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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Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz plans to spend more than $4 million to reach out to Latino voters in the state, including Spanish-language ads in nearly two dozen markets and bilingual texts set to target the Rio Grande Valley region, Axios reports. “The first such ad adopts the format...
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As governor of Minnesota, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has helped usher in a progressive agenda that benefits all working Minnesota families and a style of governance that rejects the right-wing lie that pro-immigrant policies come at the detriment of U.S.-born Americans. As a member of Congress from...
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Read the new America’s Voice backgrounder, “Five Things to Know About VP Candidate Tim Walz on Immigration” Washington, DC—Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate in the upcoming presidential election. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, followed...
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On August 6, 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her Vice Presidential running mate. Walz won the Governor’s mansion in 2018 after serving in Congress for the decade prior. He opposed the Trump administration’s cruel and unworkable proposals and supported long-settled immigrants and...
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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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Listen to relevant Greg Sargent and AV’s Douglas Rivlin podcast discussion HERE Washington, DC —Yesterday was a pivotal day for the politics of immigration and the trajectory of the 2024 presidential campaign. Amidst a Trump campaign attack ad and ongoing right wing disinformation about her immigration and border responsibilities...
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Washington, DC —The stakes, contrasts, and strategies of the presidential campaign are in sharp relief as we hit 100 days out. On immigration, xenophobic lies, disinformation, and related ugliness is central to the right wing and Republican political strategy and they are openly asserting and promising unsparing mass roundups,...
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