5 Signs You're Watching Propaganda

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pA-8CM22WWk

 

Buddhist nationalism (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

FFRF Director of Communications Amitabh Pal joins us as we interview journalist and author Sonia Faleiro about her book “The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia.”

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/freethought-radio/freethought-today-may-7-2026/

Pope Leo criticises ‘exclusionary mindset’ of nationalist political movements | Pope Leo XIV | The Guardian

During Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square, the pope asked that God 'open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred'…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/pope-leo-criticises-exclusionary-mindset-of-nationalist-political-movements 

 

Alabama Wants to Punish Schools That Don’t Pray (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #571)

— Alabama schools could lose funding if they don’t mandate daily Christian prayers. (0:22)

— Oklahoma lawmaker: I don’t want “pink-haired” atheists teaching the Bible in schools. (11:56)

— Oklahoma lawmakers shoot down slew of Christian Nationalist bills. (21:48)

— Tim Barton: We “arrest students that break the Ten Commandments,” so we should put the list up in schools. (42:15)

— Australia will keep screwing up the religion question in its 2026 Census. (49:15)

— Survey finds low levels of “Religious Nationalism” in America. Why doesn’t it feel that way? (1:07:35)
Interview: 

https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2025/02/20/alabama-wants-to-punish-schools-that-dont-pray/

 

Opinion | Black History Is a Casualty in Ron DeSantis’s Christian Nationalist Quest - The New York Times

In the same way that Donald Trump made his bones as America's white nationalist in chief, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is trying to make his as the country's chief Christian nationalist, a subset of white supremacy that holds that God has ordained America as a Christian nation, and that its ideals must be protected from the encroachment of pluralism — racial, religious or otherwise… 

But Christian nationalism isn't merely "patriotic Christians" and it's not Christianity, but rather, as the University of Oklahoma sociologist Samuel Perry put it, can be understood as "an impostor Christianity that uses evangelical language to cloak ethnocentric and nationalist loyalties."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/desantis-slavery.html

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

Patriotism encompasses devotion to the country as a whole – including all the people who live within it. Nationalism refers to devotion to only one group of people over all others...

https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-difference-between-nationalism-and-patriotism-208170

Trump and the Republican party exemplify these five elements of fascism

By contrast, the ostensible goal of fascism is to strengthen society. Fascism's method of accomplishing this is to reward those who win economically and physically and to denigrate or exterminate those who lose. Fascism depends on organized bullying – a form of social Darwinism. For the fascist, war and violence are means of strengthening society by culling the weak and extolling heroic warriors.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/17/trump-republican-party-fascism

'Birchers,' the history of a group that helped pave the road to Trump - The Washington Post

With "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right," Dallek joins a chorus of historians who have insisted, since Donald Trump's victory in 2016, that the contemporary Republican Party, with its nationalist, isolationist, nativist and conspiratorial inclinations, can be understood only by looking back to far-right mobilizations of earlier eras: to groups such as the Birchers, who were long considered too marginal and too extreme to have played a decisive role in shaping American conservatism, much less all of American politics. "More than any other far-right group, and more than the most hardline Goldwater, Nixon or Reagan Republicans," Dallek writes, "the Birch Society staked out a vigorous challenge to conservative orthodoxy and bequeathed to subsequent generations an extreme antigovernment zeal and rhetorically violent appeal."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/22/birchers-john-birch-society-radical-right-matthew-dallek/

Beware of this deadly mix: oligarchic economics and racist, nationalist populism

A treacherous alliance is growing that will undermine democratic institutions in the US and elsewhere…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/13/us-republicans-oligarchs-economics-nationalism

Opinion | Trump voters should be loving Joe Biden - The Washington Post

… Trump voters weren't attracted to him because of his policies but because of tribal partisanship and because they liked Trump's style: his attacks on institutions, government-by-tweet, the violent talk and, yes, the white nationalism. Conversely, Democratic voters support Biden despite many policy disappointments because he has brought calm and stability and isn't slashing away daily at the fabric of democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/30/trump-voters-should-be-loving-joe-biden/

Opinion | Trump’s New Civil Religion - The New York Times

... Make America Great Again is a politics of grievance complete with its own myths and symbols. Mr. Trump's rallies have been the ritual locus of his brand of nationalism. They create a collective effervescence in attendees that leaves them seething at their political enemies and ready to follow the president down any authoritarian road he takes them. Moreover, Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry have shown that Mr. Trump's religious support comes from Christian nationalists who believe the United States was built for and by white Christians...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/opinion/trump-lost-cause.html

Opinion | The pope’s unexpected election message - The Washington Post

We have become accustomed to interventions in U.S. political campaigns from religious leaders — including Catholic bishops and White evangelical preachers — who wholeheartedly recommend support for conservative political figures who oppose abortion and same-sex marriage. We are not accustomed to a hearing from a pope, a month before Election Day, who criticizes “myopic, extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalism,” and castigates those who, through their actions, cast immigrants as “less worthy, less important, less human.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/04/popes-unexpected-election-message/ 

Christian Nationalism with Andrew Whitehead & Samuel Perry

Christian Nationalism “is related to racism, but it’s not just racism, and it’s related to authoritarianism, but it’s not just authoritarianism,” Whitehead says on the show. “It’s related to xenophobia, but it’s not just reducible to that. And so it’s connected and it connects all of these other negative ideologies in this powerful way that we felt like we needed to unpack some more.” 

https://youtu.be/ubk8tEvUoyA

Trump Is Turning America Into the ‘Shithole Country' He Fears - The Atlantic

The president’s mindless nationalism has come to this: Americans are not welcome in Europe or Mexico.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/when-trumps-understanding-of-the-world-is-flipped-on-its-head/613840/

Madeleine Albright on America's Standing in the World | Pod Save the World Full Interview

In this full interview from Pod Save the World, Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes talk to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about her new book (Hell and Other Destinations), the secrecy of North Korea, America’s standing in the world today, Trump’s new immigration ban, nationalism, globalization, how a Secretary of State should be handling the coronavirus crisis, and the role we can all play in shaping America’s foreign policy.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/9ICWSm7fZgQ

Former republican adviser: I’ll be voting in the Democratic primary for the first time in 40 years | Column

Long-time Republican strategist Mac Stipanovich explains why he has registered as a Democrat ahead of Florida’s presidential primary.
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/02/21/ill-be-voting-in-the-democratic-primary-for-the-first-time-in-40-years-column/

Robert Reich: Patriotism v. Nationalism

Interview:
https://youtu.be/o98qMWjXnkY

The Trump Prophecy and the Evangelical Vote | Renegade Cut

White Evangelicalism as a political movement is as much about white nativism, nationalism and traditionalism as it is about religion. Donald Trump stokes the fire of the evangelicals with lies and his own brand of fraud.....
https://youtu.be/q2RFlwrjf20

Economic Update: Fascism: An Analysis for Today - YouTube

On this week's show Prof. Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of fascism as massive government intervention to protect and save a crashing capitalism. We focus on today's examples, historical parallels (in Germany and Italy), and how "strong men" leaders push fascist agendas. We discuss how fascism and socialism differ and how nationalism serves as fascism's social disguise.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O05wS7w4aEw&t=889s

Never Trump' conservative says GOP could pose 'existential threat' to US - The Hill

Conservative Jerry Taylor said Wednesday on "Rising" that the Republican Party under President Trump is not in a "healthy place," warning that it could turn into the party of "blood, soil and nationalism" if it doesn't change its course....
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/419826-never-trump-conservative-calls-gop-existential-threat-to-us