Pete Buttigieg Calls Out GOP Game, While President Obama, Beto O’Rourke, Gavin Newsome and Rep. Veronica Escobar Condemn Dangers of GOP Embrace of Anti-Immigrant Ugliness Washington, DC – While commentators and polling highlight the backlash to Gov. Ron Desantis’ cruel political stunt, several leading Democratic observers are broadening their...
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Sep 23, 2022
Washington, DC – With the 2022 midterms in full swing, America’s Voice’s ongoing ad tracking project has already identified thousands of paid communications supporting Republican campaigns that push a range of disinformation, racist dog-whistles, and dangerous conspiracy theories. The ads attack Democrats for “open borders” when the borders are...
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Washington, DC – Two must-read Washington Post opinion columns capture Ron DeSantis’ motivations and why the GOP is rallying around his cruel, dehumanizing and Fox-coordinated stunt to transport Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vineyard under false pretenses. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne “DeSantis’s cruel stunt highlights the GOP’s hunger to...
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DeSantis and his GOP allies abandon Venezuelans and others fleeing “oppressive” regimes; law enforcement, faith, and legal voices decry cruelty Washington, DC – Yesterday, Ron DeSantis gave his latest in a series of tortured explanations trying to defend his dehumanizing and Fox-coordinated stunt to transport Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s...
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Washington, DC – This weekend, the New York Times released a national Latino voter poll, touting in the headline, “Majority of Latino Voters Out of G.O.P.’s Reach, New Poll Shows.” The NYTimes and Siena College poll found Hispanic voters nationally favored Democrats over Republicans by a 56-32% margin on...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Just like an episode of the “Twilight Zone,” the same day news broke that the Republican...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “just like its ‘divide-and-distract’ predecessor, Caravans 2.0 may inflame the MAGA base, but most Americans are appalled by the dehumanization, the political motivations, the deception used to lure people into acting as pawns and the raw cruelty.” Washington, DC – Amidst national and Florida blowback to his...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, the dominant national story centered on the dehumanizing and transparently political stunt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to charter two planes full of Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vineyard – alerting Fox News and a small contingent of MAGA Republicans, but failing to inform the...
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Washington, DC – The following is a statement from David Leopold, Legal Advisor to America’s Voice, past president, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Immigration Group Leader, Ulmer & Berne LLP, in response to the stunt from Ron DeSantis to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard: “Forcible transfer of a...
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As Republicans Lose Political Momentum, DeSantis and Fellow Republicans Seek to Divide and Distract with Nativism Washington, DC – Yesterday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chartered a plane at taxpayer expense to transport Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vineyard. Notably, they sent a videographer to document the arrivals for Fox News,...
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