Tequila Party Launches To Promote Latino Votes In 2012

Tequila Party Launches To Promote Latino Votes In 2012

Mary Mata May 5, 2011

Somos Republicans founder DeeDee García Blase has taken up the reins of the so-called Tequila Party movement that originated in Nevada to combat the Tea Party and launched today in an […]

Texas Legislature Looks To Outlaw Sanctuary Cities

Mary Mata

By Daniel Setiawan House Bill 12—the sanctuary city immigration bill— is scheduled for debate Friday on the House floor and legislators on both sides of the aisle are gearing up for […]

The American Connection To Cinco De Mayo

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By Dan Arellano On May 5th 1862 in the city of Puebla the invading forces of Napoleon III, Maximilliano the Archduke of Austria, his puppet Emperor, would encounter a force […]

Texas’ Latino Population Growth Absent On University Campuses

Mary Mata May 3, 2011

Texas has grown by leaps and bounds and it’s almost wholly due to Latino population growth. What this means for the state, or for the politicos that run it, is […]

Remembering Carlos Guerra’s Life, Scholarship Legacy

Mary Mata

[Editor’s Note: Carlos Guerra, our friend and co-founder, died last year but his memory lives on. One way is through his scholarship program for first-generation students at his alma mater, […]

Texas Congressman: Drug Test The Unemployed

Mary Mata

Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold recently told a town hall meeting audience in Brownsville, Texas that people who are unemployed and on other public benefits should probably be drug tested, because it’s […]

Spanglish Is As Proper A Language As English Or Spanish

Mary Mata May 2, 2011

By Wuicho Vargas There are sentiments that swirl around my existence, as the Spanish and English languages ferociously debate about whose importance I should favor. Grammar, rules, chains, accents, punctuation […]

Why Don’t Anglos Vote For Latinos?

Mary Mata April 26, 2011

By Henry Flores, Ph.D This past week I had the privilege of sitting on a panel on San Antonio Politics headlined by San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and former Secretary […]

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez On Redistricting, 2012 And Leadership

Mary Mata April 21, 2011

New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez sat down with News Taco this week to talk about a few key issues pertaining to Latinos. He spoke to us about the importance […]

Latino Vet, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Mulls Texas Senate Run

Mary Mata April 20, 2011

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 […]