A right-wing account clipped four words from a 2022 interview. Bobby Charles turned it into roughly 20 posts, a petition demanding a state representative resign, and eventually a campaign plan to stop the 'Islamification' of Maine.
Alabama's senator told a podcast the state might need its own border wall because 'they want to take this country over.' His office says he meant Muslims.
Omaha's Republican congressional candidate joined the vice president's sombrero meme campaign during the 2025 shutdown. The woman who ran the LULAC council he asked to join in 2023 asked him to delete it and apologize. Six months later he told a voter guide that leaders who inflame division erode democracy.
In January 2019, Missouri's Jason Smith yelled it at a Latino colleague standing at the podium, then wouldn't own up to it in the room. His excuse was that Democrats had gone to Puerto Rico during the shutdown — a shutdown he voted three times not to end.
Missouri's congressman went on cable TV and said House Republicans are investigating Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance — then admitted, 'I don't speak fluent Spanish, okay?' He also sits on the subcommittee that writes the FCC's budget.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
Asked about Trump telling four congresswomen of color to 'go back' where they came from, Pennsylvania's Mike Kelly said he couldn't be offended because he's a person of color too — he's white. Then he voted twice to protect the president.
Minnesota's House Speaker bragged that her caucus worked with Nick Shirley on his viral daycare fraud video. Shirley said it was completely false. State inspectors found children at nearly every center in the video — and thousands of federal agents showed up anyway.
In October 2024, a full-page ad paid for by Tom Barrett's campaign ran in a Black-owned Lansing weekly telling readers to vote on November 6 — the day after Election Day. The same ad ran with the correct date in a different Lansing paper.