Week of May 1, 2023 THREE OPPOSITION MESSAGES FROM THE WEEK H.R. 2 – dressing up nativist fundraising as legislation: After over 12 congressional hearings, consolidating multiple bills, and tens of millions spent on political promises, the House majority dropped their plan for the border, and they have again...
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Week of April 24, 2023 THREE GOP MESSAGES FROM THIS WEEK Cruel, extreme and unworkable, the House Majority anti-Immigrant bill: House majority leadership held a press conference on Thursday to announce their plan to push a political messaging document to show their base they are still committed to the...
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The Republican House Judiciary Committee invited Jessica Vaughn to Congress in spite of her connections to white nationalism and anti-Semitism Continuing their dangerous trend, House Republicans have once again invited another witness to testify in a border related hearing who is currently employed by a hate group. Jessica...
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Republicans push racist zero-sum argument seeking to keep Dreamers in permanent second-class status On April 13, 2023, the Biden administration announced that they are finalizing a proposed rule to expand healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Ace (ACA) to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. While the...
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Week of April 17, 2023 THREE GOP MESSAGES FROM THIS WEEK The Congressional Dais, the Stage for GOP’s Nativist Political Theater: The House Republican majority was quick to pat themselves on the back for a job well done for all the “oversight” they provided in their first one hundred...
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Sporting a large tan cowboy hat, a bulletproof vest with the words “SHERIFF” blazoned across his chest, and an assault weapon, Mark Lamb likes to dress up for the cameras. First elected Pinal County Sheriff in 2017, Lamb has turned himself into a far-right celebrity who is frequently dawning...
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Republicans have used their narrow majority in the House to call congressional hearings ostensibly about the border that they have instead used to amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories and other pernicious nativist disinformation. Several of the witnesses Republicans have already invited to testify at these hearings have described migrants...
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Alongside her fellow nativists, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was one of the biggest losers in the 2022 midterm elections. While she easily won her safe seat in upstate New York, her attempt at playing king- or queen-maker failed miserably. In 28 of the 36...
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