Racist Arizona Substitute Teacher Choked Wife, Abused Children & Family Dog

Anthony Hill, the racist substitute teacher who claimed his eighth grade class was filled with Latino students who only wanted to be gangbangers, is surprisingly a troubled individual. Excellent reporting by […]

President Barack Obama gave a speech about Libya last night in which he clarified the U.S.’s role there, even as a woman who was claimed she was raped by Moammar […]

[Editor’s Note: Michael Seifert is an activist living in Brownsville, Texas. This post was re-published from his blog, Musings from Alongside a Border with permission.] Someone must have had a […]

Presente.org’s campaign to gather 50,000 signatures to demand that Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck resign after calling for the shooting of immigrants from helicopters was wildly successful. Presente.org’s National Campaign Director […]

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 […]

Texas Governor Rick Perry met last week with GOP leaders of the state to urge them, again, to not raid the state’s $9 billion rainy day fund to stem the bleeding of […]

Republicans in Wisconsin stripped away collective bargaining from public workers. Labor is vowing to recall GOP politicians and fight back. GOP Congressman Peter King is going after Muslims today — […]

My friend Henry Flores, who teaches political science at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, said something startling to me. The midterm election was an aberration. The result was due to low voter turn out. Not only that, […]

The worst part about Texas House Bill 1202 is that the authors don’t see how it’s insulting and hypocritical, on the other hand the bill paints a realistic picture of […]

192,000 jobs were added to the economy in February, which is the biggest jump since mid-2010. Republican lawmakers are trying to pass off their cuts to the budget as job […]