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👋 NEWS: Today's my first day covering the conservative movement for @HuffPost. Add me to your press lists & hit me up for a coffee! Hill friends, I'm still staking my claim in the House periodical gallery so come say hi.
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The Right Hates Indian Americans. It Might Cost Republicans Texas. Ace reporting by @BenjaminSWeiss:
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Thank you to @BenjaminSWeiss and HuffPost for taking the time to speak with me and shedding light on the growing concerns among Indian Americans as many reconsider their longstanding political allegiances amid increasingly contentious debates over immigration and what it means to belong in America.
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NEWS: In 2024, a Hindu temple in TX unveiled a 90-foot statue of Hanuman, the half-monkey deity of Hindu mythology.
At the time, it drew backlash from the fringe right. But years laster, anti-Indian rhetoric is mainstream in the GOP - and it may cost them elections.
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Uncanny: Theres a sequence in the new Call of Duty where you cross a battlefield covered in used fiber optic cables from FPV drones
📺 'RED HAT' AD BLITZ: Abdul El-Sayed is courting GOP voters with two weeks before Election Day, running a new ad on Fox and Newsmax which stitches together glowing praise from conservative pundits.
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Trump-endorsed Iowa House candidate Joe Mitchell went on a tirade against white women in resurfaced video from his college years.
"I don't like fucking white people, okay?" he said in the rant.
Mitchell tells me he's since grown up and "found some better friends."
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Vasant Bhatt, who’s been targeted by right-wingers after saying he was backing James Talarico in TX because of anti-Indian rhetoric in the GOP, has been fired from conservative news org Campus Reform.
I exercised my constitutional right to vote according to my conscience, spoke out against anti-Indian bigotry, and refused to toe the Republican Party line. My participation in Campus Reform's correspondent program has now been terminated. Losing a place in a program will not make me retract my beliefs or abandon my community.
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Thank you from the Freedom 250 Grand Prix following today’s @IndyCar 2027 schedule announcement:
👀 Seems the DC IndyCar grand prix will indeed be a one-off:
No Nashville or DC as IndyCar unveils Phase 2 schedule with Barcelona debut the headliner. #IndyCar via @Motorsport
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NEW: A mailer from Trump’s No Going Back super PAC attacks the family of Virginia Giuffre, alleging an ad her brother made criticizing his congressman for declining to meet with them about the Epstein Files is “completely false.”
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ICE says it can’t dim the lights at 26 Federal Plaza or give detainees pillows.
“Pillows are a security risk.”
A judge ordered ICE to do both after a trial revealed many detainees spent days at a time in the building’s holding cells. ICE now wants a new trial.
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SCOOP: Some House Freedom Caucus members have privately discussed kicking Rep. Brandon Gill out of the group
"He's not really in the Freedom Caucus. He's just using it for conservative bonafides," one HFC member told @axios
Gill's bid to chair Oversight is fueling resentment beyond HFC, with Republicans questioning whether viral hearing moments qualify him to lead the committee
But Gill also has powerful defenders, including Whip Tom Emmer, who called him "the future of our party."
axios.com/2026/10/22/texas-b…
👀 If my lip-reading skills are correct, looks like she says "I work for him, you fucking plebeian" at around 37 seconds.
👀 Loomer: A lot of people on the right have been conditioned to irrationally hate Indians
At some point we have to be honest about the fact that we have so called Republicans telling people to vote for communist @amyactonoh over Hindu @VivekGRamaswamy because a lot of people on the right have been conditioned to irrationally hate Indians.
Imagine voting for a communist just to reinforce your hatred of a brown Indian.
I hope the people of Ohio vote for Vivek for Governor.
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A group dispatched by Hegseth's team in February attempted to move the historic globe, said to be used by Eisenhower during World War II.
They lifted it from its home in an Army office in the Pentagon ... and dropped it.
NEWS: James Talarico rallied in the Houston suburbs Wednesday night with Pearland, TX city councilman Luke Orlando - an ex-Republican who said his former party had demonstrated "contempt" for its voter base.
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RICHMOND, TX — James Talarico goes in on @elonmusk & his pro-GOP spending in the Texas Senate race, blaming him for recent attack ads & mailers.
“Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants our tax dollars — and he wants his very own personal United States senator.”