Latinos broke 60-40 for Talarico. That wasn't an accident.
@chuckrocha.bsky.social & @mikemadrid.bsky.social break down the Texas primary, the grassroots machine behind it, and why the 2026 Latino surge is just getting started!
New episode of The Latino Vote Podcast is OUT NOW
youtu.be/JrmpzEv3NNU
The sooner he does this, the better chance it works. I'd recommend tonight.
At some point, and we may be way past it, you can’t just call time out.
what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
There's a pretty clear negative correlation between Hispanic counties and Democratic turnout increase from 2022 in Texas.
LOL. Left side of this chart doing all the work. Right side is mostly tiny counties with fewer voters, and most of those still show a 1.5 increase. The big raw population Latino counties are in the middle and left and show 2x and 3x increases. Gotta keep the customers paying $ tho.
Democrat looking to take on Tom Barrett in my district.
A graphic showing the growing partisan divide in the U.S. -- a pattern that is specific to partisanship. In 1994, the average difference across 10 political values items was 15 percentage points. That gap more than doubled by 2017. Gaps by other demographic groupings remained more or less constant during the same period.
I recently had the opportunity to dig up this chart from an old Pew report:
www.pewresearch.org/politics/201...
In my years at Pew, this was the most striking image that I had a part in producing. The graphic takes a little explaining, but the payoff is worth it. (1/
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
Excellent anti-nudge arguments here
Here in Texas, the general election is underway. Help us organize and win here in 2026 and beyond!
secure.actblue.com/donate/jrsli...
Chinese EV maker BYD’s new Blade batteries have a 5-minute charging time and 621-mile range.
www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
If you believe breakeven payrolls are like 0. This should be one of the most terrifying graphs
People who don’t pay attention to politics are about to find out how far out into the deep waters the current has pulled them. I do not trust them to react reasonably or rationally to that at all.
🧠 How news consumption shapes conspiracy beliefs: misperceptions & populist attitudes are the key mechanisms. New article out in Digital Journalism with Peter Van Aelst👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HYXI9...
National Review's editorial line in one tweet.
Holy smokes!
New #OpenAccess -
"Identity Politics and Left-wing Populism" - cup.org/4b2YR4c
- Jannis Saalfeld (University of Duisburg-Essen)
For more on #Populism, see also these special collections: shorturl.at/RjsaQ
The numbers were dramatic: In five different rural majority-Latino counties, more votes were cast in Tuesday’s Democratic primary than for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Watched this government-promoted,depression era film tonight and what a treat. Right into the politics in film course. Charles Laughton is incredible as an immigrant butler teaching Americans about America. m.youtube.com/watch?v=awsm...
Man, these folks are telling us exactly what’s going to happen in the fall. Texas one-step and now Montana today. They know.
Never change New Jersey.
IT'S HERE, from me: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
"Participatory Democracy and Its Limits"
Don’t get me wrong, Cornyn is a more formidable candidate than Paxton. But I don’t think it’s by as much as people seem to think. He’s fully tied himself to Trump, whose approval rating is now slightly underwater in Texas (and might drop further given Iran and god knows what else). And this becomes a much simpler “throw the bums out” outsider vs. career DC politician dynamic
And the age/generational/attention economy divide could not be more stark (Cornyn is 74 and looks far older and more visibly frail than he did in 2020).
Yah.
Might be underestimating the effect of an unpopular Trump belittling a Christian preacher’s religious rhetoric for 8 months.
Predicting Congressional Election Results
Presidential approval & ideological direction of public opinion, not economics or party conflict, predict election results. That looks good for Dems
New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Carlos Algara
www.niskanencenter.org/what-predict...
Trump take take.
Love this for all of them.
