Tag: christian nationalism

GOP Senators Say They Support IVF—Just Not a Federal Law to Secure It

This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]

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Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized

Pastor Hansel Orzame leads his “Praying Patriots” at a recent Sunday service at the Ekklesia: Unwoke Church” in Pomona, California (Screenshot from livestream of service) On a recent Sunday, a man dressed in basketball shorts and a black and yellow T-shirt that read “FIGHT CLUB” was summoned to the front of a hired event space […]

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Christian Nationalist Second Trump Term Plans: Bring Back the Seventeenth Century!

“Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government,” he said. “The opinion of the Court in that case made it clear that the decision should not be used in that way, but I am afraid […]

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Trump’s Christian Nationalist Friends Have a Horrifying Plan for a Second Term

“Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government,” he said. “The opinion of the Court in that case made it clear that the decision should not be used in that way, but I am afraid […]

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Mike Johnson’s Disturbing Ties to Slavery-Defending Christian Nationalists

Multiple legal experts brushed off Habba’s attempt to overturn the Carroll verdict. “This is a bogus motion by the Trump team. There’s nothing here,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday night. “Every judge in that courthouse knows, socializes with, has worked with, sometimes maybe mentored, dozens, hundreds of attorneys in this city.” “I used […]

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Mike Johnson Is the Christian Nationalist We Should Have Seen Coming

These proceedings are all closed-door. But video has been obtained by the investigative journalism site Documented, including of Mike Johnson speaking at a CNP meeting in New Orleans in October 2019. “Probably all of my biggest heroes are in this room tonight,” Johnson said, before listing them. “I literally was the bag boy for Matt […]

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Mike Johnson Keeps Flaunting His Extreme Ideology

As The New Republic’s editor, Michael Tomasky, pointed out, the word “vermin” has a fairly noteworthy place in the history of political rhetoric. “To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman terms is Fascism 101,” he wrote. “Especially that particular word.” Nevertheless, Trump’s dangerous new escalation […]

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Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?

Comer co-owns a farming business with his brother. Their late father was also a partner. With this business, Comer and his brother have engaged in multiple land swaps over the years. The Beast details one exchange after their father’s death in January 2019: Chad Comer bought out his brother’s half of a piece of inherited […]

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