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Crackpot Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Crackpot Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Crackpot Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

Eric Metaxas is a religious crackpot, but oh so much more than that. This red-eyed white nationalist fanatic has built an impressive fortune of somewhere 4 and 10 million dollars by bilking ‘lost souls’ into believing Jesus would love them more if they contributed to his phony ‘Church’, even if it meant skipping a meal or forgoing medication.

This charlatan with a sin soiled cross, while not happy with just bilking the sheep out of dollars they don’t possess, he has taken (no pun intended) to supporting Trump in an effort to engage with yet even more sinners looking for redemption, but receive only blithering blather and nonsense, as if he were speaking in’ tongues’.

It’s fitting, two cheap con men working hand in hand to bilk an unsophisticated public who are looking for solace but receive only envelopes looking for contributions.

You know, it might all make sense if they received something in return. Something other than reduced Social Security benefits, reduced Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reduced, or eliminated, veteran’s benefits, increasing inflation, grocery prices outta’ sight, and gasoline so high they have to keep their old jalopy in the driveway.

So, they give their money to these two crooks and get less than nothing in return.

Hmmm, I wonder what Jesus would do?

See this:

 

Pastor claims God 'raised up' Trump to build his ballroom

Story by David Edwards •

© provided by RawStory

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom.

"Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand," Metaxas said at the taxpayer backed "Rededicate 250" prayer event. "It's extraordinary. We only had to wait 200 years."

The Bonhoeffer biographer-turned-MAGA cheerleader then pivoted, without missing a beat, from divine ballroom prophecy to the War of 1812: "So after they burned the White House, which I may have mentioned, did not at that time have a ballroom, the British turned their attentions to Baltimore and Fort McHenry."

Metaxas was sanctifying a project that the public, the courts, and even Trump's own first lady have struggled to embrace.

The East Wing — promised by the White House to remain untouched — was "suddenly and shockingly demolished in October" to make way for the ballroom. The price tag has since doubled, with Trump in December upping it to $400 million, despite his pledge of "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever." It's not playing well at home. More than 2,000 public comments to the National Capital Planning Commission were 99% negative. A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed the project remained unpopular by a 2-to-1 margin. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled Tuesday that construction on President Trump's White House ballroom "must stop until Congress authorizes its completion."

Trump's own explanation for the project hardly screams divine commission. "It's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself – because no one else will," he reportedly told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly trying to stick taxpayers with the bill anyway. The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has requested $1 billion in funding that could go to security related to the $400 million ballroom, more than twice the construction cost itself. Metaxas is no stranger to grafting Trump onto sacred American history. The Yale-educated author, who once compared a Hillary Clinton victory to Germany embracing Hitler, has called Joe Biden a "puppet of the Devil" and recently claimed no violent protesters were at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His Sunday remarks landed at an event critics already brand a church-state breach. Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser called the gathering "less a 'Jubilee of Prayer' than a 'Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pastor-claims-god-raised-up-trump-to-build-his-ballroom/ar-AA23r8qg?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

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The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

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That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

The Republican policy proposal, ‘Saving America by Saving the Family’, is akin to anything the Nazis proposed, and goes a lot further.

This White Nationalist, White Supremacist, whacko religionist fanaticism will control every aspect of American life, and if you disobey you will pay the price.

The price? Nazis didn’t think murder as too extreme!

Red-eyed zealots, filled with hatred and disdain for American ideals and traditions have subsumed the GOP, turning it into a fascist dictatorship who will rule with an iron hand and brook no dissent.

They have already taken away most of our healthcare and social services, this latest legislation will remove the rest.

See this – Boldface mine:

 

How Republicans plan to rig the vote — and make it stick | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann •

© provided by AlterNet

The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has been busy assembling a 90-page tract called “Saving America by Saving the Family.”

It maps out a future in which American women are stripped of their right to vote without their husbands’ paperwork, denied access to contraception and abortion, pushed back into the home, and reduced to what Heritage’s new American Citizenship chair Scott Yenor calls the “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness. It’s quite a Mother’s Day card from the people who claim to revere motherhood the most.

Scott Yenor wants:

— To make gay sex illegal in America again,— Divorce to be “difficult to get or proscribed,”

— Adultery and sex between unmarried consenting adults criminalized, and

— The Civil Rights Act to be “scaled back” so that businesses, schools, and “every other institution in the country” can once again discriminate against women, queer people, and minorities the way they used to.

And just a few months ago, the Heritage Foundation, the same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow their playbook virtually to the letter, hired Yenor to chair its American Citizenship Initiative.

When pressed about Yenor’s record, reported in detail by The Guardian and LGBTQ Nation, Heritage didn’t quietly walk anything back. They instead invoked their “One Voice” doctrine, which means that what one Heritage staffer says is what the institution stands for, and they loudly stood by him.

Even some of the foundation’s allies winced publicly to The Atlantic, but Heritage reportedly didn’t budge. This is what billionaire-funded Christian nationalism looks like in 2026, and it’s been the project, almost without interruption, ever since the Reagan Revolution

Most Americans don’t know how the Heritage Foundation came to exist; I’ve been telling this story on the radio for more than two decades because it matters. In 1971, a tobacco lawyer named Lewis Powell wrote a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American “free enterprise system” was under attack from “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.”

His prescription was that corporate America needed to fund its own intellectual infrastructure, think tanks and university programs, legal centers, and media outlets that would shift the country’s political center hard to the right and protect billionaire wealth from democratic accountability.

Two months after writing that memo, Nixon nominated Powell to the Supreme Court.

In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors read the Powell Memo, decided American business was “ignoring a crisis,” and wrote a $250,000 check to launch the Heritage Foundation alongside Paul Weyrich, the man who later coined the phrase “Moral Majority” and famously told a room of 1980 evangelical leaders that conservatives don’t actually want everyone to vote because “our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Heritage was, from day one, a vehicle for translating Powell’s memo into operational policy, and that founding circle of donors, Coors plus Bradley plus Olin plus Scaife plus Koch, never really left.

According to a DeSmog analysis of Project 2025’s funders, six billionaire family foundations bankrolled Heritage’s blueprint for the second Trump administration: Bradley, Coors, Koch, Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein.

‘They may have really overshot this’: How redistricting could backfire on GOP

That's always a ratings winner.

Same families, same project, more than half a century of the same handful of fortunes funding the same grinding assault on democracy, women’s rights, civil rights, and any policy that would tax great wealth or restrain corporate power.

What’s new is how openly they’re saying the quiet parts now.

Heritage’s 90-page tract “Saving America by Saving the Family,” the subject of a thorough investigation by Billie Jean Sweeney for Important Context, lays out a vision that overturns marriage equality, denies the existence of trans people, eliminates no-fault divorce, and uses federal Medicaid dollars as a weapon against any state that disagrees.

The document opens with the sentence “The Founding Fathers were, quite literally, fathers,” which gives you a pretty clear sense of where they’re going. They’ve invented a problem they call a “birth dearth” and identified the culprits: women being educated, women working outside the home, women using contraception, women existing as autonomous people.

As Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, said recently, “One in three Americans is under-babied.” White Americans, of course.

Anybody who’s read 1930s European history will recognize what’s going on here.

The Nazi regime’s Mutterkreuz, the “Cross of Honor of the German Mother,” handed out medals to Aryan women who produced four or more children while sterilizing those it considered unfit, and the Lebensborn program ran maternity homes designed to manufacture “racially valuable” babies for the Reich.

Heritage isn’t there yet, but the ideological architecture is the same: women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with the full weight of federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.

Civil rights attorney Michelle Uzeta, who runs the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, told reporters the through-line is “government-sponsored devaluation of entire communities, informed by eugenic thinking,” and that’s not hyperbole, that’s what the documents say when you read them carefully.

The operational arm at HHS is staffed accordingly. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB director and a self-described Christian nationalist who co-authored Project 2025, has spoken with revulsion of “the transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions.”

Calley Means, a former Heritage research analyst, is now senior White House advisor at HHS. His sister Casey Means, whose surgeon general nomination Trump just withdrew on April 30 after Senator Bill Cassidy refused to support her, told Tucker Carlson that birth control “shuts down” a woman’s “life-giving nature,” and Trump immediately replaced her with another vaccine-skeptical Fox News contributor, radiologist Nicole Saphier.

Natalie Dodson, a named Project 2025 contributor, runs the Office of Population Affairs that decides Title X family planning rules, and the first Trump-era domestic gag rule, in effect from 2019 to 2021, forced 981 clinics out of the program and cut the network’s patient capacity in half, leaving six states with no Title X provider at all. The current administration has signaled it will repropose the gag rule, and Trump’s 2026 budget proposes eliminating Title X entirely. The most useful place to watch how the playbook actually operates on the ground is Missouri.

Voters there passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting abortion rights with 52 percent of the vote, and the Republican-controlled legislature simply ignored them and referred a counter-amendment to this November’s ballot that would repeal the protections voters just enshrined.

To boost their odds, they bundled in a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, even though Missouri law already bans that care. It’s pure ballot candy, bolted onto an abortion ban specifically because polling shows the trans-care provision boosts support for the abortion ban among voters who otherwise wouldn’t go along.

Divide and conquer, in other words, weaponized at the ballot box to overturn the explicit will of the voters.

This is what I wrote about in The Last American President: the slow, methodical, billionaire-funded conversion of American constitutional democracy into something that more closely resembles a “Christian” white supremacist oligarchy with a theocratic veneer.

The people running this project are not hiding it anymore. Yenor isn’t hiding it, Vought isn’t hiding it, and Heritage’s “Saving the Family” tract isn’t hiding it either.

They’re telling us, in their own words, that they want to recriminalize gay sex, eliminate no-fault divorce, force women back into the home, gut the Civil Rights Act, and use federal funding as a chokehold on any state that resists.

And while Heritage and its think-tank allies map out the cultural policy, their allies in Congress are working to rig the franchise itself so that the populations most opposed to all of this can’t actually vote any of it down.

The SAVE Act, which Republicans in the House passed in expanded form on February 11 as the SAVE America Act, would require every American to produce documentary proof of citizenship in person at an election office in order to register or re-register to vote.

The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million eligible American citizens lack ready access to those documents, and the League of Women Voters puts the number of American women whose paperwork doesn’t match their current married name at 69 million, all of whom would suddenly need to dig up a birth certificate, a marriage license, proof of a legal name change, and matching photo ID just to vote. Trans Americans, naturalized citizens, older Black Americans born in the pre-civil-rights South who were never issued birth certificates in the first place, college students, military families stationed overseas, rural voters who’d have to drive hours to a county office, and the millions of working-class citizens who simply can’t afford a passport would face the same wall.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, one of the bill’s chief Senate champions, has publicly tied its passage to Republican prospects in the 2026 midterms, which is about as close as a politician gets to admitting on the record that the entire point of the bill is to keep women, trans people, young voters, and Americans of color away from the polls so the Heritage agenda doesn’t get voted down by the majorities that consistently oppose it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-republicans-plan-to-rig-the-vote-and-make-it-stick-opinion/ar-AA23oRRR?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?

Trump and the Republicans have already revealed they will do anything to subvert, sabotage, and disrupt the upcoming election. With their intention of positioning ICE agents to intimidate, to the use of the military for the same purpose, to requiring a passport to vote being set aside by the rousing of public opinion, it seems they are considering yet another fascistic scheme to keep Americans away from the polls.

This scheme reflects their aborted plan to institute the ‘Insurrection Act’,   ‘Insurrection Act’, the Act that gives the president broad powers to suspend civil rights for a brief period of time.

This time, the scheme, ‘Presidential Emergency Action Documents’ would allow the president to write broad directives that allow him the power to interfere with upcoming elections.

These documents bypass congressional authorization by claiming an emergency is imminent.

Trump has long been recognized as controlling his MAGA base by the use of fear. He convinces them some danger is upon us, some incomprehensible nonsense like Sharia Law will be implemented or that Antifa is an actual organized movement, or immigrants are eating their neighbor’s pets.

This is the Republican’s newest attempt to install a fascist government that will deny all rights, except for the chosen.

You will not be chosen!

See this – Boldface mine:

 

Insider warns Trump concocted midterm plot that courts can't review

Story by Robert Davis

© provided by RawStory

President Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork to deploy secret presidential directives that no court has ever reviewed, no Congress has ever examined, and that any sitting president can rewrite at will to interfere in the midterm elections, a State Department insider warned on Wednesday.

Known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs, the directives were designed to bypass traditional Congressional authorization during national emergencies. They were initially contemplated as a way to ensure continuity of government during a crisis, and documents authorized actions like seizing private property or arresting citizens that would face legal challenge only after they had already been carried out.

Jonathan Winer, a former U.S. special envoy during the Obama administration who reviewed declassified materials at the National Archives, warned during an interview on the podcast "The Court of History" that Trump may try to use them to stifle the upcoming elections.

"The key thing about PEADs is they've never been reviewed by Congress or anyone outside administration," Winer said. "They can be rewritten based on any administration's point of view as to what's necessary in an emergency. And they would be tested legally and constitutionally only after they're used."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/insider-warns-trump-concocted-midterm-plot-that-courts-can-t-review/ar-AA238rH5?