Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were handed a “stunning” and “humiliating” defeat earlier this week, when their sham resolution seeking to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed by the slimmest of margins. The vote, which followed months of baseless accusations and incendiary rhetoric by Republicans...
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Just days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott publicly lamented that the state couldn’t shoot and kill migrants on sight at the southern border, a woman and two children tragically drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the state. They lost their lives just off an area of...
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Earlier this month, far-right lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) introduced a privileged resolution to initiate the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Continuing a disturbing trend tracked by America’s Voice during the 118th Congress, Greene’s impeachment articles invoked white nationalist conspiratorial rhetoric associated with...
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Donald Trump, who launched his 2016 presidential campaign by descending his golden escalators and slandering Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, has managed to take his nativism and fearmongering in an even more extreme and horrific direction. In an unhinged post sent on Veterans Day, Trump attacked his critics...
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Rep. Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) was last month one of 200 Republicans to support far-right extremist Rep. Jim Jordan in his failed bid for House Speaker. But rather than standing up to his party, Rep. Ciscomani then doubled-down, becoming one of 220 House Republicans that unanimously voted to make Rep....
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The U.S. House earlier held yet another vote to determine the next Speaker, following the historic ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) by his own caucus this month. House Republicans nominated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who secured the votes of 200 Republicans, including Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ). While the...
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The lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and their families continue to hang in the balance, following another decision against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by an anti-immigrant court in Texas. Will Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) stand up to his extremist colleagues in order...
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Troopers at the southern border under Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star scheme have allegedly “been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat,” Houston Chronicle reported....
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