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👋 NEWS: Today's my first day covering the conservative movement for @HuffPost. Add me to your press lists & hit me up for a coffee! Hill friends, I'm still staking my claim in the House periodical gallery so come say hi.
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Great story from @BenjaminSWeiss @HuffPost on what our community is facing.
Our ED @itschintanhere discusses the “buyers remorse” building among Indian American voters as we talk about hate and discrimination.
Our new poll with @HITStrat finds 1 in 4 South Asian American Trump voters plan to vote Democratic in the midterms.
NEWS: In 2024, a Hindu temple in TX unveiled a 90-foot statue of Hanuman, the half-monkey deity of Hindu mythology.
At the time, it drew backlash from the fringe right. But years laster, anti-Indian rhetoric is mainstream in the GOP - and it may cost them elections.
More ⤵️ huffpost.com/entry/gop-india…
NEWS: The American right on Monday joined Flávio Bolsonaro in declaring Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s election victory illegitimate, pointing to the supreme court’s decision to extend polling for two hours — after both candidates requested such an extension.
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If the "Washington Inquisitor" is indeed a fake news org it's especially funny because it uses the same name as the fictional newspaper from the Twilight movies
ishowspeed and his impact on political campaign coverage:
I'm doing something this week that I don't think CNN has ever done. I'm hosting a 7+ hour livestream EVERY day as we drive through battleground states, meet voters/candidates and just have fun with local unique activities. It's part travel show, part food show, part politics. We're starting with Pennsylvania, Ohio, then Michigan. Send through any ideas of places to go!! Streaming 10a-5p every day, first two hours Monday on YouTube, the rest on the CNN app.
‼️ICYMI: I went to Texas last week to talk to leaders in the Indian American community there, who told me rising anti-Indian rhetoric on the right was pushing conservative South Asian voters away from Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.
Read more ⤵️ huffpost.com/entry/gop-india…
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"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party" huffpost.com/entry/gop-india…
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The Right Hates Indian Americans. It Might Cost Republicans Texas. Ace reporting by @BenjaminSWeiss:
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Thank you to @BenjaminSWeiss and HuffPost for taking the time to speak with me and shedding light on the growing concerns among Indian Americans as many reconsider their longstanding political allegiances amid increasingly contentious debates over immigration and what it means to belong in America.
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NEWS: In 2024, a Hindu temple in TX unveiled a 90-foot statue of Hanuman, the half-monkey deity of Hindu mythology.
At the time, it drew backlash from the fringe right. But years laster, anti-Indian rhetoric is mainstream in the GOP - and it may cost them elections.
More ⤵️ huffpost.com/entry/gop-india…
Uncanny: Theres a sequence in the new Call of Duty where you cross a battlefield covered in used fiber optic cables from FPV drones
📺 'RED HAT' AD BLITZ: Abdul El-Sayed is courting GOP voters with two weeks before Election Day, running a new ad on Fox and Newsmax which stitches together glowing praise from conservative pundits.
More ⤵️ huffpost.com/entry/abdul-el-…
Trump-endorsed Iowa House candidate Joe Mitchell went on a tirade against white women in resurfaced video from his college years.
"I don't like fucking white people, okay?" he said in the rant.
Mitchell tells me he's since grown up and "found some better friends."
More ⤵️ huffpost.com/entry/live-upda…
Vasant Bhatt, who’s been targeted by right-wingers after saying he was backing James Talarico in TX because of anti-Indian rhetoric in the GOP, has been fired from conservative news org Campus Reform.
I exercised my constitutional right to vote according to my conscience, spoke out against anti-Indian bigotry, and refused to toe the Republican Party line. My participation in Campus Reform's correspondent program has now been terminated. Losing a place in a program will not make me retract my beliefs or abandon my community.
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Thank you from the Freedom 250 Grand Prix following today’s @IndyCar 2027 schedule announcement:
👀 Seems the DC IndyCar grand prix will indeed be a one-off:
No Nashville or DC as IndyCar unveils Phase 2 schedule with Barcelona debut the headliner. #IndyCar via @Motorsport
motorsport.com/indycar/news/…
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NEW: A mailer from Trump’s No Going Back super PAC attacks the family of Virginia Giuffre, alleging an ad her brother made criticizing his congressman for declining to meet with them about the Epstein Files is “completely false.”
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ICE says it can’t dim the lights at 26 Federal Plaza or give detainees pillows.
“Pillows are a security risk.”
A judge ordered ICE to do both after a trial revealed many detainees spent days at a time in the building’s holding cells. ICE now wants a new trial.
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SCOOP: Some House Freedom Caucus members have privately discussed kicking Rep. Brandon Gill out of the group
"He's not really in the Freedom Caucus. He's just using it for conservative bonafides," one HFC member told @axios
Gill's bid to chair Oversight is fueling resentment beyond HFC, with Republicans questioning whether viral hearing moments qualify him to lead the committee
But Gill also has powerful defenders, including Whip Tom Emmer, who called him "the future of our party."
axios.com/2026/10/22/texas-b…
