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  • "They're Eating the Pets": The Lie Was Dead Before He Told It. The Bomb Threats Came Anyway.

    Editorial cartoon of a debate stage. A blustering politician at a lectern marked DEBATE jabs a finger in the air, shouting in a speech balloon: THEY'RE EATING THE PETS! At the base of the lectern a dog and a cat sit calmly side by side, sharing a food bowl labeled SPRINGFIELD. At a desk marked MODERATOR, a composed moderator holds up a sheet reading CITY MANAGER: NO CREDIBLE REPORTS. Dark storm clouds boil out of the speech balloon, lettered 33 BOMB THREATS, and drift toward a small schoolhouse on the horizon marked SPRINGFIELD ELEMENTARY with an American flag.

    Sixty-seven million people heard the Republican nominee say Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating their neighbors' pets. The claim had been checked and killed before he said it, and he was corrected on stage as he said it. Six days later his running mate explained the method on camera: "If I have to create stories... then that's what I'm going to do." Springfield's schools are being swept for bombs every morning.

    -- Continued on Page 5

  • "Poisoning the Blood of Our Country": The Frontrunner Skips the Euphemism

    Title page of Madison Grant's 1916 book The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History

    In Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday, the Republican frontrunner said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." Historians identified the phrase within the hour, because it is not a common English idiom, and the most famous prior user devoted a chapter of his book to it. Three days earlier, a candidate on the same primary stage had called the Great Replacement "a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform." The party has stopped needing…

    -- Continued on Page 3

  • Vivek Ramaswamy and the 'Great Replacement' Theory

    Vivek Ramaswamy speaking at a campaign event

    The article from The Atlantic titled "Ramaswamy, the New Voice of the ‘Great Replacement’ Theory" delves into the controversial statements made by entrepreneur and Republican presidential-primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy regarding the 'Great Replacement' theory. This theory, often associated with white supremacist ideology, suggests that there is a deliberate plan to replace white Americans with immigrants, particularly from non-white backgrounds. Ramaswamy's endorsement of this theory, despite being a practicing Hindu and the son of Indian immigrants,…

    -- Continued on Page 3

  • "I apologize for my white baby"

    A vintage black-and-white photograph of a mother spoon-feeding a baby in a high chair

    This kind of "article" is what conservatives have boiled systemic racism down to. They do not understand the concept and can't see how their denial of it's existence just bolsters the arguments for it. No one thinks your baby is racist, Karen... But we know it's mother is.

    -- Continued on Page 4

  • He Chose the Zip Code First. Ten People Were Buying Groceries.

    Flowers and tributes at the memorial to the victims of the Tops supermarket shooting on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, New York

    An eighteen-year-old drove more than three hours to Buffalo's East Side and murdered ten people at a Tops supermarket. He selected the store by searching for the zip code with the highest percentage of Black residents. The document he left cited the Great Replacement by name. A year earlier, the most-watched man in cable news had spent months telling three million viewers a tidier version of the same thing.

    -- Continued on Page 2

  • No One Had Ever Called Him That in Uniform. Today It Went Into the Congressional Record.

    Editorial cartoon: a Black U.S. Capitol Police officer at a hearing-room witness table asks IS THIS AMERICA? while a committee listens from the dais under a banner reading July 27, 2021

    Six months after the mob, the select committee held its first hearing today, and Officer Harry Dunn of the Capitol Police put January 6's vocabulary under oath. He told the crowd he had voted. A woman in a pink MAGA shirt turned to the others: "You hear that, guys?" Then came the word, from her, then from twenty people at once. In January we wrote that the flags told you what the day was. Today…

    -- Continued on Page 2

  • Tucker Carlson Says the Quiet Part Into a Camera, and Fox's Owner Signs Off

    Tucker Carlson speaking at an event in December 2020.

    The men with the torches in Charlottesville chanted "you will not replace us." Four years later the most-watched host in cable news explained, to three million viewers, that the Democratic Party is trying to "replace the current electorate" with "more obedient voters from the Third World." The ADL asked Fox to fire him. Fox's owner wrote back that Tucker had actually rejected replacement theory... by restating it.

    -- Continued on Page 4

  • Mike Pompeo denounces "Multiculturalism"

    Mike Pompeo speaking at a podium

    On his last day of work, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweets, from his official US government account... "Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms -- they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker." @SecPompeo 1/19/2021 This is pretty clear that Secretary Pompeo thinks that "multiculturalism" distorts "our glorious founding." Why? Because... White. No dogwhistle needed…

    -- Continued on Page 5

  • The Confederate Flag Entered the Capitol Today. Four Years of Civil War Never Managed It.

    A wooden gallows with a hanging noose, erected by the crowd outside the United States Capitol, framing the Capitol dome

    Filed near midnight, January 6. A mob broke into the Capitol today to stop the counting of electoral votes. This page is not going to pretend the story is election law. The crowd built a gallows on the Hill, flew the Confederate battle flag at the base of the Grant Memorial, carried it through the halls inside (something four years of Confederate arms never accomplished), and chased a lone Black officer up a staircase. Congress…

    -- Continued on Page 2

  • He Drove 650 Miles to Find Enough Mexicans. The Word He Used Was "Invasion."

    Community gathering in El Paso, Texas in the week after the August 2019 Walmart shooting

    Twenty-three people are dead in El Paso. The gunman drove more than 650 miles from the Dallas suburbs to reach a border city, and posted minutes before that his attack was "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." El Paso is one of the safest cities in America and was Mexican before it was Texan. He did not go there because of what it is. He went because of what he had been told…

    -- Continued on Page 2
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