Two recent pieces give us an important reminder of the history of Latinos in the Americas — and a reminder of the history Latinos can make if we make our voices heard at the ballot box this November. In a New York Times op-ed, actor and activist John Leguizamo...
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“Hate Rising,” the new documentary with journalist Jorge Ramos, premiered on Fusion and Univision last night — and for many of us, the images from the film have been sadly all too familiar for the past year and a half. HATE RISING Promo from CatTails on Vimeo. Ramos spent nine...
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Late last Friday, former Gov. Jan Brewer said she wasn’t concerned about the Latino vote in Arizona, saying Latinos “don’t get out and vote. They don’t vote.” We’ve got some news for her. Bazta Arpaio — the group organizing to end the troubled career of the beleaguered Maricopa County...
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English (en español al final de la página): The Hill: Dems double down on Nevada Latino vote By Rafael Bernal Washington Post: Buoyed by rising polls, Clinton shifts to a new target: the House and Senate By Philip Rucker, Ed O’Keefe and Mike DeBonis Politico: The cruelest campaign: Republicans...
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Could beleaguered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio be headed for defeat this November? It’s sure been looking like it lately. A new survey released this past week shows Arpaio trailing his Democratic opponent, Paul Penzone, by nearly 15 points. It’s the second poll within the past two weeks to have...
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President Obama excoriated Marco Rubio on his home turf yesterday, calling him out for his ongoing support for Donald Trump, despite criticizing him as unqualified and “dangerous” during the GOP primary. “How can you call him a con artist and dangerous and object to all the controversial things he says, and...
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English (en español al final de la página): A Nation Divided (Op-ed): Hope Not Hate By Frank Sharry New York Times: The Debate That Wasn’t: So Many Words, So Few About Policy By Alan Rappeport New York Times: ‘Nasty Woman’ and ‘Bad Hombres’: The Real Debate Winners? By Erin...
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were finally asked about immigration during the third and final Presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada last night. Below is a video of the complete exchange, as well as some selected text from Clinton’s remarks, where she discusses Karla — the US citizen daughter of...
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Donald Trump wants a “big, beautiful” wall, so Latinos gave him one. Members of the influential Culinary Union 226 and over a dozen other groups parked a wall of taco and food trucks outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas yesterday, in protest of the candidate’s anti-immigrant, anti-Latino...
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Immigration finally made its into the third and final Presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada last night. But while Hillary Clinton was talking about keeping families together and a path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, Donald Trump was talking…well…this: “We’re going to secure the border,...
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