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June 14, 2023 5:07 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: God’s Plan to Save the Country
Stew Peters declares that “It’s time the Feds categorize the Soros family as enemy combatants”: “Seize their assets. NOW.” Shane Vaughn urges President Donald Trump to do everything he can to drag out the legal proceedings stemming from his mishandling of classified documents until he is reelected in 2024, so that he can then just […]
June 14, 2023 1:55 pm
Born In Blood: MAGA Pastor Kent Christmas Delivers a Shocking Sermon
Kent Christmas, the radically right-wing pastor of Regeneration Nashville, used his sermon last Sunday to urge those in his congregation to show the same sort of “passion” that drives radical Islamic terrorists to be willing to “die for their beliefs.” Christmas, a Trump–loving MAGA pastor and conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly declared that God will […]
June 13, 2023 5:29 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Bathroom Door Locks
Inae Oh @ Mother Jones: Donald Trump Arrested, Again. Kelly Weill, Zachary Petrizzo and Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Trump Wanted Courthouse Protests But Instead Got MAGA Misfits. Sarah Rumpf @ Mediaite: Kevin McCarthy Argues That Trump Hoarding Documents Next to the Toilet Was Sufficiently Secure Because ‘A Bathroom Door Locks.’ Hunter Walker @ […]
June 13, 2023 5:27 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Ideological Colonialism
The Family Research Council accuses the Biden administration of “ideological colonialism” because it has “systematically elevated the importance of LGBT ideology in American foreign policy.” A reminder that David Barton isn’t going to stop spreading Christian nationalist disinformation even after it has been debunked. David Lane believes that “throughout the 17th, 18th and much of […]
June 13, 2023 1:09 pm
Far-Right Activist Jack Burkman Announces Hunger Strike to Protest His Legal Woes
In 2020, far-right activists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl orchestrated a campaign of robocalls targeting thousands of Black Americans in an effort to dissuade them from voting, one of the duo’s many attention-seeking political dirty tricks. Some of their projects, like press conferences in which they trafficked in transparently false smears against political opponents, earned them mostly […]
June 12, 2023 5:22 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Confusing Career Advice
Madeline Peltz and Jacina Hollins-Borges @ Media Matters: Career women in right-wing media tell young girls to give up their dreams at Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service: With Turning Point Faith, pastors use politics as a church-growth strategy. Sarah Posner @ Talking Points Memo: How Pat Robertson Helped Create The […]
June 12, 2023 5:21 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: This Is War!
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly set to endorse North Carolina’s far-right Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in his bid to become the GOP nominee for governor. In response to Trump’s latest indictment, MAGA cult pastor Shane Vaughn delivered a screaming two hour sermon this weekend: “This is war!” Ali Alexander declares that “If […]
June 12, 2023 2:32 pm
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland Says This Nation ‘Should Be Completely, Totally Based on What George Washington Said to Jesus’
The Christian nationalist program “FlashPoint” held a two-day “Truth and Freedom” event at Faith Life Church in New Albany, Ohio, last week. Airing on televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel network, FlashPoint was launched in support of former President Donald Trump’s reelection in 2020 and has been dedicated to spreading lies about the election, disinformation, and […]
June 12, 2023 9:46 am
Moms for Liberty: Authoritarianism in the Name of Parents’ Rights
Moms for Liberty, the political group whose members demand that books be pulled from school libraries, harass teachers and school officials, push right-wing takeovers of school boards, and align themselves with authoritarian, anti-equality politicians, are holding their second annual summit in Philadelphia at the end of this month. The summit’s speakers list is clear evidence […]
June 9, 2023 4:37 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: 37 Charges
Kelsey Ables, Adela Suliman, John Wagner, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Amy B Wang and Mariana Alfaro @ The Washington Post: Trump criminal indictment is unsealed, shows he faces 37 charges. Evan Perez, Sara Murray, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb @ CNN: Trump aide Walt Nauta indicted in classified documents case. John Fea @ Current: Court evangelical Robert […]