LatinaLista — By 9 p.m. EST, some congressional races had already been called but real suspense is waiting for who the winner will be in states like Nevada, Alaska, California and a few others. So far, one Tea Party…
By Mary Moreno LatinaLista USA — In Louisiana, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and across the country, politicians in heated races have turned to vilifying immigrants and Latinos to appeal to their white base. Some, like Sharron Angle, have tried to…
LatinaLista — Who is Linda Chavez-Thompson? It’s a question that has proven to be a challenge to answer for the campaign of the Latina running for the second most powerful job in the state of Texas — Lieutenant Governor….
LatinaLista — The epitome of strength of the Latino vote is, of course, turnout. If Latinos don’t vote, there’s no gain in political influence, credibility to deliver votes for politicians who introduce controversial legislation on behalf of Latinos, or…
LatinaLista — A newly released Pew Hispanic report, Illegal Immigration Backlash Worries, Divides Latinos, highlights the fact that Latinos don’t all think the same. In fact, they don’t all think the same of each other. For example, in 2007, 50 percent…
LatinaLista — It’s been reported that Nevada’s GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle has raised a war chest worthy of intimidating her opponent, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid. But she didn’t have to use any funds from that chest in…
LatinaLista — It’s not a myth that Latino voters have the power to influence the outcomes of political elections. It’s a fact that was proven in 2008 during the presidential election. Because of the outreach by the Democratic Party,…
LatinaLista — Of all the issues with which Congress should have an easy time, there is one that still proves to be a hurdle for some members to wrap their minds around — the DREAM Act. As regular readers…
LatinaLista — When it comes to politics, I have always striven to be respectful of peoples’ candidate choices. I’ve had to. Within my own family exists a variety of political persuasions that taught me long ago I can debate…
By COLTON SHONE Cronkite Borderlands Initiative LUKACHUKAI – For more than 80 years of his life, William Yazzie didn’t know what it was like to flick a switch in his own home and have light flood the room. While…
LatinaLista — Ever since the first doomsday polling predictions were published forecasting low or non-existent Latino voter turnout at the polls in two weeks, non-Latinos have believed them. Come to find out that the hope was that Latino voters…
LatinaLista — One of the premier pollsters in the country, Gallup, posted a poll that appears to defy facts as it pertains to Latino voters. Unfortunately, because most in media just take it for granted that Gallup knows what…
LatinaLista — In the 2008 presidential election, Latinos finally understood the mother of all civics lessons — voting is the most powerful tool to fuel change. Since that time, with Democrats delivering a mixed message to the greater Latino…
LatinaLista — No one would ever know that women elected to public office have been flat-lined for the last ten years. In other words, the gains that were made in past decades are on life support. No one would…
LatinaLista — The way conservative politicians have continuously latched on to the illegal immigration issue and regurgitated the falsehoods fed to them by groups who have demonstrated their revulsion for the “rainbow” demographics evolving in this country is at…
LatinaLista — Long before the candidates were announced for the upcoming November elections, politics has been nastier than usual. A day doesn’t go by that the “American people” are not being told what a lousy job the Democrats are…
LatinaLista — For anyone who has been monitoring immigration events in Arizona, long before SB 1070 was written, the story was all about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Federal officials to local activists agree that Arpaio’s law enforcement tactics…
by Gustavo Martinez Contreras Latina Lista Posted on October 13, 2010 SCRANTON, PA — After just 45 minutes of testimony, the defense for the two Shenandoah, Pa., men charged with a federal hate crime rested its case. Derrick M….
LatinaLista — Two issues that critics of immigration reform insisted needed to be addressed before serious talk could begin on what to do with 12 million people was secure the border and secure communities. With the deployment of additional…
LatinaLista — Back in the days when construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall was at its height (pun intended) — seizing private and ancestral property, bulldozing its way through some selected neighborhoods and enraging locals on both sides of…
LatinaLista — If the Obama administration wanted to prove to GOP critics that they are indeed tough on undocumented immigrants, today’s announcement from Dept. of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano should do the trick. According to departmental record keeping, the…
LatinaLista — Latinos are mad at Democrats and tired of failed promises and have decided that the best revenge is not turning out at the polls in November. That’s according to a new report released today by the Pew…
LatinaLista — Whenever people talk about race, inevitably, a number is pulled from the air as fact to underscore a particular population. Sometimes it’s accurate; Most times, it’s not. There’s only one definitive source that has all the numerical…
LatinaLista — Conventional wisdom tells us if a movement really wants to attract attention — from both the public and the media — the best place to conduct a march or rally is not Spokane, Washington but Washington, DC….
LatinaLista — News that Senators Menendez and Hatch have introduced their own versions of how to address immigration reform is less than a hopeful sign that any kind of consensus will be reached and something constructive will be accomplished…
