- 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 | November 2, 2023
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: The Rise of Trump Ally and New House Speaker Mike Johnson
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Blog Post | September 20, 2023
Will Alabama, Right-Wing Dark Money, and the Supreme Court Deliver the Dobbs of Voting Rights?
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Blog Post | September 18, 2023
Trump Judge Pens Disturbing Opinion Comparing Child Bearing People to Animals in the Wild
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Blog Post | September 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee and Other Right-Wing Leaders Escalate Threats of Electoral Violence
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Blog Post | August 24, 2023
Republican Debaters Back Abortion Bans, Pledge to Vote for Trump Even if Convicted
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Blog Post | September 21, 2022
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, Defending the Freedom to Learn
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Blog Post | September 28, 2021
Celebrating Banned Books Week and the Freedom to Read
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Blog Post | May 17, 2021
Right Wing Watch: Supreme Court to Review Anti-Choice Law Designed by Alliance Defending Freedom to Overturn Roe
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Blog Post | March 1, 2021
Addressing the Rise in Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
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Blog Post | September 28, 2020
Celebrating Banned Books Week 2020