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C.Jay Engel helped popularize the term “Heritage American.” Now, he’s pushing the discredited theory of “blood memory.”

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C. Jay Engel is a far-right white nationalist commentator and podcast host who is part of a movement to create a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee.Virulently anti-immigrant, Engel has cheered on the administration's brutal deportation campaign, called for the "repeal of the Twentieth Century," and advocated for Taylor Swift to be "arrested and executed."

When President Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, Engel celebrated that "our guys" were now in control and bragged that "there are very good right-wing Heritage Americans in staff positions all over Washington." The term "Heritage American," when used by Engel and his ilk, is essentially a euphemism for a form of anti-immigrant white nationalism that insists only those whose ancestors have been in this country for several generations truly qualify as Americans.

Last week, Engel appeared on "The J. Burden Show," where he revealed that "our guys" are placed in influential positions surrounding Vice President J.D. Vance.

"You have to confront power with power," Engel said. "I think J.D. Vance and others in his circles have also gone through that transformation. Maybe they're not quite as radicalized as us, but I do know for a fact that they have staffers and people in their ear that are our guys. They operate within our circles, they talk to us, they're in our group chats."

Engel said that traditional neocon establishment Republicans are afraid of Vance because they realize that their influence is fading while Vance's far-right white Christian nationalist ideology represents the future of the conservative movement.

"Vance and some of the people that he operates with, including friends of mine, they actually are ideologically set on destroying the residues of neoconservative thinking in Washington," Engel claimed. "So they're concerned that a Vance rise represents the complete liquidation of everything that they've contributed to the American political system since the 1990s. And I think that's true. I think that Vance does represent that, because Vance has connections to people on the right wing that are much more resolute in their right-wingness compared to the people in Trump's circles. Trump is opening a lot of doors, but the people that Vance has on staff, including Tucker Carlson's son, they're a lot more radicalized than Trump staffers, except for maybe Stephen Miller or something. So I think that Vance does represent a very healthy trend."

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In rural Appalachian areas of Tennessee and Kentucky, Josh Abbotoy operates a real estate company called Ridgerunner. And he uses socially conservative rhetoric to promote his company, declaring, "Faith, family and freedom — those are the values that we try to celebrate."

According to BBC reporters Ellie House and Mike Wendling, some of Abbotoy's clients are far-right Christian nationalists who openly push extreme ideas like repealing the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment — which gave women the right vote — and overturning civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

"Initially, he didn't attract much local attention after setting up shop in Jackson County, (Tennessee)," House and Wendling explain in a late December article. "But in late 2024, a local TV news report broadcast controversial statements made by two of Mr. Abbotoy's first, and most outspoken, customers: Andrew Isker, a pastor and author originally from Minnesota, and C. Jay Engel, a businessman from California. They are self-described 'Christian nationalists' who question modern values, such as whether female suffrage and the civil rights movement were good ideas, and call for mass deportations of legal immigrants far in excess of President Donald Trump's current plan. Another thing they sometimes say: 'Repeal the 20th Century.'"

The BBC reporters note that although "Abbotoy himself does not identify as a Christian nationalist," his tenants' extreme views are worrying their neighbors."

House and Wendling quote Jackson County resident Nan Coons as saying, "You don't know who these people are, or what they're capable of. And so, it's scary."

Engel has even called for deportations of legal non-white immigrants, writing, "Peoples like Indians, or South East Asians or Ecuadorians or immigrated Africans are the least capable of fitting in and should be sent home immediately."

Gainesboro, Tennessee resident Diana Mandli, however, is calling Isker's church out.

Mandli told the BBC, "I believe that they have been attempting to brand our town and our county as a headquarters for their ideology of Christian nationalism."

*Read the full BBC article at this link.

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Earlier this year, far-right Christian nationalist activist C. Jay Engel gloated that with the return of the Trump administration to power, representatives of the online right are now in power.

"We have our guys are in Washington and I think that the momentum is on our side," Engel declared. "This isn't going away."

On Wednesday, Engel—a virulently anti-immigrant commentator and podcast host who has cheered on the administration's brutal deportation campaign, called for the "repeal of the Twentieth Century," and for Taylor Swift to be "arrested and executed"—appeared on "The Green Tavern" podcast, where he bragged that he personally knows that multiple people who share his far-right worldview are stationed in positions of power throughout Washington, D.C.

"I really think that in the last two or three years, Americans understand the existential nature of what we're going through," Engel said. "We always laugh about the grill Americans and the people that would just rather watch the football game than get involved in politics, and I think that is basically no longer the chief characteristic of young right-wing men. I think they really do care a lot."

"With [President Donald] Trump and Stephen Miller and [Vice President J.D.] Vance, maybe we can't say they're perfect, but we can say that our guys are getting into positions of influence," Engel added. "And I can say for certain, because I know some of these people, that there are very good right-wing Heritage Americans in staff positions all over Washington. And I trust them, I know them, and good things are happening."

The term "Heritage American" is, when used by Engel and his ilk, essentially a euphemism for a form of anti-immigrant white nationalism that insists only those whose ancestors have been in this country for several generations truly qualify as Americans.

"We just have to continue to fight and double down," Engel continued. "The American right wing of 2026 needs to make the American right wing of 2025 look like liberals, and that we need to do that every single year. We need to push the Overton Window. And I think that we really have a bright future ahead of us. It's going to be some struggle, probably some violence, but I think our children will be able to take up where we've left off. And so I would encourage everyone to just keep pushing it because we're doing great things."


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These Project 2025 people are fucking lunatics.

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The weekend before the election, one Pennsylvania pastor told congregants that hosting Elon Musk weeks earlier was “phenomenal.” In Nevada, another dressed as a garbageman while urging his flock to vote Trump.

What a growing pro-Trump Christian movement tells viewers of its premier news show.

Since 2020, TPUSA chapters have appeared at more than 45 Christian colleges or universities, at least 35 of them affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the largest association of Christian schools.

On their Contra Mundum podcast, white, Christian nationalists Andrew Isker and C. Jay Engel defended Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, even at the cost of separating immigrant families. Isker remarked that in order to ensure U.S. citizens aren’t killed by immigrants “there’s gonna be some crying little babies.”

Mother Jones creator Kat Abughazaleh argues that Watters’ reaction reveals the fierce undercurrent of sexist resentment coursing through this year’s campaign, typified by Donald Trump, who just this week ominously vowed to protect women, “whether the women like it or not.”

Neo-Nazi personality Nick Fuentes has ridiculed Donald Trump for dressing up as a garbage man, despite once being one of his most outspoken supporters and former dinner guests. In a rant on his channel, the white nationalist streamer said MAGA was indeed a cult.

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