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August 31, 2023 5:07 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Show of Force
Right-wing pastor Allen Mashburn is close friends with North Carolina’s Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and with Robinson now running for governor, Mashburn is running for lieutenant governor because Robinson is going to need someone to “stand with [him] and stand strong”: “We have to formulate a show of force.” Nick Fuentes reiterates his […]
August 31, 2023 3:44 pm
Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs’ Campaign to Out LGBTQ Students Begins at Home
Earlier this year, far-right anti-LGBTQ pastor Jack Hibbs announced that he was launching a campaign to pressure local school boards to adopt policies requiring schools to inform parents if their children identify at school in any way other than as the sex listed on their birth certificate. A bill imposing this requirement on all schools […]
August 30, 2023 5:06 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Satan’s Publication
Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: ‘I Don’t Want To Have To Draw My Rifle’: MAGA Lawmaker Suggests Trump Prosecution Could Lead To Civil War. Molly Olmstead @ Slate: How Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, Is Aligning Himself With Christian Nationalists. David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: News CPAC’s Matt and Mercedes Schlapp Attack ‘Satan’s […]
August 30, 2023 5:03 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Hate the Poor
Stew Peters defends his bloodthirsty desire to see his political enemies executed: “If you don’t want the rope, don’t commit treason.” Far-right conspiracy theorist Clay Clark is starting to wonder how GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy became so wealthy: “How is it possible that this man has lost $3 billion, yet deposited $950 million of […]
August 30, 2023 3:44 pm
David Barton Says Democrats Are Not ‘God-Fearing’ And Thus Have ‘Less Moral Restraints’ About Cheating in Elections
When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton played a key role in promoting his campaign to evangelicals, declaring that Christians had a biblical obligation to vote for Trump because he was “God’s guy.” Barton continued to praise Trump throughout his term in office, even predicting that Trump could go […]
August 29, 2023 5:11 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Take Down the Education System as We Know It
Emma Brown and Peter Jamison @ The Washington Post: The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry. Roger Sollenberger @ The Daily Beast: Inside Matt Schlapp’s Offer to Settle the Sexual Battery Lawsuit Against Him. Lisa Mascaro @ The Associated Press: Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and […]
August 29, 2023 5:09 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: We Need a Storyteller
Glenn Beck reveals that Sen. Mike Lee has repeatedly encouraged him to run for president because “somebody needs to articulate where we are and what we face and who we have always been.” Jarrin Jackson asserts that “the Founders didn’t mean ‘principled pluralism’ when they gave us the [First Amendment]”: “America is a Christian nation […]
August 29, 2023 1:16 pm
‘Extreme Accountability’: Stew Peters Delivers a Bloodthirsty Rant at the Latest ReAwaken America Event
Stew Peters is a far-right virulently anti-LGBTQ bigot who regularly uses his nightly “The Stew Peters Show” program, speeches, and social media accounts to promote white nationalists and antisemites and to spread wild conspiracy theories, bigotry, and calls for violence. Lately, those calls for violence have become increasingly explicit, as just last week Peters used […]
August 28, 2023 5:04 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: An Impeachment Without Evidence
Natalie Allison @ Politico: CPAC vice chair resigns amid turmoil. Isaac Arnsdorf and Beth Reinhard @ The Washington Post: CPAC urged to probe more sexual misconduct claims against chair Matt Schlapp. Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The edgelord of the federal judiciary. Alex Bollinger @ LGBTQ Nation: Marjorie Taylor Greene calls trans people a “cult” that’s […]
August 28, 2023 5:03 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Retribution Presidency
Charlie Kirk declares that “Trump 2.0 will be a retribution presidency.” Dalton Clodfelter asserts that “the country would be better off if President Trump was a monarch.” Neo-Nazi Ryan Sanchez, who posts under the name “Culture War Criminal,” praises “hero Kyle Rittenhouse” for having “liquidated two Jewish Antifa terrorists and wounded a third in Kenosha, […]