https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to republican party en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/08/nikki-haleys-slavery-omission-typifies-gops-tragic-pact-white-supremacy Nikki Haley’s headline-generating incident at a town hall in New Hampshire is the perfect metaphor for the current Republican Party and its continued slide into open authoritarianism and White supremacy. At a recent town hall in New Hampshire , the… Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:08:59 EST Annika Brockschmidt 7da44205-3497-46c7-ab61-2d604a0f004e https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/14/ar-15-lapel-pins-are-more-political-provocation-theyre-symbols-violence-heart-white Violence has always been at the center of White Christian nationalism: the vow to impose order on those perceived as un-American, if need be with force, either by the police or by wielding a gun themselves. And while the absolute… Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:25:02 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 34acd5de-b272-4725-8a29-8fd931ece5bd https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/06/2023-cpac-lived-down-expectations-dont-buy-narrative-gop-not-divided-you-might-think Considering that CPAC is the largest conservative conference in the US, the line-up of their 2023 conference was distinctly unimpressive, with some notable names absent from the list of speakers . While Mitch McConnell hasn’t been invited to CPAC in… Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:43:20 EST Annika Brockschmidt 478c4d63-ff3b-4e9a-a662-a5ab2c5bb83b https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/02/christian-nationalist-legislator-introduces-anti-trans-millstone-act-suggesting-biblical A biblical death sentence. In America, in 2023, a legislator has proposed The Millstone Act, which he openly confesses “was named in reference to Matthew 18:6, ‘but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin… Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:06:31 EST Andrew L. Seidel eaa03595-ddd6-4638-ae3f-404c3e0e94db https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/23/gop-candidate-allegedly-orchestrating-shooting-democrats-homes-no-accident On December 4th 2022, eight bullets struck the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa. On December 11th, 12 bullets followed. On January 3rd this year, three bullets hit the house of Linda Lopez, New Mexico senator representing District 11… Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:32:56 EST Annika Brockschmidt ac23963a-9772-4ea0-82f6-0a3493f40397 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/17/desantis-more-polished-and-less-bombastic-trump-he-less-threat-democracy The midterms proved an abysmal disappointment for the Republican Party. Instead of the promised red tsunami, it was more of what many are calling a red ripple. Instead of winning the House by a large margin, they appear to have… Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:02:38 EST Annika Brockschmidt 71bc6ead-51fc-4e93-87ce-f77bf6aa8d6f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/10/marjorie-taylor-greenes-genocide-rhetoric-creates-permission-structure-right-permission Even for her, it was a chilling statement. “We’re all targets now though, for daring to push back against the regime,” Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed at a Trump rally in Michigan last Saturday. This is not the first time she… Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:17:51 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 337bd1d8-d5a2-4150-82ed-c0364f7bbb5e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/29/far-right-embrace-knights-templar-isnt-just-about-faith-tradition-or-history-its-about In 1302, the island of Arwad, off the coast of Syria, fell to Mamluk forces. The Templar garrison died in the assault. The Templar had lost their last stronghold in the Holy Land, and while the other major military orders… Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:36:35 EDT Thomas Lecaque ace1a30c-cd14-4926-a64d-b479dec8536c https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/10/us-reaches-1940s-fork-road-which-path-will-we-choose Readers of the Editorial Board are familiar with my obsession with political time—or how one party and its ideas prevail with a majority of Americans for four or five decades before falling into a period of transition, after which the… Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:45:23 EST John Stoehr 8a7d3c45-9a02-406a-a1ec-09feaf82f7f7 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/11/how-do-you-beat-pretty-damning-impeachment-case-you-lie The House Democrats presented evidence Wednesday substantiating the allegation that, on January 6, Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the United States. For about eight hours, to be followed today by another eight hours, the impeachment managers showed a pattern… Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:56:35 EST John Stoehr c41a5b6e-7ed5-4496-bfa6-11d99c3af882 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/15/reconsidering-reagans-racism-trump-culmination-gippers-gop Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch his presidential run by way of a racist attack on Mexicans—“they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists,” he raged—another presidential aspirant traveled to the… Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:05:37 EDT Neil J. Young 9cb77452-0105-4b6f-ad53-8a1bd98ee5b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/12/07/face-gops-shockingly-anti-democratic-actions-love-moral-failure The corrupt legislative shenanigans by lame-duck Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina have prompted many to reiterate calls for “civility” and “love.” But are those objectively good things? Fri, 07 Dec 2018 01:18:49 EST Daniel Schultz 178ea9a9-a723-434e-986d-ae2c720c2041 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/05/indiana-republicans-are-debating-gay-marriage-amongst-themselves-0 Social conservatives are gearing up for a fight in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state to make sure the party doesn’t define “strong families” in a way that could include gay and lesbian families. While the old party platform committed… Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:26:03 EDT Daniel Silliman c7551b84-2551-4532-842d-047abb80e77b https://religiondispatches.org/2018/04/20/trump-may-be-big-fan-hindu-hindus-are-running-and-winning-democrats On Tuesday, the special election in Arizona’s eighth congressional district could produce the fifth Hindu member of the U.S. House. While Democrat Hiral Tipirneni faces long odds— despite polls showing otherwise—in a reliably red district formerly held by GOP Rep… Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:34:52 EDT Murali Balaji ff562aa9-3015-4ccf-b8c9-40d58a156794 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/08/gop-education-bill-would-radically-rewrite-religious-freedom-and-license-virtually-any Consider for a moment this chilling hypothetical. Imagine that the day after last summer’s white nationalist rally at the University of Virginia, the leaders of the group that marched through the Charlottesville campus shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans take themselves… Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:48:04 EST Patrick Hornbeck a466b487-bfa6-4d55-aa3a-1542c493c383 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/08/all-sudden-theres-nazis-everywhere-and-they-only-seem-associate-one-party Years ago, back in south-central Pennsylvania, I heard one of those friend-of-a-friend stories that seem too good to be true. It was about an older guy, a retired plumber, who still picked up a little work now and then on… Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:02:59 EST Daniel Schultz ceb2873a-e21c-4c11-ae05-7d7b1f1b66b6 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/01/23/jeff-flakes-mormon-influenced-anti-trump-speeches-prophetic-or-performance Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. - Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R), Jan. 17, 2018 Last week, Sen. Jeff… Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:05:51 EST Grant Shreve 59be2aa2-ca18-4a0c-937d-3cceacddb616 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/02/shameful-gop-tax-plan-taxes-reality Okay, we’re off to the races on what the White House and GOP Congressional leadership agree is their “do or die” effort to look vaguely credible, having struck out so far on repealing Obamacare and pretty much everything else Trump… Thu, 02 Nov 2017 04:32:14 EDT Peter Laarman 31f46f7d-4a45-4736-bd7a-bbcdf0ca448b https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/02/francis-era-ending-catholic-bishops-cozy-ties-gop One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the Politico interview with John Boehner concerns the time when Boehner was pushing Rep. Paul Ryan to take the speakership: Ryan never wanted the job; it took Boehner more than… Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:53:03 EDT Patricia Miller 0cacd187-409b-4fc0-950b-c02a56aadf8a https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/30/weak-leadership-blame-catholic-trump-support It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section dedicated to the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation are actually about the role of evangelical and white Catholic voters in… Mon, 30 Oct 2017 01:23:36 EDT Patricia Miller 70b17872-5bc0-4098-84a2-fab26698c4eb https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/19/steve-bannon-and-conservative-cafeteria-catholics The phrase “cafeteria Catholic” first gained currency in the mid-1980s to describe—mostly disparagingly—progressive Catholics who pick and choose from church doctrine, following the precepts they like on poverty and peace while ignoring those they didn’t like on sex—particularly regarding birth… Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:07:24 EDT Patricia Miller ab643db3-6c4a-4012-ad53-c3c3a578c7c4 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/25/catholic-nuns-show-bishops-how-its-done-obamacare In the end, it would be a fitting sort of justice if it were the Catholic nuns who saved the Affordable Care Act. After all, it was only through the efforts of Sister Nancy Keehan of the Catholic Health Association… Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:00:11 EDT Patricia Miller 1365bec1-e6b6-4406-9001-80cad0e99149 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/20/bad-religion-heart-gop-healthcare-policy Even as Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch and putatively face-saving “repeal, then replace” maneuver fails, it’s important to remember that the anti-Obamacare gospel remains firmly in place among True Believers. VP Mike Pence, a “real Christian” in contradistinction to our Sinner in… Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:48:01 EDT Peter Laarman 27867664-08dc-491e-9396-9096da888c76 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/29/gop-isnt-pro-life-after-all The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim to be “pro-life.” It also shows a way forward on abortion for Democrats. Texas Rep. Peter Olson this week became the latest Republican to assert… Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:32:35 EDT Patricia Miller 807cebba-f2e2-4f34-8131-c9c0fd047d57 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/17/irony-really-dead-gop-plans-send-adulterous-third-wife-serial-philanderer-ambassador The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of sexuality for most of my adult voting life. Since the Reagan administration we have seen a party that has consistently hoodwinked voters with its assurances… Wed, 17 May 2017 01:15:47 EDT Patricia Miller f46cf2d6-6844-4a7e-9f89-1f2736bb7441