Robert Downen
@robertdownen
Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right, Christian nationalism and the billionaires funding them. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Send me music.
In which Bo French, the openly racist candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, claims that his Jewish opponent has “much in common” with the Bolsheviks.
James Talarico is going to replace your gun with a large dildo, National Republican Congressional Committee warns in new attack line.
Important look at how social media is helping the Identitarian/"Remigration" movement expand globally.
Here’s a member of the Texas State Board of Education openly bragging that they excluded “false religions” when they k-12 overhauled curricula last week.
In which a member of the Texas State Board of Education advocates for major revisions to teachings on Nazi Germany while repeatedly struggling to pronounce "a really long word that starts with a K." The word? Kristallnacht – "the Night of Broken Glass."
In which a member of the Texas State Board of Education advocates for major revisions to teachings on Nazi Germany while repeatedly struggling to pronounce "a really long word that starts with a K." The word? Kristallnacht.
*wiping the ranch dressing from my cheese-curd greased chin* “I am an elite.”
In which an employee from Antelope Hill, a neo-Nazi publishing house that was just allowed at a Christian nationalist convention, laughs about pretending they were "just humble book merchants" in order to advance their agenda. www.thebulwark.com/p/oops-we-in...
Spending time at the Birthplace of Texas Blues (listening to Cheryl Crow at the Airport Antone’s)
There is currently a squabble happening in far-right Christian nationalism because a Hitler-publishing publisher was disinvited to a Christian nationalism conference.
I got into some of this in the story fwiw www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I regret to inform you that I've been real deep in a "right-wing goth-Catholic" rabbithole for the past few months
Few people know this but there is a committed movement in the Texas GOP that is fully focused on preventing what they claim is a looming attempt by the government to put kill switches in your car.
We begin with a video from RAIR about Muslims moving to Texas. Yesterday they at least pretended to couch the bigotry in as “anti-Sharia.”
Happening soon at the Texas GOP: A panel on “stopping the Islamization of Texas” with the RAIR Foundation and Chip Roy. Yesterday there was a panel on Sharia — meaning we’ve now had one panel for every percent of the state Muslims account for.
Dan Patrick announces he has a whole slate of coming ads in which a leather-clad, A.I. travels back in time to fight with the British and defend the Alamo
