Are Latinos On GOP VP Short List For Real?

I’m not sure what the Vegas line is on the Republican vice-presidential sweepstakes, but CNN, at least, has 2 Latinos vying for the second-to-the-top-post on the GOP ticket. Never mind the premature timing of […]

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 […]

By Paul Adams Having conquered the agricultural fields of California and the infinite black abyss of space, José Hernández is now taking his talents to the grinding media battlefield of […]

By Cindy Casares When I was growing up, I’d imagine life in the 21st century and wonder what kind of amazing advances we’d be living with by then. If Hollywood […]

By Rafael Anchia, Texas State Representative, District 103 On March 12, 2012 the Department of Justice (DOJ) stood up for Texas voters by refusing to pre-clear the strict photo ID […]

I started thinking recently about what our country would look like in the future if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) were to be declared unconstitutional. This is […]

Three of the largest Latino organizations in the nation announced a voter registration initiative as the importance of the Latino vote rises. As previously reported on La Plaza, the Hispanic Federation, […]

By Miryam Mora-Barajas As a new election cycle rolls around, Latinos once again seem to be on the minds of Republican candidates — this is especially true in states like […]

By Elizabeth Heath Credit his record on social issues and a slowly reviving economy, or blame conservatives’ so-called “War on Women,” but a new poll shows that Barack Obama is winning over […]

By Aurelia Fierros Just hours before primaries in Arizona and Michigan, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have come into view as the two Republican contenders vying for leadership in what […]