NJ Sen. Bob Menendez On Redistricting, 2012 And Leadership

New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez sat down with News Taco this week to talk about a few key issues pertaining to Latinos. He spoke to us about the importance […]

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is looking at running for the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat in Texas, according to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, D-NJ. Yesterday during a conversation held […]

There’s a huge battle looming at the State House in Austin and the outcome will have an effect on how Latinos across the country gauge and plan their political futures. […]

Even though we knew it was coming, now that it’s here, it still stings. Republicans in Texas have taken their first stab at redistricting and — not so surprisingly — […]

You can file this under aggressive overkill. The City of Southbridge, Massachusetts, will have a special election soon to fill a seat in the state legislature. Part of that community is largely Latino; […]

As we reported last week, redistricting in places where Latinos pushed most of the growth (like Texas), are getting their redistricting fights on. Now The Atlantic reports that this already […]

There are plenty of places to keep an eye on today – with the budget impasse in Washington and all. At the state level there are important bills and ideas […]

Surprisingly, given President Barack Obama’s blatant sweeping aside of Latino issues while blatantly pandering to Latino voters at the same time, his approval rating with this demographic dropped in March. […]

I’ve written several times about how of all of the Latinos that live in the US, only 41 percent are eligible to vote. That means that they are citizens at […]

If Texas is an indication of what the rest of the country will be like and look like in the future-and we at News Taco have been pounding that drum […]