CMD NEWS ABOUT Trump

• The Right’s Campaign to Erase America’s Racist Roots

  By Alex Kotch | March 17th, 2021 at 12:57 PM (CDT)

  While Trump and other Republicans attacked the 1619 Project in 2020 campaigns, right-wing think tanks and policy groups backed them up. Now GOP state lawmakers want to ban schools from teaching it.

• The GOP’s 2020 Campaign Against People of Color

  By Alex Kotch | March 2nd, 2021 at 9:48 AM (CST)

  While right-wing Americans were committing acts of terror, plotting to kidnap Democratic governors, and getting ready for a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the GOP and aligned groups were working overtime to portray racial justice protesters as anti-American terrorists to scare the pants off of voters.

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gave $119,000 to Congress Members Who Voted to Overturn the Presidential Election

  By Don Wiener | February 18th, 2021 at 12:05 PM (CST)

  So far, SpaceX has not joined other major aerospace and technology companies in suspending its political contributions to Members of Congress who voted against certifying the presidential election results.

• Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Activist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution

  By Alex Kotch | February 15th, 2021 at 2:54 PM (CST)

  Mark Meckler, an ally of the Mercer family who co-founded the Tea Party Patriots and runs Convention of States Action, is one of two people currently in charge of the far-right social media app Parler.