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On the history of the far right takeover of the GOP in Oregon and the US

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Farewell to Rightlandia on Substack; Hello to Rightlandia on Ghost!

Not to fear, your subscription has been transferred to Ghost, so everything will remain the same, only with 99% fewer Nazi-entanglements

PragerU's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History

The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth

In 2003 a Collector of Kooky Cold War Shit Got to Rummage Around in Walter Huss's Library: Here's Her Story

A window into Walter's world in its twilight years, and some thoughts about why people like me and that bookseller (and maybe you too?) find right wing kooks like Huss so morbidly compelling

Walter Huss's Political Paranoia, and My Own

What if they really were/are out to get you as they transform the country into an authoritarian hellscape?

Why Tim Walz's "mind your own damn business" message is kryptonite to the MAGA movement

What if those people who are different from you aren't part of some nefarious "Communist" conspiracy, but are just people in a free country who are [heaven forefend!] different from you?

Walter Huss Knew That if Fascism Ever Came to America, it would happen via the hostile takeover of a major political party

On American Fascism's parasitic relationship to "The Party of Lincoln"

Normal people in an authoritarian party

On the Oregon Republican response to the attempt on Donald Trump's life

The Heritage Foundation's President has said that the next Trump Administration will be a 2nd American Revolution. Here's a transcript of their Declaration of Independence.

When in the course of tremendous human events like nobody has ever seen before...

The Anti-Democratic Urgency Behind the Alitos' Flag Fetish

The "liberal, anti-fascist consensus" of the post-WWII era was always tenuous, but the "rough beast" of Trumpism has turned one of our two major parties directly against it like never before.

The Information Regime of Authoritarianism, coming soon to a Federal Agency Near You

If the Project 2025 folks get their way, we will all soon live in the sort of dystopian, disorienting information ecosystem the MAGA many already inhabit