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US Vogue March 1, 1955

Dorian Leigh in worsted silk suit, by Lilli Ann. John Fredericks hat.

Dorian Leigh en tailleur de soie peignée, par Lilli Ann. Chapeau John Fredericks.

Sarah Ruiz-Grossman at HuffPost (05.23.2022): 

Republican former Sen. David Perdue, who is running for governor in Georgia, made several racist attacks at presumptive Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, who is Black, saying she was “demeaning her own race” and should “go back to where she came from.”

“Did you all see what Stacey said this weekend? She said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live. Hey, she ain’t from here. Let her go back to where she came from,” Perdue said at a campaign event Monday ― a day before voters head to the polls in the Georgia primary.

Abrams — who has lived in Georgia since she was in high school — in response to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s describing Georgia as the top state to do business said she is “tired of hearing about being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.” She pointed to the state’s high maternal mortality rate, high incarceration rate and low wages.

At Monday’s event, Perdue also accused Abrams of “demeaning her own race.”

“When she told Black farmers, ‘You don’t need to be on the farm,’ and she told Black workers in hospitality and all this, ‘You don’t need to be,’ she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that.”

It appeared Perdue was referring to comments Abrams made in 2018, in her then-campaign for Georgia governor when she said, “People shouldn’t have to go into agriculture or hospitality to make a living in Georgia. Why not create renewable energy jobs?”

Kadia Goba at BuzzFeed News: 

Longtime Donald Trump ally and promoter Steve Bannon is turning his influential radio show into a platform for MAGA midterm candidates with an expansion that will allow him to grow as a right-wing gatekeeper.

The special edition show, titled War Room: Battleground, debuts on the John Fredericks Radio Network on March 7. The one-hour show, airing from 6 to 7 p.m. weekdays, will give maximum exposure to Trump-aligned candidates. The show will broadcast in radio markets in states with some of the most contested races this year, including Pennsylvania and Georgia, with an emphasis on hyper-local races.

“We think there's an opportunity to literally destroy the Democratic Party as it currently exists in the November elections this year,” Bannon told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. “It's a definite platform for MAGA and for America First. It’s the hyper-local version of the War Room.”

Bannon said he won’t personally make endorsements but wants to widen the exposure of MAGA candidates through radio, streaming, and digital mediums.

“The Republican establishment is just totally fearful of the populist Trump movement now taking over institutions,” he said.

Listeners can expect appearances from MAGA candidates from all over the country, with an emphasis on Republican primaries and races for governor and secretary of state. But the show also plans to give airtime to people running for county supervisor, county judges, and election officials, as well as school boards and Republican Party committees.

“We know the hyper-local strategies resonate with people because they're volunteering like crazy,” Bannon told BuzzFeed News. “Now we're basically giving them air cover with both radio streaming and web news services to back it up and, quite frankly, make these people stars.”

Bannon is also partnering with Star News Network, a conservative Tennessee-based digital outlet with a focus on hyper-local news currently operating in 11 cities, including those in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona. War Room will host the Star News Networks’ reporters daily, and the two outlets will work in concert to curate the editorial agenda.

Bannon has already built a stronghold in the right-wing radio market. His original War Room show launched in fall 2019 to defend Trump from the ongoing impeachment proceedings. Bannon's revived celebrity after an ugly 2017 fallout with Trump has ensnared a cult following of far-right loyalists among whom critical race theory and vaccine mandates are demonized and the unfounded claims of election fraud are touted.

When he’s not taking the show on the road, the former Breitbart News executive sits at the helm of a large rectangular table in DC at least three hours a day, flanked by studio lighting and a producer or two. With pen in hand, Bannon introduces one guest after another (some of them conspiratorial), all of them ready to parrot the latest MAGA talking point. And when it’s time for a commercial break, viewers and listeners are almost always greeted with MyPillow ads featuring Mike Lindell, a "pillowpreneur" and election denialist who also appears frequently on the show as a guest.

Bannon has been widely deplatformed on social media but found a home on Gettr, a fledgling right-wing alternative to Twitter created by Jason Miller, another Trump ally. Bannon has over 800,000 followers and broadcasts War Room from there, Real America’s Voice, and right-wing YouTube competitor Rumble.

Justin Horowitz at MMFA: 

New findings from Media Matters reveal that right-wing news broadcaster Real America’s Voice published QAnon conspiracy theory content on its platform in 2018 and 2019, exposing the outlet as directly propagating QAnon-aligned media.

Real America’s Voice broadcasts a lineup of right-wing shows hosted by fringe media personalities, including former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Gina Loudon, right-wing media personality John Fredericks, and former guest panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press David Brody, among others. While these personalities have hosted QAnon-linked individuals on their shows in the past, new reporting demonstrates that Real America’s Voice has directly endorsed and promoted the conspiracy theory to its viewers.

Articles published on the Real America’s Voice website are labeled with tags that list the topics discussed in the piece. In reviewing content posted in 2018 and 2019, we found that several posts published under the byline “AMERICA’S VOICE ADMIN” include the tags “q anon,” “qanon,” “qanon latest new posts,” “today’s q posts,” “qanon.pub,” “q posts,” “qanonposts.com,” and the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA” (an abbreviation of “where we go one, we go all”).

Silk and straw turban by John Fredericks, 1940.

Justin Horowitz at MMFA: 

Election deniers and extremists are organizing state by state on the QAnon-linked website “Pilled.net” in an attempt to “take the Republican Party over” and undermine local election administration.

This effort has been heavily promoted by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his War Room: Pandemic podcast over the past year. Alongside Republican activist Dan Schultz, Bannon has encouraged his listeners to pursue local election jobs that are often left vacant due to lack of public knowledge of the positions.

As explained by ProPublica, precinct officers play an important part in deciding how local elections are run, and the responsibilities of the positions differ by state. These positions can “have a say in choosing poll workers” and even “help pick members of boards that oversee elections,” among other responsibilities.

On the September 27 edition of conservative media personality John Fredericks’ show Outside The Beltway, the host discussed Schultz’s plan to “take the Republican Party over” and “end the Joe Biden regime in its tracks.”  

During the interview, Fredericks played a video from Schultz’s group showcasing his “precinct strategy” website. Schultz also promoted a new button on his website to “connect with other conservatives in your state” and suggested the site allows users to “privately and securely communicate and collaborate with one another.” Fredericks responded, saying that is “exactly what we need.”