Peter Montgomery

@petemontdc.com

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Researcher and writer focused on right-wing movements for Right Wing Watch, a project of People For the American Way. Lover of dogs, poetry, singing, husband. Pennsylvania raised, long roots in DC. UU. Personal account. He/him.

Text reads: "The court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard-fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black history. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design. A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind. It is whatever the court needs it to be. A way to advance its partisan project."
Image from a Trump fundraising email shows the word COMMUNISM! in bright yellow highlight, followed by a graphic saying TRUMP SUPPORTERS JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM and a smaller graphic with an image of Trump pointing toward the reader that says "TRUMP'S ANTI-COMMUNIST CLUB FIGHT THE RED MENACE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM STOP SOCIALISM." Below the graphic is the text JOIN ANTI-COMMUNIST CLUB in red highlight.
Black and white photo of Richard and Mildred Loving kissing; Richard's hand is one Mildred's back and she appears to be holding a bouquet of flowers.
Image shows young black man and woman smiling into camera over text that reads, Scripture teaches us that God created us male and female. Our sex bodies are part of his good design. They're not mistakes that need to be corrected." Quote is attributed to Dr. David L. Closson, Washington Watch, June 5, 2026. Family Research Council logo appears in upper left corner
Screen capture of two lines from my email inbox dated June 6. First one from JD Vance with subject line, "Can we take a picture together? I may even get ...." Second email comes from "I AM DONALD J. TRUMP" with subject line, "You have a secret admirer Peter? It's me, Trump!"
Social media meme, white text on black background, reads, "Trump making half naked sweaty men fight on his front lawn is a great way to celebrate Pride Month. Hats off to him." The text is followed by a rainbow flag emoji.
Illustration shows a heroic-looking Trump on the left, gazing thoughtfully forward, an American flag waving behind him. The right side shows rays of light emanating from a cross floating above the U.S. Capitol. In the foreground on the right are two lit candlesticks and a loaf of challah bread draped with a cloth embroidered in gold with a star of David and the word "Shabbat"
Photo from Bulwark article shows image of planned art in new US passports: inside front cover a scowling Trump superimposed over the Declaration of Independence; his signature in gold is underneath. Inside the back cover is image of painting depicting the signing of the Declaration.
Image of a March 17 2026 tweet by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Text reads: "Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions. After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion."
"Judges’ citation: In the Shadow of the Cage will be a vital and stylish work of reportage and memoir about mixed martial arts (MMA) and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), especially in the age of Trump, whose alliance with UFC has helped mainstream, in Zidan’s words, a ”brand of aggressive nationalism and anti-establishment rhetoric that has since bled into broader American politics.” Zidan’s work is an indispensable guide to a sport and culture not well known outside its fanbase, but which has, as his journalism has shown, links to neo-Nazis, Gulf autocrats, gendered propaganda, and much more. With deep sourcing and narrative command, Zidan’s story traces UFC from its outlaw origins—once denounced as “human cockfighting” by Senator John McCain—to its emergence as a cultural arm of the MAGA movement, with its politics of dominance, spectacle, and grievance. He has a gift for illustrating these sweeping themes with intimate human stories, from a former UFC champion turned QAnon-peddling city councilman to the fighters who cheered Trump even while their own labor rights were gutted. Zidan, an award-winning, Cairo-born journalist, has reported on this beat for over a decade, despite bans, death threats, and the hostility of powerful institutions—demonstrating the same defiant persistence as the fighters he covers. The Lukas Prize will help him complete his ambitious reporting, which spans Russia, the Middle East, and the United States, all the way to the White House."
Image shows text: "In the Shadow of the Cage tells the story of how political operators have captured mixed martial arts and turned it into a tool to radicalize young people toward a mindset that centers individualism and survival of the fittest while shirking empathy. Zidan began reporting on this phenomenon in Eastern Europe and continues exploring the underbelly of MMA in the Middle East and the United States, documenting its evolution into the ground zero of a new wave of right-wing, hypermasculine counterculture."
An ad for National Review magazine features a photo of Donald Trump standing at a lectern on Air Force One. Text reads: Others posture. America leads. Join NRPLUS for serious analysis on the events shaping our world.
Text from a post from "House of Destiny Network" portraying the "shaking in Iran" as the beginning of the fulfillment of prophecy by the late "prophet" Kim Clement, who also "prophesied" the rise of Trump. Links to video at https://buff.ly/YnKGpR4
Illustration of an oversized red moon over clouds, with fighter jets in the sky and beams of light shining on a Bible. Text promoting an article at mycharismac.com reads, "Joseph Z. Purim, Operation Epic Fury and the Blood Moon Convergence"
“Earlier this year, Geraldo Lunas Campos died at the Camp East Montana facility in Texas. Witnesses report he was choked to death by guards. An autopsy by the county medical examiner determined his death was a homicide… Another man recently died at the same facility. Instead of transferring him to the local medical examiner, DHS moved his body to a nearby army base—which is now refusing to release the results of his autopsy.”
Image of email from Trump, reading, "Before I sign your name on your Tariff Check, is Peter spelled right?" Email includes illustration of Trump holding a handful of $100 bills along with several link boxes labeled "Confirm Check Here" which goes to a donation page asking for money. Over Trump's signature appears text, "- THIS IS THE ONLY TARIFF REBATE EMAIL AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP"
Screen cap of article excerpt: "It increasingly seems that the Americanization of TikTok was never about protecting us from a foreign adversary. It was a tactical acquisition of digital infrastructure. Trump’s DHS is treating the Bill of Rights like a market inefficiency—a cost of doing business that can be mitigated through the right corporate partnership. In this case, it’s working hand in glove with the social media platform favored by America’s most politically active demographic cohort."
Image from Trump fundraising message. Text across the top reads "MESSATE FROM THE 47TH POTUS" over a photo of Trump with a blurry image of a red heard and the words "LOVE YOU" behind him. Text below the photo asks, DO YOU STILL LOVE ME?
Image shows a Facebook post from Jan 20, 2025 in which I wrote: "Well, it has begun. I am not optimistic. I think the level of cruelty, criminality, and corruption will be worse than most people imagine. They will first target the most vulnerable among us, including immigrants and transgender people. The days and years ahead will provide all of us with tests of our character, our resolve, our resilience. May we measure up more often than not. May we forgive ourselves and each other when we fall short. May we find strength in solidarity."
NYT headline reads "EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution," over image showing smokestack and power plant cooling towers
screen grab of NYT headline: Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality' subhead reads: On topic after topic, President Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties
This year, an anonymous hero emerged as an embodiment of American greatness: The Double Tapper. Our Man of the Year sprang to action in September as a drug-carrying speedboat raced toward the United States from Venezuela. An unnamed operator, acting under orders from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, struck the target once—and then struck it again. No moral dithering. No international hand-wringing. No waiting to see if the enemy might deserve another chance. Just decisive action. The Double Tapper ensured the narco-terrorists never made it ashore and reminded us that it isn’t a war crime to go back for seconds before dessert. We say: “Our man made sure the job was done the American way, the victorious way. That’s what makes him, The Double Tapper, a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.”
Image shows Kennedy Center url with logo that now appears on its website calling it The Trump Kennedy Center.
image shows text excerpts from an article in The American Prospect: If you find comfort in the notion of a Republican Party in disarray, you may wish to consider this: In chaotic times, chaos often wins. Chaos creates the power vacuum that sucks the unthinkable to the fore. It worked for ISIS, and right now it’s working for Donald Trump… In times of chaos, people crave order. When traditional means of creating order appear to have failed, the simplistic solutions offered by demagogues sound good to too many ears. This is the way in which dictatorships can emerge from democracies… Trump has a knack for making ideas that challenge the limits of the U.S. Constitution sound appealing to Americans… I worry if the Constitution will survive in a chaos-theory world. Or a chaos-candidate nation.
Screen capture of text from JD Vance saying his speech in PA on Tuesday will include a "MAGA truth bomb" that will be "the biggest announcement since President Trump was elected"
Image describes MAGA pundit Eric Metaxas tweet enthusiastically endorsing a call from Gen. Mike Flynn, reported via an Ian Jaeger tweet, calling on Trump to replace Pam Bondi as Attorney General with the disgraced Stop the Steal lawyer Sidney Powell.
screenshot quoting section of column by People For the American Way president Svante Myrick reads: "Watching Johnson stumble through humiliatingly bogus justifications for his action makes me wonder: When Johnson said that God raised him up to be Speaker of the House as an American Moses to lead our country through a Red Sea moment, did he imagine that his calling would be to take food out of the mouths of 40 million Americans and force millions of families to face devastating health insurance costs — all to protect a president potentially hiding embarrassing revelations in the Epstein files?"
Image in an excerpt from an opinion column in The Hill, which is linked to in the post. The excerpted text reads: "The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term just days after the 20th anniversary of John Roberts being sworn in as chief justice. It is not a happy anniversary. "There is little doubt that the court’s right-wing majority will use the coming term to further dismantle constitutional checks and balances and grant more power to the increasingly dictatorial President Trump. The only real question is how aggressively the Roberts-Trump Court will pursue its drive to reverse more than a century of constitutional precedent and social progress."
Image from a social media video posted by a White House staffer shows gold-framed photo of Trump on the next to similarly framed photo of an autopen
Image is screenshot of a Jimmy Kimmel instagram post, a photo of Kimmel with his arm around late TV producer Norman Lear, founder of People For the American Way. Kimmel's text reads: "Missing this guy today."
Image from a Trump fundraising email: photo of Trump wearing MAGA hat under text: NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY. Under the photo is the opening line of the email, reading "I got NO TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY passed, and I signed it into law."
Excerpt from op ed: "Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress have responded to the lawlessness and brutality of the Trump-era Immigrations and Customs Enforcement by showering ICE with tens of billions of dollars to hire 10,000 new enforcement officers and create our own domestic concentration camps. Rewarding bad behavior this way will only embolden the worst impulses of the people running ICE operations. It is the opposite of accountability."
"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this Court now intervenes, lifting the injunction and permitting the Government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible. It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave. Unable to join in this misuse of our emergency docket, I respectfully dissent."
Image is an excerpt from the dissent written by Justice Sotomayor and joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson: "When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then execute on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it."
Image is a text excerpt from Sen Padilla speech: "And my message to the country today is this: What's happening in California is not just a threat to California. It's not just a threat to immigrant communities. It's a threat to everybody because an attack on anyone's rights is an attack on everyone's rights. And no matter where you live or what your background, don't think that anybody is insulated from Trump's actions. If Donald Trump can bypass the Governor of California to activate the National Guard and suppress immigrant rights, he'll do whatever he wants to suppress other rights, too. And if he can deploy Marines to Los Angeles, he can deploy them to any city in America. And if you can bypass due process, declare lawful residents, criminals, subject to deportation, and disappear them to foreign countries without even giving them an opportunity to make their case, what's to stop him from doing the same to any of us?"
Image is text of an online "survey" being conducted by the Heritage Foundation: Patriots like you need to stand with ICE now more than ever. These brave agents need to know that you have their backs in the face of these attacks from the liberal media. Please complete the survey below to give your opinion on ICE’s border enforcement and deportation efforts. Do you believe America needs to secure its southern border? Yes No Do you believe America needs mass deportation of illegal aliens, starting with the most dangerous criminals? Yes No Do you support America’s ICE agents who are courageously enforcing this important policy agenda? Yes No
Photo taken from above of four one-quart baskets of fresh strawberries.
Screenshot of a Sean Feucht Facebook post saying Americans are in a spiritual war and declaring it "utterly sickening" that a Sikh man was allowed to offer the opening prayer in the House of Representatives.
Image of Trump fundraising text message. Text: OFFER FROM TRUMP When someone earns it, I believe in rewarding them BIG LEAGUE. I upgraded Mike Waltz to be our next Ambassador to the United Nations - because he's a fighter, a Patriot, and someone Intrust to put America FIRST. Now I'm doing something I've NEVER done before...I'm upgrading YOU to TOP WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR STATUS. As part of this elite upgrade, I'm issuing you something very special: Your personalized OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR CARD!
Image shows text message from RNC with red elephant logo and the text "Mike Johnson tapped you!"
Image shows headline and subhead for Rolling Stone story: "Trump and Buekele bond over human rights abuses in oval office meeting: Nayib Bukele said he won't return a man the U.S. mistakenly deported, while Trump teased sending American citizens to El Salvador's torture prisons." Story by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Ryan Bort, published April 14, 2025
Image of fundraising ask: "Will you STAND WITH TRUMP and demand that Congress take action to get DOGE dividend checks sent out?
Image is a Trump text message: "Who should President Trump make this out to? He wants to send you a DOGE check for $5,000! First you need to read this:" includes link to a fundraising pitch
Donald Trump at podium bearing the presidential seal in front of logo for the Department of Justice during his March 14 speech at DOJ.
Photo of a woman in a white dress with flag fabric drooping from her butt to the floor and a sort of red and white apron hanging in front reading Democrats Officially Getting Exposed.
Truth social post from Donald Trump: "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not shrae our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP! Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth -- THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!