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June 27, 2023 5:04 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: That Evil Pride Flag
Jeremy Herb @ CNN: CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents. Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Trump Insists Recording of Him Showing Off ‘Secret’ Documents is ‘Actually an Exoneration.’ Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The Supreme Court decides not to destroy democracy in the United States. William Vaillancourt @ The Daily Beast: Jesse […]
June 27, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Murder of Marriage
Scott Lively declares that “the grooming of children is a long-term process, as was the murder of marriage. Obergefell wasn’t a knife stabbed through the heart in a back-alley surprise attack – it was a decades-long poisoning of God’s institution of marriage.” Steven Franssen thinks that “it’s stupid when women aren’t pregnant at age 18.” […]
June 27, 2023 3:37 pm
Christian Nationalists Launch ‘Major Push’ to Take Advantage of the Far-Right Supreme Court
Earlier this month, Right Wing Watch reported that religious-right activists are seeking to take advantage of the far-right majority’s control of the Supreme Court to start enacting Christian nationalist policies all across the nation. Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists […]
June 27, 2023 1:30 pm
Religious Right Activists Cheer Trump, Calls for ‘Spiritual Civil War’ at ‘Road to Majority’ Conference
Former President Donald Trump received a rapturous hero’s welcome Saturday night as he delivered the closing keynote address to a room packed with religious-right activists in Washington, D.C. for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority conference. Trump knew his audience. “We are warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, atheists, […]
June 26, 2023 5:03 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: I Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller
Sarah Posner @ MSNBC: The big myth about the supposed ‘anti-trans’ backlash. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian evangelist: I helped a woman grow an inch taller instantaneously! David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Liberty University VP Cites Hitler and Stalin in Plea for Conservatives to ‘Control Education.’ Ken Meyer @ Mediaite: ‘I’m […]
June 26, 2023 5:01 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Woke to Majority
If you missed the right-wing Road To Majority conference last week, we can pretty much sum it all up for you in just one word: Woke. Tim Barton says that critics have to use ad hominem attacks on him and his father, Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, for not having any academic credentials as historians […]
June 26, 2023 11:14 am
South Dakota State Rep. Joe Donnell Claims Mount Rushmore Is a Demonic Portal Spreading Communism Across the Nation
Earlier this month, a group of QAnon conspiracy theorists and self-proclaimed “prophets” held an “Open The Heavens: Let God Arise” conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, where some attendees claimed to have seen an image of former President Donald Trump appear in the sky over Mount Rushmore. Among the participants was South Dakota state Rep. […]
June 23, 2023 5:03 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Titanic Conspiracy
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Mariana Alfaro @ The Washington Post: Kari Lake accused of defamation in suit filed by Arizona election official. Brad Reed @ Raw Story: ‘Boo all you want’: Chris Christie defiantly slams Trump in front of MAGA audience. Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: Infowars Host Owen Shroyer Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 […]
June 23, 2023 5:01 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Head and Not the Tail
Ralph Reed kicked off Road to Majority conference by telling right-wing activists that God told him to start Faith and Freedom Coalition because “Christians who love God and love their country” should be “the head and not the tail” of the U.S. government. An angry Elijah Schaffer says that if people would just “open their […]
June 23, 2023 11:50 am
Josh Hawley Delivers Christian Nationalist Rallying Cry Against ‘Woke’ at Road to Majority
Sen. Josh Hawley delivered a Christian nationalist rallying cry at the religious-right activist conference Road to Majority on Friday morning, saying the Christian faith had “formed the soul of this country” and denouncing “the new priests of wokery” who he claimed are trying to “impose on us a religion of woke.” “There is not one […]