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Cindy Casares column

Weekly commentary from Cindy Casares. Follow her on Twitter: @La_Cindy.
  • 2011 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival -  Pitchfork<br>AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 17:  Julianna Barwick performs at the 2011 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival Pitchfork at Central Presbyterian Church on March 17, 2011 in Austin, Texas.  (Photo by Douglas Marshall/WireImage)

    A textbook on Mexican Americans that gets their history wrong? Oh, Texas

    Cindy Casares
    A text up for approval by the Texas state board of education would, for the first time, feature Tejanos. But the book is mired with inaccuracies
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    Sick of Bernie bros? There's a subreddit with your name on it

    Cindy Casares
    In an increasingly divided election season, Enough Sanders Spam welcomes people from all parties, as long as they make fun of Bernie Sanders fans
  • Carly Fiorina<br>Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina speaks during a rally for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in Indianapolis, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Cruz chose Fiorina as his running mate. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

    Carly Fiorina's singing scored on late-night. But at a rally, it was just creepy

    Cindy Casares
    Ted Cruz and Fiorina are university-bred titans who excel at academic theory, but they are out of their depth when it comes to relating to other people
  • BESTPIX - Voters In Super Tuesday States Cast Their Ballots<br>FORT WORTH, TX - MARCH 1: Voters line up to cast their ballots on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. 13 states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    There's no good reason voting remains so inaccessible for so many Americans

    Cindy Casares
    In Texas and other states nationwide, it keeps getting harder to cast a ballot even though technology should make it a breeze
  • File photos of Pope Francis and Donald Trump<br>Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with the media onboard the papal plane while en route to Rome, Italy February 17, 2016 and Donald Trump (R) speaks at a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire February 4, 2016 in a combination of file photos. Pope Francis assailed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s views on U.S. immigration as “not Christian” on Thursday, prompting the billionaire businessman to assail the religious leader as “disgraceful” for questioning his faith. REUTERS/POOL

    A papal tiff won Donald Trump more free publicity – but he may lose Catholics

    Cindy Casares
    White Catholic voters have been identified as a swing voting group in American politics. One false move against the Pope and their favor could be lost
  • English-Spanish Signs Front Election Center In Texas<br>AUSTIN, TX - APRIL 28: A bilingual sign stands outside a polling center at public library ahead of local elections on April 28, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Early voting was due to begin Monday ahead of May 11 statewide county elections. The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama’s landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

    Can Nevada #FeeltheBern? Only if young Latinos turn out to support Sanders

    Cindy Casares
    Hillary Clinton is in the lead in polling for the next Democratic caucus, but there are a lot more young Latino voters now than there were last time around
  • This Oct. 22, 2015, photo shows a Planned Parenthood in Houston. A grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide. The footage from the clinic in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

    A court vindicated Planned Parenthood – but the damage has already been done

    Cindy Casares
    The long-term effects of low-income Americans living without access to healthcare services because of political agendas will continue
  • Ted Cruz<br>FILE - In this Jan 4, 2016 file photo, Republican Presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, campaigns at Penny's Diner in Missouri Valley, Iowa. Tea party flame-thrower Ted Cruz is showing voters his softer side during his presidential campaign in Iowa, whether through his joke-laced stump speech or one-on-one interactions.  (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

    Ted Cruz talks about securing the US-Mexico border, but he rarely visits it

    Cindy Casares
    He was elected to represent Texas, including its southern border, yet he rarely shows his face there while campaigning for more security and a wall
  • Ted Cruz Campaigns in Georgia as Polls Show Him Surging in Popularity<br>18 Dec 2015, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA --- Dec. 18, 2015 - Kennesaw, GA - Presidential hopeful Sen. TED CRUZ campaigns at a Kennesaw, Georgia airport today. (Credit Image: © Robin Rayne Nelson via ZUMA Wire) --- Image by © Robin Rayne Nelson/ZUMA Press/Corbis

    Ted Cruz is just like his clothes: carefully thought out, ill-fitting and unlikable

    Cindy Casares
    He’s not ‘one of the guys’ on the trail, but he also didn’t seem to belong in the Ivy League – or even among politicos
  • Dallas activists welcome Syrian refugees

    Politicians who waste time on trivial matters shirk their duty to find solutions

    Cindy Casares
    Frivolous political posturing to build a brand or make a political point burns hours and tax dollars that could be used to actually fix things
  • Paul Ryan

    Nothing will ever get done if our politicians don't learn to compromise

    Cindy Casares
    Our collective addiction to precise, instant gratification is causing a polarized political system where nobody listens and nothing gets accomplished
  • Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz

    Most Hispanics vote Democrat, so why are so many Hispanic politicians Republican?

    Cindy Casares
    Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are Cuban Americans, but most American Hispanics are Mexican. The two nationalities have had vastly different immigrant experiences
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    Texas campus carry law is a slap in the face of survivors of past shootings

    Cindy Casares
    At the University of Texas at Austin some still remember the 1966 mass school shooting. Their pleas for gun control have been ignored
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    Activists work for a greater good, which may just inconvenience you

    Cindy Casares
    We’ll discount an entire civil rights movement if we don’t agree with its tactics, even though that goes counter to helping make change
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    The high rate of uninsured Latinos isn't surprising – it's business as usual

    Cindy Casares
    A health insurance disparity existed before the Affordable Care Act, and the government should have seen that as evidence of a need to work differently
  • Kelly Osbourne

    If you want to be an ally, Kelly Osbourne, educate yourself about other people first

    Cindy Casares
    She has more in common with Donald Trump, whom she tried to scold on The View, than the Latino immigrants she was ostensibly defending
  • boy immigration facility

    Immigration shouldn't just be a way to score political points or enrich corporations

    Cindy Casares
    Cindy Casares: The new face of American immigration is under 18 and housed in a for-profit prison facility
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    We are reliving Jim Crow in America. Want proof? Look no further than Texas

    Cindy Casares in Austin
    Cindy Casares: Conservatives and the US supreme court like to mess with minorities. But that doesn’t mean we won’t fight for our most basic right
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