When the New York Times’s Jazmine Ulloa needed background for a story on the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), she turned to UW-Madison’s Benjamin Márquez. The Times noted that LULAC, the country’s oldest Latina/o civil rights organization, had never made an endorsement in a Presidential election until 2024, when it endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris. Long known for its patriotism, LULAC found itself in the crosshairs after false accusations that noncitizens in Texas were voting led the state’s Attorney General to investigate the group, ordering raids on the homes of activists in San Antonio. Prof. Márquez, who wrote a book on the organization’s history, noted that its leadership had included Democrats and Republicans and that for all its emphasis on loyalty to the United States, the group and its members never rejected their Mexican heritage. A Professor of Political Science and former Director of the CLS Program, Prof. Márquez regularly teaches classes on Latina/o and multicultural US politics. He is currently working on a study of Latina/o-led nonprofit organizations and their finances.