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Republican Governor Declares June “Fidelity Month” in Snub to Pride

People of myriad sexual and gender identities across the U.S. will spend June celebrating Pride Month, a commemoration of the decades-long fight for civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community. But in Arkansas, residents will instead be celebrating a new invention.

Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bestowed a new name on June, dubbing it “Fidelity Month,” per a new declaration.

The effort is…

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Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Pro-Palestine Students

The Trump administration is continuing to punish immigration judges who impede its deportation agenda.

Judge Roopal Patel ruled in January that the administration did not have sufficient evidence to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student studying at Tufts University on an F-1 student visa. On Friday, Patel received a pink slip, formally pushing her out of the federal judiciary.

Patel told The…

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Why So Many of Trump’s Authoritarian Moves Have Failed

_You can watch this episode of_ Right Now With Perry Bacon _above or by following this show onYouTube or Substack_.

President Trump is taking all the steps that autocrats and dictators typically do: getting charges filed against his political enemies, invading other nations, sending the military into areas that resist him. But he’s been blunted in a number of ways. Charges against former FBI…

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