Conservative Movement

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2021
  

  The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

  by Jane Mayer

  The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Wisconsin, is a key connection between past reactionary movements and contemporary efforts to sow doubt about the integrity of elections and potentially place partisan Republicans in charge of counting future votes. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/17/2020
  

  Charles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your Approval

  "The problem isn’t simply which horses a newly contrite Charles Koch chooses to back, but the extent to which his extreme wealth and his commitment to a system that enshrines the power of the rich has shaped the entire racetrack."

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  4/5/2020
  

  Letters From An American, April 4, 2020

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Manipulating the vote has a long and shameful history in America, but modern media and computer modeling has enabled today’s Republican Party to carve out its voters with surgical precision.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/7/2020
  

  How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

  by John Fabian Witt

  We are now at least one decade into a nearly unprecedented experiment in partisan judging at the highest court in the land. Our legal and political systems have barely begun to process what that means.
 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/1/2020
  

  We Can Finally See the Real Source of Washington Gridlock

  by Adam Serwer

  Washington gridlock stems from the ideological conviction, held by much of the Republican Party, that the Democratic Party is inherently illegitimate and has no right to govern.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/25/2020
  

  The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague

  by Jared Yates Sexton

  Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/24/2020
  

  A Side Effect of Remote Teaching During Covid-19? Videos That Can Be Weaponized

  Turning Point, Campus Reform, and other groups have created a cottage industry of naming and shaming professors who they say advance what they call the liberal agenda.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Republicans Like Me Built This Moment. Then We Looked The Other Way.

  by Stuart Stevens

  Those of us in the Republican Party built this moment. Now the nation must live with those consequences.