Pro-Clinton Group Targets Latinos With Six-Figure Ad In Battleground States

Pro-Clinton Group Targets Latinos With Six-Figure Ad In Battleground States

NewsTaco August 4, 2016

*So now it’s getting serious, right? Six figure media buy to target Latinos in swing states? VL By Laura Barron-Lopez, Huffington Post Latino Voices (1 minute read)  WASHINGTON ― Priorities […]

101-Year-Old Mexican Abuelito Got His U.S. Citizenship To Vote Against Donald Trump

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By Victor Landa, NewsTaco This is worth the two minutes the story lasts. Ignacio, 101, and Maria Guadalupe Correa, 94, Villegas have lived in the U.S. since 1968. Their permanent […]

Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act, Court Rules

NewsTaco July 20, 2016

*I know it’s not dancing cats on Facebook, or ridiculous memes about cribbed political speeches, but this is a BIG deal. VL By Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune Texas’ voter identification law […]

Why Trump and Bernie didn’t catch on with Latino voters

NewsTaco July 14, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (4 minute read) Roberto Suro, professor of Communications at USC and Director of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, wrote a good piece for Politico titled Clinton’s […]

How Donald Trump is bruising Texas (and the Democrats are happy)

NewsTaco July 12, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco In Texas we’re waiting for the state to turn from red to purple, like a bruise. Both the hopeful and the weary know that the Republican […]

Will The Year of Trump Propel Latinas to U.S. Senate?

NewsTaco June 7, 2016

*This is where declaring presumptive winners matters. There are important down ballot races that could be decided because of voters who don’t go to the polls when winners are presumptively […]

Donald Trump’s kryptonite: millions of active – and furious – Latino voters

NewsTaco May 10, 2016

*Wonderful! A call to arms for Latino voters (recent voter registration numbers show we really don’t need one . . .  but still). Share this! VL By Sabrina Vourvoulias, The […]

Diluting the Latino Vote in CA’s Central Valley

NewsTaco April 29, 2016

*It’s an uphill battle without a strong Voting Rights Act. But MALDEF, chips away at gerrymandering one district at a time. VL By Marcus Castro, South Kern Sol/New America Media  BAKERSFIELD, […]

Trump can’t get to the White House without the Latino vote

NewsTaco April 27, 2016

*As Donald Trump solidifies his place as the GOP presidential nominee, let’s keep this in mind. VL By Enrique Acevedo, Fusion Over the past two decades the Latino vote has grown […]

Will Hispanic Millennials Vote?

NewsTaco April 22, 2016

*Boomer parents, millennial kids, Hillary v Bernie, it happens in the Latino community as well. VL By Pricilla Alvarez, The Atlantic (2 minute read) The Hispanic population is looking young. […]