DOJ Finds Latino Politico Disenfranchised Latino Voters

By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party Republican State Representative John Garza rejected the inclusion of politically organized Hispanics in his district. That […]

This won’t surprise anyone in the Latino community: the past three years have been tougher than most. Unemployment among Latinos is stuck at 11%.  A high number of Latinos have […]

Bilingual ballots have been ordered in 25 states, according to a report from the Associated Press, down from 30 in 2000. The 248 counties that will be using the ballots […]

By Kirsten Gray, Texas Democratic Party Communications Director Recently, we described the shameful Republican scheme to disenfranchise Latinos and other voters. Governor Rick Perry’s “emergency” photo voter ID legislation, passed […]

Before I launch into a discussion of the recently completed redistricting trial in San Antonio let me give you a bit of information concerning the sections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) […]

So my favorite part of President Barack Obama’s Latino roundtable yesterday was how wonderfully he pronounced “Puerto Rico” and “Calderón” when answering questions that came from the readers and viewers […]

You can slice it pretty much any way you want, but it appears as though race was very squarely front and center in the recent fight to create another Latino-majority […]

By Rebecca Acuña, Dep. Political Director for Base Outreach for the Texas Democratic Party The 82nd legislative session began on a precipice of disaster. Absent of the federal stimulus dollars […]

William C. Velásquez was born in San Antonio and had a long career of political activism mostly in Texas before he died at the young age of 44 in 1988. Among his […]

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, […]