Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more
A Last-Minute Add to The Stimulus Bill Was Meant to Restrict State Tax Cuts so that states could not steal COVID Relief funds from the recipients Congress deemed deserving of aid and use the federal funds to subsidize tax cuts for the usual suspects, i.e., corporations and the wealthy. A last-minute change in the $1.9 … Read more
In 2014, it was corporations and their interest in maintaining the profitability of corporations that led them to pressure the legislature to defeat the so-called religious liberty (“freedom to discriminate”) bills against the LGBTQ community – in Arizona this was SB1062 – when threats of boycotts and responding to pressure from business interests, and worries about … Read more
When the United States was founded, it was a white male patrician society: only white men of property were permitted to vote in a majority of states, which prevented poor people, freedmen former slaves, Native Americans, and women from voting. Following small “r” republican logic, citizens were believed to need an economic stake in society in … Read more
Republicans have been in control of the Arizona legislature since January 1967. (You read that right). Virtually all of our current election laws have been drafted and passed by Republican legislators to benefit Republican legislators maintaining their decades-long control over this state, from changing absentee voting to early voting by mail, to creating the Permanent … Read more