Gaslighting

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'The Martha Mitchell Effect' Trailer Reveals One Woman's ... (Collider.com)

A trailer is out for the short documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect which shows the abuse she faced and the effect she had on Watergate.

Check out the trailer below for a peek at Mitchell's fight to be heard amidst the constant gaslighting of the White House. The Martha Mitchell Effect hails from Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy, the latter of whom made her directorial debut. It offers a female gaze on Watergate through the voice of the woman herself. The trailer shows the rise and fall of a woman who was once the talk of the town in D.C. Mitchell, the wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, began her time in Washington as a political gossip, making the rounds on talk shows to spread the word about what she'd overheard from her husband and his colleagues. In response, the White House did everything to silence her, accosting her, abusing her, and publicly slamming her as mentally ill. Tensions didn't come to head though until Watergate rocked America. Mitchell, unwilling to stay quiet on such a blatant show of corruption, vehemently spoke out against Nixon, becoming the first person to call for his resignation.

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No, Conservatives Did Not Inflame Trans Ideology In The Culture War (The Federalist)

Leftists push their gender ideology on children, yet conservative parents complaining about Drag Queen Story Hour are blamed for starting a culture war.

It is they who are deceiving — and often permanently damaging — an entire generation of Americans for the sake of their own ideological agenda, the normalizing of bizarre, pornographic behavior. Who told children that their gender and sexual identity were the most important thing about them, and that misidentifying or misgendering amounted to the worst possible offense? As Gorka notes, “pornographic books such as ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ can be found in hundreds of school libraries across the country, thanks in part to the fact that The Young Adult Library Services Association (a division of the American Library Association) put the book at the top of its Teens’ Top 10 book list in 2021.” As Abigail Shrier documents at length in her alarming book “ Irreversible Damage,” the consequences for those who seek hormone treatment and/or sexual reassignment surgery are lifelong. It would be more accurate to say that DQSH events bring the culture war directly to America’s children, with an ideological gameplan expressly dedicated to sexualizing our nation’s youth and urging children to consider themselves gender dysphoric. A suburban community center hosts a drag queen story hour (DQSH) for elementary school students, yet it’s conservatives who are the ones stoking the culture war by complaining about it?

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