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Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

…the court looked back on all the cases it had decided about the government using government power and resources to promote, advance, inculcate, or impose one particular religion over others—or religion generally over nonreligion—and synthesized more than a century of precedent to arrive at a simple legal test known as the Lemon test. This was strong precedent, older than Roe v. Wade and issued in an 8–1 decision built on all the Court’s earlier ca…

The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection

By Andrew L. Seidel

…tian Nationalist and coordinated. State legislators around the country are using this Christian Nationalist playbook to divide the country along religious lines. Because of my role spearheading the report on Christian Nationalism in the Capitol insurrection, I was asked to deliver written testimony to the January 6th Committee. In it, I included a new section that looked at the influence of Christian Nationalism on state and local officials, inclu…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…st the Tutsis. The propagandist explains: “In this way, the party which is using terror will accuse the enemy of using terror.” According to genocide historian Alison Des Forges: “The unknown author of the memo claims that with methods like the ‘accusation in a mirror,’ propagandists could persuade ‘honest people’ that they were facing an existential threat by the enemy and it was therefore necessary for them to commit atrocious acts of violence ‘…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…as paragons for the future of conservatism, while reveling in the idea of using state power to suppress one’s political opponents is an open threat. But we need not read into Davidson’s words to deduce this, because he’s done us the favor of formulating his totalitarian wishlist of how state power should be wielded to destroy a pluralistic society: “To stop universities from spreading poisonous ideologies will require state legislatures to starve…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…d: “I just want to make sure I’m correct in understanding that the Left is using the tragedy in Colorado to make the argument that unless conservatives get on board with experimenting on children’s genitals with puberty blockers, then nightclub shootings will continue to happen.” And this is the part where we have to pause for a second and take stock. Because what Owen is suggesting—with just enough “just asking questions” to get away with it—is t…

Trans Talmud: Could a 1,500-Year-Old Book Have Any Relevance to The Struggle for Trans Equality and Liberation?

By Shane Burley

…s identity as a born eunuch in these debates, so we know there were people using these categories in antiquity. We don’t have evidence of that from rabbinic literature per se, but from contemporaneous cultural frames we do. And what role did eunuchs play in Jewish culture? It’s a great question to which I don’t have a great answer. What the relationship between Talmud, Jewish literature, and Jewish lived reality of the time, is thorny. I don’t hav…

From Elon to Elizabeth: The 7 Seals of the 2022 Apocalypse

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ackluster curriculum vitae includes: joking about “murdering prostitutes,” using the n-word publicly, using ableist, misogynist, Islamophobic, xenophobic comments & slurs and most recently writing a wildly violent fantasy about the star-power of a half-Black woman, Meghan Markle, who married into the royal family. This diatribe outlined Clarkson’s creepy obsession with a woman he’s probably never met, not just re-imagining a Game of Thrones refere…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…(“Donald Trump is the anointed of God… He is the battering ram that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Babylon”), there was no meaningful connection between the rally and the Branch Davidians. No, the echoes have nothing to do with the siege itself and everything to do with the spectators to the siege, like Timothy McVeigh, who subsequently retaliated against the US government via the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people….

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…al scientists working on far right groups are engaging in large-scale work using NVivo and other software to provide us with quantifiable data on gender dynamics, countries of origin, and other such metrics. The excel file, the basic list form, has over 92,000 lines of entries. This isn’t a scientific study, and it’s not an exercise in “nutpicking,” but it does demonstrate the presence of a consistent element at the convoy; it clearly shows that r…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…oolchildren grew up in the 1920s and 1930s with “Narcotic Education Week,” using textbooks that emphasized how bad drugs could be for destroying morals, health, and respectability. A widespread narcotic panic in the media, the political realm, and churches accompanied schools’ antidrug messaging. Nearly every radio chain—NBC, CBS, etc.—gave Hobson and his friends a microphone. Although it’s been forgotten about today, Narcotic Education Week was w…