Debt Deadlock: It’s About Race, Stupid

Debt Deadlock: It’s About Race, Stupid

Mary Mata August 9, 2011

I’ve heard lots of people complaining about “these congressional Republicans that have hijacked our government” and I only have one thing to tell them: get over it! Let me clarify my statement. The […]

Latinos Win Some, Lose Some In CA Redistricting

Mary Mata August 3, 2011

Depending on what level of redistricting you consider, Latinos in California have either lost out, or won out, according to Rosalind Gold, who is the Senior Director of Policy, Research […]

GOP Rep. Calls Obama Racist Name, Says He Didn’t Know

Mary Mata August 2, 2011

Colorado’s Republican representative Doug Lamborn recently called President Barack Obama a “tar baby,” which he later said he didn’t know was a racially derogative word for African-Americans. He later said what he […]

San Anto Mayor’s Vision Is Green, Techy And Prosperous

Mary Mata July 27, 2011

It doesn’t take a lot of prodding to get San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro going on his vision for the future of his city. Education, jobs, green jobs, economic development […]

Wall Street Reform Benefits Latinos

Mary Mata July 22, 2011

[Editor’s note: The following is a press release from the U.S. Treasury.] Too many responsible Latinos have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that left our financial system […]

GOP Seeks To Deport More People

Mary Mata July 20, 2011

Republicans recently introduced a measure in Congress that would remove the President’s discretion to prioritize deportation cases, in essence ending the practice of prioritizing dangerous criminals and stopping delayed deportations. […]

How To Ensure Prosperity For 1.5 Million Latinos

Mary Mata

Texas congressional candidate Joaquín Castro says he has a winning formula for economic prosperity for the nearly 1.5 million Latinos that reside in a cluster of six central Texas counties […]

News Taco To Go: Castro, Child Abuse, Tea Party & Español

Mary Mata July 12, 2011

Joaquin Castro Talks About His Run For Congress 21% Of Child Abuse Victims Are Latino Why Is Everyone Kowtowing To The Tea Partiers? First National Spanish Spelling Bee Sees 7th-Grade […]

Joaquín Castro Talks About His Run For Congress

Mary Mata July 11, 2011

Austin, Texas — We recently caught up with Joaquín Castro, who lately announced he would be running for Congress in the 35th congressional district of Texas. The district runs from […]

Latinos Haven’t Lost Faith In America

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One of the subtle lies held about Latinos in the U.S. is that we’re not invested in this country, in the love-it-or-leave-it sense. To put it another way, Latinos, the […]