The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated

The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated

NewsTaco January 18, 2012

A three-judge federal panel in Washington will be hearing two weeks’ worth of testimony, starting this week, on Texas’ congressional redistricting maps. Again? If you’re thinking, “Didn’t they already do this?” […]

DOJ Monitors Election Day To Guard Against Voter Suppression

NewsTaco November 8, 2011

Today is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, or election day as the U.S. Congress calls it. There is voting going on across the country — from gubernatorial […]

GOP Latino Voted To Disenfranchise Thousands In South Texas

Mary Mata October 11, 2011

By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party As Chairman of the Hispanic Republican Conference, Aaron Peña has taken the lead in disenfranchising Latinos. […]

The States Where Latino Votes Will Matter In 2012

Mary Mata April 1, 2011

By Dr. Matt Barreto With the recent release of the national Census data, pundits have been quick to point out the obvious: the Latino population is growing! As if data points from […]

A Trend to Give Non-citizens the Right to Vote

NewsTaco November 19, 2010

Here’s a trend of note. Brookline, Massachusetts, is the latest in a handful of cities in that state that have approved voting rights for non-citizens. I remember hearing about the […]