Extremists

Media Matters reports: A short video posted Tuesday on the Daily Wire’s YouTube channel contained a by-now familiar disclosure: the platform had suspended Candace Owens, “prohibiting her from posting or appearing on any of the Daily Wire’s YouTube channels.” In response to a request for comment, a YouTube spokesperson stated: “We issued a strike to the Candace Owens Podcast channel …

Via press release from far-right Pastor E.W. Jackson: Presidential candidate, E.W. Jackson has sent a letter threatening Ronna McDaniel and the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) with a lawsuit to force them to recognize his candidacy. The RNC’s list of “Declared Republican Candidates” has excluded Jackson. State and local Republican officials, taking their cue from the RNC, are also victims of …

The Associated Press reports: As Alex Jones continues telling his Infowars audience about his money problems and pleads for them to buy his products, his own documents show life is not all that bad — his net worth is around $14 million and his personal spending topped $93,000 in July alone, including thousands of dollars on meals and entertainment. The …

Orlando’s Fox affiliate reports: An arrest has been made in the defacing of two LGBTQ+ murals in Orlando that occurred in August, police said. Matthew Michael Robinson, 34, was arrested on Sept. 13 and charged with three counts of criminal mischief. Two murals, one belonging to The Center Orlando and the other to Zebra Youth, were vandalized on the evening …

“As we move forward as a late stage republic, we are going to have to impeach every Democrat president when we have the House. When we have the House. Why? Because they’re going to impeach every single Republican president when they have the House, don’t be naive. “There will be no exceptions. The last two, it wasn’t about Trump or …

Florida Politics reports: Florida law enforcement officials arrested a Cape Canaveral man who led a Nazi demonstration in Orlando in June. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced Jason Brown, 48, was arrested for violating a new Florida law forbidding the display of images on structures without permission. Officials said Brown has claimed membership in the Order of the …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Ryan Walters is a Christian nationalist culture warrior who is using his position as Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction to promote far-right propaganda throughout the state’s public school system. On Sunday, Walters appeared at a special service held at right-wing pastor Jackson Lahmeyer’s church in Tulsa, where he claimed that President Joe Biden …

“So, we’re not going to knock Joe Biden out of office by doing these impeachment proceedings. Democrats hold the Senate and they have to do a trial. “The only reason to impeach Biden is just for the symbolism of it and of course, there is an argument to be made to force the press to cover the evidence and the …

NBC News reports: A host of the far-right media outlet InfoWars was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite neither entering the Capitol building nor being accused of committing violence or …

“The one issue that I think is so against our senses, so against the natural law – and dare I say, a throbbing middle finger to God – is the transgender thing happening in America right now. You’re in a church, so it’s important to remember Deuteronomy 22:5, ‘A woman shall not wear a man’s garment nor shall a man …

“Being an equal opportunity rope swinger, I think Nancy Pelosi belongs at the end of a rope. Again these are not threats because I don’t want to get hit with seditious conspiracy or some other charge. So while you’re writing the indictment FBI, get that straight. I said they deserve it, not that I’m going to do it. I know …

Raw Story reports: Leo Brent Bozell IV, the son of conservative activist and media critic Brent Bozell, was found guilty of 10 charges related to breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6, POLITICO, Kyle Cheney reported on Friday. In 2021, Bozell, initially faced charges of disorderly conduct, knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and obstructing an official …

The Associated Press reports: A Tennessee bartender who carried plastic zip tie handcuffs and a stun gun into the Senate gallery on Jan. 6, 2021, where he was captured in one the most widely shared photos of the U.S. Capitol riot, was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison. Eric Munchel, 32, was convicted of conspiracy and other …

Media Matters has the transcript: Mike Huckabee said nothing wrong. Every single thing Mike Huckabee just said is right. Regardless of even what happens in the election and how you interpret it, if the legal mechanisms that the liberals are trying to use — which are really illegal mechanisms — if they succeed at taking Trump off the ballot in …

The Daily Beast reports: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio declined a plea deal before going to trial, and the gamble failed miserably when the 39-year-old was sentenced on Wednesday to twice the prison time he would have received under the agreement. Four other members of the far-right gang turned down similarly sweet deals: Ethan Nordean got 18 years rather than …

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor and Surgeon General came to Jacksonville to talk COVID-19, but ended up talking about the killing of three Black people by a White gunman with swastikas drawn on his AR-15. However, the state leaders had more criticism for the man asking about how state laws led to an avoidable racist mass murder than they did …

First, a reminder about this notorious cultist from 2021: The man who kept hanging “Trump Won” banners at baseball games said he’d been barred from MLB ballparks indefinitely. Dion Cini had gone to Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, Fenway Park, and Citizens Bank Park to hang the banners. He was ejected from them, but he said security officials told him he …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Following a prolonged debate, the Miami-Dade County Public School Board has voted against officially recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month within the district. The contentious decision, passed by a 5-3 vote, comes in the wake of the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law that was signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last year. The debate over Initiative …

From the Justice Department: A Virginia man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement, related to his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the …

The Associated Press reports: Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a re-commttment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs. The statement released Thursday, the first time the libraries have joined to make such …