Claudia Grisales
Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.
Before joining NPR in June 2019, she was a Capitol Hill reporter covering military affairs for Stars and Stripes. She also covered breaking news involving fallen service members and the Trump administration's relationship with the military. She also investigated service members who have undergone toxic exposures, such as the atomic veterans who participated nuclear bomb testing and subsequent cleanup operations.
Prior to Stars and Stripes, Grisales was an award-winning reporter at the daily newspaper in Central Texas, the Austin American-Statesman, for 16 years. There, she covered the intersection of business news and regulation, energy issues and public safety. She also conducted a years-long probe that uncovered systemic abuses and corruption at Pedernales Electric Cooperative, the largest member-owned utility in the country. The investigation led to the ousting of more than a dozen executives, state and U.S. congressional hearings and criminal convictions for two of the co-op's top leaders.
Grisales is originally from Chicago and is an alum of the University of Houston, the University of Texas and Syracuse University. At Syracuse, she attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she earned a master's degree in journalism.
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A trio of Latina congresswomen are seeking second terms from Pacific Northwest voters. The region is often presumed to be a reliable blue pocket, but down-ballot races are a stronger shade of purple.
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Democrats hope to use the influence of Latina women who back Vice President Harris to win over Latino men who are backing former President Donald Trump.
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Democrats are hoping to pick up one Electoral College vote for Kamala Harris this year. Their spending is affecting Republican Rep. Don Bacon’s campaign to keep his seat.
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Dozens of advocates are blanketing Capitol Hill this week to push for Congress to revive a program that provided compensation to people with long-standing impacts from U.S. nuclear testing programs.
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The measure does not include any part of the SAVE Act, the election security proposal backed by former President Donald Trump.
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Democrats and Republicans both think they can win the state's Second Congressional District — one of the swingiest in the country — where immigration and abortion rights are dominating the debate.
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The Government Accountability Office found that Black girls received nearly half of the most severe punishments, like expulsion, even though they represent only 15% of girls in public schools.
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Florida Democratic Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is launching an effort to directly reach Spanish-speaking voters through the popular encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp. It is part of her broader effort to reach Spanish-speaking Latino voters in an increasingly tight Senate race.
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Gaetz is in a primary fight tied to ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the latest salvo in an ongoing war. Gaetz led that ouster. Now his district encapsulates a GOP intraparty clash that fuels dysfunction on the House floor and the campaign trail.
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Women in the Congressional Black Caucus reflect on the political rise of Kamala Harris, a former member of the organization, and share their own experiences with power in Washington.