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Sam Goldman interviews Bradley Onishi about his new book (available January 2023) Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism–and What Comes Next.  Brad Onishi is a former insider in the Christian nationalist movement who spent seven years as a minister in Southern California. Listen to his podcast Straight White American Jesus.

Plus commentary from Sam on the lessons from the midterms.

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Brad Onishi:
There's a long history of white supremacy and segregation in our schools, in our government institutions, in our public space. The religious right is an extension of that. Their number one goal is power and they don't care if that means exclusion. They don't care if that means taking rights away from people. They don't care if that means not extending rights to people. They don't care if that means being anti-democratic. It's a war because they're willing to sacrifice democracy in order to win. Democracy is not a sacred value here. Power is. I just think we're already living through them winning some of the war. But there are even worse outcomes down the road if we're not careful.

Sam Goldman:
If we don't confront what we're up against, we actually are totally incapable of stopping it. And if we prettify something and it's about to demolish us all, then we don't have any chance. If friends need an exhibit A for that, look at how people looked at the Dobbs decision, and yep, refused to see what was going to happen. Refuse to look at the danger and then we're hella hurt with what is it -- 22 million women at least not having access to abortion in their state? So face reality. Look at it, it's scary, but you can then affect it and impact it with your actions.

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From Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights:

Thursday December 1 nationwide
From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org: Manifest in green and protest nationwide at courthouses around the country on Thursday December 1, the one-year anniversary of when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case that overturned abortion rights. Through speeches, dramatic bloody die-ins, and in other ways, the protests should make clear that we cannot rely on the courts and have to rely on ourselves to rise up to win legal abortion on demand and without apology everywhere.
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