At appx 8:00, after alleging thousands of fake & stolen ballots, Trump argues that he could not have lost b/c his "coattails" enabled down-ballot GOP to win. But why would D's fake only the top of the ticket - esp when redistricting is coming up this year? washingtonpost.com/video/politics… Around 9:50, Trump claims that other swing states will be flipping to him soon. 🤔 washingtonpost.com/video/politics…

1/4 So here's another one of those what-I've-done-this-year threads. 🧵

Right around the time our lives were shutting down due to the pandemic, the @BakerInstitute published my study of #ChristianAmericanism / #ChristianNationalism in #Texas politics bakerinstitute.org/research/chris… 2/4 I wrote about the national implications of that study in this piece for @RDispatches: "Texas serves as a case study of what happens when Christian Americanists take the reins of power." religiondispatches.org/new-study-of-c…

For those reading the @nytimes piece on how politics influences textbooks in TX and CA (see next tweet for link), this @RDispatches piece from last year shows how Christian nationalism skews textbook coverage of religion in TX textbooks 1/3 rewire.news/religion-dispa… @nytimes @RDispatches 2/3 Here's the link to that @nytimes piece, by @DanaGoldstein nytimes.com/interactive/20…