Last updated 10/22/2025
1. There are a large number of U.S. Christians who believe being a good American requires being a “true” Christian or that America was founded on “Christian values”.
Uncritical examples
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence | Presidential Memoranda (September 2025)
This is an official U.S. government publication that paints critics of right-wing Christianity as enemies of the state. It also makes the claim that Charlie Kirk's killer was left-wing and anti-fascist, which is dubious.
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Letter: Another list of the things liberals hate | Enterprise-Record (December 2022, says “Liberals hate most things real Americans love”, including the Bible)
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quote from Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World | eternal-echoes (shared July 2025)
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Americans for an Anglo-American Nation | The Puritans Network
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America is a Christian Nation by Dr. Robert Jeffress | First Baptist Dallas (earliest archives are from August 2022)
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Commentary
Billy Graham's Legacy Is Conflating White Christianity And Patriotism by Lyz Lenz | HuffPost (February 2018)
For FBI legend J. Edgar Hoover, Christian nationalism was the gospel truth, argues new book by Bob Smietana | Religion News Service (March 2023)
“Without the Bible, there is no America”: Josh Hawley goes full Christian nationalist at NatCon by Kathryn Joyce | Salon (September 2022)
Why Are Some Christian Nationalist Leaders Opposed to Being Called Christian Nationalists? by Katherine Stewart | The New Republic (October 2022)
Samuel Alito Caught on Tape Revealing His True Guiding Force by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | The New Republic (June 2024)
Trump's NSPM-7 memo casts critics of Christianity as enemies of the state | Friendly Atheist Substack (October 2025)
2. Christian nationalism has played a part in modern day white supremacy.
Uncritical examples
Dr. Stephen Wolfe's “Breadcrumb Methodology?” | Iron Ink (November 2022)
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Commentary
“Traditional” Catholics and white nationalist “groypers” forge a new far-right youth movement by Kathryn Joyce and Ben Lorber | Slate (May 2022)
If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP's Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We'll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy by Annika Brockschmidt | Religion Dispatches (May 2022)
Christians Against Christian Nationalism
Patriot Front member arrested at Idaho Pride event tied to church led by ex-lawmaker by Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service (June 2022)
Christian Nationalism And The January 6, 2021 Insurrection | BJC
Christian nationalists and QAnon followers tend to be anti-Semitic. That was seen in the Capitol attack. by Paul A. Djupe and Jacob Dennen | Washington Post (January 2021)
As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday's Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues by Chrissy Stroop | Religion Dispatches (January 2021)
Christian Nationalism / Faith Without Works Is Dead | Tell me why the world is weird (May 2024)
More information about Christian nationalism in America
Church Relevancy: Chaos at the Capitol by Diana Kim | Asian American Women On Leadships (January 2021)
Dominionism Rising by Frederick Clarkson | Political Research Associates (August 2016)
Revivalist Nationalism since World War II: From “Wake up, America!” to “Make America Great Again” by Daniel Hummel | MDPI (November 2016)
An informed populace makes it easier to challenge authority. That's why they're banning books. by Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld | LGBTQ Nation (October 2023)
Culture Wars and COVID-19 Conduct: Christian Nationalism, Religiosity, and Americans' Behavior During the Coronavirus Pandemic by Samuel L. Perry, Joshua B. Grubbs, and Andrew L. Whitehead | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (July 2020)
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah by Kieryn Darkwater | AutoStraddle (January 2017)
Christians Must Publicly Denounce Christian Nationalism by Wendi Gordon | Texas Observer (November 2022)
How white evangelicals are okay with voting for sexual predators like Moore and Trump by Wagatwe Wanjuki (December 2017)
Available on Daily Kos and the author's website
All Aboard the Orphan Train! by Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst | The Revealer (February 2025)
SC AG Strategized With Big-Wig Conservative Lawyers On Suit To Overturn Election, Records Show by Matt Shuham | Talking Points Memo (July 2021)
Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: Findings from PRRI's 2023 American Values Atlas | PRRI (February 2024)
Further information
Skin in the Game by Eric K. Ward | Political Research Associates (June 2017)
White Nationalism's Deep American Roots by Adam Serwer | The Atlantic (April 2019)
How the Israeli flag became a symbol for white nationalists by Ben Lorber | 972 Magazine (January 2021)