Why we’re making these shirts again 36 years later:

On Feb. 6, 2025, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias, a thing that doesn’t actually exist in the way that they are framing it. On that same day Russell Vought was made head of the extremely powerful, yet totally bland sounding, Office of Management and Budget.

You may not have heard of him yet, but, as head of the OMB, Russell Vought, along with Stephen Miller, is going to be one of the most dangerous and impactful officials in the US going forward. Vought is a principal author of Project 2025, the head of the extreme right wing Center for Renewing America, the guy behind pushing for the dangerous and undemocratic Schedule F, the guy behind that spending freeze in early 2025, and, on only day three of his tenure, he was already doing stuff that is illegal and extremely damaging.

Russell Vought is an avowed Christian Nationalist who wants our country to be a theocracy no matter the cost, no matter what laws are broken, no matter who it hurts. This isn't conjecture, it's in everything he's been saying and writing about and pushing for years.

Vought sees our nation as so sinful and irredeemable that there is no other option but to destroy our system of governance and install what is essentially a dictator-puppet, so we can be a Christ-centered nation. And not the nice kind of socialist revolutionary Christ like the one that is actually in the Bible! He’s an "ends-justify-the-means" guy. So while Trump is a childlike and feral malignant narcissist/solipsist who believes in nothing except power for the sake of power, winning for the sake of winning, and wants whatever feeds his bottomless black hole pit of neediness and attention, Vought, on the other hand, is a true believer - an actual scheming and plotting super-villain. And he has extraordinary powers to push his agenda through via the Office of Management and Budget.

He, and folks like Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel ("I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"), Curtis Yarvin ("If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia"), and JD Vance ("Yarvin is my number 1 political influence”), have come together to form an unholy alliance of Christian Nationalists, Christian Evangelicals, Technocrats, old guard Libertarians, White Supremacists, Accelerationists, and Effective Altruists. They all have different reasons and agendas for why they’re doing what they’re doing, but what they all have in common is that they want to burn it all down. They are not trying to reform or “fix” anything, and who and what they hurt and destroy in doing this doesn’t matter to them. If you're a fan of seeing it all burn, then Vought is your guy!

So, yeah, it seemed like it was time to bring our fuckin' shirt back.

100% of all profits go to the ACLU and Doctors Without Borders. Why we picked those two is further down.

NOTE ABOUT US PICKING THE ACLU AND DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS :

Because the extreme authoritarian shift we are experiencing right now impacts both the USA and the entire planet, we wanted to pick two groups to donate to from the sales of this shirt. One group that was well known and well regarded, and could do good work in our current moment right here in the USA. And one group that was well known and well regarded, and could do good work in our current moment internationally. 

While we'd be the first to admit that we are not 100% okay with every single thing the ACLU has fought and/or supported over the years, with the balance of power being what it is right now in government, it seems like the main way to fight these fights (besides organized resistance) is via lawsuits. Thousands of 'em! And the ACLU seems very well positioned to do that. 

There are ​a​ few criticisms of Doctors Without Borders​ to be found on-line, but they still seem to be one of the most reputable and well regarded humanitarian organizations out there​, and they do a lot of amazing work.

P.S. We are fully aware that our system is very, very broken, that there is all kinds of waste and corruption in our government, and that the Democrats have been blowing it for decades. We just don't want Bannon-style muzzle-velocity "solutions" that hurt and destroy more than they help and heal, that allow for even more corruption and abuse, and that sets us back even further from how far we still have to go to take better care of each other and our planet.