This week we are celebrating National Welcoming Week, what the White House is calling as “a way to bring people together to honor the contributions of immigrants and refugees and to highlight efforts across the country to building stronger, more welcoming communities.” Throughout the week, the White House will showcase the “courage and resilience” of […]
National Welcoming Week Highlights the Positive Impacts of Immigrants and Refugees
September 26, 2016 By
Comentarios from Maria: Using Voting as a Weapon Against Racism, Intolerance and Xenophobia
September 26, 2016 By
“An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud,” Donald Trump tweeted in 2012. Since then, Donald Trump has repeated this lie and continued to question the citizenship of the President of the United States. Although many people fought against this lie, none of them had […]
Clinton and Obama Speak at CHCI’s 38th Annual Awards Gala
September 16, 2016 By
Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump for “bigotry” because he refused to say President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and she called on a roomful of Latinos and online viewers Thursday night to “stop him conclusively in November.” “We need to decide who we are. If we just sigh and shake our head and accept […]
Clinton is Gaining Support from Millennial Cuban-Americans
September 14, 2016 By
Rafael Sanchez is a Cuban-American who lives in the predominately Cuban neighborhood of Westchester in Miami-Dade County. He works at a local health center and has voted for the Republican presidential nominee in previous elections. But this November, for the first time, the 29-year-old plans to switch his political affiliation. “I’m voting for Hillary Clinton,” […]
Democrat Rep. Sanchez Gets Endorsed By House GOP Leader
September 7, 2016 By
Saying that she’s the best bet in the Senate race to succeed retiring Barbara Boxer, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa crossed party lines and endorsed his colleague Rep. Loretta Sanchez this past weekend. Issa emphasized Sanchez’s support for U.S. troops and a strong national defense system as key factors for his endorsement of the congresswoman. “I’ve […]
Minority Voters Casting Early Ballots Have A Large Impact
September 6, 2016 By
Early voting kicks off next week in North Carolina, two months before Election Day, the first in a run of key states where minority voters and young adults who cast ballots in advance could give one of the White House contenders a decisive advantage. For Donald Trump, it’s a major test of whether his recent […]
Dolores Huerta Joins Arizona Latino Leaders to Get Out the Vote Against Trump
August 26, 2016 By
Civil rights activist and People For the American Way (PFAW) board member Dolores Huerta joined Arizona Latino elected officials and community leaders in Arizona Thursday to launch a campaign aimed at denouncing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. According to a PFAW’s press release, their new campaign Trumpublicans: Reject Trump and the Republicans / Trumpublicanos: Rechaza […]
Donald Trump’s Latest Flip Flop: ‘Softening’ on Immigration
August 24, 2016 By
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign by promising to build a “great, great wall” on the U.S. southern border – making Mexico pay for it – and painting undocumented Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. Now, Trump is changing his tone on immigration and “softening” a stance he notoriously endorsed. “There certainly can be a […]
Comentarios from Maria: Desperation and a Srategy to Divide
August 22, 2016 By
Every time Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opens his mouth it is usually to say something terrible about someone or to insult entire groups of voters. I think he is beginning to realize that this strategy is not working. This can be seen in the most recent surveys where Hillary Clinton is winning by about […]
Fox News Latino Poll Shows Latinos Highly Favor Clinton
August 12, 2016 By
With less than four months to go before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a commanding 46-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump among Hispanic voters, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday by Fox News Latino. The poll found that 66 percent of registered Latinos would head to the ballot box […]
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