Extremists

NBC News reports: A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with the Oath Keepers on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 8½ years in federal prison Friday after apologizing for her actions. Jessica Watkins told U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta that her actions were “reprehensible,” and apologized for the impact that her conduct had on the country. “My actions and …

Pittsburgh’s ABC affiliate reports: A hard-right Pennsylvania state lawmaker said Thursday night that he will not challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, leaving the GOP field wide open as Republican Party officials try to recruit a strong candidate in the moderate battleground state to help capture a Senate majority in 2024. Doug Mastriano, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump …

First, a reminder about this guy from last year: Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to allow text messages be used in the case against a Marion County man charged in connection with the Capitol riot. FBI agents arrested Kelly Meggs, of Dunnellon, soon after Jan. 6, 2021. They claim he was the Florida leader of the Oath Keepers group …

“We will use the pardon power, and I will do that at the front end. You know, a lot of people wait until the end of the administration to issue pardons. “We’re going to find examples where government’s been weaponized against disfavored groups and we will apply relief as appropriate. “But it will be done on a case-by-case basis, because …

CNN reports: The federal judge presiding over sentencing for Oath Keepers members convicted of seditious conspiracy has ruled that militia leader Stewart Rhodes’ actions amounted to domestic terrorism. The finding signals that Rhodes, 58, may face decades in prison when he is formally sentenced later Thursday. “This is an additional level of calculation, this is an additional level of planning, …

“You have to Montgomery bus boycott the sports world. Like, for example, having the Catholic Church put out a local fatwa to players on the players and people within the organization of the Dodgers team. “Stuff like that, surgical strikes where we’re having players on the Dodgers who are — who are devout Catholics or just Christians at all, saying, …

“We need to go after Target in a very serious way. It is time for decent, ordinary Americans who do not believe in radical ideas in either direction to just say I will not allow my kid to be corrupted by this trans agenda and look Target – it looks like they’re caving. “They say they’re putting the clothes in …

The Hill reports: Democrats erupted in laughter on the House floor Wednesday when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who was presiding over the chamber — called for decorum. The heckling came as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) was delivering floor remarks about the debt ceiling, “Order,” Greene said from the dais, pounding her gavel. “I ask that the …

The Washington Post reports: The Jan. 6 rioter who was photographed with his foot propped on a desk inside then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and then tried to raise money off the images was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison Wednesday. The photograph of Richard “Bigo” Barnett in the California Democrat’s suite of offices became one of the defining …

“Matt [Walsh] made this point, he articulated it directly, but this has been the point that has been building for months now, which is we need to make that symbol toxic, the pride flag symbol, we need to make that toxic. “We need to have companies think twice about it. Everyone was talking about the Dylan Mulvaney incident as being …

Talking Points Memo reports: Alejandro Velasquez, an activist associated with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes’ far-right “Groyper” movement pleaded guilty on May 16 to a charge of making a “threatening communication” directed at a conference held by the group Turning Point USA. Velasquez, a 19-year-old Texas man who was known by the online alias “LatinoZoomer,” had written a post on …

Yahoo News reports: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to over five years in prison for assaulting police officers and other charges during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol building. Robert Morss was convicted on Aug. 23, 2022 and was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon, obstruction of …

The New York Times reports: A Texas man who joined other rioters at the U.S. Capitol trying to break into the Speaker’s Lobby, where a woman who was a part of the mob on Jan. 6, 2021, was fatally shot by the police, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison. The man, Christopher R. Grider, 41, of …

ABC News reports: The driver of a rented box truck that collided with a security barrier near the White House on Monday who told law enforcement that he wanted to seize power of the government and kill the president was arrested and charged, officials said. The FBI interviewed suspect Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, of Chesterfield, Missouri, and told law enforcement …

Mediaite reports: Pro-Trump podcaster Jesse Kelly, a frequent guest on the canceled program of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, declared that the United States “needs a dictator” in an alarming tweet. “Let me tell you all an uncomfortable truth: This country needs a dictator,” Kelly tweeted to his nearly 640,000 followers. “As the great John Adams said, a free …

From the Justice Department: A Prophetstown, Illinois, man, Philip J. Buyno, 73, has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with attempting to use fire to damage a building used in interstate commerce. Danville, Illinois, police officers arrested Buyno on Saturday, May 20th, and he is scheduled to appear in federal court in Urbana today at 1:15 pm before …

And you thought the cult couldn’t get any weirder: The political partnership between Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene entered a new level of strangeness when the Georgia congresswoman reportedly dropped a huge chunk of dough on…the House Speaker’s used chapstick. Politico’s Olivia Beavers reported that House Republicans held a conference on Tuesday morning which consisted of a 15 minute …

The Insider reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has consistently bashed drag queens, defended her boyfriend, Brian Glenn, after a Twitter account surfaced an old video of him dressed like a woman. Twitter account Patriot Takes posted the video on Sunday, which showed Glenn dressed like an old Caucasian woman — complete with a fluffy blonde wig, white gloves, and …

Montana Right Now reports: The Bozeman Pride Stroll was interrupted by a group of protesters wearing masks and sunglasses to protect their identities while chanting and carrying signs promoting white supremacy and condemning the LGBTQ+ community. The group walked up and down Main Street and other side streets while engaging with bystanders who shouted back at them. One bystander who …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: State Sen. Doug Mastriano plans to make an announcement next week about the decision he has made on whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what he teased as “crazy good news.” Mastriano, an uber-conservative who lost his 2022 gubernatorial bid to Democrat Josh Shapiro by 15 percentage points and 800,000 votes, said Saturday at …