Everyone should know this quote. There was never a “war on Christmas.” The Christian Right’s liberties were never under attack. They claimed otherwise as a ploy to position themselves to force their own extreme version of Christianity down the nation’s throat. #Christofascism 1/
3/ “GARY NORTH (1942-2022) SOUGHT TO DENY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TO ‘THE ENEMIES OF GOD’ — BUT HE WAS WILLING TO WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE REVOLUTION TO DEVELOP” by @FredClarkson, 3/29/22 religiondispatches.org/gary-north-194…
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6/ North was a founding board member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an umbrella organization for the Christian Right and wealthy financiers.
7/ The CNP’s members have included such unfortunately influential people as KellyAnne Conway, Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Ali Alexander, Ed Martin, Michael Farris, Morton Blackwell, Newt Gingrich, the Mercers, and members of the DeVos and Prince families.
8/ If you haven’t read this article by @anelsona, then you must. It details the CNP’s heavy hand in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
12/ CNP members Ed Martin (a close friend of Roger Stone) & Tom Fitton called upon Trump to pardon Stone & Michael Flynn (which Trump did). Martin & Fitton were then heavily involved in efforts to overturn the election, as I reported here 4 @BucksCoBeacon. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/05/part-5…
In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/
William Donahue (president of College Republicans of America) says that he is promoting “integralism, not theocracy,” but his post misleadingly omits that “integralism” is shorthand for “Catholic integralism” & that the doctrine seeks to “integrate” Church & state. 1/ uscatholic.org/articles/20191…
Remember when Trump:
* Posted a photo of himself wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Alvin Bragg?
* Mocked MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting hit with a rubber bullet?
* Praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter?
* Joked about the assault on Paul Pelosi? 1/
The Daily Signal—launched by Heritage—gushes that JD Vance & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok”
They omit that, as of June, prospective buyers include Oracle founder Larry Ellison (who helped Heritage w/ a Project 2025 database) & Thiel ally Marc Andreessen’s a16z. 1/
2/ Link to the Daily Signal article, which says nothing about Ellison, Oracle, Andreessen, or a16z. dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/how…
3/ “A consortium of companies, including Oracle [founded by Larry Ellison] … & a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), is back in the running to acquire TikTok. As reported by Bloomberg [in June]
…, the group is allegedly the buyer revealed by…Trump last weekend.” 7/3/25 datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle…
The Daily Signal gushes that JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s protégée) & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok,” adding that the US-backed buyer has yet to be named.
They omit that, as of June, one of the prospective buyers is a16z—founded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. 1/
👀The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has published an article by A3P attorney Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to states & requires church-state separation. 1/