What Must Happen for Texas to Turn Blue

By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You hear the question often: Is Texas becoming a blue state? Since President Obama won reelection in November with an emerging Democratic coalition of African-Americans, Latinos, […]

By Arthur C. Brooks, Wall Street Journal Half the Hispanics eligible to vote don’t. They are the ones most likely to call themselves ‘political conservatives.’ Before Washington was rocked in […]

By Dr. Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, NBCLatino It’s no secret that the Republican Party has a serious problem with immigration.  But in this instance I’m talking about their problem with Latinos […]

By Jamelle Bouie, Washington Post Given the current scandal-mania, it’s no surprise this went under the radar, but in Florida, the GOP’s state director of Hispanic outreach, Pablo Pantoja, has resigned […]

By Adam Peck, Think Progress When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, they hoped he would be able to bridge the […]

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco Well there, I’ve said it publicly!  I think the GOP will come to an end as a presidential party for sure, a U.S. senatorial party […]

By Dan Boyd, Albuqueurque Journal New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden appear to have struck up an unlikely friendship. After receiving an invitation from Biden, the […]

By Garaldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic The debate over an immigration-reform bill has given us a glimpse into the emerging war within the Republican Party. On one side are those sensitive to […]

By McKay Coppins, BuzzFeed For the Republicans in Washington who hoped a new bipartisan push for immigration reform would give their party a fresh start, a new face, and a second chance […]

Victor Landa, NewsTaco It’s 844 pages long. It’s been a long time coming. And it’s a compromise. So it’s a daunting read, a sigh of relief and…better than nothing. I’m […]