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July 22, 2024 2:13 pm
Will David Barton Fill Oklahoma’s Curriculum With Lies and Disinformation?
Earlier this month, Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters announced that he was creating an executive review committee to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum and that it would be stocked with far-right activists and ideologues. Among those appointed to the committee was Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, a longtime religious-right activist […]
July 19, 2024 5:14 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: So Much For Unity
Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Trump Blasts ‘Cheating’ Democrats and ‘Crazy Nancy Pelosi’ in RNC ‘Unity’ Speech Former President Donald Trump attacked “crazy” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and accused the Democratic Party of cheating in the 2020 election during his Republican National Convention (RNC) unity speech on Thursday evening. Sam Levine @ The Guardian: Election denialism […]
July 19, 2024 5:11 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Choice Is Clear
After covering all four days of the Republican National Convention, white nationalist Nick Fuentes announced that he refuses to vote for former President Donald Trump: “I’m not energetic. I’m not enthusiastic. … You could not bribe me to care.” Tim Barton thinks that after watching the RNC, the choice for voters is clear: “Either you […]
July 18, 2024 5:01 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Bankrolling The Boycott
Michael M. Grynbaum and Jim Rutenberg @ The New York Times: Tucker Carlson, Ousted by Fox, Roars Into Milwaukee as a Top Trump Ally After time away from the spotlight, the right-wing host is increasingly welcomed by Trump’s inner circle. He also made a surprise visit to Fox’s convention studio. Alicia Sadowski & Isabella Corrao […]
July 18, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Demonic Oppression Nonsense
Glenn Beck is teaming up with Moms For Liberty to get his new novel placed in school libraries across the country. Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers fumes over “the removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform”: “We must look forward, continue to minimize Neo-Cons, and influence the New Right with abolitionist and Christian Nationalist […]
July 18, 2024 2:36 pm
Conspiracy Theorist Clay Clark Is Working to Place a ‘Prophet’ in Trump’s Cabinet
In 2021, far-right conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed “alpha toxic male” Clay Clark organized a “Reopen America” event in Oklahoma that was designed to protest restrictions that had been put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. That event was such a success that Clark quickly rechristened it “ReAwaken America” and launched a nationwide tour, holding similar […]
July 17, 2024 5:17 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Truth Teller
Carl Gibson and Maya Boddie @ AlterNet: JD Vance caught quietly deleting ‘100% pro-life’ position from his website Abortion is one of the defining issues of the 2024 election. Now, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP’s presumptive vice presidential nominee, is trying to conceal his past opposition for the procedure in all cases. Andy Kroll […]
July 17, 2024 5:16 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: No Unity With Disgusting Demons
In response to calls for unity in the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, Andrew Torba declares that there “will be no unity with people who hate us and want us dead, who advocate for the killing of infants, promote the use of hormone blockers for children, endorse the sexual mutilation […]
July 17, 2024 2:35 pm
Moms for Liberty Makes Show of Force, Deploys Spiritual Warfare Rhetoric at RNC
After a rough year of scandal, electoral defeats, and effective counter-organizing, the anti-LGBTQ, book-banning Moms for Liberty put on a show of force at the Republican National Convention. A Moms for Liberty town hall Tuesday afternoon drew two governors, three members of Congress, and three state attorneys general. Also addressing the crowd were former Wisconsin […]
July 17, 2024 1:36 pm
Nick Fuentes Slams J.D. Vance For Having A Non-White, Non-Christian Wife
Earlier this year, Hitler–loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic Christian nationalist fascist Nick Fuentes warned former President Donald Trump not to pick Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election because, said Fuentes, Vance is a race traitor who has “a non-white wife” and “a mixed-up family.” White nationalist Nick Fuentes says […]