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The Christian Right’s Plot to Purge Pro-Palestine Activism From the United States

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For the last 18 months, the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank responsible for Project 2025, has been organizing to quash pro-Palestine activism in the United States, the New York Times reported this weekend. The initiative is called Project Esther—after the courageous Old Testament queen who saved the Jews from a wicked Persian king—and it […]

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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism

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In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]

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A Christian Nationalist TheoBro Church is Coming to DC

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Earlier this week, Moscow, Idaho, pastor Doug Wilson made a big announcement: In July, his church will be opening a branch in Washington, DC, just blocks away from the US Capitol building. In a blog post, Wilson, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist, wrote that he believed that the moment was right to bring his version of […]

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

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In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US Attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to combat crime in the district. Martin politely fielded questions from attendees, even answering one from a man who, citing Martin’s widely condemned description of his office as […]

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The Trump Administration Canceled a Program That Reduced SIDS. Enter the Anti-Vaxxers.

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After years of progress in reducing the number of babies that succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the National Institutes of Health has terminated its participation in the Safe to Sleep program, STAT News reported last week. The program encouraged parents to practice a suite of evidence-based safety practices when putting their infants to […]

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JD Vance Poses With TV Host Who Called for Violence Against LGBTQ People

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Steve Deace, the host of an eponymous show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens and LGBTQ people and ranting that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. […]

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Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer

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Ed Martin, the far-right-activist-turned-acting US attorney for DC, apologized this week for praising an alleged Nazi sympathizer at an event last year. But Martin’s ties to Timothy Hale-Cusanelli—who is known for wearing a Hitler-style mustache, and who allegedly once told a coworker that the Nazis “should have finished the job”—are far more extensive than just that […]

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Gabbard’s Pick to Run Counterterrorism Center Aided Start of a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group

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When Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, went looking for someone to head the National Counterterrorism Center, she landed on Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, past CIA officer, and twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate in Washington state, who, as the Associated Press reported, “stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated […]

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Why Is Trump’s New Jersey US Attorney Headlining a Far-Right Conference?

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On Friday, March 28, Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was sworn into office as the interim US attorney for New Jersey. As the state’s top federal prosecutor, she will oversee the work of 170 lawyers responsible for everything from prosecuting terrorism, public corruption, and gang activities to defending federal agencies in court. The […]

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Christian “TheoBros” Are Building a Tech Utopia in Appalachia

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A couple of years ago, Andrew Isker, a pastor and father of six, made a big decision. He would move his family away from Minnesota, where six generations of his ancestors had lived before him, to a rural community in Tennessee. Leaving his home state wasn’t easy, he told Tucker Carlson on Carlson’s YouTube show […]

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Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions

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The Trump administration’s top prosecutor for Washington, DC, spoke last month at a Florida fundraiser, where he criticized the Justice Department’s prosecutions of people involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress. The speech was attended by numerous January 6 defendants, including former members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia who are still appealing […]

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