Oklahoma already banned Sharia law once. Federal courts blocked it and then threw it out as unconstitutional. Now Oklahoma's Rep. Josh Brecheen has cosponsored a national version and joined a caucus that a civil rights group calls a hate group.
Sixteen of the Pillen family's monitored hog operations recorded nitrate above 50 parts per million. The federal drinking-water limit is 10. Nebraska's governor said he hadn't read the story and wouldn't — then attacked the reporter's nationality.
The New York Times found photos of a 20-year-old Mike Lawler with his face darkened at a college Halloween party. He said sorry, then spent the same night arguing it didn't count. Two NAACP branches and the organization's regional director told him it did.
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 apologize or 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 'radical Islamic terrorists.'
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.