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I’ve read a lot about Leo lately. You know a guy is a bad guy when he has two first names and they’re basically the same. He’s making a lot of money building institutions that roll back societal advancements. What scares me is how much money is behind this movement. We’re seeing books banned, women’s rights being rolled up, and calls for “eradicating transgender” people daily. And it’s getting worse.Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.
“A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.
Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s next moves had been the subject of speculation.
Now, Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country was plagued by “woke-ism” in corporations and education, “one-sided journalism” and “entertainment that’s really corrupting our youth,” said Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American flags.
Sitting tucked into a couch, with wire-rimmed glasses and hair gone to gray, Leo conveyed his inspiration and intentions: “I just said to myself, ‘Well, if this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?’”
Teneo is building what Leo called in the video “networks of conservatives that can roll back” liberal influence in Wall Street and Silicon Valley, among authors and academics, with pro athletes and Hollywood producers. A Federalist Society for everything.
“This is real, this is serious and it’s frightening,” said Brian Clardy, a Murray State University history professor. “We must build a democratic resistance that amounts to a counter-fascist coup — In short, we must all become ‘antifa,’ or antifascists,” said John Hennen, a Morehead State University history professor emeritus”.
Historians Warn the GOP Is Pushing Nation Toward Trump-Based Authoritarianism
Far right Republicans must lose the midterms and the 2024 presidential race to ensure democracy survives, they said.truthout.org
I'm in Oregon. We all get our ballots mailed to us. And we consistently have some of the highest voter turnout in the nation.
That’s a major problem if you’re a political party whose ideas and candidates aren’t popular.
Mine too and it’s awesome. Why make voting hard? Shouldn’t it be easy? Why make voting as hard as getting Comcast to fix the cable?
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Why compete in the marketplace of ideas when you can just focus on preventing undesirable voters from voting while super charging your rabid base with cruel policies towards opponents and appearing on Fox News?Texas Republicans target state’s largest city with voting restrictions
Two laws approved by the house on Tuesday will affect Democratic stronghold of Houston
