Latinos Ready To Vote

Make your voice heard, vote early! Return your ballot by mail as soon as you receive it in California. County elections officials already sent mailing ballots on October 5.

Don't wait till Election day

>>> https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/make-plan-vote

Make a Voting Plan

Here’s your 2026 Texas ballot for the November election

See the full list of candidates and who will be on your personal ballot on Nov. 3.

In-person early voting in Texas runs from Oct. 19 to 30.

Texas 2026 election: Your November sample ballot See the full list of candidates and who will be on your personal ballot on Nov. 3.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas - Across his two businesses in this once-booming border town, David Reyna sees signs of ramped-up immigration enforcement everywhere.

Fewer customers are coming to his lumberyard. Even fewer people are calling his upstairs real estate business. And the house he is building? It is stalled, a set of concrete slabs and wooden planks untouched for months.

"We didn't think this administration was going to crack down on undocumented workers that hard," Reyna said, but "it is completely devastating the local construction industry. It's grinding it down to a halt." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/07/texas-border-districts-immigration-has-become-an-economic-issue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawU0unpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4g5dlWku_iKHSHt93a-6n4jBvjA2AFtoH8dQHXvOZrJo8fnjGainwUQN34iA_aem_dr62TvpaEhk1B4bH4VC-VA

The border counties that swung to Trump are now short of workers. They may swing back. A labor shortage tied to ICE arrests could shake up a trio of battleground House races along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In New CNN poll out today, Likely voters in Iowa and Ohio largely say Trump's policies have increased the cost of living.

>> https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/cnn-polls-ohio-iowa-senate-governor-midterms

Blue wave in red states?

OHIO POLL By CNN/SSRS

SENATE
🟦 Sherrod Brown: 49%
🟥 Jon Husted (inc): 43%
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GOVERNOR
🟦 Amy Acton: 50%
🟥 Vivek Ramaswamy: 42%

IOWA POLL By CNN/SSRS

SENATE
🟥 Ashley Hinson: 45%
🟦 Josh Turek: 43%
🟨 Other: 3%
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GOVERNOR
🟦 Rob Sand: 51%
🟥 Zach Lahn: 42%

An Ohio edge. An Iowa tossup. New CNN polls give Democrats hope in a pair of red states | CNN Politics Widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the country has opened up a prime Senate pickup opportunity for Democrats in Ohio and made for a razor-thin contest in Iowa, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS.

"Gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra and Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas have created a joint committee to raise money for the No campaign and U.S. Sen Alex Padilla is stumping at events.

Nearly 90% of Californians now vote by mail, according to the secretary of state’s office. That means the vast majority of voters would be required to write their Social Security or driver’s license number on their ballot should the initiative pass.

Many people aren’t going to be comfortable with that, No on 39 campaign spokesperson Tenoch Flores said.

“This is about creating new avenues to reject valid mail ballots,” Flores said."

Here are the megadonors bankrolling California’s voter ID ballot measure Packaging magnate and Illinois businessman Richard Uhilein and venture capitalists Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are among the big spenders bankrolling California’s voter ID measure.

“We have to suck it up”: Ken Paxton privately suggests cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid federal benefit programs to reduce national deficit

In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Preparing for the worst

"Tina Barton co-chairs the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, a nonprofit group that helps elections and officials and law enforcement think through how to protect election workers and voters from violence, threats and intimidation. She said the organization has about 138 events on its calendar this year, compared to 67 in 2024.

In communities with concerns about a possible federal presence, the organization has officials work through a scenario involving ICE activity near a polling place that affects voters coming to the area, allowing local leaders to think through questions about what their legal options would be, how they would respond and what they would tell the public."

Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping - Latinos Ready To Vote Election directors’ worries vary from armed agents being deployed outside of polls to Trump declaring a national emergency. By Jonathan Shorman, Stateline When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on indivi...