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By now, we're all familiar with the events of January 6th,

the brutal violence of the Trumpian coup attempt on our capital.

In this series, we've been looking at the religious elements of that day,

the symbols, the rituals, the chants, the prayers.

But what if I told you that the plan to overtake our democracy

goes back much further than January 6th or even the election of Donald Trump?

What if it goes back a generation? 40 years.

Today, my guest is the journalist Ann Nelson, who's work explores the shadowy network of

organizations held together by the Council for National Policy.

The secretive organization founded in the 1980s by Paul Wyrick and others that has a

definitive hold on our politics and our policy. What Ann talks about is shocking.

She shows that not only did the Council for National Policy and the mega donors,

the religious organizations, the politicians, and others, not only put in motion the plans for

shifting emphasis from the popular vote to the electoral college to calling into question the

legitimacy of our election of Trump lost. But since January 6th, they've been putting into place

plans A, B, C, and D to make sure that they never lose hold of power in this country again.

One of the most shocking things that she reveals is how in the wake of January 6th and the Biden

presidency, the Council for National Policy has strategically sown division in America's suburbs,

igniting fights surrounding critical race theory, and other topics related to gender, sex, and race,

in order to swing suburban, middle class, white voters back to the Republican party.

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