Far-right election deniers gather for ’emergency’ Castle Rock meeting after Tina Peters’ arrest

Conspiracy theorist Shawn Smith says officials involved in fraud ‘deserve to hang’ A who’s who of leading figures in Colorado’s far-right election denial movement gathered in Castle Rock on Thursday night for a lengthy town hall meeting that featured a host of baseless conspiracy theories and at least one threat of political violence. The “emergency”

Alarm as Texas quietly restarts controversial voting program

Program asks people on voter rolls to prove citizenship, sparking concern that eligible voters could be wrongfully targeted Texas officials have quietly restarted a controversial program to ask people on the voter rolls to prove their citizenship, sparking alarm that thousands of eligible voters could be wrongfully targeted. The Texas secretary of state’s office has

Affidavit: Texas man murdered woman, shot her husband, because they voted for Biden

Suspect claimed pro-choice advocates are members of ‘Jewish Satanist Party’ who sacrifice children Police in West Texas this week arrested Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, who allegedly targeted a couple – killing the wife in the process – because they voted for Biden, and had a Biden flag and “a doll of Trump hanging” outside their

Why Are Republicans Falsely Blaming Migrants For Covid? | The Choice – MSNBC

Elected GOP leaders are claiming that the Biden admin is “importing Covid” with migrants on a “wide open southern border.” It’s a false conspiracy theory with a fraught history. But why is hateful nativism going mainstream again? Journalist and author Jean Guerrero and Texas State Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez discuss where all this rhetoric may

2 Years After El Paso Massacre Of Latinos, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Festers

Two years ago this week, a gunman in El Paso, Texas, killed 23 people in a Walmart — most of them Latino. The white man charged with murder allegedly told police he drove 11 hours to the U.S.-Mexico border city with the intention of targeting Mexicans. He reportedly complained about a “Hispanic invasion” of Texas

Thousands of migrant children detained in Texas in appalling conditions – BBC News

An investigation by the BBC has found more than 2,000 migrant children being detained in a camp in El Paso, Texas, in appalling conditions. The centre at Fort Bliss is overcrowded and ridden with disease, with shortages of clean clothes and medical care for the children. Staff working there say that illnesses such as covid

Critics denounce Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick’s “invasion” rhetoric on immigration, saying it will incite violence

“If people die again, blood will be on your hands,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, wrote in a tweet. Democrats and immigration rights advocates are condemning Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for describing immigrants crossing the border as an “invasion” this week, calling the rhetoric “dangerous” to Latino communities while pointing out that it mirrors

Texas lawmakers OK carrying handguns without a license, despite opposition from police and gun control groups

Texas is poised to remove one of its last major gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without a license and the background check and training that go with it. The Republican-dominated Legislature approved the measure Monday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has said he will sign it despite the