Our time is short @SaraGonzalesTX . Mass deportations will correct this, worst of the worst won’t. If Plano, Texas, of all places, has this problem, then you can see how there are 100 million illegal aliens in our country. Commence mass deportations . @nicksortor original post: At a park in Plano, TX with my 5-year-old. We are surrounded by foreigners, speaking multiple foreign languages, making it more difficult for my son to make friends. This is my hometown. It’s unrecognizable. I want my country back.

trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

Steen says as governor he'd back Iowa ESAs for homeschoolers - Radio Iowa Republican candidate Adam Steen says if he’s elected governor, he’ll push to expand state-funded Education Savings Accounts to parents who homeschool their children. “School choice only works if it’s ...

And here is Adam Steen, running in the GOP primary for Iowa governor, promising to ban Sharia in Iowa www.radioiowa.com/2026/04/20/s...

This lead from @joshkovensky.bsky.social is so good

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Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny after three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death...

"Many of the state's biggest names in Republican politics" are claiming that Sharia law will be imposed in Texas "if they lose the coming election. This is their strategy to win."

@texaspublicradio.bsky.social on @joshkovensky.bsky.social's reporting

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Latest ep of the Social Club with @joshkovensky.bsky.social and guest @maxrn.bsky.social

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Steve Bannon on Banning Sharia Law YouTube video by C-SPAN

Steve Bannon said so yesterday:

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Inside Texas Republicans’ Effort to Make the Midterms About Islamophobia GRAPEVINE, TX – On a cold spring morning in this tony Dallas suburb,...

“If you are a Republican candidate, you would like to not be talking about the economy right now. So this gives you an opportunity to control the debate and move it from economy to problems with Islam. That’s something you are gonna want to do.”

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Inside Texas Republicans’ Effort to Make the Midterms About Islamophobia GRAPEVINE, TX – On a cold spring morning in this tony Dallas suburb,...

How parts of the Texas GOP used Islamophobia as a cudgel in the primary, and are now looking to make it an issue in the midterms talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-r...

What @joshkovensky.bsky.social is writing about here is also what the state trying to cut Islamic schools out of the new voucher system last month was partly about—and why Abbott himself doubled down on it until the lawsuits came

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ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Inside Texas Republicans’ Effort to Make the Midterms About Islamophobia GRAPEVINE, TX – On a cold spring morning in this tony Dallas suburb,...

“If you are a Republican candidate, you would like to not be talking about the economy right now. So this gives you an opportunity to control the debate and move it from economy to problems with Islam."

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
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Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

“The US Attorney's Office doesn't lose cases because they're bad lawyers,” said a former prosecutor.
"If they're losing a case, it may mean that the evidence isn't there, or it may mean that the community doesn't believe it should be a federal crime.”

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How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

"The activists’ problem? The city’s population of Indian immigrants and people of Indian descent has grown dramatically in recent years as the town has massively expanded." 1/
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FBI arrests California man shot by ICE on ‘assault’ charges DHS accused of false and misleading statements about Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez who was shot in face

DOJ prosecutes a California man who was shot in the face by ICE agents

DOJ/DHS say Carlos, 36, "assaulted" officers with his car, but video doesn't show his car hitting officers + officials haven't claimed an agent was injured. FBI's complaint says it has "not been able" to interview key ICE agents

How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

Right-wing influencers have cast a Texas town with a large Indian population as an example of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

TPM's @joshkovensky.bsky.social reports from Frisco, Texas, on the rancid furor on the far right that the fast-growing city's sizable Asian community is a prime example of the Great Replacement Theory in action: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/frisco-...

TPM’s drive is ongoing as we push toward 1,000 new members this year. I wanted to highlight this story as the kind of thing we put your money toward. Josh spent five days in TX, getting up some days before dawn and working late into the night, to tell this story.

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How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

The next Springfield, Ohio: How the far-right has turned its sights on South Asians in this Texas city talkingpointsmemo.com/news/frisco-...

How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

Over the past few months, far-right influencers have converged on this Texas boomtown – the fastest growing city in America per the 2020 census – to argue that it's not white enough

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How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

How a Texas City Became the Far Right's Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory
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How a Texas City Became the Far Right’s Next Example of the Great Replacement Theory FRISCO, TEXAS – Far-right activists are seizing on a new example of...

Far-right influencers don’t like this Texas boomtown: it’s not white enough

Trump's SEC is going after fewer Wall Street crimes The agency released long-delayed data that confirmed a steep drop in enforcement.

I know there is a lot happening <gestures wildly at all this> but we should all be worried that America's main Wall Street watchdog quietly announced last week that it is prosecuting way fewer financial crimes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Staff At Minnesota Deportation Hub Received ‘Obscene’ Trump-Themed Challenge Coins Adorned With Skulls Federal employees involved in the massive operation that led to a surge...

At the mass deportation hub in Minneapolis, where Good and Pretti were murdered, they're handing out these "challenge coins" to commemorate their work. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...

The Blockade Continues, The Podcast Returns

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I am not handing it to anyone but yes It can and prob definitely will get worse than Attorney General Pam Bondi