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Mar 7, 2024 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
Approximately 100 right-wing organizations have signed onto Project 2025, an expansive plan for controlling (and in some cases dismantling) federal agencies in the event that Trump or another Republican wins the presidential election this year. Many of these organizations are led by Christian fundamentalist political operatives, suggesting that they may use the plan to force all Americans to submit to their extreme religious beliefs.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
A so-called “Take Our Border Back” convoy is underway to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the southern border. Several convoy organizers are religious extremists with ties to disgraced retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, a top proponent of the 2020 “Stop the Steal” movement, which was fueled by religious extremism as well. (Link to tweet.)Convoy organizer Kim Yeater has a show – “Take Your Power Back” – that is sponsored by Flynn.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates |David Barton
On February 14, 2021 (Valentine’s Day), Moms for Liberty (M4L) advisory board member Erika Donalds stood with her husband, Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL), on a brightly lit stage inside a darkened Florida church.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates |Bob McEwen
By now, many voters have heard that Moms for Liberty, an anti-LGBTQ+ organization that seeks to take over public school boards nationwide, has been designated as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Patrick Byrne |Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Trump White House and Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn (a former Vice Chair of Trump’s 2016 transition team) blocked Democratic efforts to improve the security of U.S. voting machines, while Russia prepared to help re-elect Trump.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
Apostle Abby Abildness is on a quest to claim the Keystone state for God. She’s a Pennsylvania-based leader in a worldwide network of neo-charismatic Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), which promotes dominionism, the belief that Christians have a mandate from God to control all aspects of government and culture.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
The new documentary Shiny Happy People has reignited interest in the Duggars, a Christian fundamentalist home-schooling family with 19 offspring and, at one time, their own reality show on TLC. As shown in the documentary, the Duggar parents seemed to bask in television’s limelight until news broke that their oldest child, Josh, had molested four of his young (minor) sisters.
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May 25, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
“Stop the Steal” 2020 was a nationwide campaign that sought to overturn former President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat with a toxic combination of lies, unfounded allegations. and physical intimidation via pro-Trump extremist groups known for glorifying violence. The 2020 “Stop the Steal” hashtag was first teased on Labor Day (Sept. 7, 2020) by Jack Posobiec, a longtime protege of political consultant Roger Stone, who had served as Trump’s informal advisor for decades.
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May 19, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
On Nov. 2, 2020, a Danish film crew captured convicted felon Roger Stone, then President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor, telling a companion, “I said fuck the voting. Let’s get right to the violence. We’ll have to start smashing pumpkins, if you know what I mean.”Trump was polling 10 points behind then Senator Joe Biden at the time. Stone has said that the video is either a “deep fake” or that the footage, if real, pertained to the social justice protests that Summer, not the election.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
buckscountybeacon.com | Jennifer Cohn |TYT Investigates
Last month, former President Donald Trump posted a threatening image on his social media account. It featured a photo of himself wielding a bat near the head of Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney who recently announced that a New York grand jury had indicted Trump on 34 felony charges. Trump’s post was unsurprising from a man who had spent much of his presidency glorifying violence, a pattern that culminated in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
