Karoline Leavitt
Donald Trump, who last year became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes, spent the entire 2024 campaign falsely equating all immigrants as “criminals” in order to minimize the political fallout of his unpopular “bloody” mass deportation agenda. Following his win in November, some elected Republicans,... Continue »
Stephen Miller, a notorious white nationalist who was one of the first Trump administration’s longest-serving advisers and the principal mastermind behind its cruelest anti-immigrant policies, has returned to help carry out the “bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Now holding... Continue »
A long-serving federal judge in Seattle, Washington has issued a nationwide ruling temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s attack on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, calling the executive order seeking to gut 150 years of settled law “blatantly unconstitutional,” The Seattle Times reports.  In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge... Continue »
For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise. Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory. Just as... Continue »
Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive... Continue »
Russell Vought, CSPAN screenshot
A leading author of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Russell Vought was again tapped by Donald Trump to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a position he previously filled from July 2020 to January 2021 during the first Trump administration and the office that carries... Continue »
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed reports that he plans to declare a legally dubious national emergency when he returns to power in January 2025, this time in order to carry out the “bloody” detention and mass deportation of millions of our undocumented neighbors, and likely some U.S. citizens as well.... Continue »
Donald Trump and his allies have been claiming their “bloody” mass deportation agenda will prioritize criminals. As incoming “border czar” Tom Homan claimed, the focus will be on the “worst first.” But their day-one plans and prior track record tells the exact opposite story. The incoming administration’s top priority... Continue »
Pam Bondi -- Fox News screenshot
Donald Trump selected former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his latest nominee for U.S. Attorney General, following his disastrous pick of disgraced former Congressman Matt Gaetz for the position. Bondi was the state’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019, and has more recently been affiliated with the America... Continue »
Brooke Rollins, CBS News screenshot
Donald Trump has nominated America First Policy Institute (AFPI) founder and former Trump administration official Brooke Rollins as his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees our nation’s food and farm supply, nutritional programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and houses the U.S. Forest... Continue »