Fight The Right

NBC news wrote:National Rally has a strong lead in the first round of voting in a high stakes election, putting France on course for a far-right government for the first time since World War II.

There are currently secessionist movements active in 12 U.S. states campaigning either for full independence, to form a new state or to merge with an existing state, according to one self-styled "self-determination advocate."

Grant Dahl, co-host of the Secession Speakeasy podcast, made the claim in an article published by the Texas Nationalist Movement, which is campaigning for the Lone Star State to become an independent country. Dahl listed secessionist campaigns that he claimed were active in part or all of Oregon, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Louisiana, California, Washington, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania.

Anne Wolfe of Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigative journalism that implicated former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant and quarterback Brett Favre (among others) in a welfare scandal that allegedly re-routed $77 million of state funds intended for the state’s poorest citizens, handing them to the state’s elite for pet projects and to line their pockets.

Now Wolfe and Mississippi Today are fighting in the state supreme court to ensure the journalist doesn’t go to jail.

Bryant filed a lawsuit shortly after the announcement was made that Wolfe was winning the Pulitzer, alleging that the story was defamation of character. It’s the discovery process for that case which is turning into a fight for freedom of the press in the state.