Republicans are Racists: An Archive of the Documented Record

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

September 29, 2026

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 …
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Public Officials

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

September 28, 2026

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 …
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Public Officials

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

September 27, 2026

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 …
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Public Officials

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

September 26, 2026

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 …
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Candidates

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

September 25, 2026

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 …
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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 Divided Memphis and 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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