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Peter Montgomery
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Researcher and writer focused on right-wing movements for Right Wing Watch, a project of People For the American Way. Lover of dogs, poetry, singing, husband. Pennsylvania raised, long roots in DC. UU. Personal account. He/him.
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · Nov 12
Greetings to new followers! For daily reporting and analysis of the religious right and its MAGA movement allies, follow @rightwingwatch.bsky.social - for ways to take action to defend freedom and democratic values, follow @peoplefor.bsky.social
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Colorado advocacy group says ICE agents left 'death cards' in vehicles after people detained
A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security said the agency “unequivocally condemns this type of action.”
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January 30, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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The "still" stops this from being a yes or no question.
Image from Trump fundraising message. Text across the top reads "MESSATE FROM THE 47TH POTUS" over a photo of Trump with a blurry image of a red heard and the words "LOVE YOU" behind him. Text below the photo asks, DO YOU STILL LOVE ME?
January 30, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Latest in Trump regime vs. freedom of the press www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...
Journalist Don Lemon taken into custody after Minnesota church protest | CNN Politics
Journalist Don Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night in connection to a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to his attorney.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Just a couple of MAGA Christian-right guys talking about brutalizing whole communities to show people that Trump is boss. In the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and their inhabitants killed.
rightwingwatch.bsky.social Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2d
Far-right broadcaster Steve Deace says Trump must "stop trying to be reasonable" and make an example out of Minneapolis: "A community must be made an example out of so it's a cautionary tale, so that everybody still knows what Sodom and Gomorrah means." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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A fraud is about to be perpetrated on the people of Fulton County. And it isn't coming from the county.
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Children and families are casualties in Trump / ICE war on the rule of law www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Buckley court was right that threats to free speech and association, and the dangers of incumbency-protecting laws, mean that courts should closely scrutinize campaign money laws. But that should not doom all attempts to level the playing field or limit the risk of corruption from nine-figure campaign contributions, mostly to ostensibly independent groups. If Congress passed a law with generous contribution and spending limits, and strong disclosure rules, we could have ample breathing room for vigorous and competitive campaigns without the danger of the wealthy swamping our democracy. Because Buckley was a constitutional decision, there are only two paths to overturn it. One is to get a court majority to rethink the case’s fundamental mistakes. With the current makeup of the court, that seems unlikely. An even harder road is to amend the Constitution to allow for a better balance between the rights of free speech and the risks of corruption and oligarchy. We should not give up the struggle over our money-in-politics rules. But we must recognize that there will be fierce resistance from the moneyed interests who benefit from a system giving them outsize influence over who is elected and what politicians do once they are in office. A real democracy deserves better than Buckley.
January 28, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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US Space Force had been around almost a year how come they didn't stop the Italian vote-flipping rays, huh? For the love of god things are going to get stupid.
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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January 29, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
January 28, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Anne Frank's family had their German citizenship stripped from them under the Eleventh Decree to the Law on the Citizenship of the Reich in 1941. Since they had never become Dutch citizens, they were officially stateless at this point, lacking what Arendt termed "the right to have rights."
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4d
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."

In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
January 27, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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ICYMI - At the end of last week's hearing at which Jack Smith testified to Donald Trump’s crimes, former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was assaulted by Trump’s thugs on January 6, 2021, found himself accosted by far-right extremist Ivan Raiklin. @petemontdc.com has the back story.
rightwingwatch.bsky.social Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 8d
Far-right extremist Ivan Raiklin, who confronted J6 officer Michael Fanone yesterday, calls himself "secretary of retribution," dreams of mass arrests and some executions of Trump's "deep state" opponents. Some background: www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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As the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence nears, the way Trump is waging war against American people in cities echoes actions that riled Americans against King George. History from @radleybalko.bsky.social radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...
Two cities under siege
Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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So many candidates for history's hall of shame from Trump's second first year--and also some inspiring heroes. People For the American Way's Svante Myrick shines on light on some of each:
thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Trump's censors are busy erasing history and science from our national parks wapo.st/4t9mYXp
More history exhibits pulled from nationals parks, including Grand Canyon
A new wave of takedown orders from Trump officials targets signs about climate and Native Americans at several national parks, including Big Bend and Glacier.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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“They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.” www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...
The killing in Minnesota
They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.  And I don’t mean some ambiguous, imaginary “they” like the one the right invented and blamed for trying to kil...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Know this: Trump’s war on Minneapolis is not intended to terrorize only the people of that city; it’s meant to terrorize every person in America. It is shamelessly performed for the camera. www.jurist.org/commentary/2... 1/
Performative Cruelty and the Politics of Fear: From Vienna to the US Border
Performative cruelty is an ancient practice, even though the phrase itself is new. Gladiatorial fights (Ancient Rome, c. 264 BCE–5th century CE) in arenas like the Colosseum were intentionally staged....
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January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM