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...
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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,...
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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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Despite the fact that widespread non-citizen voting doesn’t exist (as highlighted by Speaker Mike Johnson himself, after being unable to show the receipts when pressed for proof), House Republicans last month passed the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This bill purports to ensure election integrity, but in...
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Mark Robinson, the MAGA nominee for governor in North Carolina, may not have the national name recognition of convicted felon Donald Trump or mass deportation enthusiast Marco Rubio, but he is one of the most extreme Republican candidates of 2024 (and that’s saying something these days.) During a hate-laden...
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A recently signed Iowa law endangering long-settled immigrants and U.S. citizens of color alike has been halted for now. This week, a federal judge temporarily paused the state’s anti-immigrant SF 2340, ruling that the Texas-style legislation “would interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of U.S. immigration laws,” Reuters reported....
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This week, President Biden announced a new policy that will keep families together, protect DACA recipients, and allow long-settled immigrants to stay in the United States. This is a welcome development that will improve the lives of millions of people around the country. At the same time, it exposes...
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Young immigrants, advocacy organizations, lawmakers, community members, and allies are set to mark the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program this upcoming Saturday with several in-person and virtual rallies, press briefings, and educational opportunities around the country this week. Events are set for states...
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The Department of Justice has sued Oklahoma over its anti-immigrant law, becoming the latest such lawsuit filed by the federal government in recent weeks over Texas-style legislation endangering long-settled immigrants and U.S. citizens of color alike. The lawsuits against Texas, Iowa, and now Oklahoma “signal that the Biden administration...
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Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have amplified white nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory directly tied to multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans over the last several years. Ranking Member Lindsey Graham, South Carolina: On July 19, 2021, Senator Lindsey Graham...
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