Guns, God — and Blockchain: Christian nationalists build techno-theocracy in Appalachia

A group of Christian nationalist venture capitalists are constructing a "techno-libertarian" theocratic community in Tennessee, reported Mother Jones on Tuesday — in perhaps the latest sign of a new breed of right-wing politics establishing a physical presence where before it had mostly been confined to online and talk radio.

The establishment of right-wing Christian nationalist communities is far from a new phenomenon — in 2021, a fringe gun-worshiping church known as the Rod of Iron Ministries...