News Weekly Round-Up, April 1st – 5th, 2024.

The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS

• MotherJones: Steve and Tracy Slepcevic, far-right extremists tied to Christian Nationalists and QAnoners, hosted a fundraiser for independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• BostonGlobe: Trump launches his campaign targeted at Christian Nationalists to “Make America Pray Again”

• Variety: “The followers of Christian Nationalism want a theocracy. Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones’s chilling film suggests that another Trump presidency could help them get it.”
  
• CNN: Politics of religion – Trump “flirting” with Christian Nationalism and Biden criticized for being a “cafeteria Catholic”
• Beacon: New book by Robert P. Jones exposes disturbing links to Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy
• WashingtonTimes: ‘Christ is King’ slogan is being hijacked by the alt-right
• Truthout: The Poor People’s campaign is working to give poverty a seat in politics, with an emphasis on religion in their work and fighting Christian nationalism
• MSNBC: Morning Joe interview with Jim Wallis to discuss new book on rejecting Christian Nationalism
• MSNBC: Trump criticized for getting too wrapped into a Christian Nationalist shtick

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