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 […]
Josh Hawley
No Josh Hawley, the United States was not “founded on revival”
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 […]
Albert Mohler: “I want to maximize the Christian commitments of the state, the civilization”
The National Conservatives are meeting this week in Washington D.C. Speakers include Stephen Miller (Trump immigration adviser), John Eastman (indicted lawyer who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election), Walter Russell Mead (Bard College), Megan Basham (MAGA writer), R.R. […]
Albert Mohler, Doug Wilson, and Steve Bannon will speak at the National Conservatism conference in July
The National Conservative movement is hosting its fourth annual conference in July. Watch: Speakers include: Albert Mohler (President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) Steve Bannon (Trump adviser and alt-right leader) Josh Hawley (U.S. Senator from Missouri) Stephen Miller (Trump adviser and […]
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley jumps on the 2024 Trump train
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”
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…
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
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
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
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 […]
Hawley on the run
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 […]
Why I almost came to see Josh Hawley as a sympathetic figure
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 […]
George Will: “Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency”
Will offers a stinging critique of GOP Senators who appear to be using their Senate seats to run for president. Here is a taste: In Jonathan Haidt’s recent essay for the Atlantic, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been […]
When Harvard grads attack the American “elite”
Someone recently left a message on my voicemail asking me if I saw myself as part of the “liberal elite.” He is one of the regular callers who leaves voice mails whenever I write something here or elsewhere that they […]
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is raising money off his fist pump to the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists
For $20.00 you can get a Josh Hawley fist-pump mug. Of course Hawley says he is only fist-pumping the peaceful protesters.
Ivy leaguers who are trying to destroy American democracy
What do Josh Hawley, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, and Kayleigh McEnany have in common? They all have degrees from Ivy League institutions and they are all, in one […]
Josh Hawley, the most ambitious man in the Senate, pulls another political stunt
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.
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
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 […]
For the first time in American history, advocates of patriotic education are claiming their curriculum is based on fact
This is a fascinating essay by Timothy Messer-Kruse of Bowling Green State University. It covers Josh Hawley’s “Love America Act” and Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum. For most of the last two centuries, patriotic schooling was not a partisan issue. Both […]