Peter Montgomery Posts

Having failed to get state officials, judges, and federal courts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump’s legal team and right-wing activists have initiated an intense pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence.

ormer White House adviser Steve Bannon made a virtual appearance earlier this month at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival​ in Pennsylvania, where he delivered a message seemingly meant to incite the several thousand attendees.

The two top figures in the Democratic ​Party—presidential nominee Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—are practicing Catholics.

President Donald Trump, his 2020 campaign, and Republican political and media figures are championing Black Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik, who has almost no chance of defeating Democratic

Trump also patted himself on the back for doing “very well” dealing with the “China virus” pandemic and predicted “a very special economy” next year.

This kind of disinformation could have deadly results.

Wilks money has gone to support a wide swath of the right-wing legal and political infrastructure, with huge gifts to anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ groups.

It wasn’t about the victims of a mass shooting - it was about Trump.

It’s no surprise that Sekulow has found a place in Trump’s inner circle. Sekulow’s questionable relationship to the truth and his record of using nonprofits to enrich his family are quite Trumpian in nature.

The National Organization for Marriage send a email with subject line "Booker Bans Believers"

Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has announced that six faith leaders will take part in his swearing-in ceremony by offering prayers or delivering readings.

One of the organizers warns that if if Hillary Clinton is elected, white nationalists might face new restrictions like their counterparts in Europe, who are subjected to laws on hate speech and incitement to racial hatred.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is a right-wing activist who has championed anti-immigrant and voter suppression efforts around the country and has helped to insert right-wing rhetoric into recent Republican platforms.

For Republicans who would like to “rebrand” the party to reach more voters, Michael Peroutka is a nightmare. Peroutka is a Christian Reconstructionist who believes “It is not the role of civil government to house, feed, clothe, educate or give heath care to…ANYBODY!” He's also a bit of a racist.

There’s a reason so many Republican politicians seem to bring a religious fervor to their efforts to gut public institutions and social welfare spending. The modern day Religious Right draws much of its ideology from Christian Reconstructionists who teach that God gave specific duties to the government, the church, and the family.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ended this Supreme Court session with a bang, writing the majority opinion in two cases that gave for-profit corporations the right to make religious liberty claims to evade government regulation and set the stage for the fulfillment of a central goal of the right-wing political movement: the destruction of public employee unions.

Last June, presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Ted Cruz traveled to Iowa for an event convened by David Lane, a political operative who uses pastors to mobilize conservative Christian voters.

The bright sun finally broke through the clouds just as Saturday’s Moral March in Raleigh, North Carolina, was ending, drawing cheers from the tens of thousands of people who had been fired up by the Rev. William Barber’s keynote speech. “Even the universe says yes to justice!”

At the end of a week in which Religious Right leaders, cable TV pundits, and conservative politicians acted as if freedom were being destroyed because a rich TV star was suspended for making offensive racist and anti-gay comments, the Parliament in Uganda passed a bill that threatens gay people with life in prison.