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Republicans are Racists

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Vol. XV, No. 101 Thursday, October 22, 2026 Final Edition Free

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

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

    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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  • The Court Ruled It Could Not Look at Why. Now ICE Is Going to Springfield.

    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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  • Ten Months After the Court Blessed the Stops, the Numbers Are In. The Dissent Was a Forecast.

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

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

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

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

    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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  • Trump on Somali Americans: "Low IQs," "Stupid People," "Get the Hell Out of Here"

    Twice in ten weeks, the President of the United States stood at a podium and called Somali Americans stupid. January at the White House press briefing. March at a Cabinet meeting. Same material both times.

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