you think this conversation goes from here and how democrats, in particular, begin to craft a message around this that resonates as they go into november? >> alicia, elections are ultimately about a contrast. democrats have a lot of runway to work on the contrast between where they stand and not just protecting life but protecting life from cradle to grave, representing the value of all lives compared to republicans who vote after vote, continue to paint themselves in the corner. this week's vote on the formula bill being a good example. i think what i am fascinated to see about this though is that the democrats have a once in a generation opportunity to grab tens of millions of persuadable voters on the issue of roe. what i mean by that is that both sides will turn on their base. the pace will turn out, there is no question. but on this decision on row, there are tens of millions of americans who may not i