2012 Top Moments in Latino Politics, #1

By Jose Cruz, Our Tiempo #1, 2012 Election Day For the first time in history, the Latino “sleeping giant” woke up and played a decisive part in electing the U.S. […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s known as the reddest of the red states. And a recent article in the Ogden Standard-Examiner reiterated the fact: In a state considered among the […]

By Janell Ross, Huffington Post Latino Voices In 2011, as Illinois politicians redrew congressional district maps, they exercised a power grab that was intended to protect those already in office or even […]

By Bella Vida Letty, Latino Rebels Another Puerto Rican man was murdered over the holiday. You’ve heard his name before, it was Hector. (In fact, Hector was one of more than 20 […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Hispanics will account for 40 percent of the growth in the American electorate between now and 2030, ballooning to about 40 million Latinos eligible to cast […]

By Arnold Torres, New America Media/Hispanic Link News Service There is growing doubt today whether our political system is able to deal with the realities that confront us and significantly […]

By Raul A. Reyes, Other Words Well, that didn’t take long. Just three days after a diverse coalition of voters re-elected President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court announced that it’s […]

By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Finally, Republicans and Democrats know that they need more than mariachis playing behind them to win the Latino vote.  By now, almost everyone heard about the […]

By Janell Ross, Huffington Post Latino Voices If last week’s election outcome stunned Mitt Romney’s campaign and converted some Republicans to the orthodoxy of urgent and comprehensive immigration reform, then a Pew Hispanic Center report […]

By Casey A. Kolfstad, Latino Decisions Gary Segura recently provided a discussion of how exit polls often misrepresent Latino voters (Badly!), pointing out that exit polls often rely on small samples […]