Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love just weeks before the presidential election to spread her message of political conversion. “After Jan. 6, I did what in my family is considered unthinkable: I left the Republican Party and joined the Democrat[ic] Party. And I left the church.”

Barton-Gauss is part of a bus tour across the key battleground state hosted by Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT). The group teamed up with The Bulwark, a political outlet founded by Never Trump Republicans, for a series of podcast tapings and other events highlighting Republicans and former Republicans supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. Targeting lifelong members of the GOP who harbor doubts about another Donald Trump term is a central strategy of the Harris campaign. RVAT’s organizers believe there are just enough of these right-leaning voters to push dead-heat swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin over the top for Democrats.


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    She reiterated that the nation’s founders “never intended for this country to be a theocracy.”

    If only christo-nationalists got this.

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      I’m not even Christian anymore and I’m embarrassed for them at how willfully, cartoonishly oblivious they are to the teachings they claim to want to enforce at the point of a gun.

      A real christo-nationalist fascist would put a gun against your head and tell you to welcome and assist people from foreign lands! Give away what you don’t need to the less fortunate! Pay your taxes! And love your fucking neighbors like my brown skinned, middle eastern messiah who I embrace as my superior wants, motherfucker!