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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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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

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Some thoughts on Ron DeSantis's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2011 book, Dreams from Our Founding Fathers

We now have an official date and time for my zoom conversation with Thomas Zimmer that I previewed in my most recent newsletter. It’ll be next Tuesday night, July 25, at 6pm Pacific time (9pm Eastern). I’ll send the zoom link out to paid subscribers on Tuesday morning.

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Upcoming event (date TBD) for paid subscribers: Join me, Thomas Zimmer, and hopefully a few other historians for a conversation about Ron DeSantis's 2011 book "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers."

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Senator Josh Hawley tweeted a Christian Nationalist quote falsely attributed to Patrick Henry that was actually from a 1950s antisemitic and white supremacist magazine. Who cares?

I do obviously...but it's worth being precise about why and how we should care and what this fake quote kerfuffle actually tells us about the American right.

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How to Not See

Or, why Mark Hatfield memory-holed that time in 1962 when a Walter Huss-led protest at his house scared the crap out of his wife and young children

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Walter Huss and "The Best People," Episode 1 (Rev. Dale J. Benjamin)

I’ve acquired many new subscribers over the past week (thanks, I think, to a recommendation from Kevin Kruse who recently joined Substack), so for those newcomers, here’s a quick description of what this newsletter is about. I’ve spent the past two years researching the career of Walter

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Racist Bullshit from Walter Huss's Archive for Some Refreshing White Working Class Anti-Racism from the Mark Hatfield Archive

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The anti-communist circular firing squad that is the Oregon GOP

Some observations on yesterday's failed effort to recall Oregon Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue

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How a Backlash against Gay Pride Helped Mobilize Grassroots Christian Nationalists, the 1978 edition

Or, why we should think of "backlash" not as a force of nature, but as the consequence of political mobilization

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Walter Huss's 1987 plan for the "silent majority" to "save America" from impending ruin.

[Spoiler Alert: It didn't work.]