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In New York and New Jersey, Republican candidates and other anti-immigrant actors sought to use nativism to boost themselves over the finish line against Democratic opponents during the 2023 elections. They tried to frame the arrival of migrant families as an existential threat to their communities and states. In...
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As We Saw When Migrants Were Flown To Martha’s Vineyard Last Year, DeSantis’ Recruiters Never Had Any Intention of Keeping Their Word Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has defended his indefensible transportation of vulnerable migrants to California by releasing footage showing his victims smiling and dancing. But they appeared to...
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Washington, DC – It’s a busy day for Republicans’ relentless focus on anti-immigrant attacks and conspiracies. Starting with this morning’s House Oversight Committee hearing and continuing with the Republican responses to tonight’s State of the Union address, expect falsehoods, lies, and political attacks on immigration and the border to...
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Washington, DC – Pennsylvania Democrats had a good night on Tuesday, as statewide candidates and key House battlegrounds stayed in or shifted to Democratic control. The issue of immigration and Latino voters’ margins are key parts of the story. While immigration wasn’t a driving issue for most Pennsylvania voters,...
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Washington, DC – Republicans have spent millions of dollars in hundreds of political ads going on the attack over fentanyl issues as part of their relentless fearmongering and falsehoods around the border and immigrants. Yet, as many are pointing out recently, the GOP claims and attacks get the facts...
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is again under threat from a politicized legal challenge from Republicans – as it has been for the past 10 years. Republicans’ anti-immigrant judicial pipeline looks like it will deliver a severe blow any day now. A panel of conservative judges...
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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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NRSC ad in Nevada Senate race shows divide and distract, rather than unite and solve, form GOP campaign tactics Washington, DC – Republicans are once again using divisive scare tactics and lies around the opioid crisis to try to attack Democrats and distract from the extremism of GOP candidates...
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Washington D.C. – A piece yesterday from the Associated Press, “Vance’s anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma,” is a strong indictment of the failures and hypocrisy of Ohio Senate Republican nominee J.D. Vance’s efforts to make the opioid crisis into a campaign issue. The Hillbilly Elegy author has...
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Washington, DC – Republican candidates are cynically trying to turn the opioid crisis and the urgent problem of fentanyl-induced overdose deaths into a nativist political attack. The issues around fentanyl and the opioid crisis are expansive and multi-dimensional: It is a healthcare issue, an international trade issue, a corporate...
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