News
Interview: Director Christian Swegal on His Debut Film on Far-right Extremism ‘Sovereign’
Swegal hopes his movie will be a conversation starter that challenges viewers to feel empathy.
Zach D. Roberts
July 18, 2025
Zach D. Roberts
News
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls for Class War That Takes Our Democracy and Economy Back from Billionaires at Philadelphia May Day Rally
Sanders joined Pennsylvania unions at a raucous rally where he laid out a vision for a progressive populism that Democrats could run on both locally and nationally.
Zach D. Roberts
May 2, 2025
Opinion
The Dangerous Depravity of Trump ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan
Homan has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda, now targeting churches and schools, is one of the Administration’s top priorities.
Zach D. Roberts
January 30, 2025
News
Rod of Iron Festival in Pennsylvania Still Pushing MAGA Conspiracies, Hate, and Extremism
There was talk of demons, witches, a Deep State target list, white replacement theory, unleashing the gates of hell and more, reports Zach D. Roberts.
Zach D. Roberts
October 19, 2024
News
NATCON with Doug Wilson and Albert Mohler: Competing Visions for Their Christian Nation
The Bucks County Beacon sent Zach D. Roberts to report from the National Conservatism Conference in Washington D.C.
Zach D. Roberts
July 19, 2024
News
Which Will Die First, American Democracy or CPAC?
The now MAGA and increasingly Christian nationalist conference blamed globalists, Trans people, immigrants, and Godless heathens for the death of America.
Zach D. Roberts
February 29, 2024
News
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Not Stopping at Roe v. Wade
Fascist groups once again rally with “pro-lifers” at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Zach D. Roberts
January 21, 2024
News
Rod of Iron Festival in Pennsylvania Shows How Dangerous and Deranged This MAGA Cult Is
The festival, a two-day carnival of MAGA dripping madness, offered an unfiltered look at the Republican Party’s present and future.
Zach D. Roberts
October 13, 2023
News
Pennsylvania Patriot Coalition’s Bucks County Picnic Short on People, But Not on Extremism
Those in attendance included the John Birch Society, Moms for Liberty, the Proud Boys, Constitutional Sheriffs, Doug Mastriano, and Toni Shupe.
Zach D. Roberts
July 19, 2023
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“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.
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“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.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“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.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
