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Today's ForecastDog whistles, scattered. Heavy denials by evening.
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Vol. XV, No. 96 Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Final Edition Free
The Georgia Senate campaign says it did not know the organizers' past associations. That answers the knowledge question with a denial. It leaves the vetting question open.
The Georgia Senate campaign says it did not know the organizers' past associations. That answers the knowledge question with a denial. It leaves the vetting question open.
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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.
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 …
A note on the file first. This roll call is about Republicans: officials, candidates, the party. Laura Loomer is none of those on paper. She's a far-right activist. She's here anyway, because Donald Trump has publicly praised her and met with her at the White House, and because a Republican member of Congress looked at what she wrote and said the party owns it. We'll take her word for it. Angie Nixon is a state representative from Jacksonville and Florida's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, running against Republican Sen. ...
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 This summer, the Education Department followed through and rescinded the regulation that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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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