Donald Trump and JD Vance have a lot in common in addition to sharing the 2024 GOP presidential ticket. There are the obvious ways, like they both have undeniably close ties to Project 2025 and they’re both really weird. But perhaps less obvious to some observers, despite their non-stop...
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The upcoming Musk-Trump interview is illustrative of the deadly and anti-democratic conspiracies circulating from both of them to millions online. Earlier this week the GOP presidential nominee announced he will be doing a “MAJOR INTERVIEW” next Monday. No, the presidential candidate will not be sitting for a substantive discussion...
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From the start of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s first campaign in 2015 (when he descended the escalators of Trump Tower and called Mexican immigrants criminals and “rapists”) to the present day, over and over and over again Trump has pointed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1954 mass deportation...
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Washington, DC —Donald Trump’s offensive appearance at a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) dominated follow-up news coverage (see here for the immediate reaction of Vanessa Cárdenas, as quoted by the New York Times). Of note and worth specific mention was the way the attendees rejected...
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Five years ago, on August 3, a man from Texas radicalized by white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theories drove hundreds of miles to murder 23 people and injure 26 more who were shopping at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. He had been obsessed with a so-called “Hispanic invasion”...
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Trump and Project 2025’s plan to rip apart American families and wreck the economy As the placards and party platform at that Republican convention made abundantly clear for any remaining doubters, mass deportation is the signature issue for the GOP in 2024. Donald Trump and JD Vance appeared in...
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“Mass Deportations Now!” was the message of the signs waved by delegates to the Republican National Convention. The ugly speeches from the stage echoed similar messages. But, we are starting to see some slight indications that some Republicans are sensing that its horrific mass deportation plans to round up...
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The Trump administration’s inhumane and traumatic family separation policy was and remains indefensible – and it’s front and center again as convicted felon Donald Trump pursues his mass deportation agenda. But that cruel program’s unpopularity is probably why Donald Trump Jr. couldn’t defend it and instead resorted to lies...
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The key things to know about Trump’s VP pick Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance is a signal that there will not be a change in tone after the shooting incident on July 13, 2024. The junior Senator from Ohio had one of the most combative reactions. He falsely,...
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No doubt we’ll hear a lot about immigrants during the GOP convention in Milwaukee this week. Expect a lot of the usual xenophobic rhetoric. But don’t expect an acknowledgement of the role immigrants play in “America’s Dairyland.” It’s an open secret that across Wisconsin, industries like dairy rely on...
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