IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND TODAY’S POLITICS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

I thought the January 6, 2021 Republican Party AND right wing domestic terrorism attack on democracy that nearly was successful would wake up political writers to the reality of today’s politics, but:

Apparently there is an impenetrable wall between politics writing and right wing extremism & domestic terrorism. Political writers don't seem to know U.S. politics and domestic terrorism are now intertwined. 

The first time I said IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND TODAY’S POLITICS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DOMESTIC TERRORISM was likely in 2001.

Decades later some of the corporate press is catching on but apparently not "Votebeat"

"A far-right group is asking a judge to order Pennsylvania to clean up its voter roll, citing flaws it claims to have found in voter registration data as evidence that the state is violating federal law.

The group’s claims, however, appear to contradict facts about how the state’s voting systems work, reflecting what one election expert suggested is a “gross misunderstanding of election law.” Much of the information in the suit comes from groups with histories of making false claims about the state’s voter rolls, and the suit includes at least one easily disproved claim.

The lawsuit is part of a broader strategy that the lead plaintiff, United Sovereign Americans, has acknowledged: to challenge voter rolls across the country, in separate federal court jurisdictions, to force the issue up to the U.S. Supreme Court in time to affect the 2024 general election. The group filed a similar suit in Maryland that was dismissed in May because the plaintiffs didn’t have legal grounds to sue.

It is unclear if the Pennsylvania suit will face the same fate, but the group has gotten a high-profile local attorney, Bruce Castor, to file the case on its behalf. Castor served as acting attorney general of Pennsylvania in 2016 and represented former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in 2021.

The Pennsylvania Department of State, which is the primary defendant in the case, denounced the suit as another effort to falsely malign the state’s elections.

“A review shows it to be a frivolous action alleging, without any supporting facts or viable legal theories, a panoply of conspiracy claims advanced by litigants who have repeatedly filed baseless actions rejected by the courts,” said department press secretary Matt Heckel. “Undeterred, these litigants and their counsel continue to waste taxpayer money. The Department will respond accordingly.”

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Right-wing group targets errors in Pennsylvania voter registration records

Lawsuit claims the state is violating federal law on voting system accuracy. But experts say the argument is a stretch, and based on a false premise.

By Carter Walker and Angela Couloumbis, Spotlight PA  

June 21, 2024, 2:49pm EDT

THE KEYWORD IS SOVEREIGN

WIKIPEDIA - “The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits)[1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law and claim to not be subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them.” 

Sovereigns usually tie up their opponents with frivolous lawsuits. Sometimes they kill:

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This is a good article for political writers who are novices in right wing extremism:

“Over the past two decades, NAR’s influence has broadened beyond church walls, pouring out this form of Christian supremacy into the mainstream, already wreaking havoc on local communities and our democracy. Their influence is real; not only did they have a voice in the Trump administration, but the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is closely aligned with NAR leaders. The goal of this new dominionism is to disrupt both more mainline versions of Christianity and U.S. democracy, and in its wake, take control of state and society and yoke everyone to their authoritarian vision of the world.”

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The New Dominionism Tries to Rule

In this article

• The New Apostolic Reformation
• ‘The Big Lie’ and Insurrection
• Opponents are ‘Demonic’
• Conclusion