Author: Staff

At the edge of the cordoned-off perimeter around the Republican National Convention on July 15, hundreds of conservatives filed into the ornate home of the Milwaukee Symphony to hear a parade of fascist luminaries talk about authoritarian policies and Project 2025 once Trump is re-elected. Project 2025 is the term for the Heritage Foundation’s nearly 1,000-page handbook for the next Republican administration, which has become a cudgel Democrats are wielding against former president and convicted felon Donald Trump, who on July 15 officially became the GOP’s presidential nominee. That is because the book proposes sweeping changes in the federal...

Republicans were welcoming JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate on the same night devoted to blasting President Joe Biden’s leadership on the world stage. The 39-year-old Ohio senator accepted the vice presidential nomination on July 17. He was offered his exaggerated life story as a son of Appalachia, reaffirming Trump’s connections to Americans who align with Christian Nationalism and feel alienated socially, economically, and politically. But even as Republicans talked of Vance as a potential heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement, Day 3 programming at the Republican National Convention made clear that Trump – a convicted...

Immigration took center stage as the Republican National Convention resumed on July 16 in Milwaukee, with speakers spotlighting a key element of the convicted felon and former President’s political brand that helped endear Donald Trump to the radical GOP base when he began his first campaign in 2015. Among the speakers on July 16 were families who had been impacted by violent crime, part of the GOP’s political propaganda that seeks to falsely link crime to border policies. Immigration has long been one of Trump’s banner issues, as he has criticized the unprecedented number of migrants entering the country...