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“I feel sad, defrauded, angry and powerless,” said Maria Hernandez, 50, a longtime Huntington Park resident who attended last week’s court hearing to support the former councilwoman.

Trapped behind bars, the tribal police lieutenant is powerless as he watches his young cousin be taken away by an abusive priest.

Second, national Democrats are powerless in the Republican-controlled House and Senate.

We must empower citizens in general, and the most powerless among us in particular, and we must commit ourselves to realism.

He says he felt powerless to help those who had become trapped under the debris.