Thursday THREATCON – 25 September 2014

It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the sudden divorce of Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa, our Threatcon Color-Code is HOOCHIE RED

• The latest example of the brave, new Citizens United world we live in: Mitt Romney-linked Marriot has fired an employee who was running for local public office against their chosen candidate
• Further evidence that big money has completely corrupted American politics: the Republican Governors Association has accidentally released proof that big donors pay specifically for access to politicians
• The 7th Circuit has reversed Judge Randa’s ruling, allowing the John Doe probe into illegal campaign coordination during the Wisconsin recall election to proceed. Randa had applied the Citizens United ruling to a matter that is best handled by state courts, once again proving that right wing talk about “states rights” is completely hollow
• Now that the Kansas supreme court has decided not hear Chris Kobach’s case trying to keep Democrat Chad Taylor on the ballot against his will, state Republicans are flying in John MicCain and desperately trying to attack independent US Senate candidate Greg Orman. The race may decide the balance of power in Congress
• Almost three-quarters of Americans see religion losing influence in American life, but that also means religious people are working harder than ever to break down the barriers of separation between church and state
• It turns out that the Charles G. Koch Foundation not only exploited the VA crisis, they stirred it up in the first place
• Like his friend Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich has now embarrassed himself by getting upset over something he only imagined President Obama saying
• What does progressive firebrand Thomas Frank have in common with the right wing conservatives he opposes? A blinkered view of political science
• Tommy Christopher disassembles the National Review‘s attack on Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Why in the world is Geraldo Rivera still on Fox News? To debunk Steve Doocy’s conspiracy theories, of course
• Your US RDA of outrage porn: facing a strong Democratic challenge, Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal blames his state’s highest-in-the-nation unemployment rate on a conspiracy in the Obama Labor Department

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• A burgeoning scandal: Alabama Deputy Attorney General Sonny Reagan is on administrative leave after a Lee County grand jury found that he has been leaking information to suspects under investigation. Reagan’s alleged crimes may be linked to some of the most powerful Republicans in the state, including House Speaker Mike Hubbard
• Right wing Dominionists and white power activists have spent years winning control of the Texas Board of Education so they can change America’s textbooks to reflect their agenda
• Frank Gaffney’s Family Security Matters organization wants to show us how much they love religious freedom by outlawing Islam in the United States
• Jackson, Mississippi Rabbi Ted Rieter says he was kicked out of a local restaurant for being Jewish
• Since 1978, Congress has only worked one full week out of every seven
• After being convicted of fraud and theft, Arizona ‘sovereign citizen’ Alberto Marrufo has changed his mind, deciding to cooperate with the government’s pre-sentencing reporter rather than face a possible decade behind bars
• Accused cop killer Eric Frein is still eluding police in the woods of Pennsylvania
• How does Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) deal with fiscal realities that fail to match his expectations? By declaring war on math
• Disinvesting from climate change denial, Google has quit the Koch brother’s American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

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• The Moral Mondays phenomenon has now spread to Alabama
• Arvada, Colorado students are protesting decisions by their school board, which is backed by the Koch-linked Americans For Prosperity-Colorado, for their efforts to replace the curriculum with ideology-driven falsehoods
• Ladies, if you don’t want to get raped by a police officer in Oklahoma then you just ought to drive more carefully
• The latest viral Harry Potter fanfiction project puts the Jesus back in Hogwarts
• Pennsylvania neo-Nazi Todd Morgans has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for selling bath salts as drugs
• A Richmond, Virginia ‘open carry’ group followed up their participation in a confederate flag rally by marching through a black neighborhood
• British medical journal The Lancet recently published an open letter against Israeli actions in Gaza that was written by associates of anti-Semite and former Klansman David Duke
• Tea Party Patriots is organizing a day of nativist anti-immigration house parties next month
• Creationist Ken Ham is presenting a conference of white supremacists next month
• Colorado City, Arizona government workers say they are being targeted by police who are sympathetic to the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. The area is well-known as a hotbed of sometimes-violent Mormon fanaticism
• Another week, another bunch of KKK recruiting flyers: this time, Karrick, Pennsylvania residents have found them on their windshields