In The Thick

In Texas, 40 percent of the state is Latinx and by 2022 Latinos are expected to be the largest demographic group in Texas, surpassing non-Hispanic white people. Maria and Julio discuss the demographic and political changes that Texas is going through. For this live show from the Borderland, they're joined by , executive director of Jolt, and , racial and economic justice program director with the Texas Civil Rights Project. 

 

 

ITT Staff Picks:

• As demographics shift, Latinos in Texas are claiming the majority and seeing themselves in the center of the national story, by Michelle García in Guernica's series, Rewriting the West
• Latino turnout surged in the 2018 Midterms. Then Texas questioned 98,000 voters’ citizenship, by Roque Planas in HuffPost
• Democrats had historic gains in Texas in 2018. They're setting their sights on even more in 2020, via The Texas Tribune