Seriously. And they’re not even the least bit creative, either.

“Fascists always have Clergy somewhere in attendance.” That sentence should be on a continuous loop.

Doug Wilson’s nonsense, theological and otherwise, is on full display. His bluster doesn’t work without yes men telling him he’s right. The emperor has no clothes, and it’s not a pretty sight. It is pretty dang funny, though. This is who he is. This is all he is.” open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

I am 100% behind this idea from @kkdumez.bsky.social . The orange one doesn't get to redefine patriotism and make it all about himself. Rather than focus on him, let's have a massive party that takes all attention away from him and puts it where it should be on the people of the Unitied States.

We're up with recording of this week's LIVE show. @robertpjones.bsky.social @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social @kkdumez.bsky.social @jemartisby.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/convocat...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio looks at the degree to which the war in Iran is fracturing MAGA, at home and abroad. With @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social, @kkdumez.bsky.social and @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Trump's AI Jesus cracks Christian nationalist loyalty. Ken & historian Kristin Du Mez unpack the Antichrist moment. @kkdumez.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thekenha... Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

It doesn't get any more "Jesus and John Wayne" than stealing a fake bible verse from a Tarantino movie, which was previously stolen from a Samurai movie. @kkdumez.bsky.social, if you're listening. I think there's a new forward for your next edition here.

How did a predictable “family values” evangelical politics become the engine of an anti-democratic movement with unprecedented access to American power? American Dominion, a new book by Keri Ladner, tackles the question head-on: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Initial responses to LIVE LAUGH LOVE did not disappoint: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Always an honor to talk with @bmietana.bsky.social and weigh in on @bethmoorelpm.bsky.social: “Sometimes the silence is worse,” said Du Mez. “The silence from friends can be worse than attacks from opponents or enemies.”

You know, I'm not in DC right now but how hard would it be if everybody against this murderous despot would leave their house and get in the streets tonight with a candle and say no more

I love that LIVE LAUGH LOVE is coming out with the same publisher as JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. A complementary pair. 😏

Ha yes, this book is ideal for book clubs. With wine. Obviously.

Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s @kkdumez.bsky.social historicizing white Christian women.

This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.

Looking forward to this! If you think Jesus and John Wayne was a hit, and crucial and groundbreaking in understanding such a time as this, well hold on! @kkdumez.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Thrilled to finally be at this point—LIVE LAUGH LOVE releases in September and it’s now available for preorder! Live Laugh Love is about exactly what you think it is… open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

We live in an era where factual recounting of leading figures’ (Musk, Trump, Hegseth) words and actions plus the most rudimentary dot connecting sounds incredibly evil, so many people assume it can’t be true, or don’t want to deal with the implications of it being true, and therefore simply do not.

“…The German community…had nothing to do except not to interfere. Absolutely nothing was expected of them except to go on as they had, paying their taxes, reading their local paper, & listening to the radio.” Reading German history in 2026 America hits different. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

This makes sense only because I'm current reading Jesus and John Wayne by @kkdumez.bsky.social

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.

You probably think he’s just a pretty-boy Fox News host promoted far beyond his skills and experience. But I’m here to tell you that Pete Hegseth is a man of great courage. And nope, not April Fools. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

If you look closely, you’ll find a preorder link up for my next book, LIVE LAUGH LOVE. We’ll have a cover posted soon…

«Donald Trump no fue el desencadenante de este giro agresivo; su auge fue sintomático de un problema que venía de lejos. Los datos de las encuestas revelan los agrestes contornos de la cosmovisión evangélica contemporánea. Más que ningún otro grupo demográfico religioso en Estados Unidos,

You know @kkdumez.bsky.social warned us about this shit

Next week I’ll be speaking in St Andrews, Scotland—details here, and a few other random things: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Sarah Stankorb’s DAMNED IF SHE DOES, coming next September. 🔥🔥🔥

Is this the cover for @kkdumez.bsky.social's new book? 🧐

I picked up 400 subscribers on Saturday alone! If I can pick up 400 more on Super Bowl Sunday, I will hit my ambitious goal of **2,000** subscribers before the first post is published on Monday! Let’s move the ball down the field! It’s FREE!!!

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Comme l’écrivait l'historienne @kkdumez.bsky.social en 2020, "de nombreux observateurs ont été stupéfaits par ce qui semblait être une trahison de leurs propres valeurs par les évangéliques. En réalité, les évangéliques n’ont pas voté pour Trump malgré leurs convictions, mais à cause d’elles".

Calling @kkdumez.bsky.social

We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

We brought @angeladenker.bsky.social to the Convocation Unscripted to learn more about what’s happening in Minneapolis and why it matters for all of us.

A Calvinist pastor in Minnesota on Sunday blessed ICE & prayed for God to "break the teeth" of ICE's opponents. My response to such imperial theology: wordandway.org/2026/01/12/p...

fresh audio product: some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres, Quinn Slobodian, Femi Taiwo, Kristin Du Mez, Anatol Lieven, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Glickman www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Whereas this student is being empowered for making vague and unsubstantiated references to Biblical authority, I was once placed on TPUSA's Professor Watchlist for specifically citing Biblical authority in a paper outlining the Bible's concerns about concentrated wealth. You can't win.

I need to use up my @nytimes.com gift links for December and can't think of a better story to share than this one about DOGE's disastrous fails and disruptions: "The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect...And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Behind the fascade of power, behind the plastic surgery and lip fillers, behind the power poses, beyond the hubris and vanity of it all, there is a deeper moral reality. There is honesty, and there are lies—lies that sell cruelty as kindness, and ugliness as beauty. open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

The Trump family has amassed a $4 billion fortune since his re-election. During my time as Ambassador, I was accused of "focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption." There's no such thing. We need leaders who serve the people — not themselves. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Note: there are religious groups — including entire Christian denominations — that hold deeply held religious views that could be classified as some of these “agendas”.

Also, many of us didn't "smell" the fascism; we painstakingly researched & reported on the infrastructure of the growing anti-democratic movement, starting well before 2015 & with relative restraint. Some Very Serious Editors called us "shrill" and "resistance-y." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This right here made me a subscriber.

“And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too." The moral core of the feature, the photos, all of it.

Hegseth just held his #Christmas Worship Service at the Pentagon. Here's my report featuring remarks by Franklin Graham, who praised a "God of War" & read a Bible passage often used to justify genocide: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-pentago...

In honor of Rob Reiner........... he fought for democracy. "Directed by Dan Partland and produced by actor/filmmaker Rob Reiner, “God & Country” is based on Katherine Stewart’s 2019 book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism." www.au.org/the-latest/c...