Right Wing Watch will be watching tonight’s first public hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the effort by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election and keep Trump in power. 1/
We’ll also be keeping an eye on the propaganda campaign being waged by Trump Republicans, far-right activists, and right-wing media outlets to distract Americans from the committee’s truth-telling about the criminal conspiracy against our country. 2/
While you’re waiting for the hearing to start, catch our explainer video on the role played by the “Stop the Steal” campaign and its organizer Ali Alexander – more videos to come as committee hearings continue. rightwinginsurrection.org/key-figures-to… 3/
Exposing the truth is the first step toward accountability. If the people who conspired to overthrow the election are not held accountable, they will try it again. #Jan6Justice 4/
Remember, the violent attack on Jan. 6 should not have been a surprise to anyone paying attention – and neither should the next one. 5/ rightwingwatch.org/post/the-jan-6…
After the election, we covered the violence, rhetorical and physical, at rallies organized to support Trump’s effort to overturn the election: 7/ rightwingwatch.org/post/violence-…
At an event organized by religious-right activists and Stop the Steal organizers a few weeks before the insurrection, the Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes threatened bloody civil war if Trump did not stay in power: 8/
Right-wing political figures associated with the secretive Council for National Policy pushed Trump’s lies about the election and urged state legislators and senators to take action to keep Trump in power: 9/ rightwingwatch.org/post/right-win…
On the eve of the insurrection, speakers at a rally near the White House mixed conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and threats of violence against members of Congress. Ali Alexander led chants of “victory or death.” 10/ rightwingwatch.org/post/christian…
As the hearings progress, you can check out a toolkit @peoplefor has put together for updated resources and ways to get involved in exposing the truth and demanding accountability. 11/ rightwinginsurrection.org
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What were the Proud Boys doing before Jan. 6? They made their presence known at so-called "Stop the Steal" rallies in Washington, DC. They looked for fights, and in most cases, started them. rightwingwatch.org/post/violence-…
In one instance on December 2020, members of the hate group shoved a counterprotester to the ground and began kicking him. When a woman tried to escort him away from danger, Proud Boys members sucker-punched him while another yanked her hair, throwing her to the ground.
“There’s no such thing as the separation of church and state,” says Christian nationalist David Lane in @washingtonpost video on recruiting North Carolina pastors to run for office. A #ChristianNationalism thread on Lane’s history, extremism and agenda: washingtonpost.com/video/politics…
Political operative David Lane has organized pastors to turn churches into GOTV operations for right-wing candidates since mid 1990s. His focus on getting pastors themselves to run for office is more recent, inspired by his pastor-politician Rob McCoy rightwingwatch.org/post/did-pence…
In December, David Lane talked about his work with NC Lt Gov Mark Robinson to recruit pastors and church leaders to run for office, calling it the “only shot to save America” because “we’ve given ourselves to the devil.”
On Saturday, an 18-year-old white man shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket. Of the 13 people shot, 11 were Black. A thread:
The shooter posted a screed citing the white supremacist Great Replacement theory—an old racist ideology that has gained new life in recent years.
At its core is the false notion that white people are at risk of being replaced by Black and nonwhite people through immigration, interracial marriage, and increasing birth rates.
Justice Alito’s leaked draft ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade makes it clear just how far the anti-choice movement has come -- and signals more to come from a SCOTUS captured by the right-wing legal movement 1/ rightwingwatch.org/post/overturni…
Anti-choice groups talk about a “50-state battle” after Roe is gone, but they have already won many of those battles, passing increasingly severe restrictions and “trigger laws” that mean abortion bans will go into effect immediately in many states 2/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Some new laws have no exceptions even for children who are victims of rape and incest, and far-right legislators are competing to see who can introduce the most extreme bans, targeting birth control and threatening people who have miscarriages 3/
The far-right John Birch Society has joined the Family Research Council promoting smears against civil rights lawyer and circuit court nominee Nancy Abudu. Neither the attacks nor the attackers are credible. 1/5
The John Birch Society was once drubbed out of the conservative movement for promoting extremism and conspiracy theories 2/5 washingtonpost.com/history/2021/0…
But anti-govt extremism and conspiracies are dogma for the far right wing in the 21st Century 3/5 theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
We've spent a lot of time covering religious leaders who guaranteed Trump would be reelected and still refuse to admit they were wrong, but there's another group that we've been overlooking: Those who guaranteed a Trump win, but then just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ once Biden was inaugurated.
People like Kenneth Copeland, who laughed at the idea that Biden would ever become president. But when Biden did become president, Copeland just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and went back to his normal preaching
Remember when Copeland's son-in-law George Pearsons declared that God was outraged about the election and was "rolling up his sleeves" to do something about it?