Beto O’Rourke said he won’t make a decision on running for Texas governor in 2022 until later this year, but he definitely sounded like a candidate at times during a conversation with El Paso Matters. ...
Claudia Yoli Ferlas came to El Paso as an 8-year-old when she fled her native Venezuela with her mother. She has dedicated her life to encouraging other young adults to engage in politics, even though ...
We’re kicking off a new series of conversations with El Pasoans working to better our community. First up, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Join us from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 15. El Paso Matters ...
The day after the César Chávez holiday, labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta sat down virtually to speak with El Paso Community Center students. “El Paso is one of my favorite places in the ...
National polling has shown that Republicans express far more hesitancy than Democrats on whether to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Almost half of the people who support former President Donald Trump say they won’t get vaccinated. ...
An effort to redistrict and reduce courts of appeals in Texas could have major implications for El Pasoans. Texas currently has 14 courts of appeals throughout the state, including the 8th Court of Appeals that ...
By the Rt. Rev. Michael Hunn Part of my job as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, a diocese of the Episcopal Church consisting of the state of New Mexico and Far ...
By Rep. Joe Moody Yesterday saw the very foundations of our representative government shaken by naked fascism. Let me first say what needs to be echoed by every patriot in a position of public trust: ...
Cristóbal J. Alex, an El Pasoan with deep experience in Democratic politics, was named Tuesday to a White House job by President-elect Joe Biden. Alex, a graduate of Andress High School, will be Biden’s deputy ...
El Paso’s Tigua Indians might get an unintentional ally in their decades-long battle with Texas over gambling — one of the world’s biggest casino owners. Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is ...
In the Dec. 12 mayoral runoff, El Pasoans face a unique choice — two candidates who have held the office, and have a record from their time of service. Oscar Leeser, El Paso’s mayor from ...
A surge in young voters propelled El Paso to a record-shattering turnout in the 2020 presidential election, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting data shows. Despite being engulfed by the worst COVID-19 outbreak ...
By Graciela Blandon For years, El Paso County’s Democratic Party has existed as a shadowy figure to the average voter. With limited digital and field teams, Democratic Party organizing has happened mostly within its own ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar was elected to a second term in Congress last week with 64% of the vote. Her win wasn’t a surprise — Democrats have controlled Texas’ 16th Congressional District seat since 1965. ...
State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, filed paperwork on Election Day seeking to be Texas’ next speaker of the House of Representatives. If he is selected by House colleagues, Moody would be the first Latino ...
Financial backers of the six candidates vying for mayor have pumped close to $1 million into their campaigns since Tuesday’s race started in spring 2019. Incumbent Dee Margo, former Mayor Oscar Leeser and political newcomers ...
Tito Anchondo met with President Donald Trump in the days after his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The president and first lady Melania ...
El Paso County shattered records on Tuesday for the first day of early voting, according to preliminary numbers from the El Paso County Elections Office. Almost 19,000 people voted in person in the county on ...
The candidates in the District 4 City Council race may have differing opinions on the issues, but they agree on one thing. The biggest challenge their district faces is it’s undeserved bad reputation among the ...
The winner of El Paso’s mayoral election will be tasked with leading the city during tumultuous times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayor, who presides over City Council meetings and votes in case ...
It was only a year ago that voters went to the polls to decide whether District 3 city Rep. Cassandra Hernandez should keep her seat. A post on Hernandez’s official Facebook page suggesting she was ...
Alexsandra Annello has represented District 2 for one term on El Paso City Council, with challengers Judy Gutierrez and James Campos looking to oust the incumbent in the Nov. 3 election. Annello, 36, a native ...
El Paso’s next mayor will be elected amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has not only jeopardized the health and safety of residents, but has severely strained the local economy with potentially long-lasting effects. The ...
Northeast El Paso City Council candidate Shawnson “Shawn” Nixon was arrested Friday on charges that he issued bad checks to fund his campaign, police said in a text to the media. He was taken into ...
When it comes to campaigning during COVID-19, necessity breeds invention. For some of El Paso’s mayoral candidates, this has certainly been the case, as they have embraced new and unconventional methods of voter outreach. For ...
A security company and a temporary employment agency say El Paso City Council candidate Shawn Nixon owes them more than $280,000 from bad checks and unpaid invoices from this summer. Nixon’s campaign has faced repeated ...
An El Paso City Council candidate has been funding his campaign with thousands of dollars worth of bounced checks and wage theft, according to several police reports filed in recent weeks. Shawnson Nixon, 21, has ...
By Carmen E. Rodríguez Many El Pasoans who have not had run-ins with the police may think local protests against our El Paso Police Department are unwarranted and that protestors are trying to address problems ...
By Carlos Gallinar Under the El Paso Municipal Charter, city elections are non-partisan. This means that City Council elections cannot be done through a party primary system, similar to other elections that are held in ...
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By David Marcus The 2020 election shattered all previous records as Americans on both sides of the aisle, fulfilling their civic duty, went out and voted in record numbers by the end of Election Day ...