Republicans are Racists: An Archive of the Documented Record

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

July 30, 2026

This site spends most of its time documenting the movement's cruelty toward outsiders. Today, a rarer specimen for the collection: the machine turning on a man it was explicitly instructed to love. Donald Trump endorsed Amir Hassan for Michigan's 8th Congressional District on Truth Social, with the standard trumpets: "It is my Great Honor to endorse Amir Hassan," praise for his Navy service, his law enforcement career, the works. Let us review the candidate's résumé, …
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Public Officials

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

July 29, 2026

Some entries in this archive require context to understand why they belong here. This one requires context to believe it happened. The chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency Congress created in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because Black Americans were being turned away from work on sight, posted this: That is not a critic's summary. That is the post, with a video attached, from the government account of the …
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Public Officials

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

July 29, 2026

Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, Democrat of Illinois, posted a reel last week that says, in its entirety, what a lot of careful thousand-word essays have been circling for a year: "$240 billion for racist thugs to terrorize and kill people on our streets. But nothing for healthcare, housing, or the things Americans have been begging Congress to address." This site's usual work is holding Republicans to their own words, and the discipline we apply there …
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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. Eleven percent say the schools are segregated. That is from a survey experiment released on July 27, 2026 by the Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll, which did something nobody had done before in this state: it took what registered voters said about their own towns and laid it directly against …
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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, this site laid out the record on Mark Lamb: the 2016 messages where "America's Sheriff" laughed along to a border vigilante's use of the n-word and riffed on it, the homophobic jokes, the years of sexting through his traditional-values brand, and the part that should have ended the conversation on its own... a sitting sheriff threatening to have a woman arrested to keep her quiet, now under investigation by the Pinal County …
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Pundits & Media

Republicans Have a Nick Fuentes Problem. They Also Have a $433 Million Problem.

July 28, 2026

On July 27, the New York Post's opinion page ran a column headlined "Republicans must save the party from young wannabe edgelords." On the narrow question, it has a case. The record on the edgelords is genuinely, documentably foul, and we will lay it out below rather than take anyone's word for it. But there is a direction-of-gaze problem here, and it is worth naming. The Republican Party is spending real institutional effort looking down, …
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Public Officials

Nancy Mace Calls the Congressional Black Caucus "Federally Sanctioned Segregation"

July 28, 2026

On July 23, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a resolution directing the Committee on House Administration to revoke the registration of any Congressional Member Organization or Congressional Staff Organization that "discriminates on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, or national origin." At the centre of it are three organizations: the Congressional Black Caucus, founded in 1971; the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, founded in 1976; and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, founded in …
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Public Officials

Indiana Just Lost 7,000 Workers Who Did It the Right Way

July 28, 2026

The Supreme Court cleared the way in June. On Monday about 7,000 Haitians in Indiana lost the legal right to work. Every one of them had the paperwork. That was never the part that mattered.
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Party Officials

Turning Point's Tyler Bowyer Asks a Republican Lawmaker if He Can "Speak English"

July 26, 2026

Turning Point USA's Chief Operating Officer asked Arizona Republican Rep. Quang Nguyen, who fled Saigon at 12, whether he could speak English. Nguyen is a Republican. That's the part worth sitting with.
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Public Officials

"America's Sheriff" Wrote a Book About Traditional Values. His Phone Kept the Receipts.

June 19, 2026

If you have spent any time in the Fox Cinematic Universe over the last decade, you know Mark Lamb. Cowboy hat, badge, square jaw, the whole action figure. Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. Self-branded "America's Sheriff." Author, in 2020, of a book actually titled American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World. He ran for U.S. Senate on "God, Family, Freedom," lost the 2024 primary to Kari Lake (a sentence that should have been a …
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