https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ron desantis en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/15/project-2025-how-trump-loyalists-and-right-wing-leaders-are-paving-fast-road-fascism Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the… Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:16 EDT Peter Montgomery 9dcb6eb8-09f3-4fc3-89d4-60f5c7caed5a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/07/apocalyptic-rhetoric-moms-liberty-summit-illustrates-political-challenge-2024 As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its main events, which took place at… Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:43:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2f4f5ba1-6e10-4395-9607-ee20c7d7d1b8 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/06/moms-liberty-summit-mama-bears-declare-spiritual-war-radical-left “Mamas are the key political force in 2024 and we need to harness that energy!” Ron DeSantis called down from the stage in the Franklin Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, where 650 “joyful warriors” had gathered for the… Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:17:05 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 05c2af7f-1129-4f98-bdc8-5b2821f0da3e 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/2022/11/23/when-violence-inevitable-club-q-and-success-system Thirty people in a queer club were shot with an AR-15 by a man with a prior criminal record. Thirty people in a queer club were shot with the Christian Right’s revered weapon as Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022 dawned… Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:53:22 EST Heron Greenesmith 62a758ba-3191-4656-a916-fac8b8f97419 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/2022/11/07/quiet-part-very-much-out-loud-conservative-publication-calls-embrace-totalitarianism White Christian nationalism has been shown by researchers to be strongly connected to authoritarianism and anti-democratic sentiment. “White Christian nationalism is not just in the people who stormed the Capitol but it’s powerfully associated and a leading predictor of whether… Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:28:33 EST Annika Brockschmidt 1d743ac9-71c0-4a5b-b758-26a659db064f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/25/do-they-even-read-bible-why-exposing-white-evangelical-hypocrisy-dead-end Almost every day I run across some version of this Twitter interaction: Original Tweet: Bible/Jesus/God says Comment: Haven’t you read ? Christians who purport to love the Bible never seem to read it! Examples of this phenomenon abound. If you’re… Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:07:31 EDT Cavan Concannon 214e93d9-aefb-4fb3-8ba2-c73c0c71d3ab https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/04/white-nationalist-ideology-shines-through-elite-maga-conference-inside-natcon-part-ii Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion, O Lord, over this nation”… Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT Ben Lorber 8b40abd3-629f-4727-a893-35feb44bb83d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/03/elite-movement-laying-foundation-maga-will-outlast-trump-and-remake-america-inside “Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in Miami, as a 29-year-old… Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:51:03 EDT Ben Lorber 6663c40d-e1d0-4923-8e9c-1df64285ab08 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/23/inspired-anti-abortion-movement-and-qanon-anti-trans-rhetoric-blatant-call-violence They care for trans children and teenagers—and they’re getting death threats. On August 30th, Boston Children’s Hospital was shut down due to a bomb threat , and shut down a second time on September 9th, the latest in a series… Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:01:47 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque b8fa6819-5726-427a-a0cf-bebf925256fd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/18/media-fail-acknowledge-2024-hopeful-ron-desantis-catholic-biden We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis , Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible 2024 frontrunner for the Republican presidential candidate, as a Catholic politician. He clearly is one, although documenting the ins and outs of how DeSantis’s… Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:05:24 EDT Chrissy Stroop db4912f2-0df5-4837-b413-0fd318e9628c https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/22/has-american-conservatism-abandoned-christian-right Most of us don’t want to grow up to be our parents, especially when we’re in our twenties and ready to forge our own path in the world. For better or for worse, age often proves that we’re more like… Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:08:57 EDT Bradley Onishi 50c9ce58-7193-43cb-8adf-6644f65e7c20 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/19/rights-grooming-rhetoric-didnt-begin-qanon-you-have-go-back-bit-further-get-source It seems that all the Right wants to talk about these days is “grooming.” These accusations became popular recently in Florida with Republicans pushing for a law equating books about LGBT families with pedophiles grooming children. Governor Ron DeSantis’s press… Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:00:19 EDT Sophie Bjork-James 4e377070-fcc9-4e1c-8f18-8a67341c33d8