Latino Voter Outreach Strong Ahead of Georgia Runoff Elections
Latino Voter Outreach Strong Ahead of Georgia Runoff Elections
A new year is finally here, but for Gigi Pedraza, executive director of the Latino Community Fund in Georgia, the 2020 election season is still going strong. The nonpartisan organization, […]
Don’t Call Texas’s Latino Voters the “Sleeping Giant”
If you ask him to check a box, Peter Guzman considers himself a Democrat. Yet though he is now thirty years old, he has voted only twice in his life. […]
One thing has united different Latino generations — defeating Trump
Sunday dinners in the Tambara household were more than a weekly source of food — they brought revelry, reminiscence and sometimes heated political debate — especially as presidential elections approached. […]
Running while brown: How Julián Castro is navigating white presidential politics
EAST LOS ANGELES — By the time his plane touched down in California at the end of a whirlwind week, Julián Castro had set an early political benchmark in the […]
Advocates wonder: Where’s the outreach from Democratic presidential candidates to Latino voters?
MIAMI — There is outrage over Trump administration policies that have torn migrant families apart and left some children locked up. There is pervasive fear of immigration raids. And there […]
Latino voting bloc could be the second most important in 2020
The Hispanic population’s exponential growth in the U.S. that has long been expected, is now fully upon the country. Totaling an approximate 58 million people, the Latino community has become one of the […]
Trump’s Latino approval on the rise? Not so fast
With an odd echo of Sally Field’s “You like me!” speech at the Oscars, Donald Trump on Tuesday touted findings from a poll that he viewed as showing a surge of approval from Latinos. […]
Why the Latino sleeping giant will never awaken. And why that’s a good thing.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Donald Trump’s political salt mines (This, of course, is pure conjecture. I don’t know that Trump has political salt mines or if they have […]
Is THIS the Year Latino Voters Finally Turn Arizona Blue?
PHOENIX — “Democrats hope demographic changes will translate into a win in November,” wrote The Nation magazine a while back. “Arizona, the second fastest-growing state … brimming with Latinos and Independents [is] […]
Advocacy group releases interactive map to help Latinos run for office
A Latino advocacy group is releasing a new online tool to help prospective Latino candidates run in districts where Hispanics are underrepresented. The interactive map commissioned by Latino Victory Project cross-references […]
