remarkably quickly, even after lengthy quiescence. 

During the 2006 protests, nearly half a million Latinos marched on Dallas—and this was before social media enabled the type of rapid pro-democracy mobilization we saw during the Arab Spring. Long-indifferent national Democrats are suddenly sending money and consultants to Texas, but the real game-changer could be yet another bootstrapped Latino political movement. In the not-so-distant future, our state’s complacent Republican leaders may well discover that this summer’s hard line on immigration reform and voting rights only hastened an early Texas Spring.