Donald Trump has announced that Thomas Homan, a Project 2025 contributor and former acting ICE director under his first administration, will be returning to his second term as a “border czar” to carry out the ”bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of his 2024 presidential campaign...
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Election Review Part 3 – The Great Replacement Theory Is Now the GOP’s Main Organizing Principle The wholesale adoption of the great replacement theory this year as the central organizing principle on the American right is essential for understanding this election, its results, and its aftermath: It is the...
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Nov 1, 2024
Election Preview Part 2 – Elon Musk / Stephen Miller, Anti-Trans Ads, and Public Polling Reporting from the Wall Street Journal from early October revealed that the immigrant billionaire Elon Musk and the leading hatemonger Stephen Miller had been working closely together much earlier than was previously known. Their...
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Oct 31, 2024
Election Preview Part 1 – Ad Spending, the Battle for Congress, and Ballot Measures Donald Trump has made the defense of his campaign’s strategy to go all in on aggressive and ugly nativism a part of his stump speech in the closing month of the campaign. “It’s bigger than...
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While there’s much we don’t yet know with less than two weeks remaining in a tightly contested 2024 election cycle, below are 10 things we do know with confidence about immigration and the 2024 elections. Donald Trump is making his closing argument all about immigration lies – and it’s...
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Oct 11, 2024
Republican-aligned campaigns are on track to spend well over a billion dollars on nativist attack ads It is a little over three weeks til November 5, and Republicans’ closing message is nothing if not consistent– ‘your well-being, your future, and that of the nation’s rests on a purge of the...
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Musk gave $50 million for the ugliest ads in ‘22 and is normalizing the dehumanizing rhetoric core to the GOP’s ‘24 election messaging Nearing the close of the midterm election two years ago, baseball fans were forced to endure the ugly, nativism of white nationalist Stephen Miller’s brand of...
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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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