Sindy Benavides
Executive Director, Latino Victory Project and Contributor at Newsweek
Executive Director I Latino Victory Project. Creating change, building coalitions and harnessing political power one person at a time.
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Feb 18, 2024 |
orlandosentinel.com | Sindy Benavides |Jonathan Dromgoole
Latinos make up approximately 19% of the U.S. population. Twenty-seven percent of our Florida neighbors identify as Latino, a quarter of Florida’s population. We are the fastest-growing voting bloc in the nation. We wield great economic and political power, yet when it comes to political representation, we are one of the most underrepresented demographics in the United States.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
brennancenter.org | Sindy Benavides |Kimberly Peeler-Allen |Ruby Edlin |Grady Short
Since 2000, the number of Latinos in any elected office has nearly doubled. In 2022, voters sent a record number of Latinos to Congress. The midterms also saw the largest class of Latinos serving in statewide executive office and the reelection of the nation’s first Democratic Latina governor. Despite these historic gains, fewer than 2 percent of elected officials are Latino — a community that makes up almost 20 percent of the U.S. population. And one reason, increasingly, is fear.
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Jan 28, 2024 |
brennancenter.org | Sindy Benavides
Esta columna de opinión se publicó originalmente en La OpiniónSuscríbete aquí al nuevo boletín informativo del Brennan Center en españolDesde el año 2000, la cantidad de personas latinas que ocupan un cargo electo casi se ha duplicado. En las elecciones de 2022, un número récord de candidatos de origen latino ganaron un escaño en el Congreso.
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Oct 17, 2023 |
newsweek.com | Sindy Benavides
Are Latino voters moving to the right? The Latino electorate reflects much of America's Latino communities: incredibly diverse and rapidly growing. The number of U.S. Latino voters to 34.5 million in 2022. That's up almost 5 million from 2018. No other group is growing this fast. Our voters are as diverse as our community, which has always been made up of liberal, moderate, and conservative Latinos whose politics vary according to region, background, socioeconomic status, and life experiences.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
msn.com | Sindy Benavides
In 1973, Joe Biden, a fresh up-and-coming face in electoral politics, would take the train from Delaware to the nation's capital to be sworn in as the seventh youngest senator in U.S. history. At 30 years old, Senator Joe Biden would soon leave a resilient legacy amid immense grief and hardships facing our country. As an accomplished public servant, Joe Biden's age didn't matter then as one of Washington's youngest senators, and it shouldn't matter now as president of the United States.
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