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Trump's Wages War on American Cities now playing in Portland OR
Trump continues his assault on America cities, this time Portland, using the pretense that Antifa has run amok. Like L.A. and D.C., he makes a mountain…
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Right to Left: "You're spreading hate and violence."
Both sides are lobbing claims that dubious and inflammatory language are triggering hate and killing.
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This is Who We Are.
What the left wants.
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They're disappearing ideas and the people who talk about them
Fascist politics 101.
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Trending: Antifa Gets Designated as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
If you're scratching your head and asking yourself: Isn't the corollary "The United States of America is now pro-fascist." And Donald Trump's the Head…
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Retribution is the new accountability. And truth is whatever Trump says it is.
Karoline Leavitt, WH Press Secretary, holds another news conference still parroting nonsense. Nonsense that sounds an awful lot like fascist politics.
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The Far-Right Chronicles: Still Milking Charlie Kirk for All It's Worth
Ten days plus in and the far-right's crusade to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr is still going strong.
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Is a Turning Point Tatt the New Swastika?
We'll leave alone how the Nazis co-opted the symbol that now stands for "evil." Let's talk why you should be careful about making the comparison.
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Why Did Jimmy Kimmel Get Cancelled?
Or "Why did ABC cave to Trump and Brendan Carr when the latter had no legs to stand on. Legally, anyway.
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Get to Know: Deny, Denounce, Defame.
A closer look at the rhetoric used across right-left social media to know more and become better skilled when entering the fray.
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Scuttlebutt Roundup: Something Is Fishy In Orem UT
Candace Owens and others are poking holes in the FBI assertions that Tyler Robinson was the hit man in Charlie Kirk's killing. Oh, and Kash Patel is a…
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Trending: Far right social claims that the left is "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's killing.
And they are waging a cancel culture campaign to get people fired for even benign remarks. It's Bud Light and Cracker Barrel all over again.
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