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Sep 2, 2026
Religion: ‘Our Town’ And A Christian Nationalist Takeover In Tennessee
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Jen WhiteHOST
Well, and Catherine, help us better understand who some of those elites, financial, political, otherwise, who some of them are who are investing either political capital into this movement or financial capital.

Catherine StewartGUEST
Well, on the tech elite side, we can look at Marc Andreessen, of course, who has invested directly in networks like New Founding.

Catherine StewartGUEST
We can look to someone like Peter Thiel, who has supported and spoken at events for a group called Acts 17.

Catherine StewartGUEST
It's a Silicon Valley nonprofit focusing on the intersection of Christianity, science, and technology.

Catherine StewartGUEST
And there are two points to make about the alliance between this sector of the tech right and the religious right.

Catherine StewartGUEST
These tech bros want minimal regulation or no regulation of their tech monopolies.
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Episode 617 | Catherine Stewart | "The Last Starfighter" and "Weekend at Bernie's"
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Everybody always says
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But were you ever, I don't want to say doubting it, but were you ever like, I hope this goes really well? Well,
New Iran missile launches at Israel
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Elise JordanHOST
So what is different now about the Trump Pentagon in 2026 than the Trump Pentagon in 2017 when they expanded the list of religions.

Catherine StewartGUEST
And I want to point out that many faith groups, representatives of faith groups are really understandably outraged.

Catherine StewartGUEST
We have two senators from Utah, Mike Lee and John Curtis, who have condemned the move for not identifying the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a form of the Christian faith.

Catherine StewartGUEST
But no matter how this is framed or whatever excuses they give us, These actions comport with the actions of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, because he is a core representative of the privileging of a certain form of religion in government and society.

Catherine StewartGUEST
In fact, the announcement linked actually to a video posted to social media by Hegseth in which he said that the military's chaplain corps had become infected by political correctness and secular humanism.
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Fun without fireworks? What’s going on with New Year’s Eve celebrations in Vancouver?
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Bruce ClaggettHOST
Now, you and I have talked about this a little bit, and there is some commonality that you found in those names, isn't there?

Catherine StewartGUEST
I think British Columbian parents have relatively good taste, personally.

Catherine StewartGUEST
These are all names that strike me as relatively old-fashioned, but they are not, Bruce, actually the most traditional names in BC.

Catherine StewartGUEST
If you look at the last hundred years of babies being normed in, named in BC, only one of the top five names has made the list this year.

Bruce ClaggettHOST
Liam, Olivia for sure, Charlotte, ah, royalty, Jack, old royalty, Henry, certainly royalty, Sophia, on the edge of royalty, James, royalty.
Weekend Interviews: Nourbese Flint, Rep. Lateefah Simon, and Katherine Stewart
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Catherine StewartGUEST
I was in Santa Barbara, California, and something called a Good News Club came to my daughter's public elementary school.

Catherine StewartGUEST
Good News Clubs are programs of religious indoctrination targeting kids as young as five in public elementary schools with materials that are intended to teach kids who are too young to read.

Catherine StewartGUEST
And they teach them that without Jesus, they're going to go to hell and they need to go to the right kind of church.

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And they give kids candy and prizes for recruiting their peers to the club.

Catherine StewartGUEST
And I was frankly astonished to learn that this kind of program was legal and constitutional, given the separation of church and state in our school when the Good News Club started.
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John FugelsangHOST
But how did you find this hierarchy and what should we understand about, say, the funders and the thinkers and the sergeants? I love that you've done this for all of these douchebags.