NOTICIAS

UFW Pauses Cesar Chavez Celebrations Somebody knew. That much was clear before any official statement, before any foundation issued a formal apology or a union called off its celebrations. Events were disappearing from calendars across the country, organizers were going silent, and the explanations offered were, at best, deliberately vague. A memo to the San Antonio City Council said only that the reason for canceling the city's annual César E. Chávez March for Justice was "a

Disenfranchised: A Word That Does Not Mean What Erika Kirk Thinks It Means Erika Kirk stood before a crowd at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion on March 11, tears forming, and told young white men not to let anyone disenfranchise them. Kirk, the CEO of Turning Point USA and widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was there alongside Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to announce the expansion of TPUSA's Club America chapters into Arkansas high schools and colleges. W

EL PAÍS A new controversy dubbed “Hondurasgate” is drawing attention across Latin America after leaked audio recordings allegedly linked former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, allies tied to Argentine President Javier Milei, and figures in Donald Trump’s political orbit to a proposed disinformation effort aimed at progressive governments in the region. According to reporting published by EL PAÍS and other outlets that have followed the leak, the recordings allegedl

Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt When Political Language Gets Ugly Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue this week didn’t just answer a call for his firing, it sharpened a broader debate about free speech and the uneven standards used to judge it in American politics. The controversy began with a joke. During a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner segment, Kimmel described Melania Trump as having “a glow like an expectant widow,” a line delivered in the long-standing tradition of poli

Emily Gregory's upset in Florida House District 87 signals something Republicans are going to have a hard time explaining away. Donald Trump voted by mail in Tuesday's special election for Florida House District 87. He voted for Jon Maples, the 43-year-old financial adviser and Trump-endorsed Republican running to hold the Palm Beach County seat. Maples lost anyway. The district, which runs along the coast through Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Juno Beach, and Hypoluxo, include

The footage is unremarkable at first glance. A father and son moving through an airport terminal. A small boy spreading his blanket across the floor, then wandering over to press his face against the window. Standard airport tedium, except that five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrián Conejo Arias, were not heading to a family vacation. They were heading to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, flanked by three escorts whose official capaci

Noelia Castillo Ramos did not die quietly. Or easily. She died on Thursday, at a healthcare center in Sant Pere de Ribes, outside Barcelona, after nearly two years of courtrooms, appeals, and a father who could not seem to decide whether he wanted a daughter or a cause. She was 25 years old. Castillo's story began fracturing long before her death. At 13, her parents separated, her family lost their home, and she was placed into state-run social care. She carried that instabil

Martie Garcia Vela has been watching elections since she was 18 years old, working polling sites in the Dallas-Fort Worth area while putting herself through college. She knows the process. She knows what compliance looks like and what it does not. So when she filed a formal election complaint with the Texas Secretary of State following the March 3, 2026, General Primary Election in Starr County, she was not speaking from speculation. "I believe our free and fair elections are

The U.S. Bombed a Girls' School On the morning of February 28, children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, were changing class periods when a Tomahawk cruise missile tore through the two-story building. The explosion collapsed the roof and destroyed more than half the structure. According to Iranian state media at least 168 children and 14 teachers were killed. Witnesses described pulling severed limbs from the rubble. The preliminary findings from an

2025 FRONTeras Magazine Vol. 1 No. 4 Issue She's not even from Texas. Let's start there. Jasmine Crockett is a borrowed native, a St. Louis girl in cowboy boots who showed up, claimed space, and doesn’t play nice with the political gatekeepers of the Lone Star State. That alone offends some people. They expect Southern women to be charming. Polished. At least local. Crockett is none of that. And she makes no effort to fake it. She didn't marry into a legacy or inherit a distr

The day before I met Omar Escobar at my office, I had offered to buy him breakfast, which he respectfully declined. Coffee, he turned down flat, too. That's a shame because food is great deflection when interviewing someone. So when he showed up the next day for our meeting, my hands were empty. He did, however, accept a bottle of water. As soon as he walked into the office, he was met with Juan Gabriel blasting out of my Monster speaker. He chuckled when I turned the volume

Roma ISD has a problem with consistency. The district accepts a football tunnel emblazoned with a candidate's name, then balks at cupcakes with a thank-you note. Letty Garza Galvan donated 300 cupcakes to Roma High School employees for Thanksgiving. Each cupcake included a small note with her name. The district demanded removal of her name, citing electioneering concerns. Garza Galvan, a former Roma ISD Board President with sixteen years of student advocacy, had also donated

I remember watching my boss come in on Fridays, jeans and a Metallica t-shirt, but still professional enough to lug an old but polished leather suitcase with him. He would plop on his chair and recline so far back he looked like he was hanging from a hammock, he would lift his feet on his desk and cover the entirety of his torso behind The Monitor newspaper. All I could see from my corner cubicle was his cowboy boots crisscrossed on his desk. It was the most impressionable th

The statewide spotlight zeroes in on Gocha Allen Ramirez. His reputation fractures. Public outrage piles on. Two rookie assistant district attorneys slipped into view while Ramirez absorbed every harsh glare. Those two — Abel Villarreal Jr. and Alexandria Barrera — emerged from depositions referenced in recent filings. Their versions of events present an odd contrast to the prevailing narrative. Transcripts reveal Ramirez trailed quietly behind them. His role appears peripher

Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar on December 3rd. By December 9th, House Democrats were preparing to restore the Laredo congressman to his position as ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. It took six days for a man accused of selling his influence to foreign interests to reclaim control over more than $65 billion in annual federal spending. Cuellar doesn't just vote on border security. He decides which DHS programs get funded a

President Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda on December 3, wiping away federal bribery and money laundering charges that threatened to send the couple to prison. Cuellar was grateful on social media. On the same day, however, Cuellar filed for reelection as a Democrat. The heartfelt gratitude he expressed to Trump lasted approximately as long as a gentleman's handshake before a duel. By Sunday, Trump was raging on Truth Social, his

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Wednesday for U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, the 70-year-old Laredo Democrat who has represented South Texas's 28th Congressional District for over two decades. The pardon extends to Cuellar's wife, Imelda, who faced identical charges in a federal bribery and money laundering case. Federal prosecutors accused the couple of accepting approximately $600,000 in bribes between December 2014 and November 2021 from two foreign entitie

Republicans passed a voting bill Wednesday that could make it impossible for millions of Americans to cast a ballot. The legislation has nothing to do with protecting democracy and everything to do with solving a problem that doesn't exist. The Save America Act, a reworded version of last year's failed SAVE Act, is built on the premise that non-citizens are voting illegally in federal elections by the millions. That claim has never been proven in any court. Federal law alread

Judith Zaffirini started at the bottom of the Texas Senate hierarchy in 1987, ranked number 30 out of 31 members. Thirty-seven years later, she ascended to the highest position when former Senator John Whitmire resigned on December 31, 2023, to become Houston's mayor. She became the first woman Dean of the Senate, succeeding 24 men who held the title since 1909. Senators look to the Dean for guidance on protocol, decorum, traditions, and knowledge. Zaffirini earned this disti

MAGA women have a look. Heavy foundation several shades too dark. Severe contouring that photographs like war paint. Aggressively blonde hair. Exaggerated lashes clumping together like spider legs. Lips pumped full of filler. Spray tans that stop at the jawline. This isn't accidental or incompetence. This isn't a regional beauty trends gone rogue. This is deliberate. This is look is optimized for one specific audience: conservative men. The phenomenon has earned its own Wikip