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Opinion: What’s the Matter with Iowa? Mucho!

NewsTaco January 28, 2016

*I’ve been asking the same question. Iowa is overwhelmingly white, where mostly evangelicals vote, it’s rural and it’s first to have primary in presidential election years. The point is that […]

2016 is forcing immigration activists to tear up their old playbook

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Survery: Minorities make up 14 percent of state lawmakers

NewsTaco January 26, 2016

Texas Faces Lawsuit Over Provision of Border Security Law

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*The State of Texas says it’s a state crime to harbor undocumented immigrants. MALDEF says that’s a federal responsibility so the Texas law violates the constitution’s Supremacy Clause. So MALDEF has […]

Despite political storm, Gov. Suana Martinez has 56% approval in New Mexico

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*This is according to a Latino Decisions poll published last week. We’re paying attention to New Mexico politics because the state is once again considered a swing state in presidential […]

Iowa Latinos emerging as small, but potentially significant political force

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*I’ve been intrigued by the Latinos-in-Iowa story. They’re 5 percent of the population, yet the presidential campaigns and Latino organizations are spending a lot of time and energy registering, motivating […]

A Wake-Up Call to Latino Voters on the Importance of Courts

NewsTaco January 25, 2016

*The rallying call fact in Dolores Huerta’s piece is that during the next president’s first year in office four Supreme Court justices will be 80 years-old, and the average retirement […]