# Project Blitz The ALEC of Christian nationalism. Project Blitz is a coordinated campaign to flood state legislatures with model bills that incrementally dismantle church-state separation — starting with symbolic measures that seem harmless and escalating to substantive policy changes that embed Christian nationalist principles in law. It's the most systematic legislative strategy the Christian right has ever deployed. ## What It Is Project Blitz was launched in 2017 by the [[Congressional Prayer Caucus]] Foundation (CPCF), [[WallBuilders]], and the National Legal Foundation. The project distributes a playbook of model bills to state legislators organized in three tiers of escalating ambition: **Tier 1 — Symbolic measures**: "In God We Trust" displays in public buildings, National Motto resolutions, recognition of religious history. These bills pass with broad bipartisan support because opposing them appears anti-religious. They're designed to normalize Christian messaging in government spaces and create legislative precedent. **Tier 2 — Pro-Christian policy**: Bible literacy classes in public schools, "pastor protection acts," religious exemptions for student organizations. These bills begin to embed Christian content and Christian exemptions in public institutions. **Tier 3 — Discriminatory legislation**: Religious refusal laws allowing businesses to deny services to LGBTQ people, restrictions on transgender rights, adoption discrimination based on religion. These are the substantive policy goals that the symbolic measures are designed to soften the ground for. ## The Strategy The genius of Project Blitz is the escalation model. Tier 1 bills are nearly impossible to vote against — what legislator wants to be quoted opposing "In God We Trust"? But each successful Tier 1 bill establishes that Christian messaging in government is normal, legal, and popular. This creates the political and legal environment for Tier 2 and Tier 3 bills. The playbook was distributed to every state legislative prayer caucus in the country — a network that the CPCF claims includes over 950 state legislators. Each state caucus introduces the bills adapted to local context. Between 2017 and 2019, over 70 Project Blitz bills were introduced in state legislatures across more than 20 states. ## The Rebranding After journalists and civil liberties organizations exposed Project Blitz in 2018-2019, the CPCF rebranded the initiative as "Freedom for All." The model legislation playbook was temporarily pulled from public access. But the strategy continued under the new name with the same bills, the same network, and the same escalation model. This rebranding under exposure is a pattern across the Christian nationalist ecosystem — it speaks to the movement's understanding that its goals are unpopular when stated directly, requiring incremental, euphemistic packaging. ## The ALEC Parallel Project Blitz explicitly mirrors the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model: produce template legislation, distribute it through a network of sympathetic legislators, and count on volume to produce results. Not every bill passes in every state, but enough pass in enough states to shift the national baseline. And failed bills serve a purpose too — they normalize the concepts, generate media coverage, and test which arguments resonate. ## The Analytical Framework Project Blitz is the **legislative infrastructure layer** of Christian nationalism. While the [[Alliance Defending Freedom]] fights in courts and the [[Family Research Council]] lobbies Congress, Project Blitz operates at the state level — where most policy affecting daily life is actually made. It's also where Christian nationalist bills face less media scrutiny, less organized opposition, and more sympathetic legislatures. The three-tier escalation model is worth studying as a case in how movements achieve radical goals through incremental steps. Each tier seems reasonable in isolation — who could object to displaying the national motto? — but the trajectory from "In God We Trust" to legalized discrimination against LGBTQ people is a straight line drawn across dozens of state legislatures simultaneously. Project Blitz demonstrates that the Christian nationalist movement has moved from protest politics to systems engineering — it's no longer just rallying against cultural change but systematically building the legal and legislative framework for a Christian-governed society.