Politics

Capitalism 101. Someone wants a product. Someone else produces that product. Person who wants the product that was produced purchases the product. Person who made the product gets the money from the person who bought the product. Rinse and repeat. That is basically how it goes. Whether it is legal or against the law. Such […]

So the Mitt Romney Latino strategy continues with the latest Spanish ad that features his son Craig (looking like a Univision soap opera star) telling Spanish-speaking voters that his father Mitt believes in immigration and will work to find a bipartisan solution to reform the immigration system. Titled "País de inmigrantes," the ad mentions nothing […]

Last night we submitted questions to Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional district, regarding the following Facebook post. We followed up today with a piece that showed that two of Saucedo Mercer's FB posts in the last week were lifted from other sources that weren't credited. The questions we submitted were these: Can […]

Last night, we published a story about Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, who posted the following analogy on her official Facebook page: The post went viral pretty quickly. By 12:30 AM EST, it was deleted. However, what can be seen as another case of partisan politics gone wild on social […]

UPDATE: The post mentioned in this story was removed from Facebook around 12:30 AM EST July 16, 2012. Tonight the following Facebook post from the official page of Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona's District 3, has started to go viral and is getting mostly negative and angry attention for the […]

Here we go again. Just a week after tens of thousands (can we say hundreds now?) of Mexicans took to the streets for the first #MegaMarcha demonstrations to proclaim that the country's July 1 presidential elections were fraudulent, a second series of marches occurred again yesterday. For those who don't know the full story, here […]

NOTE: This story and its headline have been edited and updated from its original report to reflect new information about the total number of respondents in this Quinnipiac poll. Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, may be gaining support with US Latino voters, according to a Quinnipiac poll released today. The poll […]

You don't think the US Latino vote is not important? Conventional political wisdom pretty much has said over and over again that for Mitt Romney to win the presidency in 2012, he has to move the needle on the Latino vote. If he is not around the 35-40% range with US Latino voters, he is […]

In  a speech that he gave yesterday at the National Council of La Raza’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Vice President Biden said the following: “Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his.” Here is the full context (and yes, the line was well-received): The reference is a slippery one. Connect […]

Yes, some outlets (like The Washington Post) covered yesterday's protests in Mexico, where thousands of people all over the county marched peacefully to speak out against the alleged buying of votes by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whose candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, won the presidential election with just 38.2% of the popular vote while challenger Andrés […]

This week, the Tucson Unified School District, which gained national attention when TUSD school board member Michael Hicks appeared on "The Daily Show" to discuss why the board had decided to suspend the district's Mexican American Studies (MAS) program, held another public board meeting this past Monday. The official accounts from local news outlets chronicled pretty basic […]

Today the California state senate passed the TRUST (Transparency and Responsibilities Using State Tools) Act, 21-13. Billed by many as the "Anti-Arizona SB 1070" act, the TRUST Act, if signed by Governor Jerry Brown would essentially do the following: This bill would prohibit a law enforcement official, as defined, from detaining an individual on the basis […]

It is still one of the greatest documents ever written. Take a moment to just read it, and separate it from the historical context and how this country was formed. This Declaration of Independence, signed 236 years ago today, was in its essence, rebellious in nature. A huge FU to a King. The United States was […]

Today, the Twitter account of the National Council of La Raza tweeted the following announcement: The tweet was intended to promote NCLR's annual conference this weekend in Las Vegas. Other companies, like UPS, Walmart (that is another story), Bank of America, and Southwest Air, were also mentioned in separate tweets. However, the Wells Fargo announcement has […]

In light of last week's Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's controversial SB 1070 law, the American Civil Liberties Union released a video about how to people should know your rights. Basically, just be quiet when asked about your status. Silencio. No digas nada. Here is the Spanish one: And here is the English one.

For those who thought that #YoSoy132 and the "Mexican Spring" would disappear now that the Mexican elections concluded on July 1, think again. A YouTube channel called AnonElecciones (AnonElections) has produced two videos the last two days suggesting that voter fraud and other repressive measures occurred during the elections. Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of Mexico's […]

Even though the results will continued to be counted tonight and not fully confirmed until Wednesday, Mexico's Institute of Federal Elections (IFE) announced tonight at 12:15 am EST that Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was leading in the country's official "Quick Count." Tonight's results included 7,500 voting locations that are a […]

Even as votes continue to be counted tonight, the official website of Enrique Peña Nieto has already announced that Peña Nieto has already won the presidency, returning the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power after ruling Mexico for 71 years, from 1929-2000. Major outlets are reporting a win for the PRI, based on exit polls but […]

Jason Mattera is an ambush personality. We couldn't say that he is an actual journalist, just a personality who has made a career of catching the DC establishment off guard and selling it as "reporting." It really isn't journalism, but that isn't the point of this post. Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican and Italian […]

As Mexico votes for a new President tomorrow, we share a segment from Democracy Now!, which aired this week. We also included the transcript of the segment.   JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin today’s show in Mexico, where voters head to the polls on Sunday in a historic election to pick President Felipe Calderón’s replacement, as well as […]

We knew it would happen sooner than later. Following a ruling by the Supreme Court last Monday—which basically struck down Arizona's controversial SB1070 law immigration, but allowed for the section 2(B) "show me your papers" provision to continue—organizations are beginning to challenge section 2(B), fearing that it will lead to racial profiling. On Wednesday, the […]