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July 26, 2023 4:57 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: False Statements
Melissa Gira Grant @ The New Republic: A Real Wedding Website in a Fake Gay Wedding Website Case. Joe Jervis: Bannon Crony Gets Five Years In Border Wall Scam. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: For absurd reasons, MAGA cultists think FOX News supports The Satanic Temple. Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Mitch McConnell Whisked […]
July 26, 2023 4:55 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Turning Them Into ‘The Lesbians’
Sean Feucht says that he is leading worship services in state capitols about the nation because “it’s time to reject the hopeless picture of America the Left continues to paint”: “I refuse to watch America continue down the path of Godlessness and hopelessness.” Christian nationalist activist Floyd Brown reports that he recently had dinner with […]
July 26, 2023 2:59 pm
Right-Wing Pastor John Amanchukwu Says Allowing Students Access to LGBTQ-Friendly Books Is ‘Mental Rape’
Right-wing pastor John Amanchukwu has built a reputation for himself and generated lots of media coverage by making appearances before North Carolina school boards to rant about the supposedly “perverted” books that are available in school libraries. He’s so pleased with himself that he’s taking his bigotry-promoting show on the road. Amanchukwu is a pastor […]
July 25, 2023 5:07 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Crimes Against America
Justin Baragona @ The Daily Beast: Glenn Beck Demands Target, a Store He’s Actively Boycotting, Sell His Book. Media Matters: Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be “put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America.” Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: ‘Disgusting and Anti-American’: Dem Congressman Defends Vivek Ramaswamy From MAGA Pastor’s Hinduophobic Attack. […]
July 25, 2023 5:06 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: I Wanted Whimsy
Shane Vaughn gripes that “the notion of the nuclear family with the man as the head of the household is no more”: “The godless idea of ‘Happy wife Happy Life’ has emasculated men into household boy toys —- rather than the rulers of the realm.” Pseudonymous right-wing commentator Peachy Keenan believes that the end goal […]
July 25, 2023 3:21 pm
Taking Christian Nationalist to the Next Level: Trump Supporters Merge Political Rallies With Spiritual Revivals
In 2021, MAGA evangelist Lance Wallnau proudly proclaimed himself to be a Christian nationalist and began urging former President Donald Trump to hold political rallies infused with right-wing Christianity. Such rallies would serve a dual purpose, Wallnau argued, by mobilizing conservative voters while also converting those voters into right-wing Christians. As Wallnau sees it, a […]
July 24, 2023 5:03 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Why I’m an Idiot
Kelcie Moseley-Morris @ Georgia Recorder: Male anti-abortion religious leaders mull murder charges for pregnant people at national event. Jacina Hollins-Borges & Sophie Lawton @ Media Matters: Right-wing antifeminist influencers are starting to get a little uncomfortable with all the woman hating. John Fea @ Current: Jack Hibbs is still talking about American history. And it’s […]
July 24, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Red-Pilled By David Barton
MAGA pastor Mark Burns complains that the Department of Justice is “a Gestapo-like weapon” that is being used against former President Donald Trump and flat-out says he doesn’t care what crimes Trump may have committed because “he’s God’s anointed.” Dalton Clodfelter admits that believes “in censoring our opposition.” Stew Peters’ conspiracy theorizing is becoming increasingly […]
July 24, 2023 3:00 pm
Meet Frances Rice, the Right-Wing Activist Shaping Florida’s African American History Standards
Last week, the Florida Department of Education approved new social studies standards for public schools that have been widely criticized for their deficiencies and right-wing bias in teaching about African American history. As CNN reported, the standards were the result of “new legislation under Gov. Ron DeSantis that bars instruction in schools that suggests anyone […]
July 24, 2023 12:40 pm
Christian Nationalist Hank Kunneman Attacks Hindu GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
Last Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on the Christian nationalist program “FlashPoint,” where he assured the audience that even though he is Hindu, he shares their “Judeo-Christian values.” “I’m not running for pastor-in-chief, I’m running for commander-in-chief,” Ramaswamy said. “But I share that same value set with Christians,” he added, adopting a religious-right […]