Christian Nationalism

Part MAGA Rally Part Christian Revival — Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service Includes Numerous Calls for 'Spiritual Warfare'

Annika Brockschmidt — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:12:30 EDT

Sunday’s Charlie Kirk memorial service was part MAGA rally, part fundraising event for Turning Point USA—but mostly, it was a religious revival. The more than 70,000 attendees witnessed the canonization of a man who “peddled in paranoid, racist, and Islamophobic…

Charlie Kirk is Well on His Way to Political Martyrdom – But Will He Become a Christian Martyr?

Karen E. Park — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:57:14 EDT

As soon as he was shot, before he was even pronounced dead, Charlie Kirk was already being transformed into a martyr–not a political martyr who dies for a cause ( although that language is developing too) but an explicitly Christian…

Sanitizing Fascists and White Supremacists isn't Objective or Neutral — It's Normalizing an Authoritarian Political Project

Annika Brockschmidt — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:16:40 EDT

Formerly fringe figures of the Religious and Political Right met at the National Conservatism conference earlier this month in Washington, DC to bask in their success at mainstreaming their ideas within the GOP. Now in its fifth year, NatCon is…

Charlie Kirk’s Death Makes Visible What Gun Advocates Would Prefer to Deny: That This Violent Culture Spares No One

Eric Vanden Eykel — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:26:50 EDT

A shooting is never something to trivialize. Bullets rip through walls, through flesh, and through families. Even when they miss their mark, even when they spare life but not the body, they leave a wound. Bullet wounds are physical, individual…

TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames

Sajida Jalalzai — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:15:43 EDT

Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower. A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian American MAGA-hopeful in camouflage pants, boots, and a shirt emblazoned with the…

I Will Always Be Afraid of James Dobson

Sara J. Moslener — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:33:43 EDT

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing —particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and rigidly heteronormative approach to child-rearing and marriage. ___ The summer…

Kim Davis might be too extreme even for this Supreme Court, but marriage equality’s future remains uncertain

Mark Satta — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:49:59 EDT

Infamous marriage-inequality enthusiast and former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis made headlines again this month when she asked the Supreme Court to absolve her of the $360,000 in legal fees and damages she owes David Moore and David Ermold for…

Corrosive Conformity: Evil Banalities Are the Building Blocks of the Trump Administration's Fascist Architecture

Thomas Lecaque — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:53:21 EDT

DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I’m looking forward to more deep dives into DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum’s personal life , it’s the posts themselves—on a verified government account!—that keep me up at night. Not always because…

You Might Not Recognize CALI Gubernatorial Candidate Che Ahn, But His Brand of Militant Christianity Should Feel Familiar

Keri Ladner — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:53:53 EDT

“Joel’s Army”—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political assassinations in Minnesota—is rearing its head once again, this time in the 2026 race for California governor. Pasadena megachurch pastor Che Ahn, who announced…

NIH's Autism Registry Has Roots in Nazism, White Christian Nationalism

Megan Goodwin — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:08:53 EDT

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is that ever Kafka-esque—“includes funding for the Autism Developmental Disabilities Monitoring…

Liberty University’s Baby Business: Forced Birth + Coerced Adoption = White Christian Nationalism

Emma Cieslik — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:25:25 EDT

Earlier this summer, investigative journalist T.J. Raphael released a seven-episode podcast, Liberty Lost , which investigates the history of Liberty University’s Godparent Home. In this secretive maternity home, pregnant teenagers are cared for and often coerced into placing their babies…

Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank

Ben Lorber — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:05:16 EDT

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of Ariel, deep in the occupied West Bank, to pledge support for full Israeli annexation of the occupied territories. Johnson visited Ariel along with 15 US…

DHS's 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Highlights Danger of Innocence Myths of a White Christian America

Sara J. Moslener — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:10:39 EDT

As a habit I don’t follow the social media of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It’s a scroll of nationalistic propaganda and exaggerated warnings about criminal aliens, a set of lies that attempt to drown us in fear by…

With its 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Trump's DHS is Leaning Sharply into 'Blood and Soil' Ideology

Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:09:45 EDT

Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass deportation; and then this one , the first…

Israel Beats American Labor Organizer Chris Smalls (and Only Chris Smalls) in Latest Attempt to Keep Starving Gaza

Mary Rambaran-Olm — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:46:19 EDT

Christian Smalls, a Black labor organizer who took on Amazon and won, just risked his life trying to bring aid to Gaza. He was not met with headlines but with fists. https://youtu.be/cS9ppIkPJJI Smalls joined the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala…

Coverage of Sean Feucht's 'Troubles' in Canada Fails to Grasp Christian-Right's Win-Win Strategy

Kate Burns — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:12:16 EDT

With authorities across Canada’s East Coast, Quebec, and Ontario having denied or revoked permits for each of Sean Feucht’s six tour stops, the first leg of NAR-aligned Christian supremacist’s “Revive in 25” tour is now complete. Feucht and his team…

Obsessed with Trump's Penis in South Park Premiere, Media Ignore the Larger Issue

Jonathan Larsen — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:48:13 EDT

Spoiler Alert: The article below discusses virtually everything that happened in this week’s South Park.If you haven’t seen this week’s season premiere of South Park , you might be forgiven for thinking it’s mostly about Pres. Donald Trump’s small penis…

Religious Challenges to Abortion Bans are Winning in Unlikely Places

Michal Raucher — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:46:42 EDT

Almost immediately after Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the federal right to an abortion, more than a dozen states passed legislation effectively banning abortion. Soon thereafter, Jewish individuals and groups working in coalition with other religious groups began to…

Don't be Diverted by the Diversions — Trump Admin's Bizarre Posts May Be Aimed at QAnon

Thomas Lecaque — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:39:24 EDT

It’s just another normal week in America, where the President is reposting—i.e. re-“Truth”ing— deepfake videos of a former President being arrested and on its official Instagram account the White House is posting images like the one above with the caption…

Landor in Babylon — How a Rastafari's Case against Prison Injustice Could Be Used to Weaponize 'Religious Liberty'

Christian Pattavina — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:38:30 EDT

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety , a case brought by Damon Landor after officers at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center forcibly shaved off Landor’s dreadlocks despite his Rastafari…

Terminally Online Trump Administration Uses Social Media to Frame Its Anti-Immigrant Agenda as ‘Holy War'

Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:44:46 EDT

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images flashing on the screen settle on…

Why the Christian Right Wants to Destroy the Department of Education

Talia Lavin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:07:19 EDT

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the…

'The LORD told me it’s flat none of your business': Jimmy Swaggart’s Scandalous Legacy

Suzanna Krivulskaya — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:54:38 EDT

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and talented singer (Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin). But perhaps his most lasting legacy is as a creative pioneer in the art of managing a…

Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus

Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:50:53 EDT

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller , the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of stock…

On Tenth Anniversary Obergefell Ruling, Christian Right Still Waging War on Marriage Equality Though Likely to Lose This Battle

Annie Wilkinson — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:37:17 EDT

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges , the landmark Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide. Though celebrated by the more than half a million people who have exercised that right…