Kristin Du Mez

«Donald Trump no fue el desencadenante de este giro agresivo; su auge fue sintomático de un problema que venía de lejos. Los datos de las encuestas revelan los agrestes contornos de la cosmovisión evangélica contemporánea. Más que ningún otro grupo demográfico religioso en Estados Unidos,

My overwhelming response to this is shame for what we’ve become.

You know @kkdumez.bsky.social warned us about this shit

May seems to be a slightly better choice from what I hear!

The state of our union ...is stronger than you think

Next week I’ll be speaking in St Andrews, Scotland—details here, and a few other random things:
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

It is!

Sarah Stankorb’s DAMNED IF SHE DOES, coming next September. 🔥🔥🔥

Is this the cover for @kkdumez.bsky.social's new book? 🧐

Thank you! I love the cover too, and the Liveright team did an incredible job on my next one as well. It will be unveiled any day now.

Thanks for sharing!

I picked up 400 subscribers on Saturday alone! If I can pick up 400 more on Super Bowl Sunday, I will hit my ambitious goal of **2,000** subscribers before the first post is published on Monday! Let’s move the ball down the field! It’s FREE!!!

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Des gens en position de louanges lors d'un meeting de Trump

Un homme avec un tee-shirt "Jesus is My Savior" et une casquette MAGA.

Une femme en position de prière avec un sweat-shirt "Trump save America"

Une foule extatique avec des casquettes Maga

Comme l’écrivait l'historienne @kkdumez.bsky.social en 2020, "de nombreux observateurs ont été stupéfaits par ce qui semblait être une trahison de leurs propres valeurs par les évangéliques. En réalité, les évangéliques n’ont pas voté pour Trump malgré leurs convictions, mais à cause d’elles".

Calling @kkdumez.bsky.social

We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Thank you. This will stay with me.

We brought @angeladenker.bsky.social to the Convocation Unscripted to learn more about what’s happening in Minneapolis and why it matters for all of us.

Pastor Blesses ICE, Asks God to ‘Break the Teeth’ of ICE’s Opponents - Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor reacts to a fundamentalist pastor in Minnesota to offered a blessing for ICE after the killing of Renee Good. Each generation has preachers excited to stand up as chaplain...

A Calvinist pastor in Minnesota on Sunday blessed ICE & prayed for God to "break the teeth" of ICE's opponents. My response to such imperial theology:
wordandway.org/2026/01/12/p...

fresh audio product:

some of the best of 2025: Emile Torres, Quinn Slobodian, Femi Taiwo, Kristin Du Mez, Anatol Lieven, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Glickman

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that pr...

Whereas this student is being empowered for making vague and unsubstantiated references to Biblical authority, I was once placed on TPUSA's Professor Watchlist for specifically citing Biblical authority in a paper outlining the Bible's concerns about concentrated wealth. You can't win.

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

I need to use up my @nytimes.com gift links for December and can't think of a better story to share than this one about DOGE's disastrous fails and disruptions: "The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect...And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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This.

Live Laugh Lie The ugly truth of things

Behind the fascade of power, behind the plastic surgery and lip fillers, behind the power poses, beyond the hubris and vanity of it all, there is a deeper moral reality.
There is honesty, and there are lies—lies that sell cruelty as kindness, and ugliness as beauty.
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.

The Trump family has amassed a $4 billion fortune since his re-election.

During my time as Ambassador, I was accused of "focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption." There's no such thing.

We need leaders who serve the people — not themselves.
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Note: there are religious groups — including entire Christian denominations — that hold deeply held religious views that could be classified as some of these “agendas”.

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

Also, many of us didn't "smell" the fascism; we painstakingly researched & reported on the infrastructure of the growing anti-democratic movement, starting well before 2015 & with relative restraint. Some Very Serious Editors called us "shrill" and "resistance-y." newrepublic.com/article/2042...