Somos Independents is a national group of key swing independent registered Independent women voters who support bipartisanship in our government that will help solve tough issues.   We are organizing the growing independent registered voter group by getting out the vote with millennial voters, and we realize college-aged students prefer registering themselves as independents rather than choosing a major political party.  We believe in putting people before Party politics.  Co-founders include a former Republican and a former Democratic voter.

It is a well known fact that many died for our right to vote, and we must not squander that away.  Therefore, we believe in utilizing all creative measures necessary in order to overcome voter apathy within our community. 

Cruise To The Polls is a national campaign encouraging Chicano and/or all other lowrider owners to remember election day on November 4, 2014.  Somos Independents is an independent voter group led by American women of Mexican descent, and we are  concentrating our efforts in the southwest leading up to a national campaign via "Cruise To The Polls" that targets Chicano and lowrider owners to remember to vote on November 4, 2014, election day.  The campaign will kick off on November 1, 2014, as several lowrider clubs will participate in a lowrider cruise in key high Chicano / Latino markets that will send a message with regard to how important our voting responsibility is.  Often times, Tea Party Republicans make the mistake of lumping all brown people together and believe we should all go back to Mexico -- even though we were born here and indigenous to the United States long before the Mayflower landed near Plymouth Rock.

Cruise To The Polls creatively revives the Chicano movement and raises awareness to the expanding lowrider culture.  It embraces Chicano art, music and more.  

For lowrider car clubs who are interested in participating in Cruise To The Polls, please contact:  (480) 200-3748. 

2014 1st edition Cruise To The Polls artwork created by El Moises

"Art Culture Is-the-Way."  - Eddie Martinez, a retired artist for Walt Disney Productions

 Mayor Greg Stanton participating in The Arts in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

The City of Phoenix kicked off "Viva Phoenix" at the Palomar Hotel in down town Phoenix, Arizona, last week. El Moises -- the Chicano Picasso currently owns and operates a gallery in Taos, New Mexico, but went back to his stomping ground in Arizona to help celebrate the kick off with a live art demonstration.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton participated in the kick off and was sure to draw attention to the Chicano / Latino participating artists.  The role of The Arts in politics is a force to be reckoned with, and in this case, the artist contributes his talents for Phoenix to "live on" despite the increase of graffiti art that is on the rise on 16th Street and in Phoenix area barrios.  Arizonans want fine art -- or art that a person would appreciate hanging in their own homes, and we welcome artists who will paint more than what one would normally see on a railroad train car. 

Live Taos presented El Moises earlier this month and recently wrote:

Taos Artist El Moisés has been a busy man of late. In addition to a recent spread in Low Rider magazine, the Mexican-born, Phoenix-raised Moisés Salcedo has been one of the curators for the upcoming Órale! show at the Harwood Museum, has been commissioned to paint a large mural back in Phoenix, and, perhaps most importantly, has been accepted into a group show in LA commemorating Gilbert “Magu” Lujan, one of Los Four, the Los Angeles-based Chicano collective that exploded on the West Coast art scene with a culturally-awakening show at LACMA in 1974.

El Moisés’ recently finished painting of Lujan is a potent symbol of contemporary Chicano imagery, as well as a heartfelt tribute to a dear friend. In his own inimitable way, Salcedo’s incorporated several styles into a vibrant palette that pay homage not only to Lujan, but serve as a sort of codex to the relationship between “Magu,” and the young Salcedo, who has fond memories and great warmth for his former friend and teacher.

Salcedo’s mastery of the brush continues to flourish in Taos, and the impressive body of work produced in about the year he’s been in town is to be marveled at. In addition to the Magu homage, there’s a stunning portrait of Rudy “Corky” Gonzales (Denver-based founder of the Brown Berets, a 70’s Chicano organization), as well as his anthropomorphized “gangster canine” series that find one marveling at the uncanny resemblance between dogs and their owners, and the “dog” inside some.  FULL STORY HERE>>>

Moises will be conducting the art work that will contribute to a national campaign Somos Independents has been working on via "Cruise To The Polls."   A campaign that will encourage Chicanos and Latinos who own lowriders to remember election day motivating millions to get out and vote in 2014 lest anti-immigrant politicians gain power.