<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Texas Visionary Journal by Michael Sisco]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future of Texas Governance & Culture; a postliberal and Orthodox Christian perspective. ]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LLrx!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2fb75601-d01c-4cf0-91cc-75e28212113c_500x500.png</url><title>The Texas Visionary Journal by Michael Sisco</title><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 10:45:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[michaelsisco@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[michaelsisco@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[michaelsisco@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[michaelsisco@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[A Blueprint for a Post-Trump Nationalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Home for MAGA Rejects]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-blueprint-for-a-post-trump-nationalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-blueprint-for-a-post-trump-nationalism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:10:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1612278920676-a647836dfe2f?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzOXx8dHJ1bXB8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzc3MzI3MzgxfDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It truly is surreal thinking back to the excitement of the 2015 Donald Trump campaign. After two terms of President Barack Obama, White Americans were made to feel like second-class citizens in their own Country. Political correctness had become official government and corporate policy. Top that off with everyone suffering from an economic downturn, and White males getting the short end of the stick with affirmative action policies both in the workplace and academia. I personally was also extremely frustrated with the situation in Iraq, Syria, and the apparent U.S. Sponsorship of Islamic terror groups in the region that were slaughtering Christian minorities. There was a lot to be frustrated about. But Donald Trump showed up and gave life to an America First movement that had lain mostly dormant since the days of Pat Buchanan.  <a href="https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/">Trump promised</a> to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the United States. He promised to put an end to ISIS and stop the forever wars. He promised to secure the Southern Border, primarily by building a big border wall. He also strongly hinted at heavily restricting legal immigration. We were going to finally put America First! This dream was enhanced by the image that Trump perpetuated as self-funded. In his announcement speech, he said, &#8220;...I don&#8217;t need anybody&#8217;s money. I&#8217;m not using the lobbyists. I&#8217;m not using donors. I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m really rich.&#8221; He further made heads spin when he teased the audience at the<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-to-jewish-donors-i-dont-want-your-money-idUS2634971538/"> Republican Jewish Coalition</a>, saying something along the lines, &#8220;You aren&#8217;t going to like me, because I don&#8217;t want your money.&#8221; Unfortunately, it now seems that it was either all wishful thinking and excessive optimism, or worse, a purposeful deception. Maybe the tell was there even in Trump&#8217;s announcement speech, as he vowed to rip up Obama&#8217;s &#8220;terrible&#8221; deal with Iran. Perhaps he was always there to serve the foreign policy interests of a particular foreign Country. Or maybe, despite a sincere desire to put America First, he was eventually absorbed by the GOP and formed into their image. Of course, there have been some small wins in the administration, such as a crackdown on Anti-White curricula and DEI measures; these successes seem very minor compared to the recent geopolitical catastrophe with Iran. It has become very clear that, going forward, the Pro-White movement must exercise more caution before embracing candidates, more clearly articulate its core issues, and potentially even go so far as to reconsider its relationship with the Republican Party.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>The Nationalist movement can&#8217;t lose sight of why it cares about immigration in the first place. Years ago, in our movement, the point was made more frequently, and correctly, that conservatism dies with demographic change. We can&#8217;t appeal to conserve without defining what we&#8217;re conserving, hence the flaw with the term. So-called conservatives identify with that term when they are defending slightly outdated progressivism. So I think it is important that, as a pro-White movement, we coalesce around Traditional Christian morality. It was the Roman Empire, first under the leadership of St. Constantine, that spread the Christian Faith across all of the World. Consequently, Europe became &#8220;Christendom.&#8221; And after hundreds of years of assault from &#8220;Enlightened&#8221; thought, the Church still lives. That is why Whites are attacked viciously with demographic replacement and anti-natalism, among other things. It is really because, in large part, anti-Whitism is also Anti-Christian. Those writhing with hatred for the descendants of the European ethnicities also have a boiling hatred for the Christian faith. They happen to be correct with that instinct. Christianity is the faith of our ancestors, and Europe and its extended Western lands should still be Christendom. We must embrace our faith, and our traditional Christian morality must be applied to our politics. Otherwise, there really is no depth to what we seek to preserve, or at this point, re-establish.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-blueprint-for-a-post-trump-nationalism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-blueprint-for-a-post-trump-nationalism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p>The America First and Pro-White movement in general has always sought to differentiate itself strongly from the &#8220;Neo-Cons,&#8221; who would keep us in a constant state of war if they could. Well, for the most part, they do, if you really think about it. Anyhow, simple phrases such as &#8220;no new wars&#8221; and &#8220;no forever wars&#8221; aren&#8217;t specific enough.  Our movement needs clear and concise criteria to justify the use of the armed forces. I personally prefer the following, which I pulled from an old book entitled The Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classic Christian Traditions East and West by Alexander Webster. I will list the criteria point by point.</p><ol><li><p>Just Cause - Offensive or expansionist wars should be completely rejected. State violence must always be in defense of life, faith, or the innocent.</p></li><li><p>Legitimate Authority - War must be conducted by a properly constituted governing authority.</p></li><li><p>Right Intention - The intent of all military action must be the restoration of peace and justice.</p></li><li><p>Last Resort - All peaceful options must be exhausted before resorting to military might.</p></li><li><p>Proportionality - The force used must be limited and appropriate.</p></li><li><p>Discriminate - Civilians should never be intentionally targeted.</p></li></ol><p>In contrast to the warhawks of the GOP neocons, we should never glorify war, enter it gleefully, but rather view its necessity with solemn sorrow.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>For goodness &#8216; sake, we need some actual political will and follow-through on the immigration issue. Every election cycle, polling indicates that Americans support immigration restriction, yet our leaders consistently cave to media pressure. Yes, Trump has done a great job shutting down illegal border crossings. Unfortunately, the ICE operations that caused such a ruckus seemed to be mostly theatrically. Under President Joe Biden, the border was basically wide open, allowing millions to pour in. It doesn&#8217;t seem that Trump has been able to undo that damage. During President Barack Obama&#8217;s tenure, he deported<a href="https://www.kimt.com/news/president-trump-has-yet-to-surpass-obama-deportations-total/article_9aa0ac45-8d3a-4243-a563-82a65c9a47b7.html"> 3.1 million illegal immigrants</a>. President Trump has done little over 1.5 million. That&#8217;s very disappointing considering that it was a centerpiece of his first campaign.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Texas Visionary Journal by Michael Sisco&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Texas Visionary Journal by Michael Sisco</span></a></p><p></p><p>Finally, our movement needs to cast aside the GOP standards of low tax, deregulated market, ultra pro-corporation, and balanced budget positioning. Yes, the budget issue is real, but we need to be more creative. We should not be balancing the budget at the expense of the White working class. We should be seeking ways to make it easier for married White couples to have more children. This may require solutions that older generations of &#8220;conservatives&#8221; have found impulsively repugnant or &#8220;socialist.&#8221; For instance, what reason is there to leave collective bargaining rights in the domain of the left? Most of the trade union members are White men. If more viable careers were available for me, White men, that provided good pay, benefits, and a retirement to look forward to, more Whites would start families. The corporations have not been allies, no matter how many corporate tax cuts the Republican Party passes for them. &#8220;Lower prices&#8221; at Walmart and stagnant wages have just perpetuated a system for immigrants and minorities to exploit the welfare system while they have children. While there have been recent fluctuations showing minor birth increases for White women, the long-term<a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/is-the-us-birth-rate-declining?utm_source=chatgpt.com"> fertility trends</a> are still not positive. If we hope to be a viable movement, our movement must focus as much on White pro-natalism as it does on Immigration.</p><p>The final years of Trump&#8217;s administration, barring a profound turnaround, seem to be moving further into a neocon direction. We should be appreciative of the momentum that he gave to a lot of our ideas, but remain detached emotionally and remain objective about his failures. Most of what we thought we would get from a 2nd Trump administration seems to have been cast aside in favor of George Bush 3.0. The Republican Party is more disconnected from its voter base than at any point that I can remember in my lifetime. Americans do not want to be dragged into<a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3952&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com"> further escalation</a> with Iran. Younger republicans are far less supportive of the conflict than older generations. Maybe this presents an opportunity for Nationalists to differentiate from the GOP, strategically pull support from the younger generations, and give right-leaning White Independents a better home. 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isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/false-religions-and-political-systems</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:01:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1659192544893-f00c608cf883?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw5MXx8b3JhY2xlJTIwb2YlMjBkZWxwaGl8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzU0NTQ0MDQ5fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes reflecting on the past can be a bit perplexing. How could I, as an Orthodox Christian have ever taken &#8220;Mencius Moldbug&#8221; seriously? Maybe it&#8217;s because I started reading him rather late, and his arguments were a little more refined. In his Open Letter to Open Minded Progressives, and A Gentle Introduction&#8230;he was more subtle in his Atheistic views. By the time I read Moldbug, I concluded that I wasn&#8217;t much a fan of Democracy and had an admiration for The Christian Imperial Empire now known as Byzantium. Moldbug seemed to me at the time to offer a systematic manner to deconstruct a &#8220;normies&#8221; Worldview, and thus get them a little closer to mine. At the time, I was more agreeable to detaching an Autocratic System from the true Faith. I no longer believe that, but that&#8217;s an article for another day. However, reading the Chief Jew Elf&#8217;s early posts has shocked me for a number of reasons. For one, it just isn&#8217;t good. Reading it now, it doesn&#8217;t seem insightful, but rather a geek desperately trying to be edgy. But I didn&#8217;t realize how big of a fedora hat he really wore. One of his early posts, &#8220;<a href="https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/04/why-do-atheists-believe-in-religion/">Why do atheists believe in Religion</a>?,&#8221; he basically explains that religious people are delusional, but that&#8217;s okay so long as their beliefs don&#8217;t lead to disruptive behavior. I suspect this guy would have agreed with Diocletian that Christianity was inherently seditious because of their refusal to light incense to Caesar, and sacrifice to the Pagan gods. Maybe not the best movement for a Christian to be a part of. Ironically, most adherents were either Catholic or Orthodox Christian. There do seem to be suggestions in his works that religious institutions can be useful utilities. But, despite Curtis&#8217;s best efforts to demean the religious, he makes the most important point that he has ever made in the process. In fact, Yarvin&#8217;s articulation of this concept in his later work really struck me. It made me realize that the Orthodox Church really is the biggest enemy of Liberal Democracy, and really any other Utopian Political Ideology. Really there isn&#8217;t much of a distinction between the false religions of the World, and Political &#8220;Systems.&#8221; The truth is, in the absence of formal religion, people often replace it with a Utopian Political System. If they still bother maintaining a formal religion, their &#8220;political values&#8221; supersede or are blended with the dogma of their religion.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moldbug's Corporate State Vs. A Christian Regime]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Qualified Rebuttal to Curtis Yarvin]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/moldbugs-corporate-state-vs-a-christian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/moldbugs-corporate-state-vs-a-christian</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:01:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1721385453151-2045a2fd89dc?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxOXx8Y29ycG9yYXRlJTIwYW1lcmljYXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3NTMyMzQyMDh8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I began reading Mencius Moldbug in 2014, he had already been blogging for roughly seven years. It was suggested to me by my godfather to start with a &#8220;Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations,&#8221; followed by &#8220;An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.&#8221; So that&#8217;s where I began. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t read much else of his work. Even back then his Atheism bothered me, but he did cite some great texts. It was really those works that helped inform my reactionary political view. I am grateful that Mr. Yarvin introduced me to works such as On Power by Bertrand De Juvenal, and Strictures Upon The Declaration of The Congress at Philadelphia by Thomas Hutchinson. He was in essence, a launching pad into a broader exploration of right wing reactionary thought, which has been quite fruitful. However, it is quite interesting that Yarvin said that there is no need to read Mein Kampf, nothing really of value to learn there. To clarify, I disagree with Hitler quite strongly on some points, but there are some fairly important points about the behavior of Curtis Yarvin&#8217;s kinsmen that perhaps he would prefer us to be left unaware. Anyways, evidently by the time I got around to reading Yarvin, his work was &#8220;more developed&#8221; I guess we shall say. He had coined the term Neoreaction, but that wasn&#8217;t his first idea for labelling his &#8220;movement.&#8221; Thank goodness he changed it, because the original name would not have caught on. Yarvin&#8217;s first post was entitled, &#8220;A Formalist Manifesto.&#8221; Don&#8217;t forget to post your #Formalism. There isn&#8217;t really anything worth responding to in that, other than it&#8217;s a stupid name and I&#8217;m glad he at least had the sense to change it later. In his second post however, he lays out the<a href="https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/04/case-against-democracy-ten-red-pills/"> &#8220;case against Democracy.&#8221;</a> He lists 10 blue pills, and 10 corresponding red pills. These terms seem to have been appropriated by other meanings, especially by the &#8220;manosphere.&#8221; So I&#8217;ll explain what they&#8217;ve always meant to the Dissident Right. It is a reference to the Matrix films, essentially if you are Blue pilled you are living in a false reality that has been crafted for you by the current regime, or as Moldbug calls it, &#8220;The Cathedral." The Red Pill however, is waking up to how things really are, peeling off the Progressive veil so to speak. I&#8217;ll save you half the trouble, and list his red pills here.</p><ol><li><p>The rule of law is responsible for the present state of peace, prosperity and freedom in the US, Europe and Japan.</p></li><li><p>At best, democracy is sand in the gears of freedom and law. At worst it excludes them entirely, as in Iraq.</p></li><li><p>Fascism and communism are best understood as forms of democracy. The difference between single-party and multiparty democracy is like the difference between a malignant tumor and a benign one.</p></li><li><p>The state is just another giant corporation. Its actions generally advance its own interests. Sometimes these interests coincide with ours, sometimes they don&#8217;t.</p></li><li><p>Power in the West is held by the civil service, that is, the permanent employees of the state. In any struggle between the civil service and politicians or corporations, the civil service wins.</p></li><li><p>The state consists of all those whose interests are aligned with the state. This includes NGOs, universities, and the press, all of whose employees are effectively civil servants, and side with the civil service in almost all conflicts.</p></li><li><p>Right-wing politicians are a classic democratic phenomenon. Domestically, they have little power and are mostly harmless. Their international adventures are destructive, but they are inescapable consequences of democracy itself.</p></li><li><p>Democracy is politics. Any other definition is Orwellian. The absence of politics is the absence of democracy, and apolitical civil-service government is indeed better than democracy. But this is a low standard to surpass.</p></li><li><p>Western governments today are clones of the quasi-democratic FDR regime, whose best modern comparisons are leaders like Mubarak, Putin or Suharto. Its origin was the Progressive movement, which broke classical liberalism, then complained that it didn&#8217;t work.</p></li><li><p>Civil-service government works well at first, but it degrades. Its limit as time approaches infinity is sclerotic Brezhnevism. Its justification for ruling is inseparable from democracy, which is mystical nonsense and is rapidly disappearing. It cannot survive without a captive media and educational system, which the Internet will route around. Also, its financial system is a mess and could collapse at any minute. The whole thing will be lucky if it lasts another ten years.</p></li></ol><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>I agree with most of these points. I suppose it&#8217;s one of those things in which the few points that you do disagree on are foundational, and pretty darn important. Without nit picking too much, I disagree with two. I&#8217;ll leave one as a mystery for now, as it will come up again with more reviews of Yarvin&#8217;s material. Remember when Donald Trump began his first campaign for President in 2015? Part of the appeal was when he said that we should &#8220;run government like a business.&#8221; As a criticizer of Democracy I understand the appeal. In my real job, I am a General Manager in an industry I won&#8217;t disclose. It&#8217;s 100% true that Democracy does not work in business. So would a government that functions like a business work better? It sure would be more efficient for better or for worse. Yarvin states that a government is basically just another corporation. He then goes on to spend a significant amount of time in his blog advocating for the government to be more like a Corporation, managed by a permanent CEO. Obviously the government in its current form, with its excess bureaucracy, different co-equal branches, and an electoral process, is not structured like a normal corporation. Curtis Yarvin wants it to be. Maybe that&#8217;s okay for him to want, because he&#8217;s an Atheist Jew. A Christian shouldn&#8217;t desire a soulless business to manage the affairs of society at large. The Christian State is ordained by God to govern the external life and order of society, in symphony with the Church, which regulates the internal life of man.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How NRx Became A Zionist Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Subverted By Jewish Elves]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/how-nrx-became-a-zionist-project</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/how-nrx-became-a-zionist-project</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:45:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1584956861988-913b8c1c7270?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw2fHxob2JiaXR8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzUyNjgwNDczfDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve probably told the story about how I&#8217;ve become a right winger a million times, but I often don&#8217;t mention that my introduction into the Dissident Right was via the NRx movement. At some point towards the end of 2014 after having been accepted into the Orthodox Church, my godfather took me out to a cigar lounge. Having previously been a &#8220;leftist,&#8221; but having my World View flipped upside by Orthodoxy, I was open to suggestions politically. My godfather introduced me to the NRx movement that night. After months of romanticizing ancient Orthodox Emperors and Monarchs, the anti-Democratic and anti-enlightenment ideas within NRx appealed to me. I was enthralled. I dove into reading Mencius Moldbug&#8217;s &#8220;Unqualified Reservations.&#8221; It always bothered me that Curtis Yarvin was an Atheist, but his blog did in part help shred any semblance of &#8220;liberal&#8221; that I had left in me. I began to question the enlightenment philosophies. I read a lot of his source texts, which are much better than his texts, and is frankly the best reason to read his work. The link to very good reactionary works from the past, such as my favorite political book, On Power by Bertrand De Juvenal. Eventually, I was brought into an NRx organization called The Hestia Society, and helped to establish a local Baltimore Chapter. My godfather was the President, and I was his 2nd as the Chapter grew. We called this the local &#8220;mannerbund.&#8221; I was in the national slack chat, and ran a Twitter profile with my Pseudonym, Gabriel George. My profile pic was a goat which I had taken a picture of at a Hermitage. Mostly due to my organizational skills displayed in helping build our chapter, and the influence of my godfather, I was fairly well respected in the community and sphere. Eventually though, somehow my Twitter page was doxxed. I believe this was around 2018. Someone hacked into my account, and revealed my identity in a tweet, and called me a racist. This was done by a spouse of one of the men in our Chapter, and a fellow parishioner at our Parish. This should be a caution for dissident groups, to take spousal relationships into consideration when allowing people into your circle. Anyhow, this security breach led to me getting kicked out of the National Slack Chat for Hestia. Fair enough I suppose. I drove on with my real name, and abandoned the Pseudonym, and began my public life creating video content, and podcasting. During my time in NRx, I went hiking with Nick B Steves, was introduced to race realism, the Jewish question, Holocaust narrative questioning, and all of the topics that characterizes the right wing. My podcast however, Hearth &amp; Fire, enabled me to network with people from other segments of the right, and opened up opportunities for political involvement on the more active side of politics. As issues such as demographic replacement grew in importance to me, I became active in politics, working on various campaigns. I was eventually kicked out of Hestia, entirely, at the behest of Warg, who as he said, &#8220;wasn&#8217;t very impressed with my intellectual work.&#8221; For those who don&#8217;t know, Warg was at that time the Pseudonym for Wolf Tivy, the editor and chief of Palladium Magazine.I&#8217;ve personally never found any of his work on Palladium very insightful either. The feeling is mutual. I think he&#8217;s the biggest mid-wit in the entirety of right wing politics. Perhaps my public association with Nick Fuentes was the final straw. Or maybe it was that I had written for The American Sun, a publication of a rival NRx faction. Or maybe it was because my critiques of the enlightenment and Popular government were increasingly less grounded in secular utilitarian arguments, and more from an Orthodox Christian metaphysical Worldview. There were developing ideological clashes brewing for sure, however I always was hopeful that the NRx movement would eventually be successful in their mission to establish a post-enlightenment system of government. However, in pursuit of that goal, the NRx movement has made some fatal errors that I believe will only further American decay.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Hestia, and I suppose NRx at large had several ideas as part of their plan to create parallel institutions to the &#8220;Cathedral.&#8221; For those that don&#8217;t know, &#8220;The Cathedral&#8221; is what Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) referred to as the overarching progressive institutions of power in our Liberal Democratic society. These would include not simply the government and its &#8220;deep state,&#8221; but also Universities, mainstream media, think tanks, and any sort of institution with significant power in society. The Hestia Society wanted to both build a new Aristocracy of sorts, which is the idea behind the mannerbund network of local chapters. That&#8217;s fine and dandy, no objection with building a network of good men with a common objective and unified political beliefs. Hestia however, also had the ambition of courting elites to their cause. They believed that this was how they could eventually affect the Sovereign peaceful transfer of power. They believed that if they could convince enough elites that their ideas would be more beneficial and advantageous, then the elites would give their support. They even shut down their infamous website, Social Matter. &#8220;Not your grandfather&#8217;s conservatism.&#8221; </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Texas Fellowship of St. Constantine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just a Social Society...]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-texas-fellowship-of-st-constantine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-texas-fellowship-of-st-constantine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:48:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hAtS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c7f25dd-3e3f-4a16-b750-f27e246bd40c_980x1280.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Texas Fellowship of St. Constantine</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve started a new very exclusive fellowship of men. We&#8217;re just a social fellowship of like minded Orthodox Christian men. Are you Orthodox Christian? Do you live in Texas? Are you moving to Texas? Do you have a preference for Christian Monarchy? Tired of Democracy? Interested in building a Christian Society again?&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Downfall of MAGA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there hope after Trump?]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-downfall-of-maga</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-downfall-of-maga</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:03:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1580128660010-fd027e1e587a?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxkb25hbGQlMjB0cnVtcHxlbnwwfHx8fDE3NTA4NzgwMTR8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the lead up to the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016, having been exposed to new reactionary right wing ideas, was unsure if voting was just a futile endeavor. Although I wasn&#8217;t exactly the most enthusiastic supporter at the time, I was very much relieved when he defeated Hillary Clinton. I was positive that Hillary would have escalated U.S. involvement in Syria, potentially causing a clash with Russian forces in the region. As an Orthodox Christian, in the Antiochian Church at the time, I was also aware through various channels of the atrocities committed against Orthodox Christians in Syria by the &#8220;Rebel&#8221; groups supported by the U.S. State Department. So a victorious Donald Trump, with a promise to &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221; of the very freaks behind the persecution of my co-religionists brought me great relief and optimism. I also supported Trump for his stated immigration restrictions, in particular at the border wall, and significantly less legal immigration. Despite his lackluster first term, I still campaigned for his re-election, and protested Biden&#8217;s fraudulent election. If I was unsure of the viability of participating in the Democratic system back then, I&#8217;m more sure of my position now. There is no end in sight for mass legal immigration. A miniscule amount of deportations. And Trump has allowed Israel to drag us into a conflict with Iran, through his reckless decision to bomb Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. At the time of this writing, it appears that the so-called &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; agreed upon between Iran and Israel, has already been violated by Israel. The stated objective of eliminating Iran&#8217;s nuclear capability has reportedly failed as well. But if the pattern of this conflict is anything like those in modern history in the region, Israel&#8217;s true goal of &#8220;regime change&#8221; has been set in motion. Donald Trump, although he may not have desired for the United States to be dragged into the conflict, potentially fell into a trap that will again require U.S. involvement in the next stage of the conflict. This failure of Donald Trump to remain true to America First principles, makes it clear for those with non-Kosher agendas that electoral victories are not a viable avenue for change in the United States.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>You might recall that prior to the primaries, Donald Trump was facing several nefarious charges. It was an obvious political witch hunt, but given the corrosive nature of our system, they really could have made it stick. It seemed like it would. Who would have the power to make those legal woes disappear? Jewish influence certainly isn&#8217;t a monolith. I&#8217;ve written in the past about how the U.S. Political scene is basically a battle between the Jewish Left and the Jewish Right. That doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t some coordination when necessary, because when it comes to the subject of Israel, all of them are Zionists. Trump&#8217;s legal woes disappear, and he suddenly is getting large campaign donations from Jewish donors such as Mariam Adelson. Now suddenly Israel is behaving as if it has a mandate to do whatever it wants in Gaza, and escalate the conflict with Iran. Just how often is blackmail used by Jewish forces to manipulate American Politicians? Certainly most Americans are aware of the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation. Who was Jeffrey Epstein blackmailing on behalf of? Even the official United States intelligence sources seem to suspect that it was for<a href="https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2024/01/15/confidential-intel-report-shows-us-was-concerned-attorney-dershowitz-had-mossad-ties,110147916-art"> the Mossad</a>. Are we to believe that these sort of operations stopped with the arrest and &#8220;suicide&#8221; of Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe after the targeted strikes of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, and the ensuing &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; agreement, Trump would like to pivot away from the Middle East. But will they let him?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-downfall-of-maga?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-downfall-of-maga?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>Perhaps less clandestine, but no less concerning is the visible foreign influence on American lawmakers by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC lobbies on behalf of Israel, but is not required to register as a foreign agent. The last President that tried to require them to register as such, ended up dead. Recently in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas claimed that AIPAC isn&#8217;t very effective. However, AIPAC themselves would beg to differ. They brag on their own website about how effective they were in the <a href="https://www.aipacpac.org/">2024 midterms</a>. 96% of AIPAC endorsed candidates won their elections. Additionally they specifically targeted &#8220;anti-Israel&#8221; detractors, both Republican and Democrat. 11 out of 12 were defeated. The notable exception being Rep. Thomas Massie, who has pointed out that every Congressman is assigned a representative from AIPAC, who &#8220;advises&#8221; them on legislation. These foreign lobbyists have a direct line to the politician via their cell phones. Constituents from the lawmakers district are forced to be filtered through the staff. This very organization originated in the United States as the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Israel-Public-Affairs-Committee">American Zionist Emergency Council</a>, encouraging Jews to migrate to Palestine. After the creation of The State of Israel, it became the American Zionist Council to lobby for funding. But in 1954 it took on more of a Public Affairs role as the American Zionist Public Affairs Committee to help counter negative press for various Israeli massacres of Palestinians. Now AIPAC plays an expanded, and blended role on those objectives. They lobby for Israeli funding, anoint American politicians, do public affairs for Israel, and essentially make American laws. While the Zionist &#8220;right&#8221; has been doing these activities in the United States, US Jews have simultaneously been <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-jews-have-long-advocated-on-behalf-of-immigrants-is-that-changing-under-trump-2-0/">advocating for mass immigration to the United States,</a> grossly manipulating the demographics. Since October 7th, 2023 American Jews have changed their tune on that, especially after massive backlash from Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza. It turns out some of the non-White immigrants to America didn&#8217;t arrive indoctrinated as dispensationalists with an undying support for &#8220;God&#8217;s Chosen people.&#8221; Is that why Trump was allowed to win again with the support of Jewish donors?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Perhaps he was allowed to win again, and remain out of prison, because rather than &#8220;draining the swamp,&#8221; he would put a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/">Peter Tiel funded acolyte in office as his Vice President</a>. This is the Peter Tiel who partnered with the Jewish, Alex Carp to create the CIA-funded Palantir. Palantir is essentially spyware, developed to make it easier to spy on and create profiles in databases on Palestinian Americans. The question though is really, is it a CIA asset or is it a Mossad asset? Who is controlling who? <a href="https://trt.global/world/article/12753010">Thiel was also an investor in Carbyne</a>, which was co-owned by Jeffrey Epstein, and other Israeli intelligence assets. Carbyne&#8217;s technology was nearly identical to Palantirs, and had direct connections to Israel&#8217;s intelligence division known as Division 8200. Is putting a Mossad/CIA asset in the White House, &#8220;draining the swamp?&#8221; Maybe the old guard was drained, and replaced with people a little more friendly to Israel.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The Republican Party, as promising as it seemed under Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; movement, has proven to be an abject failure at best and most likely an elaborate deception. Dear reader, ask yourself these questions. In a system founded up Democratic norms and principles, is it possible within such a framework to eliminate blackmail, and thus avoid having compromised authority figures? Is it possible under our current system to have politicians that aren&#8217;t controlled by foreign interests embedded in our system? Is it possible to totally eliminate something like AIPAC from having complete control over our lawmaking process? When foreign assets, even foreign intelligence operations, are embedded within our own intelligence operations, even directing them, is such a system salvageable? Is such a system which can just place its own officials in the White House alongside its already compromised President worth saving? The Reactionary Right may need to develop another strategy altogether, outside the scope of electoral politics. Maybe I have a plan, or maybe </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building The Fourth Rome]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Texas]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/building-the-fourth-rome</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/building-the-fourth-rome</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:30:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1625819826041-a119c9c6fca5?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMnx8Ynl6YW50aW5lfGVufDB8fHx8MTc0OTYxNTk5Nnww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2014, when I was received into the Church, I was convinced of the historical reality of the Church. After being Catechized in the dogma and beliefs of the Church, I eventually developed a strong interest in historical Orthodox Christian societies, The Byzantine Empire, and Russian Empire in particular. For years after I developed a hobby of personal &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas: A Global Indian & Muslim Hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[Episode 2]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/texas-a-global-indian-and-muslim</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/texas-a-global-indian-and-muslim</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:18:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/154361831/8cb7e1fbed1757b30b37de328870bd03.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forgive the background noise. Mark was travelling, but somehow had better audio than Michael&#8230;..anyhow, in this episode we discuss the legal immigration crisis in Texas, Indians, the H1B controversy, Elon Musk, and the terror attack in New Orleans by a pure blooded Texan. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1639034742096-7c4c083aba00?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxNXx8aW1taWdyYXRpb258ZW58MHx8fHwxNzM2Mjg3OTg5fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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Mark Ivanyo is an attorney, the director of the Republicans for National Renewal, and a Republican National Delegate. In this debut appearance we learn his perspective on the Political landscape in Texas, and what it means to be a Nationalist in Texas. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1618530242302-4c5a9094db4b?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHx0ZXhhcyUyMGZsYWd8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzM1NDA3MDU3fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The events of that day, whether a real mission by Hamas, was simply allowed to happen by Israeli intelligence, or a Mossad false flag, have provided a pretext for Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2024/10/15/netanyahu-revives-the-greater-israel-plan/">Greater Israel </a>project. As the conflict between Russian Armed Forces and Ukraine goes on, funded by the Uni&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Geopolitical Strategy For An Independent Texas ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obviously Hypothetical Ep. 1]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-geopolitical-strategy-for-an-independent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/a-geopolitical-strategy-for-an-independent</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:07:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/149546425/0096c17ba8bf145ca88993c30f9dc7c7.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Michael Sisco Show is officially retired. Welcome to The Texas Visionary Podcast. We&#8217;re pleased to have as our first guest, Conrad Franz to discuss challenges that Texas would face if it declared independence, and potential friends that could help along the way. All a hypothetical and thought experiment of course.  Check out the <a href="https://worldwarnow.co/?utm_source=global-search">World War Now conten&#8230;</a></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Is Not Time For Texit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not Yet Anyways]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/it-is-not-time-for-texit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/it-is-not-time-for-texit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:12:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1521583621977-c63c261f3054?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw3NHx8dGhlJTIwY2F0dGxlJTIwa2luZ3xlbnwwfHx8fDE3MjQ2MzgwODJ8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve met people all across the United States, having lived in numerous States working on different campaigns. Most places are highly polarized politically, with little patience between people while discussing political differences. That has not been my experience at all in Texas, even in the relatively liberal City of Houston. People are willing to talk&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Texas Visionary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now Accepting Contributions]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-texas-visionary</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-texas-visionary</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:01:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0aa9f782-53b6-475c-9a0e-67253ebc2481_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the 2024 Election approaches to determine the next President of the United States, the two parties have become nearly indistinguishable. American Conservatives find it difficult to admit this, but the truth is that the Progressive left is the true inheritance of the Enlightenment tradition passed down by the Founding Fathers of America. They&#8217;ve taken&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heretical Filioque]]></title><description><![CDATA[w/AngloVarangian]]></description><link>https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-heretical-filioque</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/p/the-heretical-filioque</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sisco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 02:27:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/146657545/69aa8284ae6439e09c1b94292ea31306.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally&#8230;.another show. New business venture, and then a hurricane&#8230;..But I&#8217;m back with Anglo Vrangian discussing the Filioque and other issues with the Roman Catholic Church. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thetexasvisionary.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1604443696533-965420d9332e?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw1fHxyb21hbiUyMGNhdGhvbGljJTIwY2FyZGluYWx8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzIxMDk2NzU0fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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