This episode exposes a growing movement in Pennsylvania where armed religious groups, theonomy advocates, and legal operatives are reshaping local politics, schools, and community life.

From the Rod of Iron Ministries’ rifle-worshipping pageantry to the Mid-Atlantic Reformation Society’s push for biblical law and the Independence Law Center’s model policies for school boards, the episode explains how coordinated theocratic tactics threaten civil liberties and why the stakes are urgent.

This episode maps the CNP's six-step "kill chain" (Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, Assess) and shows how coordinated influence operations are used to undermine public schools, transfer education funds to private networks, and enforce a rigid family ideology. It walks through the methods—fear narratives, legal networks, social aesthetics—and urges listeners to recognize and interrupt the targeting cycle.

Episode Title: Ep 12: The Architects of Christian Nationalism: Inside the Council for National Policy (Part I)

Episode Description: The Religious Right isn't a grassroots movement of concerned moral citizens. It is a top-down intelligence operation.

If you want to understand the rise of Christian Nationalism, you have to stop looking at the voters and start looking at the architects. In this episode, we open the file on the Council for National Policy (CNP), the secretive organization that has coordinated the strategy of the American Right for 40 years.

Jim breaks down the history of the "Anti-Masonic Lodge," exposes the true origins of the Moral Majority, and names the names behind the machine.

In this briefing:

The Architect: Why Paul Weyrich is the most important man you've never heard of, and how he built the blueprint for a modern Theocracy.

The False Foundation: The "High Moral Ground" was a lie. We reveal how the movement actually started (Hint: It wasn't about Abortion; it was about Segregation).

The Three-Legged Stool: We map the alliance between The Money (The Oligarchs), The Muscle (The Federalist Society), and The Mouth (The Pastors).

Policy Laundering: How the CNP turns corporate greed into biblical mandates.

This is Part I of a special two-part series. Tune in Tuesday for Part II: "The Kill Chain."

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June 8, 1809, Greenwich Village. A 72-year-old Thomas Paine is buried without honors despite being the voice of the Revolution who wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis. He helped winter soldiers at Valley Forge and shaped the idea of a secular republic.

After speaking against organized religion in The Age of Reason and refusing to bow to the political and religious establishment, Paine was vilified, abandoned by former allies, and erased from public memory. His body and reputation were scattered, but his ideas about law, reason, and popular sovereignty still underpin the republic.

This episode examines the fatal shooting of Renee Good and the rapid, misleading political rhetoric that followed, exploring how preemptive messaging and media ecosystems shaped public perception.

It explains "cognitive warfare" and the "cognitive firewall"—how conservative Christian nationalism and integrated right-wing media weaponize trusted values to mobilize voters and protect elite interests.

Drawing on Thomas Paine's example, the host urges reclaiming reason, exposing the donors who benefit, and defending a secular republic without demonizing the manipulated foot soldiers.

Jim breaks down a startling statistic: 41% of American Christians say God mandates them to lead seven key sectors of society, and explains how the Seven Mountains Mandate repackages dominionist theology into a strategy for institutional capture.

He traces the movement’s roots, shows how it seeks influence in education, business, and government, and explains how framing politics as spiritual warfare radicalizes followers and undermines constitutional norms.

The episode urges compassionate engagement with believers and a defense of democratic, pluralistic principles against top-down religious power grabs.

This episode examines how Freemasonry functioned as the communication, trust, and organizational network that helped forge the United States. It traces the shift from operative stonecutters to speculative lodges, explains Masonic rituals and symbols, and shows how founders like Washington and Franklin used the lodge’s practices—elected leadership, bylaws, and military lodges—to design and run a republic.

It also addresses modern misconceptions by distinguishing Masonic networks from conspiracy myths, highlighting the lodges’ role in promoting pluralism and civic order rather than a church-based nation, and explaining the symbolism behind the dollar bill and the Great Architect of the Universe.

This episode dismantles the myth that the U.S. Constitution was founded as a Christian charter, exploring the founders' deist beliefs, key Enlightenment influences, and evidence like the Treaty of Tripoli and Jefferson's writings.

Through examples — Franklin's pragmatism, Paine's radical critique, Jefferson's edited Bible, and the distinction between "God" and "Nature's God" — the episode explains how the founders built a secular machine of government and why that matters today.

In this episode we explore the 1797 Senate ratification of the Treaty of Tripoli and its controversial Article 11, which states that "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

We trace the context: American sailors captured and enslaved by Barbary pirates, years of failed government response, and Joel Barlow’s negotiations that produced the treaty. The episode explains why the clause reflected an intentional, public statement about the secular nature of the U.S. government and how later debates and mistranslations have tried to obscure it.

This episode debunks the myth that Revolutionary pastors were the true commanders of 1776, showing instead how founders used the pulpit as a mass‑communication tool and how clergy were enlisted as political broadcasters.

It draws lines to modern Christian nationalism — from a pastor preaching with an AR‑15 to the political weaponization of religion — and explains how that alliance backfired by 1800, offering a caution about mixing faith with state power.