https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to heritage foundation en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/06/no-viable-alternative-ballot-anti-immigrant-movement-claims-victory-and-releases-wish When a fundamentally punitive position is embraced by both candidates, you can pretty much bank on voters choosing the more cruel of the two. And with both presidential candidates running on asylum crackdowns and increasing border militarization, the anti-immigrant movement… Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:26:20 EST Ethan Fauré f15b711f-03d0-4839-8f6e-e2e00f67c1ba https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/22/heritage-foundations-christian-nationalist-project-esther-wont-combat-antisemitism-it On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade”… Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:19:40 EDT Ben Lorber 037428b4-99dc-4570-bdae-c52e060b160f https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/19/want-know-what-public-education-would-look-under-project-2025-just-take-look-oklahoma UPDATE (12:03 pm ET on 8/20/24): This piece has been updated to include information on a recently released undercover video. - eds ” Project 2025 is not some far off possibility for Oklahomans, it has been our reality for some… Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:00:33 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 40448ec0-f1bf-49c0-9761-a717e9486a4e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/11/pro-life-theater-open-white-nationalism-and-virility-fear-day-3-natcon The closing day of NatCon 2024 (day 3) opened with a benediction by Reverend Uriesou Brito: a Christian nationalist, staunch defender of Doug Wilson, and Senior Pastor of Providence Church in Pensacola, Florida. Humanity versus unhuman and the Hot Gulag… Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:41:35 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 34ce8754-e58f-4af5-a909-a1a6bcab5764 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/09/persecution-betrayal-and-zero-sum-fight-global-domination-day-1-natcon-2024 The opening day of 2024’s National Conservatism conference was shot through with familiar themes of far-right triumphalism, civilizational war, xenophobia and existential threat. The majority of conference attendees were White, though far from exclusively; majority male, though not entirely; and… Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:35:33 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Ben Lorber 74d5a7bb-5eae-478b-9edf-e07d19d4d9d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/08/supreme-court-cleared-way-president-king-rights-prize-50-years-planning During a 1977 series of interviews (for which he was paid handsomely), Richard Nixon, responding to journalist David Frost’s question about Watergate, uttered these fateful words: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” At the… Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:25:17 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 12dc7029-5cca-4873-80cf-62507d38d3c8 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/01/closed-door-conference-poland-shows-how-us-conservative-christian-networks-export On an October night in 2023, Focus on the Family’s Glenn T. Stanton stood on a small stage in a windowless conference room in Warsaw, Poland, and gave a fierce lecture titled “How ‘Trans’ Reality is Dramatically Shifting.” For almost… Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:56:56 EDT Antonia Gross, Rina Nikolaeva 397ea5b5-c164-4a52-a212-81f1421ce739 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/03/fox-news-farther-right-calls-violence-and-retribution-follow-trump-verdict When Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York on Thursday, it was to be expected that the Right would take the news badly. And indeed—the various factions of the US… Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:21:00 EDT Annika Brockschmidt beff88df-e4e0-4ed9-9a9d-34f4a7425664 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/28/alarming-new-report-shows-attacks-public-education-are-coordinated-right-wing-think Religion Dispatches recently sat down with Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, and the director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to discuss how… Tue, 28 May 2024 04:45:01 EDT Hialy Gutierrez 5bb9a8f2-9add-46f5-8b13-5d6b40a14065 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/03/stop-coup-2025-founder-dangers-heritage-foundations-authoritarian-playbook The Project 2025 plan published by the Heritage Foundation is, in the words of Peter Montgomery , “an unprecedented collaboration among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political infrastructure would enable Trump to make good on his threats”… Fri, 03 May 2024 05:28:40 EDT Daniel Schultz c39343d3-8491-462e-9bde-61d8b1786d04 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/15/project-2025-how-trump-loyalists-and-right-wing-leaders-are-paving-fast-road-fascism Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the… Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:16 EDT Peter Montgomery 9dcb6eb8-09f3-4fc3-89d4-60f5c7caed5a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/24/2023-review-year-one-without-roe-gop-code-red-scotus-gone-wild-and-ray-hope As the New Year approaches and gift guides (and pleas for support) litter our inboxes, let’s take some time to reflect upon 2023. As I’ve previously stated , this is rarely a joyous occasion in my line of work, but… Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:02:43 EST Annika Brockschmidt b379a8b7-7e53-4222-afea-e932631f30ad https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/07/apocalyptic-rhetoric-moms-liberty-summit-illustrates-political-challenge-2024 As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its main events, which took place at… Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:43:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2f4f5ba1-6e10-4395-9607-ee20c7d7d1b8 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/23/dreher-affair-highlights-rights-international-networks Right-wing Christian blogger and media figure Rod Dreher has moved to Hungary, where he continues to admire Viktor Orbán , the country’s authoritarian prime minister whom he’s called “one of the most extraordinary world leaders of our time.” Dreher isn’t… Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:30:09 EST Annika Brockschmidt 6a2afe43-a1d8-4597-b3e8-e19a1cd48ac1 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/12/27/broken-courts-big-lies-and-genocide-rehearsal-review-2022-and-what-we-can-expect-2023 As 2022 draws to a close, amongst the last-minute hustle before the New Year, there’s a moment for reflection. In my line of work this isn’t necessarily a joyful task, but it is an essential one—especially for what it can… Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:59:50 EST Annika Brockschmidt 90d12d30-1152-456a-b75c-712afee390fb https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/07/quiet-part-very-much-out-loud-conservative-publication-calls-embrace-totalitarianism White Christian nationalism has been shown by researchers to be strongly connected to authoritarianism and anti-democratic sentiment. “White Christian nationalism is not just in the people who stormed the Capitol but it’s powerfully associated and a leading predictor of whether… Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:28:33 EST Annika Brockschmidt 1d743ac9-71c0-4a5b-b758-26a659db064f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/04/white-nationalist-ideology-shines-through-elite-maga-conference-inside-natcon-part-ii Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion, O Lord, over this nation”… Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT Ben Lorber 8b40abd3-629f-4727-a893-35feb44bb83d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/03/elite-movement-laying-foundation-maga-will-outlast-trump-and-remake-america-inside “Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in Miami, as a 29-year-old… Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:51:03 EDT Ben Lorber 6663c40d-e1d0-4923-8e9c-1df64285ab08 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/16/desantis-no-show-rights-secret-sauce-and-final-thoughts-pray-vote-stand This is the final post of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/16/2022 Afternoon The election reform panel is a study in fear mongering and misinformation. Jason… Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:58:40 EDT PRA Staff 547c4892-ab34-4340-aef1-45189accdf35 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/15/its-time-defend-our-children-outside-womb-pray-vote-stand-connects-anti-abortion-and The following is part of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/15/2022 Morning First Baptist Atlanta is huge—a sprawling campus of parking lots and Grecian-revival entrances to… Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:53:27 EDT PRA Staff a5b571ea-dfb9-46ec-b9cf-7a3cbe2b8ae7 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/15/anti-trans-hate-machines-conspiracies-dont-stop-us-border Right-wing media have been relentless in their attacks on trans people. In a single three-week window during March and April of this year, Fox News aired over 170 anti-trans segments . And over the past few months and weeks, calling… Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:19:33 EDT Annika Brockschmidt bf4ac3e0-87f5-4fe4-b5d3-faec348795da https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/14/weeks-meeting-will-sbc-vote-voddie-baucham-homeschooling-star-who-embraces-right-wing On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to accept a nomination to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination in the world—a denomination also in the spotlight at… Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:39:36 EDT R.L. Stollar 800c87ca-2f16-4abe-9c8a-4da811f6a616 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/07/12/exclusive-christian-right-bill-mill-project-blitz-hasnt-gone-away-its-just-gotten-more In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured their annual state legislative playbook of model… Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:39:07 EDT Frederick Clarkson 6c54e30d-1e42-45b1-bdd3-9e471c13c6dd https://religiondispatches.org/2019/10/17/anti-transgender-panel-values-voter-summit-continues-shift-towards-storytelling-tactic Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted statistics and discredited studies that have propped up the infrastructure of anti-trans advocacy for years. Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:10:01 EDT Heron Greenesmith fb8ac86e-8c48-4b66-a22f-91b7d4b94b20 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/10/kavanaugh-yawn-wheres-our-thirty-year-plan When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy? Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:22:35 EDT Peter Laarman 6738a801-7c03-4a60-8521-a748d4f7d10c