The Varied Latino-Ness Of Texas and California

Currently, I am sojourning in my native land, Los Angeles. I can tell you it’s great to be back! But since I’ve moved ever closer to become a Tejana it’s always interesting to […]

My family is from South Texas, the border, but I grew up in L.A. I remember really clearly growing up how strange all my cousins seemed to me when I’d […]

[Editor’s Note: Alfredo Santos is a Texas native and the editor of La Voz newspapers in Austin, Texas and shares his memories of South Texas party switching here.] Aaron Peña’s […]

Well this is a little random. Talking Points Memo reported that  Mexican unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in someone’s backyard outside of El Paso, Texas: “CBP/U.S. Border Patrol responded to […]

The Texas Department of Public Safety followed the U.S. State Department’s lead in warning people not to travel to Mexico during the holiday season. According to a press release: “‘The safety […]

Truth be told, Texas state Rep. Aaron Peña’s outing himself as a Republican is not the scandal we may think it is. It’s the natural succession of political tendencies that […]

Texas State Representative Aaron Peña just switched parties this week, from Democrat to Republican, conveniently a month after his mostly-Democratic constituency re-elected him after eight years of service to them. […]

[Editor’s Note: Roberto R. Calderón is my father and a professor of history at the University of North Texas. He was a fan and a friend of Carlos Guerra and […]

By Stace Medellín Recently I attended the Harris County (Houston) Democratic Party Brown Bag discussion, including State Reps. Armando Walle, Scott Hochberg, and Carol Alvarado. They shared an outlook of […]

[Editor’s Note: Juan Perales is an attorney and childhood friend of Carlos Guerra’s.] When I was a junior in high school some of my classmates were talking excitedly about a […]