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  • Ian Ward @ Politico: Doug Wilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a Christian Theocracy. In Trump’s DC, the New Right Is Listening. 

Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.

If it seems as if there have been a lot of new federal investigations into Democrats and their allies lately, it’s not your imagination.

The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. 

  • Angry White Men: White Nationalists Praise Trump’s Promotion Of White Genocide Conspiracy Theory

Yesterday, during a televised meeting, President Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with a farcical presentation about a “genocide” of white South Africans. But while the claim of a “white genocide” in South Africa is a racist fiction, the white nationalists who spent years pushing it celebrated Trump’s remarks.

Because President Trump deeply values accuracy and integrity in public conduct, he will be mortified to learn that a photo he brandished during his recent Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa perpetrated a massive deception. The photo was supposed to display dead white South African farmers—a Trump obsession—but instead, it showed body bags from the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is producing humanitarian horrors.

  • Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Congressman Tells Fox News, ‘I Don’t Drink Out of a Straw, Brother – That’s What the Women in My House Do’

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told Fox News on Thursday that he doesn’t “drink out of a straw” because “that’s what the women in my house do.”

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Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson is a far-right Christian nationalist pastor and political activist. Notorious for publishing a book downplaying the evils of slavery, Wilson promotes extreme political positions: he opposes women having the right to vote, believes that non-Christians should not be allowed to hold public office or worship in public, and wants to see the Apostles’ Creed incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. Wilson is based in Idaho and exerts nationwide influence through his publishing house Canon Press, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and a network of “classical Christian” schools. In 2025, Wilson planted a church in Washington, D.C. to bring Christians working for the Trump administration into alignment with his worldview.