Axis Daily Brief
Episodes
Trump’s Media Ban Isn’t Unprecedented - That’s the Problem
Dan Miller analyzes President Trump’s ban on CNN, Politico, and MS Now, arguing it violates First Amendment protections against viewpoint discrimination.
Pete Hegseth Is Running the Military Like a Megachurch Youth Pastor
Host Brad Onishi criticizes Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for prioritizing image-building, such as attending a football game and launching a…
The Most Complicated Yom Kippur in a Generation
Matt Taylor discusses the complexities of Jewish identity on Yom Kippur, highlighting the global Jewish population and the political crisis in Israel under Netanyahu.
The GOP Has a Nazi Problem
Host Brad Onishi argues the GOP faces a severe "Nazi problem," citing recent examples of staffers and candidates with white nationalist ties.
Texas Republicans Don’t Want to be Called Racist
Dan Miller analyzes a racist post by Texas GOP candidate Beau French, who criticized South Asian students at the University of Texas as "foreigners.
Axis Daily Brief | Texas Republicans Don’t Want to be Called Racist
Dan Miller analyzes a racist post by Texas GOP candidate Beau French, who criticized South Asian students at the University of Texas.
Why I Wrote American Caesar
Brad Onishi promotes his new book, *American Caesar*, which examines a growing alliance between Silicon Valley technocrats, Protestant reconstructionists, and traditional Catholics.
Trump’s FCC Doesn’t Want You to Know About James Talarico
Host Matt Taylor analyzes James Talarico’s surprising polling lead over Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, attributing it to Talarico’s strategic…
Trump’s Penchant for Fascist Fashion
Dan Miller analyzes the controversy surrounding the new Space Force uniforms, which Trump explicitly stated were inspired by the Starship Troopers film.
Charlie Kirk’s Playbook and the Red-Green Scare
Brad Onishi analyzes how Charlie Kirk’s final speech framing a "red-green" alliance of Marxism and Islamism has become the American right’s conspiratorial playbook.
Axis Daily Brief | Excerpt from American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords are Turning America into a Monarchy
This episode analyzes the convergence of Christian nationalism, Catholic integralism, and Silicon Valley tech monarchism into a "post-liberal"…
Hegseth’s Gender Ideology Weakens the U.S. Military
Dan Miller analyzes how Pete Hegseth’s Christian nationalist ideology and rigid views on masculinity are undermining US military readiness.
The Nazi Who Wants You to Notice, and the One Who Doesn't
Matt Taylor analyzes the mainstreaming of Nazi ideology in US politics, contrasting overt "vanguardist" acts, like an MMA fighter’s anti-Semitic rant…
What’s in a Name? Hint: It’s Christian Nationalism
Angela Denker analyzes President Trump’s executive orders renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico to “America” as acts of Christian nationalist identity reshaping.
Celebrating the 250th with Revisionist American Christian Nationalist History
This episode examines the Trump administration’s promotion of the Museum of the Bible as a Christian nationalist alternative to the Smithsonian.
Axis Daily Brief | When "Not a Real Christian" Becomes "Secretly a Terrorist”
Host Brad Onishi analyzes Lance Wallnau’s claim that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is an Islamist sympathizer linked to Al-Qaeda.