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Right-Wing Leaders Join Call for State Legislatures to Overrule Voters and Give Election to Trump

Late last week, just a few days before Electoral College votes were cast in state capitols on Monday, a large group of President Donald Trump’s right-wing supporters signed a letter falsely declaring Trump to be “the lawful winner of the presidential election” and urging state legislators to ignore

Right-Wing Leaders Urge Senate to Shut Down Impeachment Trial Without Witnesses

Dozens of religious-right and right-wing leaders and their political allies “emphatically” urged the Senate to shut down the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump without hearing from any witnesses Thursday.

At Eagle Forum Event, Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric, Immigration Restriction… And A Supreme Court Justice

Just more than a year after the death of anti-feminist, anti-immigration, anti-LGBTQ crusader Phyllis Schlafly, as her descendants are still locked in an ugly feud stemming from her support for Donald Trump, one faction of Schlafly’s followers gathered this weekend in Virginia to discuss the future

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5 Failed Predictions Made By Don't Ask Don't Tell Defenders

Five years ago today, the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy officially came to an end. And, five years later, conservatives’ dire predictions about the consequences of the policy’s repeal have yet to come true. This falls into a familiar pattern.