By Melissa Blair.

Spanish Poet Francisco de Quevedo once wrote: “He who spends time regretting the past losses the present and risks the future”. As the Republican Party strives to connect with young Hispanos we have to take many factors into consideration, and not be hasty and rush band aid ‘outreach’ initiatives together for the sake of saying we’re doing something.

By Melissa Blair.

Picture it – Texas, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 the Texas Republican Primary and the Conservative slap heard round the state! Several Conservative Republican Hispanics found themselves without a home that night; I was one of them I thought. Races by Hispanic candidates were lost all around the state at every level, even conservative incumbents appointed by Governor Perry. What went wrong?

By Melissa Blair
Over the last few months I have written several articles, here at The Americano, and many of you who have read them know I write about things around me that inspire me to hit-the-keyboard at lightning speed! Well, it happened again on the couch, no less, with the television blazing and a bag [...]

By Melissa Blair.
Abraham Lincoln said “As our case is new, we must think and act anew”, I feel this statement is fitting to hopefully help mend the current Republican Party mess.  As I have shared with those closest around me, I have grown very frustrated with the Republican Party over the years. I feel at [...]

By Melissa Blair.
When I hear folks say the Republican Party is only for the rich and that it’s a good thing the Democrats are going to “soak the rich” by raising their taxes, I often wonder what their definition of “rich” is? I get called ‘rich’ all the time by people when they find out [...]

By Melissa Blair.
In this series (Young Hispanics and the Republican Party,) I said the Republican Party needs to accept, or at the very least understand, why young Hispanos hold such negative ‘perceptions’ regarding the Republican Party. I also mentioned generation Y and Z Hispanics have virtually no relationship with the Republican Party. I stated some [...]

By Melissa Blair.
I had the pleasure of door-knocking with fellow Conservatives in Fort Worth today. I met some great folks, Republicans and Democrats, and I had another ‘I-don’t- know-why-you-feel-this-way’ moment when someone said they were a Liberal Democrat because “someone has to stand up for the ‘little guy’. The man was very pleasant, but [...]

By Melissa Blair.
Spanish Poet Francisco de Quevedo once wrote: “He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future”.  As the Republican Party strives to connect with young Hispanos we have to take many factors into consideration, and not be hasty and rush band aid outreach initiatives together for the sake [...]