Republicans Are Telling Us EXACTLY Who They Are

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel they are now MAGA MINIONS...
COMMENTS - "We are now at the time, the real beginning of 2024. It must get serious, you are exactly right here today Brando, you preach and WE must spread this truth. WE must save Democracy, regardless of mountains of misinformation. Don't let up with anyone when it's about fascist lies and their own ignorance."

They’ve played the loooooooooong game all the way through so far while most people watched the distractions.

FACTS that can be verified :

V1 : https://youtu.be/jKX-0AdDvuk?si=g3bY6d2-fyr2N_fZ


V2 : https://youtube.com/shorts/iBTkIbBe00k?si=zlscmLJ9VPAyJlMN


1.) Republican Efforts to Defund Federal Law Enforcement

Published April 28, 2023
3 minute read

PASCRELL
9th District of New Jersey
Fact Sheet:

The Republican Party is Defunding the Police Repeated Cuts to Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring program and Byrne
Memorial Justice (Byrne JAG)

Grants Show Who Really Stands for Public Safety

Since its inception, the COPS program has placed more than 130,000 sworn law enforcement officers in communities across the country.

Byrne JAG provides local law enforcement with training, equipment, and supplies in communities that lack the funds they need.

Yet year after year, Republican Party leaders and Donald Trump have sought massive cuts to law enforcement funding. Each time, Democrats have fought back against these draconian cuts to public safety.

* Fiscal Year 2018: Trump's FY18 budget cut Byrne JAG funding by 11% (from $375 million in FY17 to $332 million in FY18). The House GOP majority took things a step further, proposing to zero out the COPS program in the FY18 CJS bill. Rep. Pascrell successfully led a bipartisan amendment to restore funding for the COPS program, which was then funded at $150 million.

SOURCE : https://pascrell.house.gov/uploadedfiles/policefundingfactsheet_final.pdf


2.) https://youtu.be/qr5S7D_cKp4


1.) Ron DeSantis
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say

Veterans resign from force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’
Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Sat 15 Jul 2023 13.54 EDT

A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his personal command, according to military veteran recruits who have quit the program.

Several veterans resigned after an encampment last month having become concerned at the “militaristic” training and “abuse” one disabled veteran suffered at the hands of instructors, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.

Promoted by DeSantis as an “emergency focused, civilian defense force” when it was established in June 2022, the state guard has quickly morphed into something quite different, the report found.

Volunteers have been trained for military combat, including the use of weapons; khaki polo shirts and pants were replaced by camouflage uniforms; and recruits were “barked at” by boot camp instructors at the joint training base who woke them before dawn and imposed lights-out by 10pm.

Additionally, DeSantis’s compliant, Republican-led state legislature has contributed to the change of direction, this year approving a massive expansion in the force’s funding, size and equipment. Its budget increased from $10m to $107.5m, and its maximum size more than tripled from 400 recruits to 1,500.

On the governor’s shopping list were helicopters, boats, police powers and reportedly even cellphone-hacking technology for a force outside of federal jurisdiction, and accountable directly to him.

“The program got hijacked and turned into something that we were trying to stay away from: a militia,” Brian Newhouse, a retired navy veteran with 20 years’ experience, told the reporters.

Newhouse was originally chosen to lead one of the state guard’s three divisions, and said he was removed from the base near Jacksonville on the first day of training after raising his concerns with national guard staff who were acting as instructors.

SOURCE : https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit


1A.) Turmoil in Florida’s New State Guard, as Some Recruits Quit

Some who volunteered for the force commissioned by Gov. Ron DeSantis said the group, billed as a natural disaster relief organization, had become too militarized.

But the deployment this spring has been mired in internal turmoil, with some recruits complaining that what was supposed to be a civilian disaster response organization had become heavily militarized, requiring volunteers to participate in marching drills and military-style training sessions on weapons and hand-to-hand combat.

At least 20 percent of the 150 people initially accepted into the program dropped out or were dismissed, state officials acknowledged, including a retired Marine captain who filed a false imprisonment complaint against Guard sergeants with the local sheriff after he got into a dispute with instructors and was forcibly escorted off the site.

Several of those who left and spoke to The New York Times said they objected to the direction the organization was taking and either quit or were fired when they tried to voice their concerns.

Mr. DeSantis, to whom the new State Guard reports directly, has suggested that concerns over the organization’s future role are unwarranted.

“If you turned on NBC, it was ‘DeSantis is raising an army, and he’s going to raze the planet,’” Mr. DeSantis told reporters last year. “But, you know, the response from people was ‘Oh, hell, he’s raising an army? I want to join! Let’s do it.’”

SOURCE : https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/florida-state-guard-desantis.html


2.) Dueling Ads: Trump and DeSantis on Social Security and Medicare
By Robert Farley
Posted on April 20, 2023 | Updated on April 21, 202

SOURCE : https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/dueling-ads-trump-and-desantis-on-social-security-and-medicare/


3.) Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training

One retired Marine Corps officer called the police on instructors, alleging abuse.

SOURCE : https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Turmoil-in-Florida-s-New-State-Guard-as-Some-Recruits-Quit/5-2659014/


* Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation to Honor Victims of Communism and Preserve

* History of the Freedom Tower On May 9, 2022,

SOURCE : https://www.flgov.com/2022/05/09/governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-to-honor-victims-of-communism-and-preserve-history-of-the-freedom-tower/#:~:text=MIAMI%20–%20Today%2C%20Governor%20Ron%20DeSantis,communist%20regimes%20across%20the%20world.


3.) 1.) The Alt-Right On Campus: What Students Need To Know

* Why is the Alt-Right Targeting Campuses?

* The Rise of the Alt-Rght

* The Alt-Right and Freedom of Speech

* What To Say, What To Do

* Who is the Alt-Right: Headliners

* Who is the Alt-Right: Brain Trust

* Who is the Alt-Right: The Shock Troops

* Who is the Alt-Right: The Fight Clubs

An old and familiar poison is being spread on college campuses these days: the idea that America should be a country for white people.

SOURCE : https://www.splcenter.org/20170810/alt-right-campus-what-students-need-know



2.) How Is White Supremacy Embedded in School Systems Today? A Scholar Explains

By Ileana Najarro — November 03, 2022 8 min read

“What is the true legacy of Brown v. Board of Education? How do schools perpetuate white supremacy? How can public education become equitable?”

SOURCE : https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-is-white-supremacy-embedded-in-school-systems-today-a-scholar-explains/2022/11



3.) White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

* White supremacy has always been hard work. Because of this, it is possible to imagine that someday there will be no one willing to perform the labor.

* Very fine people”—and not just fathers, husbands, and sons, but mothers, wives, and daughters as well—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

* To many of its white contemporaries, the KKK of the 1920s was a respectable organization that promised to restore white Protestants to their proper place of authority.

* Feminism is not a strictly left phenomenon. There is not only conservative feminism but even bigoted feminism. Feminists played a central role in building the Klan.

* In their role as guardians of domestic life, white women served as segregation’s constant gardeners.

* White women took the lead in protests against school desegregation, defending a white domestic sphere without directly asserting the legitimacy of racial segregation.

“The defenders of segregation learned to speak their truths in code. Their demands for “local control” defended racial hierarchies that previous generations of policy and practice had baked into institutions, neighborhoods, and schools. Their language of “color-blindness” sought to neutralize historical accounting or reparation. Some, such as Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush advisor Lee Atwater, claimed that in trading overtly racist language for “forced busing, states rights, and all that stuff,” they were establishing a new, non-racial basis for their coalition—though Atwater’s deployment of the worst scare tactics of white supremacy in his 1988 “Willie Horton” ads showed that one did not need to use racial epithets to communicate openly racist messages. But for most aspiring political or civic figures, a degree of deniability seemed to become essential.”

* White supremacist activists—many of them veterans—linked the government’s mistreatment of soldiers in Vietnam with its alleged elevation of immigrants and non-whites over white Americans at home.

* White Power activists were inspired by The Turner Diaries, a novel of race war that ends with nuclear genocide. Timothy McVeigh sold it at gun shows before following its blueprint in the Oklahoma City bombing.

SOURCE : https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/stephen-kantrowitz-white-supremacy/


4.) https://youtube.com/shorts/PUE7WNcoA3U?feature=share


* Male & Female white nationalist/neo-nazi/klan klown kooky outfit has changed “openly” in the public eye, into : “Business Casual” attire.

Still the same immature underdeveloped sick-pathetic ideology.

“A young girl in robes drinks a Coca-Cola while she and her mother watch a Ku Klux Klan rally.”

Location unspecified. August 1925.
Library of Congress

SOURCE : https://allthatsinteresting.com/ku-klux-klan-youth#3

1.) Moms for Liberty responds to Southern Poverty Law Center's study on 'hate and extremist' groups

Updated: 8:36 PM EDT Jun 8, 2023

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —
Moms for Liberty was founded locally in Brevard County but has gone national with their conservative messages about public schooling, especially LGBTQ+ and race issues.

This week, the group was included in a study on "hate and extremist" groups by civil rights watchdog, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“It’s quite remarkable because you look at the list, and I think the first guy on there is Nazi holding up Nazi flags giving a heil Hitler sign,” said Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich.

SPLC is also concerned by where Moms for Liberty has been able to take its messages and ideas, as their reach now is well beyond its start in Brevard County.

“Unfortunately, groups like Moms for Liberty have really leveraged their ties with politicians, with big media names, with extremist groups.

So they’re usually the loudest voices in the room,” Carey said.

And they’ll have quite a big room at the end of the month in Philadelphia when they hold a national summit with former President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican presidential hopefuls listed as speakers.

SOURCE : https://www.wesh.com/amp/article/florida-moms-for-liberty-splc-study/44133287



2.) Florida-based Moms for Liberty labeled extremist group. 8 things to know about organization

2a.) Where did Moms for Liberty start?
Moms for Liberty is based in Melbourne, located in Brevard County on Florida's East Coast. The group was incorporated Jan. 1, 2021. It has grown rapidly over the last two years and currently claims more than 115,000 members and 280 chapters in almost every state, including 32 of Florida's 67 counties.


2b.) GOP and the Moms for Liberty
Moms for Liberty has the ear of the Republican establishment. DeSantis has championed their efforts to restrict teaching about critical race theory in schools and universities. Critics in Florida slam the group for turning schools into a political battlefield. 


2c.) Moms for Liberty endorsement of conservative candidates
DeSantis and Moms for Liberty often partnered in endorsing conservative school board candidates during the 2022 election.
The group endorsed more than 270 candidates nationwide in 2022 whose messages were similar: school closures during COVID were overwrought and destructive; critical race theory is itself racist; boys and girls are different and should not share the same locker rooms and restrooms; and there's too much focus on a pro-LGBTQ agenda, according to Newsweek.


2d.) Who are the founders of Moms for Liberty? 
A trio of Florida school board members founded Moms for Liberty. They are: former Brevard County School Board member Tina Descovich, former Indian River County School Board member Tiffany Justice and Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler.  Ziegler left the group by late 2021 to focus on other commitments.


2e.) What is the mission of Moms for Liberty?
The group describes its mission on its website as people "dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government."


2f.) Why did SPLC label Moms for Liberty as an extremist group?

After Trump's election loss, activists made a concerted effort to organize in local arenas, SPLC said, Moms for Liberty was at the forefront of this mobilization.

"They can be spotted at school board meetings across the country wearing shirts and carrying signs that declare, 'We do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT.' The group hijacks meetings, preventing officials and parents from conducting their normal proceedings.

"Moms for Liberty activities make it clear that the group’s primary goals are to fuel right-wing hysteria and to make the world a less comfortable or safe place for certain students — primarily those who are Black, LGBTQ or who come from LGBTQ families," the Southern Poverty Law Center said. 

Far-right activists also circulate lists of books they find objectionable on social media, spurring others to petition local school boards and libraries to ban books, SPLC added. 


2g.) What is Moms for Liberty? Here's a look at its roots, its philosophy and its mission

SOURCE : https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/state/2023/06/07/moms-for-liberty-who-are-they-why-they-labeled-extremist-group-florida-based-chapters/ [login to see] 7/

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Who is funding Moms for Liberty?

As a 501(c)(4) social-welfare nonprofit, Moms for Liberty does not have to disclose its donors. Moms for Liberty leaders dismiss speculation that big conservative donors are funding the group, even as the organization paid former Fox News host Megyn Kelly to appear at an event.

Descovich said the group has an annual budget of $300,000. Based on campaign finance information and a Moms for Liberty Facebook post, a number of Republican leaders have contributed to the organization by sponsoring the Kelly event.

SOURCE : https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2021/12/08/moms-liberty-florida-chapters-members-details/ [login to see] /


3.) An ominous Hitler quote highlights Moms For Liberty's extremism

An Indiana chapter of the extremist Moms for Liberty apologized after quoting the Nazi leader in one of its recent newsletters.

June 24, 2023, 7:39 AM EDT
By Ja'han Jones

Moms for Liberty, the shadowy right-wing group whose members fashion themselves as fierce "Mama bear" types, is yet again facing controversy over extremist ideology in its ranks. 

An Indiana chapter of the organization issued an apology on Thursday after a recent newsletter it sent to its members included a quote attributed to Adolf Hitler.

“But the story won't be swept under the rug that easily. It's easy to see why some people might believe Moms for Liberty holds a favorable view of Hitler and his oppressive regime, despite this chapter's apology. Its members have sought to have the government ban classroom discussions they don’t like — discussions focused on discrimination and historic oppression.

It’s an agenda focused on indoctrinating children that does, in fact, echo some efforts imposed by Hitler and his allies.
And Moms for Liberty has built a reputation of its own as a far-right extremist group. 

It has been identified as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And Vice News published a report earlier this week detailing the group’s close ties to the extremist Proud Boys organization, members of which have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Those ties came into focus after a right-wing activist with ties to Moms for Liberty successfully petitioned a Florida school to restrict access to a book containing a poem written by Black author Amanda Gorman, which she read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.”

SOURCE : https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/reidout/blog/rcna90844


5.) White Nationalist Domestic Terrorist Group Financial Donors :

1.) Project 2025 Gets Massive Funding Boost from Far-Right Groups, Leo’s Dark Money Network
LEONARD LEO
NOVEMBER 17, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – New reporting from NBC today revealed that millions of dollars have been dumped into the far-right Project 2025 by extremist conservative groups and Leonard Leo’s shady dark money network. 

New tax filings first obtained by Accountable.US showed that the Heritage Foundation gave nearly $1 million to organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, a Heritage-led project working to create the next Republican administration.

These donations accounted for 58% of Heritage’s total grantmaking in 2022. In addition, conservative kingpin Leonard Leo’s dark money network bankrolled dozens of the over 80 far-right organizations making up the Project 2025 advisory board.

“Project 2025 is a five-alarm fire for our democracy — and groups like the Heritage Foundation and Leonard Leo-backed DonorsTrust are making it all possible by dumping millions into the dangerous project. From dismantling critical checks and balances to weaponizing the executive branch, Project 2025 takes extremism to a whole new level. The project — and the dark network propping it up — must be stopped,” said Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone.”

NBC highlights: 

“The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, stepped up efforts to boost its Project 2025 initiative by ramping up grants to the venture aimed at creating a “government-in-waiting” for the next Republican presidential administration, according to a new tax filing.

The foundation distributed over $1.67 million in grants in 2022 — including a total of $965,000 to organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, tax records show. These donations accounted for 58% of Heritage’s total grant-making in 2022.”

“Project 2025’s board of more than 80 conservative organizations includes nearly 40 that have received funding from dark-money groups linked to Leonard Leo, a major right-wing donor who influenced the shaping of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority under Trump.

A prolific fundraiser, Leo is affiliated with an extensive network of tax-exempt groups, including DonorsTrust, a donor-advised nonprofit that directs money to other organizations and groups seeking to influence policy, such as the 85 Fund or the Concord Fund.”


View Heritage Foundation’s 2022 990 form HERE.

View DonorsTrust’s 2022 990 form HERE. 

Accountable.US launched its Monitoring Influence database to document and track the dark influence network made up of dangerous groups like the Heritage Foundation and DonorsTrust.

Learn more at MonitoringInfluence.org. Learn more about Leonard Leo, his dark money network, and his dangerous agenda at LeonardLeo.org.

SOURCE : https://accountable.us/project-2025-gets-massive-funding-boost-from-far-right-groups-leos-dark-money-network/



2.) Project 2025 Announces Latest Additions to Presidential Administration Academy

Nov 3, 2023 2 min read

WASHINGTON—Project 2025, a coalition of more than 75 partners led by The Heritage Foundation to prepare for the next conservative presidential administration, released three additional training videos today via its Presidential Administration Academy.

The Presidential Administration Academy is a unique educational and skill-building program that equips conservatives with the skills necessary to be effective policy professionals in the next conservative administration.  

Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, commented on the expansion of the program: 

For decades, the administrative state has had a stranglehold on Washington and has weaponized its power against conservative presidents to stymie their agendas. No longer. Through the Presidential Administration Academy, the conservative movement will be better equipped than ever before to take power on Day One of the next administration.” 

The three new videos are part of a larger certificate program called “The Administrative State & the Regulatory Process” and bring the total number of training videos on the platform to 20.

The newly released videos are “The Administrative State:

What it is & How to Address the Problem,”

“How to Promulgate a Rule,” and “Taking the Reins: How Conservatives Can Win the Regulations Game."

These new videos, as well as the entire Presidential Administration Academy, are an unprecedented tool for those looking to serve as a conservative political appointee in the executive branch. 

Throughout this certificate program, experts, many of whom have served in previous administrations, walk viewers through the intricacies of the regulatory process and discuss the role of federal agencies and how conservatives can prevail over the schemes of the Left to become effective federal regulators.  

David Burton, senior fellow in economic policy at The Heritage Foundation and an instructor in one of the newly released videos, commented on the project:  

"The work being done by Project 2025 will help conservatives achieve actual policy victories rather than just talk about them. The Presidential Administration Academy equips those who hope to serve in the executive branch with the skills and knowledge necessary to hit the ground running on inauguration day.

The complexity of the federal government can be daunting, and that is why it's crucial to learn now so that conservatives can take action on Day One.” 


Project 2025 is made up of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025.

The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook. The Heritage Foundation is joined by more than 75 partner organizations in this effort to ensure that the transition team is ready on Day One.  

SOURCE : https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-announces-latest-additions-presidential-administration-academy


6.) Understanding …..

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1.) How One Conservative Think Tank Is Stocking Trump’s Government

By placing its people throughout the administration, the Heritage Foundation has succeeded in furthering its right-wing agenda.

The Trump team may not have been prepared to staff the government, but the Heritage Foundation was. In the summer of 2014, a year before Trump even declared his candidacy, the right-wing think tank had started assembling a 3,000-name searchable database of trusted movement conservatives from around the country who were eager to serve in a post-Obama government. The initiative was called the Project to Restore America, a dog-whistle appeal to the so-called silent majority that foreshadowed Trump’s own campaign slogan.

Today it is clear that for all the chaos and churn of the current administration, Heritage has achieved a huge strategic victory. Those who worked on the project estimate that hundreds of the people the think tank put forward landed jobs, in just about every government agency. Heritage’s recommendations included some of the most prominent members of Trump’s cabinet: Scott Pruitt, Betsy DeVos (whose in-laws endowed Heritage’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society), Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Jeff Sessions and many more. Dozens of Heritage employees and alumni also joined the Trump administration — at last count 66 of them, according to Heritage, with two more still awaiting Senate confirmation. It is a kind of critical mass that Heritage had been working toward for nearly a half-century.

Feulner saw something in Reagan long before he became president. “We had met with him when he was governor in California; we had visited his ranch and seen copies of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek with marginal notes in the book,” Feulner told me. “So we knew that he was one of us.” In the run-up to the 1980 election, Heritage spent $250,000 to assemble a comprehensive guidebook for conservative rule that it called “Mandate for Leadership” and aggressively marketed it to members of Reagan’s transition team, in particular Edwin Meese, who was Reagan’s chief of staff in California and later became his attorney general in Washington.

The big gamble paid off: Meese told me that Reagan asked that the 1,093-page document be distributed at his first cabinet meeting. Reagan also turned to Heritage and Feulner to help staff and organize his administration. An enduring, mutually beneficial friendship was born. Meese wrote a letter on White House stationery stating that members of Heritage’s President’s Club — at the time, donors of $1,000 or more — would “provide a vital communications link between policymakers and those key people who made possible Reagan’s victory,” as Sidney Blumenthal reported in his 1986 book “The Rise of the Counter-Establishment.”

The relationship worked both ways. When Reagan’s second term ended, Meese joined Heritage as its first Ronald Reagan Fellow in Public Policy, with an annual salary of more than $400,000. Now 86, he remains at the think tank as distinguished fellow emeritus of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

Over the following decades, Feulner continued to pursue his dream of turning the counterestablishment into the establishment. The prospects had perhaps never looked bleaker than they did in 2012, when Obama was easily elected to his second term. Having just turned 70, Feulner decided that it was time to retire. At that moment in conservative history, it was not difficult for him to see where the future of the think tank lay: the Tea Party. Heritage had helped organize and underwrite the anti-tax, anti-government — and, most of all, anti-Obama — movement, even creating a lobbying organization, Heritage Action, to help harness the energy it unleashed.

DeMint intensified the think tank’s marketing efforts, targeting Obamacare in particular. A Heritage billboard went up in Times Square — “Warning,” it read, “Obamacare may be hazardous to your health” — and DeMint led a “Defund Obamacare Tour” across the country. In Congress, he had been something of a one-man ideological enforcer. Now he had at his disposal the power of an $80 million institution whose name was a one-word shorthand for movement conservatism; the backing of some of the country’s richest, most politically engaged Republicans; and a significant slice of the conservative base. Within months of his arrival, he was pressing House Republicans to send the president a spending bill that wouldn’t fund the Affordable Care Act, thus inviting a government shutdown. “There’s no question in my mind that I have more influence now on public policy than I did as an individual senator,” he said in an interview with National Public Radio in 2013.

Churn is a central feature of this administration, even for its unofficial staffing agency. Paul Winfree, a Heritage economist who helped draft Trump’s first budget, is back at the think tank. So are Stephen Moore, who worked on the Trump tax cuts; David Kreutzer, who played a key role in dissolving a White House working group that was studying the monetary costs associated with climate-warming carbon dioxide; and Hans von Spakovsky, who helped run the now-defunct voter-fraud commission, which was created to find evidence to support Trump’s baseless claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.

SOURCE : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html


There’s more insecure white racist nationalists groups/organization’s than just Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation ( No refuge, white racist nationalist will no longer have anonymity to remain anonymous )

2.) The Claremont Institute: The Anti-Democracy Think Tank

It was once (mostly) traditionally conservative and (sort of) intellectually rigorous. Now it platforms white nationalists and promotes authoritarianism.

August 10, 2023

NatCon conferences, as they are often called, have been held in Italy, Belgium, and Florida and are broadly associated with what is increasingly called the “New Right.” In London, speakers denounced “woke politics,” blamed immigration for the rising cost of housing, and said modern ills could be solved with more religion and more (nonimmigrant) babies.

The break room was lined with booths from organizations such as the Viktor Orban–affiliated Danube Institute, the U.K.-based conservative think tank the Bow Group, the Heritage Foundation, and the legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom, which is headquartered in Arizona but has expanded to include offices in nearly a half-dozen European cities.

When I attended NatCon London in May, I heard a number of American accents in the crowd, and I was not surprised to see Michael Anton, a former national security official in the Trump administration and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank, on the lineup. These days, Anton and other key representatives of the Claremont Institute seem to be everywhere: onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC); at the epicenter of Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”; and on speed-dial with GOP allies including Josh Hawley, J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump.

Most of us are familiar with the theocrats of the religious right and the anti-government extremists, groups that overlap a bit but remain distinct. The Claremont Institute folks aren’t quite either of those things, and yet they’re both and more. In embodying a kind of nihilistic yearning to destroy modernity, they have become an indispensable part of right-wing America’s evolution toward authoritarianism.

Extremism of the right-wing variety has always figured on the sidelines of American culture, and it has enjoyed a renaissance with the rise of social media. But Claremont represents something new in modern American politics: a group of people, not internet conspiracy freaks but credentialed and influential leaders, who are openly contemptuous of democracy. And they stand a reasonable chance of being seated at the highest levels of government—at the right hand of a President Trump or a President DeSantis, for example.

There is a story you hear from the podiums at gatherings like NatCon and CPAC, and if you go to enough of them, it will sound as familiar as a classic rock song. It goes something like this: The sum of all our problems—and the greatest threat that the American republic has ever faced—is the rise of the “woke” elite. Cosmopolitan, overeducated, gender-fluid, parasitic, and anti-Christian—the leaders of this progressive cabal worship at the shrine of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices, which they use to elevate undeserving people of color and crush hardworking “real” Americans.

They control “the regime,” or so the song tells us: “the administrative state,” the institutions of culture, law enforcement, even the military.

Any and all means to annihilate the power of the woke, up to and including political violence and overturning elections, must be seriously considered if we (right-thinking Americans) are to “save our country.”

It’s not just the NatCon types who are humming this tune; it has permeated other sectors of the American right. In the run-up to the 2023 Road to Majority Policy Conference, an annual gathering of religious right activists, strategists, and politicians that took place in Washington, D.C., in June, seasoned Christian right strategist Ralph Reed sent out a fundraising email asserting, “Woke culture and anti-Christian, anti-American radicals drive our public life further and further from the Light of God’s Word.” From the main stage of the conference, Ron DeSantis railed against the “woke mind virus”; Vivek Ramaswamy took a swipe at the “administrative state”; and Josh Hawley asserted that “woke corporations” and “Marxists in the C-suite” are “pushing relentlessly this Marxist agenda, pushing relentlessly this religion of woke.” At the gala dinner, Trump delivered a rambling attack on his political opponents in the Democratic Party, whom he accused of “trying to impose their blasphemous creed of woke communism.”

SOURCE : https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump


*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***

“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.

* They’ve been actively working against the American People and for the large corporations and rich.

Before you chime in and snub your nose, have INTEGRITY with yourself if you ACTUALLY befitting from :

The Heritage Foundation's "After Obamacare Repeal" Plan

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After Obamacare Repeal is a healthcare plan released by The Heritage Foundation in October 2013. The plan would primarily provide consumers with tax credits to purchase insurance and encourage the use of health savings accounts.

Employer-sponsored insurance would also be amended ending the federal tax deduction for health benefits. The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, would be repealed in its entirety.

* HIGHLIGHTS

Under the proposal, employers would offer their employees a cash contribution to purchase their own insurance, rather than providing health plans directly.
In place of the prohibition on denying coverage for preexisting conditions, the plan supports either state-operated high-risk pools or state reinsurance programs that would reimburse insurers for the cost of covering individuals with complex or expensive conditions.

Federal Medicaid funds would be distributed to states either through block grants or a per-capita allotment, rather than as a matching percentage of state funds.

The Heritage Foundation public official program/plan to continue to hurt the American people and this is the same group that is publicly funding those GOP/REPUBLICANS that in 2023’ want to gut/defund/eradicate Social Security starting day one of the first 180 of the new GOP Commander In Chief.

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The following is summary text from The Heritage Foundation's After Obamacare Repeal plan

allow Americans to reclaim control of their own health care and benefit from competition in a free market for insurance and health care, Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute and enact patient-centered, market-based reforms based on five principles:
• Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance;
• Let free markets provide the insurance and health care services that people want;
• Encourage employers to provide a portable health insurance benefit to employees;
• Assist those who need help through civil society, the free market, and the states; and
• Protect the right of conscience and unborn children.[1] ”
—The Heritage Foundation[2]

The Heritage Foundation's After Obamacare Repeal would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its entirety. The plan also proposes ending the federal tax deduction for health benefits offered by employers and instead offering all individuals a tax credit to purchase health insurance on their own. The plan would also support offering each American a standard tax deduction for health insurance as an alternative to tax credits.[3] Under the proposal, employers would offer their employees a cash contribution to purchase their own insurance, rather than providing health plans directly

* After Obamacare Repeal would also encourage the use of health savings accounts (HSAs) by removing the restriction on using HSA funds for health insurance premiums and by raising the limit on the amount of money an individual may deposit into the account each year. In place of the prohibition on denying coverage for preexisting conditions, the plan supports either state-operated high-risk pools or state reinsurance programs that would reimburse insurers for the cost of covering individuals with complex or expensive conditions.[2]

* With the goal of increasing competition, the proposal would remove federal barriers to selling insurance plans across state lines. Under the plan, small businesses and individuals could pool together for the purpose of purchasing insurance, and religious groups and fraternal organizations could offer insurance plans to their members.[2]

* After Obamacare Repeal would also make changes to Medicaid and Medicare. The proposal would encourage states to provide low-income Medicaid beneficiaries with cash assistance to purchase private health plans. Federal Medicaid funds would be distributed to states either through block grants or a per-capita allotment, rather than as a matching percentage of state funds. The Medicare program would be altered by allowing doctors and patients to "[contract] privately for medical services outside of traditional Medicare." The plan also supports providing Medicare enrollees with a subsidy to purchase a health plan of their choice.[2

SOURCE : https://ballotpedia.org/The_Heritage_Foundation%27s_%22After_Obamacare_Repeal%22_Plan


7.) 1.) It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism

There’s a “strong authoritarian streak” that runs through parts of American evangelicalism, warns Elizabeth Neumann. What should be done about it?

SOURCE : https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/04/qanon-christian-extremism-nationalism-violence-466034



2.) Holy Hate: The Far Right’s Radicalization of Religion

“Few have discussed how right-wing extremism exploits Christianity and the Bible to radicalize and mobilize its violent adherents toward criminality and terrorism.

Much like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, violent right-wing extremists — who refer to themselves as “Soldiers of Odin,” “Phineas Priests,” or “Holy Warriors” — are also inspired by religious concepts and scriptural interpretations to lash out and kill in the name of religion.

Yet very little is said or written about such a connection.”

SOURCE : https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/holy-hate-far-right’s-radicalization-religion


3.) The White Christian Nationalism Behind the Worst Terrorist Attack in American History

Spencer Ackerman on the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Media’s Islamophobic Response

SOURCE : https://lithub.com/the-white-christian-nationalism-behind-the-worst-terrorist-attack-in-american-history/


4.). The CEO Trying to Build a White, Christian, Secessionist Tech Industry

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

SOURCE : https://newrepublic.com/amp/article/163285/andrew-torba-gab-white-christian-internet



5.) Evangelical Leaders Condemn 'Radicalized Christian Nationalism'

February 24, 20216:01 AM ET

SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970685909/evangelical-leaders-condemn-radicalized-christian-nationalism


6.) JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Identity Christian Movement: Ideology of Domestic Terrorism

Tanya Telfair Sharpe
Journal of Black Studies
Vol. 30, No. 4 (Mar., 2000), pp. 604-623 (20 pages)

Published By: Sage Publications, Inc.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2645906

SOURCE : https://www.jstor.org/stable/2645906



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