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Immigration PACs Off to Slow Start for 2010

By | 03.25.10 | 9:30 am

There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs — two of which are pro-immigration — raising and spending in the 2010 cycle.

Together, these eight PACs raised only $1.46 million through Dec. 31, More…

Banned in DC

By | 06.18.09 | 10:28 am

Banned in Tysons Corner, Va., actually, where Pat and Bay Buchanan’s The American Cause will hold its conference on building a new Republican majority. An email just in from the organizers:

I am sorry but we are not going to grant you a press pass due to the disparaging

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Winning Over Hillary Voters With White Nationalism

By | 06.16.09 | 12:32 pm

The American Cause, the Pat and Bay Buchanan-run coalition that employs Marcus Epstein, is holding a national conference in Virginia this weekend on the theme of “Building a New Majority.” The highlight, looking at a draft of the schedule, might be this afternoon panel:

Winning Working America: How

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Bay Buchanan Speaks Out Against the ‘Lynching’ of Marcus Epstein

By | 06.05.09 | 4:40 pm

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a broadside against the — wait for it — “lynching” that ensued.

The stories about Marcus were for the most part inaccurate and incomplete. 

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Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’

By | 06.02.09 | 12:01 am

On July 7, 2007, Marcus Epstein had too much to drink and stumbled onto Georgetown’s scenic, shop-lined M Street, walking in no particular direction. At 7:15 p.m., he bumped into a black woman, called her a “nigger,” and struck her in the head with an open hand. An off-duty Secret More…

University of Virginia: Marcus Epstein Isn’t Coming Here

By | 06.01.09 | 5:44 pm

Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA Law’s Senior Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, has emailed TWI about Marcus Epstein’s law school plans.

Mr. Epstein is not currently enrolled at the University of Virginia School of Law, and I do not expect him to be an enrolled student in the future.

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Bay Buchanan Responds to Tancredo Speechwriter Hate Crime Scandal

By | 06.01.09 | 2:07 pm

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both groups) Marcus Epstein after this weekend’s revelations about his 2007 arrest for karate-chopping a black woman while yelling a racial epithet.

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Specter Switch Gives Conservatives Second Thoughts About ‘RINO’ Hunting

By | 04.28.09 | 5:01 pm

This wasn’t what conservatives were expecting to talk about today. The news that Sen. Arlen Specter, the senior Republican in the Senate, would switch to the Democratic Party, came out of the blue after weeks of denials that the senator would ever do such a thing.

Inside the Club for More…