RIGHTWING EXTREMISM

William Jacob Parsons, 44, of Bostic, N.C., was arrested on Saturday armed with an assault rifle and a handgun soon after being overheard threatening to hurt FEMA officials. Trump has frequently accused federal officials of conspiracies tied to Helene.

An Army veteran who once voted for John McCain says that the Republican Party’s continued embrace of President Donald Trump’s “corrupt reality TV fantasy/nightmare, has me ready to vote for Democrats for as long as it takes to defeat the MAGA movement.”

Donald Trump, Mark Robinson and others have been spreading lies about the state and federal response to Hurricane Helene, This kind of misinformation can hurt efforts to help those who need it.

Recent events in North Carolina, including a deadly hurricane, prove how serious leadership can be. We need hard-working candidates for public office who are in it for the right reasons, not con artists.

The CNN report on Thursday unearthed past posts it said Robinson left on a porn site’s message boards in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI;” said he enjoyed transgender pornography; said in 2012 he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama; and slammed the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than…

Donald Trump and JD Vance have both spread lies that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating pets, leading to bomb and death threats in the town, classes being canceled, and even the Ku Klux Klan attempting to recruit. On Sunday, Vance admitted he spread the unfounded claims to get media attention. 

One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.

A slew of racist, sexist, and outright bizarre conspiracy theories flooded the internet after Joe Biden decided to end his campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris for president. 

Project 2025 calls for restricting abortion access and enacting political vengeance and though Trump has tried to distance himself from it, he once said it detailed ‘exactly what our movement will do.’