#theocracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #theocracy, aggregated by home.social.
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Incompetence in #Trump cabinet, dealing with #IranWar is the sole reason of the current crisis in the middle east,. He has been played with by #Iran diplomats and the crackpots in the iranian #Theocracy count on his idiocy to keep extending the economical crisis by missling oil tankers every now and then keep up with #HormuzBlockade #IranTalks wont go for an #IranDeal and will serve those zealots' purpose if not accompanied by removing individuals in power there that benefit from status quo,.
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The #christofascism is strong in the #VolunteerState: #Tennessee bill would require #schools to teach the #Bible as #literature, allow #prayer, and create legal ramifications for noncompliance
#news #law #uspol #tnpolitics #theocracy #education #publiceducation #publicschools #MAGA #rightwing #Christiannationalism #separationofchurchandstate #constitution #vsn #SupportIndependentMedia
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Stuck in the Filter: October 2025’s Angry Misses
By Kenstrosity
They say it’s going to be a harsh winter this year. They always say that, and it’s almost never true, at least not from where I’ve set up camp. However, no matter the weather I am a harsh taskmaster, doling out grueling hours, no pay or benefits, and probably the worst coffee on the planet to my dutiful minions. It takes a special kind of person, motivated by pure unadulterated greed to ravenously scour the filter for dusty, almost-forgotten gems like they do.
But we are thankful for them for being exactly that! And we also benefit, in the form of quality(ish) chunks of glimmery, shimmery metal. BEHOLD!
Kenstrosity’s Riffy Representation
Xaoc // Repulsive Summoning [October 31, 2025 – Edgewood Arsenal Records]
Xaoc’s history is one of the more confusing I’ve encountered in my time writing for this blog. After breaking up in 2008, a new lineup spawned in 2022 to record and release Proxime Mortis from the ashes of songs written pre-breakup, supported by Edgewood Arsenal. At some point this year, two more members spawned in anticipation of this new slab Repulsive Summoning. But the band’s labeled as Split Up already on Metallum? I don’t understand what’s going on there, but at least I can say that Repulsive Summoning is a turbo banger! These riffs are bonkers, full of verve and swagger, brimming with groove and muscularity. A happy mix of Vomitory and Dormant Ordeal, this Virginian outfit know how to throw down. Highlights like “Ave Solva Coagula,” “Antima Samskara,” “The Great Perfected Ones,” and the entire “Degenerate Era” three-part suite reduce my body into a fine slurry by the grinding, vicious power of their riffs alone. But the rabid growls, ballistic percussion, and meaty guitar tones contain more than enough fuel to propel those riffs across this tight and thunderous 35-minute runtime. It’s a simple record, built to beat me down and leave me broken and bloodied, but it’s also an effortlessly memorable affair that leaves me wanting more despite the mounting medical bills. Don’t sleep on Xaoc!
Andy-War-Hall’s Succulent Surplus
Canvas of Silence // As the World Tree Fell [October 31st, 2025 – Rockshots Records]
Finnish symphonic metallers Canvas of Silence describe themselves as “prog-influenced chorus metal,” and that description goes far in outlining their debut As the World Tree Fell. Their core sound resembles a progged-out Nightwish moonlighting as a melodeath band, committing ludicrous bombast on symphonic-heavy cuts like “The Great Unknown” and “Wayfarer” amidst a sharp Gothenburg riff attack in “Watching the World Tree Fall” and “Drown.” Canvas of Silence mete out a balanced approach of light and dark sounds between Theocracyesque prog-power (“One With the Wind,” “Humanimal”) and Madder Mortem-like gothic twists (“Drown,” “Anthem for Ashes”), all reined in by the commanding vocal presence of singer Loimu Satakieli.1 Sitting somewhere between Anette Olzon (ex-Nightwish, The Dark Element) and Agnete Kierkevaag (Madder Mortem), her impassioned and heavily-layered singing turns As the World Tree Fell into a smörgåsbord of lush, catchy and anthemic tunes of an uplifting, sing-along nature. Optimism permeates As the World Tree Fell, felt at a fever pitch on the enormous choral bridge of “Humanimal” and the folky power metal jaunt of “One With the Wind.” Even on lyrically dark/mournful passages like “Wayfarer” and “Garden of the Fallen,” Canvas of Silence deliver soaring, hopeful crescendos that at times reach Fellowship levels of good cheer. Canvas of Silence can craft sincerely beautiful moments, and though As the World Tree Fell’s production can be sterile and overly loud2 I am nothing but excited to see what these Finns can cook up next.
Spicie Forrest’s Punky Proferrings
Violent Testimony // Aggravate [October 17th, 2025 – Horror Pain Gore Death Productions]
Do you wish there was more grind in your life? Well, Cheyenne, Wyoming’s Violent Testimony just assumed you would. Combining the punky flair of Napalm Death with the lead foot ethos of early Pig Destroyer and Cattle Decapitation, debut LP Aggravate is 26 minutes of delicious grindy goodness. From the opening salvo of “God Complex Massacre” to the final detonations of “Hit N’ Run,” Violent Testimony shows absolutely no restraint. D.N.’s Gatling drums mow down everything in their path while T.W.’s serpentine bass clears the chaff and flattens any obstruction. Shrapnel propelled by N.Y.’s brutish, breakneck riffing can be seen burying itself in concrete walls, still quivering (“Rider in the Night,” “Psychotic Episode”). Caustic growls and vitriolic screams tear from T.W.’s throat at mach fuck (“Flashbang Celebration,” “Obligatory Manifestation of Infinite Grind”). With only two tracks exceeding the two-minute mark, Violent Testimony screams their piece with as much sound and fury as possible before moving on and picking their next bone with the system. This keeps Aggravate a lean, densely-packed offering. If you need to get pissed off right now and even the fastest death metal is too slow, Violent Testimony is all too happy to decimate the opposition with you.
Uaar // Galger og Brann [October 17th, 2025 – Fysisk Format Records]
Hailing from Oslo, Norway, crust outfit Uaar celebrates their tenth birthday by releasing their debut LP. Galger og Brann, which means “Gallows and Fire” in Norwegian, expands on the foundations laid by established acts like Skitsystem and Tragedy. With one foot firmly planted in black metal and the other in hardcore, Uaar unleashes a cacophony of rage unfettered. D-beats abound, courtesy of Truls Friesl Berg, creating a frantic, enraged atmosphere. Dag Schaug Carlsen’s blackened rasps are so cold they burn, matching the evil pall hanging over tracks like “Galeås” and “Den siste.” Post-flecked, Ancsty tendencies (“Alt Skal Brenne,” “Overalt”) peek through the feral hardcore riffage (“Håpet forsvinner”) of guitarists Erik Berg Friesl and Jon Schaug Carlsen, while bassist Stian S. Evensen provides the muscle to convince you these guys aren’t screwing around. Uaar is well-versed in their base genres, alternating between and mixing black metal and hardcore effortlessly. The occasional blues-tinged heavy metal lead—as in “Overalt” and “Dolken”—keep Galger og Brann from being a one-note affair. With a dearth of standout blackened hardcore releases this year, Uaar’s Galger og Brann is a welcome—if late—addition to the list.
Scorching Tomb // Ossuary [October 24th, 2025 – Time to Kill Records]
I’ll be honest, I’ve never considered Montreal, Canada, to be prime death metal territory. Luckily, Scorching Tomb doesn’t care what I think. Debut LP Ossuary is an aural violation born of Tren-induced hardcore aggression and filthy old school death metal. With a guitar tone (Philippe Lelbanc) like sandpaper and a bass like swallowing gravel (Miguel Lepage), Scorching Tomb plays in the same cesspools as Bloodgutter and Rotpit. We normally associate melted faces with guitar solos, but that honor belongs to whatever corrosive noises issue forth from vocalist Vincent Patrick Lajeunesse’s guts. Drummer Émile Savard loves a blast beat, often detonating them in short bursts to support an already bone-breaking assault (“Feel the Blade”). “Stalagmite3 Impalement” and “Sanctum of Bones (Ossuary)” are particularly savage, with tetanus-inflicting riffs and bloodthirsty screams threatening to drag you into the crypt to be used for meal prep. On “Skullcrush,” Sanguisugabogg’s Devin Swank perfectly matches Scorching Tomb’s vile depravity, cementing them as a promising new act in the scene. Ossuary is raging, muscle-bound, caveman death metal drowned in a vat of viscera and sewage, and it tastes incredible.
ClarkKent’s Gratifying Goodies
Sutratma // Adrift [October 3rd, 2025 – Self-Release]
While I didn’t purposely seek out more doom during my self-imposed month of picking only doom promos, Sutratma’s fifth full-length, Adrift, ranks as one of the better doom albums I listened to in November. This California four-piece has been writing funeral doom for 15 years, and it shows in their ability to craft effective melancholic slow-burns that strike a balance between melody and crushingly heavy. Adrift impresses straight out the gate with the piano-drenched “Wind and Sea.” This song nicely melds the sorrowful softness of the piano with punishing guitar riffs and impressive growls. Just like stalwarts My Dying Bride, Sutratma mixes growls with cleans, and Daniel Larios’s cleans effectively hit you right in the feels while the growls take on a more despairing note. There’s plenty of variety from song to song, with organs stealing the show on “Guiding Star” and a lovely melody on “The Great Bereaver” that builds up to a moving finale. Just like with Oromet, there’s a serenity to the music that is calming, and the skilled songwriting and musicianship lends a poignancy to it all. With the frenzy of list season upon us, it’s nice to have something like this to remind us that it’s okay to just slow down—even when an angry ape is berating you for more content.
Starer // Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness [October 10th, 2025 – Fiadh Productions]
Josh Hines, the one man behind black metal project, Starer, has been very busy. Since forming Starer in 2020, he has released four EPs and now, with the release of Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness, four LPs. I first became acquainted with this band on 2023’s Wind, Breeze, or Breath and was taken in by Hines’s aggressively atmospheric take on black metal. Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness hits the ground running on “I Cry Your Mother’s Blood” with some aggressively catchy melodies. The aggression continues on “Il-Kantilena” with its icy riffs and pumping blast beats. Meanwhile, “The Field of Reeds” combines the black n’ roll of Fell Omen with the fuzzy reverb of atmoblack for a rollicking good time. Hines screams into the void as subdued symphonics add layers of melody, providing a surprising amount of depth to each song. Because of the frenetic pace, the 50-minute runtime flies right by, even as songs like “Song of the Harper” do their best to vary the tempo. For black metal, the production is lush and gorgeous, giving air to all instruments. The epic, ten-minute finale is the culmination of Hines’s ability to put together complex and compelling music that both excites by its aggression and dazzles with its atmospherics. Black metal fans should not miss this one.
Grin Reaper’s Haunted Harvest
Black Cross Hotel // Songs for Switches [October 31st, 2025 – Someoddpilot Records]
Three years after dropping their favorably reviewed debut Hex, keys-drenched and industrialized outfit Black Cross Hotel returns bearing Songs for Switches. 80s-inspired synths, mid-paced chugs, and dance-ready grooves pack neatly into forty-one minutes of grubby fun, sure to interest fans of Ministry and Killing Joke, or anyone with a predilection for leather. Where Hex boasted a wider assortment of tempos, Songs for Switches narrows its focus to mid-paced songs with a keener emphasis on keyboard melodies. Averting a direction that could have been limiting, Black Cross Hotel smartly sidesteps this by shaving down song lengths and arranging the tracks for optimal pacing. Individual moments across the album evoke Me and That Man (“Eyes from Nowhere”), Soulfly (“Blood Dance”), and Joy Division (“Typo”), casting an eclectic array of sounds into Mount Gloom to forge ten dangerously fun tracks. Though I liked the album at first listen, it took multiple spins for Songs for Switches’ distilled aesthetic to fully unfurl, and once it did, my appreciation redoubled. With a sinister atmosphere designed as much for pain as pleasure, Black Cross Hotel has readied your room for a night you won’t forget.
Miasmata // Subterrania [October 31st, 2025 – Naturmacht Productions]
Still hawking their distinctive blend of meloblack and heavy metal, Miasmata dropped sophomore platter Subterrania on what was one of the most congested release days of 2025.4 In addition to the recurring influences of Windir (“Die at the Right Time”) and Iron Maiden (the intro to “Subterrania” smacks of The X Factor), Subterrania adds a dollop of thrash into the mix. Opener “Those Who Cross the Flame” struts out with a punky riff that wouldn’t be out of place on an Anthrax record, while “Full of the Devil” tastes as much like Testament or Havok as Diamond Head. The beauty of Miasmata, both on debut Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy and Subterrania, is one-man mastermind Mike Wilson’s aptitude to synthesize a mighty host of influences into a unique sonic palette all his own. As Sharky noted in Unlight’s review, Miasmata has a knack for remarkable restraint. Subterrania clocks under forty minutes, layering slithery riffs upon one another in a way that propels the music in constant motion, shifting and unfolding so organically that the album slips by before you realize it’s over (an especially impressive feat considering the self-titled closer’s near fourteen-minute runtime). If you missed Miasmata’s latest on release day, go rectify that. Don’t let Subterrania get lost to the underground.
Dolphin Whisperer’s Autumnal Anomoly
夢遊病者 // РЛБ300119225 [October 28th, 2025 – Self Release]
As if plucked into lucidity from amidst a hazy, proggy machination, РЛБ30011922 steps into its narrative—an exploration of a beloved figure in its creator’s life, including sound clips describing the trials through which she persisted—with an entrancing stumble. Through an understated math rock lens, tight kit rhythms with a tension-building hi-hat clashes strut against a loud and leading bass voice across 37 minutes of fluid guitar textures. Whether it’s the chunky fusion reminiscent of Hackett-era Gordian Knot, the playful rhythmic post-rock that evokes a band like toe, or the fuzzed-out punctuation that tell a prog tale as ’70s King Crimson would, 夢遊病者, also known as Sleepwalker, makes their love of sound as clear as their love of РЛБ30011922’s inspiration. In a setting this free and detailed, not a single moment of this one-long-song opus passes by without taking a moment to focus on a given performer’s escalation in the drama of the movement. Wielding short guitar solos as segues into popping double-kick trots, spoken word exposition as pedal switch-up opportunities, all leading to a crescendo of bent and bluesy expression, 夢遊病者 succeeds in more than just holding an audience captive with their jammy and heartfelt statement. РЛБ30011922, like the shorter form releases that have graced these halls before, will have you coming back time and time again to explore its sentiments, which feel both traced from a dream yet rooted in rich, earthly tone pleasures.
Saunders’ Slinky Sneaks
Enragement // Extinguish All Existence [October 31st, 2025 – Transcending Obscurity]
The back end of 2025 has thrown down some delightfully vicious, chunkified, and straightforward death metal gems, courtesy of the likes of Depravity, Glorious Depravity and Terror Corpse. Not to be discounted, Finland’s Enragement dropped their own intense slab of brutal death on fourth LP, Extinguish All Existence. Cutting with any pleasantries, Enragement get down to business, slamming through a tight, burly collection of Americanized death, keenly treading a balance between thuggish beatdowns, chest-busting blasts, slammy, pig-squealing grooves, and more traditional, though deceptively diverse brutal death fare. Despite the certifiably crushing formula deployed, there is an air of accessibility, perhaps attributed to the clean but suitably beefy production job, bludgeoning, addictive grooves and sinister currents of atmospheric melody flowing through the album’s riff-centric veins. Thrashy, straightforward bursts of fury are tempered by more technical flourishes and an impressively versatile vocal assault. The likes of Devourment, Deeds of Flesh, Dawn of Demise and Benighted are perhaps fitting reference points, however, Enragement blast their own path of uncompromisingly heavy destruction.
Stephen Brodsky // Cut to the Core Vol. 1 [October 3rd, 2025 – Pax Aeturnum]
There are a couple of ways to broach this latest solo endeavor from lovable rogue and Cave In/Mutoid Man mastermind Stephen Brodsky. Brodsky delivers refreshed interpretations of various ’90s hardcore songs, reimagined in acoustic form. Those familiar with the original compositions will likely have fun dissecting and comparing the original anthems. While others, such as myself, largely unfamiliar with the originals, can enjoy these polished takes in their reimagined form, without comparison. Over the years, I have developed a strong connection with Brodsky’s works and come to appreciate his softer, acoustic flavorings. The likes of Snapcase, Converge, Texas is the Reason, Threadbare and By the Grace of God are some of the acts covered with typical style, zest, and emotion. Brodsky’s expressive and emotive delivery showcases both a loving appreciation of the material and deeper emotional connection that bleeds through the often darker, melancholic vibes of the acoustic constructions. The collection is remarkably consistent and infectious, highlighted by Brodsky’s crisp and soulful acoustic playing and distinctive singing voice on standout cuts, including “Windows” (Snapcase), “Benchwarmer” (Lincoln), “Fissures” (By the Grace of God), “Farewell Note to This City” (Converge), and “Voice” (Sense Field).
Soul Blind // Red Sky Mourning [October 10th, 2025 – Closed Casket Activities]
Riding a familiar wave of early ’00s alt-rock/metal and ’90s grungy nostalgia, New York’s Soul Blind emerge with sophomore LP, Red Sky Mourning. Although they tread dangerously close to overt derivation of prominent influences, including Alice in Chains, Deftones, and Helmet, Soul Blind manage to just stay afloat on their own terms. The dreamy melodies, chunky alt metal riffs, and soaring, Cantrell-esque vocal melodies cultivate some earwormy hooks and fuzzy, 90s/’00s feels. Soul Blind possess a knack for writing textured, mildly sludgy, infectious rock ditties, dabbling in shoegazing atmospherics, and sturdier alt metal territories along the way. Soul Blind relish in AIC inspired earworms (“Dyno,” “Hide Your Evil”), grittier, more aggressive alt metal fare (‘Billy,’ “New York Smoke”) and airy, indie pop-rock (“Thru the Haze”). Soul Blind have work to do to stand out from their influences and develop a more unique sound and robust character. However, the signs are positive for better things to come. Red Sky Mourning is a solid throwback album and handy companion piece to the equally nostalgia-inspired album from Bleed earlier in the year.
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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Pro-democracy rhetoric from a theocratic dictator 😲
I did not see that coming.
I don’t believe he means it, what with the he is not elected by the people he exerts power over.
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“Nobody’s suggesting that the woman is not an individual, and she doesn’t … she doesn’t deserve stabilization. Nobody’s suggesting that,” [Alito] snapped.
Yes, they are. They're suggesting exactly all of that.
#abortion #EMTALA #theocracy https://newrepublic.com/article/180990/sam-alito-fetal-personhood-comstock -
SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.
The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.
SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.
We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.
Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”
SACR may be his answer.
In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.
Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.
“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.
South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.
The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.
Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.
The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.
But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.
#Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.
Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”
“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”
Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”
To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.
The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.
At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.
Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.
After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.
Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”
“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”
#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.
Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”
Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.
The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.
In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”
“We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.
#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.
🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?
🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?
🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.
🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.
🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there
Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
#virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
#influence,
#capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
#lawfare;
#cybersecurity”),
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Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.
The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”
“Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.
“Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
— as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”#Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.
The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.
Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.
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Under Williams’ leadership, Claremont has become well-known for a vision of America in which the country as we know it is all but lost, set to be replaced by a “regime” that its leaders hope to craft to come after the current, “cold civil war” concludes.
While introducing another podcast discussion between Haywood and Anton, Williams called Haywood a “friend of recent years” who was willing to discuss the country’s “decaying republic.”
“The phrase #cold #civil #war is chosen deliberately,” Williams told TPM. “I hope it remains cold indefinitely.”
It’s not only about the republic. Internal SACR messages show that the group envisions itself as stewards of a hard brand of Christianity.
Yenor, in one message that he planned to use for recruitment, summed it up:
“Our belief is that the country’s track is unsustainable, and the only way to secure a future for Christian families is to keep and take back space now closed to Christians.”#Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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On the blog where he explains these ideas, Haywood refers to himself as “#maximum #leader.”
In October 2022, Haywood appeared on a podcast with with former Trump official and “Flight 93” essay #Michael #Anton and others for a discussion about #caesarism
— the idea that a strongman is needed to solve America’s problems.After referring to an unspecified “secret event” that brought the group together, Haywood said that he “wholeheartedly” endorsed “#national #divorce” as a solution to the country’s problems.
Since selling his shampoo manufacturing firm in September 2020, Haywood has mobilized. His nonprofit, the
"Howdy Doody Good Times Foundation", began to contribute to the Claremont Institute.Howdy Doody has contributed money to SACR as well. Over the following year, a chapter in Dallas, Texas, and three in Idaho were founded.
Haywood has said that additional chapters exist; Williams put the total number at beneath one dozen.
Among the emails obtained by TPM are ones that show the organization’s reach.
In one January 2023 exchange, Haywood cc’ed a group of people while asking for a board meeting to discuss SACR finances.
The men on the exchange do not appear to be down on their luck.#Fischer, a venture capitalist who leads the group’s Dallas chapter, graduated from Harvard Law. Fischer has described leading a private equity career investing in apartment complexes distressed after the 2008 financial crisis.
Also cc-ed was #Williams, the Claremont president. Williams confirmed his involvement in the group on Friday on Twitter, writing, “may 1,000 chapters bloom and flourish.”
Claremont came into national consciousness in 2021 because it was where Trump co-defendant and co-conspirator #John #Eastman, the attorney who played a key role in the 2020 election subversion effort, works as a senior fellow.
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What sets SACR apart is that its members come from and are recruited from the upper crust of American society.
They are wealthy — independent wealth is a requirement for membership, per documents TPM obtained. And they are credentialed.
SACR offers a redoubt for powerful people who take the culture war extremely seriously and believe in their bones that hemorrhaging church membership, the Obergefell decision on same-sex marriage, and the ebbing status of Christian men in American society are an existential threat to their vision for America, and who have the means to build a society on a different path.
Organized as a 501(c)10, Williams described SACR as analogous in structure to the Masons or Moose lodges
— a national superstructure with chapters around the country, some public and some not.Its members are, as a rule, secret. But those members who have incorporated chapters, as TPM discovered, end up identified in public records.
In an interview, Williams told TPM that SACR emerged from conversations between himself, self-described “industrialist” #Charles #Haywood, and others around Claremont in 2020.
Skyler Kressin, an Idaho accountant, and Fischer, also participated.
The idea, Williams said, came about amid conversations about “civic projects and constitutionalism and the state of America.”
“Part of the scholarly project of the Claremont Institute has been to lament the rise, really since the late 19th century, of a certain different way of thinking about politics and how to do government outside, we would argue, the American constitutional tradition,” he said.
Haywood, a University of Chicago-educated attorney, incorporated SACR and sits on its board. He did not respond to requests for comment from TPM.
Haywood has laid out an elaborate cosmology of America’s place in time, and his own place in America, through hundreds of blog posts he’s written on his website,
The Worthy House.To Haywood, American government is a house of cards waiting to be blown over
— run by a cabal that he describes as the “brawndo tyranny,” referring to the energy drink from the 2006 cult classic movie Idiocracy.Haywood says he can see what will likely come next:
a new #feudalism,
an archipelago of local “#armed #patronage networks,”
a vision inspired by the groups white settler farmers formed in South Africa as Blacks struggled for majority rule.#Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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Nate Fischer, a SACR member in Texas, posted a tweet Thursday evening warning of an imminent story from The Guardian and outing himself as a member.
Fischer said that SACR’s previous practice of secrecy was due to “the environment of 2020-21” when the group was first being organized.
The prospect of impending news stories — and Fischer’s tweet — spurred other group members to also reveal themselves on Twitter into Friday.
That included Ryan P. #Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and a SACR board member, and Andrew #Beck, a brand consultant.
In a Friday phone call with TPM, Williams denied that the group was “some cabal with the aim of taking over the federal establishment” and said that it only sought to create a “common citizenship” of the “#Americanized and #assimilated as the best recipe for a large, multiracial, multi-ethnic republic.”
When asked why SACR documents show that it aims to staff an “aligned future regime” with members, Williams said that the new regime would be a “U.S. Constitutional order brought much closer to its origins after about a century of what we regard as its corruption and undermining by progressivism, which I regard as anti-constitutionalist in its roots and its evolution.”
“This shouldn’t be regarded as anything radical or new,” Williams said. “It’s in a long line of tradition of American civic organizations of like-minded men worried about the direction of their country.”
“Certainly the activity of any members of SACR or any chapters are always meant to be well within the law and constitutional norms of American politics,” he added.
“There’s nothing subversive about it. It shouldn’t be regarded that way.”
The self-outing by key figures in SACR did not make public all of the materials that TPM obtained through its reporting, including the trove of Yenor emails and certain internal organizational documents. What follows is what TPM learned from that reporting, and interviews with some of the SACR figures who appeared in the documents
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Using the Yenor email trove as a starting point, TPM was able to confirm that Yenor is a SACR member,
to identify other members of SACR, including prominent people like the president of the Claremont Institute,
and to map other chapters of SACR around the country and locate incorporation papers for them,
which yielded the identities of other potential SACR members.The Yenor emails also included a #mission #statement for SACR, membership criteria, and copies of #prayers used by the group in different settings.
The emails include extensive internal discussions about the group, its organizing principles, its aims, and its methods for recruiting and expanding nationwide.
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An early reporting breakthrough came when we were able to identify a Boise State University professor and Claremont official named #Scott #Yenor as a possible member of SACR because he appeared on incorporation papers for the group’s Boise lodge.
Yenor is a character in his own right, attracting public attention for a November 2021 blow-up when he suggested that elite professions like law and medicine 👉stop recruiting women into their ranks.
Because Boise State is a public university, TPM was able to obtain via public records requests in January and February a trove of Yenor’s office emails that mention SACR. The trove included internal SACR correspondence, documents, and other materials from when the group was first being conceived in late 2020, was founded the following year, and began to grow.
The trove reveals SACR’s core mission:
to create a #mini-#state within a state, composed entirely of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox #Christian #men.It’s explicitly #patriarchal, demanding that group members assume a dominant role at home, and celebrates the use of #force and existence of #authority.
Amid all the hearkening back to the founding fathers, America’s first principles, and patriotism, there are few mentions of #democracy in the materials TPM reviewed.
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If you have never heard of the "Society for American Civic Renewal" (the acronym is pronounced “#sacker” by its members), it’s because they’ve been trying to stay under the radar.
Now that they are getting uncovered, they are attempting to manage the news coming out about them.
They are working to fundamentally reshape America to their vision. It sounds like a classic conspiracy theory — a bunch of rich white men on a mission from God? Really?
The thing is, there’s something about people who have managed to accumulate wealth, whether in business or by other means (like inheritance) that practically breeds hubris.
The prosperity gospel preaches that wealth is a sign that God has especially favored you, and you are privileged to rule over others by virtue of that wealth.
Kovensky has been able to unearth some details on what #SACR is about.
What is it? Among other things…
...The men TPM has identified as behind this group — and they are all men — have a few things in common. They’re all a certain kind of devout #Christian #traditionalist. They are #white. They have means, #financial and social, and are engaged in #politics.
...The members identified by TPM don’t necessarily fit the profile of the disaffected, disgruntled loner or the amped-up, testosterone-fueled militia types often found on the paranoid right-wing fringe. TPM’s reporting has identified as SACR members the president of the influential, Trump-aligned #Claremont #Institute, #Harvard #Law grads, and leading businessmen in communities scattered across America.
...Group members hold a distinct vision of America as a latter-day ancient Rome: a crumbling, decadent empire that could soon be replaced by a Christian #theocracy.
To join, the group demands faithfulness, virtue, and “#alignment,” which it describes as “#deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of #patriarchal #leadership in the household, and acceptance of traditional #Natural #Law in ethics more broadly.”
More practically, members must be able to contribute either influence, capability, or wealth in helping SACR further its goals.