Christian Nationalists can’t run from Project 2025

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[Americans United for the Separation of Church and State]( Dear Mother Jones Reader, For years, Americans United has been warning you about the billion-dollar Shadow Network that has stalked American courts, quietly working to upend democracy and equality by undermining the separation of church and state and redefining religious freedom. For months, we’ve been warning you about Project 2025 and the network of Christian Nationalist organizations and political power brokers behind it. The overlap of those two networks is substantial. The Venn diagram would look more like a circle. In other words, Project 2025 is orchestrated by the same Shadow Network that Americans United has been shining a light on. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, which is why so many power brokers are disavowing their connections to Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 leader stepped down. The Christian Nationalist group America First Legal, led by the mastermind of the child-separation policy at the border, Stephen Miller, asked to be removed from the published list of Project 2025’s advisors. But Christian Nationalists can’t run from Project 2025 – it is chock-full of their policy agenda to divert public funds to private religious schools, roll back the rights of LGBTQ+ people, ban the most accessible form of abortion and limit reproductive health care, erect roadblocks to racial justice and redefine religious freedom as a license to discriminate. Russell Vought – one of the authors of Project 2025 – was caught on video earlier this month telling undercover journalists that even as backers try to run away from the Project 2025 brand, they’re not disavowing any of its policies or goals, which he said included “rehabilitat[ing] Christian Nationalism.” We’ve saved the list of Project 2025 advisory board members, authors and advocates in case more of them try to jump ship. It serves as a who’s who of Christian Nationalist groups Americans United has fought for years, including: - Alliance Defending Freedom – the aggressively anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion legal group behind the Supreme Court cases that overturned Roe v. Wade and gave Colorado businesses a right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers. - Family Research Council – another anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion organization whose mission is “to serve in the kingdom of God by championing faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview.” - First Liberty Institute – the legal group that peddled a “deceitful narrative” to the Supreme Court on behalf of a public school football coach who wanted to pray with students. - American Center for Law and Justice – founded by televangelist Pat Robertson and led by Jay Sekulow, ACLJ is known for its anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ stances, and has been flagged by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for its anti-Muslim propaganda. All of these are prominent members of the Shadow Network we’ve been warning you about. And there are more than 100 organizations, politicians, funders and others who have been publicly connected to Project 2025. Americans United continues to build out our [online resource guide]( of this Shadow Network that wants to transform our democracy into a conservative Christian theocracy. We’ve also created [a website with toolkit and other resources so you can spread the word about Project 2025]( and help us expose this existential threat to our democracy. Use this information to share with friends and family by email, by text, on social media, or whatever way works best for you. It’s more important than ever to have these conversations. Whether they call their Christian Nationalist agenda Project 2025 or something else, we know this Shadow Network isn’t going anywhere. But neither is Americans United. We’ve been the shield protecting church-state separation, your rights and freedoms, and our democracy for more than 75 years. With your support, we’ll be here long after Project 2025 is a forgotten footnote in history. Kind regards, Andrew L. 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