Republicans are Racists: An Archive of the Documented Record

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The Great Replacement

The Idea That Keeps Killing People: A Century of the Replacement Conspiracy, From a 1916 Bestseller to the Oval Office

A French novelist gave it the name in 2011. An American gave it the argument in 1916, and Congress gave that argument a statute in 1924. It has since been cited by name in the manifestos of men who murdered worshippers in Pittsburgh, shoppers in El Paso and grandmothers in Buffalo. It is now recited from podiums, in tidied-up language, by people who will tell you with a straight face that they have never heard of it.

Every conspiracy theory is a machine for turning anxiety into an enemy. Most of them are badly made. This one is a Swiss watch, and the reason it keeps turning up in this archive is that it is the only conspiracy theory in American life with a body count, a bibliography and a cable news slot.

What follows is its biography: where it was born, who raised it, how it was laundered from skinhead pamphlet into primetime vocabulary, what it has cost in names, and the single question that identifies it no matter what it is wearing …

Title page of Madison Grant's 1916 book The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History, published by Charles Scribner's Sons — MADISON GRANT, "THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE," 1916.
THE ARGUMENT, EIGHT DECADES BEFORE ITS FRENCH NAME. (PUBLIC DOMAIN)

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Public Officials

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

August 6, 2026

In June the Supreme Court held 6-3 that the law forbids courts from reviewing why the government ends Temporary Protected Status. Justice Kagan, dissenting, wrote that the President's statements about Haitians were "so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print." On July 27 protections ended for more than 300,000 Haitians. Reporting now places the coming enforcement in Springfield, Ohio... the same town the same administration built a lie about…
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The Numbers

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

August 6, 2026

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…
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Candidates

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

August 5, 2026

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…
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Public Officials

Tennessee Cut Memphis Into Three Districts, and the Court Put the Rule in Writing: Say Nothing About Race

August 2, 2026

Tennessee's only majority-Black congressional district was 61.1 percent Black. In May the legislature repealed its own 54-year ban on mid-decade redistricting and cut Memphis into three pieces that came out 27, 28 and 32 percent. On July 23 a federal panel found the plaintiffs "lack any direct evidence of racial motivation," and then, in footnote 3, described the doctrine as a game in which the majority party "coaches its legislators to stay quiet." They stayed…
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The Numbers

Ten Months After the Court Blessed the Stops, the Numbers Are In. The Dissent Was a Forecast.

July 30, 2026

In September 2025, Justice Sotomayor dissented from the order that let immigration agents resume stops based partly on looking Latino: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job." Ten months later, researchers pulled the government's own arrest data. Detentions of Latinos with no criminal record are up sixfold, and the agents are on bodycam using…
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Grassroots

Trump Endorsed a Navy Vet Named Amir. MAGA Would Like a Refund.

July 30, 2026

Navy veteran. Served at Guantanamo. Federal law enforcement. America First Republican. Pro-Israel. Zero tolerance for extremists. Campaign website says Christian. Trump endorsed him, and the base revolted anyway, because his name is Amir Hassan. Science rarely hands you a controlled experiment this clean.
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Public Officials

The Civil Rights Agency Is Now Running Recruitment Ads for Aggrieved White Men

July 29, 2026

The EEOC exists because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its chair is now posting recruitment videos asking white men to file discrimination claims and "recover money," the Vice President is boosting them, and the same commission has voted to stop collecting the workforce data that measures discrimination in the first place. The agency of Title VII, advertising for the one demographic, while burning the ledgers.
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Public Officials

A Congressman Called Them "Racist Thugs" With $240 Billion. We Checked Every Word.

July 29, 2026

Rep. Chuy García put fourteen seconds of fury on Facebook: $240 billion for "racist thugs to terrorize and kill people on our streets," and nothing for healthcare or housing. Strong words invite checking, so we checked every one. The arithmetic is real, "racist" is a finding two federal courts made before the Supreme Court stepped in, and the count of people killed on the streets is at least five.
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The Numbers

In the Whitest Towns in New Jersey, 9 Percent Say the Schools Are Segregated

July 29, 2026

In New Jersey towns where one resident in a hundred is Black, 68 percent of voters say the local schools have "a good mix" of races. A Fairleigh Dickinson survey experiment matched what 1,211 voters say about their own towns against the Census data for those same towns... and then found the single question that makes some of them see the fence.
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Candidates

Follow-Up: Arizona's 5th Read Mark Lamb's Texts and Nominated Him With 58.7%

July 28, 2026

Five weeks ago we laid out the record: the n-word texts with a border vigilante, the years of sexting, the threat to jail a woman for talking. On July 21, Republican primary voters in Arizona's 5th District looked at all of it and handed Mark Lamb the nomination with 58.7 percent. The experiment ran itself, and the result is in.
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