Federal Court Showdown Could Change Latino Politics

This is the week of the big showdown in a Texas courtroom. I don’t mean to breech the fuzzy limits of melodrama, but what happens in that federal courtroom could change the politics of […]

Yesterday at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, Florida GOP candidate Mitt Romney took the opportunity to try to court Latino voters — by ignoring the Latino press. This seems […]

Listen closely high school seniors, the Class of 2012, this message is for you: the fate of our nation is in your hands. If you are 18, eligible to vote […]

A poll released last week by the group Public Policy Polling shows that even though Latinos aren’t crazy about President Obama right now, they’re even less enthusiastic about the current […]

On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into legislation.The V.R.A. closely followed the wording of the 15th Amendment;  it applied a nationwide prohibition against denying or […]

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, also known as the guy who tried to ban Mexican-American studies courses in public schools, is suing the federal government claiming that parts of the […]

If you’ve ever wondered about the type of muck that sits at the bottom of the Tea Party barrel, here’s a sample: U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), was in Farmington, NM, […]

By Alicia Menendez Yesterday, Latino Decision released a new poll which found Obama’s approval numbers dipping among Latinos.  Here, Latino Decisions pollster Matt Barreto weighs in on the importance of immigration to […]

So we all knew it was coming, the immigration announcement last week, the big Latino conference at the White House, and here it is, an exclusive storyin the insider-ey Washington Post, […]

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