Confederacy

Rev. Jim Rigby, a pastor at the church where Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has been actively involved, told his congregation Sunday that the MAGA movement wants to return to “the Confederate States of America,” following the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner the night before.

Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was that he was a lone mad gunman who operated with a small group of conspirators loyal to him. The true story is detailed for the first time in the new bestselling book, The Unvanquished.

Throughout 1863 and 1864, Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers, “the South’s most dangerous men” terrorized the Northern troops in the area surrounding the Shenandoah Valley, known as “Mosby’s Confederacy.”

Officials with the United States Navy have renamed two ships whose names have ties to the Confederacy.

During the House Judiciary Committee’s Wednesday markup, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) noted that the Democrat South’s post-Civil War gun control for former slaves and free black citizens shows why we must be armed.

Biden claimed on Tuesday that January 6 rioters are worse than slave-owning Confederates because they breached the U.S. Capitol.

A Confederate general who later became an American war hero may see his statue removed from Congress following a push from mostly Democrats to remove monuments to Confederate leaders from the Capitol grounds.

Police officers in Norwich, England have recorded a “hate-related public order offence” against a local resident who flew the Confederate flag to mark the anniversary of the death of Civil War General Stonewall Jackson.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas is dumping its 50-year-old mascot Hey Reb! despite that its lack of connection to the Confederate States.

Under the order of Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol. 

Party City is reportedly working to remove Civil War kids costumes from its franchise stores following complaints last week from a mother in Arlington, Virginia.

Virginia Commonwealth University announced this week that it may rename several buildings on campus over their ties to figures that were associated with the Confederacy. At least six buildings on campus have been targeted for renaming over concerns about their ties to the Confederacy.

Trump tweeted Friday morning that Inhofe (R-OK) “will not” be changing the names of military bases named after Confederate generals.

Thirteen of the 15 statues Democrats want removed for the U.S. Capitol because of ties to racism were Democrats.

Esper issued guidance on Friday that effectively banned the public display of the Confederate flag on Pentagon properties.

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) rejected the stated motivations of some of the Black Lives Matter protests given the statues the protesters have targeted.

Nervous supporters of President Donald Trump have been reminding themselves that the presidential election looked as tough at this point of the 2016 as it does today. An even better parallel might be the election of 1864, when President Abraham

The House Armed Services Committee passed a defense bill that requires the Pentagon strip Confederate names from military bases.

Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposal to remove an amendment to rename military bases named after Confederate generals gained steam on Wednesday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Daily Briefing,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he hopes President Trump will not veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which the president has threatened to do, over the

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday evening that he would veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) if it included an amendment to rename ten U.S. Army bases that had been named for Confederate generals.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” host Anderson Cooper stated that President Trump’s tweet on the “battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country” is “stirring racial divisions” and that by “heritage,” President Trump really means things

Thursday, during an interview with Washington Post national political reporter Robert Costa, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said while George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are off-limits, everything else is subject to scrutiny as far as tearing down Founders monuments.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wondered this week if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should consider changing the name of the Democrat Party given her newfound commitment to purging the U.S. Capitol of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she would order the removal of portraits of former House Speakers who worked for the Confederacy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that four portraits of former speakers, all Democrats who served in the Confederacy, be removed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this week formally requested the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol. However, her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument.

The city of Jacksonville, Florida, will be removing Confederate monuments city-wide, Mayor Lenny Curry (R) announced this week, with the city already removing a 122-year-old statue honoring fallen Confederate soldiers in downtown’s Hemming Park.

The New York Times published an editorial on the first day of Memorial Day weekend asking: “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?”

CNN’s new hire John Harwood was caught red-handed using fake news to race bait Senate Republicans over impeachment.

Joe Biden supported an effort to restore the citizenship of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during his early days in the U.S. Senate.

The city of Arcata, California, removed a statue of President William McKinley before dawn on Thursday, bowing to the wishes of Native American political activists, and breaking a promise by the city council to notify the public.

Failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke says he supports the immediate removal of a Confederate plaque from the Texas State Capitol.

An East Texas school district will keep the name of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on one of its high schools after trustees refused to second a motion on a vote calling for its removal.

It’s eerie, the similarities here: the open defiance of the federal government, the demand to be able to treat unequal and unfairly people with whom you disagree with politically.

A Black Lives Matter group is demanding that a Chicago cemetery remove the 123-year-old monument standing over a mass grave of over 4,000 Confederate prisoners who died in a U.S. Army-sponsored POW camp during the Civil War.