Dolores Huerta on Why You Should Vote

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Two things prompted me to write this. One is that this past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Farm Workers Association in California. That association […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor I’ll admit I’m at the point where I cringe when I hear someone say “there’s an app for that.” It was witty for a while. […]

Voter registration is a precarious thing. Latino voter registration even more so. I spent the better part of 2004 registering voters in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, all in preparation for the 2004 presidential election. I was working […]

The anti-Latino political environment that has characterized Arizona’s state politics for the past several years is beginning to have it unintended consequence: empowering Latinos in that state to run for […]

How many people reading this voted in the 2008 presidential elections or in your state or county’s last local election? If you’re raising your hand in front of your computer, […]

By Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) & the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund Latinos are a growing portion of Georgia’s school population, in some places, […]

The Latino vote is the vote to lose for both Democrats and Republicans. There are two main ways this can be done, political scientist Luis Fraga, who is Associate Vice Provost for […]

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 […]

Do you remember the so-called Tequila Party? It was a conservative movement that rumbled in Nevada, claiming to be a conservative Latino alternative to the often anti-Latino Republican party? The […]

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 […]