• October 7, 2016 4:26 pm

    Return To Wichita: 25 Years After The Summer Of Mercy, The Rescue Movement Plots Its Next Steps

    …edges of conservative politics. Rusty Thomas, the leader of OSA, met this year with Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Graham County, Arizona, Sheriff Richard Mack, who, through…

  • July 6, 2021 11:50 am

    The Cops Who Joined the Insurrection: Racism, Authoritarianism and Violence

    Thomas Federal Bureau of Investigation (2009-2010)* 330 million Va. CARPENTER, Sara New York City Police Dept. (1994-2004) 8.2 million N.Y. CHWIESIUK, Karol Chicago Police Dept. (2018-present; relieved of police powers…

  • November 4, 2010 5:16 pm

    The Tea Party and Religious Right Movements: Frenemies with Benefits

    …the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog, wrote in February: At the moment, Tea Party activism istheface of the conservative movement and so it is no surprise that Religious Right…

  • June 24, 2021 6:09 pm

    Fascist Fashion Biz Fuels Radicalization With a Growing Revenue Stream

    …13 stars, in apparent homage to the original U.S. Stars and Stripes flag on which the stars represented the original 13 colonies. Their leader, Thomas Rousseau, marched at the helm…

  • April 22, 2015 1:33 pm

    The Personhood Movement: Where It Comes From and What It Means For the Future of Choice

    …House approved the 20-week ban, Erickson wrote a scathing blog post calling Becker’s group “the Westboro Baptist Church of the pro-life movement.” “Instead of saving souls, they’d rather stone those…

  • May 2, 2011 1:41 pm

    GOP Leaders’ Favorite ‘Historian’ David Barton on The Daily Show: Dishonest History & Frightening Constitutional Theory

    …For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog, and calls attention to the consequences of Barton’s belief that the First Amendment and Bill of Rights should not apply to the…

  • April 18, 2011 5:56 pm

    Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America

    …and his son Tim appeared last December on Kirk Cameron’s show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In that interview, the younger Barton inaccurately described the correspondence in which Thomas Jefferson…

  • July 1, 2006 10:42 am

    Ralph Reed: The Crash of the Choir-Boy Wonder

    …Decade of Reed,” June 27, 2005 ↩ People For the American Way, “Breaking the Rules: The Christian Coalition and Elections,” August 1996 ↩ Thomas B. Edsall and Hanna Rosin, “IRS…

  • September 1, 2006 11:31 am

    David Barton: Propaganda Masquerading as History

    …“wall of separation between church and state” originated in a speech made by Thomas Jefferson made in 1801. Barton also claimed that Jefferson went on to say that “That wall…

  • October 1, 2011 3:26 pm

    The GOP’s Favorite Hate-Monger: How the Republican Party Came to Embrace Bryan Fischer

    …radical anti-gay activist Scott Lively, who has been tied to a Uganda bill that would make homosexuality a crime punishable by death, and extremist Rusty Thomas, who blamed the Sept….

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