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Tom Cotton Bill to Ban ‘Malign Foreign Influence’ on Nonprofit Boards Exempts Some Religious-Right Groups

09/19/2025

A proposed law to ban some foreign nationals from serving on nonprofit boards would be the latest to exempt some religious-right advocacy groups who claim to be churches or associations of churches to evade financial disclosure and other legal requirements.

Israel-Palestine Conflict Exposes Schism Among Far-Right Activists in the U.S.

06/02/2021

Analysis Last month’s crisis between Israel and Palestinians in occupied Gaza highlighted a growing schism between far-right activists in the U.S. While prominent far-right figures such as Rep.

Trump Rallies His Base With List of Right-Wing Ideologues He Will Consider for Supreme Court

09/10/2020

President Donald Trump released a list of potential nominees for future Supreme Court vacancies Wednesday, returning to a 2016 campaign strategy that proved popular with right-wing leaders. In 2016, religious-right leaders used Trump’s pledge to give them an anti-choice Supreme Court as justificatio

Charlie Kirk Claims Democratic Mayors ‘Happy’ To Watch Cities Burn, Calls on Trump to Invoke the Insurrection Act

06/01/2020

Charlie Kirk, founder of the right-wing youth organizing group Turning Point USA and co-founder of Liberty University's Falkirk Center, called on President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to deploy active U.S. military troops on U.S.