Mike Madrid

Refuge and Raicilla: The Ancient art of escape and keeping secrets What a weekend escape to San Sebastian del Oeste taught me about preservation in the modern world.

A short essay on the secret elixir in the mountains of Mexico that has preserved culture for four hundred years.
open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

YouTube video by The Latino Vote Podcast From Gangs to Capitol Hill: Brandon Maxwell on Latino Culture, Breaking Walls, & Building Power

New #TheLatinoVotePodcast on YouTube 🍿📺
From gang life in Portland to writing in Capitol Hill & Filmmaking in Hollywood, Brandon Loran Maxwell joins @mikemadrid.bsky.social to talk about his wild journey, the creation of the Daily Chela, and why both parties fail Latinos youtu.be/5q1mlKlRdic

From Gangs to Capitol Hill: Brandon Loran Maxwell on Latino Culture, Breaking Walls, & Building Power Podcast Episode · The Latino Vote · 08/08/2025 · 59m

Coming in hot with a new episode! 🔥
Brandon Loran Maxwell joins @mikemadrid.bsky.social to talk Latino identity, rejecting party lines, and building power through culture, film, and words. 💥
📖Bomb the Wall
🎬American Homeboy
🎞️Defiant History
Now on Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

📉 Trump’s Latino support is slipping fast.
@finnygo.bsky.social breaks down new @cbsnews.com polling: Latino approval of Trump has dropped to mid 30% from over 50% - driven by backlash to harsh immigration and ICE raids.
🚨 63% now say GOP is too tough on immigration.
youtu.be/xh-cl9nSiaY
#latinovote

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I already have. It’s an old Newsweek poll that shows him in the mid 30’s

Redistricting in Texas - it's similar to a game of Jenga. Move one piece and the whole tower could fall. 🧩
@mikemadrid.bsky.social warns why the GOP's power play in Texas to redraw congressional districts could backfire...hard. #LatinoVote #redistricting #JengaPolitics
youtu.be/wIuYgjx5ZM0

Women shouldn’t hold office, says GOP woman now running for office “I don’t know if I would vote for any female,” said state senate hopeful Mylie Biggs, the daughter of GOP Rep. Andy Biggs.

This is a real article. No, really. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/female-...

The sun has now risen on the 1225th day and Kyiv stands free!!!
#SlavaUkraini
@mikemadrid.bsky.social
@andreachalupa.bsky.social

Democrats hold slim edge over Republicans in early 2026 midterm election poll Dissatisfaction about the economy, inflation and immigration is driving voters away from Donald Trump and GOP — including among young voters who turned out for him in 2024

Hispanics have turned against Trump BIG time:
-42.8 percent intend to vote for Democrats in 2026
-55 percent disapprove of Trump's performance
-60 percent disapprove of his handling of immigration
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump: 1 million people dead in first term COVID pandemic

RFK Jr: Hold my dirty chai latte

Well that would require they talk to a Latino voting expert now wouldn’t it?

Adelita Grijalva didn't just win - she crushed it. 💥
@chuckrocha.bsky.social & @mikemadrid.bsky.social discuss her 30-point landslide win, beating all of her opponents COMBINED. Chuck discusses the campaign finance breakdown while Mike ponders what the results mean for campaigns
youtu.be/wIuYgjx5ZM0

Swing Voters - What are focus groups telling us? A recording from Mike Madrid's live video

Swing voters may not be moving as much as conventional wisdom suggests. Why? I interviewed Richard Thau to see what hes finding in focus groups open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Such a great conversation! Thanks for having me on

YouTube video by The Latino Vote Podcast Redistricting Roulette: How Texas GOP's Newly Drawn Districts Targets Latino Voters

Dive into the redistricting showdown:
🔴 Texas GOP’s new maps vs. 🔵 CA Dems’ mid-cycle gambit
🐟 Plus, do you want to see @mikemadrid.bsky.social survive a fishing trip with @chuckrocha.bsky.social? Answer our new poll on the comments section!
Watch now & join the debate
👉 youtu.be/DUV2rxXjsCg

Democrats Have Lost Diverse Voters. Can They Get Them Back? | KQED We’ll talk about how the left lost voters of color and whether it’s too late to regain their support.

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're talking with political consultant @mikemadrid.bsky.social and professor Daniel Martinez HoSang about how the left lost voters of color and whether it’s too late to regain their support.

❓ Did you shift to the right and vote for Trump?

📻 Listen:

A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

Opinion | Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?

MON at 9AM:

Political consultant @mikemadrid.bsky.social and professor Daniel Martinez HoSang join to talk about how the left lost voters of color and whether it’s too late to regain their support.

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Keep writing. It shows everyone how miserable and ignorant you are. You’re making the case far better than I can. Please keep going…

Redistricting Roulette: How Texas GOP's Newly Drawn Districts Targets Latino Voters Podcast Episode · The Latino Vote · 08/01/2025 · 49m

🚨 NEW EPISODE: Redistricting wars are here! ✏️🗺️

Texas Republicans redraw the map—hard right.
California Democrats might rig their own “gold standard” system.
@chuckrocha.bsky.social & @mikemadrid.bsky.social ask whether democracy is being gamed on both sides?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Whenever you need to examine how big a failure your life has become find a mirror and look at it. You’ll see all the reasons why.

Enjoy your well deserved misery.

Yes

@mikemadrid.bsky.social: “But the voters that he needs to get to a majority — young voters, Hispanic voters, independents — they have fled in pretty historic numbers. The collapse is pretty spectacular, especially given a very short time frame.”

Guess that explains the Black and Asian Nazis too

The Rise of Latino Populism Are changing voting behaviors a sign of America's fastest growing minority rejecting both the Democratic and Republican Parties?

My very first Substack on The Rise of Latino populism open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Could Latinos Upset the Partisan Redistricting Strategy for California and Texas? The nation's fastest growing voter group split 50-50 between the parties and that’s raising a whole lot of new questions.

Texas new maps put today show just how bad the assumptions Republicans are making about Latinos.

In 2018 Beto O’Rourke beat Ted Cruz in 3 of the 5 new districts. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Something @mikemadrid.bsky.social has flagged that others missed: Trump's support among Latinos didn't start to drop at the start of ICE Raids. It started after Liberation Day. Guess who works at the docks where we get our imports? It's Latinos. Guess who gets hit hardest by rent going up? Latinos.

Holy Mackerel: Roy Cooper raised $1 million JUST TODAY when he announced his Senate run. #NCSen
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

@mikemadrid.bsky.social unpacks how Trump's immigration vision - complete with swamp prisons, ICE expansion, & Alligator Alcatraz - isn't dystopian fiction.

This isn’t satire — it’s America in 2025.

▶️Click the link to watch the episode: youtu.be/yReh2rvQaNU