Updated tracking of deadly conspiracy theories highlights 82 unique TV ads from GOP-affiliated campaigns or entities, totaling at least $19M Washington, DC — After reporting from the Texas Tribune highlighted that prominent Republicans and right wing leaders were set to attend a conference of the “True Texas Project,” which...
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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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Several state legislatures are entertaining baseless election denial conspiracies, adding redundant rules against non-citizen voting to the November ballot. Dressed as democracy protections, these efforts instead seek to create a boogeyman around a problem that doesn’t exist. After a decade and millions of dollars spent searching for a problem,...
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Washington, DC — Today, House Republicans are set to mark up legislation that is nothing more than a fig leaf to provide further legitimacy to election denial conspiracies. The bill relies on the widely and repeatedly debunked bigoted conspiracies about non-citizen voting and is pushed by Speaker of the...
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The Republican Presidential nominee who is currently tied in the polls is again associating himself with Nazism. That is not over-the-top hyperbole but is a statement of fact that is hard to reconcile. As the AP wire story tells us, there is an unmistakable pattern of Donald Trump associating...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Florida Senator and onetime GOP immigration reform champion Marco Rubio embraced Donald Trump’s mass-deportation vision, while relying on the conspiratorial white nationalist “invasion” rhetoric connected to real-world violence. Rubio’s comments, at direct odds with his 2016 stated beliefs and the...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday on Capitol Hill, House Republicans staged two hearings that continued their relentless focus on immigration lies, conspiracies, and bigotry. Below are quotes and context from America’s Voice on yesterday’s hearings on Chinese migration and the made-up problem of non-citizen voting. The Dangerous Rhetoric and Scare...
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Washington, DC — House Republicans are set to hold a committee hearing and are readying legislation to tackle the made-up problem of non-citizens voting in federal elections. As numerous fact checkers have highlighted, it’s a virtually non-existent issue with strong safeguards and penalties already in place to protect election...
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Washington, DC — A new report released today by America’s Voice, “Two Years After the Deadly Terror Attack in Buffalo, the Replacement Theory has Only Gone More Mainstream,” documents the continued spread of the white nationalist “replacement” theory, including by Republican elected officials at the highest levels. Additionally, ahead...
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Washington, DC — This week, the relentless focus of Donald Trump and Republican allies to advance dangerous immigration-related lies, conspiracies, and falsehoods has been on display – both by Republican design and in key coverage and commentary pushing back and putting into the proper larger context. As America’s Voice...
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