- Part of The power and potential of Latino voters, from The Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world.
- Going to (and getting temporarily kicked out of) Harvard as a poor Latino kid from the South Side of Chicago wasn’t easy, but it led him to enlist with the Marine Corps a year before 9/11, and then to Iraq, where he fought as part of the infantry unit that suffered the worst casualties of the war.
- Housing affordability and cost of living are top of mind for residents here; access to higher education is paramount but no guarantee of success (the college graduation rate is just 15 percent, below the state’s average and far below the national average of 39 percent).
Ruben Gallego’s ready for a fight — even if the Democratic Party isn’t
