Federal Court Blocks Texas Redistricting Plans

PRESS RELEASE MALDEF Secures Ruling that Texas Discriminated Against Latino Voters WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier today, a three-judge federal panel issued a ruling in Texas v. United Statesdenying preclearance under section 5 […]

Wednesday August 29, 2012 Jeb Bush chides Republicans to stop ‘acting stupid’ with Hispanic voters (The Miami Herald): With Mitt Romney trailing Barack Obama badly among Hispanic voters in the […]

Monday August 27, 2012 Watch: Are Latino college enrollment gains enough? (ecampus news): HuffPost Live’s Alicia Menendez sets the stage to a great conversation by framing the issue of Latino educational […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Clara Villalobos Russell remembers the days when she used to play princess tea party with her childhood friends in Texas. But those memories are nothing like […]

By Eres Nerd, NewsTaco They were cotton fields located on a floodplain of the Rio Grande. Irrigation canals divided them. Water flowed from the open canal gates soaking the cotton […]

By Peter Malof, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas – A coast-to-coast caravan of Mexican drug-war survivors is traveling through Texas this week, trying to raise awareness of how U.S. […]

By: Victor Escalante, NewsTaco A survey from The University of Texas, released this past week in San Antonio, at the annual convention of The Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers […]

By Eileen Smith, Texas Observer The national Hispanic unemployment rate is at 11 percent and according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate for Hispanics […]

Monday August 20, 2012 Latino Voters Could Swing Election [INFOGRAPHIC] (IVN News): Latino voters could swing election results this November, and the data revealing this are pretty dramatic. The Center for […]

Friday August 17, 2012 Federal court gives 5 Florida counties extra early voting days (The Washington Post): A federal court on Thursday gave five Florida counties four extra days of […]