“The lies and conspiracies about Haitians are part of a larger volume of anti-immigrant and dehumanizing rhetoric that actively courts political violence,” one immigrant rights advocate said. U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his attack on the Haitian immigrant community of Springfield, Ohio on Friday when he promised to begin his mass deportation plan there if elected president. […]
“Violence has no place in America,” said U.S. Vice President and his 2024 election opponent Kamala Harris. The FBI said on Sunday that it was “investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of former U.S. President Donald Trump after members of the Secret Service fired shots at an individual who appeared to place the muzzle of a rifle […]
WASHINGTON – This week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a draft of a proposed ‘interpretive rule’ in response to Public Citizen’s petition for rulemaking on artificial intelligence and campaign ads. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: “With deepfakes impacting elections around the world and increasingly popping up in the U.S. election […]
“White supremacist and antidemocratic movements have always used the claim that so-called Black savages are coming to destroy, especially when political power is up for grabs,” said one critic. “This is no different.” U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance and other Republicans including congressional lawmakers and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the X social […]