Everyone should know this quote. There was never a “war on Christmas.” The Christian Right’s liberties were never under attack. They claimed otherwise as a ploy to position themselves to force their own extreme version of Christianity down the nation’s throat. #Christofascism 1/
3/ “GARY NORTH (1942-2022) SOUGHT TO DENY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TO ‘THE ENEMIES OF GOD’ — BUT HE WAS WILLING TO WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE REVOLUTION TO DEVELOP” by @FredClarkson, 3/29/22 religiondispatches.org/gary-north-194…
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6/ North was a founding board member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an umbrella organization for the Christian Right and wealthy financiers.
7/ The CNP’s members have included such unfortunately influential people as KellyAnne Conway, Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Ali Alexander, Ed Martin, Michael Farris, Morton Blackwell, Newt Gingrich, the Mercers, and members of the DeVos and Prince families.
8/ If you haven’t read this article by @anelsona, then you must. It details the CNP’s heavy hand in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
12/ CNP members Ed Martin (a close friend of Roger Stone) & Tom Fitton called upon Trump to pardon Stone & Michael Flynn (which Trump did). Martin & Fitton were then heavily involved in efforts to overturn the election, as I reported here 4 @BucksCoBeacon. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/05/part-5…
Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.
THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏 1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…
3/ After the Big Lie, I felt that the movement had been so discredited—by people improperly conflating vulnerabilities with “proof” of fraud & then using that non-existent “proof” to justify violence—that I could no longer effectively advance this ball.
“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
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Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…