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‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

…hers, the paper’s site was part of a group of Russian-backed websites that promoted Nazism, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism for an American audience, though this one stood out as a site that specifically sought to play a disruptive role going into the 2020 elections. The paper began as a Pennsylvania politics blog in April 2020. It was, according to Hatewatch, “mirrored online by a Russian website… affiliated with creators of the pro-Kremlin p…

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The Zeitgeist Debate

…the economy hatched by secretive elites on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. These ideas continue to be repackaged by right-wing groups. In the 1960s and the 1970s these claims appeared as conspiracy theories peddled by the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby. The Zeitgeist website lists Nation writer William Greider — a longtime critic of the Fed’s policies from the left — as an “information source,” particularly his 1989 tome, Secret…

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The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

…d on Louisiana, similar laws exist in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Brandon Reed, a MAGA politician who readily manipulates religion for political gain, sponsored the Arkansas law. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a…

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Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

…lection denial organization, True the Vote, to investigate voter fraud and promote unfounded claims of election fraud. But what legal authority do sheriffs actually have in elections? Although some have teamed up with election denial groups like True the Vote, their legal role is limited. According to a recent fact sheet from States United Democracy Center and Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection…

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Where in the World is Sarah Palin?

I have been in the lovely north Georgia mountains for the past two days; it’s the loveliest time of year here. This is where the Appalachian Trail begins, the long cascade of Blue Ridge) Mountains nearby at the peak of their fall color, all the brilliant leaves still on the trees. It is the time for the big fall festivals as well—Apple Festival in Ellijay, Octoberfest in Helen, Sorghum and other festivals scattered about. The people, poorer the f…

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Hannibal Returns: Is TV’s Favorite Serial Killer the Devil Himself?

…and this version is nothing more than a person suit, a human veil. Perhaps Georgia—the heartbreaking murderer-of-the-week in episode 10—who cannot see faces, ironically witnessed the blankness of Lecter’s true face most clearly, even more so than Will’s vision of Lecter as a horned shadow in the final episode. His aestheticism and his sensuous curiosity know no moral boundaries, like Dorian Gray, but he doesn’t need a portrait in the attic: his fa…

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Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

…he most shocking example of which was the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915 in Georgia. In the interwar years, American nativism closed the doors to immigration and led to increased anti-Semitism, including quotas at many elite universities. The Jewish Americans tells the story of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, which recycled the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and generally promoted a vicious form of anti-Semitism. But Ford got his comeuppance wh…

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Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

…a Christian’s faith. The city of Gainesville is billing the local pastor who planned to burn a couple hundred Qurans $200,000 in security costs. That’s about a thousand bucks per holy book. A man in Macon, Georgia wants to change his name to Saint Jody Almighty Bedrock. “I wanted a name that everybody would know when they were talking to me that they were talking to a man of God,” he said….

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Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

…ut only just barely—and they managed to hold the Senate in a repeat of the Georgia run-off. Some small cracks in the GOP’s resolve regarding the Big Lie have become noticeable: prominent figures on the Right, like Charlie Kirk and Laura Ingraham, used the midterm defeat to criticize the focus on alleged voter fraud and demonization of early voting—which they themselves helped facilitate. Those who predict the end of Republican cries of voter fraud…

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Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

…hern” out of the title and create a new name for a denomination founded in Georgia in 1845, by and for slaveholders. The result was reported in breaking news Monday night: legally, the Southern Baptist Convention will keep the name it has had since its inception, but informally, churches will be allowed, and even encouraged, to use a non-legal name, Great Commission Baptists, that avoids the negative connotations of the legal name. While recognizi…

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