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Jul 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Yes. Marylanders, pay attention to who the Republican nominee for governor is. #MDGov
And here's some background on the extremist GOP nominee for AG, who also won yesterday's primary in Maryland:

Cox, the GOP gubernatorial nominee, has been on the Christian nationalist campaign trail with Pennsylvania's GOP gubernatorial nominee, Doug Mastriano: (via @beauunderwood and @BrianKaylor )

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Jul 20
The projected victories of two far-right GOP candidates in the Maryland primary for governor and attorney general provides a potent opportunity to show how the long game of Christian nationalism intersects with the insurrection and election denialism.

A thread:
First, for background, yesterday the Trump-endorsed candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, Dan Cox, beat the candidate endorsed by the incumbent Republican governor, Larry Hogan. Michael Peroutka, a Confederacy-loving devotee of "biblical law," won the nom for AG. 1/x
Back in the early 2010s, I used to occasionally cover Peroutka's monthly talks through his Institute on the Constitution, in Severn, Maryland. Through the IOTC, Peroutka disseminates his "American" view of government and the law: 2/x
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Jul 17
Let me tell you about the time I went to see a speech by William Olsen's law partner, Herb Titus (2011):

religiondispatches.org/meet-the-chris…
Previously @julieingersoll and I wrote about Titus and guns (2010):

religiondispatches.org/gun-ownership-…
Olsen was one of the Republican witnesses who testified against Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court:
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Jul 17
Amazing stuff going on in deep-blue Montgomery County, Maryland.
MORE--

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mocolocal.blog/2022/05/21/ale…
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Jul 12
Rep. Stephanie Murphy setting up how everything after Dec. 14--after Electoral College was decided, after multiple courts rejected Trump's challenges--Trump et al persisted in attacking election results. She shows video of Mitch McConnell congratulating President-elect on 12/15.
In depo testimony, Eugene Scalia, who was Trump's Labor Secretary, recounts how he told Trump he should concede.
Cipollone agreed there was no evidence of fraud sufficient to overturn election. We see Cipollone for the first time in his under videotaped testimony right now. #January6thCommitteeHearings
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Jul 12
This discussion between @ThePlumLineGS and @RachelKleinfeld gets to the heart of what imperils democracies around the world, including ours: that white Christian patriarchy is very appealing to a lot of people.
@ThePlumLineGS @RachelKleinfeld Important to understand here that Trump did not appear and become appealing to a white Christian nationalist base in the U.S. out of nowhere. As I've reported elsewhere, there was deliberate engagement with strongmen like Orban as a model by U.S. Christian right.
@ThePlumLineGS @RachelKleinfeld (Well before CPAC's more recent embrace of Orban and Orbanism.)
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Jul 12
Very useful rundown from @AaronBlake:

Analysis | The dispute between Trump’s and Bannon’s legal teams washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
What's becoming clear here is that Trump paraded around the idea of executive privilege, vaguely, and when it suited him.
His lawyer told first told Bannon's lawyer they were invoking the privilege, but wasn't specific or helpful when it came to actually asserting it before the Committee.
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