Latino voters’ growing power, what the parties get right and wrong about them, and a brash Congress member on what Democrats need to do better.
Throughout this edition of The Highlight, Vox hopes to provide a better understanding of the complexities, contradictions, and future of the country’s 32 million Latino voters.
Every election year, plenty of Americans, especially political pundits, rediscover the “sleeping giant” that is the Latino electorate.
By Christian Paz
Inside the Arizona’s representative’s restless, highly online, and seriously combative plan to transform the Democratic Party.
By Christian Paz
Republicans are slowly winning over Latino voters. Democrats may not have learned from their 2020 mistakes.
By Ray Suarez
Hispanic voters could swing the 2022 midterms. Here’s how that might happen.
By Youyou Zhou
If there’s a red wave in 2022, it will be powered by Latina candidates.
By Li Zhou
Why Latino voters have such a misunderstood stance on abortion.
By Nicole Narea
Democrats blamed misinformation for some of their losses with Latino voters in 2020. But the problem is getting more entwined with the party’s failures with Latinos.
By Christian Paz
Esta historia también está disponible en español.
So what now? 5 experts in Latino politics weigh in.
By Natalie Jennings and Christian Paz
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Editors: Natalie Jennings, Sean Collins, Ryan McCarthy, Libby Nelson
Copy editors: Kim Eggleston, Elizabeth Crane, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Colleen Barrett, Tanya Pai
Art direction: Bita Honarvar, Dion Lee
Audience: Gabriela Fernandez, Shira Tarlo, Agnes Mazur
Production/project editors: Susannah Locke, Nathan Hall
Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo
Author: Natalie Jennings
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