Texas Monthly obtained the nine-page, unsigned document Abbott's lawyers walked the state securities commissioner through, laying out ways to bring government power against the East Plano Islamic Center. His team concluded there was no securities case. Paxton filed one, and the commissioner says he was told to resign.
At a Hancock County GOP banquet, Rep. Mary Miller listed Islam as one of her three biggest concerns, said it is 'a form of government' rather than a religion, and claimed that when Muslims build a mosque, 'in their mind, they have just conquered that area.' Nobody had asked her about it.
Campaigning for Mike Rogers in Michigan, Sen. John Kennedy said AIPAC wouldn't be spending in the race if Abdul El-Sayed 'didn't sleep in a Bin Laden jersey.' Rogers laughed.
Barstool's Dave Portnoy wrote that Abdul El-Sayed 'really is a terrorist.' Mike Rogers reposted it and said Portnoy was 'exactly right,' and the Senate Republicans' campaign arm shared it again. It was the latest in a string of attacks tying a Muslim American doctor to terrorism.
American Patriots USA was founded by former Klan leader Chester Doles, and the SPLC lists it as a white nationalist hate group. Its former vice president and former state director both held county roles in Mike Collins' Senate campaign. Asked about his son-in-law's views at Thursday's debate, Collins opened with 'That's my family.'
Arnaud Armstrong, the man who speaks for Ryan Mackenzie in every scandal, was a member of a college group chat that traded Holocaust jokes and racist memes.
Mike Simpson cosponsored H.R. 5722 and joined the Sharia-Free America Caucus — a group the Council on American-Islamic Relations designated an anti-Muslim hate group, whose legislation it says would effectively make practicing Islam illegal.
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Andy Biggs is running for governor of Arizona and pretending to be a calm, sensible moderate.
Texas Rep. Keith Self told Newsmax 'the Muslims want to be treated differently' and 'have no respect for U.S. law' — blaming an entire religion for a Senate candidate's booth at a Muslim convention, and calling on the Justice Department to indict the group that hosted it.