Confronting a Crisis: Child Refugees at our Southwest Border
Confronting a Crisis: Child Refugees at our Southwest Border
By Rep. Joe Garcia and Claude Fontheim, Special for NewsTaco The U.S. faces an urgent and mounting humanitarian crisis – in the past nine months, 52,000 unaccompanied Central American children […]
At Photo-Op with Soldiers, Rick Perry Offers Few Details on Border Deployment
*All eyes are on Ferguson, Missouri, and rightfully so. Meanwhile the militarization of the Texas border continues. Texas Gov. Rick Perry posed for pictures with soldiers and their weapons this […]
How the Republican Party Can Strike a Nail Into Their Own Coffin
By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco Before I start I want to be perfectly clear, this is not my regular column but just a short commentary on the recent polling results […]
How to Get Out the Latino Vote: Evidence from Field Experiments
*An answer to the perpetual question “How do we get more Latinos to vote?” After parsing Latino voters into targeted pools, randomized control groups, comparison rates and other smart sounding […]
New America Alliance rolls out report on issues affecting Latinos
*Latino organizations are starting to tee up issues for the coming mid-term elections: immigration is not the top Latino issue; Latinos must be at the table discussing the national agenda […]
Koch brothers reach out to Hispanics
*The Koch’s Libre Initiative “pushes a message of limited government and economic freedom between lessons on how to build family-run businesses and prayer breakfasts with Hispanic pastors.” Will it play? […]
Shadow GOP Spending Big on Outreach to Latinos
By Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus, NewsTaco Flying largely under the radar, Republican strategists have been quietly seeking ways to woo Latino voters to their side targeting first the 2014 mid-term elections […]
Texas, U.S. Resume Fight Over Maps That Curb Latino Power
*This is happening this week in a courtroom in San Antonio, TX. It’s a nuanced lawsuit that attempts to redefine the legal parameters of gerrymandering. That’s right, in Texas gerrymandering […]
Latino Voices Will be Heard in 2014 Elections But Not Enough–Why Not Shout Louder?
*Latino voter influence in the coming mid-term elections has been written-off in mainstream media. The prevailing analysis is that low turnout and high concentration in non-competitive districts neutralize any perceived […]
The Meltdown of the Anti-Immigration Minuteman Militia
*It turns out that all of the attention paid to the Minutemen Project and their gun pointing and threatening rhetoric wasn’t worth the time or the space spent on them. […]
