Joe Kent is running for Congress against first-term Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) in Washington’s 3rd district, who beat him in 2022. The contest is a rematch of Perez’s 2022 defeat of Kent by less than 1% of the vote (see results here). The district is nominally Republican, and th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rightwing Extremists’
July 28th, 2024 - 1:24 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
The company J. D. Vance keeps
Until recently J. D. Vance was best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which critics have called “poverty porn” (see article here). Trump’s pick of Vance as his 2024 running mate, and potentially Vice President of the United States, has brought more scrutiny of t[...]
Will Vance hurt Trump?
It increasingly appears Trump chose his #2 too hastily. Vance’s youth and inexperience Vance’s toxic ties to rightwing venture capitalists Vance’s connection to extremist “Project 2025” Vance’s awkward “childless cat ladies” slur Vance’s idea to tax people for not having chil[...]
July 19th, 2024 - 6:54 pm § in Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Master Race
“When I look at you guys, I do not think ‘master race,'” a newsman told a group of taunting neo-Nazis in Nashville, just “wounded, angry men who’ve never accomplished much in their own lives.” Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Colorado offers new evidence the GOP is turning off its own voters
Do Republicans’ problems go beyond voter antipathy to Trump? Is the GOP a Superfund site? At this point, that’s a belief and attitude among Democrats, but there’s not a lot of hard evidence. GOP candidates underperformed in 2022, but the high-profile losers were almost exclusively [...]
April 25th, 2023 - 7:43 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
“Trump made me do it”
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of Florida said Donald Trump is to blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and federal authorities are using Tarrio as a scapegoat for the former president’s actions,” the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, Ap[...]
Why do Republicans think crazy is a winning election strategy?
Probably because they’ve been around their own voters too long, and need to get out of the barn more. After 3 teachers and 3 kids were murdered by an AK47-wielding woman at a Nashville Christian school on Monday, March 27, 2023 (see story here), a survivor of the July 4, 2022, Highland Park pa[...]
Are conservatives as crazy as they sound?
Charlie Kirk (photo, left), a community college dropout, is the founder and leader of Turning Point USA, a controversial rightwing campus-activism group sometimes called a “cult” (read details here). Although Kirk lacks academic or other credentials, it would be hard to conclude he’[...]
December 27th, 2022 - 4:40 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Whitmer kidnap plotter gets 16 years
Adam Fox, 39, described as “co-leader” of a rightwing plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, dodged a life sentence but will spend 16 years in prison. Prosecutors portrayed Fox as a dangerous terrorist, but a federal judge questioned whether he has the brains to be a leader, and [...]
Sunday, 12/11/22, political stories
Elon Musk said Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “prosecuted,” but didn’t identify a crime Fauci committed. Recent events have exposed Musk as a far-right extremist who, more than once, has made libelous comments about other people (read story here). Trump “wasn’t particularl[...]