Extremists

The Guardian reports: Large numbers of Americans who have bought guns over the past four years or who regularly carry their loaded weapons in public are willing to engage in political violence, even to the extent of shooting a perceived opponent, a new mega-survey has found. The study of almost 13,000 Americans, drawn from across the US and weighted for …

“I want you to know that anyone who serves in leadership in America should be prepared to battle for what is right. We should be prepared to fight it out with one another. We should be prepared to find common ground. We should be prepared to hold the line and do what’s right, to do what our voters want us …

CNN reports: Conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office and others for running a voter suppression campaign targeting Black voters during the 2020 election. The deal announced Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James represents the latest punishment the pair will face for orchestrating a broad voter …

The Guardian reports: In the five-page memo sent to her Republican colleagues on Tuesday morning, Greene laid out a detailed case against the speaker, accusing Johnson of failing to deliver on promises he ran on and breaking legislative procedural rules. Johnson is “throwing our own razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him”, Greene …

From the Justice Department: Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was arrested Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Coeur d’Alene for attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. According to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, Mercurio pledged his allegiance to ISIS and intended to commit attacks on its behalf. He planned to attack individuals …

Kyla Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pastor, conspiracy theorist, and unabashed Trump cultist Mark Burns is running for Congress once again. Burns, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in South Carolina in 2018 and 2022, has now switched districts for his latest run, perhaps hoping that voters in his new district will not be familiar with his long history …

“This might be the last normal weekend we have for some time. I mean, we’ve got this solar eclipse on Monday, this very rare solar eclipse, who knows what the fallout from that will be. “Plus, that will be combined with several earthquakes, we’ve already seen a few already. Oh, and why not sprinkle in this infestation of locusts that …

“The entire industry of surrogacy — purchasing children, allowing two men, in particular, or two women or a single to create a child with the intention of depriving that child of his mother or father, this is obviously very, very evil and should be illegal, of course. “Selling one’s eggs, selling one’s sperm, this obviously should be illegal. They are …

Newsweek reports: A group of January 6 defendants has filed a class action lawsuit against 21 Capitol Police officers and officials for “millions of dollars in damages,” inmate Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang told the conservative cable channel Real America’s Voice on Friday. Lang, who describes himself as a “January 6 political prisoner,” was arrested soon after the attack on the …

“There are no conspiracies here in the War Room, we don’t believe in them, but there’s also no coincidences. I’m just saying if you check the timing that when we started the interview with the great-grandmother who’s now up for sentencing for three years in federal prison for praying in the Capitol, that’s when an earthquake hit New York City. …

The New York Times reports: Even by a conspiracy theorist’s standards, the wild claims made by Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, stand out. The hard-right congressman, now in his fourth term in the House, has said that “ghost buses” took agent provocateurs to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to instigate the riot. He has claimed that the federal …

ABC News reports: Prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party with a second count of uttering a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers at a political event. Björn Höcke was already scheduled to go on trial in Halle on April 18. Prosecutors in the eastern city …

From the Justice Department: A Washington state man was sentenced to over seven years in prison today after he was previously convicted of assaulting law enforcement and other felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. …

“They’ve been sold a lie through culture, through media, through even some of their parents that you basically have to go pursue this corporate trajectory, and that men are always the problem, and suppress your biological impulses. “A lot of them are on birth control, too. And birth control like really screws up female brains, by the way. Every single …

The Washington Post reports: Nebraska is one of two states that does not have a winner-take-all policy, where the winner of the statewide vote receives all the state’s electoral votes. Nebraska’s electoral votes are instead split among the statewide and congressional district winners, including a swing district in the Omaha area that President Biden carried in 2020 as Trump easily …

Crooks & Liars reports: David Hancock was the spokesman for Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and his family during Killer Kyle’s criminal proceedings three years ago. At the time, Hancock was laying it on as thickly as anyone, trying to portray Killer Kyle as a poor innocent waif of a boy just trying to do the right thing and who just wanted …

“Remember when you’re dealing with satanic and demonic forces, they’re plenty smart. ‘I can’t stand these people. They’re so stupid.’ No. They’re very cunning. They’re not good people, but they’re very cunning and very smart. And they understand. Why do you think they’re coming? I said this for months and months and months over the last year. They’re going to …

“They hate him because they understand your commitment to him and part of your commitment is you understand, wait for it MSNBC, wait for it, wait for it, no, don’t, wait for it, he is an instrument of divine providence. “Yep. He is. Of that there’s no doubt. There’s empirical evidence of that. This is one of the reasons people …

“This trial on the 15th is not about business records. The trial on the 15th is to destroy Trump in front of the American people and particularly women. Although, I don’t — I’m pretty adamant you shouldn’t go out of your way to chase that vote. You put forward your program and if it votes for you, great, and if …

Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports: Deputies in Wilson County are investigating after a trailer containing Bibles was reportedly set on fire Easter Sunday. Deputies reported the trailer had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and then “intentionally set on fire.” Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church took to social media Sunday morning to share pictures of …