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I read a box and a half of "crackpot letters" in Tom McCall's archive and all you got was this newsletter
Or, how I found some politically meaningful stories in a place Oregon's Republican Governor thought there weren't any
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An inspiring 1962 dispatch from a 63 y.o. Antifascist rancher from Sturgis, SD
Ok, he didn't call himself "Antifa," but this fiery letter I found in Congresswoman Edith Green's archive is a reminder of the importance of the 100% American tradition of everyday antifascism
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Walter Huss's plan to take back America for God, one precinct at a time, Part 1 of 2
Or, a reminder that Steve Bannon isn't the first right winger to propose a grassroots "precinct strategy" for a populist take over of the GOP
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The Trilateral Shitpost Fire that was the 1980 GOP convention, part 2
How did the Trilateral Commission go from being a ho hum news item to the salacious talk of the 1980 GOP convention?
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The World According to Lyle Hartford VanDyke, Jr.
A special edition of Rightlandia for the conspiracy theory aficionados out there, and a more serious discussion of why weirdos like VanDyke are worth knowing about
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Walter Huss and the Fascist Fifth Column in Cold War America
From Pedro del Valle's Minutemen to the Oath Keepers' January 6
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Walter Huss and "The Best People," Episode 2 (Richard Barrett)
In which we meet Richard Barrett, an energetic white nationalist troll with fancy letterhead and an unfortunate ability to foresee the political future
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Why the right's cultural counter-offensive is unlikely to succeed
It turns out that blaming cultural changes you feel uncomfortable about on some version of "the joos" does not make for clear-eyed political strategizing
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Salem hosted not one, but TWO Christian Nationalist events this Saturday, July 29
Sean Feucht, Kari Lake, and the different flavors of Christian Nationalism in Oregon
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A window into the media diet of today's grassroots Oregon Republican Party
On this Rightlandia substack I mostly write about Walter Huss, the man behind the grassroots far right insurgency that slowly took over the historically moderate Oregon Republican Party from the 1960s into the early 2000s. Reconstructing that history matters, in part, because it helps us understand the origins of the
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Zoom link for DeSantis conversation with Thomas Zimmer and me--6pm (Pacific) tonight
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The Trilateral Shitpost Fire that was the 1980 GOP convention, part 1
On the long history of thinly veiled antisemitic conspiracy theories on the GOP's right edge