latino voting rights
Latino voters will reshape American politics as we know it — and here’s the proof
*The problem isn’t the proof in an article, it’s the proof of past performance. This past election solidified the idea that Latinos don’t vote. VL By Sean McElwee and Spencer Piston, […]
Latino Voters Continue To Face Barriers At Polling Places
*”Nearly one in five Latino voters (18 percent) reported being told previously that they could not vote. More than one in four (27 percent) of Latino voters reported experienced waiting […]
The forgotten history of how Latinos earned the right to vote
*The battles for equal educational rights for Latinos go back many, many generations. And many of those historic battles started in Texas. This is a good read for perspective, context, […]
Texans deserve the full protection of the Voting Rights Act
*Any time legendary civil rights attorney Al Kauffman has something to say I consider it worthy of publication. VL By Al Kauffman, NewsTaco (6 minute read) Section 5 of the […]
Ruling clears way for Pasadena voting rights suit to go to trial
*MALDEF, changing U.S. Latino politics one battle, one victory at a time. VL By Mihir Zaveri, Houston Chronicle (2 minute read) A federal judge has denied Pasadena’s request to throw out a […]
Donald Trump’s kryptonite: millions of active – and furious – Latino voters
*Wonderful! A call to arms for Latino voters (recent voter registration numbers show we really don’t need one . . . but still). Share this! VL By Sabrina Vourvoulias, The […]
Diluting the Latino Vote in CA’s Central Valley
*It’s an uphill battle without a strong Voting Rights Act. But MALDEF, chips away at gerrymandering one district at a time. VL By Marcus Castro, South Kern Sol/New America Media BAKERSFIELD, […]
Will Latino Millennials Upend the Democratic Establishment?
*Forty-four percent of millennials are Latino. What’s more, Latino millennials are 18 percent of the California electorate. The is the quintessential story of Latinos transforming the U.S. Also, millennials favor […]
Latino appointments, endorsements and the changing political establishment
*This makes loads of sense. The Democratic candidate field is not culturally diverse, so the campaigns have hired more Latino staffers than ever before, to make up for the deficit. […]
A Wake-Up Call to Latino Voters on the Importance of Courts
*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 […]