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Search Results for: Josh Hawley

Josh Hawley endorses John Cornyn for Senate majority leader. The MAGA crowd goes nuts.

John Fea   |  November 8, 2024

It is apparently a three way race for Senate majority leader. The candidates are South Dakota’s John Thune, Texas’s John Cornyn, and Florida’s Rick Scott. Scott is the favorite of the MAGA movement. Thune is the closest to former leader […]

No Josh Hawley, the United States was not “founded on revival”

John Fea   |  October 28, 2024

I included this in today’s roundup, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Yesterday Missouri senator Josh Hawley spoke at MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht’s Washington D.C. rally. Here is part of what he said: It’s a privilege […]

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley jumps on the 2024 Trump train

John Fea   |  December 13, 2023

Here is Burgess Everett at Politico: Josh Hawley said in an interview he’s endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, becoming the 18th Senate GOP backer of the former president. The Missouri Repubican has already said he believed Trump’s […]

Missouri senator Josh Hawley wants a “Christian Democracy”

John Fea   |  October 18, 2023

Josh Hawley believes that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. He supported the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021 and then tried to raise money off it. He is a regular speaker at Christian Right and political conferences. And he supports […]

Hey Josh Hawley, about that Patrick Henry quote…

John Fea   |  July 7, 2023

In case you missed it, on July 4th Josh Hawley, the conservative populist U.S. senator from Missouri, tweeted some words on Twitter that he claimed belonged to Virginia revolutionary Patrick Henry: The problem with Hawley’s tweet is that Patrick Henry […]

Josh Hawley’s conservative populism was on full display at Road to Majority 2023

John Fea   |  June 24, 2023

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made a visit on Friday to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference. Watch: If you watched the speech you can see that Hawley wasted no time identifying with the crowd: I’m proud […]

Woody Guthrie’s family tells Missouri Senator Josh Hawley to stop using his lyrics

John Fea   |  March 13, 2023

Here is Daniel Desrochers at The Kansas City Star: Sen. Josh Hawley referenced Woody Guthrie last week when he sponsored a bill to prevent people associated with the Chinese Communist Party from owning U.S. farmland and called it the “This […]

The Kansas City Star on Josh Hawley’s manliness

John Fea   |  July 25, 2022

The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup […]

Why I almost came to see Josh Hawley as a sympathetic figure

John Fea   |  July 15, 2022

Notice the word “almost” in the title. As most readers of this blog know, I am not a Josh Hawley fan. In fact, the guy usually makes my skin crawl. But the other day I actually found myself, at least […]

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is raising money off his fist pump to the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists

John Fea   |  February 16, 2022

For $20.00 you can get a Josh Hawley fist-pump mug. Of course Hawley says he is only fist-pumping the peaceful protesters.

Josh Hawley, the most ambitious man in the Senate, pulls another political stunt

John Fea   |  September 14, 2021

Josh Hawley, the evangelical Christian Senator from Missouri, has really made a name for himself in 2021. In January, he fed the conspiracy theories about the illegitimacy of the 2020 presidential election by refusing to vote to certify the results. […]

Josh Hawley said “folks should look and see what’s in this [bipartisan infrastructure] bill.” So I did.

John Fea   |  August 9, 2021

Tomorrow morning the Senate will pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Not everyone is happy about it. Some GOP senators, including Mike Lee (UT), Rick Scott (FL), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), have denounced it. They will lose […]

Josh Hawley’s “Love America Act.” Let’s break it down

John Fea   |  August 8, 2021

Last week we published a post on Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s op-ed in The New York Post condemning critical race theory and promoting his personal view of what young Americans should learn in history class. His views are encapsulated in […]

Josh Hawley, “let’s be clear”: This is a nation of oppressors and liberators.

John Fea   |  August 3, 2021

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley wrote an op-ed in The New York Post last weekend condemning critical race theory and promoting his personal view of what young Americans should learn in history class. Let’s take a look: Hawley writes: Parents know […]

Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection

John Fea   |  May 12, 2021

Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who once had the support of liberal Republican John Danforth, is now the poster-boy for the far-right Republican Party. In this longform piece at The Washington Post, Michael Kranish chronicles how Hawley ascended to such […]

Apparently Josh Hawley didn’t see my post from earlier today

John Fea   |  May 6, 2021

Today I received an e-mail from Josh Hawley with the subject line: “Do you want a copy of my new book The Tyranny of Big Tech?” I guess he didn’t read the post I published this morning. Here is the […]

Josh Hawley: Liz Cheney is “out of step with Republican voters”

John Fea   |  May 6, 2021

The Missouri senator who gave credibility to the Big Lie in the days leading-up to the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has a message for Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney. (Get up the speed on the Cheney story […]

Hawley on the run

John Fea   |  July 22, 2022

Watch: Here is Phillip Bump in today’s Washington Post: Given everything that’s happened since, it’s easy to forget the role that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) played in validating Donald Trump’s effort to undermine the 2020 election results. In the weeks […]

Evangelicals and politics roundup: Wisconsin, Cory Booker, spiritual warfare, refugees, and more.

John Fea   |  April 3, 2025

What is happening in the world of evangelicals and politics: On Corey Booker’s 25 hour speech: On Trump’s tariffs: On free speech: On the Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Of course it was rigged, Lance: On immigration and refugees: Myanmar earthquake […]

LONG FORM: Jackson, Trump and Constitutional Crisis

Robert Tracy McKenzie   |  March 5, 2025

It’s an old but timely question: ‘What sort of hope have we?’

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