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  • 70% of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Lawyers Are Leaving Because of Trump’s Reshaping

    American Renaissance - May 20th 2025 7:03pm EDT

    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and replacing it with one focused on enforcing the president’s executive orders. Some 250 attorneys — or around 70% of the division’s lawyers — have left […]

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  • Trump Says He Killed DEI. So Why Isn’t It Dead Yet?

    American Renaissance - May 19th 2025 7:46pm EDT

    With the swirl of a black Sharpie marker, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day back in the White House, cracking down on what he calls “illegal and radical” diversity, equity and inclusion practices. {snip} Over 100 days in office, the president purged diversity initiatives in the federal government and the military, threatened to strip billions […]

  • Democrats Reintroduce Federal Resolution for Reparations

    American Renaissance - May 18th 2025 12:04pm EDT

    A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) led the reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.). “We’re here to say that there’s no more waiting, no more watering […]

  • Chicago Mayor Supports Permanent Removal of Columbus Statues From City Parks

    American Renaissance - May 9th 2025 4:59pm EDT

    After years of debate, Chicago will not return its Christopher Columbus statues to public parks, with Mayor Brandon Johnson backing the decision to remove them permanently. {snip} Mayor Johnson said the move aligns with a broader effort to reflect truth and shared humanity in public art: “Art and culture in particular is something that I […]

  • MAGA Turns N-Word-Shouting Woman Into Folk Hero

    American Renaissance - May 7th 2025 2:23pm EDT

    A Minnesota woman who called a five-year-old Black child the “n-word,” and then repeated that racial slur multiple times in a viral video while defending her actions, has raised over $700,000 as she has become a cultural folk-hero to much of the American far-right. The crowdfunding campaign for Shiloh Hendrix, which she initially posted after she […]

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  • Appeals Court Denies Trump Request to Revoke 400,000 Migrants’ Legal Status

    American Renaissance - May 6th 2025 1:26pm EDT

    A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request from President Donald Trump‘s administration to proceed with revoking temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela living in the United States. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, declined to stay a lower court ruling […]

  • Trump Budget Would Slash Rental Aid by 40% — and Let States Fill the Gap if They Want

    American Renaissance - May 5th 2025 9:07pm EDT

    President Trump has repeatedly promised to “make America affordable again.” But for those Americans most in need, his administration’s latest budget plan would dramatically shrink the federal rental aid that helps keep millions of people housed. In its request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the White House called the current system of federal […]

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  • Trump Admin Sues Denver and Colorado for Interfering in Immigration Enforcement

    American Renaissance - May 5th 2025 9:07pm EDT

    The Trump administration has sued the state of Colorado and the city of Denver for interfering in federal immigration enforcement. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, notes that “the United States has well-established, preeminent, and preemptive authority to regulate immigration matters,” and accuses state and city officials of violating the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by […]

  • Gabbard Shuts Down Office That Was ‘Slush Fund’ for DEI

    American Renaissance - May 2nd 2025 5:22pm EDT

    National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard announced the closure of the Intelligence Community Human Capital office that she said was a “slush fund” for diversity, equity and inclusion. {snip} “We discovered this human capital office that was essentially a slush fund for DEI initiatives hidden under the guise of human capital that closed down this morning,” she said during a […]

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  • Poll: Moderates Shift Towards Trump on Immigration Policy

    American Renaissance - Apr 30th 2025 8:20pm EDT

    Swing-voting moderates are rallying to President Donald Trump as Democrats continue their desperate opposition to the enforcement of the nation’s popular immigration laws. “The voters in the middle that we need to win on immigration are being turned off by the Democrats’ radicalism in attempting to stop the deportations of gang members, drug dealers, and […]

  • Starmer Plans Migrant Cuts to Fight Reform

    American Renaissance - Apr 30th 2025 2:26pm EDT

    Sir Keir Starmer will unveil a crackdown on immigration after this week’s local elections when Reform is expected to seize hundreds of seats. A white paper revealing the Government’s plans to bring down legal migration is due to be unveiled in the weeks following the voting on May 1. It is expected to make it harder for foreign […]

  • Trump Takes His Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy

    American Renaissance - Apr 29th 2025 1:04pm EDT

    Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory from civil rights analysis and enforcement. Disparate-impact theory holds that if a neutral, colorblind standard of achievement or behavior has a disproportionately […]

  • Trump Staff Puts Immigrants’ Mug Shots on White House Lawn

    American Renaissance - Apr 28th 2025 1:40pm EDT

    Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway. It’s a provocative, sure-to-be-controversial move aimed at highlighting President Trump’s immigration crackdown as his 100th day in office approaches. Driving the news: The posters — which read “ARRESTED” — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and […]

  • How Did White Men and Women Vote in 2024?

    American Renaissance - Apr 25th 2025 6:14pm EDT

    Credit Image: © Imago via ZUMA Press How did whites in different parts of the country vote in the 2024 Presidential election? There is usually analysis of how different age groups vote, how the sexes vote, and sometimes even how whites of different religious denominations vote, but seldom of how whites vote by region. Although […]

  • Judge Halts Parts of Trump’s Overhaul of US Elections, Including Proof-Of-Citizenship Requirement

    American Renaissance - Apr 25th 2025 5:30pm EDT

    A judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. The decision is a setback for President Donald Trump, who has argued the requirement is needed to restore public confidence in elections. But the judge […]

  • Mexico’s President Wants to Ban U.S. Ads Warning Against Migration

    American Renaissance - Apr 23rd 2025 1:49pm EDT

    Mexico’s president said Monday that her government has asked television stations to pull a commercial produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration to the United States. Calling the ad “discriminatory,” President Claudia Sheinbaum also vowed to send legislation to Congress that would ban the commercial and others that are similar. In the ad, […]

  • Stephen Miller Urges Reparations for Migration’s Damage to Americans

    American Renaissance - Apr 21st 2025 7:12pm EDT

    Ordinary Americans deserve reparations for the establishment’s hugely destructive and decades-long immigration policy, presidential adviser Stephen Miller told a TV interviewer on Saturday. “We all deserve reparations for what has been stolen from us,” Miller told Newsmax TV. “It is a tragedy that defies our ability to even describe it.” {snip} “Where are the damages […]

  • Supreme Court Halts Latest Wave of Alien Enemies Act Deportations, for Now

    American Renaissance - Apr 21st 2025 1:52pm EDT

    The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants to El Salvador who are being detained in portions of Texas, for now. The emergency order temporarily blocks the deportations until the high court resolves the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) emergency appeal, which was filed hours earlier over concerns that more […]

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  • The Missing Black Demonstrators in Anti-Trump Protests

    American Renaissance - Apr 20th 2025 12:03pm EDT

    {snip} Why it matters: Many of the Black Americans who flooded the streets in 2020 have stepped back from the renewed anti-Trump protests — torn between the urgency of the moment and the spiritual toll of relentless, often fruitless resistance. The stakes are huge: President Trump’s second-term agenda is openly hostile to DEI, police reform, and […]

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  • Supreme Court Keeps Hold On Trump’s Restrictions on Birthright Citizenship but Sets May Arguments

    American Renaissance - Apr 18th 2025 4:49pm EDT

    The Supreme Court on Thursday kept on hold President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but agreed to hear arguments on the issue in May. Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally has been halted nationwide by three district courts around the country. Appeals […]

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  • Trump Meets With Angel Mom as Chris Van Hollen Meets With Accused Wife Beater

    American Renaissance - Apr 18th 2025 4:49pm EDT

    While President Donald Trump met with Angel Mom Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel Morin was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in Maryland, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met in El Salvador with a deported illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member, domestic abuser, and human trafficker. Trump met with Patty Morin […]

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  • Trump Administration Refers NY AG Letitia James for Potential Prosecution Over Alleged Mortgage Fraud

    American Renaissance - Apr 16th 2025 4:56pm EDT

    New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday, according to a letter obtained by The Post. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte sent the missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche, alleging that James had “falsified records” […]

  • Pat Buchanan’s Revenge

    American Renaissance - Apr 15th 2025 7:03pm EDT

    Donald Trump has been perfectly consistent on one issue throughout his life. It is not immigration, foreign intervention, abortion, or guns — it’s tariffs. Now, 45-47 has put the issue at the center of his Administration, and the global economy is reeling. The President means what he says on trade, but policies on immigration, diversity, […]

  • Conservative MPs Call for Ban on Amplified Islamic Calls to Prayer

    American Renaissance - Apr 14th 2025 8:55pm EDT

    Two minor conservative parties in the Netherlands, the SGP and JA21, have tabled a private members’ bill aiming to ban amplified Islamic calls to prayer in residential areas, arguing that the practice is increasingly at odds with Dutch cultural norms. The proposed legislation, submitted by SGP MP André Flach and JA21 leader Joost Eerdmans, targets […]

  • Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

    American Renaissance - Apr 11th 2025 10:55am EDT

    Credit Image: © Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, William Morrow, 2025, $23.14 (hardcover) 352 pp., $14.99 (kindle) Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House has a far different tone than the authors’ last campaign book, Shattered, which was about the […]