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

January 6, 2021

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

August 8, 2019

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…
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"Go Back": Three of Them Were Born Here, and the House Put the Word "Racist" in the Record

July 18, 2019

The President told four congresswomen of color to "go back" to the countries "from which they came." Three were born in the Bronx, Detroit and Cincinnati; the fourth has been a citizen longer than his youngest son has been alive. The House condemned the tweets as racist, on the record, 240 to 187. Then a rally crowd chanted "send her back," and he let it roll for thirteen seconds.
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Six Weeks After Christchurch, an American Teenager Answered the Brochure

April 29, 2019

On the last day of Passover, a 19-year-old walked into the Chabad of Poway and opened fire, killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three, including the rabbi. He posted an open letter first, claiming Jews were running a "meticulously planned genocide of the European race." A month earlier he had tried to burn down a mosque and left Christchurch's name on the wall. Six weeks ago this page wrote that the Christchurch document was written to…
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He Titled It "The Great Replacement." Fifty-One People Were at Friday Prayers.

March 18, 2019

An Australian gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in two New Zealand mosques on Friday, and published a 74-page document first. Its title was three words: The Great Replacement. This site covers the American right, and this happened 8,000 miles away... which is exactly why it belongs here. The phrase is French, the argument is American, and the document was written to be copied.
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He Posted "Invaders" Two Hours Before. Eleven People Were at Shabbat Services.

October 31, 2018

Saturday morning in Squirrel Hill, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven people at Shabbat services, the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. Two hours earlier he had posted his reason: a Jewish refugee agency "likes to bring invaders in that kill our people." Not "Jews" in the abstract. A specific charge, in a specific vocabulary, that had been circulating in American politics all autumn.
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"Why Do We Need More Haitians?": The President Grades the World's Countries by Toilet

January 13, 2018

In an Oval Office meeting on immigration, the President of the United States asked why America takes people from "shithole countries," meaning Haiti, El Salvador and Africa, and suggested more immigrants from Norway instead. He met Norway's prime minister the day before, which is apparently how the shopping list gets written. Senator Durbin was in the room: "He said these hateful things, and he said them repeatedly."
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"Very Fine People": The President Reviews a Nazi March and Finds It Mixed

August 16, 2017

Men with torches marched through Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us." One of them drove a car into a crowd and killed Heather Heyer. It took the President of the United States three days and two do-overs to land on his final answer: there were "very fine people on both sides." This page records all three attempts, because the third one was the honest one.
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"Somebody Else's Babies": A Congressman Says the Quiet Part, in Twelve Words, on a Sunday

March 14, 2017

On Sunday, Rep. Steve King of Iowa tweeted twelve words in praise of the Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders: "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." He has spent the days since explaining that he meant culture. The sentence contains the word "babies." Babies do not have a culture yet. They have parents, and the parents are the part he can see.
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Colin Powell Emails Expose His Opinion on Racism in the GOP

September 16, 2016

For years, Colin Powell has been one of the Republicans used as an example of how the GOP simply cannot be racist. How can we be racist when Colin Powell thinks we're cool?
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