voting rights
How 1,600 Bills Forced Latinos To Care About Immigration
There’s been a subliminal debate – if such a thing can exist – concerning Latinos and immigration that’s been going on since since California had it’s proposition 187 conniption. The […]
GOP Loses Latino Votes Without Immigration Reform
By Dee Dee Blase García Founder, National Tequila Party Here in Arizona Alice Cooper says, “I wanna love you but I better not touch.” Much commotion has been made concerning […]
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 […]
Latinas, Not Latinos, Hold The Future In Their Hands
As we are already aware, the first wave of U.S. Latino baby boomers are now exiting exceptional positions of power and influence. During the era when the eldest members of […]
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 […]
Texas Redistricting “Horrible” For Latino Voters
Latino voters lose under the current redistricting plan passed by the Texas House, according to attorney Rolando Rios, who has more than 30 years worth of experience in redistricting battles […]
New Jersey Man Goes To Jail For Threats To Latinos
A New Jersey man who sent threatening emails to Latino organizations from anonymous email accounts received a sentence of 50 months in prison and a fine of $10,000. We wrote […]
Texas Redistircting Turns Into Latino-lead Courtroom Fight
If Texas is an indication of what the rest of the country will be like and look like in the future-and we at News Taco have been pounding that drum […]
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. […]
How Latinos Are Changing The Electoral College Map
[Editor’s note: This was written by Dr. Henry Flores, professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at St. Mary’s University, in San Antonio, Texas. He is a […]