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Texas Legislature Approves Voter ID
It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming. What with the Texas GOP reading population tea leaves, fighting for dear life in the redistricting process and seeing their waning popularity in […]
GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks
The way it breaks down is this: Republican-dominated state houses in Texas have not taken up congressional redistricting, now it may be too late, and if a special session needs […]
Will Democrats Pass The DREAM Act This Time? Prolly Not
Do you remember the disappointment you felt when the DREAM Act didn’t pass? I do, it was a heavy kind of disappointment, the kind you know will last for a […]
Is The Texas Legislature Self-Destructive?
By Henry Flores, Ph.D. You know I generally just study elections, concluding something about the electorate, how the campaign was run, why voters voted the way they did, the relation […]
Obama’s Political Calculus on Immigration
Just a week before announcing the launch of his reelection campaign President Barack Obama sent a message to selected Immigration activists in congress: cool it. The purposely quiet campaign launch made […]
Texas Immigration Law Makes Room for House-Mexicans
The worst part about Texas House Bill 1202 is that the authors don’t see how it’s insulting and hypocritical, on the other hand the bill paints a realistic picture of […]
GOP Tries To Spark Black-Brown Fight
Republicans were charged by Black lawmakers on Wednesday of stoking tensions between the African American and Latino communities by arguing during a hearing that if it were not for illegal […]
Feds Sending Mixed Messages on Who Gets Deported
The last thing you need in a heated argument is confusion and mixed messages. If we’re going to bicker we should be able to do it with the same set […]
Note to Bill Richardson: You Don’t Speak for Us
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out! Geez. Not a day after former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson left office, a group of disgruntled Latinos have told […]
Harry Reid Still Set To Fight For Immigration Reform
By Stace Medellín After leading the Senate in passing some major bills, whether you liked the bills or not, The New York Times political blog is telling us that Senate […]