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Christian Nationalism

The contemporary idea that America was founded as—and was intended by God to be—a Christian nation. Learn more , in the U.S. context, is a religiously motivated political ideology that holds that the United States was founded as—and was intended by God to be—a Christian nation. Christian nationalists explicitly reject the separation of church and state and aim to create a nation that upholds Christian principles above all others, both in government and culture.

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Political Research Associates
From Free Markets to Freedom Square
Charlie Kirk founded his group, Turning Point USA, with a focus on free markets and right-wing economics, but as the group’s membership and donations grew, Kirk has pivoted to include a new position: a Christian nationalist one.
Article
Public Eye
How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right
The Evangelical Right in the U.S is complicit in the strengthening of Russian Orthodoxy leading to the Orthodox culture in Russia today.
Article
Political Research Associates
PRA State of the Right Report
The first anniversary of the Capitol storming is an occasion to take stock of the robust current state of America’s insurrectionist, anti-democratic factions, those that would sooner dispense with democracy altogether than lose their hold on power.
Report
Political Research Associates
It's Just Gotten More Secretive
Project Blitz remains an active project on the Christian Right after receding into secrecy in 2019, but this time cloaked in the guise of secular intentions.
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Political Research Associates
Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 4
Listen to this episode of Inform Your Resistance where Dr. Chrissy Stroop peels back the layers of Christian dominionism, and explains how this ideology is deeply woven into the fabric of Christian homeschooling.
Podcast
Public Eye
Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
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