Showing posts with label oligarchs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oligarchs. Show all posts

Sunday, January 26, 2025

The Big-Money Right-Wing Push to Upend the Constitution—and Kill Birthright Citizenship – Mother Jones

"When we started Convention of States and I was there at the beginning, I knew we had to have a spiritual revival, a Great Awakening, and a political restoration for our country to come back to its roots," Dunn, a pastor who has built a powerful political machine in the Lone Star state to advance his theocratic agenda, said at the Convention of States summit in 2019. "What I did not expect is that Convention of States would be an organization that would trigger the Great Awakening, and that's what's happened, and it's a miracle, and that is why we're doing the Lord's work if we go around it the right way."…

"What are they trying to get out of this?" says Tony Carrk, executive director of Accountable.US. "It's imposing their agenda on the rest of America. That looks like taking away our rights." For the billionaire class funding organizations like Convention of States Action, he adds, "there's a short-term and long-term play. They have a friendly Congress and a friendly administration, but they're also thinking about what 10 or 20 years look like down the road."…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/birthright-citizenship-article-v-mark-meckler-constitutional-convention-convention-of-states/


Monday, November 18, 2024

David Weigel – Political Writer For Semafor (Al Franken podcast)

The incoming Trump administration has started announcing some of the picks for the incoming Cabinet. Somehow, they’re worse than you could have imagined. We break down some of the unsavory characters who might be making policy in Trump’s second term with political reporter for Semafor, David Weigel.

Weigel also explains how the right wing media ecosystem has moved away from TV and onto the internet. Right wing and right wing-adjacent programming is dominating YouTube and podcasts. How did they build such a network? And how do Democrats counterprogram those voices?
Interview: 

Monday, October 18, 2021








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