Morning Briefing: U.S. Christian Right Gathers for Conferences in Washington, D.C.
Morning Briefing: U.S. Christian Right Gathers for Conferences in Washington, D.C.
Leaders of the U.S. Christian Right will gather this weekend in Washington, D.C. for the Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand summit and Concerned Women for America’s leadership summit.
Morning Briefing: Prominent and influential leaders of the U.S. Christian Right will gather this weekend in Washington, D.C. for the Family Research Council's (FRC) Pray Vote Stand summit and Concerned Women for America (CWA) Legislative Action Committee’s leadership summit.
Jason Brown, a member of the neo-Nazi White Supremacists group the Order of the Black Sun, was reportedly “arrested for allegedly hanging swastikas and other antisemitic signage along the Daryl Carter Parkway Bridge,” in Orlando, Florida.
Local law enforcement has also reportedly “issued three additional warrants for other demonstrators from out of state.”
Brian Preller, a member of the far right extremists group Guardians of Freedom and affiliated with the far right anti-government militia the Three Percenters, was “was sentenced to five years of probation” for participating in the Capitol Riot.
Troy Rawlings the county attorney of Davis County, Utah, has reportedly “determined that Farmington police officers were justified when they shot and killed a man suspected of being a sovereign citizen earlier this year.”
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) lead a group of lawmakers in the U.S. House that introduced the Disarm Hate Act, a bill which “would bar those convicted of violent misdemeanor hate crimes from obtaining guns.”
Updates Coming Soon: To understand how the individuals who participated in the Capitol Riot are connected to far right extremist groups and Trump Administration officials, explore the Capitol Riot Map.
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Isaac Stone Simonelli writes that there is a “growing number of people in the U.S. whose distrust of government and other mainstream institutions has led them to embrace the conspiracy-laden, anti-government ideology of the sovereign citizen movement. That growth has become increasingly evident in Arizona, as adherents often put themselves in direct conflict with law enforcement and the courts. In Tucson, a surge of sovereign filings has inundated staff at the Pima County Recorder’s Office. But it’s among Sedona’s iconic sandstone towers where the movement’s more aggressive tactics have led to bogus legal filings designed to intimidate and harass public officials, requests by court officials to increase building security and increasing tensions with local police.” [Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting]
Will Carless reports that “sounding a fresh alarm about white supremacism and extremism in the military, a coalition of more than 35 human rights groups, experts and faith organizations this week called on the Secretary of Defense to account for the department’s apparent lack of progress. ‘Extremism undermines the strength of the military and our democracy,’ the groups, led by Human Rights First, wrote in a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The letter cites a USA TODAY investigation published in July, which found the military could show almost no progress on a collection of reforms Austin called for more than two years ago. The organizations called for a public update, noting that the military’s own study of extremism in the ranks has been completed but never publicly released, as USA TODAY reported exclusively in July.” [USA Today]
Kathryn Joyce writes that “just a year or two ago, and for a century beforehand, the notion that conservatives needed to conquer Wall Street would have seemed incomprehensible, the very premise redundant. But PublicSq.’s moment at the NYSE capped a season of furious right-wing boycotts, beginning with Bud Light. In April, conservatives became incensed after 26-year-old trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney released an Instagram video showing off a promotional can of Bud Light, adorned with Mulvaney’s face, that Anheuser-Busch had sent her as one of its micro-ambassadors. A vicious right-wing backlash ensued, featuring bomb threats against breweries, an aged Kid Rock shooting up beer cans, and a conservative entrepreneur, who’d previously hawked ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ wrapping paper, rapidly launching the ‘woke free’ Ultra Right lager (not quite a steal at $20 per six-pack).” [The New Republic]
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Great reporting. Thanks!