Make no mistake, women's suffrage is on the table. It is on the, you think people tell me,

well, it's in the Constitution and will ever get overturned. Oh, they're crafty. You think they

aren't like working on it? I need people to wake up. Like, this is on the table, friends.

It's 100% on the table. I mean, listen, we are getting rid of the First Amendment right now.

There's no way they're not going to get rid of the 19th.

Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

I hope everyone is doing okay in these terrible times. Considering the past couple of weeks, I have decided to rearrange our schedule here to talk to my friend Tim Whitaker. Tim is a former

Christian fundamentalist, baptized and raised in the heart of the group trying so hard to take over

our country right now. He is also the founder of the new evangelicals, an inclusive Jesus-centered community that holds space for those marginalized by the evangelical church through building community, exploring faith, and advocating for systemic change.

I wanted to have him on today to talk about how the Christian nationalist playbook is unfolding in front of our eyes.

From mass immigration raids to what's going on in our schools

and our media, to how the right is co-opting the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk to consolidate

power. It is all straight out of a playbook that I think most of us don't understand, but Tim really does.

So without further ado, please welcome my guest, educator, influencer, and former evangelical Christian still deconstructing his faith. Tim Whitaker. Welcome back, Tim. It's good to see you, my friend. I mean, we talked a year ago, and a lot has changed in a year. So thanks for having me. Why are we laughing? We should be crying. Because it's terrible. If we don't laugh, we will cry.

And like, listen, here's the thing.

I think we need your insight right now more than ever.

And like you said, last time you were here, we talked about this, right?

You tried to warn us that this extremist faction of the Christian movement was a real threat to America.

That you knew these people firsthand.

They were a danger to women.

They were endangeredjuder to women. They were a danger to minorities.

They were a danger to the marginalized. They were a danger to democracy itself. We talked about

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