In her acceptance speech for the Emperor Has No Clothes Award, Welch shares her journey growing up in Oklahoma City, surrounded by evangelical Christians, and how her mother taught her to question religious authority.
Welch highlights the hypocrisy and contradictions within Christian nationalism and its influence on politics, especially through figures like Mike Johnson, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem.
She discusses the dangers of Christian nationalists and technofascists co-opting power and the importance of fighting for a free and secular society.
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