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2020

2020-06-01 (for context) When peaceful protestors rallied near the White House at Lafayette Square to protest in the name of racial justice, the Trump administration allowed law enforcement to tear-gas protestors. The DOJ reached a settlement in 2022 for excessive force. Some news outlets reported that Trump made inquiries as to whether he was allowed to order law enforcement to “just shoot” the protestors.

https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/media/press-releases/on-anniversary-of-june-1-crackdown-on-peaceful-protesters-in-lafayette-square-ranking-member-grijalva-releases-report-with-new-evidence-on-the-trump-administrations-involvement

https://www.acludc.org/lafayette-square-attack-timeline/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/esper-trump-protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary

2024

2024-06-22 During a Faith & Freedom conference in Washington D.C., Trump floated the idea of a “migrant UFC” fight.

2025 February

2025-02-07 MAGA supporters objected to playing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Superbowl, calling it “divisive”.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/07/no-such-thing-as-a-black-national-anthem-maga-melts-down-over-super-bowl-performance-as-stephen-a-smith-slams-donald-trumps-base-for-fake-outrage-amid-calls-for-boycott/

2025 May

2025-05-19 (for context, because AI chatbots are a by-product of information being fed TO it, garbage-in-garbage-out) Elon Musk’s platform Grok spread Holocaust misinformation, Holocaust denial, and claimed white genocide in South Africa.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/

https://worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/elon-musk-ai-and-holocaust-denialism-a-stress-test-for-europe/

https://theweek.com/tech/grok-ai-controversy-chatbots

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/05/15/groks-south-africa-glitch-is-a-reminder-all-chatbots-are-biased/

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-musk-south-africa-refugee-claims-white-farmers-genocide-rcna206327

2025 October

2025-10-09 Turning Point USA announced they were going to have their own Superbowl halftime show in direct response to Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny performing at Super Bowl LX.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-announces-alternative-american-super-202948566.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/turning-point-usa-all-american-super-bowl-halftime-show-1236397178/#:~:text=More%20Stories%20by%20Carly&text=After%20some%20Republicans%20criticized%20the,and%20event%20details%20coming%20soon.%E2%80%9D

https://x.com/TPUSA/status/1976301627662340207

2025 December

2025-12-23 Watch Adam Mockler debate moral bigotry and moral clarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rikuQA7cg

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/youre-lying-right-now-cnns-scott-jennings-gets-cornered-by-guest-about-trump-official-who-claimed-nazi-streak/

2026 January

2026-01-17 Far right activist and pardoned J6er Jake Lang was chased off by protestors when he tried to hold an anti-Islam protest in Minneapolis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/minneapolis-counterprotesters-chase-far-right-activist

2026 February

2026-02-09 The headline from the Springfield News-Sun says it all: “Bomb threats, suspicious packages in Springfield prompt evacuations - Bomb threats that said Haitian immigrants should be gone from Springfield were sent to several Clark County offices Monday morning.”

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-threats-suspicious-packages-in-springfield-prompt-evacuations/USM6T4IWIRCT3MG6JRGZETETDA/

2026-02-21 House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request to allow Reverend Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/speaker-mike-johnson-denies-request-rev-jesse-jackson-lie-honor-capito-rcna259978

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/jesse-jackson-lie-in-honor-capitol-rejected

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2026/02/21/jesse-jackson-request-lie-in-capitol-denied-precedent

2026-02-24 During the State of the Union address, Representative Al Green was kicked out for holding up a sign “Black people are not apes” in response to Trump’s racist AI video depicting the Obamas as apes.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/al-green-escorted-out-trump-state-of-the-union-protest

2026 April

2026-04-14 The DOJ moved to vacate the most serious J6 convictions from the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two white supremacist groups in the U.S. To vacate a conviction means to totally wipe an event from record as though it had never happened.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/doj-moves-vacate-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers/story?id=132042992

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/doj-moves-to-erase-seditious-conspiracy-convictions-of-oath-keepers-proud-boys-in-jan-6-cases

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-moves-dismiss-jan-6-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy/

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5831248-justice-department-seeks-vacation-proud-boys-convictions/

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g-s1-117473/justice-department-toss-seditious-conspiracy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/14/department-of-justice-looks-to-throw-out-convictions-related-to-jan-6/89615190007/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/january-6-convictions-overturn-doj-proud-boys-oath-keepers

2026-04-20 Four GOP leaders refused to call Proud Boys or neo-Nazis white supremacists when asked by Representative Jasmine Crockett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QexWNgqUc&list=WL&index=2