When Trump posted a photo of himself wielding a bat near the head of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, it was reminiscent of Stone’s 2019 Instagram post with a threatening image of the judge presiding over his own criminal trial.
Scott Presler is an openly gay, MAGA activist who works with the anti-gay Christian Right. He’ll be in Bucks County April 8 to push their new crusade: GOP ballot harvesting. “I don’t want 2,000 mules. I want 2 million mules.”
This is the third installment of our series examining how Stone and his web of pro-Trump miscreants have fractured the United States using a combination of information warfare, physical intimidation, and violence.
This is part 2 of a 3-part series exposing political fixer Roger Stone’s central role in creating the climate of hate, division, disinformation, and physical intimidation that culminated in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Stone incorporated violent extremist groups into the “Stop the Steal” effort, which was itself a product of his warped political mind writes columnist Jennifer Cohn in the first of a three-part series.
Ben Carson rallied for Doug Mastriano last week. He’s revered within a powerful Christian nationalist network that leaked voter data and was part of the Stop the Steal movement.
The New Apostolic Reformation, a dominionist movement, was more involved in Jan. 6 than is generally known.
Given that white nationalists and Christian nationalists worked together on “Stop the Steal,” it is probably safe to assume that they are still working with each other and with Trump in pursuit of their shared objective: toppling American democracy.
The militant “Black Robe Regiment” is set to recruit pastors with Flynn in Pennsylvania. A Christian leader tied to the Regiment will rally for Mastriano Friday.
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
