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The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 22/07/2026

Episode 4 of #AmericanColony will be out later today, likely dropping around 4pm ET/1 pm PT. The title is LA CHACÓN. Be one of the first to listen to it by subscribing (for free) to The Latino Newsletter.

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An independent nonprofit journalism outlet founded by Julio Ricardo Varela, award-winning journalist and founder of the breakthrough site Latino Rebels.

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#OTD 🪦 #SELENA 🎤 #TEJANO 🪗 #CUMBIA💃🏽 #CHICANOLOGY ✊🏾 #LATINSKY ✌🏾✌🏿✌🏻

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Hector Rodriguez III @hecrodriguez3.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We need you! I just nominated El Peso Hero: Border War for Best Original Graphic Novel and El Peso Hero for Favorite Hero at the 2026 Ringo Awards → Nominate here: ringoawards.survey.fm/ringo-awards...

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This history shaped the world we live in. Many Americans have never heard of it. Meet Benjamin Johnson, co-founder of Refusing to Forget. 🔗 youtu.be/k6ITAhvCdpQ Support our 2026 campaign: refusingtoforget.org/donate/ #PublicHistory #TexasHistory

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#OTD in 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was founded at Salón Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi, #Texas. The oldest and largest #Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., LULAC emerged from a rising Texas-Mexican middle class determined to fight racial discrimination.

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#OTD in 1913, Ignacio E. Lozano founded La Prensa in #SanAntonio, a Spanish-language daily serving Mexicans in the U.S. during the #Mexican Revolution. Known as the voice of “el México de Afuera,” it connected emigrés to their homeland with news, analysis, & patriotic pride. The paper covered

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#OTD 1903 Japanese & Mexican laborers unite to form the #Japanese - #Mexican Labor Association to fight the labor contractor responsible for hiring at the American Beet Sugar Company in Oxnard, #California. They refused to work until their grievances were addressed & by the first week in March,

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#OTD in 1852, the Texas Legislature confirmed the findings of the Bourland Commission, created to investigate Spanish and #Mexican land claims after the Mexican War. With many grants north of the Rio Grande under dispute and political pressure to separate trans-Nueces #Texas, Governor Peter Bell

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Here's the Contra ICE towel artwork (front and back) that appeared at the Super Bowl, we will be selling the towels to benefit Contra ICE's album and planned concert which will benefit two pro-immigrant non-profits in Los Angeles. Stay tooned for the announcement here! Contra-ICE.com

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#OTD 1854, #journalist, and social #activist George Lippard dies. Considered the first muckraking novel in the US, his “The Quaker City” (1845) was a best seller about city life in #Philadelphia. In 1849, Lippard founded the Brotherhood of the #Union to “espouse the cause of the Masses &

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

THE DANCE DOESN'T ASK Our body rhythms remembers what history tried to silence. When words are denied & permission is withheld, movement becomes truth. The dance is not a performance, it is survival, memory & freedom carried forward. #CHICANOLOGY✊🏾 #LATINSKY✌🏿✌🏻✌🏾 #MUSIC 🎶

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

REALITY MUST KNEEL They taught us to bow our heads, to close our eyes real tight, said faith lives in the dark, and doubt lives in the light. We saw the bruises blooming, heard the lies repeat, but they told us truth is dangerous when it speaks in the street. So they covered up our seeing, plugged

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Please support my art and buy a very nice gallery quality affordable Print at my art store! link is right here. 2 sizes available! lalo-alcaraz-art-shop.myshopify.com/.../el...

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#OTD 1977 #Chicago, Iris Rivera, a widow and legal secretary, sparked a "coffee revolt." When her boss at the #State Appellate Defender’s Office ordered female staff to brew coffee because male attorneys' time was "too valuable," Iris refused. She argued that beverage service wasn't in her #job

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yesterday was a record day of ICE kidnappings, according to LA Taco. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons and support CALÓ News for letting me have this platform! Calonews.com/donate

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Liam Ramos: 'Now I know my ABC's, aren't you very scared of me?' - POCHO www.pocho.com/liam-ramos-n...

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Liam Ramos: 'Now I know my ABC's, aren't you very scared of me?' - POCHO

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

this remind us that conservatives power has long announced itself at the doorstep. In the 1920s, the Texas Rangers claimed order while inflicting terror on communities of color, turning suspicion into policy & force into law. The lesson of repeating history is not that these moments were mistakes,

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Globe and Mail

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#UAW 💪🏾💪🏻💪🏿 #UNION #LATINSKY ✌🏿✌🏾✌🏻

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

State violence depends on a manufactured moral universe in which obedience is sanctified and accountability is treated as heresy. #Agents are trained to believe that legality replaces ethics, that uniforms confer innocence, and that power grants amnesia But #MAGA political protection is temporary

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

My entry in the Good/Bad cartoon category. Please share!

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#OTD 🪦 1984 Santiago Jiménez Sr. stands as a foundational architect of #conjunto not simply because of his virtuosity, but because of his restraint. At a moment when accordion technology was expanding, Jiménez remained committed to the two-row button #accordion, grounding innovation in tradition.

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Guess the name of this award Trump won this week?

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

the quiet power of #OLG stands against the machinery of the modern state. Where the faithful gather to celebrate dignity especially in #Texas, history reminds us that force often arrives claiming law and order—yet the deeper #protestantism tradition has always been the insistence that human worth is

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The wild turkey (Meleagrisgallopavo), 🦃 originally native to #Mexico, was domesticated by Mesoamerican peoples at least 2,000 years ago. This domestication is distinct from a separate event that occurred in the American #Southwest. The ancient #Aztecs, #Maya, and #Zapotec kept

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A couple of turkeys. Please share laloalcaraz cartoons and get your own 2026 Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com, do it now and support my cornucopia of cartoons!

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

www.facebook.com/share/r/1DVz... Knowing something doesn't change our life's. Doing something does. #LATINSKY✌🏾✌🏼✌🏿 #BLACKSKY✊🏿

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you have enjoyed my cartoons or shared the hell out of them during this terrible year, please consider getting the 2026 Year of Resistance Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon Calendar! It supports me into the new year and makes a GREAT Holiday Gift! Order yours today!! LaloAlcaraz.com

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Thanks for sharing, all I ask is you keep my original text w my cartoon OR you can order a 2026 Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com !

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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🕯Día de los Muertos is upon us.🕯 Join us in remembering the stories and honoring the lives of those who have been victims of racial violence in Texas and those who have fought against these cultures of violence. View our virtual ofrendas on our website. refusingtoforget.org/dia-de-los-m...

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Dia de los Muertos Altar - Refusing to Forget

Day of the Dead is a celebration of Life.

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

#OTD #HBD 🎂 10-32-1931 Tony de la Rosa was an influential accordionist who modernized #conjunto music in the mid-20th century. Born in 1931 in Sarita, Texas, he introduced amplified instruments, drums, and a slower polka tempo, which defined the "classic era" of conjunto. His innovative sound and

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Farmers are confused. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons!

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#OTD #HBD🎂 10-29-1911 Narciso Martínez, the "father" of the Texas-Mexican #conjunto, Born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. His parents immigrated to the US the year of Narciso's birth & settled in La Paloma, near #Brownsville, Texas. The family often migrated from one town to another doing #farmwork,

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I won the 2025 Townsie Award for editorial cartooning. 2025 Townsie Awards open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#OTD 1940 The Fair Labor Standards #Act of 1938 mandates a 40-hour work week with time-and-a-half #overtime pay for hours of work beyond that goes into effect. The legislation was passed to eliminate #labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It's a teardown. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons! Visit laloalcaraz.com for updates on the upcoming 2026 Year of Resistance Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon Calendar!

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Jose Chapa Jr. @chicanology.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#OTD 1921 #HBD 🎂 Carmen Hernández Marroquín, a member of the noted Tejana sisters duet, Carmen y Laura, was born in #Kingsville on October 16, 1921. She married Armando Marroquín, a legendary #Tejano music record producer, on November 20, 1936.

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