Latino Vote Sprang From Local Touch

By Humberto Sanchez, Roll Call [Photo by Patrick Feller] Click on picture to read story.

By Jose Cruz, Our Tiempo #1, 2012 Election Day For the first time in history, the Latino “sleeping giant” woke up and played a decisive part in electing the U.S. […]

By Karen Tumulty, Washington Post [Photo by nmy] Click on picture to read story.

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Los Angeles hasn’t had a Latina City Councilwoman in a generation, but that may change this coming year. Three Latina politicians are running for two open Los […]

By Gabriel Sanchez, Latino Decisions  In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, the Latino vote in states like Colorado has been held up as a critical and influential factor.  Latino voters […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s known as the reddest of the red states. And a recent article in the Ogden Standard-Examiner reiterated the fact: In a state considered among the […]

By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi One of the most well-known and respected members of Congress, Rep. Charlie Gonzalez of San Antonio, is weeks away from stepping down and ending half a century […]

By Janell Ross, Huffington Post Latino Voices In 2011, as Illinois politicians redrew congressional district maps, they exercised a power grab that was intended to protect those already in office or even […]

By Jesse Treviño, HispanicLatino The attention that the HispanicLatino vote received during the presidential campaign and future demographic projections of its growth have caused the media and obsessive politico-types to […]

By Hector Luis Alamo Jr., Being Latino Two Latinas are battling it out in Texas — and, no, they’re not clawing at each other over a suave macho like in […]