LatinaLista — When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, though the reality star/ real estate developer did not win the popular vote, many were resigned to give him a chance. Yet, in the three years since his installation,…
By Marisa Treviño ncluido General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and…
LatinaLista — It’s called the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending our Nation Act, SUCCEED, for short and the congressional members who drafted this latest version of the 2010 DREAM Act, hope it does exactly…
LatinaLista — After a nationwide, bipartisan consensus that last week was not President Donald J. Trump’s finest moments as Commander-in-Chief, Trump is on his way to Arizona today to asauge his bruised ego with a rally of his most…
LatinaLista — Donald J. Trump has been president a little less than five months. Because it was such a surprise outcome, there are analysts, pundits and everyday Americans still scratching their heads asking “why?” and “how?.” Forget the Russian…
LatinaLista — Election results tell us who we are while other statistics only hint at what we are It was that premise that motivated Washington State University graduate student Ryne Rohla to undertake the massive task of compiling 2016…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista If we are to believe anything from an administration that deals in alternative facts and outright mentiras, it’s that President Trump will follow through on his campaign promise of deporting undocumented immigrants — without distinction. In…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista As any wise parent, teacher or leader knows — there are always two sides to every story. I was reminded of that basic fact when I heard President Trump declare during his hour-long speech to Congress…
LatinaLista — In the past, the one solution the GOP offered for thinning out the nation’s undocumented population, without uttering the “d” word (deportation), was to say undocumented immigrants would “self-deport.” When Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee for…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista In 2011, then private citizen Trump began loudly questioning former President Barack Obama’s citizenship. It wasn’t long before Trump became synonymous with the “birther movement,” and though there was never credible proof to make such a…
LatinaLista — For the last 8 years, the Republican Party has been known as the “Party of NO.” What began as a partisan strategy to humiliate and deny success to the nation’s first Black president evolved into grooming perception…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista When Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz declared themselves candidates for President, myself, like many Latinos in the nation, were happily anxious at the prospect of having representation in the highest office of the land. So what…
LatinaLista — The headline all but threatens in its declaration of “Record Number of Hispanic Americans Ready to Vote for President.” Unfortunately, it’s a broken record. Being ready and actually voting are two distinct ends of a problem that…
LatinaLista — One of the rallying cries to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment over the years has been to use the phrase “the browning of America.” Equating immigration with brown-skinned people, a.k.a. Latinos, has been the hallmark of the Trump…
LatinaLista — Ask most Latino voters who they’ll be voting for in November and the vast majority of those quizzed will say Hillary Clinton. It doesn’t necessarily mean they like Clinton but the insulting rhetoric from her opponent about…
LatinaLista — The Supreme Court of the United States, or SCOTUS, as it’s known by its acronym, delivered a setback but not defeat to President Obama’s executive actions expanding deportation deferment of DREAMers (DACA) and undocumented parents of American-born children…
LatinaLista — A recent NPR headline asked: Why Don’t Bernie Sanders’ Big Rallies Lead To Big Wins? It’s no secret that the vast majority attending Sanders’ rallies have been millennials. His message resonating with this age group has made…
By Andres Trujillo LatinaLista What are words without substance? What is a quote worth if the context in which it was spoken is unknown? It’s hard to tell in 2016. People are no longer spending the time to read…
LatinaLista — Long before Donald Trump started sweeping up primary wins, I noticed a disturbing trend on network and cable news shows — Trump was their go-to candidate interviewee. Like on the debate stage where the spotlight perpetually shines…
LatinaLista — Twelve states will hold Super Tuesday caucuses and primary elections today — Alabama, Alaska Republican Caucus, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. According to the Brennan Center for Justice: Since the 2010…
LatinaLista — While the majority of voters view Donald Trump's grossly insensitive declarations about what he will do when he is president as nada más than political rhetoric, it's come to the point that he must be taken seriously. …
By NALEO Educational Fund LatinaLista Changes to how nation draws state legislative districts could result in approximately 55 percent of the Latino population being excluded if only eligible voters were counted. Less than one year away from Election…
LatinaLista — As more information is revealed about the perpetrators of the Paris attack, some U.S. governors have declared their states are closing its "borders" to Syrian refugees because one of the attackers arrived in Western Europe in the…
By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The post-analysis of last night’s GOP debate, hosted by the cable finance channel CNBC, has been as much about the candidates lashing out at the moderators (a.k.a. the media) as how they answered the…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista GOP frontrunner Donald Trump caught the headlines again. What else is new these past few weeks? But this time he may have gone too far. At an Iowa press conference, Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos,…
