Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
Politics, politics, politics
Here is an account of one of Stephen Miller's earliest immigrant ancestors arriving in the United States in 1903. It's taken from an unpublished book by Miller's grandmother, which we have posted online here for the first time. It's amazing stuff.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here is an account of one of Stephen Miller's earliest immigrant ancestors arriving in the United States in 1903. It's taken from an unpublished book by Miller's grandmother, which we have posted online here for the first time. It's amazing stuff.
assets.newrepublic.com/pdf/1998-Pre...
assets.newrepublic.com/pdf/1998-Pre...
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Miller's goal of net-negative migration is a recipe for decline. It all but guarantees a vastly expanded immigrant carceral state, at enormous cost to us in taxpayer money and in the searing social tensions he's unleashing with his masked agents across the country.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Miller's goal of net-negative migration is a recipe for decline. It all but guarantees a vastly expanded immigrant carceral state, at enormous cost to us in taxpayer money and in the searing social tensions he's unleashing with his masked agents across the country.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Also, a note about cosmopolitanism. Stephen Miller hates it. But it's worth noting that it is one of the inheritances from "western civilization" that he loves to cite as under threat from immigrants. And it's far more admirable than his ethnonationalism is.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Also, a note about cosmopolitanism. Stephen Miller hates it. But it's worth noting that it is one of the inheritances from "western civilization" that he loves to cite as under threat from immigrants. And it's far more admirable than his ethnonationalism is.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Miller says immigrants erode social trust and solidarity. But immigration forges new forms of community/solidarity. It's happening right now across the country.
That Miller has to lie endlessly about the social impact of immigrants shows his view is a marginal one.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
That Miller has to lie endlessly about the social impact of immigrants shows his view is a marginal one.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Miller says immigrants erode social trust and solidarity. But immigration forges new forms of community/solidarity. It's happening right now across the country.
That Miller has to lie endlessly about the social impact of immigrants shows his view is a marginal one.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
That Miller has to lie endlessly about the social impact of immigrants shows his view is a marginal one.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Miller's arguments are that "Third World" can't assimilate and that 1965 immigration act unraveled social cohesion.
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Miller's arguments are that "Third World" can't assimilate and that 1965 immigration act unraveled social cohesion.
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Steve Bannon tells us that among Stephen Miller's leading intellectual influences are Pat Buchanan, Oswald Spengler, and Samuel Huntington.
So we did a side-by-side comparison of some of Miller's language with Buchanan's.
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
So we did a side-by-side comparison of some of Miller's language with Buchanan's.
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Steve Bannon tells us that among Stephen Miller's leading intellectual influences are Pat Buchanan, Oswald Spengler, and Samuel Huntington.
So we did a side-by-side comparison of some of Miller's language with Buchanan's.
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
So we did a side-by-side comparison of some of Miller's language with Buchanan's.
(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Some news on Trump's doling out of most refugee slots to white South Africans: Two former State Department officials tell us basic protocols designed to determine whether this group actually merits protection have simply been scrapped. It's just whim.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Some news on Trump's doling out of most refugee slots to white South Africans: Two former State Department officials tell us basic protocols designed to determine whether this group actually merits protection have simply been scrapped. It's just whim.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is appalling. Again, Trump and ICE have had the option to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica for weeks and weeks. They won't explain why they refuse to do this. But we know why: Because they've decided it isn't dehumanizing or cruel enough.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
I've tried to suggest the critical distinction is voters support orderly process but don't see immigrants as a negative in the communitarian or civilizational terms that postlibs, MAGA, et al do. Pundits overread Trump win as backlash to world created by 1965 act:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've tried to suggest the critical distinction is voters support orderly process but don't see immigrants as a negative in the communitarian or civilizational terms that postlibs, MAGA, et al do. Pundits overread Trump win as backlash to world created by 1965 act:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
It's hard to know exactly what will happen now, given how unprecedented this is. But Trump and Miller envisioned this as a test of their ability to spread fear of lawless state terror. For now, the lower courts are admirably defending the rule of law. 5/5
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's hard to know exactly what will happen now, given how unprecedented this is. But Trump and Miller envisioned this as a test of their ability to spread fear of lawless state terror. For now, the lower courts are admirably defending the rule of law. 5/5
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
There's ample evidence that Trump/Miller saw Abrego Garcia as a test for the broader MAGA project. Miller hopes to carve out power for Trump to remove people with zero legal constraints. JD Vance's dishonesty has been reprehensible. It all now looks even worse. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
There's ample evidence that Trump/Miller saw Abrego Garcia as a test for the broader MAGA project. Miller hopes to carve out power for Trump to remove people with zero legal constraints. JD Vance's dishonesty has been reprehensible. It all now looks even worse. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
For weeks, Trump officials have refused to send him to Costa Rica even though he said he'd accept that. The ruling savagely details extensive misconduct here.
We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For weeks, Trump officials have refused to send him to Costa Rica even though he said he'd accept that. The ruling savagely details extensive misconduct here.
We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
For Trump and Miller, the Abrego Garcia case was a crucial gauge of how far they could get in disappearing undesirables and placing them beyond the law entirely.
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For Trump and Miller, the Abrego Garcia case was a crucial gauge of how far they could get in disappearing undesirables and placing them beyond the law entirely.
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Trump losses are really piling up this morning
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Trump losses are really piling up this morning
Judge Paula Xinis just issued temporary restraining order barring Trump administration from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia when he reports to ICE this morning. ICE had demanded his appearance after judge freed him from custody yesterday.
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Judge Paula Xinis just issued temporary restraining order barring Trump administration from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia when he reports to ICE this morning. ICE had demanded his appearance after judge freed him from custody yesterday.
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
Not only are Republicans required to genuflect before Trump; they're also required to pretend that's not what they're doing.
Good to see these cowards go down to defeat.
Good to see these cowards go down to defeat.
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Not only are Republicans required to genuflect before Trump; they're also required to pretend that's not what they're doing.
Good to see these cowards go down to defeat.
Good to see these cowards go down to defeat.
In bizarre, self-pitying tirade, unraveling Trump admits his polling is actually pretty bad and not at record highs, as he keeps claiming
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In bizarre, self-pitying tirade, unraveling Trump admits his polling is actually pretty bad and not at record highs, as he keeps claiming
Great to see @gallego.senate.gov absolutely savaging Republicans for helping cover up Trump's illegal killings. As I've been arguing, Dems should be taking *that* approach. Hound Republicans mercilessly until they agree to get to the bottom of all of it:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Great to see @gallego.senate.gov absolutely savaging Republicans for helping cover up Trump's illegal killings. As I've been arguing, Dems should be taking *that* approach. Hound Republicans mercilessly until they agree to get to the bottom of all of it:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
This is very well put from @adamserwer.bsky.social. I'd add that the lack of GOP criticism of Trump's vile racism toward Somalis, including many US citizens, reveals broad GOP embrace of ethnonationalism:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is very well put from @adamserwer.bsky.social. I'd add that the lack of GOP criticism of Trump's vile racism toward Somalis, including many US citizens, reveals broad GOP embrace of ethnonationalism:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Crucial revelation: Trump officials appear to be trying to avoid letting survivors of boat bombings get into US courts, where they'd have to present evidence against them. Can't have that when you're carrying out summary executions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Crucial revelation: Trump officials appear to be trying to avoid letting survivors of boat bombings get into US courts, where they'd have to present evidence against them. Can't have that when you're carrying out summary executions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...