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Nick Fuentes: “Feminism must be **eradicated**. They cannot have the same rights. ... Shouldn't even be educated. Shouldn't have the same opportunities in the workforce.”

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10/26/2026

byKyle Mantyla

Congressional Democrats are calling for a special counsel investigation of President Donald Trump after accusing him of being an “active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to a Monday report obtained by Mediaite.

Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party.

The president of the United States’ posterior fixation continues with the election just over a week away.

Allie Beth Stuckey discovers healthy empathy.

Even if they can't repeal the 19th Amendment, opponents of women's suffrage are gaining power in the GOP.

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Brian Sauvé Says It's 'Insane' To Allow Women Unsupervised Access To Social Media

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09/23/2026

byKyle Mantyla

Christian nationalists have been eager to exploit the case of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children whose case recently ended in a mistrial, to promote their misogynistic agenda.

The latest to do so are Brian Sauvé and Eric Conn, two far-right Christian nationalist pastors at Refuge Church in Utah, who used a recent episode of their "The King's Hall" podcast to decry the "feminization of America" and argue, among other things, that women should not be allowed to gather in groups or use social media unsupervised.

"Women either shouldn't be on social media or any social media they have should be kind of a walled garden situation where some competent man is curating and blocking and directing and taking a look at what's going on," Sauvé said. "I have access to my wife's social media accounts and I have blocked—this is not an exaggeration—thousands of accounts. Thousands of them. She generally has very little idea of what is going on in the real social media because I've created a walled garden of cute goat videos."

"We have normalcy bias in a certain direction," Sauvé added. "We consider normal what is actually insane. We consider normal women having unsupervised access to one another all the time. That's not normal."

"We consider normal women having political rule," he continued. "We consider normal women living unattached from a male—like a father, then a husband—for lengthy periods of time. You could fill in the blank with all of these modern feminist outworkings of the original feminist vision and what they've done is they've made women anxious, psychotic, depressed, miserable, and genocidally evil. And we just go, 'Oh, that's normal.'"

"People are going to hear me talking about, as my wife's head, monitoring her social media, and they're going to be like, 'Brian is such a tyrant,'" Sauvé declared. "You have normalcy bias for insane world. You're living in an insane asylum and you think it's the normal world and I'm saying, 'No, we don't live in the insane asylum. We do what people did for thousands of years before today.'"

"You had a good post recently on social media talking about this with the 19th Amendment where you were saying actually what's historically crazy is giving women the right to vote," Conn replied. "You're saying we're crazy for bringing it up, but you're actually crazy for believing it, historically speaking."

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Right-wing media are using the Lindsay Clancy case to spread misogynistic attacks on women’s rights

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “Why would we ever entrust a woman to do anything — run a business, lead a country, treat patients?”

*Special* ProgramsAbortion Rights & Reproductive Health

Written by Isabella Sherk

Published 09/16/26

Right-wing media are using the Lindsay Clancy case to advance a misogynistic agenda arguing that women deserve fewer rights.

In a highly publicized case in Massachusetts, Clancy admitted to killing her three young children and then attempting to kill herself in 2023. The 36-year-old pleaded not guilty, with her defense arguing she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings. Clancy’s trial sparked fierce debate in the court of public opinion, on social media, and within the jury; the case resulted in a mistrial on September 4.

Right-wing media have seized on the public attention garnered by Clancy’s case to argue that women in general are unstable and shouldn't have the right to vote, hold office, or sit on a jury. Some figures on the right have also blamed “abortion culture” for Clancy's actions, saying abortion supports women “murdering their own children” and “now the kids are out of the body, they're also killing them.”

Journalist Moira Donegan explained this dynamic in The Guardian:

Some mothers have expressed deep sympathy for Clancy’s postpartum mental health crises, citing resonances with their own experiences and a hope that the case can bring greater attention to the rare but acute and debilitating kind of postpartum mental suffering that Clancy seems to have experienced; others say that medical neglect of the condition, and of the experiences of postpartum women more broadly, create the conditions for tragedies like that of the Clancy family.

Some on the misogynist right, meanwhile, have seized upon Clancy’s actions and the support she has received as evidence that women are congenitally evil, disposed to violence, untrustworthy and unfit for public life.

The Washington Examiner went so far as to say the case is “becoming a touchpoint in the debate surrounding the dangers of feminism.” Attacks on the jury in Clancy’s trial have also proliferated, with MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson calling the women jurors “absolute psychotic bird lady wine mom true crime demons.”

Right-wing media claimed the case highlights that women “cannot control themselves” and questioned whether women should have the right to vote or hold positions of power

Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge, who has long argued that women should not vote, wrote, “If it takes a Clancy mistrial for the world to see that women are not fit to: Rule, lead, judge, or vote then so be it.” He continued, “Feminism must be revealed for the evil that it is, and this is powerful evidence.” [Instagram, 9/3/36; People For the American Way, 1/12/26; The New York Times, 4/2/26]

Discussing Clancy’s case on The Benny Show, Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh said that the “obvious conclusion is well these are people that can't be in power and probably shouldn't have the right to vote.” Host Benny Johnson asked if any violation of law is “excusable because of hormones they can't control, what does that mean when it comes to women holding power in our society? Why would you ever give women the nuclear codes if a bad afternoon or intrusive thoughts could mean nuclear winter?” Walsh responded, “Yeah, well, that would seem to be the obvious conclusion. … And if it is true that any woman can be that volatile and that unstable and murderous then, yeah, I mean, the obvious conclusion is, well, these are people that can't be in power, probably shouldn't have the right to vote.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 9/8/26]

On his own show, Walsh argued that if women “simply cannot control themselves and therefore should suffer no consequences whatsoever,” then “why would we ever entrust a woman to do anything — run a business, lead a country, treat patients?” He continued, “What's to stop the first female president from launching all of our nuclear warheads in a moment of postpartum psychosis? If something like that happens, who are we to judge? She couldn't control herself. She was struggling. Men wouldn't understand. So the feminists defending Lindsay Clancy are, by their own arguments — these are their arguments — they're making the strongest case for the patriarchy that anyone could ever make.” [The Daily Wire, The Matt Walsh Show, 9/1/26]

Discussing Clancy’s supporters, white nationalist Nick Fuentes said, “Women should not be on juries. They shouldn't be on courts.” He also encouraged “all men” to “give your woman the Lindsay Clancy test.” He continued, “And if she is in any way sympathetic to Lindsay Clancy, like, we’ve got to put these people on notice. Honestly, I don't even distinguish — it's like, if half the female population is going to fail the test, I don't want a woman on the jury. I don't want – women should not be on juries. Women should not be on juries. They shouldn't be on courts. That’s how it’s going to be.” [Rumble, America First With Nick Fuentes, 9/1/26]

Host of the Reformation Red Pill podcast Joshua Haymes asked, “Do you see why maybe our Founding Fathers wanted to limit suffrage to people who were qualified,” while talking about the Clancy case. He said, “Increasingly, I just — I understand the Founding Fathers, how they were very, very skeptical and pessimistic toward the idea of raw democracy, the idea of universal suffrage. They didn't think it was a good idea. And they were right. They were obviously right. When you've got women who are deciding who's guilty and not guilty, not on the evidence, but on Zodiac signs — that person is allowed to help determine the future of our country. Do you see the problem here? Do you see why maybe our Founding Fathers wanted to limit suffrage to people who were qualified, right? People who had proven themself responsible enough to at least acquire land and be heads of their household.” [YouTube, Reformation Red Pill, 8/25/26]

On Timcast IRL, conservative podcaster Nick Freitas said “women don't understand what a catalyst moment” the Clancy case is because “you could look back in 20 years and be like, oh, this is where we lost the right to vote.” He continued, “Because the bottom line is as women become more tribal, men are becoming more tribal. And bad news — our tribe doesn't need you to secure our rights. You need us to help you secure yours. And people are like, oh, Nick Freitas is advocating — no, I'm not advocating it. I'm telling you: You get tribal to this degree, where not only can you kill our kids in the womb through all nine months of pregnancy, but now you can strangle them on the outside and you're the one that gets sympathy and the husband is to blame? That's where you move men into the screw you phase of the exercise.” [YouTube, Timcast IRL, 8/24/26]

Right-wing podcaster Emily Wilson said “there is legitimately going to be movement” to “repeal the 19th [Amendment]” because “women have demonstrated they are not capable of controlling themselves or emotions, and they are a danger to themself and others.” Wilson added that repealing the constitutional amendment recognizing women’s right to vote “will never happen,” but “I wish it would.” She then doubled down, saying that “a woman president is a fucking joke,” and suggesting Clancy’s case proves “we should not have women in positions of power anymore.” [Instagram, 9/3/26; Instagram, 9/3/26]

The Federalist published an op-ed titled “Lindsay Clancy Truthers Are The Best Argument For Repealing The 19th Amendment,” which claimed the case “has become a more convincing PR campaign against women’s suffrage than anything you could find in the most obscure corners of the manosphere.” Author Rebeka Zeljko wrote, “As reductive as the argument stating that ‘women are just too emotional’ may be, hysterical Lindsay Clancy fangirls are making that exact case. By insisting that Clancy represents all women, they’re arguing that it’s not just Clancy who is unable to regulate her emotions, but all of us. It’s not just Clancy who is capable of killing her children; it’s all women.” [The Federalist, 8/31/26]

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly said mothers who are “struggling” have “added” Clancy’s killings “to the menu of coping.” Discussing another case in which a woman allegedly killed her child, Kelly said this “new idea of how to manage a challenging child has been introduced by this sick case of Lindsay Clancy. And mothers out there who are struggling, who before wouldn't have even considered this, have now added it to the menu of coping. It's just very, very dark, and we're going down a dark path.” [SiriusXM, The Megyn Kelly Show, 9/8/26]

Right-wing media blamed “abortion culture” for normalizing “a mother killing her own child”

The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles said that “half of American women overtly defend infanticide.” He said, “Half of women in this country go to the ballot box, go on television, go to political rallies holding signs specifically to defend murdering their own children. You remember that? We called it abortion. Now that we use euphemisms like women's rights. The fact that women's rights is now a euphemism that refers exclusively to killing your own kids should mean that we are not surprised by this.” [The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, 8/18/26]

Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins wrote, “When a nation decides for fifty+ years that a mother killing her own child can be reframed as a difficult choice, a health care decision, a matter between her and her doctor…that logic does not politely stay inside the clinic walls.” Hawkins argued, “If you can’t get a conviction here, you cannot get one for abortion.” [Substack, The Pro-Life War Room, 9/2/26]

White nationalist Nick Fuentes said, “Hey, this is the feminist society that everybody wanted. Abortion up until nine months.” He continued, “Hey, you're feeling you're feeling broken up about your pregnancy? Yeah. Kill the kids. Whatever. It's — that's as bad as it gets. So this is a call to action for the men. Wake the fuck up.” [Rumble, America First With Nick Fuentes, 9/1/26]

While comparing the Clancy case to abortion, conservative Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey said, “Actually, we are basically back to the pagan justifications for murder.” Her guest, Charlie Kirk's mentor Frank Turek, said that some women on the jury probably have had abortions, “And they may have felt this idea that how can I judge this woman for killing her children when I killed my own? I want to acquit her because of extenuating circumstances — after all, I had extenuating circumstances in my pregnancy, and I felt it was justified to kill my children, so — I mean, that could be part of this, the psychology of this.” [Blaze Media, Relatable With Allie Beth Stuckey, 9/11/26; Fox News, 9/6/26]

Discussing support for Clancy, right-wing podcaster Emily Wilson said, “Like we've got to the point where women are having abortions and murdering millions of babies and then they're having abortions up to eight or nine months. And now the kids are out of the body, they're also killing them.” She continued, “And we're also just not holding them to the same standards — hey, equal rights, you guys want to be treated like men in society? OK, so give the death penalty. I don’t even like — I want these women tortured to death, if it was up to me.” [Instagram, 9/3/26]

Newsmax host Rob Finnerty said, “Killing your baby into the ninth month is now legal in Massachusetts, which is interesting because Lindsay Clancy killed her baby who was just eight months older than that.” He continued, “The same women standing behind [Massachusetts Gov.] Maura Healey are standing behind Lindsay Clancy tonight.” [Newsmax, Finnerty, 9/2/26]

Discussing a recent Massachusetts abortion law, SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly asked if there is “such a difference between killing … basically in the birth canal versus killing when you have an eight-month[-old] there, like little Callan Clancy?” [SiriusXM, The Megyn Kelly Show, 9/8/26]

Benny Johnson said women are supporting Clancy because they have “blood guilt” for the abortions they have had. He said, “A bee hive, true crime, wine mom mass formation psychosis that I personally believe is entirely predicated on these women wishing to cast their guilt … for murdering their own children. How many of these women have had abortions? Well, a fourth of American women have had abortions. That's innocent blood that you don't get to wash off. And I think that the projection that is happening right now with the Lindsay Clancy trial is exactly that, blood guilt for women that wish to make Lindsay Clancy innocent because that means they will be innocent — not in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of the law.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 9/8/26]

Live Action President Lila Rose said Clancy’s children aren't being remembered because we are a “pro-abortion society” where “a million children are killed in the name of women’s rights every single year.” [The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, 8/26/26]

The Daily Wire's Isabel Brown said the support for Clancy is “a spillover from abortion culture in our society.” She continued, “We have normalized the destruction of innocent babies' lives by the tune of millions upon millions of them every year, that it's obvious that eventually that's going to extend beyond a baby that you can't physically see with your own two eyes in the womb to a baby that's in front of you.” [The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, 8/19/26]

Spanish-language YouTuber Agustin Laje: “The feminist movement of this century has been a militancy whose main objective is enabling the murder of women’s children.” He said, “Those of us who have dedicated years of our lives to deeply studying feminism know perfectly well that it was never anything more than an excuse for women to kill their own children. That is why there is no ideological contradiction here. Nobody who truly knows the nature and essence of the feminist movement should be surprised by this. The feminist movement of this century has been a militancy whose main objective is enabling the murder of women’s children. That’s it.” [YouTube, Agustín Laje Arrigoni, 8/22/26]

Right-wing coverage of Clancy’s case is a “political trial balloon” for attacks on women’s rights

These misogynistic attacks are not new — right-wing media have repeatedly backed proposals over the years to strip women of their vote and to restrict birth control and abortion access. Instead, the Lindsay Clancy case has become the latest effort by conservatives to reframe coverage of an attention-grabbing news story as part of a larger campaign to roll back women’s rights.

As feminist author Jessica Valenti writes, “I’ve been truly frightened at how quickly empathy for one very sick mother has become a referendum on whether women deserve rights at all.”

What started as ‘reasoned’ op-eds and online forums advising men to treat Clancy’s case as a relationship test for their girlfriends and wives has further curdled into viral videos of men vowing they’ll never vote for a woman again, calls to institutionalize any woman who supports Clancy, and thousands of comments on social media posts and articles simply stating “repeal the 19th.” As in: end women’s right to vote.

This isn’t run-of-the-mill conservative outrage or harmless thought exercises. It’s a political trial balloon. Conservatives are looking for any reason at all to broadly subjugate women, and they see the furor around Clancy’s case as their best opportunity in years.

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Right-wing media are using the Lindsay Clancy case to spread misogynistic attacks on women’s rights

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September 15, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

CLETA MITCHELL (GUEST): We have four Supreme Court justices who are supposed to be conservative, three of them appointed by President Trump, and they sided with the communist women on the court and basically said that the lower courts and all their tyranny had to be supported even though Justice Alito wrote an eight page dissent — with which Justice Thomas concurred — saying that this court in and of itself is responsible for the delay and that the states were responsible — the plaintiffs were responsible for the delay.

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There's so much wrong with this, but honestly I'm pretty tired of these weenies on the U.S. Supreme Court who keep siding with the Marxist girls.

And I'm pretty worried about that for the future of our country.

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MITCHELL: I don't see that there's anything that can be done on a broad scale before this election, unfortunately.

We've been fighting for this — we've been fighting to stop noncitizen voting since we started this effort in February of 2024 and we're not going to stop fighting.

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Real America’s Voice Noticias guest: “The biggest mistake the United States of America ever made was giving women the right to vote”

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Megyn Kelly calls Michelle Obama a "steaming heap of nastiness"

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August 31, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show

JESSE KELLY (GUEST): Michelle Obama, and I almost, in a way — I need to clarify — in a way, I almost feel a little bit bad for her. I do this sometimes when it comes to wealthy, powerful people who are obviously miserable. I mean, you only get one shot at this life. Whether you're poor or rich or famous or nobody knows who you are, you're not going to get the do over. You don't get to come back and try it again. So imagine if you get unbelievable blessings on this earth, and you're just miserable the entire time. What a waste of a wonderful life that would be, whether you're rich or poor, if you never find anything to smile about, if you never look around and think, this is wonderful.

How — have you ever in her years -- what is it now, Megyn, 20 years, something like that of them being in the public eye?

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Yeah.

JESSE KELLY: Do you ever remember a time of that woman seeming genuinely full of joy and and happiness?

MEGYN KELLY: No.

JESSE KELLY: I never remember. She's always mad, always miserable, always offended, always -- it's a constant state of affairs.

And you know what? Speaking of people I don't like who I feel a little bit bad for — because I can't stand Barack Obama, I think he really did a lot to destroy the United States of America — imagine being stuck tethered to that thing [Michelle Obama] for the rest of your life.

MEGYN KELLY: Oh my.

JESSE KELLY: I'll tell you what, I would golf more than anybody's ever — I'd be on the PGA tour —

MEGYN KELLY: Yes.

JESSE KELLY: Because I'd spend so much time on the golf course. I'd be, “Oh, well, you know, honey, I have a business meeting in Saudi Arabia. I'll be back in a couple weeks." I'd I would be gone forever. You'd never see me.

MEGYN KELLY: Or just get a divorce. Like, the children are grown. Get a divorce. Barack Obama would have no trouble finding someone to actually love him and root for him and have stars in her eyes for him. No trouble whatsoever. They should get a divorce. Honestly, it's very clear they don't love each other.

She's not capable of loving him. And how can he love just this steaming heap of nastiness? Like, no one's in love with a steaming heap of negativity. That's all she is about everything. Like I say, it's not just him, it's not just the children, time is first lady, my god. She hates everything as far as I can tell except for her current schedule.

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Right-wing media liken Massachusetts law expanding abortion access to Satanism, murder, and “human sacrifice”

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Megyn Kelly attacks free childcare: “Actual contributing members of society will pay for the free childcare of people who do nothing”

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On Monday's episode of the "Christian Nationalism Weekly" program, co-hosts Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd weighed in on the case of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman on trial for killing her three children.

Clancy and her attorneys argue that she cannot be held criminally responsible for the murders as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and Webbon and Todd actually agree, but for virulently misogynistic reasons.

Webbon and Todd, who are both overtly misogynistic, argued that women in general can never really be held responsible for anything they do because a woman simply "doesn't really have the same level of agency as a man."

"The Bible is correct," declared Webbon. "Women really do have less agency than men. And because they have less agency, they also, in political society, must have fewer rights."

"Since the 13th century—influenced by Christendom—in England, the law system said women are covered," Todd declared. "They're underneath the umbrella of their father and their husband. They could not transact property. They could not enter into legal agreements. They did not have the same responsibility."

"If your grandmother is 85 years old, she was alive in the 1960s when, in America, a woman could not open a bank account, a woman could not open a credit card because she was considered underneath her husband," he continued. "Her husband had that authority and the husbands having authority in the home; so many vices from OnlyFans, from abortion, from women murdering their children, from women voting for politicians that will enact policies to welcome in immigrants from the Third World, all of these things are downstream of men letting women have agency. So for the love of children, for the love of your nation, for the love of your wife, for the love of your daughters, take their rights away."

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Kansas State Rep. Pat Proctor, a Republican running for Kansas Secretary of State, lamented just how annoyed he is with female voters.

In a video revealed by his opponent, Jennifer Day, Proctor complained about the 2022 defeat of a ballot measure restricting reproductive freedom in the state.

"There's like, all these, like, women, uh, like 20 to 30-year-old women, who, you know, that you never saw at the polls before, and it's like a long line, the long line, and they're all there to vote," Proctor said.

"And it's just the — they're stealing it fair and square," Proctor said about the female voters, acknowledging that they were all legal voters. "And they all came back out, cause I can see 'em. You know, you had 700 unaffiliated female voters, 20-30, that all came out just to circle, in one circle because it was the only question on the ballot."

Procter made the statement while drawing a "circle" with his hand.

"And they all came back out for the general to vote again," said Proctor about the young female voters.

As of the last count on the Secretary of State's website, there are 575,983 unaffiliated voters in Kansas. Republican voter registration has slightly decreased in the state since January 2025, dropping by about 10,000 voters. A Kansas Reflector report noted that the vote over the ballot measure was "historic."

"Overall, Kansas women made up almost 56 percent of voters in the August 2022 election. And the younger the voters, the more women dominated. Voters between 18 and 24 years old were 61 percent female," the report said.

Retired researcher Earl F. Glynn pointed to a significant discrepancy in the gender of voters in Kansas using U.S. census data and reports after the 2022 election.

"A recent Kansas voter file with 1,975,884 voters shows 1,027,582 females, 937,011 males and 11,291 voters who did not select a gender," Glynn wrote. That math shows that there were 90,000 more female voters in Kansas than male voters.

Kansas' ballot measure is another among red states dealing with issues around reproductive freedom. In the 2024 election, seven states passed ballot measures to ensure access to reproductive healthcare, the State Court Report said after the 2024 election. Missouri affirmed access in that state in early 2026.

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Right-wing media have been arguing for decades that fewer Americans should have the right to vote

Repealing the 19th Amendment, disenfranchising welfare recipients, and requiring a civics test — right-wing media are full of ideas about how to restrict voting

Written by Jack Winstanley

Research contributions from Jack Wheatley & Zachary Pleat

Published 08/10/26

With the midterms approaching, the Trump administration and its allies seem desperate to suppress the vote. The president has pressed Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a package of legislation that experts say would create new barriers for voters and potentially disenfranchise millions. He has signed executive orders restricting mail voting and pushing for proof of citizenship in voter registration, and there has been significant chatter about sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations, which analysts say would be illegal.

The executive orders have been struck down, and the SAVE America Act faces an uphill battle in Congress.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to suppress the vote have a significant ideological precedent. For decades, right-wing media have advocated restrictions on voter eligibility, laying the groundwork for Trump and his allies to undermine the upcoming midterms and push for policies that would make it harder for some Americans to vote. In a review of our archives, Media Matters found that primetime hosts, podcasters, columnists, and the like have attacked women’s right to vote, encouraged limiting the vote to property owners or heads of household, and advocated civics tests as a voting eligibility requirement. Some have outright stated that they only want people who share their political beliefs to be eligible to vote, or suggested kicking recipients of government assistance off the voter rolls.

More recently, right-wing media figures and online influencers have claimed that opponents of the SAVE America Act “want to steal elections” and “want the illegals to be able to vote,” continuing a years-long campaign of misinformation about mass election interference and widespread fraud. In light of this supposed fraud and interference, some commentators and election deniers have advocated more policies that could suppress voter turnout: restrictions on mail-in voting, getting “rid of” voting machines, or sending ICE agents to “surround” polling places. Others have called on Trump to sign an executive order declaring a “national emergency” to give himself “king-like powers” over the midterms.

Below we’ve compiled a survey of right-wing media arguing that fewer Americans should vote, going back to 2004.

Right-wing media figures have criticized individual voting, called for a single household vote, or argued that only property owners should be allowed to vote

Right-wing media figures have called for a repeal of the 19th Amendment or otherwise attacked women's right to vote

Right-wing media figures have argued that voters should have a “minimum level of knowledge” of civics or political issues, with some suggesting a test requirement or barring people they disagree with from voting

Right-wing media claim Americans receiving government assistance shouldn’t have the right to vote

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A new movement, “masculinism”, is uniting the right behind extreme anti-feminist views, chiefly in the United States. It promotes the dominant role of men in society, including the idea that men should dominate women.

The movement is led by figures such as self-declared misogynist Andrew Tate (named by the New Yorker as a “singularly influential proponent of masculinism”), who has just been arrested in the US, with his brother Tristan. UK authorities have just announced new charges against the brothers related to allegations of rape and sex trafficking – adding to previous charges in the United Kingdom, and a criminal investigation underway in Romania.

Other masculinists include male supremacist podcaster Myron Gaines, white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and preacher Doug Wilson, leader of a network of 170 churches whose followers include US war secretary Pete Hegseth.

The term “masculinist” was originally coined in the late 1800s or early 1900s to refer to defenders of male domination. It was then adopted by some in the men’s rights movement in the 1980s as part of a reaction against second-wave feminism. Now, it is being widely used by manosphere and far-right figures and groups.

Masculinism is an extreme form of a men’s rights movement, which believes men should have more rights, power and opportunities than women.

Extreme ideas becoming more common

Andrew Tate has lived out these ideals in life – building an “empire of abuse” based on systemically exploiting women (whom he called “assets” he could “monetize”) for his webcam business.

Wilson was a guest pastor at the Pentagon’s monthly Christian prayer service in February, with Hegseth praying alongside him. He would like to remove women’s right to vote, and has said: “Men are created to exercise dominion over the earth; they are fitted to be husbandman.” And:

the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

These extreme ideas are becoming more common among leading figures within the US right.

“Far from being a fringe belief system, masculinism has become the single most important force uniting the American right, bringing together an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, senators, preachers, influencers, podcasters, and fanboys,” argued feminist journalist Helen Lewis in a popular Atlantic article.

While right-wing leaders may disagree on Israel, or the role of big tech, they are united in their belief that feminism has destroyed the world, she says.

Though these ideas are also evident in Australia, they are so far confined to the fringes. Far-right commentary website XYZ, for example, whose editor-in-chief David Hiscox once said his goal was “redpilling white men about race” to advocate for the establishment of a “white” ethno-state, includes articles titled “Women’s and girl’s sports need to be banned”, “The woman problem” and “The decay of man”, all promoting masculinist sentiments.

At the same time, a recent study showed 25–30% of Australian boys aged 13–17 agreed with misogynistic attitudes, with 28% supporting “violence to resist feminism”. This mirrors a growing global sentiment that “feminism has gone too far” or that men are now discriminated against.

Extreme men’s rights

A core tenet of feminism has been to argue against simplistic gender roles, stating women can be leaders and men can be carers. Modern masculinist movements are a backlash against these arguments. They argue feminism has undermined the inherent differences between men and women, creating an imbalance that has destroyed modern society.

Masculinists focus in particular on the role of women in the public sphere, arguing women are too irrational and emotional to be involved in politics.

Initial versions argued feminism had gone “too far” and that men’s issues were being ignored. While men’s rights movements had an underlying current of belief in male dominance, they often – at least officially – claimed they were only about achieving equality.

Today’s masculinist movements officially remove the mask. They argue not just that men’s issues have been ignored, but that we need to return to a world of full male dominance.

They argue we should strip women’s right to vote, that women should return to a “traditional” life as homemakers, and that husbands should be able to control their wives’ lives – including their weight, spending habits, television viewing, and when they have sex.

These ideas stem from a belief in fundamental differences between men and women. Dominant values in the West (and some other parts of the world) promote traits characterised as “masculine” (logic, reason, conflict, individualism) and disparage traits considered to be “feminine” (emotion, collectivity, cooperation, being other-oriented).

Valuing one set of traits over another promotes the idea that men are more suited to being leaders in politics and business, while women are more suited to life in the home. Much of this is driven by the needs of capitalism, which has privatised domestic care.

As families have increasingly become less able to survive on one salary alone, this model has become untenable for many, with women increasingly entering the workforce over the past 50 years. Even so, these gendered roles have largely stayed the same.

Masculinists trace what they perceive as a collapse in good governance to women’s involvement. They argue not only that women shouldn’t be political leaders, but that they shouldn’t have the right to vote. Some, such as Wilson, advocate returning to a “family vote”, where male heads of households get to decide on the vote for the entire house.

Masculinists want men to have control in the family too. They promote the return to men being the heads of households and women being subservient homemakers and child-rearers. This aligns with white supremacist views.

Some masculinists believe that in pursuing careers, white women stopped having enough babies, resulting in a “replacement” of white people with people of colour.

Uniting the far right

Masculinism is an idea – and a movement – we need to take seriously. There are no serious moves to abolish suffrage, ban women from politics, or legally force them back into the home – yet. But these ideas are becoming increasingly mainstream in the US, as Wilson’s association with the upper echelons of the US government shows.

“Bit by bit we start to break down these walls … and then one day, we become the mainstream,” said Fuentes in a 2019 livestream, outlining his own strategy.

Despite the serious allegations he has faced, Andrew Tate and his ideas have received widespread political support, including allegations the Trump White House intervened in his case in Romania to have a travel ban lifted. (The White House denies backing the Tates in this way.) It is unclear what impact the Tate brothers’ weekend arrest will have on the support they receive.

Australia has yet to go as far as the US, with no mainstream leaders espousing views as extreme as the Tates or Wilson in the US. However, One Nation has increasingly adopted men’s rights and anti-feminist views, evidenced by Pauline Hanson’s recent attack on paid parental leave. Anti-feminist sentiment is also growing in the country, and Andrew Tate himself has become a very popular (albeit contested) figure here.

Feminists and anti far-right groups continue to resist this ideology – through the #metoo movement, for example, and in ongoing fights for abortion rights, increased pay for women, rights for trans people, and so much more.

However, the role of misogyny and masculinist thinking is still often ignored by those studying and fighting against far-right organisations – particularly security agencies, but also many mainstream researchers. Misogyny is often seen as a “lesser” extremism, ignoring the real violence this ideology creates.

Masculinism as a movement, however, is gaining steam. We must tackle it, both to stop the epidemic of violence against women and to ensure we don’t lose the gains feminism has made.The Conversation

Simon Copland, Honorary Fellow in Sociology, Australian National University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Alex Clark guest: “People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished”

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Alex Clark guest: “People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished”

Bob Sears on TPUSA's Culture Apothecary: “The media portrays measles as a deadly infection that's going to kill everyone left and right. That's not played out in our country for many decades now. It's not a fatal infection in a well-nourished nation.”

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From the June 22, 2026, edition of Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark,posted on Spotify

ALEX CLARK (HOST): So what else could come back besides chickenpox?

BOB SEARS (GUEST): Measles could come back.

CLARK: Is that concerning?

SEARS: People don't die from measles in modern countries where children are well fed and well nourished.

CLARK: But what about these recent stories? I thought there were kids that died of measles.

SEARS: That is up for debate.

CLARK: What do you mean?

SEARS: There's some interesting information that has come out, very recent. The families of the kids who died of measles in Texas recently, that was, like, last year. I mean, this is all, you know, second, third hand, so I'm not a firsthand, you know, privy to this information. But what was has been reported and published on online is some lawyers hired some hired some doctors to review the medical records of those children who tragically died, and those children died from other infectious complications from other bacteria after they are already done with measles. The measles had already come and gone. They were better from measles and they died from other things. And the hospitals apparently ignored that and then didn't provide them with the right care. I don't know firsthand what's true about this.

CLARK: OK.

SEARS: But what I know is the chance of a healthy child dying from measles who's well nourished is -- it's probably somewhere as high as one in eighty thousand or one in a hundred thousand. It's it's it's a very tiny number. When you look at published research, you'll see numbers as as high as one in ten thousand cases where kids will die of measles. If you include kids who are not well nourished, kids who maybe have like vitamin A deficiency or really slim, not growing well, a little undernourished, if you include them, it's maybe one in ten thousand rate of death. So that's a very small fatality rate for an infection.

The media portrays measles as a deadly infection that's going to kill everyone left and right. That's not played out in our country for many decades now. It's not a fatal infection in a well-nourished nation. So the answer, as measles continues to increase, is let's feed our children healthy. Let's feed our kids vitamin A foods. Let's give them cod liver oil so they get supplemented with vitamin A. If you have enough vitamin A in your system, you should sail through measles without problems. It's not a cure. It doesn't stop you from getting measles, but it should make your measles way less severe. And that's the answer.

And because, honestly, fewer and fewer people are comfortable with the measles vaccine because it's part of the MMR vaccine, the triple live virus MMR vaccine, because fewer people get that vaccine now, I think consequently, we're going to see more measles. And that doesn't mean that the vaccine is why we got rid of measles in the first place. I mean the reason we got rid of measles fatalities is because we all started eating better.

So, I mean, measles is a very complicated discussion. It probably deserves its own hour, you know, alone, and we don't have time for that. But bottom line is the vaccine is one of the riskier ones, so people don't trust it as much anymore. People aren't getting it as much anymore. I don't think we can ignore the likelihood that we're going to see more measles because of that. So we can prepare ourselves, like I mentioned, with good nutrition to kind of weather that increases in measles. Maybe we'll come out with a safer measles vaccine in the future, and people will feel comfortable with that with that again.

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How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).}:

Thom Hartmann May 17, 2026

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,

— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely.

The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote.

Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

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A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.

Tennessee congressman's latest stories about GoFundMe: Money actually came from him and his family, spent on 'children with cancer.'

Meet “Chud the Builder.”

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Christian Nationalist Joshua Haymes Tells Young Men To Find A Wife Who Will 'Obey You' | People For

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April 8, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty

ROB FINNERTY (HOST): And whether you believe in them or not, everybody has heard about beings from another planet. And the descriptions are almost always the same. They're smaller, big eyes, big heads, weak, stringy little arms, pale, no gender. And usually they're feminine and they always look the same. You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie or like, yucking it up with his alien buddies. That's never happened.

And for some reason, the lines between gender are always blurred with aliens, which I think is very odd. And then you think about what's happening here, back on Earth right now on the left, where masculinity is being erased. And somehow in less than 100 years, we went from this right here, men being men, when that was accepted — these are the men who built the Empire State Building — to this, a man in a very fragile state, also in a building.

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FINNERTY: So that is the new normal now in this country. But could you ever imagine seeing something like that at a city council meeting when you were growing up in America? That would never happen. That guy would be laughed out of the building, which is not me being mean. I'm being honest. But today you're suddenly being forced to accept that. People saw that guy when he walked into the building, normal people like you, and they might have rolled their eyes behind his back, but they didn't say anything. They were polite and they waited in line and waited their turn to speak. And this is happening everywhere.

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Although Fox News and Fox Business are decidedly right-wing on the whole, Fox News has one liberal panelist who often butts heads with her colleagues: Jessica Tarlov. And President Donald Trump angrily railed against her during a Monday night, April 6 rant on his Truth Social platform.

Trump posted, "For Fox executives only, take Jessica Tarlov off the air. She is, from her voice, to her lies, and everything else about her, one of the worst 'personalities' on television, a real loser! People cannot stand watching her. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."

But Trump went after one of Fox News' conservative hosts, Shannon Bream, as well.

"Tell Shannon Bream of FoxNews that it's not the Save Act, it’s the Save America Act, a big difference!," Trump posted. "Also, when she insists on having lightweight Democrat Congressmen, such as Jake Auchincloss, on her not very hard hitting show, she should correct them when they spew out Democrat propaganda and lies. She never does! I always close deals, unlike the Dems, and did great with China in every way, also, unlike the Dems!"

The Daily Beast's Cameron Adams notes that it is "unclear what triggered Trump" about Tarlov and inspired him to "offer unsolicited advice to the bosses at his favorite network about his least-favorite presenter."

"Tarlov is the latest in a growing line of female journalists to be targeted by Trump," Adams observes. "On April 1, he lost his cool with NewsNation's Libbey Dean, who had asked him whether Iran would have to make a deal for him to end the U.S. military intervention. 'You're a fresh person, you know?' Trump snapped. 'We've had a lot of problems with you, haven’t we?' In March, on board Air Force One, Trump opened fire on a female reporter from ABC. 'I think it's maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet,' he said. 'I don’t want any more from ABC.'

The Daily Beast reporter adds, "In February, the president laid into CNN's Kaitlan Collins, 33, when she asked him what he would like to say to the survivors of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."

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Finally, Nick Fuentes says that when he becomes president, every woman and girl will be "sent to the gulags": "They have to be imprisoned."

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In the late 19th Century, women gained the right to vote in some states and municipalities. But it wasn't until the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment was adopted in 1920 that voting became a national right for U.S. women — millions of whom voted for the first time in the 1920 presidential election, which found Republican Warren G. Harding defeating Democratic nominee James M. Cox by roughly 26 percent (Cox's running mate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, went on to enjoy a landslide presidential victory in 1932).

The 19th Amendment has been considered settled law for more than a century. But during Donald Trump's second presidency, more and more evangelical Christian nationalists are seriously calling for the 19th Amendment to be abolished — including Pastor Doug Wilson, a close ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In an article published on April 2, New York Times reporter Vivian Yee takes a look at Christian fundamentalists who believe women should lose the right to vote. This proposal, according to Yee, is now "gaining adherents beyond the fringe" — and they believe that The 19th Amendment "drove America into national decline."

"Instead, they support 'household voting': one household, one vote — the husband's," Yee explains. "While many Americans would see this as an unthinkable regression to a time when women were treated as second-class Americans, proponents of the concept believe deeply that this arrangement is what God envisioned in a marriage. If, a decade ago, the idea was just another extreme provocation, today it is gaining adherents beyond the fringe."

Yee adds, "Male influencers and podcasters in the ultra-conservative corner of the internet known as the Manosphere often push to 'repeal the 19th,' and far-right young women have also backed the idea…. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a clip, last summer, of pastors in his ultra-conservative denomination, which holds that America is a Christian nation whose laws should reflect Christian tenets, arguing that women should be barred from voting."

Beth Allison Barr, a history professor at Baylor University, has changed the way she discusses fundamentalist proposals to repeal the 19th Amendment.

Barr told the New York Times, "I used to teach this as, 'This is this fringe thing that's out there.' Now, I teach it as, 'This is no longer fringe.'"

Yee notes that while "repealing the 19th Amendment would require approval by three-quarters of the states," other MAGA proposals — including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (the SAVE or SAVE America Act) — wouldn't make it illegal for women to vote but would make it more difficult.

"Some obstacles to women voting could come sooner," Yee observes. "President Trump and Republican allies are pushing legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, a restriction that opponents say could disenfranchise the many women whose married names do not match those on their birth certificates or other documents."

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Jesse Watters questions the “emotional maturity” of women: “I hope there's not a female president in my lifetime” | Media Matters for America

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Joel Webbon Says Gender Equality Is A Jewish Plot To 'Eradicate White People'

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Kyle Mantyla

It is well established that Joel Webbon is a deeply misogynistic, antisemitic, white nationalist far-right pastor, so it was no surprise to see him put all of these qualities on display during a recent episode of his "Right Response" program, where he alleged that gender equality is a Jewish plot to eliminate white people and destroy the world.

The crux of Webbon's argument is that nefarious forces are at work providing women with various means and reasons to forgo motherhood in favor of having a career, and that these forces are intentionally doing so in order to "eradicate white people."

"The end game in pushing egalitarianism pertaining to the sexes almost exclusively in the West and nowhere else is because they want Western people, particularly those of European descent—AKA white people—to stop procreating," Webbon declared. "True equality for women with men can only be attained if women have all the same opportunities that men have and they never ever will so long as they bear children, so long as women can get pregnant."

"So how do you achieve then equality between men and women?" he continued. "There is only one way to do it: you have to cut off motherhood; you have to cut off procreation. So then what is the outcome? What is the real end game, the real driving incentive and motive of those who have pushed for an egalitarian system as it pertains to men and women, but done so almost exclusively in the West among those of European descent? I'll cut to the chase. Here it is. It's very simple: They want to eradicate white people."

"This is the destruction of the world," Webbon added. "Egalitarianism is not baked into the scripture. It is baked into the fabric of communism. It's baked into the fabric of Marxism. And it is baked into the fabric of Judaism, which I believe is the root of communism. It is the root of transgenderism. It is the root of Marxism. It is the root of all bitter, baseless envy that just seeks to destroy the world."

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Podcaster Matt Walsh says a lot of tech sector jobs are just "adult day care for women" | Media Matters for America

Tim Pool: Women "vote for drama. They vote for stupid interpersonal trash that does not matter to the function of a society. They vote for soap operas." | Media Matters for America

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President Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy can be understood by his “abusive, impulsive narcissist relations with women,” says the associate editor of a prominent Washington DC magazine.

Describing Trump’s statement last week that he plans on “taking Cuba in some form” because he can “do anything I want with it,” the bottom line is that “Trump’s megalomania continues to grow because he is so rarely punished for it,” wrote Washington Monthly associate editor Gillen Tener Martin in a Sunday editorial.

From winning the 2016 presidential election despite the "Access Hollywood” tape leaking (in that tape he bragged about sexually assaulting women) to getting reelected in 2024 even though he was found liable by a civil jury for the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll, Trump has learned that he can harm others with impunity — and that translates into his policy choices.

“But, of course, ‘I can do anything’ isn’t just Trump’s modus operandi with women,” Martin wrote. “It’s his mantra—how he moves through life: selfishly, chaotically, with little forethought and no expectation of consequences. And we’ve seen how that translates into policy; from tariffs to vaccines to DOGE, from Minneapolis to Venezuela to Iran.”

Martin added, “Turns out, if you’re an abusive, impulsive narcissist in your relations with women, you tend to be one in other areas of life, too. Who would’ve thought?”

There is good news for anti-Trumpers in that Trump’s attitude of invincibility does not translate into actual invincibility, Martin pointed out. He failed to repeal Obamacare, contain the COVID-19 pandemic, steal the 2020 presidential election or convince America’s former allies to back his reckless military venture in Iran.

“Even a military superpower needs allies in war, and allies are hard to find when war is waged on specious grounds without a diplomatic endgame,” Martin concluded regarding the last point. “Under different circumstances, the president being forced to reckon with the consequences of his actions may have brought solace—even glee—to some. Alas, the repercussions of this mess will come for us all.”

Martin’s concern over a possible US invasion of Cuba is based on Trump’s recent fixation on the Caribbean island country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose parents are Cuban immigrants and who is a staunch opponent of that nation’s longstanding Communist regime, has long called for the island to be democratized.

"There is a very personal and corrupt agenda that he is carrying out, which seems to be sacrificing the national interests of the U.S. in order to advance this very extremist approach," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told the AP in October about Rubio.

In response to additional Trump threats in January, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel told Reuters that "Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. Nobody dictates what we do. Cuba does not attack; it has been attacked by the U.S. for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the homeland to the last drop of blood."

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A history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ extreme misogyny

Over the years, Fuentes has called women the “number one political enemy in America,” said “women need to be punched in the mouth” if they “emasculate” men, and claimed the age of consent is a “feminist construct”

Written by Reed McMaster & Jack Wheatley

Research contributions from Pete Tsipis

Published 03/16/26

“Your body, my choice” may be Nick Fuentes’ most infamous line attacking women, but the noted white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier has a long history of using misogynistic rhetoric on his America Firstlivestreams and during appearances on other online shows. These comments include instances where:

Fuentes has advocated for imprisoning women and stripping away their rights}:

Fuentes has said: “When women come at me and they're like, you need to do this, you need to do that. I'm just like, shut up,” then mimed violently punching a pumpkin on his desk. Fuentes said: “You know what my favorite words are when a woman talks? I made cookies.” Rumble, *America First*, [10/2/25]

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  1. ### A recent history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ Holocaust denial

02/13/26 9:49 AM EST

  1. ### Nick Fuentes: “Women exist for sex. That is why they are mothers, or they are whores, or they are nuns. End of list.”

02/20/26 4:02 PM EST

  1. ### Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

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President Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son Barron is reportedly close friends with Justin Waller, an influencer in the so-called “manosphere” who preaches mistreatment of women.

In the new Netflix documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, the 40-year-old Waller bragged that he had befriended Barron and in general joined Trump’s “inner circle.”

“I had dinner with Barron at Mar-a-Lago,” Waller said. “I met Donald that night. I’ve been to Mar-a-Lago four or five times.”

Manosphere influencers like Waller preach the belief that men are inherently superior to women and should be able to control women’s lives. They argue for patriarchal values in which women exist only to serve men domestically and sexually. Waller specifically advocates one-way monogamy wherein women are expected to be faithful to men but men are socially permitted to sleep with as many women as they desire.

Waller is not the only manosphere influencer to find his way into Barron Trump’s good graces. In December, The New York Times reported that Trump is close friends with Andrew Tate, another manosphere influencer who has been accused of multiple counts of sex trafficking and rape. Like Waller, Tate is an outspoken advocate of far right politics across the board, but focuses on teaching that men are superior to and should dominate women.

Thanks to Barron Trump’s instigation, Tate was allowed to leave Romania where he had been under house arrest since 2022 on allegations of coercing women into pornography, rape and pedophilia. Tate had previously been barred from leaving the country, but Barron Trump intervened to help him.

“I had word from The Trump admin that they’re on top of things,” Tate wrote at one point regarding the younger Trump’s assistance. “Ive been told I'll be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami.”

One month later, the Times reported, “an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government” in which “the prosecutors were told to find a compromise with the Tates. Despite their misgivings, they lifted the travel restrictions, a move that Romania’s prime minister thought would appease the Trump administration.”

“We’re massively back,” Tate declared after the legal victory.

Although a legal adult, media outlets have traditionally been shy about covering the youngest Trump child in a critical way. First Lady Melania Trump has directly encouraged this, saying in January that Barron is “a child” and requires her constant supervision. Despite this kid gloves treatment, Trump is already worth $150 million according to the Nasdaq and is legally eligible to serve in the military, which he has refrained from doing despite his father provoking wars in Venezuela and Iran.

"America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day,” declared the creators of a website called DraftBarronTrump.com. “Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog (sic) Bless Barron.”

The site added, "This site is dedicated to honoring the strongest and bravest voices in war. When power is projected abroad, it is only right that strength exists at home. If you’re looking for proven genes, inherited courage, and unquestionable resolve, look no further than the Trump family. Leadership starts somewhere.”

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Louis Theroux, the reporter who helped unmask the crimes of Jimmy Savile, managed to convince members of the “manosphere” realm of influencers to let him into their lives, and what he uncovered was a legion of hate fueled by emotional neglect in their early years as father figures hit the horizon.

Irish Times writer Kathy Sheridan said she watched Theroux’s “Inside the Manosphere” documentary, wherein he deconstructs the “vacuous, vainglorious” rich scam artists with their Lamborghinis, desperately farming every click they can with abuse and spectacle.

“Watch again and the soulless, ignorant young men become savagely wounded children with podcasts, millions of social media followers and a guru in the shape of the alleged rapist and sex trafficker, Andrew Tate,” said Sheridan, who describes them scratching for the content to get clicks to lure more lonely, insecure boys into a squalid world of porn, crypto and Ponzi schemes that fund the influencers’ toys, which serve to lure in even more lonely boys.”

As an experiment, Theroux dropped $500 in one influencer’s investment project, only to find all but roughly $150 of it gone a few days later.

The word “misogyny” plays deep into the documentary, considering how thoroughly the manosphere despises women in their endless rants. Theroux focuses on a handful of young men who’ve made performative misogyny their path to fame.

In Marbella, Theroux spends time with Harrison Sullivan, the son of an English rugby international and a livestreamer who turns every interaction he has in Spain into a moment to be monetized. He teaches ‘boys to be proper boys … not these soyboy gimps,’ and he describes a female housemate as his ‘dishwasher’ only for his braggadocio to evaporate before the cameras when his mom visits.

Then it’s on to Florida to meet Myron Gaines, a broadcaster and author of the self-help book Why Women Deserve Less. Gaines believes in one-way monogamy, where he gets to play around while his partner must stay faithful — all while denying his misogyny.

“Misogyny would be the hatred of women. I love women and I understand them,” claims Gaines.

It’s not the first conversation where Theroux’ prodding uncovers inconsistency and some worried looks. Another target – Harrison Sullivan aka HSTikkyTokky – proudly admits that he gets a cut of OnlyFans ‘models’ earnings, which Sheridan said was “once known as pimping.” He also uses them for sex, all while expressing disgust for how they make their money.

When confronted about his homophobic and anti-Semitic rants, Sullivan denies it all, claiming he’s only “clip farming.”

“Women offer themselves up to be shamed and abused on air, which raises the question of whether they are complicit in some grotesquely unbalanced transaction,” said Sheridan. “Female partners and employees are silenced when Theroux attempts to [interview] them. Their role is only degradation. It can never be otherwise.”

Their victims include other men without a proper sense of respect for others instilled by guardians. This includes “Mattie,” a vulnerable young man who “moved to Miami to make it big, but ended up sleeping in his car and crying every night, grieving for his dead brother.”

“We can argue about the original sin that turned little boys into a version of Donald Trump – the world’s most obviously wounded child – but it’s the Matties who should concern us now,” Sheridan said. “He represents all the boys on the cusp, who have been sold the idea of a matrix – a secret world government run by Satanists, feminists and Jews, which is purposely designed to make men fail. Mattie will crumble under his guru’s pressure to man up or he will morph into the worst, emotionally-disconnected version of himself, like his gurus.”

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Last Tuesday, James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, was speaking to a packed house at the Queens Harbour Yacht and Country Club in Jacksonville. Every one of the room’s almost 100 seats was taken, and people were standing several rows deep around the perimeter, with more listening from the lobby outside. The crowd was mostly male and very young; several attendees told me they were in high school. A few wore the “America First” baseball caps popular with followers of Nick Fuentes, the influential white nationalist troll.

More than 100 Latino Christians leaders signed a statement saying Samuel Rodriguez, an evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump and a go-to voice for Hispanic evangelical perspectives, and news media have exaggerated the size of Rodriguez’s reach as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”

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Since assuming the self-titled role of “Secretary of War,” machismo has been at the core of Pete Hegseth’s military leadership. According to a new op-ed by the i Paper columnist Ian Dunt, Hegseth’s “fragile masculinity” is not only an “insecure” projection, but an “embarrassment” to the United States that makes the country “weaker.”

Machismo has always been at the core of the Trump administration’s ethos, Dunt explained, as it has sought to promote executive authority while denigrating women and LGBTQ people, and no one in the administration better represents that than “moron” Pete Hegseth. Not only is he unqualified and “perhaps the least complex individual ever given high office,” but he has “translated his personal flaws into the operating manual for the US armed forces.”

Dunt argued that this issue dates back to the earliest days of Hegseth’s tenure, which he launched with complaints about pronouns, “climate change obsession,” and “dudes in dresses.” Then in what Dunt called “one of the weirdest single moments in American military history,” Hegseth gathered the majority of the nation’s generals and other defense leaders to chastise them about facial hair and various culture war talking points as “they sat in baffled silence.”

As Dunt pointed out, while most recognize his “fragile” overcompensation, “Only in Trump-land would he be considered a sensible candidate for anything.” But the problem with having someone like Hegseth in power isn’t just a matter of morality, but a question of effectiveness.

“This personality type does not plan,” wrote Dunt. “In fact, planning is considered distinctly effeminate. Evidence-seeking, briefings, assessments of vulnerabilities, scrutinising your expectations, critically assessing your strategic objectives, using deep domain knowledge to establish geopolitical reality, understanding the motivation of your opponent: these are the qualities which win conflicts.”

But as the Trump administration is now discovering as the war in Iran expands, Hegseth's approach does not deliver the rapid results that they hoped for. Dunt cites reports that the Iranian regime has turned down two US requests seeking a ceasefire while closing the Strait of Hormuz, throwing the global energy market into chaos.

The impact of all this, Dunt argued, is being felt economically, politically, and beyond, not only weakening the United States but emboldening its greatest foes like Russia and China. What’s more, “It is an embarrassment for a great nation like the US.”

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February 10, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): So the Democrats were probably licking their chops before this hearing. Do you think they delivered?

EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): They delivered to themselves. I'm sure that they're patting themselves on the back. This was a beautiful illustration of the hysterical theatrics that the left engages in, and especially those elected officials on the left. There are people like Swalwell who can't go one minute without just pandering to whatever followers he thinks he has. And then you contrast that with the cool, collected professionalism of those brave men and women who are out there and up there testifying on the Hill and representing all of us.

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February 3, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): You go back to the revolutions. The Bolsheviks, a radical minority, trying to impose their will and power on the majority, and they can only do that through fear, intimidation, organized violence, oppression, and the way they often do that is they use women and children. Why? Because children don't know any better and it's frightening to see it happen. And women can have their compassion and their emotions hijacked and they're often the most passionate revolutionaries. I mean, the Manson family, those murders were done by young women who believed in a cause. And when you talk to them, they don't know why.

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Between a series of Democratic election victories in late 2025 and early 2026 and President Donald Trump's weak approval ratings in a long list of recent polls, Republican strategists are growing increasingly worried about this year's midterms —which are a little over nine months away.

Never Trump conservative and New York Times columnist David French fears that Trump and his allies will use militarized U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE) raids to "intimidate" non-white voters in November. And Guardian opinion columnist Arwa Mahdawi worries that MAGA Republicans will resort to another tactic to discourage Democratic voter turnout: making it harder for women to vote.

Mahdawi is especially concerned about the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility), which, if passed, would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require "documentary proof of United States citizenship" in order to vote. The SAVE Act passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2025 but is stalled in the U.S. Senate.

In her Sunday, February 1 column, Mahdawi argues, "As the U.S. grows increasingly violent, increasingly cruel, every day brings a legion of new horrors. So I'm very sorry to say that I'm here to ruin your weekend by giving you yet another thing to worry about. That thing is called the Save Act, and if the Trump Administration gets its way, it could have an oversized impact on the November midterms — particularly when it comes to minorities and married women being able to vote."

Mahdawi contends that the SAVE Act's goal is "disenfranchisement" of female voters.

"If it became law, the Save Act would require Americans to provide a birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship document to register or re-register to vote," the columnist explains. "Per one Brennan Center Study, more that 21 million American citizens, many of whom are engaged voters, do not have easy access to these documents. While just over 8 percent of self-identified white American citizens don't have these documents readily available, the Brennan Center found the number is nearly 11 percent among Americans of color."

Mahdawi adds, "Women who changed their name when they got married may also face a logistical nightmare: reports show that as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse's name don't have a birth certificate that matches their legal name."

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Reformed pastor Dale Partridge says he doesn’t hate women, but he doesn’t think they have the emotional capacity to vote. After months of tirades against emancipated females, he published a video on Jan. 24 calling white liberal women “the epitome of stupid.”

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Following the recent shooting of Renee Good by an agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States, the Donald Trump administration’s latest narrative suggests that “deluded wine moms” are to blame for the violence in ICE-related demonstrations in Minneapolis and across the country.

This mother-blaming is nothing more than an old trick with a new spin.

Organized gangs of ‘wine moms’

A Fox News columnist recently wrote that “organized gangs of wine moms” are using “antifa tactics” to “harass and impede” ICE activity. In the opinion piece, he claimed that “confusion” over the what constitutes civil disobedience is what “got 37-year-old Renee Good killed.”

Similarly, Vice-President J.D. Vance called Good a “deranged leftist” while a new acronym, AWFUL — Affluent White Female Urban Liberal — has appeared on social media.

In framing protesters like Good, a mother of three, as confused, aggressive and “delusional,” this narrative delegitimizes and pathologizes maternal activism.

This strategy aims to divert blame from the U.S. government and its heavy-handed approach to immigration — which has resulted in yet another slaying of a protester by ICE agents in Minneapolis, this time a male nurse who was reportedly coming to the aid of a female demonstrator — while also drawing on a centuries-old strategy of blaming mothers for social problems.

What makes a ‘wine mom?’

The term “wine mom” emerged over the last two decades as a cultural symbol of the contemporary white, suburban mother who turns to a nightly glass of wine (or two) to cope with the stresses of daily life.

The archetype goes back much further, reflected in literature, film and television characters, such as the wily Lucille Bluth of Arrested Development.

Yet, this motif is less light-hearted than assumed: a recent systematic review reveals a strong link between maternal drinking and stress, especially for working mothers.

While it would be easy to view problematic drinking as another example of maternal failure, it is important not to. Here’s why.

Mother-blame in history

Throughout history, mothers have found themselves in the midst of what American sociologist Linda Blum calls a “mother-valor/mother-blame binary.”

When behaving in accordance with socially acceptable and desirable parameters — that is with warmth, femininity and selflessness — mothers are viewed as “good.” When mothers violate these norms, whether by choice, circumstance or by virtue of their race or class position, they’re “bad mothers.”

Mother-blame ultimately reflects the belief that mothers are solely responsible for their children’s behaviour and outcomes, along with the cultural tendency to blame them when things go wrong. Yet, as Blum points out, “mother-blame also serves as a metaphor for a range of political fears.”

Perhaps the most striking example of this is the suffrage movement, which represented a direct challenge to patriarchal notions that women belonged in the domestic sphere and lacked the intelligence to engage in political discourse.

Suffragettes in the United Kingdom — many of them mothers — occasionally used extreme tactics, such as window-smashing and arson, while women in the U.S. obstructed traffic and waged hunger strikes.

These activists were framed as threatening to not only the establishment, but also to families and the moral fabric of society.

Ironically, despite the fact that women’s entry into politics led to increased spending and improved outcomes related to women, children, families and health care, scholars have found that mother-blaming was as common after the women’s movement as it was before.

Contemporary mother-blame

Beyond political matters, contemporary mother-blame is rampant in other domains.

Mothers have been blamed for a wide variety of their children’s psychological problems, including anxiety, depression and inherited trauma. In media and literature, mothers are often blamed for criminality and violence, reflecting the notion that “mothers make monsters.”

When children struggle in school, educators and administrators may blame the mother. Mothers risk being called “too passive” if they don’t advocate for their children or “too aggressive” when they do.

Similarly, the “crazy woman” or “hysterical mother” is a well-known trope in custody law, and mothers may be blamed even when their children are abused by others. Mass shootings? Mom’s failure. The list goes on.

By setting up mothering as a high-stakes endeavour, the cultural norm of mother-blame also serves to “divide and conquer.”

In my sociology research, I found that mothers on Facebook worked to align themselves with like-minded “superior” mothers, while distancing themselves from perceived “inferior” mothers. This feeds into the cultural norm of “combative mothering,” which pits mothers against each other.

An old trick with a new spin

The “wine mom” narrative builds on this historical pattern of mother-blame. It is meant to trivialize, delegitimize, divide and denigrate mothers who are, in fact, well-organized and motivated activists concerned for their communities.

While there are legitimate concerns around maternal drinking as a coping mechanism, the “wine mom” label has begun to represent something different. Mothers are reclaiming the title to expand their cause.

As @sara_wiles, promoting the activist group @redwineblueusa stated on Instagram: “They meant to scare us back into the kitchen, but our actual response is, ‘Oh, I want to join!’”

We should acknowledge that rather than causing societal problems, mothers have a long history of trying to fix them, even if imperfectly. Mothers like Renee Good are no exception.

Darryn DiFrancesco, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, *University of Northern British Columbia

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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As Minneapolis prosecutors resign over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, right-wing media call for her arrest

Megyn Kelly on the ICE killing: “That wife got Renee Good killed — that's the truth. It was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”

Written by Gideon Taaffe & Reed McMaster

Published 01/13/26

As federal prosecutors in Minnesota are resigning over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, who was present when an ICE agent killed Good last week, some in right-wing media have been calling for Good’s wife to be arrested, saying she committed a “felony” and that Good’s death “was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”

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  1. ### Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting

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  1. ### A look at how Fox used its coverage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting to push the administration's propaganda

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  1. ### Joe Rogan: “I can also see the point of view of the people that say, ‘Yeah, but you don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens'”

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January 12, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show

WILL CAIN (HOST): The department is surging hundreds of additional agents into Minneapolis to support the ongoing ICE operations there in the wake of last week's shooting. This comes -- in this press conference today -- comes as we're getting new witness video of Renee Good before the shooting. She can be seen in her vehicle blocking agents for several minutes, even dancing to the tune of her own car horn. You know, all the behavior of a legal observer.

There's a weird kind of smugness, by the way, in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority. Most guys learn early in life that every confrontation has a sort of escalation chain. A joke, a push, an argument can eventually turn to violence. We spend a lifetime reading the signs, knowing when we're getting close, knowing when to pull back, knowing when we're on the edge of violence. These protesters? They seem completely oblivious, or they think they have a hall pass to the possibility that blocking cops or using their cars as barricades could end violently -- tragically, but violently.

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A Fox News opinion columnist is telling the women in America he calls “organized gangs of wine moms” that they are “impeding” federal immigration agents and should “knock it off.”

Referring to Minneapolis’ Renee Good, who was shot and killed at point-blank range last week by an ICE agent, Fox News’ David Marcus says that harassing federal agents “doing their jobs” is “criminal behavior,” and warns that it “got a woman killed.”

“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience,” Marcus writes. “It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.”

Marcus also calls these women “cosplaying would-be revolutionaries,” and he asks whether groups of people “training and then executing missions that put law enforcement and the public in harm’s way may, in fact, be criminal conspiracies.”

He accuses Good and her wife of “heckling” and “goading” ICE officers “with an obnoxious smugness that makes most people’s skin crawl.”

Critics took issue with Marcus’ claims.

“Women-led movements are more likely to succeed and lead to egalitarian democracies,” noted Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. “Autocrats know they have to do everything possible to dampen women’s political participation because it’s women who most often emerge as the most powerful forces in the fight against fascism.”

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance quipped: “Remember to apply for membership in your local gang of wine moms soonest.”

Political scientist Daniel W. Drezner mockingly added: “THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES, RANKED: 1) Organized gangs of wine moms 2) League of Women Voters 3) Daughters of the American Revolution 4) Packs of wild dogs that have taken over major cities 5) China.”

Author and attorney Jill Filipovic noted, “Misogyny is bad for all the obvious reasons, but it is also almost universally a tool wielded by those who support government repression.”

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Opponents of President Donald Trump, from liberals and progressives to right-wing Never Trump conservatives, have often been accused of having "Trump derangement syndrome" — even by people who aren't necessarily Trump supporters or MAGA Republicans themselves. The opponents who criticize Trump's views as dangerous or authoritarian are told that they take his rhetoric much too seriously and are being "alarmists" or "hysterical."

But podcaster Toby Buckle, in an article published by The New Republic on December 18, emphasizes that almost 11 months into Trump's second presidency, the warnings of his most vocal critics are proving to be spot on.

Buckle equates those critics with "Cassandras." In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophetic figure who was frustrated because she knew that no one would believe her. And modern-day "Cassandras," Buckle says, were not exaggerating when they sounded the alarm about Trump as far back as 2015.

"Imagine I sent you back in time to July 2015 with the goal of saving liberal democracy in America," Buckle argues. "Donald Trump announced his candidacy a month ago, the polls are showing him with a narrow lead, and the media — while noting his extreme rhetoric — are mostly treating this as a fun diversion. You can't prove you're from the future, and you're limited to broadly legal means. Can you persuade enough people to take it more seriously? After all, you know what's coming — January 6, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, checks and balances failing, massive open corruption, troops on the streets, abductions by masked men, and concentration camps."

The podcaster continues, "But when you warn of these horrors, it sounds outlandish. People won't believe you. If you insist, you'll be dismissed as hysterical. Despite knowing the future, you won't be able to prevent it. This is not that far from the position many ordinary Americans found themselves in at the start of the Trump era."

Those "latter-day Cassandras," according to Buckle, "saw what was coming clearly enough" when they "called Trump's movement fascist from the very start."

"Accordingly, they did everything they could to get others to listen," Buckle notes. "But not enough people did, and many attacked them — even as events proved them right, again and again."

Buckle interviewed "37 Americans who meet the profile of a latter-day Cassandra," and their warnings about Trump, the podcaster says, were far from exaggerations.

"The first thing to say about fascism's Cassandras is they're usually women," Buckle explains. "Not all women are Cassandras — most aren't — but most Cassandras are women. My sense is that Black Americans, of either gender, are likelier than whites to be Cassandras, and trans and nonbinary people are heavily overrepresented within the group…. What were they afraid of? Authoritarianism, political violence, racism, sexism, corruption, as well as threats to bodily autonomy and LGBT rights, were the common themes. Everyone mentioned at least one of those, and the vast majority mentioned multiple."

*Read Toby Buckle's full article for The New Republic at this link

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Comedian and podcaster Deborah Frances-White isn’t joking in her recent column for The iPaper, where she describes a growing movement of men who believe women’s right to vote should be taken away.

"The Guilty Feminist" host noted that she first assumed that it was rumblings coming from the "manosphere," an umbrella term for a loose network of online communities that promote ideologies of male supremacy and anti-feminism.

"However, even the most fiercely anti-feminist forces haven’t openly questioned women having the vote in my lifetime, because no one can remember a time when it wasn’t normal," wrote Frances-White.

She recalled being cornered in the lobby of one of her comedy shows, by a woman who claimed that women are "too emotional" to have the right to vote.

"That was my first alarm bell," she confessed.

White women in the U.S. earned the right to vote in 1920. Frances-White noted that Native American women weren't even classified as citizens until 1924 and some Black women were blocked from voting until the 1960s — particularly in the South.

But in the last decade, Supreme Court rulings eliminated the Roe v. Wade standard, allowing the government to regulate reproductive health.

Frances-White pointed to the "Project 2025" handbook, a plan authored by those working with the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation amid President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

The goals include not just replacing FBI staff with Trump loyalists, but the complete dismantling of the Department of Education, the mass deportation of immigrants and cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

One section, however, focuses on enacting laws pushed by Christian nationalists, including laws that criminalize reproductive health.

"Much of this is being actioned now," she warned.

"Part of this new political climate includes the visibility of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), which counts more than 160 congregations across North America, Europe, Asia and South America," she continued. "Their most recent outpost was strategically planted in Washington DC under the leadership of Pastor Doug Wilson. While they are not directly connected to Project 2025, many of their aims align neatly with it."

CREC spokespeople are outright arguing to overturn a woman's right to vote and put women "back to the household." Women's suffrage is "eroded family values" in their eyes. Women should only be voting, they believe, if she is the head of the household. That does not mean that men who are not the head of the household are not allowed to vote, however.

This reflects a broader argument within the Trump coalition. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has contended that if women are to be included in combat roles, they must meet the same physical standards as male soldiers.

In her closing remarks, Frances-White contends that what marks the beginning of the journey "on the road to Gilead" is not the overturning of a ruling like Roe, but rather when ideas questioning women's voting rights spread through conversations, social media, and videos without significant public opposition.

"It’s a quiet conversation in a church basement," she said. "It’s a campaign shared on social media. It’s ideas dropped in YouTube videos with millions of hits. It’s a moment when someone says, “maybe women shouldn’t vote,” and it doesn’t get laughed off. If you believe democracy means that each of us has a voice – the right to vote, choose, speak, dissent – now is the time to guard it."

Read the full column here.

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####Right-wing media are poised to escalate attacks on women as MAGA cracks emerge}:

As MAGA begins to fracture, elements of the coalition may seek to rally behind anti-feminism

Special ProgramsAbortion Rights & Reproductive Health

Written by John Knefel

Published 12/10/25

The right-wing media and policy ecosystem appears poised to escalate its attacks on the basic rights of women as a weakened President Donald Trump lurches toward the end of the first year of his second term. The campaign to roll back decades of material gains for women is coming from both the gutter sexists and the would-be high-brow elements of the conservative media world, and it could serve as a rallying point for an increasingly fractured MAGA movement.

Perhaps no event better exemplifies this trend than a recent hire by The Heritage Foundation, which has been in crisis for months after its president, Kevin Roberts, defended a friendly interview Tucker Carlson conducted with white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.

On the back of that scandal, which Roberts seems to have made worse with every attempt at cleaning it up, Heritage has now brought on Boise State University professor and anti-feminist crusader Scott Yenor to head up its B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. As conservative pundit Henry Olsen notes at The Atlantic, the decision “poses serious questions about the institution’s beliefs concerning the equality of women in the workplace and perhaps even as citizens.”

New Heritage hire pushes birth control restrictions and rollbacks to the Civil Rights Act

Olsen runs through some of Yenor’s lowlights, including pushing for laws that would let businesses “support traditional family life by hiring only male heads of households, or by paying a family wage,” and his belief that “governments should be allowed to prepare men for leadership and responsible provision, while preparing women for domestic management and family care.”

Yenor has repeatedly attacked the Civil Rights Act — a distressingly common phenomenon in conservative media — telling a Mother Jones reporter that the landmark 1964 law “made it impossible and, in fact, suspect to treat men and women differently.” Yenor’s opposition to the law extends to racist grievances too. A blog he co-wrote argues that “the 1964 Civil Rights act, and especially its administrative and jurisprudential offspring, have warped American law and culture and traded one set of racial preferences for another.”

Heritage’s decision to bring Yenor on has generated significant support from right-wing media, suggesting that he’s more of an opening salvo than a random misfire.

Fellow Heritage staffer Emma Waters wrote that it was a “huge win for@Heritage to have Scott on board, and I'm glad he's here.” Her colleague Genevieve Wood reacted to The Atlantic article by writing: “The entire premise of this piece is invalid and disingenuous.” Anti-civil rights activist Chris Rufo argued: “Scott's idea that private companies should be able to prioritize hiring married men with families is completely within the bounds of reasonable debate, and, in fact, it's absurd that individuals cannot hire whomever they want in their own companies, with their own money.” (The Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on sex and other characteristics.)

The campaign to roll back decades of material gains for women is coming from both the gutter sexists and the would-be high-brow elements of the conservative media world

Given Yenor’s recent output at Heritage — his author page currently hosts two pieces of writing — The Atlantic’s premise doesn’t seem invalid in the least. An October 29 blog headlined “RFK Should Grill the Pill” argues that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should consider imposing restrictions on hormonal contraceptives and that his seeming reluctance to do so is “to the detriment of women across the country.” Yenor and his co-author write that the “proliferation of the birth control pill since the 1960s has fostered a number of grave consequences for our society: hook-up culture, delayed marriage, and the destruction of the nuclear family.”

The blog is hardly the first time Heritage has gone after birth control. Roberts took aim at the pill in his own book, writing: “In the case of contraceptives, we are a society remade according to a research agenda set by the Party of Destruction.” As Media Matters previously reported, Heritage’s sprawling presidential transition effort, Project 2025, “suggests restoring Trump-era ‘religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate’ through the Affordable Care Act that would allow employers to deny coverage.” A separate Media Matters analysis found that at least 34 of Project 2025’s partner organizations “have spread misinformation about contraceptive methods or championed limiting access to contraception, largely on religious grounds.”

Myths about the supposed dangers of birth control have found purchase in social media and podcasts as well. By early 2024, right-wing influencers spreading misinformation about birth control on TikTok had racked up millions of views. Now, some elements of the Make America Healthy Again movement — which is closely associated with Kennedy — are turning against hormonal contraceptives, illustrated by prominent MAHA podcaster Alex Clark referring to birth control as “poison.” The rejection of safe and proven forms of health care extends to so-called tradwife influencers, who have advised young women to embrace not only a far-right definition of proper gender roles, but also “a general distrust of the government and modern medicine.” One prominent tradwife figure used social media to spread “anti-trans bigotry, opposition to sending women to college at 18, and disturbing messages like ‘any wife who denies her husband intimacy is acting against her marriage.’”

Right-wing media figures urge women to leave the workforce

Yenor’s other piece at Heritage argues that prohibiting single-sex education at the Virginia Military Institute and beyond has harmed the school and society at large, suggesting that sex segregation in schools can “be wholesome per se, serving the innate differences between men and women and their somewhat different social destinies.” Elsewhere, Yenor’s writing details those “somewhat different social destinies" a bit more clearly; as Olsen noted at The Atlantic, Yenor has argued: “​​The Mrs. Degree, with additional credentialing for work, is all you want by graduation day.”

The position that women should largely, or perhaps entirely, eschew careers has become increasingly normalized in right-wing media. The late Charlie Kirk — who also railed against the Civil Rights Act — told a young woman with ambitions to be a surgeon that between her career and a potential family, “you’re going to have to choose which one matters more.” On the off chance his advice wasn’t clear, he added: “There are a lot of successful, 35-year-old orthopedic surgeons that have cats, and not kids, and they’re very miserable."

Not only do many right-wing media figures want women to exit the workforce — they also want to make it much more difficult for them to leave a failing marriage.

Not only do many right-wing media figures want women to exit the workforce — they also want to make it much more difficult for them to leave a failing marriage. Conservative pundits have attacked no-fault divorce, seeking to reduce women to a second class status and exposing them to greater risk of violence from their husbands.

And over the last year, and especially following Republican losses in November, right-wing media figures have called into question the very right of women to exist as political agents. Fox anchor Martha MacCallum reacted to women voting for Democrats by saying: “I find that very frightening.” Similarly, Newsmax host Rob Schmitt told his audience that “young women in this country have become a very scary demographic.” This impulse is expressed in its most extreme variation by Fuentes, who said that if he were president: “I would just take away the right to vote for tons of people. Women for sure.”

Yenor’s new role at Heritage suggests that the larger right-wing media broadside against feminist gains is likely to intensify, as conservative pundits look to restore long-outdated forms of gender domination. Largely agreed upon pillars of social life in the United States — like the Civil Rights Act and relatively open access to birth control — are now contested fronts in the so-called culture wars, and Heritage is helping to provide the ammunition.

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Over the years, right-wing firebrand author Ann Coulter argued, on various occasions, that the United States needs to "reconsider women's suffrage." And during Trump's second presidency, however, an increasing number of Christian nationalists and MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.

Dale Patridge, a far-right evangelical Christian nationalist pastor, said, "I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America." Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate called for the U.S. to "stop letting women vote," and anti-feminist Hanna Pearl Davis repeatedly calls for women to lose their voting rights. Another opponent of women's suffrage is Idaho-based pastor Doug Wilson, an ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In a column published on December 4, The Guardian's Moira Donegan warns that the movement to repeal the 19th Amendment is quite real among Christian nationalists and MAGA Republicans.

"More and more," the progressive observes, "influential voices in the MAGA movement and the far-right Republican Party are calling to strip women of the franchise. It's not that this is strictly a new development. Opposition to women's voting rights has long been a fringe, but persistent, feature of the American right. It's been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers; it trended among Trump supporters on social media in the lead-up to the 2016 election, when polls showed that Trump would win if only men voted."

Since 1920, Donegan notes, "opposition to women's right to vote" has "simmered at the extreme edges of political opinion." But increasingly, she emphasizes, MAGA figures are saying the quiet part out loud in 2025.

"Joel Webbon, a pastor and YouTube personality, has been at the forefront of this brand of misogynist Christian reaction….. The opponents of women's suffrage have, for now, no way of enacting their ambition: there is no path to repealing the 19th Amendment," Donegan warns. "But they are part of a growing movement to blame women's advancement — and their increased access, participation and visibility in education, the workforce, politics and public life — for a slew of social problems, from political polarization to economic stagnation to a vague sense of spiritual anomie…. This range of sexisms that have attained mainstream credibility in politics and the press rest on one assumption: that women's citizenship is partial and conditional compared with men's, that we have less of a claim on rights, dignity and public participation than our brothers do."

Donegan adds, "That this assumption is even held is an insult to women's dignity; that it is now so blithely accepted is a sign of how far women’s status has already sunk."

*Moira Donegan's full column for The Guardian is available at this link.

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Canadian author Margaret Atwood turned 86 last week and is unafraid of speaking out about her southern neighbor.

The Guardian served a host of fans the opportunity to swap words with the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which is now an acclaimed streaming series. And in those exchanges Atwood shared the same lingering trepidation that molded her emblematic series into the rallying cry that it is today.

When asked by a fan what she would do were she American, Atwood answered: “now, this very minute, I’d be worrying a lot about my country. Is it a democratic world leader on a steep slide into autocracy?”

Another fan asked why we keep electing “psychopaths” to office, to which the author of the “Book of Lives” said sometimes voters get waylaid by bad information.

“Quite often, in elections, people are not given the choice of something they actually want. So they vote, not for the best, but for the one they think will be the least worst. Not surprisingly, they sometimes get it wrong. And in an age of disinformation (see 18th-century political pamphleteering, just for a fun comparison) the possibility of deciding on the basis of accurate information may be pretty low.”

When asked if women and human society would ever be able to truly “topple patriarchy” Atwood was more concerned with women being able to “hold the line – the line on one side of which women don’t have jobs, money or political rights; and on the other side of which they do?”

The hypocrisy of the Trump era was another phenomenon needing address. While hypocrisy “has been a constant factor in human societies,” Atwood said there are high and low points, but now “we are seeing the greatest democracy of modern times turning away from these ideals, the ideals are looking better as aspirations than they have for a while.”

“What will we do and who will we be without them?” she asked.

Like the world of the “Handmaids Tale,” Atwood was unsure if U.S. democracy could last.

“I don’t know. But America is a large and very diverse country. It will be hard to make all the Americans line up and salute without killing a lot of people,” she said. “And the armed forces — as we have just been reminded — take an oath to the Constitution, not to an individual. It’s a bit like fairies in Peter Pan. Democracy will die if you don’t believe in it. (But so will money.)”

She added, however, that “more hopeful turns are always possible — except at the moment when you’ve been pushed out a window.”

“[T]there is no ‘inevitable course of history’. And yes, individuals have made a difference. And can still do so. (Though at what cost?)”

Read the Guardian report at this link.

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A Fox News host is urging viewers to defend America’s “western Christian culture” and to think “communism” whenever they hear about feminism or secularism.

Rachel Campos-Duffy, a “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host, told viewers on Monday, “I think it’s really up to us to reclaim our culture.”

“We can sit and complain about it, but when we give in to those atheist groups that keep suing, we should come right back — this is our culture,” she said. “I’m not going to let, you know, pro-Palestinian or whatever they’re putting forward — these are all fronts for, you know, whenever you see any of these groups, just think feminism, secularism, just think communism. This is what they’re really about.”

“It’s always been about communism,” Campos-Duffy insisted.

“Making the state the center, removing the power of religion and family from our culture. It’s up to us to make sure that our culture remains what it is, which is a Western Christian culture with a beautiful history that we have in this country, and that we have to defend these things every single day, especially with our children.”

Campos-Duffy has a history of targeting feminism.

“Feminists like Hillary Clinton have robbed women of so much over the years, of minimizing the importance of what our purpose as mothers and as wives, and, I think, and really demeaning it and saying that it’s not the most important,” she said in September.

“Always remember that feminism has never been about women. It’s always been about ABORTION and COMMUNISM,” she wrote in 2023.

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Right-wing media escalate attacks on young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country

Clay Travis: “They've all gone insane, young women are actually insane in this country”

Written by Jane Lee, Isabella Corrao & Helena Hind

Published 11/07/25

In the wake of Democrats’ sweeping election victories across the country on November 4, right-wing media quickly focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates.

Figures across right-wing media expressed fear over the demographic, with Newsmax host Carl Higbie labeling “liberal white women” as “the biggest threat to America — they will literally vote for their own destruction and take everyone down with them.” The response from right-wing media to women exercising their right to vote ramps up a trend of conservative voices attacking liberal women in the past year.

Right-wing media react to young women voters following November 4 elections

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CLI OBSTR ROBERTS

This chapter synthesizes research that explains how climate dis-

information circulates through media and contributes to climate obstruction

that benefits carbon-based industries and status-quo actors at the cost of soci-

ety and the environment (see Chapters 5 and 7). It focuses on the discourses

and structures that shape the terrain of these practices and then points to areas

where this disinformation and obstruction can effectively be countered.

Contrarians in the Mediated Public Sphere

A growing—at times cacophonous—chorus of climate-contrarian voices has

gained prominence through multiple media platforms and modes of com-

munication. Contrarian views are promoted by a network of obstructionist

organizations and actors with aligned ideological and cultural inclinations

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These movements often gain attention to their outlier}:

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At least four arguments for climate delay}:}:

can be observed in media communications: (1) shifting the responsibility

for climate action; (2) arguing that mitigating climate change is impossi-

ble; (3) advancing nontransformative solutions; and (4) emphasizing thedownsides of any climate solution.11 }:}:

Captured in media portrayals, advertising}:

and PR campaigns, these discourse types demonstrate the growing tendency

among disinformation actors to move from overt denial of climate change

and its anthropogenic causes to more subtle tactics of delegitimation of cli-

mate solutions. Choices about how to frame communications through media,

advertising, and PR—shaping perceptions of responsibility and solutions, for

example—can channel public attention and action in important ways. In many

cases, this agenda setting can foster preferences for system preservation over

structural transformation.12 Mass media enable the formation of political

structures and norms that condition public responses to climate change. Ulti-

mately, such obstruction efforts seek to advance special-interest goals and

objectives to maintain the status quo or to distract from, delay, and/or deny

science—effectively obstructing climate engagement and action.

How Disinformation Spreads in the Mediated Public Sphere

The deliberate circulation of climate disinformation is partly enabled by

the unprecedented economic and social power of the global media system.

Power structures were further consolidated during the COVID-19 pandemic

when many independent and local newsrooms were shuttered as digital

media expanded and consolidated.13 Boosted by new digital technologies and

legacy/social media, disinformation campaigns can now operate at greater

scale and expanded scope, influencing human experience with increasing con-

trol and precision.14 Technology companies and their platforms allow pow-

erful actors to shape cognition and actions in ways that lack accountability.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and communications technologies in

political campaigns has had profoundly negative consequences for global cli-

mate mitigation, even when climate policy obstruction was not an explicit or

direct aim.15

New media technologies can boost longstanding patterns of control and

socioeconomic inequality that are harmful for the environment. Social dispar-

ities, a lack of democratic practices, and environmental destruction tend to

reinforce one another.16 To address the problem of disinformation and how it

shapes climate and environmental outcomes, it is vital to broaden the scope

:{:{of what we commonly think of as climate and environmental policy.}:

Collective goals in the name of the public interest, such as democracy, environmental

protection, and socioeconomic equity, are threatened by the concentration of

ownership and corporate control of communications and digital technologies

and how information then becomes subject to financial and political incen-

tives. This concentration is enabled by current policies in the United States and

many other countries that are determined by the wealthiest and most power-

ful players.17 The concentration of media control in relatively few news outlets

and internet companies is a global phenomenon—though concentration can

strategic management, where PR agents engage in intelligence-gathering in

the environmental community, at government agencies and in other organiza-

tions that influence public policy on environment, climate, and energy issues;

and (2) industry-friendly research, public-opinion polling, and data collection

to promote clients’ viewpoints in the media, in addition to producing scien-

tific, legal, or technical expert material for media circulation. One way various

agencies, think tanks, boards and associations are tightly bound with PR firms

is through a revolving door strategy (e.g., former government agency admin-

istrators are hired by PR firms, former PR firm employees are hired as trade

association administrators, and so on).

Media communications aiming to advance climate denial and opposition

often amplify existing patterns of polarization.36 A study of polarizing tweets

on X (Twitter) during United Nations climate (COP) summits identified five

styles of climate contrarianism, from outright denial (“@COP26 You have been

lying to the public and mocking them for decades with your climate scam”)

to (untrue) rejection of climate solutions (“China is not going to COP26.

So what’s the point?”).37

In 2022, the Third Working Group of the United

Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report

pointed to “public discourses of media and organized countermovements” as

fuel for polarization, with damaging potential for climate action.38 The tech-

nical summary noted that “accurate transference of the climate sciences has

been undermined significantly by climate change countermovements, in both

legacy and new/social media environments through misinformation.”39 It also

noted that “on occasion, the propagation of scientifically misleading informa-

tion by organised countermovements has fuelled polarisation, with negative

:{:{implications for climate policy.”40}:

Further linking obstruction activities and}:

polarisation, the report mentions “political polarisation leading to erosion of

environmental governance” (see Chapter 10).41

Digital platforms have also been identified as sources of climate disinfor-

mation. Meta (Facebook), for instance, has overridden the determinations of

its independent fact-checkers for climate science, allowed fossil fuel compa-

nies to purchase misleading ads, and limited the transparency and usefulness

of its data sharing tool, Crowdtangle, relied upon by journalists and academics

to analyze engagement with content on the platform.42 There are claims that

Meta’s own Climate Science Center is underequipped to serve its purpose.

One report estimated that Google alone received $23.7 million between 2020

and 2022 from the five largest oil companies in the world (ExxonMobil,

British Petroleum [BP], Chevron, Shell, and Aramco) to promote their advertis-

ing.43 The nonprofit coalition Climate Action against Disinformation (CAAD)

has found that the major tech platforms (TikTok, Meta, YouTube, and X)

have become “complicit” actors in the spread of climate denial, since “dis-

information is now a guaranteed byproduct, if not a central part, of social

media companies’ business models.”44 Among several findings in the study,

X ranked last among platforms for its absence of policies on climate disin-

formation, lack of public transparency mechanisms, and failures of effective

policy enforcement.45

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Churches are seeing a mass exodus of formerly evangelical Christian women who are "disengaging from religion" due to conflicting viewpoints and politics,according to a reportin the Religion News Service (RNS).

These women, known as "exvangelicals," have found themselves turned off by their churches' and families' embrace of President Donald Trump and his far-right viewpoints.

"What upsets me most is how politics has become so intertwined with the church,” said Taylor Yoder. “It turned a lot of evangelicalsin my life really ugly.”

Yoder said her family's support of Trump caused her to "deconstruct" her faith. She also said that friendships with LGBTQ co-workers caused her to "reexamine what she’d been told about homosexuality."

“Do I really believe that these people deserve to burn in hell just because they don’t believe like me?” she asked.

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Yoder, now an atheist, critiques evangelicalism and its political ties in videos on TikTok, where she has amassed an impressive following.

This trend of "exvangelicals," RNS writes, is catching on with many young women like Yoder, who are generating "a flurry of memoirs, podcasts, social media posts and YouTube channels depicting evangelical culture as oppressive, unhealthy and even harmful."

"Their critiques converge on four themes: politics, patriarchy, abuse and the treatment of LGBTQ people. They tell of churches rallying behind Trump, keeping women out of leadership and instead promoting a culture of 'purity,' while failing to address abuse scandals exposed in the #ChurchToo movement that followed #MeToo," they explain.

Some call this divine intervention.

“I think God is raising up women to speak out,” said Amy Hawk, author of “The Judas Effect: How Evangelicals Betrayed Jesus for Power.” “God is allowing this so that we can see the corruption and step away from it.”

Hawk also has an impressive following on social media where she argues, "Bible in hand, that it is unbiblical to support Trump," RNS writes.

This has made her a beacon for women who have left the church. “Many are coming to me and saying, ‘Thank you, I thought I was going out of my mind,'" she said.

April Ajoy, author of “Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith,” woke up when she saw a former church acquaintance on TV storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 "under Christian nationalist flags." Then her brother came out as gay.

“I spent nights crying because I felt so alone and confused, questioning if everything I ever believed was a lie,” she said, and only later recalled things she’d said to others. “I didn’t realize my own hypocrisy in the middle of it,” said Ajoy. “I feel like the evangelical God is in a very tiny box.”

Yoder said her decision to leave the church was confirmed after seeing late MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk elevated to martyr status.

"He embodies how hateful and divisive they can be toward LGBTQ people. He was very much the opposite of what I wanted to be a part of," she said.

According to the Pew Research Center, research from the Public Religion Research Institute suggests that exvangelicals are comprised of 58 percent female and 42 percent male.

Their reasons vary, RNS writes: "80 percent say they no longer believe their religion’s teachings, 58 percent cite anti-LGBTQ views, while half say their faith harmed their mental health."

Beth Allison Barr, a Baylor University historian who chronicles women’s roles in the early and medieval church, says that women make up more of the exvangelical movement for one reason in particular.

"Women don’t see a place for themselves in the church,” Barr said. “They don’t hear women-elevated stories. They do not feel like their callings are appreciated.”

For many women, "Trump’s rise — and evangelical support for him — was a turning point," RNS explains. About 80 percent of white evangelical Protestants voted for him in the past three presidential elections.

“I honestly could not believe that the church was holding him up as anybody besides a con man and an abuser,” Hawk said. “I spent all those years ministering to women, being the hands and feet of Jesus, and then the church is telling me I should be excited about somebody that attacks women.”

Christian author Sheila Wray Gregoire likens the stories of exvangelical women to the early stages of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.

It’s a “rejection of Christianity as being about power,” Gregoire said. “I think that’s where we are, where people are dissatisfied with the church as it is. What’s coming hasn’t come yet. And we can’t see what that’s going to look like. But it’s an exciting place to be.”

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Four sitting female judges detailed Thursday the escalating threats they face over their rulings, including explicit intimidation that often targets them in ways their male colleagues rarely experience.

At an event organized by Speak Up for Justice, a nonpartisan movement to defend the courts, judges cited threats of sexual assault, violent messages and harassment of family members as part of a rise in attacks on the judiciary.

The U.S. Marshals Service has logged 543 threats against federal judges so far this year, already exceeding the total number in 2024. Threats against state judges, who preside over 95 percent of cases nationwide, are not systematically tracked.

Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez of the Colorado Supreme Court recounted the harassment that followed a 4-3 ruling to disqualify President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot (which was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court). She said all seven justices on the court were targeted, regardless of how they voted.

“We also quickly learned… that all of our personal information had been doxxed. As a result, many of us received very hateful phone calls and threatening text messages on our personal cell phones. Many of those messages in certain cases were overtly racist or overtly misogynistic, overtly referred to sexual violence, were overtly homophobic,” Márquez said.

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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920 — 105 years ago — and generations that came along after that, from the Silent Generation to Millennials, grew up assuming that women's suffrage was settled law. Even many critics of feminism agreed that the 19th Amendment was a good idea.

But The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi, in her September 13 column, describes a growing trend: more and more MAGA Republicans and white fundamentalist Christian nationalists openly questioning the 19th Amendment.

"Should women in the U.S. have the right to vote?," Mahdawi writes. "You'd be forgiven for assuming this particular issue was sorted out quite a long time ago. But, because we live in hell, it seems the question is once again up for debate…. First up is Braeden Sorbo, a 24-year-old conservative influencer."

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Sorbo told YouTuber Richard Harris (who hosts the "Truth & Liberty" show), "I know more young women today who say they wish they didn't ever get the right to vote than I’ve ever talked to in my life."

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"In a normal world," Mahdawi warns, "Sorbo would be a fringe figure shouting into the ether who we could all happily ignore. But thanks in part to digital media, we don't have that luxury any more. Sorbo has 1.9 million followers on TikTok…. More importantly, however, Sorbo's views can no longer be dismissed as 'fringe'…. Last month, for example, the U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, shared a video on X in which several pastors say women should no longer be allowed to vote as individuals…. Predictably, Elon Musk also has some views on this matter."

Mahdawi adds, "While the tech billionaire — soon to be trillionaire? — has never explicitly argued women shouldn't vote, he has amplified tweets that undermine the idea of universal suffrage."

According to Mahdawi, "The idea that women shouldn’t vote is increasingly being co-signed and amplified by some of the most powerful people in America."

READ MORE: 'Pray to God': How Republican rhetoric changed after Tyler Robinson was identified

An anti-feminist YouTuber who openly says that women should not have the right to vote is Hannah Pearl Davis, whose YouTube channel has over 2 million subscribers.

Mahdawi's column and Sorbo's recent comments are drawing a lot of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.

Writer John Ashton posted, "The Handmaid’s Tale is the bible of MAGA."

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson wrote, "This is so disgusting [and] especially horrifying because it’s the younger generation promoting this crap. I said we were moving towards the [Handmaid's Tale] last November. I hope I’m wrong."

X user Peter A. Patriot commented, "Republican women are admitting they don't think they should have the right to vote. It's sad."

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How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women
The rise of the manosphere, with its call for a return to traditional gender roles, reflects a backlash to power-shifting cultural changes.

Marc Ramirez

USA TODAY

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In Moscow, Idaho, conservative evangelical pastor Doug Wilson last year praised the nomination of now-U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his opposition to women in combat.

Then, in an interview broadcast last month, Wilsontold CNN that in his vision of a Christian America, women would hold few leadership positions beyond being "chief executive" of the home and raising children.

"Women are the kind of people that people come out of," he said. "It doesn't take any talent to simply reproduce biologically."

Meanwhile, at Covenant Bible Church, an evangelical church in suburban Austin, Texas, pastor Joel Webbon has echoed Wilson's view that in a Christian nation, women shouldn’t be able to vote.

The manosphere — a movement encompassing hypermasculinity, male supremacy, misogyny and traditional gender roles and driven by podcasters, bloggers and social media warriors — has become increasingly mainstream. And now, it is converging with a segment of conservative Christianity.

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“There’s a version of ‘men in charge, women in submission’ that goes back as far as I can think of” in conservative Christian circles, said Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida. In other words, she said, most Sunday congregations would agree that while married couples more or less decide things together, the man has the ultimate say.

But over the last decade, Ingersoll said, this soft patriarchalism — sometimes called “complementarianism,” the idea that men and women have distinct but complementary roles — has yielded to more transgressive hierarchical versions. The shift, she and others say, is part of a backlash against power-shifting cultural developments and a reflection of how the emergence of the so-called manosphere overlaps with certain segments of Christianity.

“Complementarianism now is not like it was in the 1980s,” Ingersoll said. “It’s harsh.”

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“They all believe society has a natural order, that some people should be in charge and others are meant to be followers,” Ingersoll said. “That weaves in misogyny, because the people perceived to be appropriately at top are always men, so by definition women have a secondary position.”

Both Wilson and Webbon rely on strict interpretations of the Bible to back up their views that husbands rule over their wives and thus their households. Both pastors said the Bible and their churches provide safeguards to curb the toxicity found in some parts of the manosphere.

"The woman's role is a feminine and domestic role," Webbon told USA TODAY. "Her voice matters, but it is subject to her husband’s authority. Women should hold no positions of authority over men in the church, neither should they hold positions of authority over men in politics."

Wilson told USA TODAY that such views "are grounded in scripture, which we believe to be the word of God, and are important for that reason."

Cultural changes in recent decades have seen advancements for women and the LGBTQ+ community, eroding conservative Christian views of U.S. identity, said Matthew Taylor, an expert on religious extremism at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. The backlash has prompted calls for a return to traditional gender roles.

“If you think about what American culture was until the 1950s, it was overwhelmingly dominated by White Christian males,” Taylor said. “In the 1960s and 1970s, you had the Civil Rights Movement, women’s liberation, heightened immigration and Supreme Court jurisprudence that changed the balance of church and state. ... What we’re experiencing now is the backlash to that very rapid cultural change we’ve undergone.

“It’s also religious and often racial, and it’s often White men making this articulation,” Taylor said. “The trend lines are toward a cultural retrenchment of forces in American society that feel like they’re losing power.”

Where Christianity and the manosphere find commonality is in male entitlement, especially where Christian nationalism — the idea that Christian people and biblical law should govern American life — overlaps with evangelicalism, said Sheila Wray Gregoire, a former evangelical whose “Bare Marriage” podcast explores the marital and sexual satisfaction of evangelical women in the U.S. and Canada.

“It’s the idea that men are meant to have authority over women and women are supposed to serve, especially sexually,” she said. “There’s very little light between the two.”

Taylor said two major ascendant far right Christian movements in the U.S. heavily overlap with the manosphere, both of them highly patriarchal.

First, he said, are traditionalist Catholics. Second are reformed reconstructionist Christians, which he describes as a basically Calvinist, largely evangelical world of pastors and preachers, many of them young with well-groomed beards — the so-called TheoBros.

One preacher's rise illustrates the phenomenon

While the Christian manosphere is largely an evangelical phenomenon, it's also taken root in conservative Catholic and Presbyterian circles, smaller denominations and independent churches, said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The rise of Idaho pastor Wilson, now in his early 70s, illustrates how fringe evangelicalism has seeped into the mainstream over time, she said. By 1998, when Wilson co-founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, he was still an outlier who held benign views of American slavery and mocked evangelical megachurch leaders he would ultimately parody as spineless “Evangellyfish” in a novel of the same name.

“On the surface, he was not well connected,” said Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Christian Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” “He had set up his own outpost in Moscow (Idaho) and started a church, school and publishing house.”

Wilson’s rising profile, Du Mez said, was boosted by a podcast following of homeschooling families and impressionable young men, endorsements from old-school patriarchs like Protestant preacher John Piper and attention from commentatorTucker Carlson and the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

Meanwhile, Canon Press, the publishing house he founded, published “The Case for Christian Nationalism” while Wilson himselfhas criticized women’s voting rights as harmful to male-headed families.

“He has emerged as one of the primary spokespeople for a rightwing, highly patriarchal, politically incorrect Christianity that aligns quite closely with the MAGA agenda,” Du Mez said.

Wilson’s bombastic and irreverent approach are also characteristic of the manosphere, she said.

“He gives his listeners permission to set aside proprieties and civility, to say it like it is,” Du Mez said. “He’s famously curmudgeon-ly and combative, and that tone and mood are having a moment. He’s kind of the grandfather of this in Christian spaces.”

Wilson and his Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches — a network which Hegseth’s Nashville-area church has since joined — have since launched a church and school in Washington, D.C.

“They want a position from which to shape the Trump administration and exert their influence,” Du Mez said.

Are TheoBros really separate from the manosphere?

As notions of Christianity-supported gender equality gained acceptance in the 1970s and 1980s, Ingersoll said, Piper and other conservative evangelicals formed the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in response. That led to the 1991 publication of “Reclaiming Biblical Manhood and Womanhood,” an influential book of essays co-edited by Piper that advocated complementarianism.

The principle is popular among conservative denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention, which in recent years has disfellowshipped prominent churches that have installed women pastors.

“Men who want to feel important are gravitating toward evangelical churches because they’re being told, this is what God wants for you and you don’t have to do anything except be a man,” said Gregoire, the podcaster and former evangelical. “…. This is the only place in society where they can find that.”

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Ingersoll said that while selective Bible verses are often used to justify patriarchy, “I don’t think people read the Bible and then conclude how they should be. I think people are a certain way and then read the Bible in a way that fits with how they are…. Their perspective on how the world should be comes first.”

That’s why, she said, the TechBros and TheoBros have much in common — because they start from the same hierarchical worldview.

Ingersoll points to Vice President JD Vance as an illustration of the overlap. Vance’s political rise was funded in part by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal whose views on women have come under scrutiny. But the vice president’s religious views, she said, align with Catholic Integralism, a political ideology that blurs the lines between church and state and frowns on religious pluralism.

“You can see all those things coming together in him in an amalgam,” she said. “I don’t see the Christian patriarchal TheoBro world as something separate from the manosphere; I see it as part of it. They really are the same group of people.”

Du Mez also cited Jordan Peterson, a secular figure with a YouTube following of more than 8 million, as someone instrumental in the rise of the Christian manosphere. Peterson’smessages about masculinity have found an audience among young men seeking direction and prompted soul-searching among Christian podcasting pastors.

“He was held up as an example to say, we should be in those spaces,” Du Mez said. “Like, ‘he’s not one of us, but he’s saying real truths.’ So the overlap has been around a while.”

Many of these podcasting pastors draw the line at radically misogynist figures like Andrew Tate, the former social media influencer now under investigation in Romania on accusations including of human trafficking and organized crime. Tate has denied the claims. But while they see Tate as overtly abusive, crass and profane, Du Mez said, “it doesn’t mean their listeners are drawing the same line.”

Wilson and Webbon told USA TODAY that scripture provides safeguards against toxic behavior. The Bible, Wilson said, "requires husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, and this is a standard that we hold the men to. If a husband veered into the kind of toxicity that is on display in some of those quarters, he would be disciplined by our church."

Webbon agreed, saying "abuses must be prevented by using scripture as our guide."

"The manosphrere is correct in much of their diagnoses of feminism, but they offer no biblical solutions," he said.

Reversal of Roe v. Wade 'just the start'

Gregoire said her research has found higher divorce rates and lower marital satisfaction among married couples with ideals of male hierarchy. Meanwhile, Sons of Patriarchy is a podcast focused entirely on stories of intimate partner abuse in Doug Wilson-influenced churches nationally and globally.

“What happens when biblical patriarchy, Christian nationalism, and a theology of authority and submission become the pillars of a movement?” the podcast’s tagline asks.

But some see broader social dangers at work as such ideology creeps into national politics.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an Albuquerque-based group that supports religious freedom for U.S. military members, said the misogyny of Christian nationalism “wants to replace our democracy with this barbaric version of Christianity, and an essential part of that is male dominance… It’s right out of Handmaid’s Tale.”

Consigning women to the home has socioeconomic effects, Ingersoll added, limiting their ability to act should a marriage turn sour or harmful and cutting them off from retirement benefits that reward a paid career.

“It’s talked about as a complementary, equal contribution to the life of the family, but in monetary terms it’s not recognized as that,” she said. “So women are at a real disadvantage when they’re older and have less Social Security because they didn’t work outside the home.”

Ingersoll cited Hegseth’s testimony when he was grilled as a nominee about his views about women in the military.

“Did he say women shouldn’t be in the military?” she said. “Technically not; he said women shouldn’t be in combat. But if you think about it, the way you get promoted to the highest ranks, the way you get the training to go on to other jobs like being a pilot — if women can’t be in combat they won’t be able to get to those positions because that’s the mechanism by which they get there.”

The America envisioned by the Christian manosphere, Ingersoll said, is “incredibly dangerous to the gains that women have made in terms of equality over the last half-century. Roe v. Wade overturning was just the start. These people want women having as many children as possible. They want to ban birth control.... It’s putting a certain segment of society back in charge of everything and sidelining everyone else.”

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"Misogynistic narratives, which are so accessible, can also introduce other forms of hate." Why are a disproportionate majority of mass shooters male? Why are young boys in school telling their female peers “your body, my choice?” Why did the media fail to mention that the man who killed Minnesota lawmakers was also planning to target abortion providers and advocates? These questions were among the many that inspired Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss to write her new book exploring the rise of online misogyny and violent extremism, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss joins Jen to discuss the intersection of far-right ideologies and misogyny, young men’s vulnerabilities to influencers online and rhetoric aggrandizing “traditional manhood”, the neo-natalist movement and male supremacy, and how the alt-right’s obsessive fixation on child predators harms the LGBTQ+ community.https://contrarian.substack.com/p/wha...

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slurs and abuse and belittling and

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Indiana’s far-right Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith posted a new episode of his "Jesus, Sex, and Politics" podcast in which he doubled down on his warning that Pride Month is "the rainbow beast" and "a state-corporate-pagan alliance to reprogram society."

For nearly an hour, Beckwith and his co-host Nathan Peternel railed against Pride Month and the LGBTQ agenda in general, which Beckwith called "demonic."

"If you've ever studied the origins of, just the history of the LGBTQ movement throughout ancient history and all the way up to today, this is the same demonic spirit that basically just keeps coming back again," Beckwith said. "Back in ancient Israel, there was a goddess, her name was Ishtar, and she was the goddess of transgenderism, a gender-warping goddess. She was a homosexual goddess. Men would give themselves over to lustful acts with other men, women the same, pedophilia, everything like that. They would warp their genders. All those things. Same things that we're seeing today in the LGBTQ movement."

"It's really interesting when you study it because she was always celebrated in the month of Tamar Beckwith presumably meant the month of [Tammuz], which is our month of June, the exact same time," Beckwith claimed. "And she was represented by rainbows in her eyes. Anytime you saw her, you'd see rainbows. And it's like, wow, this is the same demonic playbook just playing out all over again."

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During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump not only rallied his hardcore base of 2016 and 2020 — he led a MAGA coalition that ranged from Christian nationalists to tech bros to the Manosphere. And he also reached out to independents, some of whom voted for centrist Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024 because of their worries about inflation.

That game plan didn't give Trump the "landslide" victory that he claimed it did: Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote, which is a narrow victory — not a landslide. But it was enough to get him past the finish line.

Four and one-half months into his second presidency, however, a MAGA feud has erupted between Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk over the president's "big, beautiful bill." After Musk called the bill a "disgusting abomination," Trump attacked him during a Thursday, June 5 press conference with visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

READ MORE: 'The dumbest civil war ever': Right-wing billionaire bro feud goes kaboom

The U.S. president told reporters, "I am very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot…. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore."

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In an article published the following day, Salon's Amanda Marcotte argues that the feud between Trump and Musk underscores the divisions between "techbro fascists" and other parts of the MAGA coalition.

"As (Musk) and Trump snipe at each other publicly," Marcotte writes, "the efforts to pretend this is a friendly disagreement are falling apart. Even if Musk fails in his efforts to kill Trump's bill, this battle is exposing a deeper truth that (White House adviser Stephen) Miller can't hide with his lies about Trump winning in a 'landslide': The MAGA coalition is fragile and some of the differences are starting to tear at the seams less than half a year into the second Trump term. Trump's slim win in 2024 was no doubt due in large part to Musk, and not just the eye-popping quarter-billion-plus Musk spent to push the old man's orange carcass over the finish line."

Marcotte continues, "It's because Musk and other influential figures, especially those associated with Silicon Valley or who pretend to be former liberals, were able to convince a chunk of more secular, largely male voters to throw their lot in with the Christian nationalist base that is the backbone of the MAGA movement. But while these two groups joined together based on a shared animosity towards racial minorities and women, it was always a far more uneasy alliance than Musk or Trump wanted to admit. And now, it's getting shakier as two narcissistic billionaires are at odds."

READ MORE:Revealed: The 'Big Beautiful Bill' contains an ugly favor for one of Florida’s top industries

The Salon journalist emphasizes that the "trouble within fascist paradise" has been "brewing for reasons that run deeper than Musk and Trump's competing egos or Silicon Valley's dependency on government funding."

"The atheistic world of pseudo-intellectualism that Musk and his minions come from," according to Marcotte, "was always going to have friction with the Christian nationalists who actually run the MAGA-ified Republican Party…. This budget fight exposes how delusional that attitude always was. It's not about religion, per se, but the culture clash between the Musk fanboys and the Christian nationalist debate is driving much of this. Musk and his acolytes envision a technofascism that sucks all the money out of social services and puts it into the tech industry, even as it pursues goals typically disliked by the Christian right, such as clean energy production."

Marcotte continues, "Meanwhile, the Christian Right wing of the party, while happy to pass huge cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare, is largely leaving untouched Social Security or Medicare, which their working-class and aging base depends on. The tech bro fascists may hate the liberals they live next door to, but at the end of the day, they're still part of the urban, atheistic, educated class that the MAGA movement demonizes. That difference was not going to be papered over forever."

READ MORE:'He. Is. Lying.' Republican blasted for spinning Medicaid cuts as 'transitioning

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As a young girl growing up in the 2010s, my peers and I were brought up watching ad campaigns like the one from Always in 2014 called “#likeagirl (https://www.always.com/en-us/about-us/our-epic-battle-like-a-girl)”. It portrayed young girls and women pushing back against the narrative of women being weak andthe advertisements (https://youtu.be/joRjb5WOmbM) showed examples of women’s strength, education, and bravery.

At just 10 years old, they made me feel like I could do or be anything. But fast forward a decade later, and I walk in my local mall to see trendy adult shirts with the saying “I’m just a girl.” Peers around me in class refuse to do certain things, proclaiming, “I am just a girl.” I can’t help but wonder: Why are the women I grew up with, the same women (and men) who came of age surrounded by themes of women’s empowerment, suddenly letting their womanhood be a topic to laugh at?

Studies have shown women already are less likely to hold public office — not because they lose more, but because they doubt they’re “good enough,” (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/it-still-takes-a-candidate/7BEAE647EF1B86EC62521AAFC159020B) a belief shaped by growing up in a patriarchal system. The “Like a Girl” campaign represents that patriarchal system, the difference between how young girls and older women understood what the operative phrase meant. While young girls found it empowering, adult women recognized that it had been used to demean them their whole lives.

Despite growing up in an era of girl-power campaigns and feminist rhetoric, young women today are becoming disengaged because progressive political outreach has failed to meet them where they are. Meanwhile, conservative politicians have coaxed them into a social conservative shift, taking advantage of younger generations who do not remember a time where we did not have a woman running for the presidency, the rights granted to all of us by Roe v. Wade or the #MeToo movement.

This isn’t just a feeling, but a fact. According to Tufts University’s CIRCLE research center, young women turned out for Democrats 65% in 2020 with Joe Biden on the ticket, but only 58% for 2024 with Kamala Harris on their ballot (https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/overall-youth-turnout-down-2020-strong-battleground-states).

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Weeks before the election, Turning Point Action hosted a Bring Your Own Ballot party with Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) Jr. at Varsity Tavern on Mill Avenue in Tempe. Walking across the Arizona State University campus on Election Day expecting to see maroon and gold, I only saw a sea of red MAGA hats worn by students excited to vote, many for the first time.

Arizona’s upcoming 2026 election will place our statewide candidates up for re-election, the first line of defense we have between Arizonans and Donald Trump’s policies. His administration, while having promised no federal abortion ban, has been getting an increasingly more amount of criticism on the issue.

We can and must fight back. The grassroots organization Keep Arizona Blue is doing just that, texting hundreds of thousands of young voters, calling tens of thousands more, and hiring 16fellows across the state to make real peer-to-peer connections. Created and led by students, this type of organizing allows for a pulse on young people and effective outreach to them.

Yelling out “I am just a girl” and laughing with friends may seem funny at the moment, but it bolsters the mindset driving far-right policies like the SAVE Act (https://azmirror.com/2025/04/10/repub/u-s-house-passes-gop-voter-citizenship-bill-that-could-block-married-women-with-name-changes/), infringement on reproductive rights and elimination of the Gender Policy Council. Ultimately, those things may just be what turns that laughter about being a girl into action that protects girls and women.

Candidates must do better at reaching out and listening to young people to better implement tangible policies they will feel the effects of in their day-to-day lives. If not, we will continue to see conservative extremists rise to power through an election decided by the size of a classroom.

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Smart, progressive women pose a serious threat to MAGA supremacy. Just ask Elon Musk, who wasted millions of dollars in Wisconsin trying to win a seat on the state Supreme Court for MAGA candidate Brad Schimel, only to watch Susan Crawford clean Schimel’s clock.

From his first presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016, “Lock her up!” has been Donald Trump’s battle cry. Restoring the greatness of a white, male-dominated America apparently requires menacing displays of dominance over women in positions of authority. Who can forget Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) acting like a stalker, invading Clinton’s personal space and looming behind her during a 2016 debate?

On Friday, a few weeks after MAGA lost its bid to disempower the progressive female majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Trump administration sent federal agents to arrest (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrests-milwaukee-county-judge/) Hannah Dugan at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Trump’s attorney general and the man he chose to lead the FBI gleefully posted pictures of Dugan’s “perp walk” in handcuffs, crowing about this unprecedented assault on the dignity and authority of a judge and the sovereignty of local courts.

On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-judge-hannah-dugan-after-federal-charges/) Dugan. “In order to uphold the public’s confidence in the courts of this state during the pendency of the criminal proceeding against Judge Dugan, we conclude, on our own motion, that it is in the public interest that she be temporarily relieved of her official duties,” the state’s highest court said in a two-page letter ordering Judge Dugan “temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit court judge.”

It’s a perplexing decision. It didn’t arise from any complaint; the Court acted on its own. And Dugan had already been relieved of her duties while she focuses on her defense by the chief judge in Milwaukee, who assigned her calendar to other judges to cover.

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Worse, the suspension gives the impression that the federal charges against Dugan are indeed serious. But that impression is not supported by the only evidence the government has produced.

The justification for Dugan’s arrest, laid out in a federal criminal complaint (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dugan-Crim-complaint.pdf), is that she impeded federal law enforcement agents when she objected to ICE disrupting her court’s proceedings and ushered the man they came to arrest out a side door. The defendant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was appearing before Dugan on a misdemeanor battery charge unrelated to his immigration status, exited into the public hallway where the agents were waiting for him. Then they followed him outside and made their arrest — unimpeded.

Fox News claimed (https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-alleging-she-obstructed-arrest-illegal-alien-sources-say) Dugan concealed Flores-Ruiz in a jury room. But that assertion is contradicted by the sworn testimony in the government’s own criminal complaint.

The complaint features breathlessly sexist descriptions of Dugan appearing “visibly angry” and “walking quickly,” as if that were evidence of wrongdoing. But any actual wrongdoing is hard to pinpoint.

“Whatever you think of the actual conduct the complaint alleges,” says Dean Strang, a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a long-time Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer, “there is a real question about whether there’s even arguably any federal crime here.”

The government’s behavior, meanwhile, is “extraordinarily atypical,” for a nonviolent, nondrug charge involving someone who is not a flight risk, says Strang.

The handcuffs, the public arrest at Dugan’s workplace, the media circus — none of it was normal, or justified. Then Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel began posting pictures of Dugan in handcuffs on social media to brag about it.

“So what is it they are trying to do?” asks Strang. His conclusion: “Humiliate and terrify, not just her but every other judge in the country.”

The bigger issue here, beyond an unprecedented, public display of dominance and intimidation by the Trump administration, is that, in turning federal law enforcement into an arm of his personal, vengeance-themed reality show, Trump is running roughshod over the constitutional principle of federalism, which respects the sovereignty of the states, the integrity of the courts and public safety. Scaring defendants, witnesses and victims away from making court appearances makes it harder to administer justice and makes all of us less safe.

But you’d never know that to listen to Republican state officials, who are championing federal agents barging into courts, schools and churches, forgetting everything they ever said about local control and states’ rights. In a letter released Tuesday, Assembly Republicans led by Speaker Robin Vos sent a letter to Gov. Tony Evers, declaring “our caucus believes it is imperative that our laws reflect the need for local law enforcement to comply with these efforts.”

Republicans accuse Evers of issuing guidance to state officials that impedes federal ICE raids.

“Unfortunately, recent events in Milwaukee have underscored the importance for our state to legislate and enforce compliance with federal immigration law,” their letter declares, citing Dugan’s arrest.

The Republicans demand that Evers rescind guidance telling state agencies that they need not answer questions, hand over files, or allow ICE to enter non-public areas without a warrant.

Capitulating to an administration that has admitted (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/28/repub/trump-border-czar-defends-removal-of-u-s-citizen-children/) to deporting U.S. citizens and defied (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/11/repub/doj-ordered-to-give-daily-updates-in-standoff-with-judge-over-wrongly-deported-maryland-man/) court orders to effect the return of a man it admits was mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison is a terrible idea. Big law firms that agreed (https://newrepublic.com/post/194376/democrats-warn-law-firms-caved-donald-trump) to drop clients and offer free legal work to appease the Trump administration have eroded trust in the law. Authoritarian undermining of our legal system is a grave danger.

The least the most timid among us can do is insist that the federal government follow the law before caving in. That’s what Dugan did, when she asked if the agents who came to her courtroom to arrest Flores-Ruiz had a judicial warrant. They did not. Nor do they have proof that Dugan herself broke any laws.

The last thing we need right now is more capitulation to MAGA bullying. Stand strong.

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A rising group of conservatives is increasingly challenging conventional ideas about empathy, often calling it "sinful."

Amanda Marcotte, a senior writer at Slate, wrote in an article (https://www.salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-empathy-exposes-misogynist-fears/)published Friday that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement considers empathy to be a weakness and that sentiment is what makes them support President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump), who she referred to as "incapable of empathy."

She referred to the transition of Albert Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, from denouncing Trump as a "predator" in 2016 to being one of his "loudest Christian right defenders." In a recent interview, Mohler said he now condemns empathy, calling it "an artificial virtue" and "destructive."

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Marcotte noted in the article that the right-wing figures who openly deride empathy follow Trump so much that many high-profile psychologists have argued that he should be considered a sociopath, "despite not consenting to a formal diagnosis."

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"The political impetus behind this overt assault on what was once considered a baseline virtue is obvious enough," she said.

She added, "Trump has eclipsed Jesus himself as the object of worship on the Christian right, as evidenced by the hosts of "Girls Gone Bible" invoking Trump's name as if he were God in their rewrite of the Lord's Prayer. At his inauguration ball, a 'worship painter" even replicated Trump's image while the crowd sang 'amen' over and over, underscoring this shift in the de facto theology of these 'Christians.'"

The author further said Trump's "sociopathy" has now surpassed the empathy of Jesus in MAGA eyes. She added that the MAGA movement has an "unhinged obsession with gender and escalating hatred of women," which is why they see empathy as "feminine."

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"Both firmly agree that femininity is the root of all evil. One doesn't have to speculate, either, to see this aspect of the war on empathy. Plenty of MAGA leaders will say the misogynist part out loud," she wrote.

Many commentators described misogyny as a reason (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/black-women-harris-election-loss) why former Vice President Kamala Harris (https://www.rawstory.com/tag/white-house), who would have been the first female president of the United States had she won the 2024 election, lost to Trump.

In December last year, just days after the election, a panel of Black female experts argued that "misogynoir, the intersection of racism and sexism," was the main factor in Harris's loss.

“Racism is designed in such a way to make you question your humanity, but sexism is also. Sexism is really a power move,” LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund said at the time. “When you combine those two things together, I think that that best explains what [Harris] experienced.”

ALSO READ:'Powerful motivator': Sociologist explains ways 'fear-based messaging' keeps GOP in power (https://www.alternet.org/salon-gop-calarco-interview/)

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Benny Johnson calls Amy Coney Barrett a “repulsive lizard” and a “sick witch”

Johnson: “She didn't deserve to be on the Supreme Court. I disown her.”

Written by Media Matters Staff (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/media-matters-staff)

Published 04/08/25

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From the April 8, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube

:{:{BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Amy Coney Barrett is a real problem. Amy Commie Barrett is what some, users on the Internet are calling her. I am sickened about her. I want to -- we didn't have time today, but I wanna have a full conversation with Mike Davis about this this week. What the hell is going on with her? Donald Trump put his — stuck his neck out, used all of his political capital to get her into the Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat at the very end of his presidency. }:

Donald Trump said so many nice things about her, advocated for her, fought for her, did all these lavish and wonderful events where he, like, talked about how great she is. Then she has betrayed him time and time and time again on the court. You know, there are some warning signs. There are definitely some warning signs about Amy Commie Barrett, but, it is a despicable thing that this has happened again. You know, there's this — Sandra Day O'Connor was this Ronald Reagan appointee to the court, and she was supposed to be this, like, rock ribbed conservative, and they all go left. They all swing left.}:

What happened yesterday was that five justices who are men voted in favor of the law, which is that the president has the right to deport criminal aliens, and four women voted their feelings. They don't like it. Amy Coney Barrett, she doesn't like it. It hurts their feelings. So Amy Coney Barrett, who I think has like seven kids, two them are adopted from Haiti if I'm remembering this correctly. She has seven kids. Amy Coney Barrett is voting in favor of the terrorists who murder American children and put her children's lives at risk and my children's lives at risk. She is a repulsive lizard. You can see it in this clip. You can see it. Look at the way that she looked at Trump. Sickening. Sickening. So ungrateful, so despicable, spitting in the face of the Constitution, our movement, of the people who fought to get her on the supreme court.

She didn't deserve to be on the Supreme Court. I disown her. I disown it. I disavow. I worked very hard to get her elected. We did a lot of, you know, pushing for her on the seat. We thought this would swing the court to just rational constitutionalism for the rest of my life. And now we get sabotaged by Amy Coney Barrett. Amy Coney Barrett who voted with this, the DEI faculty, in order to bring terrorists back to America. That was what they were voting on. They were voting on an order by the judge to bring the turn the planes around and bring terrorists back to America. Every deportation was supposed to go through Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg was gonna sit there as president— they might as well just put a little presidential seal at the end of his gavel, because he was just essentially gifting himself the presidential powers. Amy Commie Barrett.

Now, of course, the three liberal justices voted you know, oh, feelings for the gang members. Amy Commie Barrett voted to bring in terrorists that threaten her children, her seven children, and their lives to bring the terrorists back to America so that we could have a Laken Riley 2.0. What a sick witch. Everybody pray for Amy Commie Barrett, man. Something's going wrong with her. Something's gone horribly, horribly wrong. I'm just — it's sickening. It's disgusting to watch. There's nothing worse in this life than betrayal. There's nothing worse in this life than — on the ingratitude for the people who brought you and made you. And this is a spitting in the face to the movement that picked her and said that she was gonna be good. So I'm pretty angry about all of this.

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03/31/25

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How Mike Johnson’s behavior exposes GOP push to 'force women out of public life': analysis (https://www.alternet.org/mike-johnson-maternity-leave-salon/)

Alex Henderson (https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson)

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A Florida Republican group is facing backlash after extending a formal invitation (https://x.com/TBYR/status/1895182356710936857) to Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who arrived in Florida on Thursday from Romania. The accused human traffickers (https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tristan-tate-travel-ban-lifted-3c8b56be5d99f9ed04045f4680e5f8c0) were reportedly granted travel clearance following intervention from high-ranking Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) administration officials who “took an interest in their case (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22wdedqeo).”

38-year old Andrew Tate, along with Tristan, 36, are under investigation in both Romania and the UK.

According to the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c778ldvpn0po), they were first arrested in Romania in 2022, where they “face trial on allegations of rape, trafficking minors and money laundering, all of which they deny.” They are also, BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4kkv3e1v9o) reported separately, “facing separate, unrelated charges of rape and human trafficking in the UK.”

The Tates are “vocal supporters” of President Donald Trump, “have a large US following and are popular figures among some elements of the American right.” Andrew Tate has been called (https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jul/05/andrew-tate-can-leave-romania-while-awaiting-trial-court-rules) a self-professed misogynist influencer.

READ MORE: ‘Did I Say That? I Can’t Believe I Said That’: Trump’s Remarks Again Fuel Memory Questions (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/02/did-i-say-that-i-cant-believe-i-said-that-trumps-remarks-again-fuel-memory-questions/)

President Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell, “raised the Tate brothers with Romania’s Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference,” BBC notes. “Hurezeanu said he had not considered Grenell’s approach as a ‘form of pressure.’ Grenell told the Financial Times his support for the brothers was evident.”

On Thursday, Vox (https://www.vox.com/politics/401844/trump-andrew-tate-release-splintering-republicanmaga-american-right-manosphere) reported on the “intra-MAGA fight playing out right now over Andrew Tate,” and explained that “Tate became a far-right podcasting star (https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/3/30/23661712/influencer-online-course-class-miss-excel) in the 2020s with his explicitly sexist philosophy of masculinity (https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/10/23547393/andrew-tate-toxic-masculinity-qa). He quickly gained a wide following among both young men specifically, and severalprominent (https://youtu.be/iwOXLfVsieA) MAGAfigures (https://youtu.be/CBepcspR_Is), including Trump’s own former personal attorney and current adviserAlina Habba (https://youtu.be/vVow7_WekKc), Elon Musk (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/21/andrew-tate-trump-administration), and Donald Trump Jr (https://theweek.com/politics/andrew-tate-trump-administration-advocate-accusations).”

Indeed, last month Tate appeared on “The Benny Show,” with guest Alina Habba, formerly President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and now Counselor to the President.

“I’m a big fan,” Habba told Tate, as Mediaite (https://www.mediaite.com/news/alina-habba-gushes-praise-to-accused-rapist-sex-trafficker-andrew-tate-says-hes-just-like-trump/) reported.

READ MORE: Trump’s DHS Can Now Spy More Easily on LGBTQ Americans (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/02/trumps-dhs-can-now-spy-more-easily-on-lgbtq-americans/)

“I think that your anger is the same that President Trump has for our country and the time is now for us to stop being wimps. I think that’s exactly the right sentiment. And I also have to say that I sympathize with you because I think you go through a lot of the same show me the person, I’ll find the crime that President Trump has gone through.”...[TWT CODE]

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