Above: Armed demonstrators right-wing thugs, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for fellow demonstrators’ pictures outside the Oregon State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2021, in Salem, Oregon (AP Photo/Noah Berger), eleven days after the violent insurrection in the nation’s Capitol led by Proud Boys, Three Percenters and Oath Keepers militias on January 6, 2021. Armed right-wing thugs … Read more
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
The Arizona Supreme Court declined Tuesday to consider a special action by the Arizona Republican Party to eliminate the early voting system used by 90% of the state’s voters and require nearly all voters to cast ballots in person on Election Day. The AP reports, Arizona court declines GOP request to invalidate mail voting: The … 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