The right to vote is a foundational promise of citizenship.

In 2025, the Trump administration and GOP officials in key states have viciously targeted the voting rights of naturalized citizens with new access barriers, selective surveillance and intimidatory rhetoric — signaling that the full promises of citizenship, for many, remain unattainable.

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    21 hours ago

    Spoiler alert:

    The Republican goal isn’t to stop immigrants from voting. Ultimately they want to stop brown people from voting.

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      19 hours ago

      The funny is a lot of Hispanics are fairly conservative so if they could just treat them like human beings it could actually mean a lot of voters for them, including a lot immigrants.

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        Guy, that’s the thing about conservatives. They are all child fucking idiots. Including the Hispanic ones.

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    We are a few articles away from “The GOP has fucked up the midterms, now they will introduce surveilance to see who voted Blue”

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    Some how I imagine they didn’t get the amount of white south Africans they were hoping for.