Mi Familia Vota, the Arizona Coalition for Change, and an individual voter registration organizer have won a lawsuit to extend the Arizona voter registration deadline to October 23rd.  The plaintiffs argued that the COVID-19 pandemic stymied typical voter registration efforts. In response to that lawsuit, a federal judge in Arizona issued an order Monday evening  extending the voter registration deadline from October 5th to October 23.

Mi Familia Vota is excited to announce that it is partnering with The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to mobilize the Latino vote during the 2020 election cycle. MFV and AFT will be holding a joint voter registration drive this Saturday. Mi Familia Vota will begin our voter registration drive at 11:00 am MST and the speaking program will begin at 1:00 pm MST, at Mi Pueblo Market, 6040, E. 6th Avenue, Commerce City, CO 80022.

Continuing the urgent effort to work with the Hispanic community to reach voters, The Lincoln Project is today announcing a collaboration with Mi Familia Vota, UnidosUS Action Fund, and Nuestro PAC. All are prominent voting rights and mobilization organizations focusing on the Hispanic community, who share the critical goal of removing Donald Trump from office.

Reports of mass hysterectomies at an ICE detention center in Georgia have drawn parallels to America’s clouded history of forced sterilization targeting Black and Brown communities.

According to the New York Times Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential to date.

Last night, Mi Familia Vota, the Texas NAACP, and individual Texas voters filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction in federal court in Texas seeking court intervention to address unsafe and unequal voting conditions in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After refusing to negotiate, President Trump has attempted to circumvent Congress by passing a series of executive orders in hopes of appearing to provide coronavirus relief. This has created confusion and uncertainty for tens of millions of unemployed Americans and countless businesses seeking aid after critical benefits lapsed. 

The Arizona primary election is today and Mi Familia Vota is already seeing record early vote by mail turnout among Latinos, youth, women, Democrats, and other unprecedented trends.

Today marks the one-year anniversary since a gunman opened fire at a busy Walmart store, ultimately killing 23 people and leaving another 23 wounded. Whether it’s Trump’s negligent pandemic response that is killing Latinos, or his racist rhetoric that led to the El Paso shooting, we know he is toxic for Latinos.

The U.S. economy shrank by 32.9% between April and June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, marking the nation's worst quarterly contraction on record. To distract from his abysmal economic record, Trump suggested in a tweet that the November election be delayed, something he cannot legally do.