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May 3, 2023 3:43 pm
Sen. Tim Scott Says the Government Should Be ‘Bowing the Knee to the Church’
Sen. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is expected to officially announce that he is running for president later this month. As part of his nascent campaign, Scott traveled in April to Iowa, where Republicans are poised to hold their traditional first-in-the-nation presidential caucus in February 2024. While traveling across the state, Scott reportedly participated […]
May 3, 2023 12:13 pm
Trump and Roger Stone Slam DeSantis-Boosting Florida Bill, Demand More Restrictions on Voting
Florida is set to pass an election bill that would roll back voters’ rights, but not all Republicans are happy. Self-styled “dirty trickster” Roger Stone calls the legislation the beginning of the “Californication of Florida,” claiming the bill will make it easier to commit voter fraud. Stone’s real concern may be that the legislation changes […]
May 2, 2023 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: They ‘Hate Homosexuals More Than We Do’
Matt Shuham @ HuffPost: A Reality Star Sheriff Could Swing A Senate Race To The Far Right. Alex Bollinger @ LGBTQ Nation: Rachel Maddow connects Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill to Arizona Christians. Media Matters: Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles: “I would probably happily burn” many books. Joe Jervis: FL Rep: Terrorists Hate Homosexuals More Than […]
May 2, 2023 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Loser, Weirdo, Incel Freak
Jonathan Cahn claims that Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News “wasn’t natural” but rather due to “demonic forces”: “It was about the spirits he’s exposing coming after him.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to expose the “Biden crime family” and declares that “no amount of lawyers will be able to stop me from exposing the […]
May 2, 2023 2:33 pm
Megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs Says ‘The Transgender Agenda’ Is a ‘Plan of None Other Than Satan Himself’
Christian nationalist megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs posted a video on his YouTube channel Friday in which he claimed that “Christians are completely fine with transgender people doing their transgenderism in their own home” but that “transgenderism is actually a sexually perverted cult.” Hibbs, the right-wing pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills church in California, is […]
May 1, 2023 4:56 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Friend of the Court
Steve Eder and Jo Becker @ The New York Times: How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Court. David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: ‘Moral Rot’: Abbott’s ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Attack on Five Murder Victims Called ‘Dehumanizing’ – It Also May Be False. Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Donald Trump Posts Attack […]
May 1, 2023 4:55 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Day That Truth Died
Faith Wins recently hosted a pastor’s summit in Washington, D.C., where David Barton taught his brand of Christian nationalist disinformation to “members of Congress …. decorated military generals, media and government professionals, pastors, Congressional staffers and more.” Jim Garlow laments the firing of Tucker Carlson from Fox News: “Tucker spoke TRUTH. And he is gone. […]
May 1, 2023 4:09 pm
Why the Christian Nationalist ‘History’ Peddled by David Barton Simply Cannot Be Trusted
Late in 2022, religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton trotted out a new historical and biblical misrepresentation designed to support his Christian nationalist political agenda. While speaking at a Truth & Liberty Coalition conference in Colorado in September, Barton claimed that Patrick Henry’s famous “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech and a letter written by […]
April 28, 2023 5:11 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Possessed by Demons
Ryan J. Reilly and Olympia Sonnier @ NBC News: Donald Trump embraces Jan. 6 defendant who wants Mike Pence executed. Joe Jervis: DeSantis: My Prayers Turned Away A Major Hurricane. Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Mike Lindell Wildly Claims Fox News Was in on 2020 ‘Election Crime,’ Says ‘Fox’s Candidate Is Ron DeSantis.’ Mattathias Schwartz @ […]
April 28, 2023 5:10 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Antichrist Cult
The results of an informal survey of supporters of D. James Kennedy Ministries, “a mere 1% trust President Biden” and “99% reject sex education that features transgender exploration and surgery.” Given that D. James Kennedy Ministries is a religious-right Christian nationalist organization, these findings are not particularly shocking. Stew Peters and Ella Maulding agree that […]