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March 7, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: It’s All The Jews
It is surprising to hear David and Tim Barton claim that Andrew Jackson was one of the worst presidents in American history given their constant praise for Donald Trump, whose own presidency was modeled on Jackson’s. Jack Hibbs is giddy about getting a shout-out from Trump during his recent NRB speech: “It was an honor […]
March 7, 2024 10:46 am
MAGA Pastor Mark Harris Makes Congressional Comeback in Victory for Christian Nationalists
Rev. Mark Harris, an anti-LGBTQ activist and vice president at the Family Research Council, won a multi-candidate primary election in North Carolina’s 8th congressional district this week, barely crossing the 30 percent threshold he needed to avoid a runoff in a district that has been gerrymandered “to heavily favor Republicans.” In a victory speech, Harris […]
March 7, 2024 9:53 am
Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Highlights Dominionist Threat to Americans’ Freedoms
Analysis The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling declaring that frozen embryos must be treated as persons under the state’s wrongful death law could have devastating consequences for Alabama couples using in-vitro fertilization to help them have children. Beyond that, if Chief Justice Tom Parker’s hopes are realized, the decision could push the entire nation’s legal […]
March 6, 2024 5:03 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Wake Up, People
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling @ The New Republic: Nikki Haley Finally Admits Her Campaign Was Going Nowhere With Haley’s exit, Trump is now running uncontested for the GOP nomination. Matt Shuham @ HuffPost: North Carolina GOP Nominee To Lead Public Schools Was At Jan. 6, Called Islam ‘Evil’ Michele Morrow, who defeated an incumbent Republican Tuesday, […]
March 6, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Punishable By Death
Bianca Gracia, who introduced Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys to Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers in a D.C. parking garage the night before the Jan. 6 insurrection, failed to win her GOP primary in Texas last night. Radical right-wing preacher Joshua Feuerstein was likewise trounced in his bid for the Texas legislature in […]
March 6, 2024 11:11 am
Radical Anti-LGBTQ Christian Nationalist Mark Robinson Is Now The GOP Nominee For Governor Of North Carolina
Mark Robinson is an unabashed Christian nationalist and virulent anti-LGBTQ bigot who has a long history of making offensive and antisemitic comments. As of last night, he is now officially the Republican Party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina. In 2020, Robinson was catapulted from relative obscurity to the lieutenant governor’s office because, he says, […]
March 6, 2024 9:29 am
Is Family Research Council Smearing a Journalist to Suppress Coverage of Christian Nationalist Threat?
Commentary Religious-right leaders are not happy that journalists are paying more attention to Donald Trump’s Christian nationalist supporters’ plans to use the power of the federal government to impose their worldview on Americans if Trump wins this year’s election. The Family Research Council has launched a smear campaign against POLITICO and one of its journalists […]
March 5, 2024 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Awash In Drugs
Igor Bobic @ HuffPost: Kyrsten Sinema Announces She Won’t Seek Reelection The independent senator from Arizona lamented the death of civility and compromise in American politics. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling @ The New Republic: Leading North Carolina GOP Candidate Wants to Be Able to Quote Hitler North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate […]
March 5, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Genuinely Insane
Rick Joyner reports that he had a “significant dream” last night in which he saw that “a major part of the ‘woke’ agenda would be defeated by the U.S. Constitution. For example, the criminalizing of the wrong use of pronouns was declared a violation of both the freedom of speech, and religious liberty, as the […]
March 4, 2024 5:07 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The Rise Of Christian Nationalism
Lawrence Hurley @ NBC News: Supreme Court rules states can’t kick Trump off the ballot The decision swiftly ended the legal fight over whether states can bar Trump from their ballots based on the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Peter Stone @ The Guardian: A far-right US youth group is ramping up its movement to back election […]