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GOP Politics Inspires Mass Murder
In less than 24 hours, 16 people were murdered in Texas by domestic terrorists inspired by the same extreme right-wing, anti-immigrant hate embraced by white supremacists and Trump's Republican Party.
Donald Trump holding his campaign kickoff at Waco Texas was symbolic to white supremacists who have long embraced acts of domestic terrorism and insurrection, including the 1992 Waco Texas standoff and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that killed a total of 250 people. Today's GOP is spreading the same right-wing, anti-immigrant hate that is inspiring the next generation of mass murders.
How White Men Fight
The only thing more shocking than Tucker Carlson's recently revealed text messages are the racist lies and conspiracy theories promoted on Fox News every day.
The executives at Fox want us to believe that Tucker Carlson was fired for sending hateful text messages that were only recently discovered. That is clearly a lie. The Fox News brand is racist lies, bigotry, and conspiracy theories. Rupert Murdoch fired Tucker Carlson for the same reason he does everything: MONEY!
She Will Not Be Silenced
In acts of extraordinary individual courage, these women are publicly speaking out against the hateful, violent misogyny that defines Trump's GOP.
E. Jean Carroll who is suing Donald Trump said in court, “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.” Amanda Zurawski accused Senator Cruz and Cornyn of supporting a Texas abortion ban, “I nearly died on their watch… as a result of what happened to me, I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future.” Abbey Grossberg is suing Fox News, said Tucker Carlson and his producer Justin Wells, “were responsible for breaking me and making my life a living hell.” And Rep. Zooey Zephyr warned the Republican controlled Montana state legislature that, "If you use decorum to silence people who hold you accountable, all you are doing is using decorum as a tool of oppression.”
A Demonic Force, a Destroyer
Tucker Carlson continues to lie about the January 6 Insurrection to his Fox News audience, despite text messages that reveal his disdain for Trump and the Big Lie of election fraud.
The Dominion defamation lawsuit has exposed the hypocrisy of Fox News host Tucker Carlson who publicly continues to lie about the Jan. 6 Insurrection while privately calling the plot to steal the election as “shockingly reckless” and “absurd”. Even Republican Senators are calling Carlson’s lies “very dangerous” and that January 6 “was not peaceful, it was an abomination.” Privately, Carlson has repeatedly expressed his disdain for the former President saying, “I hate him passionately.” Carlson even said that Trump is the “undisputed world champion” at “destroying things” and called Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer.”
Fox News Lied for Ratings
Rupert Murdoch admits under oath that everyone at Fox knew the 2020 election "was on the up-and-up," but still broadcast Trump's Big Lie for ratings and profit.
The Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit has exposed the hypocrisy and lies of Fox News desperate to maintain ratings after Trump attacked them as ""disloyal and dishonest."" Internal communications and under oath testimony has revealed that Fox hosts and executives made the decision to knowingly repeat Trump's lies of election fraud to keep viewers from switching to more conservative news outlets.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Kevin McCarthy cut a secret deal with anti-democratic Republicans who want to use the debt limit to push a rightwing agenda and shut down the government.
Kevin McCarthy is neither liked, respected, nor feared by members of the House. That is why it took 15 votes and a secret deal with ultra rightwing MAGA Republicans for McCarthy to become speaker. The GOP House agenda for the next two years is revenge investigations, culture wars, and defunding Social Security and Medicare.
Three Strikes and You're Out!
Kevin McCarthy is publicly humiliated by the rightwing Freedom Caucus by being the first House majority leader to lose the floor vote for speaker in 100 years.
For years McCarthy abased himself before Donald Trump in the hope of becoming House Speaker. And then on his big day, the Republican caucus dissolved into chaos when the Freedom Caucus blocked McCarthy on three consecutive speaker floor votes. Ultra rightwing Congressman Matt Gaetz said on the House floor, "Maybe the right person for the job of speaker of the House isn't someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it."
Trump's Dinner for Schmucks
Wikipedia defines a schmuck as “stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible, or detestable person.”
Thanksgiving week Trump broke bread with an antisemitic Holocaust denier at his Mar-a-Lago home and told Ye, "I really like this guy. He gets me." With his own daughter and Jewish son-in-law declaring they want nothing to do with his re-election, Trump is counting on rightwing hate groups, white Christian nationalists, and conspiracy theorists to win the GOP primaries.
GOP Hate Politics Inspires Killing Sprees
The past six years have seen a bombardment of anti-LGBT hate from Republican extremists. This type of rhetoric has lethal consequences.
GOP leadership has not been shy about condemning the queer community. In fact, this year alone has seen more than 340 anti-LGBT bills filed. Naturally, right-wing extremists are listening, mobilizing, and taking deadly direct action around this cause.
The Biggest Loser
Republicans are calling the 2022 elections a disaster and are blaming Trump for a historic midterm election defeat.
Trump has an iron grip on the GOP base, but his brand of anti-democratic, grievance politics is alienating voters. Many of the extremists pushed by Trump in the primaries failed to win swing districts as women and young voters turnout for Democrats. The modest GOP gains in the House are mostly a result of Gerrymandered districts and control of the Senate may come down to yet another runoff election in Georgia.
The GOP Culture War Targets Schools
Rightwing extremists groups like the 1776 Project PAC are spending millions to target local school boards across the country.
After the Black Lives Matter protests, Trump mobilized his supporters to target school boards for teaching Critical Race Theory. Now there is dramatic growth of rightwing groups spending dark Super PAC money with disinformation and hyper-partisan campaigns running on banning books, demonizing LGBTQ+ students and teachers, anti-vax COVID conspiracies, and whitewashing American history.
Death Con 3 On Jewish People
Trump's GOP is repeating antisemitic tropes as a midterm election strategy to boost turnout from Christian nationalists and white supremacists.
Republicans have embraced rightwing extremists who increasingly use social media to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories. Kanye's threat of going "Death Con 3 on Jewish People." is part of a much larger wave of antisemitism that has a majority of American Jews fearing violence.
The Eye of the MAGA Storm
Florida Governor DeSantis is at the center of a right wing culture war that cruelly targets immigrants, transgender and gay children, and black voters.
There is a growing competition within the GOP leadership to win over the MAGA base by being anti-woke. Florida Governor DeSantis is leading the pack with cruel political stunts that includes arresting black voters, criminalizing gay and transgender students, and using government funds to fly legal migrants to Martha's Vineyard with false promisses of jobs and housing.
Q Is for Crazy
Trump's embrace of the QAnon conspiracy cult is encouraging violent extremists who preach domestic terrorism and political murder to restore Trump to power.
Donald Trump is losing support from Republicans and under the threat of multiple criminal investigations. Like a cornered animal or mob boss, Trump is threatening violence if he is prosecuted. Now his campaign is openly supporting QAnon conspiracies and symbols to build an army of violent extremists. The QAnon salute seen at Trump's rallies is being compared to the Sieg Heil salute used by Nazis.
Republicans Assault Law Enforcement
In response to the court ordered search of Mar-a-Lago and the recovery of top secret documents, Republicans are attacking anyone or anything that exposes Trump's lies and crimes--including the FBI.
It has been a long week for Donald Trump. The search warrant of Mar-a-Lago revealed that the FBI is investigating obstruction of justice and the Espionage Act violations. New subpoenas of Trump's attorneys and inner circle have made it clear that Trump is the target of multiple state and federal criminal investigations. In response, Republicans are doubling down on lies, accusations, and conspiracy theories that threaten violence against law enforcement agents.
The Crazies: Giuliani, Powell and Flynn
Hours before Trump summoned the mob with his infamous "Will be Wild!" tweet, an "unhinged" White House meeting almost turned violent.
On the evening of December 18, Trump met with conspiracy theorists Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn to discuss seizing voting machines as part of a conspiracy to overturn the election. The West Wing reportedly became "unhinged" during a six-hour screaming match between top White House lawyers and the conspiracy group known as the "The Crazies."
Political Violence and Death Threats
Trump's Republican Party has embraced white supremacist hate groups that preach violence against LGBTQ people.
The 31 white supremacists planning to riot at an Idaho Pride event is part of a dangerous trend in GOP politics. White nationalist and far-right groups are increasingly active in a Republican Party that tolerates political violence and death threats.
Gun Politics is Killing Children
Republicans have made fighting gun safety a cornerstone of their political identity and the result is murder.
Gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and in 2020 guns killed more than 45,000 Americans. We now average more mass shooting than days in the United States. Shamelessly, the NRA is hosting Donald Trump at their annual “Legislative Action” conference this weekend, just 4 hours driving from Uvalde, Texas where a lone gunman killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers.
White Supremacy is a Poison
President Biden calls out right ”President Biden calls out right wing media and politicians for spreading the lie of Replacement Theory, that “has radicalized too many white citizens.” Biden condemned "those who spread the lie for power and political gain and for profit" Biden warns, "White supremacy is a poison running through our body politic.” In other news, DOJ has requested transcripts of the January 6 Committee interviews.
The GOP's Handmaid's Tale
Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is a radical attack on our most basic rights of privacy and freedom.
Alito's draft supreme court opinion relies heavily on the same antiquated 17th century legal writings used to establish the marital rape exemption. By overturning 50 years of precedent, the Supreme Court is laying legal groundwork to establish an American theocracy as described in The Handmaid's Tale where women are property without any basic rights or freedoms.