Above: Seditious leader Rep. Mark Finchem at the January 6 Insurrection, now a GQP candidate for Secretary of State. See, Mark Finchem was much closer to the Jan. 6 insurrection than he claimed. QAnon/Trump personality cult members are insinuating themselves into local elections boards, and others are running for secretary of state, attorney general and … Read more
The Washington Post recently reported on the Sedition Caucus of the Republican Party that regularly uses violent eliminationist rhetoric towards their political opponents and openly advocates for civil war. House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans: The defiant far-right [fascist] acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican … Read more
Perry Bacon, Jr. in an op-ed addresses “performance politics,” specifically “performance centrism,” something which our two prima donna Democratic divas excel at to our great peril. The problem with performative centrism: In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism … Read more
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to return to work the first week of January, a week earlier than the House. The Hill reports, Democrats set for showdown over filibuster, voting rights: Democrats are barreling toward a showdown over voting rights and changes to the Senate rules, after months of growing frustration from within the caucus. … Read more
The far right has for decades engaged in civil war cosplay with Neo-Confederate “lost cause” and white supremacist organizations, and so-called “patriot” private militias and “sagebrush rebellions.” They call themselves patriots while fantasizing about waging a civil war against the U.S. government. The far right right crossed over from cosplay to actually acting on their … Read more