Donald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned. While the US president has used this playbook for years – fro...
TAT: [Controlling information | Undermining democracy]
The House of Representatives passed a $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the remainder of President Donald Trump's administration. [link]
TAT: [Nationalism]
Trumps' border czar Tom Homan threatened to dispatch a surge of ICE to New York City following a promise to NYC governor Katy Hochul that he would increase ICE presence in New York if the state passed legislation barring state and local law enforcement from working with immigr...
TAT: [Nationalism]
A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds hard-right groups have increasingly expanded their influence across the US government, which is pursuing a federal fraud case into the civil rights organization.
TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]
Vice President Vance claimed in a social media post that the murder of Henry Nowak in the UK last year by Vickrum Digwa, 23, was evidence that “European elites” had failed to oppose the “politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.”. Mr ...
TAT: [Nationalism | Controlling information]
President Donald Trump on Monday repeated claims that California's elections are rigged, disputing without evidence voter tallies showing the Republican candidate he endorsed in the Los Angeles mayor's race appeared headed for defeat... [link]
TAT: [Controlling information | Undermining democracy]
In an opinion, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) found the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) hiring guidelines unconstitutional. This could make it more difficult for employees to bring discrimination claim...
TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]
Vice President JD Vance, asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate the governor of Minnesota, Democrat Tim Walz, and its Democratic attorney general Keith Ellison. This comes after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation over f...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent]
Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t. Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken... [link]
TAT: [Corruption]
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration
TAT: [Corruption]