Former President Donald Trump dominated the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend in an incendiary speech that was not unlike the one he gave in Washington DC on January 6th before a mob of his supporters broke into the Capitol with the intent of harming lawmakers. The Sunday speech was Trump’s first public appearance since leaving the White House and included repetition of the lie that he won the 2020 election. Trump also attacked the U.S. Supreme Court for refusing to overturn the election in his favor. Trump lost both the electoral college and the popular vote by a significant margin. But his repeated lies to a loyal base continue to generate an alternate reality for millions of his loyalists who truly believe he won. During his CPAC Speech Trump listed by name every Republican lawmaker that opposed him saying ominously, “get rid of them all.” He ruled out the creation of a third party which reports had indicated that he was contemplating in recent weeks. 

In other news from CPAC, observers pointed out the extremely disturbing shape of the conference stage that exactly matches the so-called “Odal rune,” the symbol worn by Nazi SS guards in Hitler’s Germany. Meanwhile anti-Trump Republicans singled out by the former President are attempting to marshal their own army of financiers and activists. Representative Adam Kinzinger who opposed Trump and voted to impeach him is at the center of new SuperPAC to financially support those conservative lawmakers hoping to salvage their party’s future. Among the lies that Trump repeated was the implication that the election was unfair and that reforms were needed – which of course is code for making it harder for Democratic-leaning voters to cast ballots. 

Meanwhile the U.S. Supreme Court will soon be considering how state voting practices may or may not be violating federal laws intended on protecting the voting rights of minority groups. The Washington Post explained that, “The cases at the Supreme Court involve two voting regulations from Arizona that are in common use across the country. One throws out the ballots of those who vote in the wrong precinct. The other restricts who may collect ballots cast early for delivery to polling places, a practice then-President Donald Trump denounced as “ballot harvesting.” 

After the House passed a $1.