Candidates Continue Promoting Key Themes of White Nationalism Following Synagogue Shooting

Trump is briefed by Michael Burnett about the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh

Today, President Trump visited Pittsburgh, PA after a violently antisemitic attack at Tree of Life synagogue left 11 dead on Saturday. The shootings are the deadliest attack on Jews in the United States. Jewish leaders affiliated with Bend the Arc…

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Trump, the Republican Party, and Westmoreland County

Trump House, March 2018.

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump obtained 63.5 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 32.5 percent in Westmoreland County.4 The county is now solidly red, but it hasn’t always been. I grew up in Westmoreland County in the 1960s and…

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Glenn Beck, Mark Levin Try to Quell Christian Right Neo-Confederates

Some critics tend to cast the Christian Right movement as monolithic, when in actuality it has always been at just as fractious and dynamic as it has been powerful and influential. And yet, its considerable successes are sometimes obscured by its…

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Profile on the Right: Louie Gohmert

Though there are many politicians on the Right that rely on fear and paranoia to mobilize their base, perhaps none is more consistently provocative than U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas.

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The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule"

An Interview with Claire Conner
A sign that says "America is too great for marxist socialism. Restore your limited. Constitutional Government. www.jbs.org"

Claire Conner’s parents were early members of the John Birch Society (JBS), an aggressively right-wing organization that was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch. Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right (Boston: Beacon Press,…

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Nullification, Neo-Confederates, and the Revenge of the Old Right

A man in a suit talking into a mic and pointing to his left. A sign on the podium says "Ron Paul, 2012, Restore America Now"

Behind the recent surge of nullification bills in state legislatures there is an ongoing battle for the soul of the GOP—and the future of the union itself. The nullification movement’s ideology is rooted in reverence for states’ rights and a…

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Rand Paul's Islamophobic Speeches a Ploy to Win Over Conservatives

At the recent Values Voters Summit, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke on the “War on Christianity”, but his speech was not about prayer in schools or the so-called ‘war on Christmas,’ his focus was radical Islam. Our live blog of the summit outlines…

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Profiles on the Right - Jim DeMint

Jim DeMint is the senior adviser to the Convention of States Project, former president of The Heritage Foundation, and a former Republican U.S Senator from South Carolina. In 2010, DeMint spearheaded Tea Party action. He looked to align the…

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It's Their Party

How the Tea Party Sustains the Anti-LGBT Right
Two transmasculine people embracing while sitting on stairs.

2011 was a frustrating year for the anti-LGBT Right. Despite millions of voters and many millions of dollars generated by a loose coalition of conservative forces to oppose LGBT rights, the LGBT rights movement has made tremendous progress. While…

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The Tea Party: The New Populism

Protesters with signs that say "Obama why are you dividing America? And inciting violence!" and "Obama Why are you collapsing our economy?"

On Feb. 19, 2009, two days after President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill into law1 and one day after the White House announced $75 billion in direct aid to help homeowners refinance troubled mortgages,2 CNBC commentator…

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Talking to the Tea Partiers

I met Barry Silverman at a gathering of the Rockland County Tea Party/Coffee Party at the New City Public Library, about twenty miles north of New York City, in January 2011.

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