News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law Drug And Human Smuggling Under Sheriff Arpaio’s Nose Georgia’s Latino Bashing Misses The Mark GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

Mary Mata May 26, 2011

The way it breaks down is this: Republican-dominated state houses in Texas have not taken up congressional redistricting, now it may be too late, and if a special session needs […]

Will Democrats Pass The DREAM Act This Time? Prolly Not

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

Do you remember the disappointment you felt when the DREAM Act didn’t pass? I do, it was a heavy kind of disappointment, the kind you know will last for a […]

Pawlenty’s Latino Voter Pitch: Immigrants Are Terrorists

Mary Mata May 24, 2011

By now you may have seen the 2002 gubernatorial ad in which then-candidate Tim Pawlenty suggests that immigrants are all really secret terrorists. You may have also noticed that, as […]

News Taco To Go: Pawlenty, Georgia, Census And Diabetes

Mary Mata

Pawlenty Set To Take Anti-Latino Policies Nationwide All Georgia Latinos Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Efforts More Latinos Than Amish In Amish Country Which Comes First, Diabetes Or Depression?

Texas Redistricting “Horrible” For Latino Voters

Mary Mata May 18, 2011

Latino voters lose under the current redistricting plan passed by the Texas House, according to attorney Rolando Rios, who has more than 30 years worth of experience in redistricting battles […]

How The Latino Vote Matters In 2012

Mary Mata May 17, 2011

Getting at just exactly how, and by how much, the Latino vote will affect elections across the country in 2012 is a little confusing. Luckily, we have the super duper […]

Latino Voting Power In Nebraska Diminished

Mary Mata May 9, 2011

Last week in our national Latino redistricting roundup, we reported that in Nebraska Latino voter power was set to be diminished under a recently adopted redistricting plan. This week the […]

How Democrats, Republicans Can Lose Latino Votes In 2012

Mary Mata May 6, 2011

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 […]

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 […]