Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up: 12/21/2009

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The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs.
As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda Chavez-Thompson was rumored to be running for [...]

Movin’ On Up: The Gospel of XP Set For National Stage

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Like a street preacher starting out with truth on my side and a voice to be heard, I created this digital soapbox for anybody willing to listen to me on the issues affecting the Latino/a community. The intention of this blog is to help people navigate through the river of informational sewage that collects [...]

“New Americans” Electoral Significance Conference Call

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Today was the fourth of an on going series of NCLR sponsored blogger calls. NCLR will be partnering with the Immigration Policy Center for this fourth blogger call where we will be discussing a forthcoming report prepared for the Immigration Policy Center by the consulting firm of Rob Paral & Associates.
There report explores the [...]

Score Another for The Latinosphere

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Here is the CNN video clip of Kety Esquivel, blogamiga, Sanctuary Editor and Crossleft.org Founder, addressing the political pandering and the poor outreach efforts to the Latina/o community by both presidential candidates.
Kety was eloquent, on-target, and very professional. We are proud of you Kety, you did an awesome job. YOU ROCKED!!!!

CNN transcript below the fold

Score One for the Latinosphere

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First off, I like to thank Wall Street Journal correspondent Ana Rivas for picking up the recent rift between the Latinosphere and the current outreach efforts by both presidential candidates to the Latino community.
In her blog post (which I, Edmundo “XicanoPwr” Rocha, happened to be mentioned) Rivas writes:

Latino bloggers covering the presidential campaign reacted this [...]

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