Unholy Nation: The Christian Right's Long War Against America
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Unholy Nation: The Christian Right's Long War Against America By Cliff Potts
They told us they wanted prayer in schools. What they really wanted was power over everything. Now they have it.
This is the book they hoped you wouldn't live long enough to read.
Unholy Nation is a frontline dispatch from the collapse of American democracy - not written from a newsroom, but from deep inside the cultural wreckage. Cliff Potts warned us all the way back in 2006. Nobody listened. Now we're living the consequences.
This isn't a partisan rant. This is a field manual for surviving the rise of Christian Nationalism, a movement that has openly declared its intent to rewrite the Constitution, criminalize dissent, and enforce a narrow, weaponized version of faith on an entire nation.
Through seventeen blistering chapters and five appendices, Potts lays out exactly how the theocratic Right seized power - one pulpit, one courtroom, one statehouse at a time. From Reagan's dog whistles to Trump's Bible-waving fascism, from Project 2025 to book bans and bounty laws, Unholy Nation draws the full map of the Christian nationalist insurgency.
You'll learn:
- How religion became a smokescreen for authoritarian control
- What "dominionism" and the "Seven Mountains Mandate" really mean
- Why Project 2025 is a theocratic coup in plain sight
- How LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights were always the test case
- What the Bible actually says - and doesn't
- How to fight fascism, even from 8,000 miles away
- Why nonviolence is essential - but preparation is survival
It's not just a takedown. It's a roadmap for rebellion.
Complete with glossaries, banned book lists, resistance resources, and a timeline of every ignored warning from 2001 to 2025, Unholy Nation is not a history book - it's a live wire. It doesn't ask you to agree. It demands that you see.
Because if you're still pretending this is politics as usual, you're already losing.
Read this if:
- You're queer, trans, feminist, anti-fascist, exvangelical, or just exhausted
- You've seen the signs but want the full picture
- You're organizing, educating, fighting back - or ready to start
- You've been told to stay quiet "for the sake of civility"
- You know damn well we're at war - and you're done playing nice
They started this war. We just finally showed up to finish it.
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Cliff Potts is a husband, father, activist, and lifelong resister. He was one of the first to occupy during the birth of Occupy Wall Street and played a key role in shaping its message and media. He served as Second Unit Cinematographer for 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, helping to document the raw truth of a generation rising up.
He holds a PhD in Metaphysics, not to escape reality but to interrogate it more deeply. He is the author of Conspirators, Confederates, and Christians: Occupy Wall Street Edition and Wealth, Women, and War. His work spans decades of rebellion, reflection, and rebuilding ? across borders, ideologies, and screens.
Now living in the Philippines, Cliff continues the fight against fascism from 8,000 miles away, proving that resistance has no expiration date, and revolution has no fixed address.
