Billionaire Elon Musk’s descent into the far-right rabbit hole has been no secret, funneling tens of millions of dollars into overtly racist political advertising, using his massive platform at his social media site to unapologetically promote deadly conspiracy theories and, more recently, thrilling white nationalists by repeatedly raising his...
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First, let’s be clear on some facts: everyone present in the United States, no matter their immigration status or who is currently president, has rights, and the right to know what they are. It’s supposed to be an essential foundation of this nation. Anyone insisting otherwise is being dishonest,...
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Washington, DC — The Trump administration and NYC Mayor Eric Adams seem to have engaged in an overt quid pro quo – dropping the criminal case against Adams in exchange for the Mayor facilitating the Trump administration’s indiscriminate immigration crackdown. Among the many disturbing elements of the story is...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, MAGA Republican from New York’s 21st congressional district, has been nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Donald Trump. Stefanik’s rise in the Republican Party is attributed to her sharp turn from so-called “moderate” to the far-right, embracing white nationalist extremism...
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Donald Trump, who last year became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes, spent the entire 2024 campaign falsely equating all immigrants as “criminals” in order to minimize the political fallout of his unpopular “bloody” mass deportation agenda. Following his win in November, some elected Republicans,...
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A long-serving federal judge in Seattle, Washington has issued a nationwide ruling temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s attack on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, calling the executive order seeking to gut 150 years of settled law “blatantly unconstitutional,” The Seattle Times reports. In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge...
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For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise. Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory. Just as...
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Donald Trump’s day one avalanche of promised executive orders were more about advancing disorder, nativist divisions, and scapegoating immigrants than about lowering the costs of groceries, childcare, and housing for working families. As noted in a Bluesky thread earlier this week: The sum total of the coming day-one Executive...
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A leading author of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Russell Vought was again tapped by Donald Trump to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a position he previously filled from July 2020 to January 2021 during the first Trump administration and the office that carries...
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President-elect Donald Trump confirmed reports that he plans to declare a legally dubious national emergency when he returns to power in January 2025, this time in order to carry out the “bloody” detention and mass deportation of millions of our undocumented neighbors, and likely some U.S. citizens as well....
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