How Latinos Hold The Key To The 2010 Presidential Election

[Editor’s note: This was written by Dr. Henry Flores, professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at St. Mary’s University, in San Antonio, Texas. He is a regular […]

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

After we posted a story about a bill in the New Hampshire legislature that would restrict the voting rights of college students on the grounds that “they lack life experience […]

[Editor’s note: This was written by Dr. Henry Flores, professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at St. Mary’s University, in San Antonio, Texas. I recently mentioned […]

The new Republican speaker of the House in the New Hampshire state legislature wants to take away college students’ right to vote, he says they lack life experience and “vote […]

State legislatures from across the country are considering voter ID bills; laws that require proof of identification when a citizen exercises his/her right to vote. We should take notice, at […]

There is little known about the origin of the national Chicano movement – where it started, how it started, what brought about the discontent that resulted in the creation of […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a re-post written by Angelo Falcón with the National Institute for Latino Policy.] After factoring in voting age and citizenship status, in 2009 only 41 […]

by David Montejano from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. My two major works—Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1936-1986 and its sequel, Quixote’s Soldiers: […]

It’s something to look out for in the coming redistricting tug-of-war. It’s also a partial answer to the question of why Latinos don’t vote. Only 41 percent of Latinos in […]