Several U.S. House members representing Texas are the latest voices to urge the Department of Justice to investigate corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for any potential civil rights violations following his despicable intimidation of Latino voters, including raiding the home of 87-year-old great-grandmother Lidia Martinez. The Democratic lawmakers...
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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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GOP embraces replacement theory in all-out assault on American democracy Top Republicans and their right-wing allies have been peddling bigoted conspiracies about a supposed plot by elites to use non-white immigrants to undermine our democracy with masses of fraudulent votes and dilute the voting power of “real” Americans. This...
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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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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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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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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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