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August 16, 2023 5:01 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Get Right to the Hangings
Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Mike Lindell’s Big ‘Election Crime’ Summit Flops at the Start. Beth Harpaz and Jacob Kornbluh @ Forward: Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn blamed Jews for boarding trains to Auschwitz — here’s all the offensive comments he’s made about Jews. Media Matters: BlazeTV’s Steve Deace on vaccine proponents: “Start hanging […]
August 16, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Pink Plague
Mario Murillo continues his crusade against the “false prophets,” declaring that Robin Bullock is a “cult leader” and Kat Kerr is “delusional.” Steve Deace has endorsed Ron DeSantis for president because “we need a ruthless, consistent leader.” Paul Blair, co-founder of Liberty Pastors, is teaching pseudo-historical Christian nationalist nonsense during the seminars that his organization […]
August 16, 2023 3:44 pm
Trump’s Merry Racketeers: Jenna Ellis Edition
Former president Donald Trump was at the center of the criminal charges filed this week related to his attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, but he was not alone: 18 other people were indicted with Trump under racketeering charges brought by a grand jury convened by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney […]
August 16, 2023 3:08 pm
Mike Farris Has a Plan to Get Even Blue States to Support a Convention of States
For over a decade, right-wing activists and elected leaders have been pressing state legislators to call for a dangerous Convention of States that would consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal government now does unconstitutional. Earlier this month, right-wing activists hoping to one day hold […]
August 16, 2023 2:47 pm
Stew Peters Demands Red States Treat the Federal Government ‘As an Occupying Force’ In Response to Trump’s Latest Indictment
Extremist broadcaster Stew Peters reacted to former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment—this one stemming from his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia—by demanding that all states controlled by Republicans rise up in defiance of the federal government and treat the Biden administration as “an occupying power.” The first order […]
August 15, 2023 5:19 pm
Right Wing Round Up: Five Conspiracies
Pema Levy @ Mother Jones: Trump and 18 Allies Slammed With 41 Charges in Sprawling Georgia Election Case. William Bredderman, Matt Young and Brett Bachman @ The Daily Beast: Everyone Indicted With Donald Trump in Georgia. Andrew Prokop @ Vox: The five conspiracies at the heart of the Georgia Trump indictment. David Badash @ The […]
August 15, 2023 5:17 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Cracking Skulls and Making Arrests
Kandiss Taylor fumes after former President Donald Trump was indicted yet again: “We have a literal witch-hunt going on in GA against innocent men and woman and the man we elected President … Vengeance is [the] Lord’s, and it will come.” QAnon conspiracy theorist Dave Hayes is confident that, thanks to Q, Trump is in […]
August 15, 2023 2:49 pm
Virginia School Board Deploys Moms for Liberty-Associated Book Banning Tool
The school board in Hanover County, Virginia, changed its policies in June to give itself the power to remove any title from school libraries, and then used that power to pull 19 books from the shelves. Now the board is forcing librarians to use a book rating tool associated with the right-wing political group Moms […]
August 14, 2023 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Only Through Force
Caleb Howe @ Mediaite: Matt Gaetz Shouts That ‘Only Through Force Do We Make Any Change’ While Standing Beside Trump in Iowa. Nicole Lafond @ Talking Points Memo: California Bar Says It’s Not Buying Eastman’s Rationale For Delay, Citing Recent Interviews. Rowaida Abdelaziz @ HuffPost: Donald Trump Calls Far-Right, Anti-Muslim Extremist Laura Loomer ‘Terrific’ In […]
August 14, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Medieval Witch Doctors
Joseph Farah declares that “we proved that by any reasonable assessment the 2020 election for president of the United States was rigged, stolen, robbed, filched, highjacked and misappropriated for the most immoral purposes imaginable.” Charlie Kirk proclaims that those who provide treatment to transgender youth are “medieval witch doctors” who “should be put in prison”: […]