Comment on MAGA Church Plans to Raffle a Trump AR-15 at Second Amendment Rally

Proposition JJ on Colorado’s ballot asks voters to decide whether the state should continue returning excess sports betting tax revenue to casinos — or keep the money to spend on water projects. Colorado voters in 2019 legalized sports betting online and in the state’s three gaming towns — Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City.

Amendment 79 on the state ballot seeks to enshrine access to abortion in the Colorado Constitution. It also would give the green light for public funding to go toward abortion services. Abortion is now legal statewide at any stage of pregnancy because of protections added to state law by the legislature.

In July, former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated by a 20-year-old man wielding an AR-15-style rifle. That near miss hasn’t stopped the Rod of Iron Ministries from holding a raffle this coming weekend for a special Trump-branded AR-15 at its fifth annual “Freedom Festival.” Billed as the “largest open carry rally in America,” the festival draws attendees to celebrate the Second Amendment and hear from headliners that will include former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, radio host Sebastian Gorka, former US Rep.

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Every once in a while, it’s good to take a hard look at a particular lie of the many spewed by a narcissistic, dangerous, demagogic, and hate-feeding billionaire who has tremendous influence over the national political discussion.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern United States, killing more than 200 people and causing perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars in property and economic damage, Hurricane Milton has spun up in the Gulf of Mexico and taken aim at Florida.

This story is part of an ongoing investigation into disinformation in collaboration with The War Horse, the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal. Perhaps nothing illustrates the power of misinformation in the United States better than what happened Monday morning when retired Army Lt.