MONROEVILLE, Pa. — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance spoke Saturday at an event hosted by a self-described Christian “apostle” who believes former President Donald Trump is destined to save America from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who was sent by the devil to “take Trump out.” Vance walked onto the stage at a town … Read more
Washington state GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent told supporters at a recent event that the Proud Boys — the all-male, far-right, neo-fascist organization whose leaders were convicted for seditious conspiracy after trying to violently overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021 — are really just a bunch of hooligans who scare progressive Democrats. During … Read more
Chet Hanks, son of esteemed actor Tom Hanks, responded Wednesday after a report highlighted how his “white boy summer” phrase gave rise to a far-right slogan. According to a Tuesday report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, the “white boy summer” phrase has been used by extremist groups around the world, including the … Read more
Conservative media figures celebrated the loss of income and employment for over 60 workers at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights organization perhaps best known for monitoring and helping dismantle right-wing extremist groups. “Your entire organization is trash, and America will be better off when it’s forced to lay off every single employee,” … Read more
A former White House official and prominent fundamentalist Christian said Donald Trump is “cloaking” his actual, “radical” beliefs on the campaign trail, and that a second Trump administration would see him “govern in a more conservative and more aggressive fashion.” William Wolfe ― a self-described “Christian nationalist” who served under Trump as a deputy assistant … Read more
During a livestreamed conversation with white supremacist Nick Fuentes last week, the CEO of the Daily Wire, a major right-wing media outlet, praised the prominent fascist influencer and offered only mild criticism about some of his political views — a stark difference from how he has spoken about Fuentes in the past. On March 25, … Read more
Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern (R), a “fake elector” for Donald Trump in 2020 who was also photographed on Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 attack, has filed a longshot proposal to allow Arizona politicians to overturn the will of voters in presidential elections. It’s the latest in a long line of similar bills in … Read more
It’s a conspiracy involving the deepest of deep states: The world’s most popular entertainer, America’s most popular sporting event and the president of the United States. Its goal, according to theories circulating in the outskirts of MAGA world, is to covertly compel fans to throw the 2024 election to the Democrats. Right-wing speculation reached a … Read more
Conservation writer and historian Betsy Gaines Quammen lives in the heart of Bozeman, Montana — a city and a state that have been inundated with wealthy transplants in recent years, thanks in part to pandemic-era migration out of urban areas and the hit TV Western series “Yellowstone.” Long-standing myths about the American West — including … Read more
