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‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…hers, the paper’s site was part of a group of Russian-backed websites that promoted Nazism, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism for an American audience, though this one stood out as a site that specifically sought to play a disruptive role going into the 2020 elections. The paper began as a Pennsylvania politics blog in April 2020. It was, according to Hatewatch, “mirrored online by a Russian website… affiliated with creators of the pro-Kremlin p…

The Zeitgeist Debate

By Sarah Posner

…the economy hatched by secretive elites on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. These ideas continue to be repackaged by right-wing groups. In the 1960s and the 1970s these claims appeared as conspiracy theories peddled by the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby. The Zeitgeist website lists Nation writer William Greider — a longtime critic of the Fed’s policies from the left — as an “information source,” particularly his 1989 tome, Secret…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…d on Louisiana, similar laws exist in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Brandon Reed, a MAGA politician who readily manipulates religion for political gain, sponsored the Arkansas law. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a…

Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

By Cloee Cooper

…lection denial organization, True the Vote, to investigate voter fraud and promote unfounded claims of election fraud. But what legal authority do sheriffs actually have in elections? Although some have teamed up with election denial groups like True the Vote, their legal role is limited. According to a recent fact sheet from States United Democracy Center and Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…Trump’s primary victories in evangelical-heavy states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, pushed that opposition into overdrive. And it’s also prompted evangelical leaders to mount a defense of their faith by tearing apart what they have called the “myth” of the evangelical Trump voter. It’s understandable why they have done so. Portrayed as hypocrites who’ve abandoned their “values voters” reputation for the luster of the Trump…

Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism

By David Biale

…he most shocking example of which was the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915 in Georgia. In the interwar years, American nativism closed the doors to immigration and led to increased anti-Semitism, including quotas at many elite universities. The Jewish Americans tells the story of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, which recycled the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and generally promoted a vicious form of anti-Semitism. But Ford got his comeuppance wh…

Praying for a Christian Nation on the Fourth

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Day weekends at church. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church in a small Georgia town that displayed both a Christian flag and an American flag. It never really bothered me as a child when we sang “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and “America the Beautiful” from the Baptist hymnal during church. The idea of God and country were engrained in me from my childhood. But, I’ve put away childish things and have come to understand that the very idea that Amer…

New Report Mapping Christian Nationalism by State Suggests Election Need Not be Played Out on Christian Nationalist Terms

By Daniel Schultz

…Red states are just the opposite. And the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin? They’re all right around the national average. Those numbers are not destiny, however. Conservative Utah has low levels of agreement with Christian nationalism, at just 28%. Meanwhile its solidly Democratic neighbor New Mexico is a bit higher, at 32%. Still, the results are significant for understanding the political…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…m farm advocate) lost her job as the USDA Director of Rural Development in Georgia after Breitbart manufactured an image of her that was out of compliance with his standard of appropriate black behavior toward white persons. The reality of Breitbart’s deception has been made painstakingly clear through full presentation of the context from which the excerpted sound bite was clipped. The sound bite came from Sherrod’s March speech during which she…

Wrestling and Religion: We Know It’s Fake and We Don’t Care

By Jess Peacock

…Since I first laid my adolescent eyes upon the masked Mr. Wrestling II on Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 1970s, I became a dyed in the wool fan of the unique blend of physicality and scripted performance that has come to be known as “sports entertainment.” From the cultural impact of Hulkamania in the 1980s, through the downturn of the industry in the mid-1990s, to the explosion in popularity of the WWF vs. WCW Monday night wars, I excited…