What’d Happen Without Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act?
What’d Happen Without Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act?
I started thinking recently about what our country would look like in the future if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) were to be declared unconstitutional. This is […]
Activists Launch Campaign To Register 200,000 Latino Voters
Motivated by the conservative anti-immigrant rhetoric going around the country, leaders from the Hispanic community launched a national campaign on Thursday to register 200,000 Latino voters and mobilize 100,000 individuals […]
Voter ID Laws Place The Rights Of Americans Under Attack
By U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez The 14th Amendment to the Constitution forbids any state to infringe on “the right to vote” for any citizen. But that right is under attack. There is […]
Romney’s 90s Immigration Policy Hands Latino Voters To Democrats
The 1990s are back, but unfortunately not any of the good stuff, like Tupac or tennis shoes that you had to pump. No, unfortunately the worst of the 1990s has […]
Anti-Latino Politics In AZ Spurs New Political Leadership
The anti-Latino political environment that has characterized Arizona’s state politics for the past several years is beginning to have it unintended consequence: empowering Latinos in that state to run for […]
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett Shifts Emphasis To Latino Voters
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Dogget (D-Austin) has been serving the people of the State of Texas in some capacity or another for most of his life. As a congressman since 1995, […]
Latinos, Honor Martin Luther King Jr By Registering To Vote
By Rebecca Lynn Guerra The commemoration of Dr. King’s birthday forces us to reflect on the civil rights movement, its past, and our future. The movement conjures up images and […]
Texas Redistricting: The Telenovela
A lot of people have commented lately that all of this redistricting business, especially in Texas, is terribly confusing and consequently, no one cares. For political nerds like me, that’s […]
Redistricting Wars Are Really A Fight Over Who Gets Power
Why is the Texas redistricting process such a mess? The answer is not simple, except for the fact that these redistricting wars are at the foundation for the political control […]
Voter Fraud And The Iowa Caucuses Distract Us From Real Issues
We’re startlingly close to the Iowa caucuses, and even closer to the usual screams of voter fraud from both sides of the aisle — you know, the fear that Mickey […]
