Friend,

Today, President Trump is attending his third annual National Prayer Breakfast. Trump has repeatedly used this event to pander to his evangelical Christian base and to tout attacks on church-state separation.

Did you know that the National Prayer Breakfast is put on by The Family, the secretive Christian nationalist group that was recently exposed in a Netflix documentary? Since the days of President Eisenhower, the National Prayer Breakfast has given The Family access to the most powerful politicians in America.

Jeff Sharlet, an award-winning literary journalist who has meticulously studied The Family and was an executive producer for the documentary, exposed their strategy: influence those with the power – the wolves – and the sheep will follow. All in the name of Christ and with the goal of codifying a Christian America.

As an expert on this issue, Sharlet will be the featured speaker at AU’s inaugural National Advocacy Summit in March. Click here to learn more: [link removed]

Unfortunately, Trump and The Family aren’t the only ones seeking to impose a narrow set of religious beliefs onto our shared secular laws. Project Blitz is the state legislative arm of this Christian nationalist movement. Its strategy is to pass an escalating series of state laws to tear down the wall separating religion and government. This movement’s ultimate goal is to allow discrimination against LGBTQ people, women, religious minorities and the nonreligious – all in the name of “religious freedom.”

Like The Family, Project Blitz operates largely behind closed doors. As the former head of The Family once said, “The more invisible you can make your organization, the more influence it will have.”

That’s why AU’s work to expose and defeat Project Blitz is so vital. And it’s the reason Jeff Sharlet’s groundbreaking investigative journalism and expertise will be showcased at AU’s National Advocacy Summit this March. Friend, I really hope you can make it.

To hear from Jeff Sharlet in person, please register for our National Advocacy Summit. We are less than 15% from capacity, so don’t wait! Click here: [link removed]

In solidarity,

Rachel K. Laser
President and CEO

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