Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive...
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House and Senate Republicans eagerly sought to pass anti-immigrant legislation at the start of 2025 before Donald Trump was sworn into office. Reviving a bad bill introduced last year meant to jumpstart mass roundups and detentions, further scapegoat immigrants, and empower zealous Attorneys General adding to the chaos of...
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This week marked the first special elections of 2025 with legislative races in Virginia. These first results in the wake of the November 2024 election can help provide some clarity to the current political moment. Democrats won two key races and will hold their majorities in the Virginia State...
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On the Thursday after the election, Donald Trump did an interview with NBC News where he reiterated that his nativist agenda would be a top priority, saying there is “no price tag” on his violent mass deportation regime. Less a statement about dollars and cents than a ringing signal...
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Oct 25, 2024
When Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House Chief of Staff, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, has the definition of fascism queued up for a conversation with the New York Times to be able to confidently assert that his former boss and the current Republican presidential candidate is a fascist,...
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Oct 18, 2024
Republicans’ nativist populism is more than a ploy to scare up votes, it is underwriting a fascist project in America. The 2024 Republican Party presidential campaign led by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is a fascist campaign. The courting of political violence, the contempt for American democracy, and a...
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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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Musk gave $50 million for the ugliest ads in ‘22 and is normalizing the dehumanizing rhetoric core to the GOP’s ‘24 election messaging Nearing the close of the midterm election two years ago, baseball fans were forced to endure the ugly, nativism of white nationalist Stephen Miller’s brand of...
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A look at the wall-to-wall nativist disinformation that made up Vance’s pitch to the nation On Tuesday night, Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance tried to sell the nation a twisted nativist fantasy where all the problems facing working people in America could be solved with a massive purge...
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During remarks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual leadership conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris described in stark terms the reality of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The New York Times reported the “crowd turned from jovial to silent as the vice president asked...
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