Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

And people aren't going to tell you that.

Like, no one's going to be like, you know, but.

Well, and it is.

And it's powerful, I think, to an idea that would like to box certain people, whether like you're a woman or you're Hispanic, into this stereotype on like how you should believe and think and vote.

Well, what was interesting is I shared my story.

So, like, remember I told you I started out as an activist, and I would tell people this because, you know, I do feel like, too, at a certain sense, when you tell your story, you can share that you're empowering other people to take something and turn it into a positive.

And within like maybe a couple of weeks of me getting elected, I all of a sudden started having this Washington Post reporter reaching out to my family and actually asked my mom whether she had proof that my grandmother had actually passed away HIV positive.

And was harassing.

Yeah.

And so they put out this nasty, nasty article about me basically trying to say that I had fabricated my dad's incarceration record.

They had tried to say that I was a registered Democrat in Washington, like all this stuff that was categorically false.

And I had actually gotten contacted from like my old old little smear piece.

Always terrible, but I had receipts.

And so after this came out, I said, no, hold up.

And I actually gave Fox News all of my stuff that I had and I was able to refute.

And then Time magazine had actually reached out and they said, would you mind if we conduct like an interview on your background?

I said, how about it?

Here's my information.

I had actually even gotten my DNA done to like prove that I'm Hispanic because of the fact that I'm lighter skin.

When I got elected, there was like this controversy on how Hispanic was I and like it was actually a thing.