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Andrew L. Seidel Profile picture
Andrew L. Seidel
@AndrewLSeidel
Attorney. Fighting Christian Nationalism. Defending the 1st Amendment. Author of The Founding Myth and American Crusade. Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
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Aug 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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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Jun 20 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
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
May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
May 22 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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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Feb 29 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
🚨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…
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Despite Wheerler's unearned arrogance, @HeidiReports is absolutely correct. Rights given by a god can be taken away by men claiming to speak for that god. That's exactly the fight we're in now. That's what the Alabama Supreme Court just did with IVF. That's Christian Nationalism. Again, I tackle this all in The Founding Myth, including the inevitable rejoinder of misquoting the Declaration of Independence, usually as "endowed by Our Creator," including a look the natural law philosophy the Declaration relies on.
Here's a bit.
📖 bit.ly/TFMpaperback


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Jul 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Oh, it's so much worse than y'all think.

Hawley works at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist legal outfit behind so many of the cases that are dragging this country back to a time when conservative, white Christian men ruled everything.

But there's more... ADF, with Hawley actually arguing the case, is behind the mifepristone case being litigated before Judge Kacsmaryk in Texas (Kacsmaryk worked for one of ADF's brother orgs in the Christian Nationalist space.)

But there's still more...
Dec 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Thrilled to see my friend and colleague, @AmandaTylerBJC of @BJContheHill testifying about the threat White Christian Nationalism poses to a pluralist democracy. Speaking truth to power. Read more about the role the Christian Nationalism played in the January 6th insurrection here:
bjconline.org/jan6report/
Dec 7, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Moore v. Harper, a case that could effectively end the American experiment with democracy.

Wait, what?

Yup.

Let's take a quick look: Ostensibly, the case centers on the Independent State Legislature theory or doctrine, which is neither, but actually a nightmare born on the fringe of conservative legal thought that would help that fringe seize and retain power.
Dec 5, 2022 • 56 tweets • 11 min read
Ok, if you want to listen along, you can:
supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…

c-span.org/video/?524449-…

And let's just dispense with the idea that this is a case about, as we've seen lately, "L.G.B.T.Q. rights versus religious freedom."

It's about discrimination. ADF has been desperately seeking any means to legally discriminate against LGBTQ people. Religion. Speech. Whatever.
Dec 5, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in 303 Creative LLC case. This is the redo of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case (where a bakery refused to serve a gay couple claiming religion & speech, violating a civil rights law, and SCOTUS let the business get away with it). The same Christian nationalist org, Alliance Defending Freedom, is behind both cases. It’s got a long, disgusting anti-LGTBQ history. ADF is attacking the same civil rights statute in the new case. And ADF has made the exact same arguments in both cases. Image
Nov 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I interviewed Schenck for an update to American Crusade in Sept. This brilliant @Jo_Becker @jodikantor story is about more than a leak: a Christian Nationalist ministry dedicated to emboldening the court. It succeeded. Schenck told me he found a "very, very wide open portal." These justices now are drunk on power. We need immediate ethics reform and court expansion if we are going to begin to check this unchecked body, begin to right the wrong of capturing, packing, and politicizing the third branch.

Schenk's operation worked.
Nov 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People are rightly ripping this ad for a number of reasons. But it also showcases an ideology that inspires political violence and encourages people to reject the results of free and fair elections. ... If you believe that your candidate was chosen by your god to lead and "protect," how can he possibly lose an election? He cannot. It MUST have been stolen. How else to explain the foiling of your gods plan?
Sep 6, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Couy Griffin is now "constitutionally disqualified from serving" in public office under the 14th Amendment.

Griffin was featured in the expert report, "Christian Nationalism at the January 6, 2021, Insurrection" because he led the mob in Christian prayer.
nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/… That report cataloged the role Christian Nationalism played in the insurrection and included contributions from top experts, such as @JemarTisby, @AntheaButler, @kathsstewart, @ndrewwhitehead, @profsamperry, and @AmandaTylerBJC.
bjconline.org/jan6report/

Griffin is in there.
Sep 2, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
@Zirnike @queen0fheathens @JustinHFonseca @DJHammurabi1 @LilithUntamed @MarkLeuchter @maklelan Sorry, I muted this Justin fellow at some point so I'm catching up here.

Justin, keep my name out of your mouth. And—as I'm sure I must have explained to you before and as you've heard several times in this convo—you don't know what you're talking about. Let me explain about... @Zirnike @queen0fheathens @JustinHFonseca @DJHammurabi1 @LilithUntamed @MarkLeuchter @maklelan "Year of our Lord."

First, it's not in the Constitution. The word appears on the parchment in the attestation clause, the language just before the signatures. But the fifty words of the attestation clause are not part of the legal document itself. They have no effect and weren't
Jul 1, 2022 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
🇺🇸🧵A Fourth of July THREAD🧵🇺🇸
As we go into the Fourth of July weekend with fewer freedoms than several weeks ago, let me remind my fellow Americans of a few important things:

America is not a Christian nation. America was not founded as a Christian nation and our Constitution was not based on Judeo-Christian principles.
May 18, 2022 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
Let’s talk about how damn scary it is that a virulent Christian Nationalist, intimately tied to the January 6th insurrection and the Big Lie, might be Pennsylvania’s governor and in charge of its elections. A #thread on Doug Mastriano @SenMastriano
🧵 Buckle up🧵 I know about Mastriano because of my work exposing the links between Christian Nationalism and the January 6th insurrection, which can be found in the huge report on that subject released with brilliant contributions from leading experts.
bjconline.org/jan6report/
Apr 29, 2022 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
I can’t fathom a federal judge calling a party deceitful, then only featuring that voice in news coverage of the case. There were no parents, community or school district voices. This is just so disappointing and really drags down The Daily’s reputation in my eyes. We begin the pod by hearing about a coach who was fired for praying. But he wasn’t fired. The school district tried to accommodate his prayers, he was put on paid leave when he refused those accommodations, and when his annual contract expired, he didn’t reapply. He wasn’t fired.
Apr 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
If white Christian nationalism isn't a threat to you, it's because you're a white Christian nationalist. Some more context from my friend, @ardenthistorian :
Jan 15, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Christian groups like the Good News Club use public schools to proselytize other people's children. This terrible idea was unconstitutional until SCOTUS ok'ed it in 2001 in a case brought by the Christian Nationalist legal outfit ADF (Hobby Lobby, gay wedding cake case). The After School Satan club is only possible because evangelical Christians insisted on using the machinery of the state to proselytize.

So if you're angry about this, take it up with the "religious freedom" champions at ADF.

This is what a equality looks like.

But wait,...
Nov 1, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
If we stop expecting intellectual and doctrinal consistency from this Supreme Court, we'll stop being so disapppointed.

If we stop expecting decisions based on legal principle instead of politics, we might stop getting blindsided by vicious decisions. On that note, the Court is hearing arguments against the Texas abortion ban, SB8, and began by honoring Thomas's 30 years on the court. That's far too many. And he spent them trying to undermine reproductive rights, among other things.
supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…