The New York Times titled, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege,” comes on the heels of a
story published by the
Washington Post several days prior that attempts to assess the state of talk radio and where its future lies in the 21
st century American media landscape. The two stories are at the forefront of an effort by the mainstream media to determine why U.S. citizens aligned with
Donald Trump were willing to break into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. In the
Times story, the writers quote statements by leading talk hosts, some of which show sympathy for the “stolen election” allegation, others that directly claim it to be true, and still others that use language that advocates protest but falls short of
Gangland Mayor Rahm Emanuel Tells School Children Chicago s a Trump-Free Zone
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Major news outlets in Arizona, California, and Texas are regularly citing nativist organizations founded by a white nationalist and eugenicist in their reporting on immigration, occasionally giving members of these organizations a platform to write commentary. These reports often present such groups as being in favor of merely “reducing overall immigration” or describe them as “restrictionist” without context or reference to their racist history, effectively laundering anti-immigrant talking points to local audiences.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), NumbersUSA, and the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are all extremist anti-immigrant organizations, and CIS and FAIR have been classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. All three groups were founded by white nationalist and eugenicistJohn Tanton, who explicitly wanted to keep the U.S. a majority-white country through limiting immigration. Two years after Tanton’s death, the organiz