- Right-Wing Movements
- LGBTQ Equality
- Religious Right
Peter Montgomery has studied the Religious Right movement and its right-wing political allies for more than two decades. He has written extensively about marriage equality, religious liberty, and other conflicts at the intersection of religion, politics and LGBTQ issues. He has been cited as an expert in national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New Yorker, and has appeared on national broadcast outlets including MSNBC and National Public Radio.
Montgomery is also an associate editor for online magazine Religion Dispatches, and his writing appears in The American Prospect, The Public Eye, Alternet and other progressive outlets. He authored a chapter on the relationship between the Religious Right and Tea Party movements that appears in “Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party,” published by the University of California Press in 2012.
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Blog Post | February 8, 2024
“Trumptastrophe”: MAGA Republicans and Their Efforts To Dismantle Public Education
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Blog Post | February 1, 2024
“Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s dangerous disdain for dissent
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Blog Post | January 18, 2024
“Trumptastrophe”: Why We Need To Continue the Fight To Hold Trump Accountable
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Blog Post | December 21, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s desperate attempts to steal the election
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Blog Post | December 15, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: How “Norman Lear’s America” stands in stark contrast to Trump’s far-right agenda
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Blog Post | December 8, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s Willingness to Do Anything to Advance the MAGA Agenda
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Blog Post | November 30, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s reliance on lies and conspiracies to advance his MAGA agenda
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Blog Post | November 22, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s Lies Ruin People’s Lives and Endanger Our Democracy
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Blog Post | November 16, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s contempt for those disloyal to him and the weaponization of the DOJ
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Blog Post | November 9, 2023
This Week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s “Big Lie” and the Damaging Effects it Has Had on Our Democracy.