By Jacob Gries: This two-day Republican extravaganza beginning Sept. 16 has become infinitely more star-studded in the two years since Donald Trump left office. GOP stars speaking include Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kayleigh McEnany, Ted Cruz and Candace Owens.
By Kris Parker: A small but vocal group of influential figures on the right have been buying into the Putin’s government’s narrative on the war. They include Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
By Kevin Howley: Before you run out to your dealer and trade in your fossil fuel burning ride for a shiny new electric car, here are ten reasons why the Right wants you to do a U-turn.
Electric vehicles are under an unprecedented assault from the Right.
By J. Max Robins: The Facebook honcho was interviewed August 25 on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Was it a savvy ploy to position Zuckerberg to Rogan’s millions of mostly male and politically quite right of center listeners?
By Jacob Gries: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee apparently thinks he should help teach your kids about the history of the United States and presidential elections. Among the pamphlets he sells: A Kid’s Guide & Free Speech and Cancel Culture. Yearly charges for his content could cost parents more than $200 a year.
By Michael Lovito: Marketing material for “Uncle Tom II,” which begins streaming today, claims that the film will unveil “the Marxist strategy of creating false racial tension between Americans.” “Uncle Tom II” asserts that the racial justice protests of 2020 were a key facet of that strategy.
By J. Max Robins: Musk has taken note of the Right’s anti-EV assault, and his romancing of DeSantis, McCarthy and other MAGA fellow travelers is a savvy counter offensive. Exactly how do you think he got to be the richest man in the world?
By Kevin Howley: The fear-mongering has grown increasingly incendiary. While concerns over targeting FBI agents for violent attack has received the lion share of news coverage, the demonization of the IRS demands closer scrutiny.
By Jacob Gries: Mike Lindell’s Moment of Truth Summit this past weekend felt like a church service with a sentient conspiracy theory subreddit in place of a liturgy, blended together with about a pound of caffeine, which made for a truly insane spectacle. The My Pillow Guy’s two-day event was sparsely attended.
By Jacob Gries: The former general counsel of the Republican party of Sarasota, FL, has become one of the most prolific and coherent voices in the Twitterverse dedicated to exposing the threat of right-wing extremism to democracy. He’s also a relentless critic of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Michael Lovito: Ever since Drudge Report took a somewhat anti-Trump turn in 2020 the site’s been sworn off by a number of conservative commentators, creating an opening for a more ideologically pure competitor to sop up its old readers. Curl thinks he has the chance to do just that with Off the Press
By J. Max Robins: Among the more prominent – and more frightening – of the local news personalities who have entered the political arena is Kari Lake. After 22 years as an TV anchor in Phoenix, the political novice nabbed the Arizona GOP nomination for governor by campaigning as an election denier.
By Kevin Howley: While Infectious disease experts explain that Monkeypox primarily affects men who have sex with men, they insist it is not a gay disease. Try telling that to conservatives eager to exploit the health emergency to score political points.
By David Lieberman: Salem, which describes itself as a specialist in “Christian and conservative content,” says that it made a $4.8 million profit after recouping its $4.5 million investment in 2,000 Mules, a documentary that claimed to have uncovered fraudulent voting in the 2020 presidential election. “To say the film has been a success would be an understatement,” CEO .David Santrella told Wall Street analysts and investors.
BY J. Max Robins: In an attempt to build brand awareness, NewsNation is opening up the checkbook for tarnished news stars like Chris Cuomo and maybe even Bill O’Reilly at bargain basement prices, in what is a time-honored blueprint, albeit one that is seldom successful.
By Michael Lovito: On a normal day, American Thinker founder Thomas Lifson oversees the publication of six original articles and 15 blogs. On a weekly basis, that would mean more than 140 items and on a monthly basis more than 600. He’s been doing this since 2003.
By Jacob Gries: Mike Lindell has created an ambitious right-wing media network featuring a website, two video channels and a social network. In a little more than a year, it’s grown into an home for conservative programming at a reported cost of a million dollars a month.
By J. Max Robins: This is just the calm before a right wing media storm. Actually, tornado may be a more apt word, and when it gets here, AG Merrick Garland will be in the center of it.
By Jaden Satenstein: Conservative media outlets have successfully framed the transgender rights movement as a divisive, hot-button issue, inducing moral panic and outrage on the right.
By Kevin Howley: Articles about drag queen story hour for children at libraries conveniently ignore the decisive role right wing media play in mainstreaming moral panic.
By J. Max Robins: The soon-to-be octogenarian President’s approval ratings are falling with a kind of stubborn insistence. Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Lt. Governor is several points ahead of his opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz in the U.S. Senate race and is raising a ton of cash. As Fetterman’s star rises and Biden’s wanes, the president should take note of a comeback blueprint in his fellow Keystone Stater’s bare-knuckled ways.
By Michael Lovito: Unruly, uncivil, unfair – whatever you want to call it, ShutDownDC doesn’t care. Over the past two and a half years, the Washington-based direct action group has taken the fight for progressive priorities to DC’s streets, disrupting traffic and, occasionally, steak dinners to grab both headlines and the ears of politicians.
By Daria Nastasia: One conservative commentator suggested that the Biden administration should leave jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner in a Russian prison until she publicly repudiates her stance on the national anthem.
By Jaden Satenstein: Rumble’s looser content moderation policies have right-wing personalities like Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, and Representative Matt Gaetz flocking to the video-sharing site. They and other prominent personalities view Rumble as a refuge from cancel culture.