It is election season again here in Texas and Gov. Rick Perry will do anything in the war for voters. According to the Houston Chronicle, Gov Perry, who openly opposed the federal stimulus package, has no problem accepting “one of the biggest pots” of federal stimulus package – crime grants to local law enforcement agencies.
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With the conclusion of this election, the number crunching started, Greg of Greg’s Opinion and Kuff of Off the Kuff has provided some precinct data analysis on this issue. I am writing because I am disturbed how some people within the Harris County Democratic Party are suggesting that the low turnout of Latino voters caused [...]
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The folks at Twitter The Vote have created a great project to track lines at polling places and more on Election Day. I encourage everybody to participate. Instructions are below:
How to participate
Yep, I Twitter. Now What Do I Do?
It’s simple. We voters are using Twitter and other texting tools to report on how the vote [...]
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With less than a day left till the election, many Republicans are seeing the writing on the wall. Their days are numbered or are they? If you are Karl Rove, it is not over until the last dirty trick is played.
Recently, a story broke out about Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, she was [...]
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How red is Texas? After this election we might actually surprise everybody and turn this state blue. It looks like everything is in perfect alignment for change to actually occur here in Texas. I have been noticing that the state GOP has decided to bring in the big guns, the National Republican Congressional Committee, to [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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