Nov 4, 2020
Sen Tuberville says his father “liberat[ed] Paris from socialism and communism” during WWII
READ THE STORY HERE
Jan 7, 2020
Pete Buttigieg said that America’s Founders “did not understand that slavery was a bad thing”
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June 13, 2020
Trump campaign plans rally in Tulsa, OK, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth
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May 14, 2020
Trump Says “Obamagate” is “biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA”
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June 23, 2020
Fox News host defends Andrew Jackson’s role in the Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
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July 17, 2020
Mike Pompeo says NYT 1619 Project is "a disturbed reading of history. It is a slander on our great people”
READ THE STORY HERE
July 24, 2020
Tom Cotton Proposes Legislation Attacking The 1619 Project
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April 26, 2020
NV candidate slams Land O Lakes' removal of Native American woman from packaging as erasing Native American history
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August 25, 2020
Peter Navarro Says “Melania Trump is the Jackie Kennedy of her time”
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August 18, 2020
Trump Pardons Susan B. Anthony for Arrest She Was Proud Of
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June 22, 2020
Mississippi lawmaker claims “African American Confederate Soldier” designed the state flag
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July 20, 2020
Kanye West says Harriet Tubman did not free slaves
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Feb 4, 2020
Ian Miles Cheong Says Nancy Pelosi Ripping Up Trump Speech Was "The Most Classless Act Ever Conducted in Congress"
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June 18, 2020
Trump Claims ‘Nobody Had Ever Heard Of' Juneteenth Before He Made It ‘Very Famous’
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April 25, 2020
Michigan state senator wore Confederate flag face mask to session over state shutdown
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August 15, 2020
Mississippi town still celebrates Confederacy with a musical
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August 11, 2020
Trump says 'George Washington would have had a hard time beating me' pre-pandemic
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Jan 21, 2020
Kellyann Conway Says MLK Would Have Opposed Trump's Impeachment
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May 18, 2020
CA Woman Compares Wearing A Mask To Slavery; Says "Muzzles Are For Dogs And Slaves"
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April 27, 2020
Fox’s Tomi Lahren Compares Social Distancing to ‘Willful Slavery’
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Oct 12, 2020
Trump proclamation says Columbus’ voyage led to “the first settlements on the shores of the modern day US”
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July 24, 2020
Stephen Miller says Portland shows Democrats “returning to their roots” as “party of secession”
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May 4, 2020
Trump incorrectly states that the Spanish Flu ended WW1
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May 22, 2020
Trump Hails Noted Antisemite Henry Ford’s “Bloodlines”
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July 22, 2020
Joe Biden says Trump is the first racist elected president
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June 29, 2020
Trump hints at return to slavery; Tells African-Americans to learn history or 'you will go back to it again'
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April 30, 2020
NYT article claims "People Have Gone Full 1800s" during Pandemic (Historians: Nope)
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August 11, 2020
Lou Holtz compares college football's COVID risk to D-Day invasion: 'They knew there were gonna be casualties'
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July 17, 2020
GOP Senate candidate calls Confederate monuments "symbols of hope"
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August 25, 2020
Jerry Falwell, Jr Quotes MLK Jr.—‘Free At Last’—In Leaving Liberty U Over Sex Scandal
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Sept 17, 2020
Bill Barr compares coronavirus shutdown to slavery
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June 8, 2020
Lou Dobbs Says “No President in His First Term in Office Has Ever Seen This Kind of Challenge and Threat to the US”
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April 18, 2020
Trump ally compares coronavirus protesters to Rosa Parks
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August 24, 2020
GOP Platform Calls for the Teaching of American Exceptionalism in Schools
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June 2, 2020
George W Bush says Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Lincoln, & MLK Jr. were “heroes of unity"
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August 9, 2020
Peter Navarro says “the Lord and Founding Fathers created the executive order”
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Sept 6, 2020
Charlie Kirk says Joe Biden is the most corrupt VP in US history [ahem, Paging Spiro Agnew!]
READ THE STORY HERE
June 20, 2020
Joy Behar Claims George Washington Freed His Slaves
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May 25, 2020
NPS includes Confederate dead among "heroes" who "made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf" in Civil War
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Feb 19, 2020
Map in widely used US history textbook refers to enslaved Africans as "immigrants"
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July 19, 2020
Trump says US won two "beautiful" World Wars
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Jan 9, 2020
Trump says in Ohio, "A couple hundred years ago, there was no one here!"
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July 26, 2020
Tom Cotton Calls Slavery ‘The Necessary Evil Upon Which The Nation Was Built’
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We received a record 100 nominations for the 2020 Weemsies!
July 8, 2020
Ohio lawmaker denounces face masks, saying men who fought in the Revolution & attended the Constitutional Convention did not wear them
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May 5, 2020
PA Rep. Cris Dush compares governor to Nazis, claims he's hiding COVID-19 info
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Oct 5, 2020
Mike Huckabee discussing the Trump Covid situation: “We are the party of the emancipation proclamation, not the emasculation proclamation”
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July 6, 2020
RNC’s Liz Harrington denounces Biden for saying the Declaration of Independence means “all men and women — all people — are created equal”
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July 23, 2020
Artist Jon McNaughton releases bizarre painting showing US history figures praying with Trump
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June 2, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg says Trump’s “looting and shooting” reference “has no history of being read as a dog whistle”
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August 11, 2020
Dinesh D’Souza says because Kamala Harris descended from a wealthy slaveholder, “she’s a beneficiary, not a victim, of slavery”
READ THE STORY HERE
Feb 19, 2020
Sen Tom Cotton says US shouldn't give visas to Chinese students to study science, but rather Federalist Papers or Shakespeare
READ THE STORY HERE
May 5, 2020
Chris Christie Compares A Rise in Coronavirus Deaths to Restart the Economy to Sacrifices during World War II
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August 26, 2020
Lara Trump Uses Fake Abraham Lincoln Quote Taken From A Meme
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Sept 17, 2020
Ben Carson says Constitution was “a divinely inspired document and something that need not be tampered with”
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June 1, 2020
Senator Tom Cotton Invokes Confederate Battle Cry of 'No Quarter’ in Calling for Military Response to 'Looters'
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August 8, 2020
Ben Shapiro says, "the US did not commit genocide against Native Americans. That's a lie"
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August 4, 2020
Rep Doug Collins says Trump Admin Has Done More to Combat Human Trafficking Than Any in US History (Historians: Um, Lincoln?)READ THE STORY HERE
Sept 17, 2020
Trump Launches 'Patriotic Education’ Commission for US history, Calls 1619 Project 'Ideological Poison’
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July 21, 2020
TN Mayor says Confederate flag means “the Black people were freed…slavery was abolished”
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Jan 14, 2020
CT School Restores "Redmen" mascot; it’s not offensive to anyone, Republicans say
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May 11, 2020
Brett Kavanaugh Falsely Claims Tribes Involved in McGirt v OK "aligned with the Confederacy"
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Nominees for the 2020 Weemsy Awardstm
Jan 11, 2020
Trump says Pelosi is worst House speaker in history. Twitter remembers Dennis Hastert.
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April 5, 2020
US Surgeon General compares Covid-19 to Pearl Harbor & 9/11, neither of which came with a 2 month warning
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Jan 23, 2020
Betsy DeVos compares abortion rights debate to slavery
Oct 9, 2020
"Patriotic History" advocate Mary Grabar says, “Columbus harmed no Indians, but they killed and torured each other in warfare”
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July 3, 2020
Trump claims anti-racism protests are a plot “to overthrow the American Revolution.”
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April 28, 2020
Columnist Cheryl K. Chumley Says Coronavirus Hype Is Biggest Political Hoax in History
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May 6, 2020
Trump says coronavirus – which came with a 2 month warning is "worse than" surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and 9/11
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June 23, 2020
Geico pulls ad referencing name of Civil War massacre of black soldiers
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Nov 27, 2020
Newt Gingrich says Biden's win "the biggest Presidential theft since Adams and Clay robbed Andrew Jackson in 1824"
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Feb 3, 2020
Montana Republican says Constitution calls for socialists to be ‘jailed or shot'
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Oct 24, 2020
Trump claims "Everyone thinks that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat"
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June 17, 2020
Mississippi official says blacks are "dependent" on government because slaveholders provided everything
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Jan 2, 2020
Rod Blagojevich pens column arguing Lincoln would have been impeached
March 2, 2020
Bellevue College president, vice president out after mural on Japanese American incarceration was altered to remove reference to local anti-Japanese sentiment
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April 26, 2020
Trump Claims to be Hardest Working President in US History
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May 5, 2020
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice compares state's COVID-19 stay-at-home order to Japanese internment
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June 24, 2020
Student at Trump rally says Aunt Jemima was 'picture of the American Dream'
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Sept 13, 2020
Trump busted for claiming he received non-existent ‘Bay of Pigs Award’ in Twitter rant
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Jan 8, 2020
Lou Dobbs compares Sen. Mike Lee to Benedict Arnold for criticizing Trump administration on Iran
READ THE STORY HERE
Nov 25, 2020
Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis defends posting fake Teddy Roosevelt quote
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Feb 19, 2020
Chicago Elementary School Teacher Sparks Outrage over ‘African animals’ project for Black History Month
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Jan 22, 2020
Trump says the wheel was invented in the US
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Feb 13, 2020
NJ teacher creates lesson on slavery where he made whipping sounds, kicked students
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July 14, 2020
Rush Limbaugh: Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like famous pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism”
READ THE STORY HERE
June 13, 2020
Jeff Sessions denounces call to rename US military forts named for Confederates as scheme to “erase American history”
READ THE STORY HERE
Nov 19, 2020
Senator Tom Cotton Says Radical Left 'Revisionist Charlatans' Threaten 1620 Pilgrim Commemorations
READ THE STORY HERE
January 17, 2020
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump
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March 16, 2020 Kentucky Rep. Massie fears government virus response will make WWII internment camps look light
READ THE STORY HERE
April 28, 2020
Dennis Prager Claims "The Lockdown Is The Greatest Mistake in the History of Humanity"
READ THE STORY HERE
Nov 16, 2020
Congressman-elect Madison Cawthorne says Congress voted “to decide to have the Emancipation Proclamation”
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August 10, 2020
Trump Claims ‘1917’ Pandemic Ended World War II—Which Began in 1939
READ THE STORY HERE
Sept 27, 2020
Trump says Abraham Lincoln ‘Wasn’t Big on the Hispanic Movement’
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Sept 16, 2020
Sportswriter David Hookstead compares effort to bring back Big Ten football to D-Day
READ THE STORY HERE
May 3, 2020
Trump Says He’s Been Treated ‘Worse’ Than Lincoln
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August 20, 2020
Ambassador Ric Grenell calls Trump the “most pro-gay president in American history”
READ THE STORY HERE
August 16, 2020
Fox News host compares Trump boat parade to the Spanish Armada (yeah, the one that got destroyed)
READ THE STORY HERE
April 20, 2020
Idaho representative compares coronavirus lockdown to Nazi Germany
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August 24, 2020
Giuliani Says Trump Could Defeat Daniel Webster in a Debate
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June 15, 2020
Justice Brett Kavanagh in LGBTQ Rights Case Dissent Says, “Seneca Falls Was Not Stonewall”
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