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Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Donald Trump has escalated his long-running assault on the integrity of US elections as the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stretch, using a new series of lies about ballots, vote-counting and the election process to lay the groundwork to challenge a potential defeat in November.

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By Peter Montgomery | September 30, 2024 4:00 pm Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, now a Fox Nation host and cheerleader for Donald Trump’s campaign, used his account on the social media site X (formerly Twitter) to spread a dangerous antisemitic trope among his 2.6 million followers last week. After philanthropist Alex Soros posted a photo of himself with Democratic vice-presidential candidate Gov.

By Kyle Mantyla | September 30, 2024 3:17 pm In 2014, Right Wing Watch dubbed Rafael Cruz “the poor man’s David Barton” because the speeches he delivers are little more than a recycling of a variety of myths long promoted by Christian-nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton. Ten years later, Cruz, the father of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, is still out on the Christian nationalist lecture circuit and he’s still spreading Barton-esque lies.

By Peter Montgomery | September 27, 2024 1:06 pm If there’s anything the MAGA movement loves, it’s a rally with a bunch of speakers who can be counted on to blend “anti-wokeness,” conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and hero-worship of Donald Trump. The latest assemblage, traveling under the name of Rescue the Republic, will grace the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Sept.

Analysis Vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has spent his short career in politics soaking in and promoting anti-democratic ideas. It is terrifying that he could become vice president to Donald Trump, the oldest presidential nominee in history, who is displaying his own increasingly aggressive dictatorial intentions. Americans’ freedom and our future as a democratic society are at stake.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Republican congressman’s racist rant generates immediate backlash Rep. Clay Higgins’ racist online message probably won’t help the Republican Party’s pre-election outreach to Black voters. Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Clay Higgins Defends Tweet He Deleted After Being Confronted by Republican Colleagues: ‘It’s All True’ Rep.

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By Kyle Mantyla | September 26, 2024 12:12 pm In 2023, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and unabashed Trump cultist Lance Wallnau announced his intention to travel the country ahead of the 2024 elections in order to break the “demonic strongholds” in swing states that have supposedly been preventing Republicans from winning elections.

By Kyle Mantyla | September 25, 2024 5:20 pm Yonat Shimron @ Religion News Service: Mark Robinson may no longer be the headliner. But NC evangelicals still back him. Robinson has spent years cultivating Black and white evangelical church members with a message that aligns closely with their conservative values. Those church members still think highly of him.