Stories by Peter Montgomery

South Carolina's first black Republican congressman since Reconstruction is headed to the U.S. Senate -- with a seal of approval from the right.

When they talk about “taking America back,” they don’t just mean taking it back to pre-Obama days, or even to the era of Ronald Reagan.

Not so long ago, it was Romney on the receiving end of Huckabee’s caustic remarks.

Rep. Pete Session, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, is kind of okay with the candidacy of the openly gay Richard Tisei, who is running for Congress from Massachusetts.

They're breaking out the crazy down in Tampa.

With the hiring of the right's favorite Islamophobe, the Family Research Council's extremism just got a little harder to ignore.

This political and cultural movement will not be sinking beneath the horizon anytime soon -- despite media reports to the contrary.

The impact of a governing philosophy that refuses to provide a state's residents with basic services is causing a lot of pain in Texas right now. Thanks but no thanks, Newt.

Today’s conservative Christian leaders say that Jesus opposes a secure living wage, and that workers should accept as good slaves whatever treatment their employers dish out.

Glenn Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric has been tied to a number of violent attacks and threats against Beck's targets and other public figures.

Ergun Caner, dean of a religious right seminary, claimed to be a former jihadist whose heart was changed by Jesus. But he never was, and now he's no longer dean.

Right-wing Christian leaders are making a concerted push to gain thousands of new signatures for their hate-filled Manhattan Declaration.