Update to The Republican Party Has Fully Embraced the QAnon Conspiracy Cult – An Absolute Bar To Holding Political Office (Updated). The QAnon conspiracy cult is a loosely organized, far-right network of people who believe the world is controlled by a satanic cabal of pedophiles and cannibals -some even say lizard people – made up of … Read more
Our sad local newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, offers up this inaccurate and misleading headline today on a report by Howard Fischer: Arizona AG says he found election fraud, gives no details yet. WRONG! The Arizona Republic accurately reports, Attorney general’s report on election in Maricopa County questions procedures, doesn’t allege wrongdoing. The Associated Press … Read more
Radley Balko writes at the Washington Post, QAnon goes mainstream: There’s a common thread between attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as being soft on child predators, the manufactured controversy on the right over whether teachers can mention homosexuality to students, and the anti-trans laws sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures: We’re witnessing the mainstreaming … Read more
The Associated Press reports, Arizona will require voters to prove citizenship, residency: Arizona’s Republican governor on Wednesday signed a bill requiring voters to prove their citizenship to vote in a presidential election, drawing fierce opposition from voting rights advocates who say it risks affecting some 200,000 people. The Legislature’s own lawyers say much of the … Read more
Update to Sounds Like A Plan to Deal With the 147 Sedition Party Insurrectionists (excerpt): A group of North Carolina voters took dramatic legal action against Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-N.C.) reelection bid on Monday, arguing that the Constitution prohibits insurrectionist lawmakers from holding office. The nonprofit Free Speech For People filed a challenge with the … Read more