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David Duke, BFF of Tony Perkins, thinks that Donald Trump is best candidate in the presidential race.  CNN reports: David Duke, the anti-Semitic former Ku Klux Klan leader, praised Republican front-runner Donald Trump for his immigration policy proposals and said Trump is “the best of the lot.” After ranting about “Jewish supremacy” and Jewish domination of the media, Duke took …

During a press conference in Texas, yesterday Jeb Bush responded to reporters in fluent Spanish. This upset Trump supporters, prompting his campaign to happily retweet the above message. Bush was defending his usage of the term “anchor babies” – which he says really applies more to Asian immigrants anyway. CNN reports: Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said in a …

Cosmopolitan writer Jill Filipovic, herself a frequent target of Twitchy‘s army of far-right extremists, today lays out the truth about the site owned by online Christian powerhouse Salem Media. An excerpt: While Twitchy’s content is tweet aggregation, its purpose seems to be filling insatiable reader rage. Many of the tweets posted to Twitchy are put on there seemingly for the …

A Florida gun shop which recently declared itself to be “Muslim-free” is auctioning off a Confederate flag painting by George Zimmerman. TMZ has the story: George Zimmerman is unloading a bunch of paintings that illustrate his take on the Confederate Flag controversy — and he’s even offering a bonus prize to one lucky art collector. Zimmerman is teaming up with …

The SPLC has lots of details.

NBC News reports: Presidential candidate Donald Trump faced questions about immigration policy from reporters Thursday at the U.S.-Mexico border amid roiling controversy about his bombastic style and his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants. He did not respond to a question from NBC News regarding what he plans to do about the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. “First thing we …

Via the Post & Courier: A grand jury indictment of Dylann Roof on federal hate crime charges could happen as soon as today, a move that would make the 21-year-old man a defendant in one of the worst racially motivated attacks since the Civil Rights era, according to sources close to the investigation. Roof, who is white, is accused of …

At the KKK rally in South Carolina on Saturday, one counter-protester thoughtfully provided musical accompaniment. The clip below has since racked up nearly 800K views. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

The above tweet went wildly viral over the weekend. Yahoo News reports: White-supremacist groups and African-American demonstrators clashed in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, resulting in at least five arrests and seven people taken to hospitals as tensions — and temperatures — flared following the recent decision to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. But it was the powerful …

Yesterday Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson busted hate group leader Bryan Fischer for tweeting out a link to the infamous white supremacists group New Century. Fischer then deleted the tweet and denied having sent it. And as it turns out, the stats Fischer posted are completely false. Hit the link for more. From the SPLC: Founded by Jared Taylor …

There was a huge roar from the crowd when a squad of South Carolina state troopers marched out. Chants of “USA! USA!” followed when one of the troopers began turning the crank to lower the flag. UPDATE: Breitbart columnist reacts.

The flag comes down tomorrow morning.

Via the Washington Post: The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency. The call from Chairman Reince Priebus, described by donors and consultants …

Via the Washington Post: The Confederate flag flying on South Carolina’s statehouse grounds is set to come down after the House voted 94-20 to remove it. The bill, passed early Thursday morning, now heads to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk and she is expected to sign it. After more than 13 hours of debate — which became increasingly contentious as …

Fortune reports: Macy’s. NBC. Nascar. Serta. The PGA. The list of large companies and brands moving to distance themselves from Donald Trump has snowballed since he entered the 2016 Presidential campaign with a racist diatribe against Mexican immigrants. Add one more: Phillips-Van Heusen, the clothing conglomerate behind Trump’s brand of mid-priced menswear. “Mr. Trump and Macy’s have both addressed the …

Only three senators voted to keep the flag: The South Carolina Senate has voted to remove the Confederate flag from a pole on Statehouse grounds. The 37-3 vote Monday allows the state to remove the flag and the flagpole where it flies as soon as it passes the House and is signed by Gov. Nikki Haley. The bill must pass …

Donald Trump celebrated the Fourth Of July on Saturday night by retweeting the above racist attack on Jeb Bush and his wife. Sometime last night Trump deleted the tweet. More from TIME: The tweet comes on the heels of Bush publicly denouncing Trump’s comments, which characterized Mexican immigrants as potential criminals and rapists. “He’s doing this to inflame and incite …