Right Wing Watch

@rightwingwatch.bsky.social

Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy. A project of People For the American Way. https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch

House Speaker Mike Johnson credits prayer for the passage of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill": "It was impossible. There was no way to reconcile everybody and get it all together and we came in here and prayed for a breakthrough and God delivered it."

Image from Trump fundraising email with subject line, "I believe He saved me for a reason!!" The reason, of course, is to "Make America Great Again." Trump assures his supporters that "the steady compass of Faith has guided my hands through it all."

Illustration of Trump at lectern with Trump/Vance campaign sign speaking into microphone as light rays beam from heaven with wings of angels visible in the clouds

During a call organized by the White House Faith Office last night, Todd Blanche said that his goal is to make sure that "God is front and center again" and that "being a Christian in this country ... is actually a benefit."

White nationalist Jared Taylor fumes about the "idolatry" of Emmett Till: "Isn't it pathetic to nourish hatred by making a hero out of a boy who accomplished nothing in life but be killed? Aren't any blacks revolted by this?"

Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."