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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not quite sure what this is yet, 3-4 shuffle?&nbsp; 501c3 have been doing a lot of political work and it has been noticed and CREW etc filed complaints?&nbsp; Never seen actual enforcement/penalty since Cleta bitch-slapped IRS?&nbsp; recall JOK booted from LI for fear.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">eg sched F still enacting trump BS agenda ; also culture war wedge issue BS eg CRT for 2022 midterms?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sparked by&nbsp;</font></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sched f neutralized public sector unions?&nbsp; note the bill does the opposite of what roy says it does; also thugswarm of action BS orgs c4??</font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-size: small;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""><p class="yiv2480537194headline3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p class="yiv2480537194headline3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 7 22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Chip Roy's introduction Friday of a bill to make federal bureaucratic personnel at-will employees further stoked fears that marginalized workers will suffer discriminatory firings under a future Republican administration or even GOP-controlled Congress.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://roy.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/roy.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Roy%20Public%20Service%20Reform%20Act%20Text%20-%20FINAL.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Public Service Reform Act</a>&nbsp;"will empower federal agencies to swiftly address misconduct and remove underperforming or ill-willed employees, creating a federal workforce focused on service to the American people," Roy (R-Texas)&nbsp;<a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-introduces-bill-make-all-federal-bureaucrats-will" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a>&nbsp;in a statement.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill "would make all federal bureaucrats at-will employees—just like private sector workers—and claw back the inordinate protections some federal employees grossly abuse," he added.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The proposed legislation comes a week after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/22/authoritarianism-101-trump-plot-purge-civil-servants-if-reelected-draws-alarm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reports</a>&nbsp;that aides to former President Donald Trump are working to revive a plan to reclassify federal civil service personnel who worked under both Democratic and Republican administrations as at-will workers subject to easier termination.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Don Kettl, professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/07/republican-bill-would-make-feds-at-will-employees-and-chill-whistleblowing/375138/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">told</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Government Executive</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;that "this is obviously a huge and major change, an effort to gear up a major assault on the federal employment system" that "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">is being helped and aided unquestionably by a set of groups like</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style="">&nbsp;America First Works, Heritage Action for America, FreedomWorks, and Citizens for Renewing America</b>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> who have endorsed the bill."</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Much of the debate has largely been about if Trump is reelected," he added, "but what this makes clear is the efforts to try to change the civil service aren't just Trump necessarily, and if Republicans take control of Congress following the midterms, this may very well go from idea to specific action."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to&nbsp;Government Executive:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.542px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the bill stands nearly zero chance of passing in the current Congress, experts say that it, combined with recent news that conservative political operatives with Trump's endorsement have devised plans to reviv<b>e Schedule F</b>, a proposal to strip the civil service protections from tens of thousands of federal employees in "policy-related" positions, indicates the civil service system as we have known it for the last 150 years will be under attack under the next Republican administration.
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Although Roy says his bill "will provide justice to federal employees who are victims of discrimination or whistleblower retaliation," Kettl warned that the measure "dramatically limits the amount of whistleblowing activity that's possible," noting that "it creates a disincentive to blow the whistle because your retirement benefits could be reduced."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"When you put it together," he added, "it's a very big deal" and "would dramatically change the incentives for individuals who are being dismissed because of whistleblowing."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Author and transgender activist Brynn Tannehill worries that, should at-will employment become reality, "a purge of trans people from federal service" would follow a return of Trump or another Republican president to the White House.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Commenting on the&nbsp;<a href="https://48hills.org/2022/07/da-begins-mass-firings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">mass firing&nbsp;</a>of progressive staffers by San Francisco's new tougher-on-crime district attorney following Chesa Boudin's recall, socialist organizer Julian LaRosa&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/J_LaRosa415/status/1549909357436882944" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">recently argued</a>&nbsp;for a codified employment termination standard similar to the one realized in the limited laws that labor activists led by Local 32BJ of the<b>&nbsp;Service Employees International Union&nbsp;</b><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/just-cause-firing-bill-philadelphia-parking-lot-workers-seiu-32bj-20190516.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">helped enact&nbsp;</a>in Philadelphia and New York.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Can we just get universal just cause in the workplace already?" he asked.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Testifying before New York City Council members in support of that city's 2021 just-cause law, former Chipotle worker Melanie Walker&nbsp;<a href="https://prospect.org/labor/firing-workers-on-the-boss-whim-new-york-just-cause-law/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a>&nbsp;she was suddenly fired by her manager one day for not smiling, even though there were no customers in the store.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Everyone who's working needs to have some type of stability in your life," she said. 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</div><div><b>'Authoritarianism 101': Government watchdogs ring alarm bell over Trump plot to purge civil servants If reelected</b></div><div>
</div><div>Julia Conley July 24, 2022</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><b>Government watchdogs on Friday warned that a plan by former President Donald Trump to drastically remake the federal workforce should he win the presidency in 2024 would "utterly destroy" public service in the United States.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Axios reported Friday, central to Trump's plans for a second term is the reinstatement of his executive order known as "Schedule F," which established a new category of federal employees....</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"></span></div></span></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">on the same day that the Trump-enhanced far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court overturned&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Roe v. Wade</em>, the Heritage Foundation announced that it is leading The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a coalition of&nbsp;<b>Christian nationalist,</b>&nbsp;pro-voter suppression, anti-LGBTQ-equality, anti-government, Big Lie-promoting, and Trump-cheerleading groups to “position the movement to take the reins of government” after what they expect will be a Republican victory in the 2024 presidential election. The project is being headed by former Trump administration official Paul Dans.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the Heritage Foundation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/2025-presidential-transition-project-forms-advisory-board-leading-conservative-partners?utm_source=THF_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TheAgenda&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGFRAXIxAG8vPgt4guJ-s8h3xLT2RzOjWGpNhgT2Qlhi19jLk-eaHLSJTl8D-C0ttS_pHXfrPn_D_m_LY5BJC41A_83Jf03FIpI_ao_1dttKT0WuOOqL3MnoVJH" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">press release</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is focused on two key fronts—preparing the next administration with conservative policy recommendations and the properly vetted and trained personnel needed to defeat the administrative state, implement those policies, and take back America.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notable among the groups represented on the project’s advisory board are religious-right legal giant&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Alliance Defending Freedom,</b>&nbsp;whose “<a href="https://adflegal.org/blog/what-generational-win" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">generational win</a>” goals include banning abortion, reversing marriage equality, and further dismantling church-state separation;&nbsp;</span>the&nbsp;<b>American Legislative Exchange Council,</b>&nbsp;which partners right-wing lawmakers with corporate funders; and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pizzagater-jack-posobiec-granted-fellowship-by-increasingly-white-nationalist-think-tank/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">increasingly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">extremist</a>&nbsp;<b>Claremont Institute,</b>&nbsp;home of Trumpist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-26/trump-lawyer-john-eastman-jan-6-notoriety" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">coup-promoting</a>&nbsp;lawyer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-sordid-record-of-john-eastman-the-latest-right-wing-lawyer-on-trumps-legal-team/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">John Eastman</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Groups represented on the project’s advisory board so far:</b></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; line-height: 1.5; list-style: none;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alliance Defending Freedom</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">America First Legal</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Accountability Foundation</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Center for Law and Justice</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>American Legislative Exchange Council</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Moment</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Principles Project</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Center for Renewing America</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Claremont Institute</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Competitive Enterprise Institute</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Concerned Women for America</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Conservative Partnership Institute</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Defense of Freedom Institute</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Family Research Council</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>First Liberty Institute</b></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Foundation for Government Accountability</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Leadership Institute</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/susan-b-anthony-list/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Susan B. Anthony List</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/texas-public-policy-foundation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/young-americas-foundation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Young America's Foundation</a></font></p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>over the last several years, the United States has seen a dramatic&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/03/18/white-christian-nationalism-raskin-tlaib-democracy-freethought-secular/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rise</a>&nbsp;in Christian nationalism, a loosely defined ideology that fuses patriarchy, xenophobia, and pretextual economic populism with an overtly biblical foundation and a deep distrust of democracy. This phenomenon has manifested in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/a-pennsylvania-lawmaker-and-the-resurgence-of-christian-nationalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">many ways</a>, but one of the organizations driving the trend is a far-right think tank called the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Renewing America.&nbsp;</span></b></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several former Trump administration officials are associated with the group, including its president, Russ Vought, who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump. Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/russvought45/status/1302033078848753665" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">led</a>&nbsp;the administration’s efforts to demonize critical race theory, including removing anti-racism training from federal agencies. He is a regular guest on Steve Bannon’s podcast&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">War Room: Pandemic</em>&nbsp;and on Fox News.</span>&nbsp;<b>His organization is one of several far-right groups under the umbrella of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cpi.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Conservative Partnership Institute</a>, whose top officials include former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and right-wing legal activist Cleta Mitchell.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both Meadows and Mitchell were intimately involved in Trump’s attempted insurrection, as were at least 18 other people&nbsp;<a href="https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/07/05/the-insurrectionists-clubhouse-former-trump-aides-find-a-home-at-a-little-known-maga-hub/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">associated</a>&nbsp;with CPI, including CRA senior fellow&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-repeats-lie-trump-called-20000-troops-secure-capitol-january-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Kash Patel</a>,&nbsp; former Trump Pentagon official.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps the most significant of Trump’s top&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-election.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coup</a>&nbsp;allies is CRA&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/russvought/status/1532820707062829056" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">senior fellow</a>&nbsp;Jeffrey Clark,&nbsp;</b>a former environmental lawyer at the Department of Justice who was hired by the think tank in June. About three weeks later, Clark was targeted in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/law-enforcement-trump-official-coup-00041767" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">raid</a>&nbsp;by federal law enforcement. Little is publicly known about the investigation into Clark, but it may revolve around his proposal “to send a letter to state officials in Georgia falsely stating that the department had evidence that could lead Georgia to rescind its certification of Mr. Biden’s victory in that key swing state,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-justice-dept.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">according</a>&nbsp;to The New York Times.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CRA works on an array of disparate, seemingly unrelated&nbsp;</span><a href="https://americarenewing.com/issues/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">issues</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. In addition to CRA-linked individuals’ considerable&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/russvought/status/1532820707062829056" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">efforts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/russvought/status/1531678731189747712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">justify</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;the January 6 insurrection, the organization has sown doubt about future “election integrity.” Vought has remained at the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/newest-attack-critical-race-theory-echoes-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-and-foxs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">heart</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;of the anti-critical race theory push even after he left OMB. He is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://wng.org/opinions/the-rejection-of-double-minded-governing-1649678177" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">virulently</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;anti-trans, calling trans identity a “</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990772" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">contagion</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” in a 2021 podcast, and CRA has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://americarenewing.com/issues/safe-act-qa/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supported</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;anti-trans legislation and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://americarenewing.com/issues/letter-opposing-fairness-for-all-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">opposed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;laws that would ban discrimination based on sexual and gender identity. Senior fellow and immigration restrictionist</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Ken Cuccinelli a</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nd&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vought&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewctr/status/1544341617741828096" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">successfully</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;lobbied counties in Texas to declare that they were under</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;“invasion”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">by migrants.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CRA is also an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewctr/status/1540397001032056832" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">active</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewcitizen/status/1540381629486694403" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">participant</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;in the conservative legal community, as exemplified by its<b>&nbsp;</b></span><a href="https://americarenewing.com/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><b>senior fellow</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>&nbsp;Mark Paoletta,&nbsp;</b>who prepared Justices&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/01/28/hard-charging-white-house-budget-lawyer-middle-ukraine-decision-has-pushed-legal-limits-trump/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Neil Gorsuch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GU-YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT106&lpg=PT106&dq=mark+paoletta+confirmation+hearing+preparation+kavanaugh&source=bl&ots=rpW7sEtiqn&sig=ACfU3U1vhRt1lVSRhWvgvxRuGJ8ucrO6Rg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVkcu6guX4AhUUk4kEHWDnADYQ6AF6BAgcEAM#v=onepage&q=mark%20paoletta%20confirmation%20hearing%20preparation%20kavanaugh&f=false" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Brett Kavanaugh</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/ginni-thomas-january-6-committee.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Clarence Thomas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;for their confirmation hearings</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. Following the overturning of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Roe v. Wade</em>, Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/russvought/status/1540382076754690051" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">celebrated</a>&nbsp;Paoletta’s central role in the court’s rightward shift.&nbsp;</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>What unites these issues is what Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990778" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">refers</a>&nbsp;to as a “biblical worldview,”</b>&nbsp;a concept that has long been prevalent on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.focusonthefamily.com/faith/whats-a-christian-worldview/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">religious right</a>&nbsp;and refers to an all-encompassing ideology derived from a conservative interpretation of the Bible. Although Vought eschews the aesthetics of some of the street-fighting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/far-right-christian-fascist-influencer-led-attack-dallas-drag-event" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Christian fascists</a>&nbsp;who terrorized Pride events in June, he overtly believes the United States should be a Christian nation. CRA’s&nbsp;<a href="https://americarenewing.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mission</a>&nbsp;is to “renew a consensus of America as a nation under God.” Vought is signatory to a national conservative&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/national-conservatism-a-statement-of-principles/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">statement</a>&nbsp;affirming that “the Bible should be read as the first among the sources of a shared Western civilization in schools and universities.” Most revealingly, in 2021 Vought wrote an opinion piece for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/there-anything-actually-wrong-christian-nationalism-opinion-1577519" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Newsweek</a>&nbsp;with the headline: “Is There Anything Actually Wrong With 'Christian Nationalism?'</font></p></div></div><div data-align="center" class="l--gutter-pull paragraph paragraph--type--stories-image paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -56.2625px; margin-right: -56.2625px;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media media--image" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><figcaption class="media-playercaption block-quote block-quote--minor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vought argues that, no, there’s nothing wrong with Christian nationalism, so long as it’s defined in a circumscribed, non-threatening way.&nbsp;</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Once stripped of its superimposed liberal scar tissue, ‘Christian nationalism’ is actually a rather benign and useful description for those who believe in both preserving our country's Judeo-Christian heritage and making public policy decisions that are best for this country,” Vought writes.</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is a fig leaf. Christian nationalism as it actually operates — sometimes taking the modifier “white” at the beginning —&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/20/white-christian-nationalism-buffalo-abortion/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">endorses</a>&nbsp;the racist “great replacement theory,”</span>&nbsp;which posits that global elites are fueling non-white immigration to the United States to “replace” white people. The conspiracy theory holds that this upending of power relations will be done through demographic changes, and at the ballot box — which helps to explain CRA’s obsession with “secure borders” and “election integrity.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Vought, CRA’s issues of focus are not discrete policy battles. As he made clear recently on a right-wing&nbsp;<a href="https://shows.acast.com/moment-of-truth/episodes/initiating-american-renewal-feat-russ-vought" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">podcast</a>, he believes the country is in a Manichean war between the forces of good and evil. The battleground is so-called cultural issues, which, properly understood, are liberation movements to end racist and patriarchal oppression, but for Vought they must be opposed at every step of the way.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These are the issues that if we don’t fight on we lose our civilization,” Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990772" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>. “Critical race theory has to be front and center. Transgender contagion in our schools, impacting our daughters across the country, needs to be a front and center issue."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">moment of truth pod]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">vought wants to create an “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990778" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">army</a>” of activists ready and waiting to serve in government who can be trusted to carry out a Christian nationalist agenda</span>. And as former director of OMB, Vought has a unique insight into how to implement a whole-of-government approach to enacting a presidential directive, which is what he did with Trump’s initiative against so-called “critical race theory.”&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When the president says, ‘I want to not fund critical race theory through the federal government,’ that’s involving all of the agencies, and we have to then make sure that the president’s agenda is executed,” Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990774" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;in the same interview [aud]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">more broadly, Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990772" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lamented</a>&nbsp;that not enough religious right activists “operate on the basis of worldview.” As a result, less dogmatic “elite Christians” have adopted ideologies that “lack clarity at best” and are “damaging at worst.” Vought wants hardliners in the church and in the public sphere. In the context of running the government, that means&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990775" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">replacing</a>&nbsp;career staff with “ideologically committed individuals up and down the agencies.”&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That idea aligns with the upcoming plans from the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, who, along with Vought and CRA, spearheaded the broader backlash against critical race theory.</b>&nbsp;As Rufo said in a recent&nbsp;<a href="https://im1776.com/2022/07/01/christopher-rufo-interview/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">interview</a>:</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">As we approach 2024, I will be publishing a policy paper on “eliminating left-wing ideologies in the federal government,” using the power of the presidency to fundamentally reshape the bureaucracy with a six-part program targeting budget, content, personnel, grantmaking, and oversight. The idea is to centralize ideological control over the federal agencies in the White House and<b>&nbsp;create a team at the Office of Management and Budget to enforce it.</b>&nbsp;We could easily wipe out a significant portion of the infrastructure for the left-wing ideologies within the federal bureaucracy and within the network of federal grantees and contractors, which would shift American politics in the right direction.</font></font></font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">These plans are not theoretical.&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CRA is one of many hard-right organizations&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/supreme-court-in-hand-far-right-wing-prepares-to-take-the-reins-of-government/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">involved</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;a coalition of zealots determined to avoid some of the shortcomings and incompetencies of the Trump administration. (Vought is a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.heritage.org/impact/confirmation-russ-vought-makes-third-heritage-alumni-trump-cabinet" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">former</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;vice president of the organization’s grassroot and advocacy arm, Heritage Action for America.)</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Vought has made no secret of what he would do if given the opportunity to serve as a Cabinet-level appointee in a Republican administration. He would attempt to eliminate or drastically curtail the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and others.&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We got to get after these agencies we talked about before, the&nbsp;<b>administrative state, big&nbsp;</b>money, EPA, CDC, [and] NIH that's weaponized against the American people and we need to put them on the chopping block before we get to some other things down the road,” Vought&nbsp;<a href="https://warroom.org/2022/05/25/russ-vought-a-breakthrough-in-the-midst-of-the-neocon-moment/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;on Steve Bannon’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">War Room</em>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A subsequent Supreme Court&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/us/supreme-court-congress.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">decision</a>&nbsp;that drastically limited the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions would likely serve as a template for Vought to dismantle broad swaths of the executive branch’s regulatory authority.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Vought’s antagonism toward the regulatory state extends to aspects of federal law enforcement, but only when those agencies are investigating conservatives for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">&nbsp;Right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3990777" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">asked</a>&nbsp;Vought about the Department of Justice’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-lists-trumps-coup-plotters-who-he-says-should-never-be-punished" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">supposed</a>&nbsp;persecution of conservatives, including his colleague Jeffrey Clark, and how he thought it should be addressed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The long-term plan is to structurally change it,” Vought said<b>. “We've got to deconstruct the state that is weaponized against the American people.”&nbsp;</b></font></font></font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/chris-buskirk-supposed-be-respectable-face-new-peter-thiel-backed-far-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">organizations</a>&nbsp;that have sprung up to harness Trumpism in the last several years, CRA’s broad influence remains limited. But its success in promoting the backlash against critical race theory shows it shouldn’t be underestimated, even though that topic may not have had the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/4/22761168/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">electoral influence</a>&nbsp;Vought and others have claimed. What’s undeniable is that Vought and his fellow travelers have sweeping ambitions and the zeal of a true believer. They are telling us exactly what they are going to do if they return to power at the federal level, and it is a chilling vision of theocracy and repression.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">vid&nbsp;Citation From the June 27, 2022, edition of Real America's Voice's The Charlie Kirk Show</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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