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

Representative Jasmine Crockett angered people when she compared some Latino voting patterns to a "slave mentality" during a post-election interview with Vanity Fair. Her words have been resurfaced and people are obviously losing their minds. But nobody wants to talk about whether she was right about the matter. In a December 2024 Vanity Fair interview about Kamala Harris's loss, Crockett was asked about race and gender in the election. Trump pulled 46 percent of the Latino v

2026 FRONTeras Magazine 1st Quarter Issue Starr County Democrats Rally Behind Hinojosa's Gubernatorial Bid Caro's Restaurant in Rio Grande City has hosted its share of political meetings over the years, making it the obvious choice when the Starr County Democratic Party decided to bring gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa to town on a Monday afternoon. The five-term state representative walked through the door with the confidence of someone who grew up in Brownsville and un

A last name says it all. A last name is an insignia. In politics, it functions as both credential and liability, often at the same time. Starr County has a long habit of treating last names as verdicts, saving time by skipping straight to judgment. And the prime example of that judgment is "los Peñas." The Peña family's presence in local governance spans generations. Amando Peña Sr. was a Roma Independent School District school board trustee. Fernando Peña, his son, served as

Greg Abbott has never faced a challenge quite like Gina Hinojosa. First, she's Mexican-American. Second, she's a woman. And even though he easily won against Wendy Davis, this candidate has something Davis didn't: she's puro 956. The Brownsville native and five-term state representative stopped by Caro's Restaurant in Rio Grande City on Monday to talk with local voters about her campaign. The event drew family and local Democratic officials who turned out to support her candi

"This is Ada Cuellar." No preamble. No political polish. Just a doctor's voice, clear and direct. "Last November, I was upset when we lost the election. Like many people, I wanted to run away." She didn't. She stayed and committed to battle. Dr. Ada Cuellar, 44, is an emergency room physician in Weslaco who decided that abandoning the Valley wasn't an option. Instead, she's mounting a congressional challenge against Monica De La Cruz, the incumbent who's been representing Tex