Oklahoma Is Trying to Put Trump Bibles in the Classroom
AP Photo/Nati Harnik Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the state’s schools to teach the Bible in class—and this week, his department put in a $3 million proposal to buy 55,000 Bibles for Oklahoma…
Christian Nationalists Dream of Taking Over America. This Movement Is Actually Doing It.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One August evening, I drove through the cornfields and dairy farms of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to attend a government-themed prayer night at Ephrata Community Church. The sprawling house of worship looks like an office park and houses a…
Evangelicals Have a Plan to Flip 19 Key Counties
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last Saturday, vice presidential candidate JD Vance appeared at an event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, hosted by Lance Wallnau, a self-proclaimed “apostle,” which means he’s a leader in a rapidly growing religious movement called the…
Confessions of a (Former) Christian Nationalist
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2014, at an elegant gala inside the Supreme Court’s gilded Great Hall, a tuxedoed Justice Clarence Thomas turned to me and voiced his approval for my work. I glanced over to where Chief Justice John Roberts and…
To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On July 15, when former President Donald Trump first appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he brought along two new accessories. One was a large bandage covering his ear, which had been nicked by a would-be…
Rootless Masculinity Influencers Are Pivoting to Wildly Antisemitic Claims
From left: Dan Bilzerian, Nick Fuentes, Sneako, Tristan Tate, and Andrew TateMother Jones; Zuma; Getty; Destiny Wiki Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A number of prominent figures on the right and far right are once again engaged in energetic antisemitism; this time, Instagram…