# Congressional Prayer Caucus The legislative nerve center of Christian nationalism. The Congressional Prayer Caucus is a formal caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, but its real power operates through the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation (CPCF) — a 501(c)(3) that has built a network of state legislative prayer caucuses in all 50 states, collectively claiming over 950 state legislators as members. This network is the delivery system for [[Project Blitz]], the model legislation campaign that systematically inserts Christian nationalist policy at the state level. ## Why It Matters The CPC looks like a prayer group. It functions as a legislative infrastructure network. The distinction is important: the caucus itself is a small group of House members who gather for prayer and fellowship. The Foundation is a sophisticated operation that identifies sympathetic state legislators, organizes them into state-level prayer caucuses, provides them with model legislation, and coordinates simultaneous bill introductions across multiple states. [[Mike Johnson]] was a key figure in the caucus before becoming Speaker and helped architect the Foundation's strategy. [[David Barton]] and [[WallBuilders]] are formal partners in the Foundation's work, providing the pseudo-historical content that justifies the model legislation. ## The State Network The CPCF's state legislative prayer caucuses are the most important and least-covered piece of the Christian nationalist infrastructure. State legislatures pass the vast majority of legislation affecting daily life — education, healthcare, civil rights, family law — and they face far less media scrutiny than Congress. The CPCF's network places sympathetic legislators in every state, provides them with ready-to-file bills, and coordinates timing so that similar bills appear in multiple states simultaneously, creating momentum and normalizing the proposals. This is the operational backbone of [[Project Blitz]]: the CPCF's state caucuses are the entities that introduce the Tier 1, 2, and 3 model bills. Without this network, Project Blitz would be a document on a shelf. With it, Project Blitz is a legislative campaign that has produced over 70 bill introductions in two years. ## The Prayer Shield The caucus uses religious language and practices as both genuine spiritual expression and strategic cover. By framing its activities as "prayer" and "religious freedom," the network makes it politically costly for opponents to criticize — nobody wants to be the legislator who objects to prayer. This rhetorical strategy mirrors the Tier 1 Project Blitz bills: start with something no one can oppose, then build on that foundation. ## The Analytical Framework The Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation is the **distribution network** for Christian nationalist legislation. If [[David Barton]] is the content factory, [[Alliance Defending Freedom]] is the legal army, and the [[Family Research Council]] is the policy shop, the CPCF is the sales force — the organization that ensures the product reaches the customer (state legislators) and gets deployed (introduced as bills). It's the least visible and possibly the most consequential piece of the entire Christian nationalist infrastructure because it operates at the state level where most Americans' rights are actually determined.