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Trump To Open White Nationalist “Office Of Remigration”

Any pretense that the Felon's regime is not pursuing a racist, white nationalist agenda has been wiped away by the announcement that an "Office of Remigration" is being established.  The goal is to remove immigrants and "non-assimilated citizens" - a term no doubt to be defined by the Felon and his Josef Goebbels equivalent, Steven Miller (the two are pictured at left) - from the country.  This move is consistent with Project 2025, a white "Christian" nationalist  agenda to take the nation back to the 1950's and white supremacy and forced "Christian" beliefs on all.  Equally disturbing is the effort underway to build a data base on all Americans which will likely be utilized for nefarious purposes to punish the Felon's critics and root out immigrants and so-called "non-assimilated citizens," whoever that term might include under the white nationalist agenda.   Disturbingly, too many non-MAGA Americans seem to be ignoring what is happening and/or are shrugging their shoulders believing that this agenda will not adversely impact them. Meanwhile the racist MAGA base is cheering the mainstreaming of racism.  The history of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia demonstrate how silence or even support of the regime can in time prove insufficient to protect one down the road.  A piece in The New Republic looks at these frightening developments:

President Trump is making remigration, a racist plan popular among the European far right, a reality, according to Reuters.

The State Department on Thursday announced its plans to establish an “Office of Remigration,” assuming it is approved by Congress, on July 1. The term “remigration” is a white supremacist concept pushed by Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner that posits that all immigrants and “non-assimilated citizens” be forcibly removed, with the goal of establishing a white ethnostate.

“The Office of Remigration will serve as the [Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration]’s hub for immigration issues and repatriation tracking,” the plan the State Department submitted to Congress reads. “It will provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has floated remigration.

“As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America,” he wrote on X in September. “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration).”

His deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, another proponent of right-wing white supremacist policy, backed him up.

While remigration isn’t a household term in the U.S., it’s taken off in certain European political circles. The first “Remigration Summit” took place earlier this month in Milan featuring multiple far-right leaders and chants of “Save our nation, remigration.”

“It’s outrageous,” Wendy Via, CEO and president of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told Wired. “There is no hiding from the fact that the ultimate goal of ‘remigration’ is purely about ethnic cleansing. It is a terrible day for our country when ‘remigration’ proponents are crediting the US and Trump’s administration for normalizing the term.”

Those on the far right, particularly Sellner himself, think that the U.S. has been well on its way toward establishing remigration for some time now.

“There are differences between Europe and the USA, but the common line is the same: preserving the cultural continuity by stopping replacement migration. Reversing the flows with border security, mass repatriations, and incentives to leave,” Sellner told Wired.

Trump’s immigration crackdown, his extrajudicial disappearances of students based on their beliefs, and his invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—which asserts that the country is being invaded by immigrants—are all obvious indicators of remigration already occurring here.

“Remigration is in fact already taking place in the US,” white nationalist author Cyan Quinn, who attended the Remigration Summit, told Wired. “The first flight of 64 self-deportees following President Trump’s stipend announcement have already arrived home safely in Honduras and Columbia.”

The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it.

The New York Times reports that President Trump has enlisted the firm, founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, to carry out his March executive order instructing government agencies to share data with each other. The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.

The administration’s efforts to compile data began under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative, which sought Americans’ personal data from multiple agencies including the IRS, the SSA, Selective Service, Medicare, and many others. In some cases, court orders hindered these efforts, but not in all of them.

. . . [T]his data collection effort could give Thiel, Musk, and Trump unprecedented power over Americans, with the president being better able to punish his critics and target immigrants.

Privacy advocates, student unions, and labor rights organizations are among those who have sued to stop Trump’s data collection efforts. Palantir’s involvement also gives a powerful tech company access to this data, and its CEO, Alex Karp, doesn’t exactly have a benign agenda, hoping to cash in on American techno-militarism. Musk too has plans for government data, using his AI, Grok, to analyze it. Will anyone be able to stop Trump and these tech oligarchs?

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Trump/MAGA Have Launched An Attack on Knowledge Itself

Dictators throughout history have tried to control knowledge and information that could lead those they rule to question their authority and pronouncements.  Similarly, they have played to the hatreds and resentments of their base and sought to label any would be opponents and/or independent news sources as "enemies" - JD Vance has said this about colleges and universities - and with the goal of silencing them.  In 2025 America we are witnessing a full scale assault on knowledge itself and institutions that educate individuals or that safeguard knowledge and independent thought. Federal government agencies and departments have had their workforces decimated or worse and records and data bases savaged to eliminate anything that does not comply with the demands of the autocrat. This assault on scientists, educators, and institutions of higher education all have the goal of silencing  critics.  The long term impact on America will be devastating as knowledge withers as scientists and academics are courted by other nations and even physicians seek to leave the country for more welcoming countries (the number of doctors seeking licensing in Canada is up 750%).  The nation will be poorer, sicker, and less technologically innovative.  None of this currently seems to concern the MAGA base which is more motivated by resentments than its own long term best interests.  A very long piece in The Atlantic looks at this war on knowledge: 

The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall.

Every week brings fresh examples. The administration is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression. Libraries are losing funding, government-employed scientists are being dismissed from their jobs, educators are being cowed into silence, and researchers are being warned not to broach forbidden subjects. Entire databases of public-health information collected over decades are at risk of vanishing. Any facts that contradict the gospel of Trumpism are treated as heretical.

The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.

By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination, and to prevent meaningful democratic checks on their behavior. Their victory, though, would do much more than that. It would annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, and applying human knowledge that have ever existed.

Perhaps the most prominent targets of the attack on knowledge have been America’s institutions of higher education. Elite colleges and universities have lost billions of dollars in federal funding. . . . . In some cases, the administration has made specific demands that institutions adhere to Trumpist ideology in what they teach and whom they hire, or face a loss of funding.

The Trump administration’s purge of forbidden texts and ideas at West Point offers a glimpse of what its ideal university might look like. At the military academy, The New York Times reported, leadership  .“initiated a schoolwide push to remove any readings that focused on race, gender or the darker moments of American history.” A professor who “leads a course on genocide was instructed not to mention atrocities committed against Native Americans, according to several academy officials. The English department purged works by well-known Black authors, . . . . 

The right-wing activist Chris Rufo recently told The New York Times that in addition to using funding to force universities to teach or adhere to conservative dogma, he would like to “reduce the size of the sector itself.” Students will have fewer opportunities. Research in many fields will be put on indefinite pause. America will make fewer scientific breakthroughs.  The Trump administration’s attack on knowledge is not limited to academia, however. Across the government, workers whose job is to research, investigate, or analyze have lost funding or been fired. These are people who do the crucial work of informing Americans about and protecting them from diseases, natural disasters, and other threats to their health.

The most devastating cuts may be those to the government’s scientific-research agencies, such as the NIH and NSF. According to CBS News, since January, more than $2 billion has been cut from NIH and 1,300 employees have been fired. One former NIH employee told CBS that “work on child cancer therapies, dementia, and stroke slowed or stopped because critical lab and support staff were let go.”

Also gone are years’ worth of public-health data, which, as my colleague Katherine J. Wu has reported, have been removed as part of the “ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility.” This includes both previously published research and works in progress. . . . Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to have eliminated more than a dozen “data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease,” which, perhaps not coincidentally, will make evaluating his destructive tenure more difficult.

 Trump has sought to justify these cuts by exploiting Americans’ bigotry or ignorance . . . . the clear purpose of such misleading descriptions is to hide the gravity of what is being stolen from the American people by pretending that it has no value.

The first-order effects of the attack on knowledge will be the diminution of American science and, with it, a decline in the sorts of technological achievements that have improved lives over the past century. Modern agriculture and medicine were built on the foundation of federally funded research.

For the past century, state-funded advances have been the rule rather than the exception. Private-sector innovation can take off after an invention becomes profitable, but the research that leads to that invention tends to be a costly gamble—for this reason, the government often takes on the initial risk that private firms cannot.

But a massive technological stall is only the most apparent aspect of the coming damage. The attack on knowledge also threatens the country’s ability to address subtler social problems, such as racial and economic inequalities in health, opportunity, and civil rights. Research into these disparities is being cut across government and civil society in the name of defeating so-called wokeness. Invoked as a general criticism of left-wing excess, the fight against “wokeness” is destroying huge swaths of scholarship and research, for fear the results might make the case for racial or gender equality, the redistribution of wealth, or the regulation of industry. . . . . this stems from the administration’s ideological discomfort with the facts of this world, and the conclusions scholars draw from them. “It turns out that when you pay close attention to these issues, you don’t end up where they end up,” he added. “So they’ve had to manufacture their own facts, and they’re attacking the places that have the facts on the ground and the reality of history.”

The Trumpist campaign against American history in schools and museums reflects the same impulse. The administration issued an executive order to coerce K–12 public schools into teaching a distorted, one-sided view of American history that excludes or whitewashes its darker episodes.

A Black-history museum in Boston—located in a meetinghouse where the abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison once lectured—is in danger now that its federal grant was terminated on the grounds that it “no longer align[s] with the White House policies.” Trump has also threatened the Smithsonian over descriptions of exhibitions that contradict right-wing dogma, including one at the American Art Museum that stated, “Race is not a biological reality but a social construct.” That race is a malleable social construct and not a biological reality is a matter of genetic science, but one that contradicts the Trump administration’s implicit belief that social inequalities stem from the inherent capabilities of different groups rather than discrimination or public policy.

Further destruction is still coming. Of particular concern is the risk that the administration will manipulate economic data to hide the disastrous effects of Trump’s policies. . . . . Objective economic data have become even more important given Trump’s ruinous attempt to replace the income tax—a windfall for the rich—with tariffs. Trump reversed course on some of his recent tariffs last month once bond yields began to rise steeply, an indication of impending catastrophe. Avoiding such a catastrophe requires unimpeachable data, but should one occur, the Trump administration may decide that political survival requires lying. Such lies are more effective without the data to contest them.

The reasons for this wholesale destruction are as ideological as they are short-sighted. Conservatives have made no secret of their hostility toward higher education and academia. In 2021, as my colleague Yair Rosenberg recently noted, J. D. Vance, then a Senate candidate, gave an address in which he quoted Richard Nixon saying, “The professors are the enemy,” and laid out his belief that colleges and universities “make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately carry the day.”

The Trump administration wants fewer highly educated workers, and it wants them as a group to be whiter and from wealthier families. . . . . Trump and his allies see highly educated people, in the aggregate, as a kind of class enemy of the MAGA project. Highly educated voters have trended leftward in recent elections, a phenomenon that has not-so-coincidentally appeared alongside the conservative movement’s growing conviction that higher education must be brought under right-wing political control. In short, destroying American universities will also limit the growth of a Democratic-trending constituency—fewer educated voters will translate to fewer Democrats in office.

Many of Trump’s supporters have come to see knowledge-producing institutions and the people who work for them as sources of liberal indoctrination that must be brought to heel or destroyed, and they do not want Americans trusting any sources of authority that are not Trump-aligned.

Trump’s attack on knowledge will harm not just the so-called elites he and his allies are punishing. The long-term price of solidifying their power in this way will be high—perhaps even higher than Trumpism’s wealthy benefactors expect. One obvious cost is the damage to technological, scientific, and social advancement. Another will be the impossibility of self-governance, because a public denied access to empirical reality cannot engage in self-determination as the Founders imagined.

A population dependent on whatever engagement-seeking nonsense is fed to them on a manipulated social-media network is one that is much easier to exploit and control. By destroying knowledge, including the very scholarship that would study the effects of the administration’s policies on society, the Trump administration and its allies can ensure that their looting of the federal government and public goods can never be fully rectified or punished.

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America Is In A Dangerous Moment

Since January 20, 2025, Americans have been rocked by massive firings of federal employees, departments and agencies have been turned upside down and the images of masked ICE agents acting like resurrected Gestapo members as they seize people on the streets and make them disappear.   Each day brings some new outrage by the Felon's regime and while the courts have blocked some of the dictatorial moves, one is nonetheless left shell shocked and grasping for some sense that life can still be "normal."  The end result can be complacency and the normalization of the abnormal and/or immoral. A piece in the New York Times by an author who has witnessed the death of other democracies looks at the phenomenon which has occurred in other countries as they slid towards dictatorship or autocracy.   The message is that Americans need to not fall into this trap and become complacent or, worse yet, complicit.   What we are witnessing is NOT normal and must not be accepted or normalized.  Here are column excerpts: 

Living in and reporting on Russia when Vladimir Putin took and consolidated power, I was shocked many times. I couldn’t sleep in September 2004, after tanks shelled a school in which terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, and I was shocked when Putin used this terrorist attack as a pretext to eliminate elected governorships.

I was shaken when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. My world changed when three very young women were sentenced to jail time for a protest performance in a church in 2012, the first time Russian citizens were imprisoned for peaceful action. I couldn’t breathe when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. And when the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was poisoned in 2020, arrested in 2021 and almost certainly killed in prison in 2024. And when Russia again invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Along the way there were many smaller, yet also catastrophic, milestones: the state takeovers of universities and media outlets, the series of legislative steps that outlawed L.G.B.T.Q. people, the branding of many journalists and activists as “foreign agents.” The state of shock would last a day or a week or a month, but time went on and the shocking event became a fact of our lives.

The United States in the last four months has felt like an unremitting series of shocks: executive orders gutting civil rights and constitutional protections; a man with a chain saw trying to gut the federal government; deliberately brutal deportations; people snatched off the streets and disappeared in unmarked cars; legal attacks on universities and law firms.

Unlike the Russian autocratic breakthrough (or, for that matter, the Hungarian one, which has apparently provided some of Donald Trump’s playbook), the transformation of American government and society hasn’t been spread out over decades or even years. It’s been everything everywhere all at once.

And now that has become familiar. I’ve reported on many wars, and I’ve seen how they come to feel routine — to the people living through them, the people reporting on them and the people reading about them.

Even Israel’s massacre in Gaza, which makes Russia’s warfare in Ukraine look restrained, can’t produce new headlines after more than 19 months of indiscriminate bombing and warfare by starvation. It is news when two Israeli Embassy employees are murdered in Washington, D.C. But when entire Palestinian families are killed, or when Palestinian children die of malnutrition, it’s just another day in Gaza. Nor is it news that the U.S. government is indifferent to war crimes committed by its allies.

In this country, too, fewer and fewer things can surprise us. Once you’ve absorbed the shock of deportations to El Salvador, plans to deport people to South Sudan aren’t that remarkable. Once you’ve wrapped your mind around the Trump administration’s revoking the legal status of individual international students, a blanket ban on international enrollment at Harvard isn’t entirely unexpected.

Once you’ve realized that the administration is intent on driving thousands of trans people out of the U.S. military, a ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, which could have devastating effects for hundreds of thousands, just becomes more of the same. As in a country at war, reports of human tragedy and extreme cruelty have become routine — not news.

We humans are stability-seeking creatures. Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment. And when the unthinkable recedes at least a bit — when someone gets released from detention (as the Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi was a few weeks ago) or some particularly egregious proposal is withdrawn or blocked by the courts (as the ban on international students at Harvard has been, at least temporarily) — it’s easy to mistake it for proof that the dark times are ending.

But these comparatively small victories don’t alter the direction of our transformation — they don’t even slow it down measurably — even while they appeal to our deep need to normalize. They create the sense that there is more air to breathe and more room to act than there was yesterday.

And so just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other.

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Trump: Civil Rights Laws Only Apply to Straight White Men

If one listens to the Felon, straight white men are the most discriminated group in America.  Any situation where white men do not hold the vast majority of jobs, positions, or college students is claimed to be proof that white straight males face insidious discrimination.  This mindset comes straight of Project 2025, a white "Christian" nationalist agenda that seeks to take America back to the 1950's and return open supremacy to white men, particularly those who identify as "conservative Christians." and Never mind that men of all races make up slightly less than 50% of the overall population and white men make up roughly 30% of the total U.S. population.  The result of this hostility towards diversity and any sense of equity is that rather than protecting all citizens from discrimination, the Felon's regime is (i) rescinding non-discrimination protections, and (ii) using the civil rights laws to investigate and prosecute institutions and businesses that actually seek to provide opportunities to all and not just straight white males.    This discriminatory alternate universe agenda is a case of up being down and black being white. A piece in the New York Times looks at this disturbing perversion of the civil rights laws:

In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections.  He ordered federal agencies to abandon some of the core tenets of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the basis that they represented a “pernicious” attempt to make decisions based on diversity rather than merit.

But in recent weeks, Mr. Trump has turned to those same measures — not to help groups that have historically been discriminated against, but to remedy what he sees as the disenfranchisement of white men.

The pattern fits into a broader trend in the administration, as Trump officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. Across the government, agencies that have historically worked to fight discrimination against Black people, women and other groups have pivoted to investigating institutions accused of favoring them.

“The plain message that they are conveying is: If you even think about, talk about or claim to be in favor of diversity, of equity, of inclusion, of accessibility, you will be targeted,” said Maya Wiley, the president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“They’re conveying that white men are the most discriminated against people in American society,” she added, “and therefore entitled to affirmative action.”

He has made a major push to root out programs that promote diversity, which he has suggested lead to the hiring of incompetent people.  In recent weeks, agencies have launched investigations that signal the administration’s shift in its civil rights enforcement.

On Monday, the administration said it had opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Chicago to see if its mayor or others had engaged in a pattern of discrimination by hiring a number of Black people to senior positions.

The Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department is investigating whether Chicago’s public school system is violating the Civil Rights Act with its “Black Students Success Plan,” alleging that it favors one group of academically underperforming students over others.

And last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched an investigation at Harvard University, alleging that the school had engaged in discriminatory hiring because it showed a significant increase in the percentage of minority, female and nonbinary faculty earning tenure over the past decade while the rates for white men declined.

While she wrote that other groups could have been discriminated against, including Asians, men, or straight people who applied for jobs or student training programs, her justification was focused almost exclusively on the outcomes of white men.

In her letter, Ms. Lucas cited now-deleted statistics retrieved from the university’s archives that showed that the percentage of tenured white male faculty dropped from 64 percent in 2013 to 56 percent in 2023.

The E.E.O.C. investigation, which was first reported by the conservative news site The Washington Free Beacon, is one of several the administration has launched in its battle to get the nation’s oldest university to bend to the president’s agenda.

The E.E.O.C., the nation’s primary litigator of workplace discrimination, has become a powerful tool for the Trump administration as it tries to pressure institutions that do not align with the president’s agenda.

Last month, it began questioning the hiring practices of 20 of the country’s biggest law firms, claiming that their efforts to recruit Black and Hispanic lawyers and create a more diverse work force may have discriminated against white candidates.

“Aspiring to promote diversity is not the same at all as considering race and gender in an individual hiring decision,” Ms. Yang said. “They’re essentially doing what they falsely disparaged disparate impact of doing.”

But civil rights experts said the administration’s goals are clear.

Catherine E. Lhamon, who previously served as the head of the Office for Civil Rights at the Education Department, said the investigations showed a pattern of “performative misapplication of federal civil rights law.”

“The Trump administration’s transparently vendetta-driven investigations categorically do not focus on fulfilling Congress’s guarantee that federal nondiscrimination protections apply equally,” Ms. Lhamon said. “Civil rights, properly understood, do not pit one group against another but protect all of us.”

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Winsome Sears Addresses Grads at Extreme Anti-LGBT, Anti-Choice Schools

Currently, here in Virginia, Winsome Sears (pictured at right), the MAGA extremist Republican gubernatorial candidate is running extremely deceptive ads that seek to portray her as a normal, sane, everyday person and seek to dupe voters into not realizing she is a far right extremist.  Sears is a lover of the Felon - she has said he was sent by god - a proponent of a total abortion ban, anti-gun control, an opponent of DEI, and virulently anti-LGBT among other things.  One can only hope that Abagail Spanberger, the Democrat candidate for governor, soon runs some ads with video clips of Sears voicing her actual extremist views.  GOP governor Glenn Youngkin has sought to take Virginia backwards in time - thankfully the Democrat controlled General Assembly has blocked much of this effort - but his regime pales in comparison to what the far right extremist agenda that Sears supports.  Youngkin, in my view is an opportunist courting the MAGA base whereas Sears is a Kool-Aid drinking true believer. Currently, Virginia remains the most progressive state in the former Confederacy and it is crucial that Democrats retake the governorship and retain control of both houses of the General Assembly in the November elections.  A piece in The Advocate looks at Sears' addresses at far right schools:

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, now the Republican nominee for governor, continues to cement her far-right platform with appearances at two schools that openly denounce LGBTQ+ people and reproductive freedom. Her commencement speech at Regent University and an upcoming one at Atlantic Shores Christian School, a private pre-k through 12 institution, are the latest signals that she is not moderating her views for a general election campaign — she’s leaning in.

Regent’s official doctrine affirms that marriage exists only between one man and one woman and opposes abortion in nearly all cases, asserting that life begins at conception. Its facilities may not be used for anything deemed inconsistent with its interpretation of biblical teachings, including affirming same-sex relationships or transgender identities. Regents holds that abortion is “tantamount to murder.” . . . The school’s policies prohibit “homosexual conduct,” which they categorize alongside “pornography, premarital sex, adultery,” and “lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct,” and require all student leaders and employees to adhere to its biblical code of sexual ethics strictly.

Earlier this month, Earle-Sears spoke at Regent University, where she earned an M.A. in 2003. The late televangelist and longtime anti-LGBTQ+ firebrand Pat Robertson founded the school in 1977. . . . He blamed “abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbiainfamously ns” for the 9/11 attacks, saying America had invited God’s wrath. These beliefs remain embedded in the culture and code of the university where Earle-Sears chose to deliver a celebratory address. Earle-Sears did not respond to The Advocate’s request for comment.

Earle-Sears is scheduled to stand at the podium again on June 6 — this time at Atlantic Shores Christian School in Chesapeake, another institution whose statement of faith declares that homosexuality and bisexuality are “sinful and prohibited.”

These are not isolated incidents. They are consistent with Earle-Sears’ long record of pushing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policy. Last year, she wrote a personal note of moral opposition on HB174, a bill passed by the General Assembly to prohibit marriage discrimination, Washington, D.C., NBC affiliate WRC reports. The bill protects couples from being denied a license based on sex, gender, or race. Earle-Sears, required by her state constitutional role to sign it, instead added a handwritten message declaring her personal opposition.

Her campaign has also made national headlines for an incendiary fundraising email comparing DEI programs to slavery. “Slaves did not die in the fields so that we could call ourselves victims now,” the email read. The campaign did not disavow the language. Video from 2023 shows her delivering the same message aloud, Politicoreports.

Last year, Earle-Sears apologized after she misgendered Sen. Danica Roem, the first out transgender state senator in Virginia.

Virginia currently has some of the strongest LGBTQ+ protections in the South.

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