Category: Religion

In this special livestream, Dr. Steven Hassan, author of the Cult of Trump, is joined by award-winning journalist and Washington Spectator Contributing Editor Anne Nelson to discuss her recent Spectator investigation into the Israeli government’s outreach to US Evangelical and Christian nationalist movements.

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Last September, an obscure California public relations firm called Show Faith by Works, LLC quietly registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent for the government of Israel. Its mission was not to lobby Congress or buy television ads. Instead, it proposed to use sophisticated technology to digitally target millions of Americans at […]

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Flying home to America from East Africa a few days ago and watching television coverage of the ICE raids, detentions and deportations, I have had nationalism on my mind. As nationalist rhetoric pulses ever more fervently through American political culture — full of slogans like “America First,” “Great Again,” the renaming of the “Gulf of […]

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Of the many currents at the nexus of American religious and political life, Christian Nationalism is unquestionably the dominant force. Christian Nationalists and allied elements of the far right have taken over the Republican Party; purged moderate Republicans from the precinct level as well as their side of the House and much of the Senate; […]

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On May 19 Air Force One landed in Detroit, Michigan, delivering Joe Biden to the Freedom Fund Dinner of the NAACP. It was a classic campaign event, with homage to Michigan state party leaders, an audience seated sedately at their tables, and a series of speeches from a podium. But some 50 miles away, quite […]

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