DOJ Finds Latino Politico Disenfranchised Latino Voters

By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party Republican State Representative John Garza rejected the inclusion of politically organized Hispanics in his district. That […]

This won’t surprise anyone in the Latino community: the past three years have been tougher than most. Unemployment among Latinos is stuck at 11%.  A high number of Latinos have […]

By Kirsten Gray, Texas Democratic Party Communications Director Recently, we described the shameful Republican scheme to disenfranchise Latinos and other voters. Governor Rick Perry’s “emergency” photo voter ID legislation, passed […]

Barack Obama predicted that he’ll be alive to see a Latino candidate for president. He said a little bit more than that, but that’s the gist of his remark. If it was […]

By María Cardona As a Democrat, predictably, I find all of the presidential candidates and the policies they support anathema to everything I believe this country needs right now. Their […]

By Albert Morales, President of Albert Morales Strategies, LLC It was a cold February morning in 2005 when Governor Howard Dean won the Democratic Party Chairmanship. He handily defeated candidates […]

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 […]

I’m not a millionaire (this will come as a surprise to no one), so I’m not about to raise a  fist clenched on a pitchfork to demand that the über wealthy of our country pay […]

It was bound to happen. Given the political grudge match in Washington; given the lackluster state of the economy; given all the talk of the Latino vote potential; and given […]

Interesting question posed by the Washington Post: With Hispanic support for Obama waning, could Latino vote be up for grabs in 2012? I don’t know if the question was meant […]