Inside a Trump Rally (David Smalley, Dogma Debate #228)

Alix goes inside a Trump Rally, and we have audio from supporters and protestors. We’re fact checking Democrats and Republicans, and Ken Ham reviewed our science book for kids!
Interview:
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dogma-debate-with-david-smalley/e/228-inside-a-trump-rally-43205115

Trump Has Given White Supremacist Groups New Life

The staying power of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has surprised and unsettled people across the political spectrum. Many voters who are angry about the loss of middle-class jobs and frustrated with our broken politics have rallied to Trump’s outsider campaign.

There’s a darker side to Trump’s campaign that should disturb anyone thinking about supporting him: It’s electrifying and energizing the white supremacist movement....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-has-given-white-supremacist-groups-new-life

NYPD Commissioner Slams Trump's Terrorist Fears: We Face a 'Bigger Threat' From Our Own Armed Citizens

Bill Bratton knows Americans with guns are a greater threat to our safety than international terrorism.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/nypd-commissioner-slams-trumps-terrorist-fears-we-face-bigger-threat-our-own-armed

Should The KKK Be Labeled As A Terrorist Group?

https://youtu.be/Erq7NbQdhx4

As Romney Warns Trump Will Lead U.S. into Abyss, Challengers Vow to Back Trump If He's GOP Nominee

In an extraordinary day for the Republican Party, the GOP’s past two presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, denounced Donald Trump, saying the current Republican front-runner is a danger to the nation and the party. "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University." Hours after Mitt Romney spoke, Donald Trump came under more criticism at a debate in Detroit, but all three of his remaining challengers vowed to support him if he wins the nomination...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/UdsqbIlUJnA

Is Donald Trump the Charismatic Leader the KKK & Neo-Nazis Have Been Waiting For?

http://democracynow.org - After initially refusing to condemn an endorsement from former KKK leader David Duke, Donald Trump has faced a series of questions about why his campaign has been so embraced by Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. We speak to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino. Levin talks about encountering Trump supporters at a recent rally held by a chapter of the Klan in Anaheim known as the Loyal White Knights, or LWK.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/iRsGiFKcpuk

Donald Trump's absurd claim that he knows nothing about former KKK leader David Duke

"I don't know anything about David Duke."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/02/donald-trump/trumps-absurd-claim-he-knows-nothing-about-former-/

Trump Makes Every Mark For ‘Daily Show’ Fascist Checklist (VIDEO)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/daily-show-donald-trump-week-of-facism

Mark Zuckerberg Calls Out Employees For ‘Silencing’ The Black Lives Matter Movement

“‘Black lives matter’ doesn’t mean other lives don’t — it’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Regardless of the content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person’s speech is more important than another’s. Facebook should be a service and a community where everyone is treated with respect.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/26/3754376/mark-zuckerberg-calls-out-employees-for-silencing-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

Winning His Race: Is Trump the Poster Child for the Rise of U.S. Hate Groups?

Donald Trump is the front-runner as he enters the final Republican presidential debate ahead of next week’s Super Tuesday primary. He is also featured on the cover of a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, "The Year in Hate and Extremism." We speak with SPLC President Richard Cohen, who notes that "[o]ver 60 percent of the people who support Trump believe that President Obama is a secret Muslim and wasn’t born in this country." The report points to the presidential election cycle as one of the primary reasons for the rising number of hate groups across the U.S., saying last year was marked by a level of hate speech in mainstream politics not seen in decades. The Investigation Discovery network will premiere a series titled "Hate in America," based on the work of the Southern Poverty Law Center, this Monday, February 29, at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/UzDeg9EdyX8

New White Supremacist PAC Robocalls: 'Don’t Vote For A Cuban,' Vote Trump! (AUDIO)

In a recording of the robocall sent to TPM, American National Super PAC founder William Daniel Johnson calls on white Americans to brush aside their fears of being branded as racist and stop the “gradual genocide against the white race” by electing Trump...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-robocall-super-tuesday-william-daniel-johnson

The Koch Brothers Are Now Funding The Bundy Land Seizure Agenda | ThinkProgress

The political network of the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch signaled last week that it is expanding its financial and organizational support for a coalition of anti-government activists and militants who are working to seize and sell America’s national forests, monuments, and other public lands...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/11/3748602/koch-brothers-funding-bundy-agenda/

Christian Singer Willing to Die for LaVoy Finicum's Beliefs

Victoria Sharp, an 18-year-old Christian singer, claims that Oregon militiaman LaVoy Finicum was murdered and that she is willing to die for his beliefs.
https://youtu.be/E6ryqbzNFWo

Video Of Oregon Occupier's Final Moments Contradicts Claims Police Killed Him With His Hands Up | ThinkProgress

Video of the deadly encounter between police and some of the men who’ve occupied an Oregon wildlife preserve since the start of the year seems to contradict claims that occupier Lavoy Finicum was surrendering to officers when they killed him...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/29/3744307/lavoy-finicum-video-oregon-reaching/

WATCH: OR Militant Went for Gun Twice Before Being Shot Dead

--The FBI has released an aerial video of the Oregon militia arrest and shooting; LaVoy Finicum appears to reach for something near his waist twice before being shot and killed...
https://youtu.be/LlVuBivECvU

Bundy Militia Post Video Of Messing With Native American Artifacts

“We want to make sure these things are returned to their rightful owners and that they’re taken care of,” he says, noting rat droppings in some of the boxes. “This is how Native Americans’ heritage is being treated. To me, I don’t think it’s acceptable,” Finicum concludes...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/21/3741450/native-american-artifacts-oregon-standoff/

Novelist Obliterates The Bundy Militia -- And Oregon’s Largest Newspaper -- In 194 Words | ThinkProgress

The Oregonian’s A1 headline on Sunday, Jan. 17, “Effort to free federal lands,” is inaccurate and irresponsible. The article that follows it is a mere mouthpiece for the scofflaws illegally occupying public buildings and land, repeating their lies and distortions of history and law. 

Ammon Bundy and his bullyboys aren’t trying to free federal lands, but to hold them hostage. I can’t go to the Malheur refuge now, though as a citizen of the United States, I own it and have the freedom of it. That’s what public land is: land that belongs to the public — me, you, every law-abiding American. The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt for the local citizens. 

Those citizens of Harney County have carefully hammered out agreements to manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors, tourists, livestock and wildlife. They’re suffering more every day, economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders. 

Instead of parroting the meaningless rants of a flock of Right-Winged Loonybirds infesting the refuge, why doesn’t The Oregonian talk to the people who live there? 

Ursula K. Le Guin
Northwest Portland

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/19/3740829/ursula-k-le-guin-oregon-lte/

Brian McFadden on The Social Justice Militia

Please don't tread on the marginalized.
http://www.alternet.org/comics/alternet-comics-brian-mcfadden-social-justice-militia

Poll: Most Westerners Don't Want Federal Lands Turned Over To States

Furthermore, the poll found 60 percent of those surveyed opposed selling federal land holdings to reduce budget deficits...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservation-poll-westerners-favor-federal-lands

The Crackpot Alternative Legal System That Threatens To Escalate The Oregon Standoff | ThinkProgress

Here’s what you need to know about the “common law” practices being deployed by the Bundy bunch, and how these developments could put the complex situation in southeastern Oregon on a still-stranger path than it’s followed so far...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/15/3739909/oregon-standoff-malheur-grand-jury-explainer/