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 […]
Critical race theory is an ongoing national debate over what type of history is taught in America’s schools today. At the center of the debate is who writes America’s narrative. On one […]
Author’s note: The concepts of Mexican American Identity discussed here are primarily taken from a 1973 presentation made by UTEP professor Ellwyn Stoddard. See primary source note below for more information. Likely […]
El Paso’s own, Beto O’Rourke is running for governor. It is a forgone conclusion that O’Rourke will win overwhelmingly in El Paso’s Primary elections. But the open question remains, can he outperform […]
Tomorrow is the 2022 Primary Election Day. Polls open at 7am and close at 7pm. El Paso has historically determined the winners during early voting. Early voting ended on Friday and the […]
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. […]
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 […]
To understand the battles to protect Segundo Barrio and Duranguito from eradication to make way for the proposed multipurpose arena, it is important that readers understand the history of the decades of […]
As we discussed in our previous article, public policy in El Paso is driven by a small group of individuals who use wealth to control the city’s politics. In recent years, Paul […]
The rising Hispanic political power players in the 1990’s created tensions between the Anglo and Hispanic communities. It is easy to dismiss the Anglo-Hispanic tensions as complaints by minorities in the community. […]
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