Paul Saldana, a community activist who is a native of Austin, Texas, advocates for Latino voting rights. Photo by Lizzie Chen/News21

“Every month, on the national level, 50,000 Latinos become 18 and become eligible to vote, so that is 600,000 new eligible voters from the Latino communities. So clearly, they are worried about us. We have a tendency as a community to be more in line with the Democratic party, and I think Republicans are concerned about that. So we clearly represent the future, not with only the local community of this state but this nation, too … and they are concerned with our potential to affect the political landscape locally and statewide and on a national level.”

By Lizzie Chen, News21