Election Review Part 3 – The Great Replacement Theory Is Now the GOP’s Main Organizing Principle The wholesale adoption of the great replacement theory this year as the central organizing principle on the American right is essential for understanding this election, its results, and its aftermath: It is the...
Continue
»
Nov 1, 2024
Election Preview Part 2 – Elon Musk / Stephen Miller, Anti-Trans Ads, and Public Polling Reporting from the Wall Street Journal from early October revealed that the immigrant billionaire Elon Musk and the leading hatemonger Stephen Miller had been working closely together much earlier than was previously known. Their...
Continue
»
Oct 31, 2024
Election Preview Part 1 – Ad Spending, the Battle for Congress, and Ballot Measures Donald Trump has made the defense of his campaign’s strategy to go all in on aggressive and ugly nativism a part of his stump speech in the closing month of the campaign. “It’s bigger than...
Continue
»
At the Trump campaign’s racist and authoritarian rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, speakers vetted by the campaign unleashed a torrent of rabidly xenophobic remarks, including an unhinged statement calling Puerto Rico, home to more than three million of our fellow Americans and an ancestral home to millions...
Continue
»
Tucked into the immigration priorities of the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 plan is a provision that, despite its two-sentence brevity, would have devastating consequences by allowing Stephen Miller’s red state deportation army to invade the most personal and sacred of spaces to carry out mass family separation. Under...
Continue
»
Oct 25, 2024
When Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House Chief of Staff, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, has the definition of fascism queued up for a conversation with the New York Times to be able to confidently assert that his former boss and the current Republican presidential candidate is a fascist,...
Continue
»
While there’s much we don’t yet know with less than two weeks remaining in a tightly contested 2024 election cycle, below are 10 things we do know with confidence about immigration and the 2024 elections. Donald Trump is making his closing argument all about immigration lies – and it’s...
Continue
»
Oct 18, 2024
Republicans’ nativist populism is more than a ploy to scare up votes, it is underwriting a fascist project in America. The 2024 Republican Party presidential campaign led by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is a fascist campaign. The courting of political violence, the contempt for American democracy, and a...
Continue
»
Hundreds gathered in New Orleans on Thursday ahead of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hearing in Texas v. United States, a GOP-led lawsuit that could determine the future of hundreds of thousands of American families that have been kept together thanks to the popular and successful DACA program....
Continue
»
For Republicans, immigrants are to blame for all our troubles and the reason why voters should abandon American democracy All corners of the right, from their political candidates and officials to their media and influencers, to their nonprofits and political organizations, are desperately trying to convince the American people...
Continue
»
