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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... Continue »

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMPISM AV started and ended the week talking about the broad implications of Trump’s mass deportation and immigration restriction plan, and especially the impact on economics. Over the weekend, Trump confirmed he planned to use the military to repel the “invasion,” reiterating the dangerous white... Continue »

The incoming Trump administration and their allies in Congress have promised to make unsparing mass deportations their top priority, including a return to devastating workplace raids.  Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine the downstream consequences but look to workplace raids from the last time Trump was in power. The... Continue »

Donald Trump has announced that Thomas Homan, a Project 2025 contributor and former acting ICE director under his first administration, will be returning to his second term as a “border czar” to carry out the ”bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of his 2024 presidential campaign... Continue »

Election Review Part 3 –  The Great Replacement Theory Is Now the GOP’s Main Organizing Principle  The wholesale adoption of the great replacement theory this year as the central organizing principle on the American right is essential for understanding this election, its results, and its aftermath:  It is the... Continue »

English Washington Post Democrats shift to the right on some issues, portending lasting change By Paul Kane November 2, 2024 NPR Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions By Sergio Martínez-Beltrán November 1, 2024 Washington Post Harris fights political headwinds on immigration in close race with Trump... Continue »

Election Preview Part 1 – Ad Spending, the Battle for Congress, and Ballot Measures Donald Trump has made the defense of his campaign’s strategy to go all in on aggressive and ugly nativism a part of his stump speech in the closing month of the campaign. “It’s bigger than... Continue »

Washington, DC — One week from Election Day, and with Donald Trump making apocalyptic immigration lies and anti-Latino statements the centerpiece of his racist closing argument, below are three core points to remember about the interrelated ways his relentless anti-immigrant focus connects the core elements of Trump-ism and its... Continue »

Washington, DC — Last week, we highlighted the costs and unpopularity – when described in detail – of Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations, while branding the intersecting focus of John Kelly and military leaders’ warnings about Trump and the billion dollar effort to appeal to voters based on anti-immigrant... Continue »

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,... Continue »