Christian Nationalism 
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
5/31/2022
Doug Mastriano and the White Christian Nationalist Cult of the AR-15
by Thomas Lecaque
The Pennsylvania Republican nominee for governor has connections to a church that merges radical Christian nationalism with the trappings of the militia movement and a fetishism of assault rifles.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
The Imminent Demise of Roe Signals More Christian Nationalist Attacks on Secular America
by David Sehat
Christian conservatives are targeting not just abortion or contraception, but the broader idea of a secular American republic.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/14/2022
We're Facing the Results of the Dems' Retreat from Secularism
by Jacques Berlinerblau
By trying to match the Republicans on bringing Christian faith into policy, Democrats abandoned the difficult but necessary struggles to define how a diverse society protects religious freedom for majority and minority faiths – and those of no faith.
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SOURCE: PsyPost
3/30/2022
Ignorance of American Political History Correlates to Support for Christian Nationalism
Survey research suggests that respondents who support the idea of a Christian America are not ignorant or unintelligent, but motivated to actively affirm statements about government and history that align with their theological precepts.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/30/2022
The Lesson from Republicans' Embrace of "Classical Education"
Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.
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SOURCE: Editorial Board
2/17/2022
The Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" Takes Inspiration from a Biblical Account of a Divine Massacre
by Thomas Lecaque
The Ottawa truck protests featured a contingent of "Jericho Marchers" who are increasingly prominent on the Christian far right.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
2/10/2022
Missing from the Conversation on Christian Nationalism? Whiteness
by Peter Laarman
The extreme wing of the Christian right is attracting attention for its rhetoric equating freedom with their own power to determine the course of society. A minister argues that recent works in religious history show that it's a mistake to leave out the significance of white racial identity to that movement.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
2/6/2022
The United States Needs to Drop the National Prayer Breakfast
by Anthea Butler
Organized by a secretive Christian nationalist organization, the National Prayer Breakfast is an annual ritual that has no place in the political culture of a multicultural democracy.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/26/2022
Capitol Attack Pushed Christian Nationalism to Center of Shifting Far-Right Movement
Christian nationalism, particularly the sense that America's white, Christian identity is threatened, is a force uniting disparate strains of the far right and a potential bridge between extremists and millions of American Evangelicals, say scholars Kelly J. Baker and Anthea Butler.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/10/2022
The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie
by Katherine Stewart
A historian of the religious right argues that the movement has recently integrated the Trumpist myth of stolen elections into its political mobilization of evangelical pastors.
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SOURCE: Uncivil Religion
1/6/2021
Braveheart: President Donald J. Trump
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Following the threads of religion and nationalism that form the unlikely comparison between Trump and Mel Gibson's (heavily mythologized) Scottish movie hero.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
8/2/2021
We've Begun to Confront Christian White Nationalism. But What About the Source Text?
by Dianne M. Stewart
Critics of emergent White Christian Nationalism too often stop short of a key point: the Bible's explicit endorsement of war, conquest and genocide back up an eliminationist political outlook on the right.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/15/2021
White Christian Nationalists Want More Than Just Political Power
by Lauren R. Kerby
"White Christian nationalism also unites nostalgia for a lost age of Christian power with a profound sense of victimization. No one should underestimate how dangerous this combination is, particularly among those who decide that their faith requires them to retake their nation."
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