How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
The political director for the nonprofit America's Voice traces the history of the GOP's embrace of white supremacy messaging from the 2017 Unite the Right rally to the upcoming midterm elections.
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Zachary Mueller, political director for America’s Voice, an immigrant advocacy nonprofit, has been tracking anti-immigrant and xenophobic campaign messaging since 2018. Mueller traces the deadly path from the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacy rally to this year’s great replacement messaging embraced by GOP candidates in the midterm election season.
The Border Chronicle wrote about Mueller’s work earlier this month and how invasion and great replacement messaging from politicians like Kari Lake, who is the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, undermines democracy and stokes violence. This issue is so important, and Mueller is so knowledgeable on this topic, we invited him to speak in greater depth about it on The Border Chronicle podcast.
Mueller also offers advice on what listeners can do to push back against racist conspiracy lies, and he talks about campaign messaging that can be used to lift border communities up rather than tear them down by portraying the region as a war zone.
How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
Very important work. I am very troubled by the relatively widespread intentional ignorance among my family members & friends here in Bisbee & Phoenix who DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW INSIDIOUS & WELL FUND WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATORS IN THIS SOCIETY ARE! We need effective educational town hall meetings & it is almost too late to pull this urgent need off before the election! I am a solitary voice in my community accused of focusing on the negative because I pay attention to local crimes, including murder, by the border patrol. I do belong to the Samaritan online discussions around border intrusions by white supremacist QAnon militias in Sasabe & Arivaca but it has been difficult to join them in person due to distance, car issues & poverty. I am very disheartened about this in toxic positivity Bisbee. Even going to Douglas where great work is being done is difficult. How do we effectively address apathy? I personally have been doing all I can to keep current with the growth of white supremacy & ongoing apathy by people who minimize how serious this is!