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Co-opting King: Why the Right Tries to Claim MLK 04/04/2012 by Peter Montgomery Right-wing politicians like North Carolina’s Jesse Helms used to demonize Martin Luther King as a subversive and communist. Conservative legislators in some states resisted …

What Moms for Liberty’s Summit Revealed About the MAGA Movement’s 2024 Strategy 07/14/2023 by Peter Montgomery A parade of MAGA-minded presidential candidates drew cheers at the recent Moms for Liberty national summit with conspiracy theories, anti-LGBTQ …

How ​Christian Nationalism Fueled the Insurrection and Threatens Democracy 09/27/2022 by Peter Montgomery Public hearings by the House ​select committee investigating the Jan​. 6, 2021, insurrection have given Americans a much clearer understanding of all …

The Dishonest and Harmful Right-Wing Attack on American School Boards 10/20/2021 by Peter Montgomery Commentary   You’ve probably seen videos of angry parents and activists accosting school board members and turning school board meetings into culture-war …

Clubhouse: The Invite-Only Social App Attracting Bigots and Far-Right Activists 03/12/2021 by Karim Zidan During last year’s Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, a handful of users on the invite-only social app known as Clubhouse formed a …

Alex Jones Before Insurrection: Joe Biden Is a ‘Slave of Satan’ Who ‘Will Be Removed One Way or Another’ 02/08/2021 by Peter Montgomery InfoWars’ Alex Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist who has been kicked off multiple platforms for his extremism, was …

Not His First Cover-Up: Trump Legal Team Lawyer Jay Sekulow 01/21/2020 by Peter Montgomery (Note: This post draws heavily from previous Right Wing Watch reporting on Sekulow; it has been updated.) As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial gets …

CPAC Unable to Separate Itself From the Right’s Formerly Fringe Elements 03/04/2019 by Jared Holt The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is billed as the place where the leading ideas of the conservative movement are showcased, but …

What the World Congress of Families Tells Us About the Global ‘Pro-Family’ Movement 11/05/2015 by Peter Montgomery The World Congress of Families — an organization that hosts an annual global gathering of “pro-family” advocates —   brought together more …

'Satan Dancing With Delight': The Religious Right Reacts To The Legalization Of Gay Marriage 06/26/2015 by Kyle Mantyla This morning, the Supreme Court ruled that state bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, effectively legalizing gay marriage …