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1 week ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis
Schlepping my way across the campus of Colorado Christian University on Monday towards the lecture hall I had chosen as my destination, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. When the email landed in my inbox last week advertising the lecture “Christian Nationalism: Good or Bad?” hosted by the school’s think tank, the Centennial Institute, my interest was immediately piqued.
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2 weeks ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists. None of them realized they were in a cult until it was too late. It started in late 1993 as a Bible study group composed of students from Messiah College in Pennsylvania. By the time it shattered in February of 1997, most of the group’s members had lost their individual identities and many of their worldly possessions. Some had lost their marriages.
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2 weeks ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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2 weeks ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists. Content note: This story contains references to sexual assault and abuse. Tim McDermott was brushing his teeth in the bathroom of his home in Woodland Park, Colorado, when his life began to crumble. Hands shaking, he looked at himself in the mirror and saw a stranger: tall and thin, a beard working to cover the exhaustion etched into his face.
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2 weeks ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
In the dusty, red-hued southwestern corner of Colorado, a rural school district finds itself mired in a saga of drama and controversy which, despite receiving coverage in the local paper, has not yet broken into Front Range news outlets.
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3 weeks ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
Right-wing activists have escalated their assault on the country’s public education system, birthing what The New York Times calls an “increasing tempo of radical right attacks on local government, libraries, school boards, [and] parent-teacher associations.”The year is 1966 – and some things never change.
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1 month ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
If you have read anything I have written over the last few years, you know that I believe that Christian nationalism is the most pressing threat to American democracy. I have been harping on this for years, since well before the Heritage Foundation crafted Project 2025, and well before Christian nationalism became the animating force behind Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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1 month ago | 
realvail.com | Logan Davis
March 15, 2024 at approximately 11:10 PM. That’s when the United States entered a constitutional crisis which the separation of powers laid out by the nation’s founding fathers did not prevent and does not provide a pathway out of. It took just 54 days of the second Trump administration to reach this point.
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1 month ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
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1 month ago | 
coloradotimesrecorder.com | Logan Davis |right-wing extremism. He
When the Woodland Park City Council convened for a special meeting on Monday morning, no one expected the vote to be unanimous. No one was even quite sure which way the vote would go. By the time the adjourning gavel fell two and a half hours later, though, all seven members of council had converged on the same page, determined to put an end to the latest crisis triggered by the town’s controversial school board.
