On live radio in May 2026, Kiggans answered a slur rooted in slavery with 'That's right. Ditto. Yes, yes to that.' The NAACP asked for a real apology. She has never given one — only an explanation of what she meant.
His Eliminate DEI in Colleges Act makes a school ineligible for every federal program — including federal student loans — unless it certifies it runs no DEI program and no DEI office. He's introduced it twice. He also voted against naming a Tallahassee courthouse for Florida's first Black Supreme Court justice.
He filed H.R. 569 the day after Trump's executive order, and had filed all but the same bill in the two Congresses before that. A baby born to two parents on work visas would not be a citizen. The Supreme Court struck the order down in June. Babin's bill is still the Republican Study Committee's plan.
Barr's first Senate ad borrowed a slogan the Anti-Defamation League catalogs as a hate slogan adopted by white supremacists. A veteran Kentucky political columnist called it the most overtly racist statewide campaign he can remember. Then Barr won the primary.
About 50 Haitians reported to the Cincinnati ICE office on July 31 and were pressured to take $2,600 to self-deport or wear an ankle monitor. All of them refused the money. Two days later a dozen more left with monitors on.
In the same interview she said of the Biden White House, 'I never saw so many fairies in the White House, dancing around.' A year later she was writing federal legislation about transgender people.
A pollster found anti-Muslim sentiment tracks election cycles more closely than it tracks terrorist attacks. Within a day of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republicans proved her point.
In 2000 the South Carolina Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse dome. Joe Wilson was one of the seven — and he's kept voting that way in Congress ever since.
In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was Strom Thurmond's daughter. South Carolina's Joe Wilson said he didn't believe her, called it 'unseemly,' and said she should have kept quiet. Within days the Thurmond family confirmed her story.