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Right Wing Round-Up - 1/29/16

Briefing
by
Kyle Mantyla
  • Jon Ward @ Yahoo(link is external): Ted Cruz’s controversial super-PAC leader divides evangelicals.

  • Patricia Murphy @ The Daily Beast(link is external): The Evangelical Power Broker Behind Ted Cruz.

  • David Neiwert @ Hatewatch(link is external): Antigovernment Movement's Rank and File Want Retaliation for Arrests, Death in Oregon, But Their Leaders Are Reluctant.

  • Sean Mandell @ Towleroad(link is external): Harlem Hate Pastor’s Church Put Up For Public Auction Over Unpaid Debts.

  • Ezra Klein @ Vox(link is external): Trump: “My whole life I've been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States”.

  • Claire Landsbaum @ New York Magazine(link is external): ‘Black Americans for a Better Future’ Super-Pac Funded Entirely by Rich White Guys.

  • Dan @ TFN Insider(link is external): Jared Woodfill: An Extremist’s Extremist.

On the Watchlist
David Barton

David Barton

Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, David Barton now routinely bills himself as “America’s premier historian” and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.
Shadowy figure

James David Manning