Latinos As Political Game Changers

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, […]

People across the country commemorated the 46th anniversary of the Selma, Alabama march known as “Bloody Sunday.” The GOP is looking into how Muslims are a danger to the U.S., […]

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 […]

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 […]

Arizona political leaders seem to be targeting Latinos to prevent them from exercising their civil rights by banning them from the state Capitol. Two things immediately pop into my head […]

[Editor’s Note: This story was written jointly by myself and Pa’Lante Latino’s Christina Saenz] Carlos Galindo, a 51-year-old Latino in Arizona, was at the state senate building Wednesday when he was […]

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 […]

Representative democracy sometimes isn’t, well, all that representative. The U.S. is set to become Latino-ized, in the sense that nearly 1 in 6 people here will be counted as Latinos […]