The Washington Post reports, For Republicans, fealty to Trump’s election falsehood becomes defining loyalty test. The Big Lie is now the central organizing principle of the GQP. The MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump has checked out from reality, and is living in an alternate reality “bubble” that the right-wing propaganda media has created for … Read more
Jeremy Duda at Arizona Mirror updates today’s court action on the GQP Insurrection Caucus of the Arizona Senate’s sham “fraudit.” Cyber Ninjas releases its election audit policies after court order: Following a judge’s ruling that the Arizona Senate’s election audit team can’t keep its policies and procedures secret, lead audit contractor Cyber Ninjas submitted nearly … Read more
Earlier this year, “Malcolm Turnbull accused Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp of eroding democracy in the US and Australia by dividing people and undermining institutions with lies and populist rightwing ideology. Murdoch’s News Corp accused of undermining democracy: The former Australian prime minister told a parliamentary inquiry that Donald Trump’s presidency was to some extent a … Read more
Peter Wehner writes at The Atlantic, The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy: The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up … Read more
Update to Corporate Accountability Backlash To Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills (Updated). 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against … Read more