Latino Vote Key To Replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

Latino Vote Key To Replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

Mary Mata November 29, 2012

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 […]

Two Parties: Two HispanicLatino Vice Presidents

Mary Mata

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 […]

Latina Politicians Battling in Texas

Mary Mata November 28, 2012

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 […]

Time Magazine 2012 Person Of The Year Leaves Out Latinos

Mary Mata

By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices This year Latinos helped swing a presidential election, spoke at prime time spots during both party conventions, and emerged as one of the […]

Immigration and the Lame Duck Congress

NewsTaco November 27, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco What a difference an election makes. Take, for instance, immigration. Wasn’t it a mere handful of weeks ago that Republicans were staunchly stalwart in their opposition to any and […]

PBS Continues Series on Alleged Abuses by US Border Patrol

Mary Mata

By Latino Rebels The latest from the PBS Need to Know series about alleged abuses by the United States Border Patrol continues this Friday, November 30. For local listings, click here. To […]

Deferred Action Applications Increase after Election

Mary Mata

By Latinovations With President Obama re-elected into office and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) secure, there has been an increase of interest and applications from undocumented students. “I’ve seen an […]

Help bring back Chicano Studies in Tucson!

Mary Mata November 26, 2012

By Three Sonorans One of the most important parts of the federal desegregation court order on Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the new Unitary Status Plan (USP) which is being […]

Latino Political Influence ‘Will be felt for Generations’

NewsTaco

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Hispanics will account for 40 percent of the growth in the American electorate between now and 2030, ballooning to about 40 million Latinos eligible to cast […]

The Latino Vote in 2012 and the Depth of the GOP Problem

Mary Mata

By Manny Diaz and John Zogby, Huffington Post Latino Voices Former Governor Mitt Romney ran a very competitive race for the Presidency, but the anatomy of his defeat marks a real turning […]