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Glenn Beck was drinking from the same well. Fox News, January 2010: "Woodrow Wilson, this is an evil S.O.B. Man, you need to read about Wilson. Bad dude. He passed the Revenue Act of 1913. Blatantly unconstitutional, but people let it slide..." www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/s...
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In 2009-2010, Glenn Beck popularized the hatred of Woodrow Wilson among the Tea Party. Beck drew inspiration from Ronald Pestritto, a professor at Hillsdale College, and Cleon Skousen, an influential Mormon conspiracist. Skousen believed Wilson's Fed and income tax were parts of an evil conspiracy.
Confounding Fathers
The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.
www.newyorker.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Charlie Kirk hired Candace Owens when TPUSA was under scrutiny for racism and violating its non-profit status. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
As Turning Point’s profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees, suggest that the group may have skirted campaign-finance laws that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity. Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A photo of Obama with Rita Schwerner Bender, Michael’s widow. After her husband's murder, 22-year-old Rita remained in Mississippi and continued fighting for civil rights.
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Charlie Kirk hired Candace Owens when TPUSA was under scrutiny for racism and violating its non-profit status. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
As Turning Point’s profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees, suggest that the group may have skirted campaign-finance laws that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity. Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Bill Buckley, an expert on the subject, reprimanded Coulter as "much, much more extreme in her judgments than McCarthy ever was" but also praised "her adroit wit in treating of political correctness." claremontreviewofbooks.com/tailgunner-a...
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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"Kasparov… generously includes flashes of humor… When he was arrested and roughed up by the Russian cops, he was accused of biting a patrolman’s finger. ´Were I to acquire a taste for human flesh,´ he snarks, ´I would never bite anyone under the rank of general.´"
Can Putin Be Kept in Check?
In Garry Kasparov's book, Winter is Coming, the Chess grandmaster lashes out at the West for enabling the rise of Vladimir Putin. Is his anger Justified?
thefederalist.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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In Putin’s Russia, in August 2012, Garry Kasparov was acquitted by a court after being charged with a felony of attacking a police officer. Everyone had a good laugh. When did they stop laughing?
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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In Putin’s Russia, in August 2012, Garry Kasparov was acquitted by a court after being charged with a felony of attacking a police officer. Everyone had a good laugh. When did they stop laughing?
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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And "clean coal" is coal that has been literally cleaned. www.factcheck.org/2018/11/clea...
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"Hope may seem a flimsy thing to wield against autocracy, but it is the secret weapon of resistance... The opposition’s optimistic slogans ‘Joy is coming’ and ´Happiness is a rainbow’ helped to lessen fear and fatalism. A March for Joy, held days before the election, attracted hundreds of thousands"
How Chile Won Back Its Democracy
The ultimate lesson of the 1973 coup that brought in General Pinochet’s dictatorship was that the people would not in the end be denied their choice.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"Hope may seem a flimsy thing to wield against autocracy, but it is the secret weapon of resistance... The opposition’s optimistic slogans ‘Joy is coming’ and ´Happiness is a rainbow’ helped to lessen fear and fatalism. A March for Joy, held days before the election, attracted hundreds of thousands"
How Chile Won Back Its Democracy
The ultimate lesson of the 1973 coup that brought in General Pinochet’s dictatorship was that the people would not in the end be denied their choice.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Eric Edelman, a loyal Cheney guy, pointed the finger at Liz. "She called me and said, ‘You know, I’m really worried about this. What should we do?’ ...Liz was a prime mover of the whole thing, really.” But we don't really know who told them about the plans to involve the military.
Liz Cheney’s months-long effort to turn Republicans from Trump threatens her reelection and ambitions. She says it’s only beginning.
The party’s third-highest leader has engaged in a raging months-long dispute with other House Republicans, likely to end in her dismissal from her leadership post.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ben Shapiro in March 2016: "In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields…"
Michelle Fields, Ben Shapiro Resign From Breitbart
"Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation," the reporter at the center of the controversy at the conservative site told BuzzFeed News, the week after Trump's campa...
www.buzzfeednews.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Not his first rodeo. "It also comes as a surprise… that the Republican National Committee appears ready to go along with the Bannon-Breitbart-Trump takeover over the party… The takeover, now a virtual fait accompli, represents the dangerous seizure of the conservative movement by the alt-right."
The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP
If Republicans aren't careful, they'll soon see true conservatism banished from their party.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Never forget.
As Mar Hicks, historian of technology, so aptly stated in a thread about Zuckerberg and Facebook on July 26, 2018: “FACEBOOK PROFITS FROM TOXIC CONTENT: Facebook started as Facemash–a hot-or-not ripoff site that stole women undergrads’ pics off internal Harvard “facebook” servers in order to humiliate and demean them. FOR CLICKS. FOR FUN. JUST TO SEE IF HE COULD.… Facebooks had SHIT beginnings. Zuck was not an enfant terrible–he was just a dickhead, a thief, and a cheat. And look at all the power he has now. History matters. Harvard *threw him out* for this BS. But venture fucking capitalists goddamn loved it. Guess why?“ https://theblackcritic633793338.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/the-rabbit-hole-understanding-the-world-of-republicans-and-their-political-advertising/
May 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Kevin Roberts uses a simpler language when asking Heritage donors for money.
Your monthly support will help advance three key policy initiatives needed for America’s future prosperity and flourishing. Mass deportations: Your support will help Heritage’s immigration experts create and advance policies that will help the Trump administration rapidly increase deportation rates—making American communities safer in the process. Voter Fraud: As the 2026 midterm elections approach, your support will help strengthen election integrity laws and develop innovative solutions to combat the Left’s voter fraud schemes. Combatting Leftist ideology: The Charlie Kirk assassination proved the radical Left is more violent than ever. Your support will help defeat leftist ideology in the public square and root out radical groups that wish to kill patriotic Americans. This work can only succeed with your generous monthly support. Now is the time to stay on offense and double down on our efforts.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM