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January 2, 2024 3:17 pm
Michigan’s MAGA GOP Chair Kristina Karamo Under Fire From Fellow Party Activists
Kristina Karamo, an election-denying MAGA activist and chair of the Michigan Republican Party, is facing a mutiny from within the battleground state’s divided and debt-ridden GOP, the New York Times reported over the weekend. Among Karamo critics’ complaints is a scoring system adopted by the party to separate hard-core conservatives from RINOs—Republicans in name only—a […]
January 2, 2024 2:46 pm
Meet Brenden Dilley, The Violence-Hungry MAGA Cultist Behind Trump’s ‘Troll Army’
Last month, the New York Times profiled what it called the “troll army” that is attacking former President Trump’s enemies on social media as part of the campaign to get him elected to the White House in 2024. The leading figure behind this “army” is MAGA broadcaster and “life coach” Brenden Dilley, whose cultish devotion […]
December 22, 2023 11:07 am
Anti-LGBTQ Christian Nationalist Leader Joins Arkansas State Library Board
Former state Sen. Jason Rapert has officially joined the Arkansas state library board after most senate Republicans supported his nomination. “Rapert’s appointment to the seven-member library board comes during a conservative-led push to keep children from obtaining or even seeing certain books, especially those with LGBTQ+ topics,” the Arkansas Advocate noted. Rapert’s term runs through October 2029. […]
December 14, 2023 11:37 am
Norman Lear and Right Wing Watch: A Remembrance
Commentary Cultural icon and People For the American Way founder Norman Lear died on Dec. 5 at the age of 101, sparking an outpouring of respectful remembrances for his groundbreaking career in television and engaged citizenship. Right Wing Watch is proud to carry on his commitment to pluralism and equality, and to exposing and challenging […]
December 12, 2023 11:55 am
Banning Abortion Was ‘Front and Center’ at Christian Nationalist Conference Addressed by Speaker Mike ‘Moses’ Johnson
Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion hardliner who was kicked out of the priesthood by Pope Francis this year, says that banning abortion was “front and center throughout the day” during the recent meeting of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, the gathering at which Speaker of the House Mike Johnson declared that God had prepared him to […]
December 6, 2023 5:12 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The One Day Dictator
PFAW: People For the American Way Mourns the Death And Celebrates the Life of Founder Norman Lear. People For the American Way is mourning the death of its founder Norman Lear, who remained an active board member until his death on Dec. 5, 2023. Lear died at home, surrounded by loved ones, at the age […]
December 6, 2023 3:29 pm
American Moses: Mike Johnson at the National Association of Christian Lawmakers Gala
Christian nationalists gathered Tuesday night at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C, for a National Association of Christian Lawmakers gala at which House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered the keynote address and received the NACL’s American Patriot Award for Christian Honor and Courage. The tenor of the evening was set by far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor […]
December 5, 2023 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Cryo-Orphans and Embryonic Neighbors
Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Oklahoma Senate candidate: Parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God.” Dusty Deevers, the Republican nominee for a vacant Oklahoma State Senate seat, delivered a sermon last year in which he railed against in vitro fertilization (IVF), saying that embryos “were incarcerated in frozen prisons,” referring to them […]
December 5, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Legalized Man-Stealing
Far-right pastor and anti-vax conspiracy theorist Joshua Feuerstein has announced that he is running for a seat in the Texas state House. Tim Barton declares that Jesus cares deeply about economic issues because “there are more parables [in the Bible] that deal with money, that deal with economics than any other topic.” Tim Barton obviously […]
December 5, 2023 3:44 pm
House Speaker Mike Johnson Will Be Honored Tonight at Christian Nationalist Gathering
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will give a keynote address and receive an award at a gala being held by the National Association of Christian Lawmakers at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The Museum of the Bible has become a base camp for right-wing Christian organizing in the nation’s capital. The National Association […]