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“On day one, I’ll direct the Department of Defense to to stop using taxpayer dollars to undermine pro-life laws in states around the country. Sen Tommy Tuberville is right and the Pentagon is wrong. And on the cause of life I promise you, if I have the privilege of being your president, I’ll be a champion for the unborn. “I’m …

The Christian Post reports: DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, addressed the crowd at the Family Research Council’s Pray, Vote, Stand Summit Friday, where he discussed his faith in God and outlined how he would protect religious liberty if elected president. “I don’t know how you could be a leader without having faith in God,” …

After a video showing Rep. Lauren Boebert and her date groping each other went wildly viral on social media, Boebert last night issued an apology. From her statement: The past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I’m truly sorry for the unwanted attention my Sunday evening in Denver has brought to the community. While none of my actions …

As a reminder, this morning she was busted in this lie: Newly released surveillance video from a Denver theater appears to show Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert vaping during a “Beetlejuice” musical play — the one thing she denied doing while acknowledging earlier this week that she had been kicked out for being disruptive. Boebert and her guest were escorted out …

“There is no competitive Republican primary. They’re terrified the Republican base in consolidating. The immigration thing is failing. The inflation thing is failing. There is going to be an attempt to take out Joe Biden. To take him out first like Richard Nixon, and maybe if they have to do the JFK thing they will. I don’t even know if …

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 …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: While right-wing groups are mobilizing angry mobs to yell at school board members that parents have the right to control what their children are taught, evangelical pollster George Barna told religious-right activists at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” summit Thursday that it is their duty to try to indoctrinate other people’s …

NBC News reports: Five adults and a juvenile have been charged with murder after a 70-pound woman — who had been beaten and malnourished for weeks — was discovered dead in the trunk of a vehicle this week, police in Georgia said Thursday. The victim, who was not publicly identified, is from South Korea and came to the U.S. this …

The Daily Beast reports: The uber-conservative advocacy group PragerU officially infiltrated another state’s classrooms on Thursday, with the New Hampshire Board of Education voting unanimously to allow a portion of their content to be used by students. New Hampshire is now the third state to approve PragerU material this summer, but its agreement with the right-wing non-profit appears to vary …

Tampa’s CBS affiliate reports: According to a list released by Florida’s Department of Education, school districts across the state issued a combined total of 386 book bans after receiving a total of 1,218 objections in 2022. More than half of the objections were raised by the same two people: Bruce Friedman, the founder of the Florida chapter of the activist …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Before he was even elected to Congress, Jody Hice fought with us to advance public policy from a biblical worldview and has been a valuable addition to our team. His lifetime of ministry both in the church and then on Capitol Hill, combined with his passion for faith, family, and freedom, will …

The Shreveport Times reports: Louisiana’s Republican Party has endorsed John Raymond, who is charged with four counts of criminal cruelty to juveniles, in his bid to win a state House seat in St. Tammany Parish. Raymond, lead minister of New Horizon Church in Slidell and founder of Lakeside Christian Academy, was arrested twice in 2022 on juvenile cruelty charges related …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Far-left activists barged into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) office Monday, linking arms and chanting, “Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy!” The protest briefly interrupted staffers’ typically quiet Monday morning before Capitol police arrived and arrested seven protestors who refused to leave. The protest appears to be part of a larger media campaign by …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: This week, on September 12, Viacom aired its “2023 MTV Video Music Awards” (VMAs) on Nickelodeon, its children’s network. Nickelodeon was launched over 40 years ago as “the first cable channel for children,” but now, many parents agree they can no longer trust the network. Since Nickelodeon’s target market is children, it …

The Washington Post reports: In June, two librarians put up two rainbow-colored displays near the entrance of the public library in Sterling, Kan. — their way of celebrating autism and neurodiversity, according to a recently filed lawsuit. In one, the rainbow colors formed an infinity symbol broken up only by a heart and accompanied by the words “We all think …

NBC News reports: A former project manager and property caretaker for Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, said Ye fired him after he refused to remove all of the windows and electricity from his Malibu home, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. When Ye allegedly insisted that Tony Saxon move large generators into the home, he refused, and …

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 …

Springfield’s NBC affiliate reports: On Wednesday, September 6, Beulah Church in Richland, Mo., held a live-streamed sermon hosted by Pastor Rick Morrow. In the sermon, Morrow made comments that caused a massive backlash in the Richland community and across the country. What’s more is that in addition to being a pastor, Morrow was on the board of Stoutland schools until …

“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 …