What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
Violence has always been at the center of White Christian nationalism: the vow to impose…
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We May Be Sacrificing Our Children to the God of the Gun — But it’s Not That the God Requires the Deaths
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane…
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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade
In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment…
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What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
More times than I can remember, I’ve had to ascend the minbar and address a…
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Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
For the second time in almost as many weeks, a mass shooter used an AR-15-style…
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GOP Candidate for PA Governor Affiliated with Far-Right Gun Church, ‘Rod of Iron Ministries’ — Here’s an Annotated Sermon by Leader Sean Moon
Pennsylvania State Senator and retired colonel Doug Mastriano has announced his candidacy for governor. And,…
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Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?
In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just…
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Open Carry Racism: The Right Wing Fever Dream that Predates Trump
The idiosyncratic pantheon of Trump administration staffers continues its exodus, a stream of comic book…
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A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
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