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1. Florida Gov. DeSantis sending law enforcement personnel to aid Texas, Arizona with border crisis

2. Texas Governor Says Anyone Entering Texas Illegally Will Be Arrested During Border Security Summit

3. United States Border Patrol Illegal Apprehensions Since 2000

4. Termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols Program

5. Florida Adopts Nation's Toughest Restrictions On Protests

6. Forced into Danger: Human Rights Violations Resulting from the U.S. Migrant Protection Protocols

7. NYT: Meth, the Forgotten Killer, Is Back. And It’s Everywhere.

8. WAPO: President Trump’s claim that Democrats created ‘catch and release’ policies

9. Fact Check: Trump's claims on undocumented immigrant crime rates. Here's what the numbers show.

10. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-1

11. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fiscal Year 2019 Enforcement and Removal Operations Report

12. DEA announces biggest meth bust in U.S. history in Southern California

13. Fact check: Decision to postpone Operation Talon was made by ICE and not Biden administration, DHS says

14. Border Patrol agents see 3,166% increase in convicted sex offender arrests in Del Rio Sector

15. Fentanyl Seizures at Southern U.S. Border Have Increased 233% in One Year

16. The Trans Panic in Tennessee

In this episode, Matthew is joined by Joe Diaz-Romero to discuss MAGA congressional candidate Teddy Daniels. Mathew and Joe discuss the curious lack of Christian rhetoric from this menacing candidate who is being endorsed by fringe Christian groups.

This is part one of a three-part series on Christian Nationalism in American politics.

1. TEDDY DANIELS JOINS TRUNEWS TO DISCUSS HIS PLATFORM AND FAITH - Trunews

2. TEDDY DANIELS, MAGA CANDIDATE FOR PA 8TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA - Teddy Daniels Candidate Website

3. YouTube Bans Anti-Semitic Channel TruNews After Founder Calls Trump Impeachment 'Jew Coup' - Newsweek

4. Glaad Accountability Project - Rick Wiles Page

5. Afghanistan vet running in June 2 primary - River Reporter

6. AR-15s Are Biblical 'Rod Of Iron' At Pennsylvania Church - NPR

7. Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Bought a 40-Acre Compound in Texas for Its ‘Patriots’ - Vice News

8. Why Is a GOP Candidate Speaking at a Fringe Gun Church? - Vice News

9. Rod of Iron Freedom Festival 2021 Live

10. Rick Wiles: We’re 72 Hours Away From A Coup During Which Trump Will Be Decapitated On The White House Lawn

11. https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-qanon-allied-gop-candidate-lauren-witzke-also-pushed-anti-semitism-flat-earthism-and-911-conspiracies

In this episode, our team takes a pause from Christian Nationalism and checks in with three political candidates in the state of Arizona. Join Anna, Matthew, and Jelani in a quick exploration of the candidates who rose to prominence pushing lies and conspiracy theories. The team discusses 8kun, QaNon, whispers of Christian Nationalism, Constitutional Sheriffs, and more.

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1. Ariz. gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake: We’re going to turn our state around - OANN

2. "CodeMonkeyZ Ron Watkins BLASTING the CRIMINALS and RUNNING FOR CONGRESS!"

3. Ron declares himself the "digital Rosa Parks" because he wants to get on the "Twitter bus," the "Google bus," the "Facebook Bus," and the "Chase Bank bus."

4. 3rd Pima County resident faces illegal voting charges - AP News

5. O’Halleran alone in failing to stand up to Trump’s flagrant abuses of power

6. AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake: "Deal With The Mandates And Then Decertify The Election." - Gateway Pundit

7. States have mandated vaccinations since long before COVID-19 - Pew Research

8. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1442274101306040320

9. https://twitter.com/az_rww/status/1452767210271739904

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdTw6F3Xwc&t=257s

11. Alleged supporters of right-wing Three Percenters group charged in new Jan. 6 Capitol riot conspiracy - WAPO

12. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Richard Mack: How Extremists Are Successfully Infiltrating Law Enforcement - ADL

13. ‘Constitutional’ ex-Sheriff Richard Mack: Florida school shooting survivors are using 'exact same kind of language' as Hitler

1. With Larry Elder It's No Hold Barred As He Explains Why He Threw His Hat In The Recall Election

2. The U.S. was one of the last countries to abolish slavery

3. The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed

4. The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00 - New York Times, Jan. 14th, 1987

5. Redefining the Minimum Wage - New York Times, Nov. 11 2013

6. How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history

7. CHRONOLOGY-Who banned slavery when? - Reuters, Mar. 1st, 2007

8. End of Slave Trade Meant New Normal for America - NPR Jan. 10, 2008

9. https://www.utla.net/sites/default/files/samestormdiffboats_final.pdf

10. If $15 minimum wage is good idea , why did AOC’s bar close down?

11. Britain has doubled its minimum wage since 2000 — with no observable effect on unemployment

12. https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-larry-elder/

On this episode, our heroes discuss Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. and the rise of Christian Nationalism. Matthew, Jelani, and Joe discuss Falwell's attempts to re-write his own racist history and his habit of taking everything out of context while accusing his enemies of doing the same to him. God bless us, sort of?

1. Jerry Falwell at UCLA 11/29/1983 - UCLA Comunications Studies Department

2. ‘A republic, if you can keep it’: Did Ben Franklin really say Impeachment Day’s favorite quote?

3. Engel v. Vitale 1962

4. The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’

5. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

6. Revisiting the legacy of Jerry Falwell Sr. in Trump’s America - The Conversation

7. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1982/81-3

8. BOB JONES, IN SERMON, ASSAILS SUPREME COURT - NYT

9. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/rise-of-conservatism-in-the-1980s/sources/556

10. https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/living/america-christian-nation/index.html

11. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/agent-intolerance/

12. GROUPS AIM TO COUNTER BOOK BANS - NYT