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31 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Good summation of why the Republic of Texas should be viewed as a precursor to the Confederacy: Image
“The bloody lynchings and murders of Mexicans, Tejanos, and Mexican-Americans [in Texas in the 1910s] are some of the most egregious instances of state-sanctioned violence in not just Texas history but US history.” Image
(These are from: utpress.utexas.edu/books/minutagl…)
In 1922, Texas “had the distinction of sending what some said was the first Klansman in US history to national office... In Dallas, [the local KKK chapter] was becoming the largest racist organization of its kind in the nation” Image
Turns out the construction of the giant San Jacinto Monument in Texas to commemorate 1836 was funded by... the federal government. Image

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3 Jun
NEW: For years, we’ve associated kleptocrats with Miami, Manhattan, and Malibu. But that framing’s completely outdated.

@apmassaro3 and I wrote about how sanctioned oligarchs have been targeting—and decimating—the American Midwest and Rust Belt for years: foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/03/the…
The foreign oligarchs targeting American steel and factory towns, small cities, and places like Cleveland have been overlooked for years.

But as @apmassaro3 mentions, a new Congressional caucus launched this month, @KleptoCaucus, is aiming to change that.
Decimated small American towns. Imploded steel mills. Rotting manufacturing plants. And a “gaping hole” left in downtown Cleveland.

All of this, as part of one of the biggest money laundering schemes the world has ever seen—all courtesy of post-Soviet oligarchs.
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28 Apr
Executing search warrants on Giuliani and Victoria Toensing is phenomenal news in the world of counter-kleptocracy efforts.
Here’s everything on Giuliani’s history of failing to recognize his foreign lobbying work: newrepublic.com/article/155387…
And here’s everything on Victoria Toensing’s failures to register her work for foreign principals: gen.medium.com/rudy-giuliani-…
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18 Apr
This is an exceptionally dumb analogy, not least because there is, and was, effectively zero Spanish-speaking secessionist sentiment in this territory—a complete difference from the Ukrainian SSR.
This analogy is made even dumber by the fact that the Americans actively agitated *against* Ukraine breaking off from the Soviet Union.

Basic historic illiteracy.

A *better* analogy to Ukraine demanding independence from the USSR would be those in Hawaii rising up against Washington, not some... random swath of the American Southwest that has no sense of distinct nationhood.
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11 Apr
Kind of ridiculous the 1870s Modoc War in California/Oregon isn’t better remembered in the US:

—The only Indian War where a US general was killed
—A tiny band of Modocs successfully held the US at bay for *six months*
—Saw the only Indian Wars trial/hanging for war crimes
Mapping out Klamath and Modoc territories before the arrival of the Americans: Image
Even stranger for why the Modoc War’s been largely forgotten: It was Manifest Destiny at its absolute worst.

American war crimes, a concentration camp, forced train transport nearly 2,000 miles from a home they refused to give up to an imperial power.
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9 Apr
'Yellen has signalled that the US is throwing its full weight behind a global minimum corporate tax rate – and framing this quite explicitly as an end to the race to the bottom.

'This is a powerful narrative shift, in favour of tax justice.'

taxjustice.net/2021/04/07/us-…
'If endorsed by other countries and the US Congress, the Biden administration’s proposals would be the biggest shake-up in corporate taxation in decades — and could put tax havens out of business.' ft.com/content/b358eb…
‘More hopeful is the proposal for a global minimum tax... Such a coalition could side-step resistance and sabotage by countries that have been captured by the tax avoidance industry, and break the vicious cycle of beggar-thy-neighbour tax competition.’ taxjustice.net/2021/04/15/the…
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30 Mar
NEW: Texas has an outsized history of carpetbaggers coming in, posing as cosplay cowboys, and racing the state off a cliff.

And that's exactly what's happening right now with the @TexasGOP—with no end in sight to the party's madness.

newrepublic.com/article/161863…
The latest carpetbagging faux cowboy is a East Coast prep schooler, suddenly trying to pose for Texas conservatives like he's Doc Holliday.

(One of the most insane campaign ads you'll see all year: )
But this cosplay cowboy isn't the only one now claiming to be an "authentic Texan."

@chiproytx? A wealthy East Coaster and investment bank analyst, now glorifying lynching.

@DanPatrick? An East Coaster, former nightclub owner, and avatar of the @TexasGOP's authoritarianism. Image
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