DREAM Act: A Call to Action

During the past few weeks many News Taco readers have asked for specific ways in which they can help the DREAM Act cause. This is a action alert, distributed through […]

By Stace Medellín Recently I attended the Harris County (Houston) Democratic Party Brown Bag discussion, including State Reps. Armando Walle, Scott Hochberg, and Carol Alvarado. They shared an outlook of […]

Tons of Latinos are fixin’ to hit voting age. It’s true. The Census said so. Victor Landa wrote earlier today about Census estimates on Latinos, but another recent report noted […]

We’ve all been waiting for this, so consider the news the first wave,  indicator, yardstick… The US Census has released its first estimate of nation’s population, based on last spring’s […]

¡Mira que bien! (read that with dripping irony) This has been churning around the Internet for a few days but I paid it no mind. It’s so ridiculous, how could […]

It’s not as if the Tea Party gang has the third political party thing all wrapped up. It’s not a new idea – remeber the Raza Unida Party? Not to […]

Here’s a new twist on an old idea. Slate.com published a piece suggesting that minority communities would fare better politically if they did away with Section 5 of the Voting […]

You knew it was coming, and, now it’s here:  Gerrymandering time! The GOP is set to control much of the redistricting for future electoral boundaries all over the country, The Washington […]

The thing is that here in the State’s we think of voting as a duty, a responsibility, an obligation. But a group of  political activists in Spain have a slightly […]

President Barack Obama was set to meet with leaders of the Hispanic Caucus today, hopefully they’ll have a nice conversation that hovers around why the Democratic Party is failing Latinos […]