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Hundreds of elected county sheriffs across the United States, are progressing a nativist anti-immigrant as armed agents of the state working in concert to further support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion.

LGBT groups across the world face struggles as they fight to create global equality for LGBT communities through the UN. Peter Montgomery identifies the groups pushing back against LGBT equality, including the U.S. Christian Right.

I was born (and mostly raised) in Indiana, so let me start off with some classic Midwestern understatement: I’m not thrilled with Indiana’s political trajectory. Okay, now that my Hoosier bona fides…

This past Sunday, at a “Right to Life dinner and auction” in a Detroit suburb, University of Michigan head football coach and keynote speaker Jim Harbaugh told his audience that women must “ have the…

Judging from his recent statements, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be making plans for post-election violence if he’s defeated. At the beginning of August he warned, “I’m afraid…

“Coordination” is a process which allows state, county, and other lower-level governments to give input to federal agencies’ land use plans, in an attempt to achieve consistency. While this process is mentioned in a number of federal acts, the Hard Right promotes an interpretation of it which is close to its doctrines of the county governments as holding more power than the federal government, including the notion that county sheriffs can decide what laws are constitutional.

The separation of church and state feels like bedrock in America. It is, after all, part of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment—that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…

In June 2016, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas anti-abortion TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) law that threatened to shutter all but a handful of the state’s clinics.

Responding to Patriot Movement claims on militias and gun rights, rural economics, the Constitution, public lands, and conspiracy theories.