Kristen Doerer, Author at Flux

Florida school district narrowly avoids deepening ties to the far-right

Kristen Doerer — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:31:14 +0000

Hillsdale College is a right-wing conservative Christian college in Michigan hailed by the likes of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who views the school as a model for education nationwide and vows to bring Hillsdale’s values to Florida. In one Florida school district last week, he nearly saw his dream come true. The Sarasota School Board had considered hiring the newly created Vermilion […]

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Christian nationalist Republican youth group increasingly vulnerable to ‘fascist’ incursions

Kristen Doerer — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:03:25 +0000

Turning Point USA has a “groyper” problem. The right-wing get out the vote youth organization TPUSA, led by Charlie Kirk, has long had to fend off the followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who call themselves groypers, from infiltrating their ranks. But they haven’t always been successful at keeping racists and groypers at arm’s length and have at times have […]

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Attacking trans people has become the centerpiece of Republican electioneering

Kristen Doerer — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:00:42 +0000

“The left has told us something that should put fear into the heart of every parent,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene began her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday morning. “They said they’re coming for our children.” Dressed in a light pink blazer and with straightened bleach blonde hair, Greene painted a gruesome (and fictional) picture: […]

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The Blaze finally canned Elijah Schaffer—what took so long?

Kristen Doerer — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:00:26 +0000

Elijah Schaffer and his “Slightly Offensive” podcast had an audience of 460,000 on YouTube to which he spewed more than slightly offensive bigotries about people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community. On Monday night, the commentator finally got canned from The Blaze, which hosted his show. The Blaze issued a statement Monday evening on Twitter announcing […]

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Far-right congressional candidate Laura Loomer predictably refuses to concede

Kristen Doerer — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:00:52 +0000

Laura Loomer—a far-right activist so extreme that she would have easily eclipsed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the most far-right congresswoman—lost her bid for the GOP nomination to Congress in Florida’s 11th Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race in favor of longtime Republican Rep. Daniel Webster late Tuesday night. Webster, who was the preferred candidate of religious-right […]

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Fallout: How Trump’s Big Lie is threatening the future of elections

Kristen Doerer — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:00:20 +0000

The Jan. 6 hearings closed for the summer last Thursday night with a plea from Republican House Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Citing the conservative heroine British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Cheney called on the public: “Let it never be said that the dedication of those who love freedom is less than the determination of those […]

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Steve Bannon convicted in contempt of Congress trial

Kristen Doerer — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:00:09 +0000

Steve Bannon, former President Donald Trump’s onetime chief strategist, was convicted of contempt of Congress Friday for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The federal grand jury deliberated for less than three hours before announcing its verdict. Bannon faces the prospect of monetary […]

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What we learned from day 7 of the Jan. 6 hearings

Kristen Doerer — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:00:31 +0000

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its seventh day of hearings Tuesday with a dual focus: an “unhinged” Dec. 18, 2020, White House meeting between former President Donald Trump and conspiracy theorists, and the role of extremist groups like Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Key to the […]

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From civil war threats to storming the Capitol: How Oath Keepers plotted to keep Trump in power

Kristen Doerer — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:01:14 +0000

A few weeks before the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, Stewart Rhodes addressed a crowd of “Stop the Steal” activists and other Trump loyalists gathered on the National Mall. Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government extremist group the Oath Keepers, had a message for the president: Trump, Rhodes said, needed to “show the world […]

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After Roe’s reversal, far-right activists call for explicit Christian supremacism

Kristen Doerer — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 06:12:17 +0000

First published by Right Wing Watch The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on Friday, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The decision, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, reversed 50 years of precedent to return the question of abortion rights back to the states. The ruling has immediate impacts: 26 states are likely to move quickly or […]

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