Right Wing Round-Up: The Streisand Effect

  • Ed Mazza @ HuffPost: Lauren Boebert Cooks Up Bonkers New Excuse For Bailing On Her District.
  • Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) knows who to blame for her decision to ditch her own constituents and run in a different district in the upcoming election: Barbra Streisand and Ryan Reynolds.

  • Heidi Przybyla @ Politico: Public Christian schools? Leonard Leo’s allies advance a new cause.
  • Groups aligned with the conservative legal movement and its financial architect, Leonard Leo, are working to promote a publicly funded Christian school in Oklahoma, hoping to create a test case to change the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.

  • Ken Block @ USA Today: Trump paid me to find voter fraud. Then he lied after I found 2020 election wasn’t stolen.
  • If voter fraud had impacted the 2020 election, it would already have been proven. Maintaining the lies undermines faith in the foundation of our democracy.

  • Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Republican support for the ‘big lie’ moves in the wrong direction.
  • Three years after Jan. 6, two-thirds of Republicans still reject the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election — which carries lingering consequences.

  • Paul Rosenberg @ Salon: Meet the New Apostolic Reformation, cutting edge of the Christian right.
  • Christian nationalism has new momentum — and a new movement that openly longs for “dominion” over secular America

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