# Nate Fischer The **money behind the [[Christian Network State]]**. Harvard Law graduate, Dallas-based venture capitalist, and founder of [[New Founding]] — the firm that finances the Highland Rim Project, backs Christian-aligned companies, and serves as the organizational hub connecting Silicon Valley capital to Christian nationalist settlement-building. If [[Balaji Srinivasan]] is the theorist, [[Joshua Abbotoy]] is the land developer, and [[Andrew Isker]] is the pastor, Fischer is the **venture capitalist** — the person who structures the entire operation as an investment thesis. Fischer is also Chairman of **American Reformer**, president of the Dallas chapter of the **Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR)**, and a regular speaker at [[National Conservatism]] conferences. He operates at the intersection of tech money, post-liberal ideology, and Christian nationalist community-building — the person who packages theocratic settlement as a venture opportunity. ## Background - BA in Economics and Political Science from Calvin College (now Calvin University — Reformed Christian institution). - Studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at University of Oxford. - JD from Harvard Law School (where he met [[Joshua Abbotoy]]). - **[[Claremont Institute]] Lincoln Fellow** — same pipeline as Abbotoy. - **[[Federalist Society]]** member. - Lives in Dallas, Texas with wife and five children. ## Career ### Real Estate (2011–2020) Co-founded a real estate firm that invested **$140 million in equity** into distressed multifamily properties, growing to over **$1 billion in assets** with 400 employees. Co-founded **InvestRes** with partner Peter Rex to acquire **$1.5 billion** of distressed multifamily real estate. Successfully exited most early deals by 2020. This background is critical: Fischer isn't a culture warrior playing at business — he's a professional real estate investor who pivoted to ideological development. ### New Founding (2021–present) Founded circa 2021. New Founding describes itself as "a venture firm for American vitality" that "builds and backs companies defined by American ideals and a positive national vision." The reality is more specific: it's a venture firm designed to build the economic infrastructure for Christian nationalist communities. **Direct ventures:** - **RidgeRunner USA** — Real estate development arm executing the Highland Rim Project. [[Joshua Abbotoy]] is founder/CEO. - **Volis** — AI and data technology for industrial companies. "Data architecture, operational ontology, artificial intelligence." - **Armanet** — Digital advertising platform for the firearms and outdoor industry. - **Armored Republic** — Body armor company. **Investment philosophy:** New Founding aims to build "high-trust, aligned communities to make high-value connections, creating economic networks that will be resilient to the broader collapse of trust in American institutions." The strategy: (1) clear positive vision, (2) forge a network of aligned people, (3) invest in businesses that reinforce the network. This is Srinivasan's [[Network State]] lifecycle (online community → collective action → physical territory) mapped onto Christian conservative venture capital. **Investors:** New Founding's investor roster reportedly includes **[[Marc Andreessen]]**, **[[Balaji Srinivasan]]**, and connections to **[[JD Vance]]** and **Erik Prince**. The Andreessen connection is particularly significant — it links the Christian Network State directly to [[Andreessen Horowitz]]'s [[American Dynamism]] thesis and the broader defense tech funding ecosystem. ### American Reformer (2021–present) Co-founded with Abbotoy. Fischer serves as Chairman. The publication promotes "a vigorous Christian approach to the cultural challenges of our day, rooted in the rich tradition of Protestant social and political thought." In practice, it's the intellectual organ of the Christian Network State movement — the place where the ideology gets articulated before the venture capital deploys it. ## Ideology: The "Christian Venture Paradigm" Fischer's framework, articulated in a March 2024 presentation to the New Canaan Society titled "A Natural Dissident: My Quest for a Distinctly Christian Venture Paradigm": ### Parallel Institutions The core strategy. New Founding's published strategy calls for building: - **Parallel forms of education and science** - **Parallel political structures** - **Parallel information networks** - **Parallel economic infrastructure** This is [[Balaji Srinivasan]]'s "exit" ideology — build alternatives rather than reform existing institutions — translated into Christian nationalist terms. But where Srinivasan exits to crypto-enabled sovereignty, Fischer exits to confessional Christian communities funded by venture capital. ### "Leadership Reserved for Christians" Internal New Founding documents (reported by NewsChannel 5 Nashville) state that in envisioned communities, **"leadership and influential positions must be reserved exclusively for those who call Jesus Christ King."** No provision for Jewish or other religious leadership. This is explicit: not pluralism, not ecumenism, but confessional Christian governance. ### Post-Liberal Economics Fischer rejects both progressive economics and libertarian free-market orthodoxy. His model: businesses should serve community and civilizational ends, not just shareholder returns. "Any tech and algorithm must be anchored to values, with Christianity as the center point." This aligns with [[Catholic Post-Liberalism]]'s rejection of market liberalism — but from a Protestant rather than Catholic direction. ### The Constitution Is Gone Fischer has declared the principles of the U.S. Constitution are **"long gone"** and that Christian nationalism "represents a positive Christian vision for government." This isn't conservatism in any traditional American sense — it's post-liberal, post-constitutional, explicitly theocratic. ## Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) Fischer is president of SACR's Dallas chapter. SACR — see **[[Society for American Civic Renewal]]** — is a **far-right male-only fraternal order** founded by **[[Charles Haywood]]**, described as: - Aiming to form an "aligned future regime" - Preparing members for "more broadly distributed" leadership through school boards, city councils, and business/civic organizations - Providing explicit preferential treatment for members in hiring and promotion - Male-only membership with Christian identity requirements SACR is the **personnel pipeline** for the Christian Network State — the organization that identifies, vets, and advances aligned men into positions of local power. If New Founding builds the economic infrastructure and RidgeRunner builds the physical infrastructure, SACR builds the **human infrastructure**. ## Network Connections ### Peter Thiel (Indirect but Significant) No documented direct Thiel funding of New Founding, but the network paths are short: - **Marc Andreessen** — New Founding investor, Thiel's co-investor in [[Pronomos Capital]] and defense tech deals - **Balaji Srinivasan** — New Founding investor, Thiel-adjacent (see: [[Balaji Srinivasan]]) - **JD Vance** — Connected to Fischer's network; Vance's [[Narya Capital]] was backed by Thiel, Schmidt, and Andreessen - **Erik Prince** — Associated with Highland Rim Project, Thiel-adjacent through defense tech circles - **Claremont Institute** — Where both Fischer and Abbotoy are fellows; receives Thiel-adjacent donor funding ### The Unholy Alliance Position Fischer occupies a unique position in the [[The Unholy Alliance]]: he's the person who **operationalizes** the convergence of techno-authoritarianism and Christian nationalism as a business. New Founding takes Silicon Valley money (Andreessen, Srinivasan) and deploys it toward Christian nationalist community-building. The tech wing provides the capital; the Christian wing provides the ideology; Fischer structures the deal. ### National Conservatism Regular speaker at **NatCon** conferences (2021, 2025). NatCon — organized by [[Yoram Hazony]]'s [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] — is the gathering point for the post-liberal coalition: Catholic integralists, Protestant nationalists, tech-right figures, and [[New Right]] intellectuals. Fischer speaks alongside figures from all wings of the [[The Unholy Alliance]]. ## Defense Tech Connections New Founding is not primarily a defense tech investor, but the connections exist: - **Armored Republic** (body armor) and **Armanet** (firearms industry advertising) touch the defense-adjacent market - **Marc Andreessen** backing links to [[Andreessen Horowitz]]'s $2.3B [[American Dynamism]] defense fund - **Erik Prince** association connects to the private military/defense tech space (see: [[Erik Prince]], [[Crusader Complex]]) - **Volis** (industrial AI) operates in sectors adjacent to defense manufacturing The deeper connection is ideological: Fischer's vision of "parallel institutions" built by aligned Christians maps onto the defense tech network's practice of building parallel military infrastructure outside the traditional Pentagon procurement system. The logic is identical — the existing system is captured/broken, so build alternatives. See: [[Military-Industrial Complex 2.0]]. ## Controversies ### James Lindsay Hoax Commentator James Lindsay tricked American Reformer into publishing an essay that echoed Marx's *[[Communist Manifesto]]* — designed to expose what Lindsay views as the movement's radical authoritarian core dressed in Christian language. The incident revealed that American Reformer's editorial framework could not distinguish Christian nationalism from Marxist class-warfare rhetoric when the proper theological vocabulary was used. ### Investigative Reporting - **NewsChannel 5 Nashville** — Multi-part investigation documenting New Founding as the financial engine behind a "Christian nationalist community" in Tennessee - **Rolling Stone** — "Right-Wing Christians Are Building Communities" feature on RidgeRunner - **Baptist News Global** — Framed New Founding as "the far right building 'aligned communities' while looking for a Red Caesar" - **The Guardian** — International coverage of Highland Rim as "a community for rightwingers" ### "Red Caesar" Association The phrase "Red Caesar" — a right-wing strongman who would seize power to impose conservative Christian order — circulates in Fischer's intellectual milieu. Baptist News Global explicitly connected New Founding's community-building to the search for such a figure. Fischer's own statement that the Constitution is "long gone" and [[Joshua Abbotoy]]'s call for a "Protestant Franco" reinforce the association. ## Why He Matters for This KB Fischer is the **venture capital layer** of the [[Christian Network State]] — the person who transforms ideology into investment thesis, theory into deal flow, manifestos into cap tables. His significance for this KB: 1. **Silicon Valley ↔ Christian nationalism bridge:** New Founding's investor list (Andreessen, Srinivasan) demonstrates that the same money that funds [[Anduril]], [[Palantir]], and the [[Crypto-Political Machine]] also finances Christian nationalist settlement-building. The Unholy Alliance isn't just ideological — it's *financial*. 2. **The "build" wing's CEO:** If the [[The Unholy Alliance]] has three strategic approaches — capture (Leo/Federalist Society), destroy (DOGE/Musk), and build (Christian Network State) — Fischer runs the build wing. He's the CEO of the construction project. 3. **SACR and personnel:** Through SACR, Fischer isn't just building communities — he's building a **cadre**. A male-only fraternal order that provides preferential hiring and prepares members for political office is a talent pipeline for theocratic governance, operating at the local level while the Claremont/Heritage/Leo networks operate at the federal level. ## See Also - [[Christian Network State]] - [[Joshua Abbotoy]] - [[Andrew Isker]] - [[The Unholy Alliance]] - [[Catholic Post-Liberalism]] - [[Dark Enlightenment]] - [[Balaji Srinivasan]] - [[The Network State]] - [[Marc Andreessen]] - [[Andreessen Horowitz]] - [[American Dynamism]] - [[Peter Thiel]] - [[Curtis Yarvin]] - [[Pete Hegseth]] - [[Crusader Complex]] - [[Leonard Leo]]