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The John Birch Society, which pioneered the “we’re a republic not a democracy” meme that Mike Lee echoed yesterday, hated Chief Justice Earl Warren with a burning passion because of
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I feel like there's an essay to be written on the seemingly insatiable desire out there to make jokes about Miller and Covid that imply that he's not human. It
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One of the qualities of legacy media figures is that they don’t recognize that fascists don’t care about telling the truth, and that their movements feed off negative mainstream coverage.
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Senator Mark Hatfield was a moderate Republican from Oregon. In the preface to this 1968 book on the far right, he warned of the danger such groups posed to his
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In October 1964 WABC in New York broadcast a 1 hour special on right wing extremism in America, focusing on how that year's GOP nominee, Barry Goldwater, had stimulated new
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Because everything is terrible I'm going to do a thread of music from one of my favorite 90s bands that you've almost certainly never heard of unless you lived in
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I think the SCOTUS/2020 election scenario that's far more likely than them handing Trump the election on sketchy grounds, is one where Trump tries to get them to do that
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The Oregon state election of 1922 was known as "the Klan election." That election elevated Kaspar K. Kubli to the speaker of the house where he led a delegation that
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One side's edge is comprised of armed militias, QAnon believers, white nationalists, folks who don't believe in science, and eager viewers of propaganda news channels; the other side's edge is
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Trump's unhinged attacks on soup might fire up his base, but isn't he afraid they're gonna crater the, um, stock market? If I was going to grade that joke, I'd
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Here's a wee thread about Gerald L.K. Smith (an apostle of "Christian Nationalism" and a key figure in the founding of the America First Party in the 1940s) inspired by
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In 2012, avid supporters of the incumbent showed their enthusiasm by knocking on doors, making phone calls, and registering people to vote. In 2020, avid supporters of the incumbent are
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