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Republicans are Racists

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Vol. XV, No. 95 Monday, October 12, 2026 Final Edition Free

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Republicans Are Racists -- and they're not shy about it
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A Louisiana senator brought a terrorism smear to Michigan's Senate race. The Republican candidate standing beside him found it funny.

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Public Officials

Trump's 2027 Refugee Plan Gives Priority to White South Africans.

President Donald Trump official portrait

Trump's administration proposes up to 17,500 refugee admissions for fiscal year 2027, primarily for white South African Afrikaners. His signed decision added 10,000 places for Afrikaners in fiscal year 2026. Global Refuge reported on September 22 that all but three of the 12,904 refugees admitted that year as of its statement came from South Africa. The preference has a paper …

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Pundits & Media

Laura Loomer Called Five Black Women "Ghetto." Asked to Explain, She Said "I Spoke the Truth."

Pen-and-ink editorial cartoon: a pile of crumpled insulting posts spills out of a White House door tagged White House Guest, while a Republican elephant in a suit turns away holding a sign reading Not Ours.

In late August, Laura Loomer, the activist President Trump has praised and hosted at the White House, went after Florida's Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, then widened the target to Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Her defense: "Is she ghetto? Yes. Is she black? Yes." Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, said the party …

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Public Officials

The Education Department Found a Way to End School Discrimination: Stop Counting It

Pen-and-ink editorial cartoon: a bureaucrat uses an eraser labeled U.S. Dept. of Education to wipe a chalkboard chart titled Suspensions by Race, beside a tied stack of papers labeled Desegregation Orders stamped Case Closed.

Most entries in this roll call have a quote at the center: somebody said the thing. This one doesn't. The administration has figured out the quieter version, which is to stop looking. The Associated Press laid out the pieces on September 25. Here they are in order. In May 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop examining "disparate impact": policies that look neutral on paper but land much harder on one racial group. This summer, the Education Department followed through and rescinded the regulation that ...

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Public Officials

Ted Cruz Named Three Democrats. The Crowd Yelled "He Should Be Shot." Cruz Kept Going.

Official Senate portrait of Sen. Ted Cruz

This one is about religion before it is about race, and this archive says so up front, as it always has. But the machinery is the same one we document every week: pick the name that sounds foreign, attach a threat to it, and let the room do the rest. On September 10, at the Republican midterm convention, Sen. Ted Cruz offered the crowd "a simple truth: When people tell you who they are, believe them." Then he went down a list of Democrats. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Texas ...

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Public Officials

JD Vance Told the Convention He's Tired of Being Called Racist for "Noticing"

Official vice presidential portrait of JD Vance

The Republican outreach continues! The party wants you to know it is sick and tired of being called racist. Really sick of it. So tired that the Vice President of the United States made it a centerpiece of his convention speech. On Thursday, September 10, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, JD Vance gave his closing argument for the midterms. This is the line: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous." Read that ...

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Candidates

Texas Won. Bo French Looked at the Student Section and Saw Foreigners.

Pen-and-ink editorial cartoon: a man squints through a magnifying glass at his phone and shouts "Foreigners!" at a cheering student section of South Asian football fans in longhorn jerseys; one student replies, "We're juniors, sir."

Some wins are big enough that the whole state gets to enjoy them. The Longhorns' upset of Ohio State was one of those. Kids in burnt orange, screaming in the stands, having the best Saturday of the semester. Bo French had a different reaction. French is the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, the office that regulates the state's oil and gas industry, on the ballot against Democratic state Rep. Jon Rosenthal of Houston. He is also the former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party. On Sunday, September 13, ...

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In Brief

  • Public Officials

    The Court Ruled It Could Not Look at Why. Now ICE Is Going to Springfield.

    On June 25, 2026, in Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court cleared the way to end Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians and more than 6,000 Syrians. The vote was 6 to 3, Justice Alito writing. The holding is narrow-sounding and enormous: the TPS statute bars judicial review of the Secretary's determination, and "determination" swallows the steps leading up to it, including whether the Secretary followed the procedure Congress wrote. Analysts put the number of people whose protections are now effectively unreviewable at about 1.3 million across seventeen nationalities. ...

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  • The Numbers

    Fifty Years of Keeping Score, and the Fiftieth Report Says the Dream Moved Further Away

    The National Urban League has published State of Black America every year since 1976. The 50th edition landed last week with a sentence that should have led every newscast in the country: the American Dream "may not be dead for many Black Americans, but it is further away than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement." Black homeownership sits at 44 percent against 73 for white Americans. The median Black household holds fifteen cents for every white dollar. And the federal offices built to measure exactly this are being …

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  • Candidates

    "We Need Help": Mike Collins Asked Black Georgia for a Favor. Here Is the File.

    On Saturday, Georgia's Republican Senate nominee stood in East Point in front of about a hundred Black conservatives and asked for their votes. His party's own operatives put the target at 15 percent of the Black vote. This page has assembled the complete file that request has to survive: the death-flight joke, the antisemitic reply he refused to delete, the monkey-chant video he captioned approvingly, the chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, and the son-in-law who says there is nothing wrong with white …

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