Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp democracy regardless of who wins the presidential election this year. We dive into Project 2025, the little known and even less talked about Convention of States, and the bureaucratic mechanism at the crux of it all.

Notes:
Read Kieryn’s reporting for prism –
https://prismreports.org/2024/05/20/christian-nationalist-playbook-usurp-democracy/

This episode was originally made as a test episode for a major media company, our producer was Mary Steffenhagen!

Kieryn and Eve try to overview everything we know so far about Mike Johnson, explain the general concept of Covenant Marriage, and discuss his wife’s humurous counseling practice.

Instead of posting 4 pages of notes, here’s one link:
https://tinyurl.com/mikejohnsonktc

And here’s our Arno Profile video: 

Eve and Kieryn chat about the right-wing extremist pivot to taking down all public education institutions. We’ve talked in prior episodes about radical right-wing groups taking over K-12 education, and today we explain dog whistles of “clasical liberal” education and how even well-meaning leftists are furthering the agenda to dismantle public universities and libraries.

**Notes**

• https://time.com/6309612/christopher-rufo-public-universities-deceptive-essay/
• https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-college-of-florida-abolishes-gender-studies
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/05/15/desantis-defunds-diversity-programs-florida-universities-gen-z/70220061007/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
• https://truthout.org/articles/will-wvus-draconian-cuts-become-a-blueprint-for-austerity-across-higher-ed/
• https://www.axios.com/2023/08/30/west-virginia-university-foreign-language-classes
• https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html
• https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/

Kieryn and Eve sit down with Sarah Stankorb to talk about her book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning. Covering the origins of the #ChurchToo movement (featuring some friends of the pod!) and how to approach telling stories involving religious trauma in a way that is healing.

**notes**

Buy The book (or a VPN sub then the book if  you’re in DE)

https://bookshop.org/p/books/disobedient-women-how-a-small-group-of-faithful-women-exposed-abuse-brought-down-powerful-pastors-and-ignited-an-evangelical-reckoning-sarah-stankorb/19462415

Sarah’s Website:

http://sarahstankorb.com/

Kieryn and Eve discuss Bill Barr’s dominionist comments at Notre Dame, dig into his history, and what having an AG who is a theocrat means.

notes:

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/24/trump-william-barr-christianity-church-state
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-law-school-and-de-nicola-center-ethics
• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/donald-trump-bill-barr-setting-religious-war-trap.html
• https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-untold-tale-of-young-william-barr

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