The Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation (CPCF), led by executive director Lea Carawan and closely allied with David Barton's WallBuilders organization, launches "Project Blitz" — a coordinated legislative playbook providing model bills for Christian nationalist legislation in all 50 state legislatures. The playbook is distributed to state legislators through a network of state prayer caucuses and allied organizations.
The strategy is deliberately escalatory, organized in three tiers of increasing aggressiveness. Tier 1 ("Foundational"): seemingly innocuous bills like requiring "In God We Trust" displays in public buildings and schools, Bible literacy classes in public schools, and proclamations of "Christian Heritage Week." These are designed to pass easily and establish legal and cultural precedent. Tier 2 ("Resolutions and Proclamations"): resolutions defending religious expression in public life and opposing restrictions on religious organizations. Tier 3 ("Protective"): religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws, allowing adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples, and permitting businesses to deny services based on religious belief.
The escalation design is the key structural insight. Tier 1 bills create the appearance of broad consensus that America is a "Christian nation." Tier 2 bills reframe religious privilege as religious liberty under attack. Tier 3 bills use the precedent and framing established by the first two tiers to justify legal discrimination. By the time Tier 3 bills face public scrutiny, Tier 1 has already normalized the premise that government should actively promote Christianity.
Between 2017 and 2019, over 70 Project Blitz bills are introduced in state legislatures across more than 20 states. After investigative reporting by Frederick Clarkson at Political Research Associates and Americans United for Separation of Church and State exposes the coordinated campaign, the initiative is rebranded as "Freedom for All" — but the model legislation continues to circulate through the same networks. The playbook operates identically to ALEC's corporate model legislation system: centralized drafting, decentralized introduction, plausible local authorship masking national coordination.