GOP Tries To Spark Black-Brown Fight

Republicans were charged by Black lawmakers on Wednesday of stoking tensions between the African American and Latino communities by arguing during a hearing that if it were not for illegal […]

State legislatures from across the country are considering voter ID bills; laws that require proof of identification when a citizen exercises his/her right to vote. We should take notice, at […]

Remember the Tequila Party? OK, that’s not the best way to make a point: which one? …some of it? I didn’t mean THAT Tequila Party, I meant the political one, […]

Lalo Alcaraz, cartoonist and satirist, is at it again. Check out his most recent cartoon, which takes bully Rush Limbaugh to taks for his comments criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama’s […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a re-post written by Angelo Falcón with the National Institute for Latino Policy.] After factoring in voting age and citizenship status, in 2009 only 41 […]

I was wondering what he was up to. It’s just my natural journalist’s reaction, you can call it cynicism, I won’t debate the point. But when Newt Gingrich launched his […]

What do Catherine Engelbrecht and her notorious Houston “patriots” really want? by Paul Knight from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. On opening day of the 82nd […]

Tan Nguyen ran as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 against then-incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez, and was just sentenced to a year and a day in […]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke yesterday but didn’t step down, even bigger protests have resulted. Bigger and deeper budget cuts are coming, courtesy of the Tea Party-fueled GOP. The Obama […]

When Susana Martinez was elected Governor of New Mexico some Latinos and many Democrats slammed a metaphoric dammit-fist on their desk. They were undercut by those sneaky Republicans. Martinez is […]