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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.]
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On the Road with Walter Huss and his Weirdo Friends
The last chapter of Walter Huss’s 40-year career as a right wing activist in Oregon came in the 1990s when he launched several unsuccessful efforts to get a ballot measure passed that would have eliminated all property and income tax in the state and replaced them with a 2%
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The Far Right Genealogy of Today's Dopey "FrEe sPeAcH!" arguments
“There is a CONSPIRACY in this country to limit public comment and discussion to what a small but powerful clique has predetermined to be 'acceptable.' The moment anyone attempts to introduce an idea that is 'unacceptable,' nationwide forces are mobilized to silence the 'heretic'
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That's Nazi Coffee! vs. the Hermeneutic of Generosity
On the challenges of writing a democratic history of an anti-democratic movement
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Is it a Rabbit Hole? Or...
...Is it the buzzing background noise of white conservative political culture from the 1950s to the present