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Andrew L. Seidel Profile picture
@AndrewLSeidel
Jul 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
We're getting some data on churches that took taxpayer money, a violation of the Constitution, under the PPP program.

The numbers are staggering. @ryanburge put them up: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
First Baptist Dallas, Robert Jefferess's church took between $2-5 MILLION. (📊Line 5769)

Jeffress is on Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board. He took the money on April 15--six months and 19 days before the #2020election.

@VP, @JohnCornyn, @GovAbbott, were there last weekend.
(I would have tagged Jeffress here, but he blocked me for tweeting about his Fox News appearance.
Remember the horrific grand jury report on rape and abuse of children in the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania? The Diocese of Pittsburgh had 90+ priests credibly accused.

It took $2-5 MILLION of your taxdollars on April 14. Twenty months to the day after the final report. Image
And if you're wondering why I'm focusing on the Diocese of Pittsburgh, well, I read that entire report. And some things stick with you.

Pittsburgh priests gave the most pliable, reticent victims gold crosses, marking the children for torment by their fellow pedeophile priests. Image
For those asking, this is a subset of the full days the SBA released. @ryanburge, who does really amazing work, scraped the full set for churches and dioceses. As I understand it, he'll be adding other houses of worship and eliminating false positives soon.

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Nov 6
I'm ashamed of my fellow Americans and appalled at the power that polluted information streams have to poison the human mind with bigotry and fear.
And, from @brianbeutler :
offmessage.net/p/reflections-…Image
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Aug 19
When I write that Project 2025 is already happening in Okla., I mean that the Heritage Foundation is in bed with Ryan Walters.

Walters is also using state funds to hire Heritage folks "to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior." The details are alarming.
Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.
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Mary is/was married to Russ Vought. You know him. He's the guy recently caught on tape admitting that Trump was still very much working toward a Project 2025 future. (We locked this article last week, before that video broke).
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Jun 20
Some facts about the Ten Commandments that Louisiana really should have looked up before forcing public schools to display them in classrooms. A thread.🧵
The text of the Louisiana law actually specifies a state-sanctioned version of God's holy writ. It begins “I AM the LORD thy God. Thou shall have no other gods before me.” Image
The point of this bill is to give the false impression that America is a Christian nation. That's Christian Nationalism.
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May 25
Historical flags are often adopted by modern political movements. Sometimes this is obvious, like neo-Nazis adopting the Confederate flag. Or less so, like when the Tea Party adopted the Gadsden (Don't Tread on Me) flag.

The Appeal to Heaven flag is even more under the radar. Image
This flag—which was widely flown during the insurrection—has become like a secret handshake for Christian Nationalist public officials to signal their fealty to the cause, while maintaining plausible deniability about their allegiance. That's literally the point behind the flag.
I explained this to @BradleyOnishi on the latest episode of @StraightWhiteJC. Image
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May 22
So this is a huge deal. The Appeal to Heaven flag was all over the insurrection and comes out of explicitly Christian Nationalist spaces. Sam Alito is professing his Christian Nationalism.
Some really important context from the "Christian Nationalism and the January 6, 2021, Insurrection" report I helped spearhead.


They didn't just fly the flag, on January 5th, they held "An Appeal to Heaven" across from the Supreme Court. bjconline.org/jan6report/
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But that flag—the flag Alito flew—was all over the insurrection. And the ties to Christian Nationalism could not be more clear.
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Feb 29
🚨We need to talk about this alarming pressure campaign that's happening right now. An attempt to muzzle discussion, criticism, and reporting on the authoritarian Christian Nationalism that is working against American democracy and a free press.
In Dec., journalist @HeidiReports wrote a piece exposing how the dark money network that financed the conservative takeover of the courts is also backing the Christian Nationalist push to dismantle public education, with Oklahoma as a test case.
politico.com/news/2023/12/2…
Just days ago, Przybyla wrote a piece about Christian Nationalism in a second Trump administration which broke the internet. The reporting is accurate and terrifying. It shows that American democracy is unlikely to survive a second Trump term.

But now...
politico.com/news/2024/02/2…
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