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Conservative brilliantly explains what is wrong with angry middle-aged white men
"We want to believe things are not our fault and things are so terrible and we would do better and wouldn't have to be so angry if things weren't so awful all the time," he told host Joe Scarborough. "Every age has its advantages and disadvantages. but th ...[Read more]
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Determined to Pass Restrictive Voting Bill, Texas GOP Issues Warrants for Dems Who Fled
Texas lawmakers in the state’s House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to order state law enforcement to forcibly return Democrats to the legislative chamber, including potentially arresting them, in order to force a vote on implementing restrictive v ...[Read more]
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America’s history wars get serious: Texas GOP wants to dump MLK — and whitewash the KKK
In the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney proclaimed that Black people have "no rights that the white man is bound to respect." Today's Jim Crow Republican Party, and the white right more broadly, have taken the spi ...[Read more]
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A pedophile’s best friend is a Trump Republican
Of all the lurid nonsense circulating among conspiracy-addled Republicans, none of their theories is viler than the libel of child sexual abuse that began under the rubric of "Pizzagate" and became the basis of the cult ideology of QAnon. So successful wa ...[Read more]
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How Patrick Buchanan’s 1992 campaign became the blueprint for Trumpism: conservative
When Donald Trump defeated all of the other Republican candidates in the 2016 GOP presidential primary and went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election — even though he lost the popular vote — one of the people who was ...[Read more]
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Right Wingers Are Taking Over Library Boards to Remove Books on Racism
Since their swearing in on May 19, the new board has wasted no time in imposing its agenda. “Their focus is to change the very nature of the library,” Lynch says. “They’ve already slashed the budget from $7.4 to $5.9 million, fired staff or reduce ...[Read more]
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How Stephen Miller inadvertently provided the playbook to fight white supremacy
The Nation has dissected Miller's playbook and highlighted ways the Biden administration could actually use it to combat the United States' decades-long white supremacy problem. "What Biden's team must understand is that the radicalized Republican Party i ...[Read more]
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Bitter about being abandoned by Trump, Proud Boys’ chats reveal preparations for ‘absolute war’
If anyone held out hope that the Proud Boys—with 18 members awaiting trial for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—might eventually wither and blow away in its aftermath, they should read through the Telegram messages Ethan Nordean and his ...[Read more]
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The tide is turning against conservatism as the failures of the greed-based ideology are exposed
Blame the covid. Nothing in the last 40 years has better exposed conservatism's unique weaknesses. Nothing has better exposed liberalism's unique strengths. To be sure, competition and economic self-interest are important qualities, but they cannot be all ...[Read more]
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Texas mayor resigns after telling residents without power during bitter cold snap to ‘get off your ass’
At a time when the Lone Star State is being battered by severe winter weather, record cold and widespread power outages, Tim Boyd — the far-right Republican mayor of Colorado City, Texas — lambasted residents of his city for complaining about be ...[Read more]
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Right-wing talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
Rush Limbaugh, a pioneer in popularizing right-wing talk radio, has died at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with cancer. ...[Read more]
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