Weekly Roundup: Project 2025 in Action: The Indictment of the SPLC

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Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Brad Onishi and Dan Miller discuss the Trump DOJ’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging it defrauded donors by paying informants for access to extremist groups, with charges including wire fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering; they note legal experts’ skepticism, SPLC’s past cooperation with law enforcement, and argue it reflects MAGA hostility and a Project 2025/Project Esther-style push to label opponents “domestic terrorists.” They then cover Virginia voters approving a redistricting measure projected to shift up to four House seats away from the GOP, now temporarily blocked by a judge, and argue Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push is backfiring as blue states respond. Finally, they analyze Palantir’s manifesto-like summary of Alex Karp’s The Technological Republic, criticizing its anti-pluralism, civilizational hierarchy, and alignment with Christian nationalist politics, and close with court actions overturning a federal gender-affirming-care funding ban and a protestor’s case. 00:00 Indicting the SPLC 01:54 Charges Explained 07:22 Why Conservatives Hate SPLC 14:32 Project 2025 Playbook 18:55 Will the Case Stick 25:18 Break and Reset 25:32 Virginia Redistricting Fight 29:57 Gerrymandering and Opposition 32:56 Talarico Fox News Clip 34:42 Comedy Detour Dating Advice 35:55 Virginia Redistricting Fallout 37:11 Hope Amid Gerrymandering 38:10 SPLC Claims Revisited 39:41 Fondue Clip Goes Viral 41:09 Racism Goes Mainstream 45:27 Palantir Tech Fascism 47:39 Religion Means Christianity 51:44 Civilizational Chauvinism 57:53 Anti Pluralism Manifesto 01:02:06 Hope And Sign Off Subscribe for $3.65: ⁠https://axismundi.supercast.com/⁠ Subscribe to our free newsletter: ⁠https://swaj.substack.com/⁠ Order American Caesar by Brad Onishi: ⁠https://static.macmillan.com/static/essentials/american-caesar-9781250427922/⁠ Donate to SWAJ: https://axismundi.supercast.com/donations/new Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi.
0:13.5	The Trump administration is indicting the group that historically helped to bring down the KKK. It is doing so using a framework
0:23.5	from Project 2025, an openly Christian nationalist document. And the larger goal is to say that any group
0:33.7	within the United States that opposes Maga and Trump, the regime, the unbound executive,
0:40.9	well, they will be labeled a domestic terrorist organization and they will be punished on that
0:46.8	basis. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. This is the weekly roundup. I'm Brad
0:51.3	Onishi, author of American Caesar, founder of Access Mundi Media.
0:56.1	Today, here with my co-host. I'm Dan Miller, Brad Onishi, and I am Professor of Religion and Social
1:02.7	Thought at Lamarck College. Glad to be with you, as always, losing my mind, as I think a lot of
1:07.6	people are as we look at what is going on in the world this week.
1:11.0	We're going to get into the indictment of the Southern Law Poverty Center and what that means
1:15.6	going forward for the persecution of political and nonprofit groups that the Trump regime does not like.
1:23.2	We'll then go to the redistricting story out of Virginia and the various dimensions of what's at play there,
1:31.1	complete with some commentary from James Talariko, the Senate candidate in Texas.
1:37.4	Finally, we'll get to Palantir's post on Twitter recently that really raised eyebrows for folks
1:43.4	who are not necessarily familiar with
1:45.6	Palantir, and it's what I would call a tech fascist outlook on Western civilization.
1:52.2	We'll touch on that, explain why those folks in the tech world are finding common cause
1:57.4	with Christian nationalists and Christian supremacists.
2:00.2	Lots to cover.
2:01.9	Let's go.
2:23.0	This week, Dan, the Southern Law Poverty Center was indicted by Trump's DOJ.
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