Hispanic Voters

This week on Texas Matters: Ectopic pregnancy deaths are increasing in Texas. Is there a link to abortion bans? The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee is holding back its report until after the election. What are the concerns? And could ICE agents show up at the polls this coming election? A lawsuit has been filed to try to prevent that.

Lydia Camarillo, the current president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, discusses how the organization has worked to give electoral power to Latino voters for the last 5 decades.

In his new book, historian Geraldo Cadava chronicles the evolving identity and influence of Hispanic GOP voters over the last half century and their impact on U.S. politics.

Latinos will make up the largest minority voting group in 2020. What can the history and rise of the Latino vote tell us about the changing U.S. political…

A lawsuit against the Texas Secretary of State David Whitley was recently settled after his office released a list of 95,000 voters accused of being…

San Antonio Federal Judge Fred Biery ordered local county election officials to stop purging voter rolls and to stop sending notices to prove citizenship…

Updated at 1:41 p.m.Willie Velasquez grew up on San Antonio’s West Side, and learned early on that by empowering his fellow Latinos, they could bring…

A new book for young adults reflects on the life of voting rights activist and West Side San Antonio native Willie Velasquez. Author Bárbara Renaud…

This week the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered the ruling that the Texas Voter ID Law violates a key section of the Voting Rights act. The courts…

A national group is launching a cell phone app aimed at increasing Hispanic voter registration. They believe Donald Trump’s comments about Mexicans will…