The power and potential of Latino voters
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.
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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.
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Every election year, plenty of Americans, especially political pundits, rediscover the “sleeping giant” that is the Latino electorate.
By Christian Paz
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Inside the Arizona’s representative’s restless, highly online, and seriously combative plan to transform the Democratic Party.
By Christian Paz
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Republicans are slowly winning over Latino voters. Democrats may not have learned from their 2020 mistakes.
By Ray Suarez
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Hispanic voters could swing the 2022 midterms. Here’s how that might happen.
By Youyou Zhou
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If there’s a red wave in 2022, it will be powered by Latina candidates.
By Li Zhou
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Why Latino voters have such a misunderstood stance on abortion.
By Nicole Narea
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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
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So what now? 5 experts in Latino politics weigh in.
By Natalie Jennings and Christian Paz
CREDITS
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
