Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept.
Source: USA Today
Dec. 15, 2025 4:56 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON A top official at the U.S. Department of Education has been keeping a controversial flag linked to Christian nationalism and the Jan. 6 insurrection hung outside his office, according to the agency's union and a department employee who has observed it.
It's the latest in a series of instances in which the flag which depicts a pine tree and the words "An Appeal to Heaven" has been associated with agencies and figures at the highest levels of the federal government.
Though long tied to the American Revolution, the banner in more recent years "has been adopted primarily by evangelical Christian nationalist groups," as well as the Proud Boys and certain neo-Nazi groups, according to the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, an independent nonprofit organization. It was flown in 2021 by rioters at the U.S. Capitol as they tried to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results.
The symbol's emergence at the agency responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in federal funding for the nation's schools is already raising concerns about the separation of church and state.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/15/flag-appeal-to-heaven-education-department/87778953007/
Of course it was because "Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".
2naSalit
(99,567 posts)Original Maine State flag, fucking thieves.
markodochartaigh
(4,852 posts)was flown in 2021 by rioters at the U.S. Capitol as they tried to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results."
I like this. EVERYTIME that the riot at the Capitol is referenced it should be stated exactly what the rioters were trying to prevent.
SamKnause
(14,640 posts)SergeStorms
(19,896 posts)it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Attributed to Sinclair Lewis
KS Toronado
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Timeflyer
(3,607 posts)undoubtedly approves. Blue wave must come Nov. 2026, to stop this cruel backward faux Christian fundamentalist takeover. It is seeping into every part of government.
wolfie001
(6,884 posts)Always the "helpless victims' while provoking and gas-lighting their hate-based, bullshit ideology.
Wonder Why
(6,485 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,704 posts)"Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not."