The House has already passed H.R. 1, The For The People Act, now the Senate is preparing to move on its version of the bill, S. 1, The For the People Act, next week. To do so means having to directly confront the anti-democratic Jim Crow era filibuster rule, which the “Grim Reaper” of the … Read more
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
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
Publisher’s Clearing House winner, COVID-19 denier, and chair of the GQP House Freedom (sic) Caucus (more accurately the GQP House Fascist Caucus, which voted against certifying the 2020 Electoral College results and making Donald Trump America’s first fascist dictator), and one of the instigators who plotted the January 6 seditious insurrection against the US. government … Read more
The annual circus of far-right fringe groups at the Conservative Political Action Conference (or more accurately, the Conservative Paranoia and Conspiracy Conference) had all the fascist trappings: Personality cult built around a morally depraved leader, check. Fascist propaganda machine promoting the Big Lie, check. They even built their stage for this circus to resemble the ancient … Read more