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Last week, House Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as Speaker of the House. Johnson brings to the office some of the most extreme hard-right views in Congress on immigration and LGBTQ+ rights.
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As school boards and state legislatures across the country work to suppress inclusive education and student diversity, student groups are assembling to protect their rights to learn and exist in schools and communities.
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Sam Bushman, CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), attended a barbecue this summer hosted by a known white nationalist. Bushman also guested on a radio show syndicated by his online network alongside a host who praised Hitler.
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First came policies that eliminated safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students and restricted racially inclusive reading materials. Then, the Pennridge School Board voted to hire Vermilion Education, a Michigan-based consulting company with limited experience and questionable curriculum standards.
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The Donald Trump campaign team sent out mailers in early April suggesting that “George Soros is trying to single-handedly purchase the American justice system so that he can weaponize it to crush ALL of his opposition.”
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Thirty years ago today, on April 19, 1993, 76 people died at the conclusion of a 51-day siege outside Waco, Texas. The dead, including 25 children, were members of the Branch Davidian sect, some of whom federal agencies were pursuing for firearms offenses. At the time of the siege, sect leader David Koresh was also accused of child abuse.
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Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of hierarchies.
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Following four days of deliberation, a jury handed radical-right activist Douglass Mackey a guilty verdict on Friday, March 31, asserting that he interfered with the 2016 election through his infamous “Ricky Vaughn” pseudonym.
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Republican former Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia has joined the Family Research Council (FRC) as a senior adviser to the anti-LGBTQ hate group’s longest-serving president, Tony Perkins. FRC helped launch the religious right as an overt political movement in the 1980s and remains one of the largest anti-LGBTQ organizations in the U.S. Hice described working for the anti-LGBTQ hate group as a “personal mission.”
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At the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, D.C., last month, summit co-chairs Sam Brownback and Katrina Lantos Swett addressed a joint session. Noting the summit’s theme, “Religious Freedom for Everybody, Everywhere, All the Time,” Brownback characterized his idea of religious freedom as societies allowing “freedom for the soul and respect for each other.” But the rhetoric of individuals and groups present at the summit shows how extremists wield the language of religious freedom in a very different way: to oppress others.
