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September 25, 2023 5:16 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Another Felony?
Ron Filipkowski @ Meidas Touch: Did Trump Commit a Felony at a SC Gun Shop Today? Emine Yücel @ Talking Points Memo: Trump Threatens To Go After Comcast, NBC For ‘Treason’ If He Gets Reelected. Tori Otten @ The New Republic: Right-Wingers Already Have a Wild Conspiracy Theory About Senator Menendez. Maya Henson Carey @ […]
September 25, 2023 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Get Over Your Pious Predilections
The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship named Sen. Tim Scott its Distinguished Christian Statesman for 2023. Jon Miller says that the real issue regarding the scandal involving Rep. Lauren Boebert is that “she was acting like a disgusting godless whore in public, and we used to stone women for this.” David Lane gripes […]
September 25, 2023 2:27 pm
‘I Want to See It Rule’: Matt Shea Unabashedly Promotes Seven Mountains Dominionism and Christian Nationalism
In 2019, the Washington state House of Representatives released a 108-page report detailing how one of its own members, Rep. Matt Shea, had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism” and “planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States Government in three states outside the […]
September 22, 2023 4:15 pm
At Pray Vote Stand, Religious-Right Leaders Focus on Taking and Wielding Political Power to Impose ‘Biblical Worldview’
Analysis The Family Research Council’s recent Pray Vote Stand activist conference was intensely focused on helping religious-right activists and likeminded politicians take greater political power and use it to impose their religious and political worldviews on American schools, law, and society. Among the political goals on display: Getting Trump or a likeminded Republican back in […]
September 22, 2023 3:27 pm
Right-Wing Religious, Political Groups Expand Hostile School Board Takeover Efforts
“I’m worried about a new type of school board candidate that we’ve seen in the last couple of elections. These aren’t our traditional candidates who come to board elections with experience of civic engagement, participation. … Lately, we see kind of an angry parent. And sometimes they’re not even parents, but they’re running on wedge […]
September 18, 2023 1:08 pm
Religious Right Leaders Demand Next GOP SCOTUS Nominees Meet ‘Biblical Worldview’ Standard
You might think religious-right leaders would be more than satisfied with the Trump Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and invited the criminalization of abortion nationwide, but you would be wrong. Religious-right activists are delving deep into the religious views, church attendance, and families of conservative judges considered possible Supreme Court nominees under […]
September 15, 2023 12:25 pm
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Raising Campaign Cash on Bogus Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Commentary House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, under pressure from former President Donald Trump and threats from right-wing members of his caucus, announced this week that the House will open an impeachment inquiry into the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s family. Almost immediately, McCarthy began using that decision to raise money for his own campaign committee. […]
September 15, 2023 12:06 pm
New FRC Action President Jody Hice Wants $4 Million for 2024 Super PAC
Just before the official opening of the Family Research Council’s religious-right activist conference Pray Vote Stand Friday morning, FRC’s political arm FRC Action hosted a breakfast gathering where former member of Congress and new FRC Action President Jody Hice talked about the group’s voter turnout plans for 2024. FRC Action is hoping to raise $4 […]
September 12, 2023 5:07 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Baseless, Symbolic Impeachment
Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: McCarthy lacks evidence, announces impeachment inquiry anyway. Philip Bump @ The Washington Post: Assessing the allegations that triggered McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry. Media Matters: Charlie Kirk: “The only reason to impeach Biden is just for the symbolism of it.” Ryan J. Reilly @ NBC News: InfoWars host Owen Shroyer sentenced […]
September 12, 2023 5:05 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Demonic Drugs
Todd Starnes interviewed Mike Huckabee on Monday but apparently didn’t think it was important to ask Huckabee about his recent comment threatening that if President Donald Trump fails to win the 2024 election because of the multiple indictments he is facing, “it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by […]