Obama’s Labor Appointments Are Long Overdue

By René Lara, Political and Legislative Director of the Texas AFL-CIO President Barack Obama recently  appointed three nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the government agency that is supposed […]

The story used to go that Senator Marco Rubios’ parents were forced to flee Cuba, that they were exiles, because of Fidel Castro. The truth, however, which is now reflected […]

Anti-Immigrant Bill Fails In Texas Pennsylvania Town Sees First Latino Valedictorian Why Does Jose Become Joe But Not The Other Way Around To Mobilize 12 Million Latinos Register 15 Million […]

A new comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced on Wednesday by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and other Senate Democrats includes tougher provisions that the legislators hope will sway their Republican counterparts to […]

Ricardo Sanchez To Run For Senate In Texas San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon Mexican & Mexican-American Are Not The Same Thing Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce The DREAM […]

We reported previously that retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was probably going to run for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat, well, now he’s formally announced. Today Sanchez, former U.S. Commander […]

New Mexico’s State Auditor Hector Balderas is set to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeff Bingaman, reported the Santa Fe New Mexican last week. Balderas […]

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is looking at running for the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat in Texas, according to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, D-NJ. Yesterday during a conversation held […]

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 […]