ABC News, 11/29/2021
Before last year's presidential election, Facebook ads targeting Latino voters described Joe Biden as a communist. During his inauguration, another conspiracy theory spread online and on Spanish-language radio warning that a brooch worn by Lady Gaga signaled Biden was working with shadowy, leftist figures abroad.
And in the final stretch of Virginia's election for governor, stories written in Spanish accused Biden of ordering the arrest of a man during a school board meeting.
None of that was true. But such misinformation represents a growing threat to Democrats, who are anxious about their standing with Latino voters after surprise losses last year in places like South Florida and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
11/24/2021 update starts here
Lane Filler refuses to normalize GOP distraction, distortion, and deception.
Newsday, 11/11/2021
This year, Republican leaders triumphed because they got their base mad enough to vote, often by giving credence to the idea that the way those votes are handled and tallied is a corrupt scam.
Meanwhile, every bit as nonsensically, Democrats know their votes count … but mostly couldn’t be bothered to cast them.
11/22/2021 update starts here
Nowhere does the ad offer any indication that the images from 2020 are not from Biden's presidency.
We should expect nothing less.
11/21/2021 update starts here
NBC News, 10/16/2021
The future of U.S. elections is on the ballot in 2022, largely because former President Donald Trump can’t let go of the past.
“The single biggest issue — the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers — is talking about the election fraud of 2020’s presidential election,” Trump said last week at a rally in Iowa, again pushing the lie that a second term was stolen from him and that Joe Biden is not the legitimate president.
In next year’s races for governor and secretary of state, for Congress and all the way down to state legislative seats, Republicans eager for Trump’s support have embraced these baseless claims
11/18/2021 update starts here
Welcome to the Robin Vos/Rebecca Kleefisch Clown Show
Wisconisn State Journal, 11/17/2021
In a letter sent Tuesday to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said it was “unacceptable” and “appalling” to mandate training that “instills the university’s negative opinion of white students and the idea that students should feel guilty simply because of their race.”Gubernatorial candidate and former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who graduated from UW-Madison in 1997, first drew attention to the training in a video posted on her Facebook page last month, arguing that it was the latest example of public universities supported by taxpayer dollars indoctrinating students to their liberal beliefs.
Critical race theory is a decades-old academic framework that can be used to understand how systemic racism prevails through laws and institutions. Conservatives have seized on it recently to galvanize their base and drive school board recalls. [emphasis added]
11/17/2021 update starts here
And thanks to the doubling down of Biden bashing since he signed the infrastruture bill, it appears as though everyone in the media is on the GOP payroll.
Moreover, reporters have already written their stories for November 8, 2022. Whoa, baby, that's way ahead of deadline!
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Screenshot from this YouTube cli
Is that all there is? YUP!
Somebody's got his hair, what little is left of it, on fire.
So much to parse here. Stay tuned!
11/16/2021 update starts here
Headline from Reuters, 11/4/2021
Hoping to retake both houses of Congress in elections a year from now, Republicans plan to follow a strategy Glenn Youngkin used to win Virginia's governor's race, making schools the front line in U.S. culture wars, several lawmakers said on Wednesday.
Youngkin, a former Carlyle Group Inc. chief executive, defeated former Governor Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday, partly by focusing on - and fueling - parental anger over the way schools have addressed race and gender and the COVID-19 pandemic.
11/15/2021 update starts here
Politico, 11/3/2021
One year after an election that ended with Donald Trump's loss, the GOP is still tightly yoked to his baseless claims of voter fraud — a coupling that's poised to roil the 2022 midterms as well as 2024.
11/13/2021 update starts here
America's Voice, 11/5/2021
Original 11/12/2021 post starts here
Politico, 9/21/2021
It started as one big, false claim — that the election was stolen from Donald Trump.
But nearly a year later, the Big Lie is metastasizing, with Republicans throughout the country raising the specter of rigged elections in their own campaigns ahead of the midterms.
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