The voting rights for women in America began from America’s west and expanded eastward as women began to organize themselves to demand the right to vote. Historically, women’s suffrage has been framed […]
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What The Texas And El Paso Bar Got Wrong: First Texas Woman Lawyer Was In El Paso
According to the Iowa Department of Human Rights, the first American woman attorney was Arabella Mansfield. Mansfield passed the Iowa bar examination in 1869. [1] Although she never practiced law, she has […]
Frontier Klansmen: The KKK In El Paso
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a racist white supremacy group. The secretive organization was established after the Civil War in response to the end of slavery, where its members were generally […]
The Doctor That Took On The White El Paso Political Establishment For Racial Equality
The political narrative in El Paso today is that the local Democratic Party is the party of inclusiveness and progressiveness. It is a narrative that has been carefully cultivated for decades. Lost […]
When Mexicans Voted In El Paso
“Unless you pay your poll tax hired Mexican voters will select our city’s next administration,” proclaimed the unsigned letter to the El Paso Times on January 20, 1905. [1] The Texas Constitutions […]
El Paso: No Mexicans Allowed
In the 1940’s and in the early 1950’s signs reading “No Mexicans Allowed” still existed in El Paso. [9] Many El Pasoans tend to believe that El Paso is a friendly and […]
Strange El Paso Politics: From Carpet Baggers To Bank Robbery
El Paso, like most cities, has its share of political characters. This last election was not any different in that it had its share of political sagas and characters. There was the […]
Unite El Paso – The 1990’s Plan To Erase The Border That Launched Free Internet And A Political Career At The Expense Of A “Dream”
This is the story of how a group of more than one thousand El Pasoans got together in 1992 under the dream of uniting the community to make El Paso and Cd. […]
Exclusive El Paso Politics Candidate Promotion
El Paso Politics is offering candidates an opportunity to reach influential El Paso voters for Election Day through our exclusive network. This is a limited offer and is strictly first-come-first-served. On the […]
Operation Hold The Line – How El Paso Spawned Today’s Failed Immigration Strategy
The following is an in-depth analysis into Silvestre Reyes’s Operation Hold the Line that led to today’s official immigration strategy of “prevention through deterrence”. It is a strategy that failed then and […]
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