Kitchen Table Cult Pod

Shiny Happy Special Episode

Eve and Kieryn are back for a quick update! In the last year Trump was re-elected, Project 2025 started becoming law of the land, Eve made quilts, Kieryn briefly appeared in Shiny Happy People season 2 (we get into it), and is ~a semester and finishing their Gofundme away from getting their Associates degree in Social Sciences! Show notes: GoFundMe - https://gofundme.com/makekierynsmarter Convention of States on Shiny Happy People - https://conventionofstates.com/news/mark-meckler-amazon-prime-show-attacks-cos Prism Article - https://prismreports.org/2024/05/20/christian-nationalist-playbook-usurp-democracy/ Shiny Happy People is streaming on amazon prime!

S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs

Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids because Germany takes the rights and education of Children seriously. Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/romeikenotes This episode was produced by the lovely Mary Steffenhagen!

S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp democracy regardless of who wins the presidential election this year. We dive into Project 2025, the little known and even less talked about Convention of States, and the bureaucratic mechanism at the crux of it all. Notes: Read Kieryn's reporting for prism - https://prismreports.org/2024/05/20/christian-nationalist-playbook-usurp-democracy/ This episode was originally made as a test episode for a major media company, our producer was Mary Steffenhagen!

S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines

Errin Haines of The 19th* News joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the future of journalism, being a progressive Christian while covering the news, and the liberatory nature of Black Christianity in the US. Notes: https://19thnews.org/ https://19thnews.org/topics/podcast/ https://x.com/errinhaines https://www.instagram.com/emarvelous

S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler

Kieryn and Eve talk with Carly Butler about her memoir, Apocalypse Child, what identity abuse looks like for homeschooled kids, and how it feels to reparent yourself while parenting children. Pre-order the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-child-carly-butler/20702732?ean=9781773861326 Follow Carly: @carlymbutton everywhere