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January 22, 2024

Alice Rush

From former U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke:

It might be hard to believe, but the governor of the state of Texas (Greg Abbott) just said he’d shoot migrants and asylum seekers if it weren’t for the fact that he’d be charged with murder by the Biden administration.

It’s the same kind of rhetoric he used on the eve of the 2019 El Paso shooting, which inspired a man to massacre 23 of my neighbors just for looking Hispanic. And it’s the same rhetoric that will encourage other white supremacist terrorists if we don’t stand up to those inciting this kind of hate and violence.

The core ethos of most of the American south is white nationalism and the violence required to defend it.

The only good thing to be said about it is that doesn’t exist in any great quantity elsewhere in the country. Yes, there are neo-Nazis in Oregon and Vermont, but they’re not governing their states.

The Hate and Violence That Is Texas

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