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Right Wing Watch In Focus Archive [1]
Right Wing Watch In Focus is a series of reports from People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation exposing the Far Right's motives, strategies, tactics and influence in current issue and policy debate
Gov. Rick Perry’s Extremist Allies [2]
On August 6, Texas Governor Rick Perry will host The Response, a massive rally in Houston that's being billed as a "a non-denominational, apolitical Christian prayer meeting." But one look at the event's sponsors, participants and promoters tells a different story
Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America [4]
A new PFAW report explores the growing influence of David Barton, a fast-talking, self-promoting, self-taught , self-proclaimed “historian” who is systematically misinforming millions of Americans about U.S. History and the Constitution – and increasingly influencing prominent Republican decision-makers.
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Texas Textbooks: What happened, what it means, and what we can do about it [9]
In Texas, a decades-long battle culminated in May with the adoption of social studies standards that give the far-right faction and its Religious Right advisors far too many victories in their efforts to replace history with ideology and turn public school classrooms into Heritage Foundation seminars.
Anti-Gay Politics and the Religious Right [10]
An analysis of the Religious Right's anti-gay policies and activities, leading up to the Christian Coalition's 1998 Road to Victory Conference.
The First Amendment Only Applies to Christians? PFAW Asks Candidates to Tell Bryan Fischer that the First Amendment Protects All Americans [11]
People For the American Way today asked GOP presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Haley Barbour to publicly tell the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer that the First Amendment applies to all Americans, when they appear on his radio show later today.
The Right to Vote Under Attack, 2012 Update [12]
Here we detail, as of October 6, 2012, except where otherwise noted, the latest efforts across the country to suppress the vote, as well as some encouraging successes in expanding the franchise.