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The COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it has had on President Donald Trump, intensifying his political opportunism and ridiculous, always out-of-place comments, make me ask myself: what will come next? If it’s true that the pandemic that has cost thousands of lives changed life as we know it, from...
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Key Points As a pandemic ravages America, Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is turning to a go-to strategy: racism and xenophobia. Over the past four years, messages that demonize immigrants, foreigners and so-called “open borders” opponents have been a mainstay of GOP campaign strategy and attack ads — from Trump...
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It is becoming clearer by the day that the Trump campaign and GOP candidates throughout the country are turning to dog-whistle ads as part of the divide-and-distract playbook. Expect it to be a core Republican strategy throughout the 2020 election season. Dog-Whistle Politics, Trump Version On April 9, Donald...
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This week, voters in Alabama, California, North Carolina, and Texas — among ten other Super Tuesday states — are selecting primary nominees for local, state, and national races. Republican candidates, as well as GOP organizations and PACs, have been blanketing social media channels and airwaves with racist and xenophobic...
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This week, voters in Alabama, California, North Carolina, and Texas — among ten other Super Tuesday states — are selecting primary nominees for local, state, and national races. Candidates (as well as organizations and PACs) have been blanketing social media channels and airwaves with racist and xenophobic ads. The...
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Originally published as a mid-year review on July 28, 2019; updated on December 18, 2019 From the moment Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator to launch his presidential bid in 2015, his attacks on immigrants have been unrelenting. Throughout 2019, the Trump Administration continued its cruel pattern of...
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While the drama that is the impeachment inquiry continues its course, the scenarios to come don’t offer much comfort. It turns out that the more besieged Donald Trump feels, the more venom he spews with total impunity and support from the cowardly Republican leadership in Congress. What’s more, he...
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Sep 10, 2019
Some news in recent days seems to have been taken directly from an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” but it is taking place in real life. For example, that story about how immigration officials took a Salvadoran woman in labor contractions to a Texas hospital to give her medication...
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Aug 23, 2019
Over the weekend, two of the main daily papers in the United States, The New York Times and the Washington Post, dedicated front page articles to the controversial figure that is presidential advisor Stephen Miller, the principal architect of the anti-immigrant policy of the Donald Trump administration. Nothing detailed...
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Mario Carrillo: “Cornyn is all hat, no cattle” Read piece here In a new Washington Post column, Jennifer Rubin calls Texas Senator John Cornyn complicit in President Trump’s role in inciting hatred against immigrants and Latinos. Trump has continually used language, such as “invasion” to refer to asylum seekers...
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