this time brought to you via the folks at Presente.org. This creatively gives a glimpse into the movement to suppress Latino voter turnout and other political participation. Please share this message with your friends and family, and don’t forget to vote on Tuesday. When I asked Presente about why they crafted this GOTV message, Favianna [...]

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…her campaign unveils this new website playing on the Hasbro company’s Monopoly Game, but instead calling it Harry Reid’s Amnesty Game. While Reid has supported comprehensive immigration reform and recently introduced the DREAM Act as part of a defense bill, he hasn’t crafted an “amnesty” measure. Actually, the last person to really champion amnesty was [...]

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On Tuesday evening, there was a Latino leadership call hosted by the DNC with former Secretary of Transportation and Energy Federico Peña, the chair of the DNC Tim Kaine, actress/activist Eva Longoria, and President Obama. The overall message was to push the Latino Get Out the Vote (GOTV) message. The call began with Federico Peña [...]

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By Cristina Villarreal My grandparents were both born and raised in the United States.  They both speak English, but when they watch the news, they watch the news and most of their television in Spanish.  Even though they speak English they are more comfortable with Spanish.  My grandfather says he understands it better.  Spanish language [...]

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A recent USC/LA Times poll shows that California Gubernatorial Candidate Jerry Brown is leading his Republican opponent Meg Whitman by 13 points among likely voters and by 36 points for Latino voters. Furthermore, amongst Latinos, Whitman’s unfavorable rating has gone from 34 to 52 percent. Analysts attribute the recent drop in support to the housemaid [...]

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On Friday, LatinoPoliticsBlog attended the “Moving America Forward” rally from the vantage point of the press riser at USC. This event started about two hours late, and the crowd was estimated to be at 37,500. I was amazed at the turnout, and for me, this event pretty much reinforced that President Obama and the Democrats [...]

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By Mary Olivella and Elisa Batista (cross posted at MomsRising) Odds are, if you are a mom, you’re one of the 72 percent of women in the United States who support the DREAM Act. [1] But we want to know why. First, a quick refresher: The DREAM Act is short for the Development, Relief and Education for [...]

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By Dr. David Bearman Barack Obama is trying my patience. Don’t get me wrong, I still believe he inherited a mess from George Bush and is doing the best he can to turn the ship of state around.  However allowing his Attorney General Eric Holder to come out against California’s Prop 19 is not only [...]

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