Election Day is about two months away, but voting for the 2024 election begins this week, as the first mail ballots go out in North Carolina, a critical state in the Sun Belt.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
PROGRAM #10497 12:00 PM PT

2024 Voting Begins. Election Day is about two months away, but voting for the 2024 election begins this week, as the first mail ballots go out in North Carolina, a critical state in the Sun Belt. Presidential candidates prepare for their debate tomorrow and their campaigns go into high gear, focusing on key battleground states.

Guest: Jose López Zamorano, News Contributor, Washington, DC.

Paxton Targets Latino Groups. A judge in Austin rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to dismantle FIEL, a Houston-based nonprofit that helps migrants in Brownsville. The attorney general’s office is targeting FIEL claiming that it has engaged in electioneering. Latino leaders want a federal investigation of the state AG over civil rights violations, alleging that Paxton has been aggressively targeting and harassing Latino-led organizations, such as recent raids of homes on LULAC organizers and the recent removal of over one million voters from Texas voter rolls.

Guest: Cesar Espinoza, Executive Director, FIEL Houston Inc., Houston, TX.

The Pulse of Latinos. Every year, a health care foundation in Colorado conducts a statewide poll to hear the concerns on pressing issues that impact the health and well-being of people in the state. In this program, experts from the foundation share insights on the experiences of Latinos in Colorado, their challenges and aspirations. How are the findings used to inform policies that will impact the lives of this segment, which comprises 22 percent of the state’s population?

Guests: Virginia Garcia Pivik, Spokesperson, The Colorado Health Foundation, Aurora, CO; Enrique Castillo, Researcher with the Pulse Poll Team of Consultants, San Diego, CA.

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