🧩 BND Motif Index · M1547
Read out of the party
A leader is said to drive out of the party anyone who crosses him, making disagreement with him the test of belonging, as a strongman remakes a party in his own image.
📜 Plots🗂️ Betrayal and Loyalty🗂️ Party fractures🗂️ Purges
- 2claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Political infighting
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 1 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “and you don't belong here” “Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future. They kicked her out.” “he wants to basically say, no, if you have problems with me on this, I don't want you in my party”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-03 “The Michigan Democratic Party is no longer accepting Haley Stevens as a member because of her actions.” 3
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-03 “Abdul El-Sayed is said to want Democrats who cross him out of the party, while his allies say Haley Stevens is sabotaging his race.” 1
M1547 · first seen 2026-11-03 · what this is · how the index works