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🌑 GLITCHED | PROJECT 2025

Episode 1 — Project 2025 Begins with One Man: Paul Weyrich

Before the blueprint… before the headlines… before the government we’re living under right now…
 there was one man.

 A man most Americans have never heard of.
 A man whose fear-based worldview would become the seed of the most powerful conservative machine in modern history.

This is where Project 2025 truly begins.

In this pilot episode of Glitched, we go back—way back—to Racine, Wisconsin, where a quiet boy in a quiet town grew into the architect of a political empire that would one day fuse religion, power, and control. This is the origin story nobody told you. And the one we all should have seen coming.

Tonight, we trace the early years:
 his upbringing, his small-town roots, his first taste of messaging and power, and the moment he realized one thing—
 fear unites people faster than faith ever will.

This is Episode 1 of what will become a multi-part series.
 The story starts here.

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🔮 GLITCHED | PROJECT 2025 — EPISODE 2 TEASER

Episode 2: Falwell & Weyrich — The Alliance That Changed America

If Episode 1 is the spark, Episode 2 is the explosion.
 Next week, we move into the moment everything shifted:
 when Paul Weyrich met televangelist Jerry Falwell.
 Two men with power.
 Two men with purpose.
 Two men ready to merge politics, pulpits, and fear into one unstoppable machine.

The unholy alliance begins.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker (00:05):
Quiet home.
Quiet home.
We go back to the beginning.
Before Project 2025.
Before the headlines.
Before the blueprint.
To the man whose worldviewwould replace American politics.
Is the world glitching?

(00:26):
Or is it just me?
Wait, are we glitching?
Feels like we're glitching.
A new sassy politics series.
With me.
Christy Chanel.
Racine, Wisconsin, a factorytown stitched together with rail
lines and Sunday church bells.
The kind of place where lifewasn't meant to change, only to

(00:49):
repeat.
This is where Paul Weyrich wasborn.
But before we get to the man,we have to understand the world
that built him.
His father, Ignatius, was afirst-generation German
American, a railroad workerwhose days were defined by
steel, grit, and a routine thatnever loosened its grip.

(01:10):
He woke before dawn, workedwith his hands, and came home to
a house where he expectedorder.
His wife, Anne-Marie, was nineyears younger.
A woman who stayed inside thedomestic world she was raised
in.
She was first generation aswell, shaped by Catholic gender
roles so rigid you could feelthe weight of them in the walls.

(01:34):
She kept the home, the meals,the children, and the rituals.
And yet history barelyremembers her.
Not her voice, not her humor,not a single detail about who
she was when nobody waswatching.
Even photographs blur her intosomething unrecognizable.
Anne Marie survives in therecord only as housewife,

(01:59):
mother, Catholic.
Meanwhile, America remembersother women.
Marilyn Monroe, the woman thecountry adored because she was
beautiful, and Amelia Earhart,the woman who refused the ground
entirely and paid for it bybecoming a mystery.
These were the women historykept.

(02:20):
Women who were visible onlybecause they were exceptional or
desirable or impossible toforget.
But women like Anne Marie, theyvanished.
Not because their lives weresmall, but because no one wrote
them down.
And that silence mattered.

(02:40):
It's the silence Paul grew upinside.
He was the youngest of four,the baby of the family.
And in Catholic households ofthat era, the youngest often
absorbed the least freedom, butthe most expectations.
He watched his father enforcediscipline and his mother slip
into duty.

(03:00):
He learned early that somepeople speak and others serve.
Some people lead and othersfade.
We can't know exactly what hefelt about the discipline in his
home.
The records don't tell us.
But we can say this.
He grew up in a house wherestructure was sacred, obedience
was moral, and tradition was notquestioned, only followed.

(03:24):
Two things were non-negotiablein that house: God and order.
The little Paul absorbed both.
By the time he reached St.
Catharines High School, PaulWeyrich had already learned how
to disappear into a room withoutever feeling small.
He wasn't the kid telling jokesin the hallway or chasing girls

(03:46):
after class.
He wasn't even trying to fitin.
He moved through adolescencelike someone who had already
decided he didn't have theluxury of adolescence.
Former classmates rememberedhim the same way.
Rigid posture, books held likearmor, a seriousness that didn't
quite match his age.

(04:06):
Not moody, not shy, justcertain.
As if he saw something theother kids didn't or believed he
did.
And this is where we have topause and look at the
psychology.
When you grow up believing theworld is at stake, you don't
become the class clown.
You become the kind of youngman who starts looking past the

(04:28):
present and towards something hethinks is waiting for him.
While other teenagers werediscovering baseball or first
kisses or Friday Night Freedoms,Paul was discovering something
else.
The Cold War.
He consumed headlines the wayother boys consumed comic books.

(04:49):
Not casually, devotionally.
To him, communism wasn't ageopolitical concept.
It was an existential threat.
A darkness creeping towardsAmerican soil, toward American
churches, toward the order hehad been raised to worship.

(05:10):
He didn't see world events, hesaw a battlefield.
Cold War fear didn't just shapePaul, it gave him purpose.
It told him that doubt wasweakness, compromise was
surrender, and faith, realfaith, required action.
Quietly, without anyonenoticing, the teenager sitting

(05:33):
in the back row of St.
Catharines was already becomingsomething else.
A believer sharpening intosomething far more
consequential.
The blueprint wasn't on paperyet, but the mindset was.
This is where the ideologytakes root.
Paul Weyrich didn't stumbleinto politics.

(05:57):
He was already circling it longbefore he spoke into a
microphone.
In the early 1960s, before theradio job, before the voice,
before the ideology sharpened,Paul was an eager young foot
soldier in the Racine CountyYoung Republicans.
19 years old, handing outflyers, stuffing envelopes,

(06:18):
absorbing the mechanics ofcampaigns like oxygen.
And in 1964, he did somethingthat told you exactly who he was
becoming.
He joined Barry Goldwater'spresidential campaign.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
The philosophy of something for nothing, the cult
of individual and governmentirresponsibility, is an
insidious cancer that willdestroy us as a people unless we
recognize it and root it outnow.
I say it is time to putconscience back in government
and by good example put it backin all walks of American life.
In your heart, you know he'sright.

(07:22):
Vote for Barry Goldwater.

Speaker (07:26):
The campaign that electrified the conservative
movement, that fusedanti-communism with moral
identity, and this campaignwould eventually shape Ronald
Reagan.
So when he walked into thenewsroom later that year, he
wasn't just a reporter with anotepad.
He was a true believer armedwith a microphone.

(07:46):
At 21, sitting in a crampedradio booth with ham-me-down
equipment, Paul wasn't justlearning to speak.
He was learning to listen.
To politicians, to powerbrokers, to local officials who
controlled city budgets, tostate legislators fighting over
Cold War policy, to anyone whosedecision bent the rules other

(08:10):
people had to live under.
He wasn't choosing storiesrandomly.
He was unconsciously mappingpower.
Most reporters saw interviewsas assignments.
Paul saw them asreconnaissance.
This was the moment thetransformation began.
The boy with a rigid Catholicupbringing, the teenager shaped

(08:34):
by Cold War fear, the young manlearning the tempo of influence.
He wasn't just observing thesystem anymore.
He was preparing to enter it.
Two years after leavingcollege, 23 years old, most
young reporters would have beenbegging for a bigger station, a

(08:54):
bigger market, and a biggermicrophone.
Not Paul.
He did the unthinkable forsomeone in his position.
He left journalism and walkedstraight into the halls of
federal power.
He became a press secretary toRepublican U.S.
Senator Gordon L.
Alat of Colorado.
Let's be clear.

(09:15):
You don't go from small-townradio to the United States
Senate because someone likedyour voice.
You get that job because you'veshown something else: ambition,
commitment, and a deepstrategic way of seeing the
world.
In the Senate, Paul wasn'treporting anymore.

(09:36):
He was shaping narratives,framing messages, controlling
how information flowed.
Inside the Capitol, Paullearned something that would
define the rest of his life.
Politicians come and go.
Terms end.
Elections flip.
Faces fade.

(09:57):
But institutions?
Institutions last.
Committees, foundations,networks, organizations that
outlive presidents andoutmaneuver elections.
Paul saw it clearly.
Maybe more clearly than anyoneelse in that era.

(10:17):
If you want to change America,you don't win elections.
You build the environmentelections live in.
This is the seed, the firstdraft of the blueprint.
The moment the future architectof the new right understands
what he was put on this earth todo, he saw the truth most

(10:39):
people never learned.
Politicians weren't powerful,they were temporary.
They made speeches, signedletters, shook hands, and every
few years they rotated out likereplaceable cogs.
Paul watched young stafferscome and go.
He watched senators loseelections they believed they
were destined to win.

(11:01):
Real power doesn't sit in theSenate chambers.
Real power sits in the shadowsbehind them.
In the networks, in theinstitutions, in the
organizations that survive everyelection cycle and outlive
every politician.
America was shaped bystructures, committees,

(11:22):
foundations, think tanks,religious networks, political
ecosystems that kept operatinglong after presidents left
office.
If you want to change thedirection of a country, you
don't chase election wins.
You build the environment whereelections take place.
You influence the judges.
You guide the staffers.

(11:44):
You script the policy language.
You frame the moral argumentsthat politicians repeat on
camera like they came up withthem.
Paul wasn't mesmerized by thesenators.
He was watching the people whotold senators what to do.
This right here is the quietbirth of the modern new right.

(12:06):
A machine that would turn faithinto fuel, fear into strategy,
and institutions into weapons.
Washington didn't turn PaulWeyrich into a powerful man.
It taught him how to build thepower in other people.
People who shared hisworldview.

(12:27):
And there was one group whosesize, devotion, and outrage
could transform Americanpolitics if someone could figure
out how to unite them.
The churches.
The Catholics.
The evangelicals.
The believers who felt Americawas slipping away from God.
They didn't trust each other.

(12:48):
They didn't worship the sameway.
They didn't even vote the sameway.
But they carried something Paulrecognized instantly shared
fear.