New York Attorney General Letitia James leads a coalition of 16 attorneys general urging a federal investigation into Texas’ outrageous raids targeting Latino candidates and organizers, saying that impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton has used a completely bogus lie as excuse to raid homes and “to inspire fear,...
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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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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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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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