A look at the wall-to-wall nativist disinformation that made up Vance’s pitch to the nation On Tuesday night, Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance tried to sell the nation a twisted nativist fantasy where all the problems facing working people in America could be solved with a massive purge...
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Stephen Miller has been the mastermind of the GOP’s failed strategy, promised it would deliver and spent millions on it. He’s been wrong every time Republicans have lost on the immigration since 2017. But instead of changing course, they’ve spent more money and gotten more extreme on the issue....
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During remarks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual leadership conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris described in stark terms the reality of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The New York Times reported the “crowd turned from jovial to silent as the vice president asked...
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Following dehumanizing and dangerous rhetoric that has since led to the harassment of Springfield’s Haitian families and the emergency closure of several schools and government offices due to bomb threats, GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance appears to have finally confessed to what local officials, local police, independent fact-checkers,...
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Trump’s plans promise to be violent, separate American families, hurt workers, and tank the economy. And the more voters find out about the details, the more they’re repelled For the second time at a 2024 presidential debate, Donald Trump refused to answer a direct question about his campaign’s signature...
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Sep 12, 2024
Conspiratorial lies about immigrants to justify voter suppression and intimidation while building the foundation to violently contest the election results are core to the GOP’s ‘24 campaign. After losing the election in 2020, Donald Trump and his allies cultivated the Big Lie that the election had been stolen as...
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In the battleground state of Arizona, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who represents the Sixth Congressional District, hopes to retain his seat in 2024 after defeating Democratic opponent Kirsten Engel by an incredibly slim margin in 2022. But while Ciscomani represents an agricultural district that depends on the skilled labor...
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The 2024 Democratic National Convention featured a hopeful and optimistic view of what America can be, on immigration and beyond, that stands in stark contrast to the “send them back now” chants and “mass deportation now” signs at July’s Republican National Convention. While there was no ignoring the embrace...
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If the 2022 midterm results showed one thing in Arizona, it was that the GOP’s massive investment in ugly and dangerous nativism didn’t pay off at the ballot box. All three GOP candidates were defeated in three of the biggest races – gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, and state Secretary of...
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Republican campaigns have already spent $352 million on negative immigration TV and CTV ads so far this year, according to data compiled from AdImpact. These nativist ads make up 47% of all the TV/CTV ad spend from Republican campaigns this year. That’s $100 million more than the total spend...
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