latino voting rights
Colorado Rep. Calls For English Only Ballots
Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman is calling for the rejection of portions of the federal Voting Rights Act calling for providing voters with ballots in more than one language. Coffman said he […]
Texas Senate Passes Sanctuary Cities Bill
By Melissa Del Bosque After 9 hours of testimony Tuesday by Senate Democrats against SB 9, the controversial immigration bill passed anyway along a party-line vote. It’s pretty certain SB 9 will […]
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 […]
Is the 2010 Census Driving the GOP Mad?
by Herny Flores, Ph.D. I’ve been out of the country for a couple of weeks and have had a chance to view United States politics through the eyes of non-Americans. […]
Texas Set To Pass Voter ID Law
By Abby Rapoport The Republicans in Texas have been trying for years to pass voter ID legislation—and today they very likely will be almost done. The measure, which requires voters […]
Dime con Quién Andas y te Diré si Votas
Wondering why Latinos don’t vote as much as we’d like? We could lose time and our sense of place going ’round all the excuses, reasons and definitions. It’s been discussed, […]
Gonzalez: The GOP Problem is Not Rhetoric
The leader of the Congressional Hispanic caucus says that the problem that Republicans have with Latinos is not the problem they think they have. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-TX, wrote in […]
Voter ID Law Set to be Challenged in Georgia
Hold on to your hats, the bumpy ride is about to get started, in Georgia. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution the state of Georgia has filed a suit in […]
Don’t Vote? If You Knew Us, You’d Know Better
The joke was that Latinos for Reform produced a “Don’t Vote†television ad (in English andSpanish) because they wanted to claim responsibility for all the Hispanic voters that don’t go […]
LULAC Responds to ‘Don’t Vote’ Campaign
I wrote previously about how hard it is to vote anyway. Then, when people like Robert De Esposada — a highly paid Republican operative and a former highly placed party […]