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Florida Politics reports: Rep. Lois Frankel swatted off a challenge from internet provocateur Laura Loomer. The West Palm Beach Democrat easily defeated her challenger in a race that drew national attention mostly thanks to the Republican candidate’s history of hateful commentary. Voters followed Twitter, Facebook and Uber in denying Loomer a platform for her rhetoric. With all early and vote-by-mail …

The Times of Israel reports: Laura Loomer, a Jewish Republican congressional candidate in Florida with a history of bigoted statements, got a friendly visit on the campaign trail from Lara Trump, the US president’s daughter-in-law. In 2017, before she was banned from Twitter, she tweeted, “Good. Here’s to 2,000 more,” in response to news that more than 2,000 migrants had …

The Hill reports: Georgia congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a supporter of the Qanon conspiracy theory and has expressed racist and anti-Muslim views, said Tuesday she plans to be in attendance when President Trump accepts the Republican nomination at the White House. “I’m honored and thrilled to be invited to attend President Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday evening at …

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson on Monday inserted himself in the latest right-wing online controversy after the National Republican Congressional Committee’s official Twitter account called a far-right pundit a “Karen,” causing the Fox News host to complain that the term was an “ethnic slur.” The NRCC’s tweet sparked an immediate backlash among conservatives, including Carlson. The Fox host, who …

The New York Times reports: After a day in which he berated “weak” governors and lectured them to “dominate” the demonstrators, the president emerged from the White House, followed by a phalanx of aides and Secret Service agents as he made his way to the church, where he posed stern-faced, holding up a Bible that his daughter pulled out of …

Media Matters reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham retweeted a link Thursday night from white nationalist site VDare for an article blaming immigrant communities for the spread of coronavirus at meatpacking plants. VDare is a white nationalist group that pushes the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges that white people are being systematically “replaced” by people of color through mass …

USA Today reports: Rep. Steve King told an Iowa crowd Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest throughout human history. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump has summoned Republican lawmakers, political strategists and social media stars to the White House on Thursday to discuss the “opportunities and challenges” of the Web — but his upcoming summit, critics say, could end up empowering online provocateurs who have adopted controversial political tactics entering the 2020 election campaign. The high-profile gathering follows months …

“They’re for replacing the current American population, or swamping the current American population, with a new population of people who are perhaps more hospitable to socialist ideals. Perhaps they are more hospitable to big government, perhaps they want more across the board social spending, they want Spanish to be at least on par with English as a national language. I …

The Hill reports: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Tuesday said that the censure he faced earlier this year for controversial statements regarding white nationalism gave him a better understanding to the suffering of Jesus Christ. During a town hall in Cherokee, Iowa, King appeared to compare his experience of being formally rebuked in the House to the trial and persecution …

The Des Moines Register reports: While Republicans and Democrats are condemning or calling for Rep. Steve King’s resignation after his comments on white nationalism and white supremacy, the congressman is using the backlash to raise money for his campaign. “The unhinged left has teamed up with Republican ‘NeverTrumpers’ and is pulling out all the stops to destroy me,” King wrote …

“What would a racist do? A racist would support treating people differently based purely on their skin color. They’d hand out jobs and contracts and college admissions letters based on your DNA, rather than anything that you had done. They’d also say that some people’s opinions don’t matter because of their skin color. That would be a racist statement, wouldn’t …

Anti-immigrant freak show Stephen Miller was on Face The Nation this morning to spew his usual brand of douchebaggery and vow that Glorious Leader will “absolutely” shut down the government next week if he doesn’t get funding for a border wall. But as you can see below, he’s trending in Twitter’s top ten at this writing for reasons other than …

The Des Moines Register reports: U.S. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican who has a history of controversial remarks, is praising a Canadian political candidate who is far-right and a white nationalist. King tweeted Tuesday night in support of Faith Goldy, a candidate for Toronto mayor, describing her as an excellent candidate who is “pro Rule of Law, pro Make …

Arizona Central reports: Senate candidate Joe Arpaio complained on social media Friday night that U.S. Sen. John McCain’s wife, Cindy, blocked him from seeing her posts on Twitter. Arpaio’s complaint came on the day the McCain family is coping with the end stages of his brain cancer. Some thought it an unseemly attempt to attract attention to his struggling Republican …

Just out from Quinnipiac University: President Trump is racist, 49 percent of voters say, while 47 percent say he is not racist. But 50 percent of voters say the main motive for Trump’s immigration policies is “a sincere interest in controlling our borders,” while 44 percent say the main motive is “racist beliefs.” The lack of civility in politics is …

The Washington Post reports: John C. Whitbeck resigned Saturday as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, weeks after Corey Stewart won the party’s nomination to take on Sen. Tim Kaine (D) in the November election. “Other political opportunities have arisen for me that I am thinking about pursuing,” he told members of the party’s governing board at a meeting. …

“This is the reinstatement of Jim Crow laws by people on the left. It’s not only racist, it’s misogynistic. Running white women out of restaurants and movie theaters. In fact, you could make the case that the liberals of today are the new Confederacy. They are the new Confederate party because they are bringing back segregation, they are bringing back …

Think Progress reports: Right-wing trolls are trying to embarrass Starbucks by spreading fake coupons that purport to give black people free coffee — but really contain hidden racial slurs and white supremacist slogans. “Starbucks values all people of color and we are working on employee sensitivity training” the fake flyers read, some with the accompanying hashtag #FreeBlackCoffee. “The best dialogue …

Berkeleyside reports: Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists. The latest skirmish was March 4th when a group of people who called themselves “Berkeley Warriors” on a live Facebook feed came from Sacramento and stormed the store. “Fucking Commie scum,” one …