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![Lt. Gov. of North Carolina Mark Robinson arrives to speak during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0801-mark-robinson-400x300.jpg)
Christian Nationalists Pursue State Capture — and North Carolina Is Exhibit A
North Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Mark Robinson exemplifies the Christian right’s sinister agenda.
![Ziklag Exposed: Secretive Christian Nationalist Network Tries to Purge Voters in Battleground States](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SEG2-ziklagarticle-400x300.jpg)
This Christian Nationalist Network Aims to Purge Voters in Battleground States
Ziklag is pouring money into AI software that makes it easier to challenge the eligibility of voters en masse.
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Trump’s Alternative to Project 2025, “Agenda 47,” Is Also Extreme and Anti-LGBTQ
Trump is trying to woo moderate voters, but his policy platform is also a far right attack on queerness in public life.
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Christian Nationalists Accelerate Their Plan to Dismantle Public Education
State legislatures are passing bills to erode church-state separation in public education programs throughout the US.
![Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd before delivering the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2158190433-400x300.jpg)
Donald Trump Endorses Louisiana Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Classrooms
Trump further pandered to Christian nationalists in his keynote speech at an evangelical conference.
![Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0620-jeff-landry-400x300.jpg)
Louisiana Is First State to Require Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms
The law requires a poster-sized display in every classroom in the state, from kindergarten to colleges and universities.
![Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 7, 2019, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0610-alito-400x300.jpg)
Alito Says SCOTUS Should Push Nation Toward “Godliness” in Secret Recording
One critic described Alito's cavalier expression of his right-wing views as “deeply troubling” for the Supreme Court.
![Supporters of President Donald Trump join in a mass prayer out front of the Michigan State Capitol Building to protest the certification of Joe Biden as the next president on January 6, 2021, in Lansing, Michigan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0606-trump-supporter-400x300.jpg)
Report Exposes Christian Nationalist “Threats” to Democracy in the US
Per the report, 2023 saw the “highest number of active anti-LGBTQ+ and white nationalist groups” ever recorded.
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Critics Decry Justice Alito’s Refusal to Recuse on Key Court Cases
The calls for Alito’s recusal come amid reports of pro-Trump flags flying outside of the justice’s homes.
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Texas Republicans Offer Up a Christian Nationalist, Anti-Democracy Platform
Voters in rural counties would be given expansive voting power, vastly outweighing voters in cities and suburban areas.