Zachary Mueller: “The promotion of the same white nationalist ideas that have inspired numerous terrorists to kill our fellow Americans should be immediately disqualifying for anyone seeking public office” Washington, DC – Ahead of the Arizona primary elections tomorrow, New York Times political reporter Jennifer Medina spotlights the tension...
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Washington D.C. – This week brings troubling revelations that Operation Lone Star in Texas is no longer just a wasteful political stunt designed to burnish Gov. Greg Abbott’s nativist bona fides with GOP base voters, but a provocation that is dangerous for many Texans. A new lawsuit, filed by...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “To say that Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli are corrupt political hacks is understating it.” Washington, DC – Carol Leonnig and Maria Sacchetti report for the Washington Post that former acting – and unlawfully appointed – DHS leaders Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli are in hot water...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Anti-immigrant attacks and nativism are a core part” of DeSantis’ political brand “no matter the potential consequences or the distortions of the truth involved” Washington, DC – Much like Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trying to fear-monger over immigrants to burnish his...
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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. It’s a race against time for immigration legislation as Congress prepares to recess for five weeks...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Contrasting notions of our country and our democracy are on the ballot and the stakes could not be higher.” Washington, DC – From the reversal of Roe to the January 6th commission revelations to their continued embrace of dangerous white nationalist conspiracies, Republicans’ extremism has been on...
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Ron Brownstein’s Latest CNN Column Captures How, on Immigration and Beyond, GOP Imposing Extreme Worldview on Rest of America Washington, DC – In a must-read CNN column, “Red States are Building a Nation within a Nation,” political analyst Ron Brownstein captures how Republican states are advancing “the cultural priorities...
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Douglas Rivlin: “Our current broken system empowers reckless human smugglers and traffickers and incentivizes dangerous treks to our southern border and on makeshift ocean vessels.” Washington D.C. – A boat enroute to Miami from Haiti capsized off the Bahamas on Sunday and 17 people died, including 15 women and...
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Washington D.C. – The issues around fentanyl and the opioid crisis are expansive and multi-dimensional: It is a healthcare issue, an international trade issue, a corporate accountability issue, and a criminal syndicate issue. But, the one thing it is not is an immigration issue. Unfortunately, that is exactly where...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “The stakes are too high and the dangers too great to our democracy and real people’s lives to ignore or wave away the Republicans’ embrace of ‘replacement,’ ‘invasion’ and other right wing calls to action that threaten violence” Washington, DC – Republican and right wing figures are...
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