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Republicans are Racists

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Vol. XV, No. 105 Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Final Edition Free

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  • Trump Uses ‘Shylock’ Again, This Time to Defend Roger Marshall.

    Donald Trump was defending Republican Sen. Roger Marshall at an October 19 rally in Park City, Kansas, when he reached for a familiar term. Critics, he complained, had made Marshall sound like a predatory debt collector. The transcript records his description: “And they made it like, oh, he was some kind of a Shylock-type guy.” This was the character reference. Imagine what the attack ad would have sounded like. Trump was answering criticism of Marshall's …

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  • Trump's Agencies Tell Schools Which Civil-Rights Guidance They're Done Using.

    The Justice and Education departments published an October 23 notice saying they will no longer rely on seven joint guidance documents in civil-rights enforcement. English learners and racial discrimination in school discipline are among the subjects. The official label is a clarification. I appreciate the stationery. You can get quite a lot done to a civil-rights program under a heading that sounds like somebody fixed a typo. The list spans documents issued from 2015 through …

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  • Federal Agents Searched Ilhan Omar's Home. Trump Found a Rally Line.

    Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on October 12 as part of a criminal investigation involving immigration paperwork. That night, Donald Trump used his Youngstown, Ohio, rally to complain about the Somali-born Minnesota Democrat invoking her rights. ABC News reported his words: “And she comes into our country, and she says, 'I have a constitutional right.'” Yes, Donald. She does. What a deeply inconvenient feature of the country you run. Omar became a …

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  • Trump Calls El-Sayed ‘Mohammad’ and Invokes His Presidential Naming Privileges.

    Donald Trump went to Dalton, Georgia, on October 16 and explained why he keeps calling Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed Mohammad. His defense, captured in a C-SPAN clip reproduced by the Daily Caller, was a little lesson in presidential authority: “I’m the president of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.” Well, that settles the health care debate. The man has naming privileges. During the same rally at Dalton …

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  • Chandler Langevin's Heritage Politics Already Has a Seat in Palm Bay.

    Palm Bay Councilmember Chandler Langevin is executive director of the American Restoration Coalition, a Florida Republican organizing group whose links to white nationalist networks were detailed in Jordan Green's September 30 Raw Story investigation. The group's strategy includes winning positions on local boards. This is a story about access to government, not merely ugly talk on the internet. Green reports that ARC members promoted Patriot Front and that Palm Bay Planning and Zoning Board member …

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  • Trump Told Minnesota to Fight Back Against Somali Immigrants.

    President Donald Trump told Minnesotans to fight back against Somali immigrants in an October 8 Truth Social post. He described Minnesota as being taken over by that community, blamed it for statewide disorder and offered federal help. This was the president speaking to the public, not an anonymous account getting carried away in the replies. Here is the instruction in his own words: "The people of Minnesota must fight back." The post ends by demanding …

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  • John Kennedy Said El-Sayed Sleeps in a Bin Laden Jersey. Mike Rogers Laughed.

    Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sleeps in a Bin Laden jersey at an October 9 campaign appearance with Republican nominee Mike Rogers. AP reports that Rogers laughed. El-Sayed is Muslim. Apparently that was enough material for the visiting senator. The clip shared by reporter Julian Andreone places Kennedy's line in a discussion of AIPAC's involvement in the race. The operative words are worth keeping: "sleeps in a Bin …

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

    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 trail.

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

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

    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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