Showing posts with label election denial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election denial. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2024

False claims about noncitizens voting are having a real impact : NPR

The baseless claim that Democrats will attempt to steal the upcoming election by encouraging recently arrived migrants to vote illegally has become a key talking point for former President Donald Trump and his allies this campaign season. 

That narrative sowing doubt about the validity of the U.S. electoral system is likely to be invoked by Trump and his supporters as a basis for denying election results should he lose...

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Stand for the Flag, Kneel for the Cross (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast -- It's in the Code)

Is the slogan, “stand for the flag, kneel for the cross” a harmless expression of the conviction that good Christians can also be good citizens? 

Or if we decode it, do we find that a meaning that’s much more pernicious than that? 

In this episode, Dan argues that this slogan is an expression of Christian nationalism, giving voice to anti-Black racism and licensing election denial and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Bernie Sanders accuses Donald Trump of 'laying groundwork for election denial'

"Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses," he said. "If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are 'fake' and 'fraudulent.'"

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Trump ramps up violent rhetoric in recent weeks as Fox host urges U.S. towards civil war

Donald Trump has ramped up his violent rhetoric in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Fox host has urged the U.S. towards civil war and claimed that voting does not work. "The endgame of election denial is not just claiming that this or that election was corrupt," expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells Joy Reid. "It's that we shouldn't have elections."…







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