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May 19, 2023 2:48 pm
Christian Nationalist Political Operative David Lane Is Targeting 2024 Early Voting States
David Lane is a relatively unknown yet highly influential Christian nationalist political operative who has spent tens of millions of dollars hosting conferences aimed at encouraging conservative Christian religious leaders to politically mobilize their congregations and also to run for office themselves. Via his American Renewal Project organization, Lane organizes free events where pastors and […]
May 18, 2023 5:19 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The N-Word for White People
Bob Smietana @ Religion News Service: What is Christian nationalism, anyway? Media Matters: Candace Owens: “Transgenderism … [is] an ill, it’s a cancer and we should fight it.” John Russell @ LGBTQ Nation: NC Lt. Gov. falsely says clinics performed “transgender surgery” on 5-year-olds. Nick Visser @ HuffPost: GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Manhandles Activist At […]
May 18, 2023 5:16 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Vote Delivery Machine
Floyd Brown reports that Christian nationalist political organizer David Lane is targeting the Black church in his ongoing effort to build “a vote delivery machine for the GOP” in North Carolina. Laura Loomer doesn’t “really enjoy living in this country anymore”: “The collapse of America is inevitable. It’s only a matter of time.” Jon Miller […]
May 17, 2023 5:21 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Kind of Hoping
Tim Dickinson @ Rolling Stone: Evil Mermaids, Demons, and Donald: This Pro-Trump Conference Got Real Weird. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: GOP ‘living in its own universe’ with reactions to Durham report. Steve Reilly @ The Messenger: Five Republican Signers of ‘No Earmarks Pledge’ Are Requesting More Than $175 Million in Earmarks. Josh Israel […]
May 17, 2023 5:20 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Lots of 1488 Stuff
Dennis Prager declares that “if every church, every school, every editorial page and every Democrat repeatedly told Americans, ‘Do not hate whites,’” then “almost overnight, the gratuitous hatreds wrecking our country would begin to disappear.” Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin remembers the good old days when people like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec used to talk about […]
May 16, 2023 5:16 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Gosar’s Groyper
Andrew Prokop @ Vox: The failure of the Durham report. Amanda Marcotte @ Salon: Trump’s dogwhistle to the Christian right is a permission slip to openly hate women. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian “prophet”: Climate change is God’s way of pointing us to Bible verses. Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Capitol Hill Staffer […]
May 16, 2023 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Insanity That’s Perpetuating Society
In case there was any doubt, the ReAwaken America Tour events are full of QAnon conspiracy theorists. Devin Nunes, Michael Flynn, Mike Lindell, and various QAnon conspiracy theorists will be joining radical right-wing priest James Altman at a “Determined Patriotism” conference next month. Right-wing pastor Kent Christmas insists that he and the other “prophets” who […]
May 16, 2023 3:57 pm
Preacher Jesse Duplantis Delivers a Stunningly Wrong Lesson in American History
Hundreds of Christian conservatives gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, last week for a two-day “FlashPoint Live” conference held at Cornerstone Church. FlashPoint is a program that airs on The Victory Channel, a television network founded by televangelist Kenneth Copeland, that has been dedicated to spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories, and Christian nationalist rhetoric since its creation in […]
May 12, 2023 4:48 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Traitor
Zachary Petrizzo @ The Daily Beast: Right-Wingers Turn on Elon Musk Over New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Alex Seitz-Wald @ NBC News: RFK Jr. not participating in far-right event after being listed as a speaker, aide says. Joe Jervis: Donohue: LGBTQ Families Can’t Celebrate Mother’s Day Alex Nguyen and William Melhado @ The Texas Tribune: […]
May 12, 2023 4:48 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Twice As Hard
A group of MAGA cultists gathered at one of former President Donald Trump’s properties in Florida Thursday night for a “Pastors For Trump” event that kicked off with a prayer asking God to “intervene in the affairs of this nation” by giving Trump “divine wisdom” and “divine discernment.” Prosperity Gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis loves to […]