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Axis Daily Brief: The Most Complicated Yom Kippur in a Generation

Israel is five weeks from a pivotal election, American Jews are divided, and antisemitism is surging

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Trump's FCC Doesn't Want You to Know about James Talarico

What we’re watching is Talarico kicking Christian nationalism’s ass on its own turf. He’s talking about Jesus in public. He’s speaking theologically in public, drawing on an older register of mainline Protestantism. And the polling — and the view count on that Kimmel interview — show he’s running circles around Paxton.

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Axis Daily Brief: The Nazi Who Wants You to Notice, and the One Who Doesn't

There are two kinds of Nazis in the US: Vanguardists give us spectacle, and spectacle gives us the comfortable feeling that the system is working. Everyone condemns the racist/antisemitic spectacle. But Mainstreamers aim at taking over the system. They deny being Nazis, but espouse Nazi ideas. There's a reason we keep hearing about Republican staffers and party aparatchiks being exposed as Nazis. Mainstreamers give us personnel.

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Axis Daily Brief: The Christian Homeschool Subculture That Built Natalie Harp

Everyone's talking about Natalie Harp this week — the aide who's become Trump's closest information gatekeeper. But almost no one is talking about where she came from. In this episode, Matt Taylor breaks down the specific evangelical homeschooling subculture in Southern California that shaped Harp — a world he knows firsthand, having grown up in it himself.

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Axis Daily Brief: The Crusade on Dearborn

How a pardoned January 6th rioter, a Trump-allied pastor, and an electoral strategy converged on Michigan's Muslim community

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Axis Daily Brief: Why Canceling Thanksgiving Is a Gift to the MAGA Right

Wisconsin state rep Francesca Hong, the clear front-runner in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, is facing a firestorm over a 2020 tweet calling to "cancel Thanksgiving..." With Wisconsin's race already tightening and a MAGA election-denier likely opponent waiting in the wings, Democrats need supermajority coalitions, not fights over a meal.

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Axis Daily Brief: The Young Christian Nationalists Keeping America’s War Machine Running

As public opinion sours on Israel, a young generation of evangelical leaders is stepping up to keep the war machine running.

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Axis Daily Brief: Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and Apocalyptic Politics

Why a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Apocalyptic Theology Deserves our Attention.

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Axis Daily Brief: Tucker Carlson's Surprising Reappropriation of the Historic 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag

Why did Tucker Carlson replace the American flag in his studio with the “Appeal to Heaven” flag? In this video, Matthew D. Taylor examines a subtle but revealing change in Tucker Carlson's podcast studio: the replacement of a framed American flag with the increasingly controversial Appeal to Heaven flag.

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