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July 12, 2024 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Preemptively Illegitimate
Isaac Arnsdorf @ The Washington Post: Trump allies at Heritage declare 2024 election illegitimate in advance A “war game” presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures. Jane C. Timm @ NBC News: Conservative activists find errors in software they hoped would root out voter fraud Activists inspired […]
July 12, 2024 4:35 pm
Tony Perkins Calls GOP Platform Process ‘Despicable,’ Slams Chair Marsha Blackburn’s ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘Shocking’ Behavior
Right Wing Watch reported this week that members of the Republican Platform Committee were subjected to heavy-handed authoritarian tactics by the Trump RNC, which refused to allow any questioning of the candidate’s wishes. Rather than drafting and debating the platform in public, Trump’s team closed the doors, shut down debate, took away delegates’ phones, and […]
July 12, 2024 1:54 pm
Christian Nationalists Celebrate Independence Day By Spreading Myths And Lies
One of the defining characteristics of Christian nationalism is the willingness of its adherents to spread myths and false history about the Founding Fathers in an effort to bolster the movement’s modern-day political agenda. This tendency was on full display last week as multiple Christian nationalist politicians, commentators, and activists spread a series of demonstrable […]
July 11, 2024 5:17 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: 140 People
Steve Contorno @ CNN: Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people […]
July 11, 2024 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Total Exoneration
Self-proclaimed “prophet” Julie Green told Rudy Giuliani that God assured her that Giuliani will receive “total exoneration” and “your name will be fully cleared.” After failing for a third time in the last eight years to get elected to Congress, Mark Burns declares that “God is not done with me yet.” It’s pretty telling that […]
July 11, 2024 11:27 am
‘They Worship Other Gods’: Joel Webbon Says Non-Christians Living In His Neighborhood Is A Sign Of God’s Judgment
Last month, radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon participated in a panel discussion during which he called for an end to immigration because he had to explain to his daughter why there was a woman in “straight-up Hindu garb at our neighborhood swimming pool.” “I don’t even know what country I’m in, in my own […]
July 10, 2024 5:16 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Secretary of Retribution
Jordan Green and Mark Alesia @ Raw Story: Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested Trump’s loyal surrogates have duly embraced the project — perhaps no one more zealously than Ivan Raiklin, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who bills himself […]
July 10, 2024 5:10 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Three Days
Self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman is now blaming the Biden administration for the COVID protocols that were put in place in 2020, when Donald Trump was president. Gene Bailey and Greg Stephens repeat the false claim that President George Washington and Congress made a covenant with God during his first inauguration: “The first recorded act of […]
July 10, 2024 2:11 pm
Ryan Walters Taps Christian Nationalists and Right-Wing Propagandists To Overhaul Oklahoma’s Social Studies Curriculum
Last month, Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters announced that the Bible must be taught in all public schools in the state. Now, Walters is taking things a step further, announcing that the state’s social studies curriculum will be overhauled in order to further promote his Christian nationalist worldview. “The revised standards […]
July 9, 2024 5:17 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Surrounded By Fraudsters
Philip Bump @ The Washington Post: The ‘great replacement’ theory, now in legislation form A Republican effort to combine election denialism and border alarmism, known as the Save Act, is having the desired effect. Andre Gee and Asawin Suebsaeng @ Rolling Stone: The Fyre Fest Fraudster Is Connecting Trump With Rappers Trump’s Justice Department sent […]