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Far-Right Constitution Party Makes Its CPAC Debut 02/22/2018 by Peter Montgomery Making its CPAC debut this year is the Constitution Party , which was originally organized in 1992 by right-wing activist Howard Phillips as the U.S. Taxpayers Party. Flyers …

GOP Candidate Michael Peroutka Fails To Shake Extremist Label With ‘Not a Racist’ Press Conference 07/31/2014 by Peter Montgomery For Republicans who would like to “rebrand” the party to reach more voters, Michael Peroutka is a nightmare.  Peroutka won …

Michael Peroutka, God, and Christian Reconstructionists At Larry Klayman's Revolution 11/25/2013 by Peter Montgomery At last week’s less-than-spectacular kickoff for the Second American Revolution, Larry Klayman announced that President Obama has until …

Virgil Goode Hopes to Use Romney's Flip-Flops Against Him in Third Party Presidential Bid 07/27/2012 by Brian Tashman Former congressman Virgil Goode (R-VA), best known for his malicious attacks on Muslims and immigrants , is running as the Constitution …

Huckabee Lauds Personhood Mississippi, Slams Avaricious "Abortion Industry" 09/20/2011 by Brian Tashman Only a few years ago Religious Right groups and Republicans were running as far as possible away from the Personhood Colorado campaign, the effort to …

Huckabee To Keynote Fundraiser For Personhood Mississippi 08/31/2011 by Brian Tashman Mike Huckabee is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a fundraiser for Personhood Mississippi, the group running the campaign to pass Amendment 26, which would …

Meet The Oath Keepers 02/22/2010 by Kyle Mantyla Justine Sharrock has a long article on The Oath Keepers in the latest issue of Mother Jones that notes the organization's ties to Tea Party and 9/12 activists and, by extension, figures like Ralph Reed, …

Constitution Party Makes a Play For the Values Voters 06/03/2009 by Kyle Mantyla For years, whenever the Religious Right felt it was being under appreciated by the Republican Party, leaders would start hinting, and even sometimes openly threatening, that …

When Crackpots Attack 01/28/2009 by Kyle Mantyla It seems as if a gaggle of D-list right-wing activists are now demanding the head of “Human Events” editor Jed Babbin: Radio host and bestselling author Gregg Jackson and a growing list of other …

Right Wing Leftovers 01/07/2009 by Kyle Mantyla I'm thinking of starting a new semi-regular feature consisting of some of the things I see during the day that don't necessarily warrant a post of their own but are still worth noting.  For instance, here is …