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AMERICAN WAY DECEMBER 2022
SPOTLIGHT
Huge Strides For Our Courts, With More to Come
Senators can be proud of the work they have done these past two years to repair our federal courts.
President Biden’s judicial nominees have been confirmed at the second fastest pace we’ve seen in a quarter century. At the circuit court level, Biden has exceeded all but one previous presidents in the number of confirmations during his first two years in office. Beyond the numbers, the White House and Senate Democrats, under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Senate Judiciary Chair Durbin have added unprecedented professional and experiential diversity to the federal courts.
And they have laid the groundwork to do even more in the next two years.
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THIS MONTH
‘A Fire Alarm System for the Whole Country’: Highlights of Right Wing Watch Impact in 2022
When news broke over the Thanksgiving weekend that former President Donald Trump had just had dinner with Kanye West—under fire for his increasingly vocal antisemitism—and lesser-known white nationalist Nick Fuentes, national media outlets seeking credible information on Fuentes turned to People For’s Right Wing Watch. Right Wing Watch had broken the news that Fuentes was traveling with Ye on the day he was scheduled to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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The Supreme Court Considers a Dangerous Far-Right Power Grab That Threatens Us All
Can far-right state legislatures rig presidential and congressional elections in violation of their own state constitutions? The conservative justices on the Supreme Court may let them do just that in a case that was heard before the court earlier this month. It’s called Moore v. Harper. And it puts at risk our ability to elect the government of our choice, one that will protect our jobs, our health, and our communities.
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Far-Right School Board Candidates: “We’ll Be Back”
Back in August, we warned that getting “back-to-school” this year would also mean getting back to fighting far-right attacks on education. The threats included a rising number of efforts to ban books, and the Right’s efforts to take over local school boards. So how did the Right do in this fall’s school board elections? Well, as in Congress, there was no conservative “Red Wave.” However, the Right did score just enough wins to keep coming back. And the groups behind those wins are promising to do just that.
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Celebrating Progressive District Attorneys and Their Contributions to Public Safety Reform
The progressive movement is not always the best at celebrating our wins, or repeating winning tactics. Compared to the Far Right, who can’t seem to get enough of hammering home the same topics over and over ad nauseum, we sometimes react when we should reiterate. A good example is the volume of progressive district attorneys who were elected in the midterms. Metro areas and rural communities elected progressive district attorneys who ran on platforms of public safety reform. We need to allow ourselves to applaud these victories.
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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Will the Right-Wing Majority Turn the First Amendment into a License to Discriminate?
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Somebody Feed Us More “Somebody Feed Phil”
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Sen. Warnock’s Victory Is a Win for Georgia and America
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Stay Alert: Trump, Ye, and Nick Fuentes?
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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MAGA Die-Hards Trash Jan. 6 Committee for Referring Trump for Criminal Prosecution
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Proud Boys Promise to Disrupt More Drag Story Time Events
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‘He Won’t Disavow His Own People’: White Nationalist Richard Spencer Explains Why Trump Won’t Disavow the Movement
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MAGA Pastor Shane Vaugh Wants Election Rules Changed Because Republicans Keep Losing
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From Ostracized to Mar-a-Lago: QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Liz Crokin Marvels at How Far She’s Come
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‘Merry Christmas, You Fragile Snowflakes!’: The 2022 Right Wing Watch Holiday Gift Guide
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