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</div><div>Another anti-Muslim figurehead involved with CNP is <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr"> Frank Gaffney</a>.

A former Ronald Reagan administration staffer, Gaffney has since become

one of the most prolific anti-Muslim propagandists in the country. He

is gripped by paranoid fantasies of foreign entities such as the Muslim

Brotherhood infiltrating and supplanting the U.S. from within. Gaffney

founded the anti-Muslim hate group <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-security-policy"> Center for Security Policy</a> and now serves in an executive chairmanship role at the group.

    <font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix Frank Gaffney, founder and president of

the Center for Security Policy, testifies during a hearing of the Senate

Judiciary Committee in 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win

McNamee/Getty Images)

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Hatewatch first reported on Gaffney’s CNP membership in the

publication of the group’s 2014 roster. He is listed as a “Gold Circle

Member” in CNP’s September 2020 membership roster. Gold Circle Members

pay a yearly fee of $10,000, as shown by nomination documents. Like

Gabriel, Gaffney’s listed interests at CNP include “Radical Islam.”

Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy did not respond to a request for comment.

In 2016, candidate Trump <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/12/07/458836388/trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> used data</a>

from a shoddy survey commissioned by the Center for Security Policy to

justify his call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering

the United States.” The survey was done by The Polling Company,

Kellyanne Conway’s company. Conway served as Trump’s senior counselor

and was a member of CNP’s executive committee from 2014 to 2015, tax

records show.

Like other anti-Muslim and far-right <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/24/hate-group-leaders-antigovernment-extremists-push-anti-china-coronavirus-rhetoric"> actors</a>,

CNP has begun to frame China as a new Cold War-style adversary. Gaffney

and his group are active in stoking alarmism about the supposed threat

from China. At a CNP conference in August 2020 in Arlington, Virginia,

the coalition’s sister lobbying arm CNP Action, Inc., hosted a panel

titled “Reckoning with China: Action Steps,” according to a <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/10/27/secretive-council-for-national-policy-closely-tied-to-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> leaked copy</a> of the agenda obtained by the watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy. The panel featured Gaffney as a participant.

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a right-wing activist who is married to U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is also a CNP member and counts

“Radical Islam” among her interests. In 2013, Mother Jones <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> reported</a> Ginni Thomas and Gaffney were part of another right-wing strategy group known as Groundswell.

CNP has also included Islamophobic figures in its orbit and network.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security Adviser who was

later pardoned by the former president after lying to the FBI, has ties

to CNP, though he is not listed as a member. Flynn spoke at a CNP Policy Counsel event in July 2016. His name is also <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentAllpress/status/1364480765199704069" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> associated</a> with a CNP Zoominfo <a href="https://archive.is/CF2Kz" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">account</a>,

as uncovered by investigative researcher Brent Allpress, suggesting

Flynn might be involved more formally with the coalition. Flynn has a

history of expressing anti-Islam sentiment, once <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-called/story?id=43575658" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> calling</a>

the religion “a cancer.” In 2016, ACT for America advertised Flynn

serving on its board of advisers. He was also a keynote speaker at ACT’s

2016 conference in Washington, D.C.

In September 2017, longtime anti-Muslim figurehead <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz"> David Horowitz</a>

(who is not listed as a member) spoke at a CNP conference in Colorado

Springs, Colorado. The theme of the event and Horowitz’s presentation

was “Mapping the Left.” Horowitz heads the eponymously named David

Horowitz Freedom Center, a hate group known for spreading anti-Muslim

sentiment and helping fund other Islamophobic projects such as Jihad

Watch and FrontPage Magazine. Once a leftist in the 1960s, Horowitz now tries to smear his former political affiliation as being totalitarian.

Dr. Mark Christian is listed as a member of CNP’s Board of Governors,

which carries an annual fee of $6,000. Christian runs the anti-Muslim

hate group Global Faith Institute, a group that peddles Islamophobic

conspiracy theories while claiming to advocate for “the victims of

Islam.” Christian is a former Muslim who converted to Christianity. He

joins a cottage industry of former Muslims now disparaging their former

faith. Christian is willing to associate with extreme figures in the

anti-Muslim network, such as the former FBI agent turned anti-Muslim

hate figure <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/26/anti-muslim-figure-john-guandolo-posts-%E2%80%98cruel-and-inappropriate%E2%80%99-tweet-about-southwest"> John Guandolo</a>. Christian subscribes to the conspiracy theory that Islamic Sharia law is slowly “creeping” into American society.

“Islam has infiltrated all aspects of our life: our schools,

churches, media, courts, military and our government,” reads a 2017

Global Faith Institute email to supporters. “Every day we are losing

more of our freedom because of creeping sharia law.”

Christian did not answer a request for comment.

CNP’s rosters reveal the membership of other figures known for

spreading Islamophobic rhetoric. One is far-right historian William

“Bill” Federer, who treads in Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy

theories. According to the watchdog and research group Right Wing Watch,

Federer <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-activist-exposes-the-obama-ferguson-islamist-homosexual-plot-to-destroy-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> once claimed</a>

that an “atheist homosexual gay agenda movement” will “open up” the

U.S. “to move into an Islamic future.” Federer has been featured at

events such as the Values Voter Summit, an annual conference put on by

the Family Research Council. Brigitte Gabriel has also spoken at the

Values Voter Summit in recent years, including 2018 and 2019. Family

Research Council’s executive vice president Jerry G. Boykin is also a

member of CNP.

Boykin has a track record of making anti-Muslim remarks, once <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/boykin-islam-should-not-be-protected-under-the-first-amendment/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> claiming </a> Islam should not be protected by the First Amendment. Boykin used <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7241287/CNP-Policy-Counsel-September-2014-Jerry-Boykin.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> similar rhetoric</a> in a 2014 news briefing for Policy Counsel,

a CNP publication and speaker series to inform the public on a “wide

range of topics” and “variety of opinions.” Boykin goes heavy on the

anti-Islam rhetoric in the article, which touches on the rise and

activities of the terrorist group ISIS at the time. Boykin took issue

with former President Barack Obama’s attempts to not conflate the

terrorist group with a religion of around 1.8 billion people.

“I think most Americans have figured this out,” Boykin said. “When

you say Isis [sic] is not Islam the rest doesn’t really matter because

if you are laying out a strategy that doesn’t start with an

understanding of your enemy and who you are up against and what

motivates him to do what he does the rest doesn’t matter.”

Boykin adds elsewhere: “One of the mistakes that we make about Islam

is that only 16% of Islam is actually a religion.” He claims the rest is

a legal, geopolitical and military system. Claiming Islam is not a

religion – or only part one – is a well-tread trope deployed by

Islamophobic figures. “But only 16% is an actual religion,” he said.

“And we make the mistake of thinking that it’s exactly like

Christianity. It is not.”

CNP’s Policy Counsel includes a disclaimer that views

expressed in the articles are not always representative of the

coalition. “These views should not be construed as the views of the

Council for National Policy, as an attempt to aid or hinder the

enactment of any legislation, or as an intervention in any political

campaign for public office,” the disclaimer reads.

However, as CNP papers brought to light by Documented reveal, the coalition has advocated for policies steeped in Islamophobia.

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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 11:00 AM</a>Religious Right Leaders Vow To Defy Laws On Abortion, ‘Sexual Perversion’ In ‘Declaration Of Dependence Upon God’</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" title="Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="date" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" title="Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" title="Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" title="Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" title="Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 2:20 PM</a>Trump Cozying Up To Activists Who’ve Supported Criminalizing Homosexuality</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-racial-tensions-are-the-result-of-america-rejecting-god/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="date" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-racial-tensions-are-the-result-of-america-rejecting-god/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-racial-tensions-are-the-result-of-america-rejecting-god/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-racial-tensions-are-the-result-of-america-rejecting-god/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-racial-tensions-are-the-result-of-america-rejecting-god/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">JULY 12, 2016 4:26 PM</a>Kelly Shackelford: Racial Tensions Are The Result Of America Rejecting God</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-trump-would-pick-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-than-mitt-romney/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="date" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-trump-would-pick-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-than-mitt-romney/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-trump-would-pick-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-than-mitt-romney/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-trump-would-pick-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-than-mitt-romney/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-trump-would-pick-a-more-conservative-supreme-court-than-mitt-romney/" title="Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">JULY 5, 2016 2:46 PM</a>Kelly Shackelford: Trump Would Pick A More Conservative Supreme Court Than Mitt Romney</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-11316/" title="Right Wing Bonus Tracks – 1/13/16" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="date" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; 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transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-11316/" title="Right Wing Bonus Tracks – 1/13/16" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">JANUARY 13, 2016 6:45 PM</a>Right Wing Bonus Tracks – 1/13/16</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/who-really-won-at-values-voter-summit-it-was-me/" title="Who Really Won At Values Voter Summit (It Was Me)" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><p class="date" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" line-height="line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/who-really-won-at-values-voter-summit-it-was-me/" title="Who Really Won At Values Voter Summit (It Was Me)" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/who-really-won-at-values-voter-summit-it-was-me/" title="Who Really Won At Values Voter Summit (It Was Me)" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">OCTOBER 5, 2015 3:12 PM</a>Who Really Won At Values Voter Summit (It Was Me)</li><li class="full-image" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em 1em 0.5em;"></li></div></div><div>
</div><div> =<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-family-research-councils-insurrection-connections/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-family-research-councils-insurrection-connections/</a>the Family Research Council, a major player in the religious-right political movement, was deeply involved in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election—a fact made all the more apparent by revelations during the June 23 public hearing of the House select committee investigating the conspiracy that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">We had already known that FRC publicly supported Trump’s schemes to unlawfully stay in power. FRC President Tony Perkins and other leaders connected with the secretive Council for National Policy had <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-leaders-join-call-for-state-legislatures-to-overrule-voters-and-give-election-to-trump/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">signed a letter</a> in mid-December 2020 falsely claiming, “There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president-elect.” That letter called on state legislatures in six battleground states won by Joe Biden to “appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump.” It urged the House and Senate to reject pro-Biden electors from those states.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">FRC Executive Vice President Jerry Boykin also signed that letter, as did Kenneth Blackwell, FRC’s senior fellow for human rights and constitutional governance. Blackwell, a <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/ken-blackwell-ohio-brown-senate/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">notorious</a> voter suppresser who abused the power of his office when he was Ohio’s secretary of state, was all-in on Trump’s election lies from the earliest days of the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement. Just days after the election, Blackwell used <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/notorious-voter-suppressor-kenneth-blackwell-denounces-pennsylvania-governor-and-his-legion-of-darkness/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">wildly false and inflammatory language</a> in support of Trump’s claims, denouncing Pennsylvania’s governor, who defended his state’s election results from false claims of voter fraud, and “his legion of darkness.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-cleta-mitchell-signs-letter-by-hard-right-leaders-urging-gop-senators-to-contest-swing-state-electors/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Blackwell</a><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-cleta-mitchell-signs-letter-by-hard-right-leaders-urging-gop-senators-to-contest-swing-state-electors/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;"> and Perkins signed a second open letter</a> at the end of December 2020 urging Senate Republicans to contest the votes from five battleground states.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Two days before the insurrection at the Capitol, Blackwell <a href="https://twitter.com/kenblackwell/status/1346073374016102402" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">tweeted</a> a video message using the “Stop the Steal” hashtag. “This is not a time for sideline sitters or backbenchers,” he said. “You must do what you can with what you have where you are. Our republic demands it.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">It turns out that Blackwell was busy behind the scenes, too.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">At the Jan. 6 committee’s June 23 hearing, Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/26/ohio-officials-pat-cipollone-ken-blackwell-jan-6-capitol-hearings/7717349001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">revealed</a> the contents of a Dec.28, 2020, email from Blackwell that read in part, “As I stated last week, I believe the VP and his staff would benefit greatly from a briefing by John and Ken.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">“John” would be John Eastman, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-sordid-record-of-john-eastman-the-latest-right-wing-lawyer-on-trumps-legal-team/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">the far right-wing lawyer</a> who <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/what-we-learned-from-day-three-of-the-jan-6-hearings/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">doggedly pushed illegal schemes</a> to keep Trump in power based on false claims of election fraud and bogus theories about the vice president’s power to single-handedly decide who would become the next president. “Ken” referred to Ken Klukowski, a <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-christian-legal-army-behind-masterpiece-cakeshop/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">religious-right lawyer</a> and pundit, longtime associate of Blackwell, and former director of FRC’s Center for Religious Liberty.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Blackwell’s email was sent to Ed Corrigan, a former Heritage Foundation vice president who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">served</a> as part of the leadership team of Trump’s transition and now <a href="https://www.cpi.org/staff/ed-corrigan/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">heads up the Conservative Partnership Institute</a>, which <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/another-right-wing-group-touts-election-integrity-project-led-by-trump-attorney-cleta-mitchell/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">promotes voter suppression in the name of “election integrity.”</a> It also went to Rep. Louis Gohmert’s chief of staff Connie Hair, whose promotion of Big Lie conspiracies about the election was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ginni-thomas-quoted-rep-gohmerts-chief-of-staff-in-texts-to-mark-meadows-at-trump-white-house-report-says" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">quoted by Ginny Thomas</a> in her post-election emails to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. Completing the circle, Meadows is now <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/congress/jan-6-hearings/live-blog/live-updates-analysis-day-5-rcna34785" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">a “senior partner” at the Conservative Partnership I</a>nstitute, which <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gave-1m-meadows-nonprofit-weeks-after-jan-6-panel-n1288334" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">received $1 million from Trump’s PAC </a>shortly after the Jan. 6 committee was created.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Klukowski had <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/ken-klukowski-breitbartcom-writer-and-anti-lgbtq-lawyer-joins-trump-administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">joined</a> the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget in the fall of 2019. After the 2020 election, Klukowski was parachuted into the Justice Department office of Jeffrey Clark, who was scheming to drag the DOJ into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in key battleground states. Blackwell clearly seemed to recognize the bad optics of Klukowski’s involvement, urging in his email, “As I also mentioned, make sure we don’t overexpose Ken given his new position.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Clark has unwillingly played a starring role in the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation, which has painstakingly exposed his effort to get Trump to name him acting attorney general. Clark and others had originally planned to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/23/us/jeffrey-clark-draft-letter.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">send a letter</a> to Georgia legislators—a letter that Klukowski helped Clark write—falsely claiming that the DOJ had identified major election problems in the state and encouraging them to convene a special session to consider naming a pro-Trump Electoral College slate. When Clark’s DOJ superiors blocked his scheme, Trump seriously considered making Clark acting attorney general so he could carry it out, abandoning the plan only after other top Justice Department officials threatened a massive leadership resignation that would swamp news of the letter and define Trump’s legacy.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">As Rep. Cheney <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-hearings-june-23/h_adcf42b67a4ed25dcf46f1ae5d3ae012" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">concluded</a>, “This email suggests that Mr. Klukowski was simultaneously working with Jeffrey Clark to draft the proposed letter to Georgia officials to overturn their certified election and working with Dr. Eastman to help pressure the vice president to overturn the election.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In other words, while a battle raged between principled White House and Justice Department officials who were committed to upholding the election results and facilitating a peaceful transfer of power and the defeated president and his power-at-all-costs supporters, current and former FRC leaders were in the trenches with Trump and the would-be election overthrowers.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Their collusion on Trump’s attempt to overturn the election is far from the first Blackwell-Klukowski collaboration. They co-authored numerous partisan diatribes in the form of op-eds and books, including “Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency” and “Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America.” In 2016, Klukowksi <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-perry-back-trump-because-of-the-supreme-court/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">guest-hosted</a> FRC’s “Washington Watch” radio program and had Blackwell on as a guest.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">At FRC’s October 2021 Pray Vote Stand conference—the rechristened activist gathering known for years as the Values Voter Summit—Blackwell <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stop-the-steal-activist-ken-blackwell-backs-state-voter-suppression-slams-federal-voting-rights-legislation-at-religious-right-activist-conference/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">slammed</a> federal voting rights legislation and backed new voting restrictions being put in place by Republican state legislators.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The revelations of the Family Research Council’s all-out effort to help Trump stay in power despite his rejection by voters makes it even more appalling to <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">learn from ProPublica</a> that FRC has successfully petitioned the IRS to change its official classification to that of an association of churches, a tactic that Right Wing Watch has reported has been used by other religious-right groups like <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/heres-how-focus-on-the-family-convinced-the-irs-to-call-it-a-church/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Focus on the Family</a> and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/focus-on-the-family-has-declared-itself-a-church-avoiding-irs-disclosure-rules/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Liberty Counsel</a> to evade public scrutiny and accountability.<div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-family-research-councils-insurrection-connections/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/connie-hair/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Connie Hair</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/ed-corrigan/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Ed Corrigan</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jeffrey-clark/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Jeffrey Clark</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jerry-boykin/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Jerry Boykin</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/ken-blackwell/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Ken Blackwell</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/ken-klukowski/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Ken Klukowski</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/kenneth-blackwell/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Kenneth Blackwell</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/mark-meadows/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Mark Meadows</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/tony-perkins/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Tony Perkins</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/capitol-insurrection/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Capitol Insurrection</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/house-select-committee-on-jan-6/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">House select committee on Jan. 6</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/conservative-partnership-institute/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Conservative Partnership Institute</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/council-for-national-policy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Council for National Policy</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/family-research-council/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Family Research Council</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>===</div>