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March 16, 2011 8:23 pm
How Not to Respond to Political Bullies: Lessons From the Smithsonian’s Response to the Manufactured Right-Wing Controversy Over Hide/Seek
…an excellent recap of the first 24 hours of the manufactured scandal. And TBD has a useful timeline of the controversy’s first month. This In Focus includes a recap of…
June 18, 2009 5:10 pm
Free Speech, Irresponsible Speech, and the Climate of Intolerance in 2009
…that “Democrats are looking for every opportunity to purge faith and prayer from the public square.” Also earlier this year, Focus on the Family ran a video on its website…
April 22, 2009 2:49 pm
Right Sounds False Alarm On Hate Crimes Legislation
…religious marriage were analyzed in another Right Wing Watch In Focus. What’s the truth about hate crimes legislation? It’s pretty simple. The federal hate crimes law doesn’t create something called…
September 28, 2021 9:00 am
Neo-Nazis Train For Combat in Growing ‘Active Club’ Movement
A night of canvasing begins with a group of angry, white men. Dressed in matching T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the phrase “Active Club,” the masked white nationalists…
November 2, 2022 12:29 pm
Conspiracy Theorists With Badges and Guns: Pro-Trump Sheriffs Vow to Police Elections
…that it is their duty to resist state and federal “tyranny.” Mack and other MAGA-minded sheriffs like Mark Lamb turned their focus to policing elections after seeing “2000 Mules,” a…
February 1, 2016 9:31 am
The Anti-Immigrant Lobby: The White Nationalist Roots of the Organizations Fighting Immigration
…over people of color and focus solely on white voters was the extremist writer Steve Sailer, writing for the white nationalist website VDARE in 2000. What became known as the…
August 15, 2015 3:52 pm
Chipping Away at Choice – 2015 Update: Growing Threats to Women’s Health Care Access and Autonomy
…organizations that have close ties with anti-choice, Religious Right political organizations. The Religious Right behemoth Focus on the Family, for instance, has dispensed hundreds of grants for ultrasound machines for…
October 1, 2011 3:26 pm
The GOP’s Favorite Hate-Monger: How the Republican Party Came to Embrace Bryan Fischer
…Islamic world to focus all of their vitriol, all of their hatred, all of their animosity, directly on you.” Progressives: God’s Adversaries Using stark, polarizing rhetoric, Fischer describes his political…
September 28, 2015 1:19 pm
Operation Rescue’s Big Break: How an Organization Rooted in the Radical Fringes of the Anti-Choice Movement Is Threatening to Shut Down the Government
…to Operation Save America and expanded its focus to include opposition to gay rights, Islam, and pornography. (Benham’s twin sons, David and Jason, shared his far-right activism and later became…
March 17, 2010 2:47 pm
(P)reviewing the Right-Wing Playbook on Immigration Reform
…aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as an exploitable and vulnerable workforce. In 2007,commentator Roland Martin noted the challenges of maintaining black-brown coalitions at the local level when the focus was on…