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Friday Nite Videos | October 25, 2024

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Is America Ready Ditch the Electoral College? Voters May End Gerrymandering in Ohio. The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane. The Right-Wing Plan To Recruit Poll Workers in Swing States. How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

It’ll Be Fixed!

Edward Carver CommonDreams
Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future

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Trump and His Evangelical Believers

Lloyd Green The Guardian
Tim Alberta is a fine guide to the world of conservative US Christians, their dispiriting march to the right, and its ugly cost.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil

Sarah Posner The Nation
The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

It’s the Christian Right’s Court. They Want More.

Katherine Stewart The Guardian
Understood in the context of the movement that created the Supreme Court in its current incarnation, there is nothing surprising about their overturning Roe. In fact, it marks the beginning rather than the endpoint of their agenda.

The American Dark Money Behind Europe’s Far Right

Mary Fitzgerald and Claire Provost The New York Review of Books
politican kissing rosary A recent openDemocracy investigation found that America’s Christian right spent at least $50 million of “dark money” to fund campaigns and advocacy in Europe over the past decade.
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