15 million, 20 million, 30 million, or one of every six people currently living in the US: these are the numbers the incoming Trump administration has been using to project the sort of scale they hope for from their mass deportation regime. These eye-popping numbers are likely a logistical...
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Oct 11, 2024
Republican-aligned campaigns are on track to spend well over a billion dollars on nativist attack ads It is a little over three weeks til November 5, and Republicans’ closing message is nothing if not consistent– ‘your well-being, your future, and that of the nation’s rests on a purge of the...
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Five years ago, on August 3, a man from Texas radicalized by white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theories drove hundreds of miles to murder 23 people and injure 26 more who were shopping at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. He had been obsessed with a so-called “Hispanic invasion”...
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This week, President Biden announced a new policy that will keep families together, protect DACA recipients, and allow long-settled immigrants to stay in the United States. This is a welcome development that will improve the lives of millions of people around the country. At the same time, it exposes...
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Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have amplified white nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory directly tied to multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans over the last several years. Ranking Member Lindsey Graham, South Carolina: On July 19, 2021, Senator Lindsey Graham...
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Several members of the 118th Congress have used their platforms and power to amplify a white nationalist conspiracy about a so-called migrant “invasion.” This dehumanizing rhetoric claims that migrants and asylum seekers at the border constitute a literal military-style invasion of the United States. Often this rhetoric cites a...
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After several delays, Speaker Mike Johnson may be finally sending the impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the U.S. Senate this week. Johnson had previously named 11 House impeachment managers who will oversee the process. For anyone who has paid attention to House Republicans, it...
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Most of the Republican Members of the House Natural Resources Committee have amplified white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories over the last few years. Their rhetoric is inexorably tied to the “Great Replacement Theory” and multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans...
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The 5th Speaker nominee, Mike Johnson from Louisiana’s 4th district is not new to white nationalist conspiracy theories and he is no different from the failed extremist Speaker nominee Rep. Jim Jordan. Here are his past remarks of using the dangerous white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories. Mike...
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Most of the Republican Members of the House Homeland Security Committee have amplified white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories over the last few years. Their rhetoric is inexorably tied to the “Great Replacement Theory” and multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans...
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