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September 20, 2019

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Sept. 18 on oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), examining specifically whether to reauthorize four provisions of the act set to expire in December. One could be forgiven for missing the hearing amidst the deluge of news this week.


September 18, 2019

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to truly make an informed judgment or assessment about how HOUSE DEMOCRATS' JUDICIARY hearing with COREY LEWANDOWSKI went Tuesday. Because no one has any idea what the party's end goal is.


September 18, 2019

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for presidency back in June 2015, he did so by calling Mexicans criminals and rapists and promising a Great Wall.


September 18, 2019

For Part Two of BELatina's Hispanic Heritage Month series "Know Your Latina Congresswomen," we're highlighting a few of the Latinas who are helming "majority-minority" communities, all of which happen to be located in Southern California.


September 14, 2019

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September 13, 2019

Texas is increasingly becoming a "battleground state" as Democrats are hopeful of winning statewide offices and even Texas' 38 electoral votes in the next presidential election.

On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez joined local Hispanic Democrats for an outreach event at Talento Bilingüe in Houston's East End, called "Cafecito con Politics."


September 12, 2019

HOUSTON — With the Democratic presidential debate just days away, there was excitement in the air at the Harris County Democratic Party's Monday morning staff meeting. But Chairwoman Lillie Schechter urged her troops to keep their eyes on the prize: November 2020.


September 12, 2019

HOUSTON — With the Democratic presidential debate just days away, there was excitement in the air at the Harris County Democratic Party's Monday morning staff meeting. But Chairwoman Lillie Schechter urged her troops to keep their eyes on the prize: November 2020.


September 8, 2019

A Houston community organizer was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday after inviting the agency to a community event where he had planned to discuss worries about President Trump's immigration raids.