Elected officials, a major newspaper and the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. have all spoken out strongly in recent weeks against the continued use of “Latinx,” the gender-neutral term promoted by progressives to describe people of Spanish-speaking origin, Axios reports.

Wall Street Journal: “Nationwide, Mr. Trump’s share of the Latino vote grew by 8 percentage points compared with 2016, an analysis by Catalist, a Democratic voter-data firm found earlier this year. New calculations by the firm find that while then-candidate Joe Biden won 61% of Latino voters, the shift toward the GOP meant that he carried the group by about 750,000 votes less than had Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee four years earlier.”

“That erosion is a danger sign for the party, given that President Biden’s winning margin in five states was less than 100,000 votes.”

A new Bendixen & Amandi poll of Hispanic voters finds just 2% of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68% call themselves “Hispanic” and 21% favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background.”

Donald and Melania Trump enthusiastically participated in the controversial “tomahawk chop” for the Atlanta Braves at the World Series game against the Houston Astros last night.

Oklahoma state Sen. David Rader (R) is receiving backlash after referring to Asian Americans as “yellow families” during a recent interim study focused on racial inequality, KFOR reports.

Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, the Des Moines Register reports.

Wilburn, a state representative, is the first Black chair of the Iowa Democratic Party.

A proposed legislative district map in West Virginia would have drawn a Black delegate into the same district as a national white supremacy organization’s headquarters, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports.

A new University of Virginia poll finds 84% of Donald Trump voters say they either strongly or somewhat agree that discrimination against whites will increase in the U.S. in the next few years.

Of those who voted for Joe Biden, just 38% said they felt the same way.

On discrimination against racial minorities, the respondents were flipped, with 87% of Biden voters saying they believe white people have advantages over people of color while just 38% of Trump voters said the same.

Washington Post: “In June, the term was mentioned 993 times during Fox News programming, including overnight rebroadcasts of daytime and prime-time shows. In July, it was mentioned 921 times. That was after being mentioned only 132 times in all of 2020.”

“But the network seems to have largely moved on from critical race theory, which conservative activists and right-leaning media companies identified as a pressing threat as part of a backlash to the calls for greater attention to racial disparities that followed the police killing of George Floyd last year.”

“Overall, the drop has also been pronounced on Newsmax and One America News (OAN), two conservative upstart channels seeking to outflank Fox News Channel to the right.”

Mary Beeman, a Republican operative in Connecticut, said that “helping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids,” WFSB reports.