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On January 6, 2021, after losing his reelection bid, President Donald Trump directed a mass of his radicalized supporters – who had been gorging on bigoted conspiracies that he helped legitimize for the last several years – to the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn the election...
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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: The Republican theater of treating Immigration as an electoral weapon continues to hold military aid to...
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TRUMP IMMIGRATION PLAN FLASHES RED ALERT FOR LATINO AND PROGRESSIVE ADVOCATES A New York Times article over the weekend published chilling details of what a second Trump administration could look like on immigration. Straight from Stephen Miller’s cruelest dreams, Trump’s plan would include assaults on legal immigration, massive deportation...
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SEPARATED FAMILIES, ECUADORANS, VENEZUELANS, AND THE NEED FOR BIDEN COHERENT STRATEGY AND NARRATIVE This week saw a series of announcements by the Biden administration, but they still lacked a coherent, unifying strategy. A proposed settlement was announced by the DOJ with migrant families intentionally separated by the Trump administration...
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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: With Citizenship and Constitution Day in the background, efforts are being redoubled so that eligible permanent...
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Apr 12, 2023
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: The same week that we commemorated the 55th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader...
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Washington, DC – Election results in Arizona underscore a key takeaway: MAGA extremism – including Republicans’ radicalization on immigration – turned an election with conditions that were overwhelmingly tilted in Republicans’ favor into an extremely close race for Congress and multiple wins for Democrats. Once again, Republicans’ politics of...
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Nov 11, 2022
Over the last two years, Republicans have made a series of consecutive hard right turns leaving them in the cul-de-sac of extremism. The MAGA Republicans who won primaries and faced general election voters in the 2022 midterms were unable to secure the majorities to decisively claim power. MAGA extremism...
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Sen. Johnson: Migrants and Asylum Seekers at U.S. Southern Border Constitute “Invasion” Requiring “Defending Every Inch of U.S. Territory” Washington, DC – During last night’s Wisconsin Senate debate against Democratic nominee Mandela Barnes, sitting Republican Senator Ron Johnson adopted the language of white nationalists in describing asylum seekers and...
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Washington, DC – Republicans’ hostility to DACA and Dreamers’ protections and continued presence in the U.S. is a powerful distinction between the parties and candidates in the election homestretch. This is particularly true in a state like Nevada and the Senate contest between incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto and...
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