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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant

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What Trump’s Ban on Trans Military Service Reveals About His Plans

What Trump’s Ban on Trans Military Service Reveals About His Plans
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New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Welcome to Trump 2.0: Stupid and Evil at the Same Time

Welcome to Trump 2.0: Stupid and Evil at the Same Time
28.01.2025 50

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Trump’s Assault on Trans Rights Has Begun. Here’s What to Watch For.

Trump’s Assault on Trans Rights Has Begun. Here’s What to Watch For.
22.01.2025 8

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System

The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
15.01.2025 10

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Police Unions’ Damning Silence on Trump’s Plan to Pardon Cop Beaters

Donald Trump has promised to pardon his January 6 rioters, telling Kristen Welker of Meet the Press last month, “Yeah, most likely, I’ll do it very...

08.01.2025 10

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Abortion Prepping for the Trump Era

Trump’s return to the White House, accompanied by allies deeply hostile to anything related to reproductive and sexual health and rights, has...

30.12.2024 3

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Voters Across the Country Backed Abortion Rights. It Might Not Matter.

Josselli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain, Candi Miller, Amber Nicole Thurman. These are the names of women who died because they were denied care due to...

06.11.2024 2

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Where to Expect Far-Right Election Disruptions

Four years ago, heading into election day, the tension and foreboding that many people are feeling right now was slightly less-formed and more...

05.11.2024 1

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Got a Problem? The GOP Has Someone to Blame.

In Republican political ads this election year, there is a scapegoat no matter the topic. The same scapegoats—often trans people, immigrants, or...

31.10.2024 10

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Melissa Gira Grant

Trump Wasn’t Kidding With That Fascist Rally. Just Ask His ICE Chief.

Much has been written about the racist bombast of Trump’s Sunday night rally, a spectacle evoking Hitler’s rallies of the 1930s, priming Germany...

29.10.2024 1

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Anti-Abortion Activists Want to Have It Both Ways

Since Roe was overturned, abortion rates have gone up in most states with abortion bans, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Perhaps this might...

24.10.2024 1

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Republicans Are Betting on Anti-Trans Prejudice to Win Swing States

Republicans have pushed anti-trans messages in campaigns and attack ads for nearly a decade now; whether in service of ballot measures, judges, or...

23.10.2024 10

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Melissa Gira Grant

The Incomprehensible Scale of Trump’s Deportation Plans

Jennifer crossed into the United States last year, having reached the southern border on June 16, 2023, the eighth anniversary of Donald Trump’s...

17.10.2024 2

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

Vance Used the V.P. Debate to Lie About Abortion

During the vice presidential debate Tuesday night, former President Trump tried to bail his running mate out of an abortion question with a series...

03.10.2024 30

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Melissa Gira Grant

Why Some People Will Vote for Abortion Rights—and Trump

Ever since voters in red states like Kansas and Ohio turned out in droves in 2022 and 2023 to protect abortion rights in their states, some in the...

02.10.2024 20

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Melissa Gira Grant

Kamala Harris’s “Border-State Prosecutor” Rebrand Is a Bait and Switch

25.09.2024 30

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Melissa Gira Grant

Here’s What Made Trump’s Springfield Lie So Dangerous—and So Effective

The violent threats that have disrupted Springfield, Ohio, since Donald Trump repeated a racist lie about Haitian immigrants eating pets, during...

19.09.2024 8

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Melissa Gira Grant

Trump Has a Story All Ready to Help Him Undermine Election Results

“We have to have borders, and we have to have good elections,” said Donald Trump during his first presidential debate facing Vice President Kamala...

12.09.2024 4

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Melissa Gira Grant

Vance Believes a “Childless Cabal” Wants to “Take Our Kids”

For almost two weeks now, J. D. Vance has been getting well-deserved hell for remarks made in 2021 in which he described Vice President Kamala...

31.07.2024 10

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant

The Violent Implications of the “Jezebel” Attacks on Kamala Harris

The predictably racist and misogynistic attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, came from...

25.07.2024 40

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Melissa Gira Grant

J.D. Vance Is the Key to Understanding the American Right

Trying to make sense of J.D. Vance’s sexual politics is, frankly, exhausting. The junior Republican senator from Ohio and newly minted vice...

18.07.2024 10

New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant