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- Rick Pidcock @ Baptist Press: Here’s who’s behind the next Capitol insurrection
While some white evangelical leaders have responded to results of this week’s midterm elections with dismay, others are responding with calls to action that echo the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
MAGA Pastor Lorenzo Sewell Calls For 'Another January 6' After Democrats Win Midterms
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11/10/2026
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- In the wake of heavy Republican losses in the midterm elections, Alex McFarland says Christian Americans should now view themselves as "God's missionaries on foreign soil."
- Far right-wing candidate James Fishback tells Steve Bannon that he is not, in fact, far right-wing.
- Ryan Helfenbein claims that "the most quoted of the texts from the early writings of the Founders ... was the Bible." That is not true.
- Shane Vaughn declares that the effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is being led by "demons dressed in red" who have "found a voice within the Republican Party."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes now has to "pretend like I'm not racist" because he is picking up a lot of new viewers after the midterms: "We gotta let 'em know we're cool first. It's like when you meet new people and you kinda gotta let 'em warm up before you start saying retard in front of 'em."
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11/09/2026
- David Barton insists that the massive Democratic gains in the midterm elections were not because of a blue wave: "It wasn't a blue wave that that hit on election night; it was the absence of a red."
- Jim Garlow says that pastors should run for office, but only if they are "authentically biblical" Republicans: "If they violate historic, orthodox, biblical understandings, we do not need them in office."
- With the GOP in disarray, Nick Fuentes sees an opportunity: "We are going to take over the Republican Party."
- Jake Lang is asking President Donald Trump to protect him from his various legal problems by declaring Lang to be a political refugee.
- Finally, Lance Wallnau explains why voters turned against Republicans because of issues like gas prices and affordability: "That was the talking points that the left, like demonic spirits, put into people."
11/05/2026
- In the wake of the overwhelming Democratic victories in the midterm elections, Shane Vaughn is lamenting that American citizens have the power to elect their own representatives: "Every election I understand more and more why our founding fathers at the Philadelphia convention tried every way in the world to keep the common unlearned and uneducated man out of a voting booth."
- Todd Starnes is likewise upset about the election results: "Only 17 percent of evangelicals voted in the midterm election. It was projected that 81 percent of Muslims voted. Soon, even the Baptists will be wearing burkas."
- Jim Garlow says that "Americans do not realize they are committing national suicide."
- Mark Meckler is calling on Republicans in Congress to use the lame duck period to pass a wave of legislation before Democrats get in power and "trash the country we love": "Use the power. All of it. Every single bit. Right now."
- Ben Zeisloft declares that "if we understand our Bibles, we should see rule by Muslims, communists, and women as signs of divine judgment against our wicked nation."
- James Fishback is siding with the Empire from "Star Wars."
- Finally, Joel Webbon proclaims that the Christian nationalist plan to seize power "does not require a majority vote": "I'm not saying that we will win through democracy. I'm just saying that we'll win."
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11/03/2026
- Shane Vaughn says that even if Abdul El-Sayed doesn't win the race for the Senate in Michigan, "America has already lost, as it enables the takeover of its political institutions by jihadi Muslims."
- Joel Webbon is now openly promoting fascism.
- Eric Metaxas seems to have finally realized that his friend Calvin Robinson is a blatant antisemite.
- Jack Hibbs proclaims that "if the election is secure" in California, "you're going to see an overwhelming victory by [Republican] Steve Hilton" in the race for governor.
- Rick Green continues to insist that Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens' decision to back Republican Mike Rogers over El-Sayed is an "act of patriotism" whereas Republicans who refuse to vote for Republican Ken Paxton in Texas are doing so "because you're bitter and you're a spoiled child."
- Finally, speaking of Paxton, he appeared as a guest on Monday night's episode of "FlashPoint," where host Gene Bailey served up softball questions designed entirely to convince conservative Christians to vote for him.
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11/02/2026
- Jason Rapert urges Christians to vote in the midterm elections: "If the powers of darkness can get the levers of power in the United States government, we are in for some of the worst period in our history that we will have ever experienced."
- House Speaker Mike Johnson declares that "if you think that electing Democrats will bring your prices down, it would be exactly the opposite and you'd lose your freedom at the same time."
- Samuel Rodriguez warns America what it can expect if Democrats win the midterms: "Chaos, anarchy, socialism, communism, uber-wokeism, cancel culture on steroids, antisemitism continues to grow; a complete repudiation of our Judeo-Christian system."
- Shane Vaughn calls for political polls to be outlawed: "THEY ARE TOOLS to SWAY THE VOTE --- IGNORE THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is MENTAL CONTROL to discourage REPUBLICAN VOTERS."
- Finally, Rick Green, who has spent months railing against Republicans who refuse to support Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas senate race, predictably has nothing but praise for Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens for backing Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's senate race: "This is what you call Patriotism."
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- Christopher Mathias @ Talking Points Memo: The Most Extreme, Toxic, Bizarre, Scandal-Plagued Candidates of the 2026 Midterms
A congressional candidate in Texas with “Nazi-ish” politics. A congressional candidate in Arizona who “stole valor” and then blamed his grandchildren. A demon-hunting gubernatorial candidate in Colorado who refuses to say precisely how many people he’s killed, and the congressional candidate dubbed the “goth groypette” rallying beside him. Another congressional candidate in Florida who called for nuking Gaza. A state senate candidate in Florida who marched with Nazis in Charlottesville. And the nominee for a North Carolina state senate seat who called into a local news station during an armed standoff with police.
- Tess Owen and David Gilbert: Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Trying to Undermine the Election
So far, Department of Justice–led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat.
- Emily Kennard and Liz Goodwin @ The Washington Post: Social account linked to former Mike Collins aide posted slurs, calls for violence
A congressional staffer who has worked with four representatives over the past four years, including GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mike Collins (Georgia), appears closely tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians, promotes political violence, calls for an end to democracy and laments the existence of civil rights laws, among other views, a Washington Post analysis of the account found. Details shared in posts on the account connect it to 25-year-old Jonathon Hatzistefanou, who works as a legislative assistant for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Florida) and served as a former staff assistant for Collins, the Georgia Republican locked in a bitter fight for a Senate seat with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D).
- Brett Meiselas @ MeidasTouch Network: Fox News Caught Passing Off Rogers Campaign Backers as 'Bipartisan' Voter Panel
Four of Lara Trump's five Fox voter panelists appeared at Mike Rogers campaign events. One also serves as treasurer of a multimillion-dollar pro-Rogers super PAC.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: The Thiel Tapes: ‘I Don't Think I'm the Antichrist, Maybe You Shouldn't Trust Me’
Secretly recorded audio from inside Peter Thiel’s first Nashville lecture reveals the tech billionaire’s obsession with the Antichrist—and his odd biblical revisionism.
- John Blake @ CNN: A religious reckoning may be looming for White evangelicals who support Trump
As the midterm elections approach and a post-Trump America looms, some evangelicals and religious scholars are now considering a similar question: What will White evangelicals’ allegiance to President Trump cost them now that their day of reckoning is at hand?
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James Fishback Urges People To Buy An AR-15 To Protect Their Children From 'James Talafreako'
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10/30/2026
- Shane Vaughn encourages everyone to vote Republican for the good of their neighbors: "They might be TOO DECEIVED to understand that the POLICIES OF SOCIALISM are going to destroy them if enacted - SO IT IS UP TO YOU TO GO AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR -- VOTE RED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Todd Starnes is optimistic about the midterm elections because he "can't believe the American people are going to choose communism over freedom."
- Lance Wallnau believes that a "grey tsunami" of older voters will save the GOP in the midterms.
- Alan Didio and Gene Bailey don't want everyone to vote: "If you believe 'Your body, your choice,' we don't want you to vote. You vote on Wednesday."
- Ryan Helfenbein warns that it is the dream of progressives to ensure "that Christians are not legally recognized."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes fumes that President Donald Trump and the Republicans could have "reigned for a thousand years" if only they had "used their power appropriately."
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10/29/2026
- Lance Wallnau is convinced that polls showing the Democrats are favored to win the midterm elections are a "psy-op" and "an absolute assault on reality."
- Shane Vaughn declares that "there's no such thing as a good Democrat": "If you vote blue, there is nothing good in you."
- Mario Murillo says the election presents a simple choice: "Who hates America, and who loves America?"
- Steve Deace sees it this way: "We're literally up against the devil. These are attempts to use the political system to express spiritual dominion."
- Alex McFarland has a warning for Christians: "If you don't vote, be thinking about how you're going to explain your disobedience to God."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes fumes that anti-ICE protesters should have been "decapitated by the guillotine": "It should have been mass deportations and you're resisting arrest? It should be public executions."
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10/27/2026
- Jason Rapert declares that "if political parties were mentioned in the Bible, Sodom & Gomorrah would be the headquarters of the Democrat Party."
- Shane Vaughn is unconcerned about the Christian pastor who announced that he and his wife have embraced polygamy because "polygamy is 10,000 times more natural than one man marrying another man."
- Mat Staver warns that Christians must "vote biblically" because the election will result in "consequences that we will live under, that people will die under."
- Rep. Brandon Gill claims that the election is a choice between a Democratic Party that has "become about as radical and extreme as you can get" and a Republican Party built on "basic decency and common sense people who deeply love this country."
- Finally, Joel Webbon weighs in on "boss babe feminists" who decide not to have children: "There is a 99.999 percent chance that she is not a Christian and is therefore going to hell."
Mike Johnson Says Christians Must Vote For The GOP To 'Make Sure That The Righteous Are Ruling'
10/27/2026
- Allison Gordon and Haley Britzky @ CNN: ‘Separation of Church and State does not exist’: Hegseth’s faith adviser shared racist, homophobic posts
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior adviser for religious issues has shared scores of racist and homophobic posts, spread conspiracy theories, and repeatedly denigrated Islam and immigrants, a CNN investigation has found.
- Paige Skinner @ HuffPost: An Edgelord Gun Influencer Is On His Way To Representing Uvalde In Congress
- The YouTuber who has referred to himself as “the AK Jesus” has said people should be glad murderers use guns in mass killings.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: A Right-Wing Men’s Club Cracks Up Over Israel—and Trump
- Detractors say the Old Glory Club has become the ‘Old Gloryhole Club.’
- Sophia Tesfaye @ Salon: MAGA influencers use Brazil’s election to sow doubt on midterms
- Right-wing media is crying foul over Lula’s win, floating conspiracy theories.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: Righteous Violence? What I Heard Inside the ‘Holy Wars’ Conference
- Two books, sold inside two Christian nationalist conferences, provide arguments for followers of Christ potentially murdering abortion providers—and a warning for America.
- Matthew Rozsa @ AlterNet: Kushner accused of massive 'Iran-contra'-level scandal
- President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is accused of being in a scandal one commentator compared to the Iran-contra scandal which marred President Ronald Reagan's administration.
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10/26/2026
- Hank Kunneman says Christians must vote in the midterm elections "to send a message to every organization, every wicked corrupt lunatic that has tried to steal our country, tried to push the name of our God out and called us Christian nationalists": "We are here and we aren't going anywhere!"
- James Fishback can't believe that he was prevented for attending Byron Donald rally. Gee, we wonder why?
- Trump-loving Christian nationalist William Wolfe claims that James Talarico "spectacularly" fails the "Babysitter Test": "There is no loving parent who wants this creep within 500 feet of their kids. Deep down, even liberal parents know that." For what it is worth, we wouldn't want Wolfe within 500 feet of our kids either.
- Right-wing pastor Kyle Lammott declares that every politician is "under the supreme sovereignty of Christ Jesus" and when they "enact godless laws, approve tyranny, legalize evil, he is committing high treason against the one who has all authority in Heaven and earth."
- Finally, you can now visit the David Barton Research Center, courtesy of Glenn Beck's American Journey Experience.
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10/23/2026
- Nicholas Riccardi @ The Associated Press: Trump says he ordered Justice Department lawsuit over Alaska Senate race
President Donald Trump on Friday said he told his administration to file its lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, kicking off what many fear could become a lengthy battle between the government and states over certifying an election where the president’s party is struggling.
- Andrew Kaczynski @ CNN: Mike Collins joked about pushing Pelosi from a plane, suggested hanging US leaders
In last week’s Georgia Senate debate, Democrat Jon Ossoff accused Republican congressman Mike Collins of calling for immigrants to be thrown to their deaths from helicopters, referring to a social media post Collins sent in 2024.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: 'Did I Cause Any of This?' Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson on His Movement’s Antisemitism
Doug Wilson, the dean of Christian nationalists, says he wants to lead the battle against racism and antisemitism in his own movement. The question: is it too little too late?
- Brendan Hartnett @ The Bulwark: Top GOP Operative Let Out-of-State Voters Vote From His PA Home
Legal experts say Scott Presler’s houseguests could run afoul of election law.
- Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: Elon Musk Has Pumped Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Into Helping Republicans Win Midterms
Elon Musk has donated more than $445 million to Republican political efforts ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to a new report on the billionaire’s enormous financial influence over some of the country’s most competitive races.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: The sermons Republican Katy Cornell doesn’t want voters to hear
The Washington House candidate says she wants to unite her district. Her sermons reveal a record of opposing abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and church-state separation.
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10/23/2026
- Exciting news! White nationalist conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke announces that Noah's Ark has been found: "It’s officially official."
- C. Jay Engel calls for white Christian nationalists to "infiltrate the GOP" at "every level": "We’re gonna hollow it out and wear it like a skin suit."
- Shane Vaughn has a message: "Islam, Muslims, you are the enemy of this nation."
- It's not every day that you see someone declare that the Alien and Sedition Acts were "justified."
- Finally, Brian Sauvé says that "when you put women in political rule or situations of dominance in the hierarchy ... their worst instincts rule and they become dumb": They become absolutely suicidely dumb."
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10/21/2026
- Chad Connelly says the midterm elections are a choice "between Diet Coke and Drano": "You may not like Diet Coke, but Drano will kill you."
- Heidi St. John was outraged by seeing "a woman in a full-blown burka" at the airport: "It makes everybody on the plane a little bit nervous."
- Dale Partridge applauds covenant marriage laws: "This is good because it's the state enforcing the word of God upon the population for the good of the people. That is Christian nationalism at its core."
- Dalton Eatherly (aka Chud The Builder) thinks that people don't mind his use of the N-word because they realize he is "actually worth listening to": "The typical guy that says n*gger: no teeth, tattoos on his neck, lives on the street. But when you see a guy who's a business owner, who's well spoken, who is handsome and has a lot going for him?"
- Finally, Tim Barton claims that the Second Amendment protects the right of citizens to "have whatever the government does." So, get yourself a tank or a nuke.
10/21/2026
- Julie Carr Smyth @ The Associated Press: Amy Acton’s estranged mother appears in attack ad in Ohio governor’s race
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy ’s team confirmed late Tuesday that it produced a controversial advertisement featuring the estranged mother of Amy Acton, and the campaign said it will spend $4 million to promote it despite facing bipartisan rebuke for dredging up the painful childhood of his Democratic opponent in Ohio’s governor’s race.
- Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Vance Goes All In on Ramaswamy Ad, Says He’s ‘Disgusted’ By GOP ‘Whining’ About It
Vice President JD Vance took questions from reporters on Wednesday and was asked about Vivek Ramaswamy’s highly controversial attack ad against Democrat Amy Acton, which has roiled the already nasty Ohio governor’s race.
- Tyler Pager @ The New York Times: A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: FCC Threatens Broadcasters Over Polls Predicting Disaster for GOP
The Federal Communications Commission is ramping up Trump’s war on “fake polls” as it looks to be a bloodbath for Republicans this election.
- Marci A. Hamilton @ Verdict: Theocracy Is on the Ballot, Part II: The Catholic Nationalists
Like the White Evangelical Christian Nationalists, they have turned on liberal—aka republican (representative)—democracy, and seek authoritarian rule to bring the people to their own faith, voluntarily or not.
- Matt Cohen @ Democracy Docket: Prominent MAGA figures pushing Supreme Court to hear John Eastman disbarment appeal
Prominent Republicans and key allies of President Donald Trump are supporting John Eastman’s bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to overturn his disbarment — and there’s a chance the nation’s highest court could take up the case.
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10/20/2026
- Rick Green continues to insist that President Donald Trump is "the best president in the history of the United States."
- Lance Wallnau claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is targeting Russia's oil refineries in order to drive up the price of gas in the United States ahead of the midterm elections: "Zelenskyy is sabotaging Trump."
- Michele Bachmann calls for Ms. Rachel to be cancelled for promoting "cultural jihad."
- Nick Fuentes is not worried about being called racist "because I am racist."
- Eugene Delguadio proclaims that Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton is "the Angel of Satan."
- Mark Meckler declares that James Talarico is tempting voters to "dance with the devil": "He is literally a heretic inviting people to dance with the devil."
- Finally, after spending years urging Christians to get more involved in politics, Tim Barton is now warning Christians that they cannot support Talarico: "Unfortunately, there are times when you have a wolf in sheep's clothing pretending to be something they are not."
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10/19/2026
- Will Bunch @ Inquirer: Are the secrets to a Trump postelection coup locked in a White House safe?
What two ex-high-ranking U.S. government officials fear about a presidential emergency should terrify all Americans.
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: Ted Cruz Goes Off On ‘Left-Wing Transgender’ Witches In Bizarre Midterm Campaign Rant
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made a bizarre statement about Democratic voters being transgender witches and lunatics during a pre-midterm interview with Alaskan Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Saturday.
- Cassandra Jaramillo @ ProPublica: Ken Paxton’s Anti-Abortion Influence Already Extended Beyond Texas. He Could Take It Further in the Senate
As Texas attorney general, Paxton has advanced anti-abortion policy in his home state and prevailed where others have failed. Allies who’ve witnessed his victories see an opening to keep moving their cause forward if his Senate bid is successful.
- Media Matters: Newsmax's Greg Kelly calls George W. Bush “borderline treasonous” for not helping Ken Paxton in his Senate race
Kelly: “George W. Bush screws around in his basement garage ... painting high school quality art class paintings of his friends. That is a disgrace.”
- David Gilbert @ Wired: Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
- Marisa Kabas @ The Handbasket: 'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.
- Mike Rothchild @ Talking Points Memo: How Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Investigation Failed to Become the New QAnon
Nobody loves a conspiracy more than President Trump. He and his inner circle especially seem to have fallen in love with what has literally been dubbed “The Grand Conspiracy.” It’s a hopelessly complex, entirely unevidenced theory claiming that a high-ranking group of political figures have been plotting in the shadows for years to stop Donald Trump from making America great again through investigations, indictments and impeachments. It has all the hallmarks of the type of grandiose schemes that Trump supporters especially fall for: countless players, sprawling plots, intricate secrets, and a total lack of evidence that it actually took place.
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10/16/2026
- E.W Jackson says the midterm elections represent a choice between "whether America will be a nation whose God is the Lord, or America will be ... a nation that has turned into Hell."
- Lara Logan has a clever nickname for James Talarico: Little Satan.
- Now that he is out of bail while awaiting trial on attempted murder charges, Chud the Builder has predictably launched a podcast.
- Brian Sauvé offers advice to young Christian men on what to look for in a wife: "You're looking for a woman who excels in respecting and honoring you in submission."
- Finally, Alex McFarland warns that "if you're a born-again believer and you cast a vote for the killing of babies or you cast a vote for candidates that are antisemitic, you'll answer to God for it."
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10/14/2026
- Kat Kerr declares that Christians must vote in the midterms: "Vote Republican if you want to keep this Country. God is adamant about us keeping our Freedom. This Country IS A CHRISTIAN NATION."
- Cliff Kincaid has a warning for any conservative thinking about not voting in the elections: "Get ready for the guillotine."
- Katy Faust claims that her effort to overturn marriage equality has "a lot of supporters who identify as gay or lesbian."
- David Barton still does not understand how biblical parables work.
- Trump-loving religious-right activist Jim Garlow says that "the fact that ANYONE - let alone a Texan! - would vote for someone as incompetent and irrational and non-productive as Talarico is a profound embarrassment for the entire nation."
- Finally, Gene Bailey, Tim Barton, and Rick Green are deeply suspicious about
Talarico's disappearance from the campaign trail as he recovered from the flu: "Something about this is not adding up ... The logical conclusion is that this guy cannot mentally or physically handle the stress of this kind of campaign, and that tells me he would not be a good US Senator."
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10/09/2026
- Jack Hibbs says that House Speaker Mike Johnson "loves [God] totally and represents [him] completely" and asks God to give Johnson "more access to [President Donald] Trump's heart and mind to influence him for what is good, for what is righteous."
- Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey reveals that the works of Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton played a "foundational" role in inspiring Bailey's involvement in politics.
- Speaking of Barton, he thinks that polls showing that Democrats are likely to win big in the midterm elections are fake and "designed to keep red people from turning out."
- Ralph Reed, on the other hand, is panicked about the midterms and begging conservative Christian voters to turn out: "We only have three and a half weeks to save ourselves, and the world, from this potential nightmare."
- Finally, "prophetess" Kat Kerr once again tried to "take authority" over a hurricane and steer it away from land, and once again she failed.
10/19/2026
- Christian nationalist pastor Robert Jeffress, who has been deeply involved in right-wing national politics for years, claims that the only reason he has "spoken out against James Talarico" is because Talarico has "made his faith a cornerstone of his candidacy."
- Nick Fuentes wants to see America taken over by a dictator who will "literally just break the system."
- Greg Bovino has now teamed up with neo-Nazi Jake Lang.
- Speaker Mike Johnson is counting on a "silver wave" of elderly voters to save the GOP in the midterm term elections: "They're so grateful for what we've done."
- Christian nationalist author Stephen Wolfe was a featured speaker at a recent Young Republicans of Texas event.
- Seth Gruber says that "abortion is not a woman’s issue" because "it kills little humans and it’s our job as men to protect children, even from the murderous hearts of mothers."
- Finally, Vance Day, a right-wing judge who was suspended from the bench in 2018, is now working in the Trump administration as senior counsel to Deputy Attorney General and serving as faith liaison between the DOJ and the White House.
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10/09/2026
- Konstantin Toropin, Eric Tucker and Claudia Lauer @ The Associated Press: Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.”
- Christian Nightmares: These Christian Nationalists Have Been Pushing for Public Executions for Years
And one of them has direct ties to Pete Hegseth.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: The Disturbing New Christian Nationalist Argument for Subjugating Women
How right-wing podcasters are leveraging a tragic Massachusetts case to push for patriarchy, end no-fault divorce, and repeal the 19th Amendment.
- Li Zhou @ HuffPost: Jon Ossoff Shreds GOP Opponent For Hiring ‘Half The Third Reich’ In Blistering Debate
The Georgia senator pointedly confronted the Republican lawmaker in a heated debate on Thursday.
- Tim Murphy @ Mother Jones: How a Defunct White Supremacist State Became a Cult Favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
- Christopher Mathias @ Talking Points Memo: Ramaswamy Campaigned With Pastor Who Says ‘Satan’ Is Using Islam to Launch ‘War’ Against America
The pastor also called the modern practice of Judaism "fake."
- Zach Despart @ ProPublica: Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.
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A prominent group of conservative Christians are denouncing President Donald Trump's top military official, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for ordering that convicted terrorist and mass murder Nidal Malik Hasan — who committed the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that led to 13 deaths and 32 injuries — be executed publicly by firing squad. It is the first public execution in modern American history.
"The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a 'culture of death,'" reported journalist Jack Jenkins of the religious news outlet RNS on Friday.
In an excerpt from his report, Jenkins wrote that "Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the 'need for justice' regarding Hasan’s crime, 'at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state’s most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being.'"
Evangelical Christian organizations are not alone in slamming Trump and Hegseth for choosing to publicly execute Hasan. On the social media platform X, prominent commentators from all sides of the political spectrum expressed disgust with the decision.
Billy Binion, reporter for the libertarian magazine Reason Magazine, posted, “This is sick. You can support justice for Nidal Hasan’s victims without making his execution a source of entertainment. This administration so often governs for the online mob. It’s depraved.”
Glenn Greenwald, formerly of The Intercept and ideologically heterodox, argued, “There are a very small number of countries that still carry out public executions. Those are the countries we are constantly told are uniquely primitive, barbaric, sick and evil. It’s revealing that Pete Hegseth wants the US to join that group but also entirely unsurprising.”
Wajahat Ali of the liberal Substack The Left Hook stated, “Public lynchings will be next.”
Trump and Hegseth are also under fire for terminating the employment of dozens of top staff at the Pentagon, amounting to more than 900 years of combined experience, and replacing them with partisan loyalists.
"Since January 2025," Michael N. Schmitt, a law professor at New York University, wrote for Just Security in June, "the Defense Department has removed, replaced, or forced the early retirement of a remarkable concentration of operationally experienced senior officers. Among them are the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Army, and the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, who concurrently serves as director of the National Security Agency. Most recently, Gen. Christopher Donahue, one of the most decorated and combat-experienced officers of his generation, has been forced out as commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and, in his NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) role, as commander of Allied Land Command. Public explanations have been sparse and, to the extent they have been offered, largely general."
Schmitt added, "The question regarding these departures is not whether the president and secretary of defense have broad lawful authority to reshape the senior officer corps. They unequivocally do. Nor is it a question of whether personnel decisions of this kind are ever warranted. Sometimes, they certainly are. Instead, at its core, a central question is their impact on the combat effectiveness, indeed the lethality, of our armed forces."
Even Gen. Christopher LaNeve, Hegseth’s senior military aide, indirectly admitted the mass firings could become a problem.
“Every shortcut in training and lapse in discipline will be paid for in blood,” LaNeve wrote.
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- Rep. Keith Self warns that "we are losing Texas today to Islam": "I have no idea why this is not more of an election issue across the country."
- Jack Hibbs claims that the Founding Fathers based the separation of power on Isaiah 33:22. That is nonsense.
- William Wolfe is calling on President
- Donald Trump to carry out "the greatest deportation campaign in American history."
- Lorenzo Sewell says the candidacy of of Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is "God's judgement upon America."
- Lance Wallnau is freaking out over the possibility of Democrats gaining control of Congress in the midterm elections: "We cannot let them get control of the cockpit. Like Al Qaeda, they'll crash this plane."
- Finally, Alex McFarland is also freaking out over the election: "If these woke, pro-Islam, anti-American, Marxist, globalist, anti-constitutionalist, antisemitic, hate Israel, pro-Palestine; if certain bad actors got sent to Washington, not only would it hamstring the final two years of President Trump's administration, folks, it would, I believe, shorten the life of the United States of America."
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10/06/2026
- Heidi St. John says the nation is groaning under the wickedness of the Democratic Party: "The Democratic Party is embracing murder, adultery, sex outside of marriage, abortion, homosexuality."
- Robert Jeffress declares that the Democrats are "advocating for sin" and "advocating for evil."
- In Doug Wilson's Christian nation, nobody would be forced to be a Christian, but "in the public space, you have to act like a Christian."
- Seth Gruber wants to see the Satanic Temple and Islam outlawed as heresies and "political religions of war that have no place in America": "America is a Christian nation."
- Finally, MAGA pastor Lorenzo Sewell claims that "the devil is trying to steal our nation" by cheating in elections: "All of this absentee ballot stuff, it is the biggest atrocity that has ever happened in American history."
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10/06/2026
- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego
California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Jim Bakker, the godfather of scamvangelism, is dead at 86
The convicted fraudster spent decades exploiting Christians with bogus promises, survival buckets, partisan paranoia, and a fake COVID cure.
- Alejandra Jaramillo @ CNN: Trump says he will pay for campaign-style ads himself after backlash over taxpayer-funded effort
President Donald Trump said Monday he will no longer use taxpayer money to fund a series of promotional television ads, announcing that he will instead pay for them with funds raised for MAGA, Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC.
- Frank Yemi @ AlterNet: Trump meets with convicted election fraudster to discuss ‘the plans'
President Donald Trump met in the Oval Office with former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters, who is a convicted election fraudster, to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the midterm elections, according to former Justice Department official Ed Martin.
- Zach Buchanan @ Axios: Sheriff's office outsourced investigations to Cyber Ninjas-tied firm
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) failed to properly vet a firm with ties to the Cyber Ninjas audit of the 2020 election before awarding it an investigative contract, per a newly-unsealed report from the court-appointed monitor overseeing the agency.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump says some journalists ‘should be arrested,’ escalating attack on free press
If the president wants to lie about crowd sizes, that’s pitiful. But when he talks about arresting reporters without cause, don’t look away.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: A Small Montana Town Tells Ben Shapiro to F*ck Off
The Daily Wire wanted a backdrop to film an Antifa siege. The filmmakers got a revolt over their own behavior.
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10/05/2026
- Jenna Ellis gripes that Democratic candidate James Talarico is "blaspheming" Christianity in his run for the U.S Senate.
- Michele Bachmann claims that Democrats are waging "diplomatic jihad" by attempting to require the State Department to report on the killing of U.S. citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces.
- Pastor Byron Foxx tells Christians in Virginia they must vote against the three constitutional amendments on the ballot if they want to "stop the wrath of God from coming on Virginia."
- Jack Hibb declares that he is "furious, livid, angry" over a risqué campaign ad being run by Steve Hilton, whom Hibbs has endorsed.
- Finally, Mark Meckler says that if foreign nations won't take back their own citizens who are being deported from the United States, we should "fly over and kick them out of the airplanes with parachutes on."
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- Jack Date and Alexander Mallin @ ABC News: Judge permanently dismisses Reflecting Pool vandalism case against former Olympian David Hearn
The judge said the decision ensures DOJ can't bring the case against him again.
- Caroline Wilburn @ HuffPost: Trump Defends Taxpayer-Funded Political Ads, Insists They're 'Promoting The Country'
Trump has even faced criticism from some Republicans over the taxpayer-funded ads.
- Ted Johnson @ Deadline: FCC Chairman Doesn’t See Anything “Out Of The Ordinary” About White House Airing Of Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads
The chairman of the FCC on Wednesday dismissed concerns about the White House use of taxpayer money to pay for a series of ads promoting President Donald Trump.
- Frederick Clarkson @ Church & State: The New Apostolic Reformation’s religious quest for world “dominion”
Long ago Alexander the Great deployed religious myths to conquer much of the known world. Today, a different religious vision animates an intention to conquer the world.
- Jeff Stein @ The Washington Sun: Want Dinner With the President? Buy His Meme Coin.
The $Trump meme coin is offering buyers a new “exclusive” opportunity to meet the president.
- Philip Wegmann and Sadie Gurman @ The Wall Street Journal: Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
Revisionist historian went to DOJ headquarters to present his case that former president, his associates weren’t treated fairly.
- Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: GOP Rep Claims Nixon Was ‘Framed’ As Trump’s DOJ Probes Watergate ‘Weaponization’ Against Ex-Prez
Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) offered a revision of Watergate history, claiming former President Richard Nixon was “framed” and “couped out of office” over a “fake” scandal that ultimately forced him to step down.
- Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way @ Journal Of Democracy: Competitive Authoritarianism in America
The United States crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency: Elections remained real, but incumbents systematically abused state institutions to tilt the playing field against opponents. The administration weaponized the Justice Department, the FBI, and other agencies against critics, universities, law firms, and the press, while national gerrymandering and coerced corporate money skewed competition.
- Brian Slodysko and Jesse Bedayn @ The Associated Press: Inside Ken Paxton’s jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry. Instead, records show, the conservative firebrand announced his bid on Fox News, cleared his calendar and booked a hotel in Augusta, Georgia, during the storied Masters golf tournament, a trip that cost Texas taxpayers at least $25,000.
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MAGA Pastor Hank Kunneman Calls On God To 'Shatter The Agenda Of Hell' In The Midterms**
- Heidi St. John thanks God for President Donald Trump: "He's not a perfect man. He's a pretty arrogant man. I don't like everything that comes out of his mouth, but he is better by a factor of a thousand percent than what will happen to this country if we give it to the left."
- Lance Wallnau promises to expose "what Trump has done to reorder the world that the devil hates and the Democrats want to undo to get back on track for the Antichrist."
- Ben Zeisloft brags that "we are dragging the Overton Window toward criminalizing abortion for everyone involved."
- Dale Partridge declares that "multiculturalism—whether it's with Jews, or blacks, or Arabs, or other ethnicities, whatever it may be—multiculturalism is a synonym for civil war."
- Finally, Joel Webbon explains that a "good, godly man" will "tell women 'no' almost always" because "women are out of control": "They're wrong almost all of the time."
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- Jesse Leon Rogers is offering "Training for Reigning" courses to help right-wing Christians "restore rule and righteousness in the earth."
- Sean Feucht claims the people of Minnesota "have been hijacked with toxic empathy" for Muslims and LGBTQ people.
- White nationalists were outraged over an ad from Gov. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders touting the state's welfare-to-work requirement and James Fishback was eager to capitalize by rushing to Arkansas to hold a press conference.
- Steve Deace offers up some messaging advice for the GOP heading into the midterm elections: "We're running against Marxists. They'll ruin the country. You can't let them win. We need more time."
- Finally, Chad Connelly warns that if Republicans do not maintain control of Congress in the midterm elections, America will descend into a "godless time where government intrusion and oppression dominate."
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- Mark Meckler says that the midterm elections are a choice between "Trump and crazy:" "I literally mean crazy, and wild, and satanic, and weird."
- Dale Partridge has a warning for white Christian American men: "Soon a 'jury of your peers' will mean 'fellow humans'—a feminist, a Muslim man, a Hindu woman, a gay Mexican, and a black atheist."
- John Doyle asserts that "any woman who places 'conditions' on 'submission' is defective or trying to control you. Women don’t have some switch they flip that makes them 'submit' to a man. They do it naturally with men they respect."
- Sean Feucht aims to acquire property in all 50 states, not to boost his own substantial real estate holdings, of course, but to keep those properties out of the hands of Muslims.
- Finally, "prophetess" Kat Kerr was recently in Washington, D.C., issuing decrees over the Supreme Court, Capitol, White House, and Washington Monument.
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Anti-Choice Activist Seth Gruber Advocates The Death Penalty For Women Who Get Abortions
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09/28/2026
Radical right-wing anti-choice activist Seth Gruber recently spoke at Calvary Tucson Church, where he argued that women who have abortions should face the death penalty.
Gruber, founder of the White Rose Resistance, has consistently been a leading voice among anti-choice activists demanding prosecution for women who obtain abortions and made the case during his recent conversation with Calvary Tuscon pastor Robert Furrow that potential penalties for doing so should include the death penalty.
Furrow declared that the only way to completely end abortion is to outlaw the practice and to prosecute women who have them but dismissed as "hypothetical" claims that women would be imprisoned as a result.
Gruber, for his part, made no such effort to downplay the ramifications of this position.
"You want to know what the role of the state is according to Paul in Romans?" Gruber said. "They're to be a terror to those who do evil. Do you know that's in Romans 13? What's the role of the state? To be a terror to those who do evil. Basically to be a deterrent."
"Paul says the state does not bear the sword in vain," he continued. "So in other words, here's a firing squad—to apply it to the 21st century, or an electric chair; in Paul's era, it was a sword—and the state is going to kill you if you murder innocent people. So there's this deterrent that floats up in the ether, and a lot of people never have to endure the punishment of that deterrent being applied because just the fact that the deterrent floats there up in the ether stops most people from doing those things."
"As a pro-life leader, I say make the death penalty great again," Gruber declared. "The death penalty is a recognition of the sanctity of life, because it's saying what you did was so heinous and evil in murdering an innocent that you've actually rescinded your right to live. We don't do the ceremonial laws in the Old Testament anymore, but the moral law is still there. Live by the sword, die by the sword, tooth for tooth, eye for eye; that kind of stuff still stands."
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- John Doyle is really embracing his role as a professional sycophant: "Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for being correct about everything. I am looking forward to your future of being correct about everything while still trying not to lose track of the current moment, in which you are correct about everything."
- Todd Starnes, on the other hand, is getting increasingly frustrated with the GOP: "Congressional Republicans need to get their heads out of their hindquarters and realize that the voters are enraged."
- Stephen Wolfe argues that it is perfectly fitting for the government to ban blasphemy: "If the act is bad for civil society, then it is a legitimate object of civil authority."
- Joshua Haymes actually thinks that "saying I have black friends is a completely legitimate defense against the charge of 'racism.'"
- Finally, Mario Murillo insists that it's ridiculous to compare President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: "If he was like Hitler, he would have ordered CNN bombed."
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09/22/2026
- There is nothing Christian nationalists hate more than progressive Christians, which is why Jim Garlow is attacking Democratic candidates like Adam Hamilton and James Talarico: "If you are a 'pastor' and support that for which God destroyed Sodom, and defy 'male and female created He them,' you are a fraud."
- Seth Gruber gripes that the upcoming Narnia movie "might be the single most offensive attack and blatant mockery of Christianity in America in my lifetime."
- Steve Deace declares that "it is not possible to be a faithful Muslim and an American."
- Joshua Feuerstein explains that he must fly first class and stay in expensive hotels because his ministry requires that he have proximity to power.
- Alex McFarland asserts that President Donald Trump is "the greatest president of my lifetime and one of the greatest of all time."
- Finally, Michele Bachmann absurdly insists that streamer Hasan Piker is "the leading spokesman for the Democrat Party right now."
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- Gary Bauer issues an warning regarding the election for the U.S. Senate in Michigan: "If a Christian doesn't vote in this election, I wouldn't want to have to stand before the throne one day and explain why not."
- On Saturday, Paula White—President Donald Trump's spiritual advisor and the head of the White House Faith Office—spoke at a Unification Church event calling for all faiths to unite in "prayer for the Mother of Peace, Dr. Hak Ja Han."
- Alex McFarland claims that "had we not got to war with Iran, I really do believe the left would have vilified Trump for not having gone to war."
- Rep. Eric Burlison featured former Infowars host Owen Shroyer on his latest podcast.
- Apparently, Ken Paxton is calling in reinforcements from the Flashpoint Army for his Senate campaign in Texas.
- Brian Sauvé declares that "the modern woman ... is the most genocidal group that has ever existed."
- Finally, a group of Christians gathered around Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith this weekend and prayed for him to ascend to higher office: "You didn't put him in this seat just to finish this. There must be more."
09/18/2026
- Erik De La Garza @ Raw Story: Trump expels CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House in fit of rage — with more to come
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is barring three major news organizations from the White House, effective immediately.
- Paige Winfield Cunningham @ The Washington Sun: RFK Jr. Headlines Anti-Vaccine Group’s Conference, Discusses Chemtrails
The health secretary told Children’s Health Defense that it has a “strong and steadfast friend at the White House” in President Donald Trump.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: Don’t Have the Right Blood? You’re Not a Real American, Far-Right Influencer Argues
C.Jay Engel helped popularize the term “Heritage American.” Now, he’s pushing the discredited theory of “blood memory.”
- The Throckmorton Initiative: Tim Barton Promotes Information His Own Organization Says Is False
Quote attributed to Madison refuses to die.
- Tom Joscelyn @ Civil Defense: How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling
Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.
- Sean Kitchen @ The Keystone: Right-wing operative brags that this Big Tech billionaire controls Pa. Republicans
A political operative funded by Jeffrey Yass bragged about the influence the Big Tech billionaire has over the Pa. Republican Party.
- Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: Ted Cruz Credits Trump’s ‘Instinctual Genius’ for Calling Him ‘Lyin’ Ted’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised President Donald Trump’s “instinctual genius” for branding him “Lyin’ Ted” during their bitter 2016 Republican presidential primary battle.
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Trump’s ‘Willie Horton’ Moment Featured a Story White Nationalists Are Obsessed With
President Donald Trump painted a terrifying picture during his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night. Standing on stage at Gastonia Municipal Airport, Trump offered a dramatic retelling of a brutal murder that took place in the state last August. Iryna Zarutska’s death made headlines around the country, but the killing that Trump weaved into the Republican Party’s midterm pitch has also emerged as a persistent fixation and rallying cry for racist extremists on the far right.
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Lance Wallnau Says God Will Give Christians 'An Upgraded AI Supernatural Prophetic Capacity'
09/17/2026
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Trump Tells Rally-Goers High Gas Prices Are ‘A Very Inexpensive Price To Pay’
President Donald Trump downplayed high gas prices at a rally on Wednesday night, telling attendees, “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay.”
- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: Trump Tells North Carolina Hurricane Relief Depends on Midterm Outcome
Donald Trump threatened to withhold FEMA funds unless his chosen candidate wins.
- Sarah Ewall-Wice @ The Daily Beast: Confused Mitch McConnell, 84, Has to Be Told How to Vote
The senator, who had vanished for three months, attended a key committee meeting.
- Erick Erickson: The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off the Cliff
A group of white guys have subtly inserted themselves into conservative institutions and church organizations. They all embrace racial grievances. To varying degrees, they embrace white nationalism, antisemitism, and even Nazi sympathies. They are getting added to conservative institutional boards, attempting to purge churches, and are desperate to indoctrinate young conservatives into fascist ideology. They even surround the Vice President of the United States. Some of them believe the United States is at a tipping point, and they want to push it over the edge and rebuild it in their image. You might think it does not affect you, but, in time, you will see their efforts in your church pews, in your kids’ brains, and in your politicians’ mouths.
- Sanjana Karanth @ HuffPost: Florida Republican Lawmaker Torches Trump Over Immigration Crackdown
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said Hispanic voters who helped Trump win the White House in 2024 “feel betrayed today.”
- David Gilbert @ Wired: Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November
197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states. Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.
09/17/2026
- Jenna Ellis thinks that changing the law to restrict voting to "only landowners" is among the the sort of "conversations we should be having."
- Dalton Clodfelter has now rebranded himself as a political theorist: "Should obese people vote? No! Should homeless people vote? No. Should the leaches from third world trash heaps vote? No. In fact no one should vote. No one should ever feel so proud that they decide to spew their empty thoughts into the abyss pervasively existing and bastardizing any real fight for palpable reform."
- Joel Webbon says that he is "more concerned about anti-White sentiment in America than antisemitism": "1) America is a predominantly White country, not a Jewish one. 2) Anti-White sentiment is far more prevalent. Avoid US 'Conservatives' who talk about antisemitism more than anti-White discrimination."
- Club for Growth President David McIntosh tells Republicans to simplify their pitch to voters: “Things are not great now. You can choose to have them get better or get worse.” Not a particularly inspiring GOTV message.
- Finally, Brenden Dilley appears to be panicking about the GOP's prospects in the midterm elections: "THE DEMS WERE CUTTING KIDS DICKS OFF, ALLOWING ILLEGALS TO INVADE, MURDER AND LIVE OFF OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS, ALL THE WHILE THE MILITARY WAS IN TOTAL WOKE DISARRAY! FUCK YOUR GAS PRICES! IT'S REPUBLICAN OR COMMUNISM!"
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Christian Nationalist Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Says The Trump Administration Is 'Bringing The Light To A Very Dark World'
09/17/2026
Christian nationalist Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins sat down for an interview with right-wing broadcaster Erick Stakelbeck at the Republican midterm convention earlier this month, during which she bragged that she knows God is supporting the Trump administration because they are a "group of warriors" who are dedicated to "bringing the light to a very dark world."
After serving in various capacities during the first Trump administration, Rollins and other Trump insiders launched the America First Policy Institute, which has subsequently played a key role in staffing the second Trump administration. In her current capacity as Agriculture Secretary, Rollins has been leading right-wing Bible study sessions for members of Trump cabinet.DROLLINGER
"I believe so strongly that God was not done with our country, that we are the greatest country in the history of the world.," Rollins said. "So, building that organization [AFPI] to prepare for a second term of America First—whether it was President Trump or somebody else—is what we did. But now to be able to step up and meet the moment; I pray a lot that maybe we don't feel like Moses, frankly, in Exodus, maybe we don't feel like we're fully prepared for this moment, but that God's got us."
"Walking into the West Wing every morning, I could feel God was with us," she continued. "I felt just this peace. These jobs are hard. You're being shot at figuratively, and our president literally, 24-7. The mainstream media is so dark. Big business, big government, big agriculture, big all of it is against you and so walking in that first term and seeing all of those wins in the first term, [it was a sign] that God was with us."
"I held Bible studies in the first term, we prayed all the time," Rollins added. "We built the America First policy Institute on the biblical foundations of everything: It's biblical to want a secure border. It's biblical to put children first in their education.
It's biblical to put patients first in healthcare. It's biblical to fight back to the land of milk and honey in the Old Testament, to fight for our farmers and ranchers. And now to be here the second time and to see this extraordinary amount of winning that we've been able to do, none of it is possible without God. We are a group of warriors to our core. gathering once a week to have a cabinet Bible study and remind all of us what we're fighting for."
"I do use this platform," Rollins admitted. "I believe in making disciples of all the nations. I believe that God has blessed this country and so ensuring that we are using this and bringing the light to a very dark world, that's what this administration is about."
"I have been sued a couple of times for, they say, talking about Jesus too much, but I'll never stop talking about Jesus, " Rollins vowed, before claiming that America will be doomed if Republicans do not maintain control of government in the midterm elections.
"The stakes couldn't be higher," she warned. "It's an existential threat to the future of not just America, to the world. ... I have two daughters and two sons. I will hopefully someday have some grandchildren and they will not have an America that we have unless we're able to win at the ballot box. We can keep fighting every day, but if those socialists, those Democrat socialists who believe in bigger government, who don't believe in God, their religion is a radical climate agenda, wake up America. This is real and the darkness will overcome the light in this country if we're not successful at the ballot box today and in the future."
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09/16/2026
- E.W. Jackson is upset about the effort by "Demoncrats" to protect marriage equality in the Virginia constitution.
- Michele Bachmann thinks the rise of Democratic Socialist candidates is a sign of the End Times: "Could there be a closer definition of the biblical Last Days that the Bible speaks of?"
- Dale Partridge says that American society is under the control of "female tyranny or gyno-fascism."
- Joshua Haymes declares that "feminism is a cancerous civilization threat": "We must destroy feminism, or else feminism will destroy our civilization."
- Finally, Heidi St. John agrees, claiming that "the women's liberation movement has done more to enslave women than almost any other movement in the United States in modern history." The irony, of course, is that simply by virtue of being an outspoken activist on political and social issues, St. John herself represents the type of cancerous gyno-fascism that Partridge and Haymes despise.
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- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment
Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- Ed Mazza @ HuffPost: Kash Patel And GOP Lawmaker Have Bizarre ‘Bestiality’ Debate
The FBI director struggled to explain a change in the agency’s hiring rules.
- Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: Kash Patel Rages About His Viral Clashes With Democrats in Wild Senate Hearing: ‘Buffoons on Capitol Hill!’
FBI Director Kash Patel tore into the Democratic senators he clashed with during a blockbuster hearing Tuesday, accusing them of acting like “buffoons on Capitol Hill” during an appearance on Fox News.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: A Texas megachurch’s 400 AI-powered surveillance cameras are deeply disturbing
Lakepointe Church and Pastor Josh Howerton have installed a system capable of monitoring staff, tracking license plates, and destroying any expectations of privacy.
- Natalie Alms @ The Washington Sun: The White House’s ‘Fraud Ledger’ Includes Misleading Claims
One senior official within an inspector general’s office questioned whether the public is “being bamboozled.”
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: GOP Mad at Candidate For Doing Xenophobia The Wrong Way
[Bo French is] now openly xenophobic, an attribute that attracted national attention when, last Sunday, he posted to X that a group of nonwhite UT students celebrating at a football was “a problem” that had was “now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.” It caused a firestorm, and was enough to earn condemnation from the Texas GOP; not a small feat given that Republicans in the state have spent the last year running on demonizing Muslims.
- Kelsey Ables @ The Atlantic: The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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- Lucas Miles claims that Charlie Kirk was the one thing "holding together the whole conservative movement": "Once he was gone, all these people started going crazy."
- Jason Rapert prays that an anti-Christian nationalist speaking tour "is not effective and that people will not be deceived by the atheists who seek to undermine the Judeo-Christian foundation of our nation": "Pray that God will cause people not to attend these lectures and events."
- Kai Schwemmer defends Brandon Herrera's attack on mothers and their "c*m trophy" children: "Brandon Herrera sees them as TROPHIES! While the radical left sees them as BURDENSOME and tries to MURDER them in the womb. Very telling!"
- Stephen Wolfe argues that "public atheism" should be illegal: "If public atheism undermines the foundations of civil society, the state may suppress public atheism, since God ordained civil government, in part, to secure those foundations. When any end is granted so too are the means."
- Finally, when asked what she does for a living, Heidi St. John says that her job is to "save kids from communism in the public schools."
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MAGA Pastor Robert Jeffress Calls Democrats ‘Advocates for Evil’
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- Rep. Nathaniel Moran says the midterm elections represent a choice "between communism and capitalism": "It is rationality versus irrationality and, frankly, we are headed down a bad path if we do not reelect a Republican Congress, a Republican Senate and make sure President Trump continues the great wins he's had the last two years."
- Kat Kerr declares that "President Trump should be given a third term since 2020 was stolen from him and most people know it is true."
- Nick Fuentes really loves Joseph Stalin: "He's the GOAT, bro, and I'm tired of pretending he isn't."
- After getting sued for defamation, Elijah Schaffer apologizes for alleging that FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend Alexis Wilkins was a "honeypot" working for Israeli intelligence.
- Finally, Kandiss Taylor, of all people, complains that "dumb people get on my nerves more than anybody else," especially "people who choose to be irrational and stupid because they want to be."
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- Rep. Barry Loudermilk says that Americans just need to be patient with the inflation caused by President Donald Trump's war with Iran: "I remind people, if you go back to World War II, Americans were willing to sacrifice for the greater good, for the common cause of freedom and liberty."
- Chad Connelly is confident that Republicans will win the midterm elections because "the left has lost their ever-loving, flipping minds."
- Dale Partridge complains that white people "are about to become minorities in our our countries": "The combination of Jewish-backed feminism and pornography, the integration campaign of the civil rights act, and the diversity campaign of the Hart-Celler Act have done more to destroy America than any foreign army ever could have done."
- Ken Paxton is accusing James Talarico of "weaponizing faith" as they battle for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
- Finally, Heidi St. John urges voters not to "make the mistake of believing the Democrat Party of today is anything like your grandparent's Democrat Party:" "It is pure, unadulterated evil."
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- Joshua Feuerstein tells women to stop supporting Lindsay Clancy if they don't "want people to start rethinking the 19th Amendment."
- Brian Sauvé declares that "feminism has not made women smarter, happier, or more successful": "It has more or less made women into depressed and defective men, competing on a playing field they weren't made for—where the ultimate prize turns out to be misery."
- Joel Webbom proclaims that "corporate America is daycare for women": "It exists to ensure women don’t have children, and if they do, that they don’t murder them. Modern women are a plague on the West."
- Dalton Clodfelter believes that the president must "crush Congress": "They need to act totally subservient to you, or you need to extinguish it as an institutional power."
- Brad Dacus claims that the Democratic Party is "controlled by the Islamic movement in the United States."
- A reminder that Tim Barton is going to keep repeating Christian nationalist lies.
- Finally, Rick Green has some advice for Republicans who are "even considering not voting" for candidates they dislike: "Grow up and stop being a child."
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- Tim Barton loves President Donald Trump's suggestion to change the name of the Strait of Hormuz to Trump Strait: "President Trump is so good at triggering people. He's so good at just roasting them with nonsensical things."
- Ryan Helfenbein is "very supportive" of Trump's handling of the Iran war and urges everyone to be patient: "We want to see this come to an end ... [but] it may not come before the November election, but it could come before the November election of 2028."
- Lucas Miles warns that Dale Partridge is making "Christianity look racist."
- Kai Schwemmer's deep ties to the antisemitic white nationalist groyper movement were demonstrated once again when he joined Dalton Clodfelter for a discussion on Thursday night.
- Finally, Josh Howerton claims that "isms and ideologies they're very frequently just ideological expressions of sins": "Socialism and communism, that's just the ideological expression of the sin of envy. That's all that is. Feminism, by and large, is the ideological expression the curse of the fall in Genesis 3:16."
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- Hung Cao, who believes that parts of California have been taken by witches, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of the Navy.
- Anti-vax conspiracy theorist Mat Staver is now warning that the nation's blood supply has been contaminated by the COVID-19 vaccine: "Many of us who did not get the COVID shot do not want COVID-tainted blood."
- Michele Bachmann is now co-hosting an "Israel Live" podcast on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
- Ben Zeisloft declares that "if we want abortion abolished, Christian men must lead the anti-abortion organizations": "The work of statecraft is inherently masculine, centered on wielding the sword of justice to punish evildoers and restrain wickedness. ... Until we embrace the truth that God ordered men not only to lead in the family and church, but also in the state, justice will not be established, and the bloodshed will continue."
- Finally, even though it was entirely predictable, it's nonetheless amazing to watch Glenn Beck's transformation into an obsequious mouthpiece for Trump, especially since he spent all of 2016 warning, among other things, that "there's pretty strong evidence that he's a psychopath."
- Sophie Jager @ The New Republic: Trump Appoints Pastor With No Experience as CDC Tobacco Adviser
Why is a pastor advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tobacco health?
- Max Tani @ Semafor: Paid actors, AI writing: How a new kind of video business cashed in on America’s divided politics
Over the last several months, a new generation of YouTube growth-hackers have flooded American politics with sensationalized, low-quality content, reaching millions of viewers with nearly identical videos taking aim at progressive politicians including Zohran Mamdani, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Notably, while the videos are presented as laypeople giving straight-to-camera ideological news recaps, they feature actors and spokespeople paid small
- Madeline Peltz @ Number Two Pencil: Turning Point USA tour features influencer who thinks women shouldn’t have the right to vote
Joshua Haymes, a former pastoral intern at Pete Hegseth’s church, is a Christian nationalist who has also said Adolph Hitler was “misunderstood.”
- Michael Luciano @ Mediate: JD Vance Says He’s Doing ‘God’s Work’ and ‘If That Leads to the End Times, Ok’
Vice President JD Vance claimed that he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible,” and added that he is at peace if doing so means bringing about the end times.
- Andrew Egger, Cathy Young, and Jim Swift @ The Bulwark: We Found Her: The Most Absurd General-Election Candidate in America
She’s under indictment. She lost her primary. And she’s on the ballot in November.
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- Jane C. Timm @ NBC News: Whistleblower says USPS system Trump ordered for mail ballots is flawed and untested
An executive order from Trump, which is stymied in the courts, required the U.S. Postal Service to rapidly build a complex system to vet mail ballots.
- Mehdi Hansen @ The Guardian: The media’s Hasan Piker obsession is letting Republican Mike Rogers off the hook
Mike Rogers isn’t merely campaigning alongside a controversial supporter. His campaign put an extremist on its faith leadership team.
- Daniel Villareal @ LGBTQ Nation: Pete Hegseth’s pastor says he would have fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War
“What kind of moral man are you if you were willing to fight for a side that enslaves and tortures people?”
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Colorado GOP Gov. Nominee Tells Wild Exorcism Story About Fighting ‘Satan In Person’
To hear him tell it, Victor Marx has done many, many incredible things. Over his years as a Christian nationalist leader, author, and self-described “high risk missionary,” the Republican Party nominee for governor in Colorado has boasted of having personally rescued thousands of people from conflict zones and attaining multiple black belts in various martial arts. After Marx launched his political career last year, these claims have been extensively questioned. Yet, even with all of these dubious heroics, there is probably no wilder part of Marx’s mythos than his stories about performing what most people might call exorcisms and engaging in “demonic warfare.”
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian Nationalist preacher claims his ministry has raised “over 50 people” from the dead
Andrew Wommack has never offered evidence for his extraordinary “miracles”—but he expects followers to believe every word.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Why MAGA Is Celebrating Milo’s Deportation
Right-wing media was rocked last Thursday when news broke that ICE agents had detained pro-Trump commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on an expired visa. Within hours of the story coming out, Yiannopoulos was on a plane back to his native United Kingdom, and the Department of Homeland Security had tweeted out a decidedly unglamorous mugshot. Yiannopoulos’s decade-long reign as one of the American right’s leading provocateurs was over.
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: ‘Great Member of Congress!’ Speaker Johnson Says He’s Still Backing Congressman Accused of Domestic Violence
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Monday that he still supports Rep. Max Miller, (R-OH) despite the severe domestic abuse allegations against the Ohio congressman.
- Gregory Royal Pratt @ The Chicago Tribune: Bovino was under internal investigation by Border Patrol when he retired, newly released records show
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records released last week by the federal government show.
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- Desperate to boost Republican turnout in the midterm elections, Tim Barton declares that conservatives "have a moral Christian obligation, a stewardship duty, that you have to let your voice be part of this election process."
- Rep. Charles Fleischmann says that Congress must pass a resolution condemning socialism because "we should condemn socialism every day, everywhere that we can."
- Heidi St. John declares that the feminist movement is "demonic."
- Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx has secured the endorsement of Andrew Wommack.
- Vincent James longs for the day when "we correctly did not differentiate between homosexuals and pedophiles."
- Finally, Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver calls on Democratic senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed to "stop stoking race wars, end his campaign and apologize to America."
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- Speaker Mike Johnson remains confident that Republicans will win the midterm elections because "we're still one nation under God, no matter how many of these crazy radical, leftist, anti-God, antisemitic, pro-terrorism" candidates the Democrats nominate.
- David Barton claims that schools have eliminated recess "because teachers were looking for every opportunity to indoctrinate" and wanted "20 to 60 minutes more a day gets some more social indoctrination in."
- Michele Bachmann blames the rise in antisemitism in America on "the mass immigration of people from the Middle East into the United States, primarily Muslims": "They brought ancient hatreds from their own cultures into the United States."
- Lance Wallnau brags that he is a "prophetic revelator" who "comes from a long line of rabbis."
Lance Wallnau Says James Talarico Is 'A Backdoor To Al Qaeda'
- Lorenzo Sewell once again welcomed neo-Nazi Jake Lang to his church.
- Finally, the latest Bible study from Capitol Ministries for officials on Capitol Hill teaches, predictably, that the government is supposed to reward the rich but has no obligation to help the poor.
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- David Barton praises President Donald Trump for ordering Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America: "I don't know that I've someone with a greater patriotic streak. He loves America."
- Robert Gagnon refuses to praise Dolly Parton following her death: "It's sad that Dolly Parton did so much to promote LGBTQ immorality, including many public statements of acceptance and advocacy for 'gay marriage' at least 6 years before Obergefell. For me it tarnished her legacy."
- Congressional candidate Mark Lamb has been accused of multiple sex scandals, but that didn't stop "FlashPoint" from bringing him on the program to promote his campaign.
- Lance Wallnau is now playing clips of Nick Fuentes on his program and declaring that he is in "100 percent agreement with my fluffy-haired friend."
- Finally, speaking of Fuentes, Joel Webbon says that after doing an extensive 10-part interview with him, Webbon realized that Fuentes is "actually to the left" of him on public policy issues, which is saying something
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- Public Advocate praises Ed Martin's "mission of mercy" as the Trump administration's pardon attorney: "Under his guidance, President Trump has pardoned hundreds of victims of the Biden administration's weaponization of the justice system against Trump and anyone who supported him. The devout Catholic restored their reputations and their dignity in his short 15-month tenure that he calls 'Trump's year of mercy.'"
- Kevin Roberts is quite proud about the role the Heritage Foundation has played in helping Congress and the Trump administration wage war on the Smithsonian.
- Jack Hibbs claims that "there was something bigger that took a bullet that day" when Charlie Kirk was killed: "It was truth itself."
- Todd Starnes thinks that Islam is God's judgment on America for abortion: "Maybe this is some form of punishment for this nation and what we have done to the unborn."
- Finally, Rep. Buddy Carter cannot believe that Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on America just because Trump imposed tariffs on Canada: "Canada, instead of negotiation, chose retaliation. And it's baffling why they would do this."
08/27/2026
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- Albert Sun and Allison McCann @ The New York Times: ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who were accused of violating civil immigration laws but who had not been charged with or convicted of a crime, an analysis of newly released federal data shows. The share with a past violent criminal conviction fell to less than 4 percent.
- David Gilbert @ Wired: Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll
In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still employed by the government, though—and meeting with a Trump fixer.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump signs executive order on Lake Ontario, worsening farcical campaign against Canada
“We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” the president said, as part of a pointless and silly taunt.
- Liz Goodwin and Olivia George @ The Washington Post: A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.
- Daniel Villarreal @ LGBTQ Nation: Right-wing pundit said “sodomite” couple tried to “kill” a sick baby. The actual couple isn’t gay.
Seth Gruber isn’t really trying to protect kids. He considers married gay couples to be “Satanic.”
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- Robert Jeffress accuses James Talarico of attempting to "prostitute the name of Jesus Christ, to turn the Jesus of the Bible into some woke Messiah that is contrary to what the Bible teaches."
- William Wolfe was very offended by the latest Toy Story film: "It was feminist slop with Jesse as the 'girl boss' and Buzz Lightyear totally emasculated."
- Eric Conn says that "repealing the 19th [Amendment] isn’t some edgelord tactic—it is a necessity for the survival of the West."
- Kat Kerr continues to insist that God will award President Donald Trump a third term in office.
- Finally, we are confused about why Sean Feucht is suddenly warning that America is "literally going to Hell" when he has spent the entire year insisting that America is in the midst of a miraculous spiritual revival.
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- The Throckmorton Initiative: What the Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Want You to Know About David Barton
There was a lot missing from today’s profile.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Byron Donalds blames measles outbreak on ‘illegal immigration,’ joining a shameful club
There’s a reprehensible tradition in this country of blaming diseases on immigrants. The Florida Republican added to this ignominious record.
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: Doug Wilson Says Mamdani Voters ‘Should Lose Their Citizenship’
Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described “paleo-Confederate,” wants to strip the citizenship of anyone who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: The GOP nominee for governor of Illinois doesn’t want to talk about his Creationist beliefs
Republican Darren Bailey thinks humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and he’s very upset people keep bringing it up.
- Miles Taylor @ Defiance News: Trump has resumed killing people without trial. The moment Dems take Congress, the subpoenas should fly.
The president’s illegal boat strikes resumed this weekend after a mysterious two-month pause. Somebody inside the administration knows why the murders were paused — and it's time for them to speak up.
- Alex Bollinger @ LGBTQ Nation: Confused Trump claims hospitals now perform “reverse surgery” on trans people “at my order”
The hospitals are performing “reverse surgery” to stop “transgender for everybody.” And it’s all because of Trump.
- Ben Van Bloem and Monica Rodriguez @ Media Matters: Right-wing media liken Massachusetts law expanding abortion access to Satanism, murder, and “human sacrifice”
Women attending the signing of the law, which will allow more patients to receive care in the Bay State, were called “witches” and “shrieking harpies”
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- Lance Wallnau claims that God has created an ideal environment in which Christians can make a lot of money: "You're in the United States of America. You got Trump as president. This is the time!"
- Shane Vaughn says it is "silliness" to believe that "Americans stole the land from Indians": "That land BELONGED to somebody until THE OWNER OF THE LAND - YAHWEH - decided otherwise."
- William Wolfe declares that "Derek Chauvin is in jail because of one thing and one thing only: Anti-White Racism. The only 'crime' he committed is being born with White skin."
- Joel Webbon fumes that "we gave women the right to vote" and "100 years later, their most sacred political issue is killing their own children": "Believe it or not, women actually do have less agency. Therefore they should have less rights."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes explains that he wants Democrats to win the midterm elections to weaken the Republican Party and thus create an opportunity "for us to have a hostile takeover of the GOP": "We're voting for Democrats because they're going to make it easier for a nationalist takeover of the GOP."
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08/21/2026
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- Nick Corasaniti @ The New York Times: Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
- Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service: 11 faith groups accuse Trump administration of violating court order while spying on churches
Religious groups now argue that the government has committed ‘multiple egregious violations’ of a preliminary injunction handed down in their case back in February.
- Edith Olmstead @ The New Republic: Natalie Harp’s Full Trump Letters Exposed—Revealing Creepy Obsession
Donald Trump’s much younger assistant wrote him fawning letters calling him her “guardian and protector.”
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ With ‘Reptilian’ Eyes
Improbable stories are a foundational element of Marx’s career as a Christian Nationalist Evangelist preacher and podcaster. Marx, a Marine veteran, claims to hold multiple high-level black belts stemming from his stepfather’s creation of a martial arts system, “Keichu-Do” or “Cajun Karate.” At points, Marx has suggested that he’s used these deadly skills to rescue tens of thousands of women and children from hot zones around the world.
- Jeremy Kohler @ ProPublica: Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
- Ari Breland @ The Atlantic: An Unsettling Glimpse Into the GOP’s Future
James Fishback lost badly in Florida but showed that there’s support for bigotry among the young.
- Scott MacFarlane Reports: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies
A Scathing Report from House Judiciary Committee Finds Cost of Trump Pardons Continues to Soar.
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- Robert Jeffress believes that Donald Trump "will be remembered as the president who probably helped our nation make the most critical U-turn in that way that we needed to make back to the faith of our fathers."
- Chad Connelly warns that "we're in a 5-alarm fire" heading into the midterm elections because the left is focused on "dismantling our country."
- Dave Kubal declares that "the greatest persecutor of the church in our country is the United States government."
- Erwin Lutzer claims that former President Barack Obama's statement about "fundamentally transforming" the nation was a sign that he was "beginning the process toward a more socialist America."
- Rick Green insists "there's nothing but positives that come from prosecuting Anthony Fauci" even if all it does is "cause the man pain through the prosecution process."
- Finally, Janet Porter reveals that she did not enter the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection because her friend had a prophetic dream warning her not to do so: "Thank God for that warning, or I might have spent the last four years incarcerated."
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- Lauren Lumpkin @ The Washington Post: Florida school board at the center of culture wars loses conservative majority
Democrats say the flip indicates voters want education to move on from political fights over social issues, while conservatives point to their wins.
- Troy Farah @ Salon: Mike Lindell refuses to accept he’s an election loser
On Wednesday, he offered to fund a recount in the Minnesota governor primary.
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: Southern Baptist Preacher Tells Pentagon Worship Service that God Will ‘Fight Their Battles’
An influential Southern Baptist pastor stood Wednesday (Aug. 19) in the headquarters of the world’s largest military and, with no sense of irony, preached a message of hope for Pentagon leaders by pointing to multiple biblical passages where God miraculously delivered people by defeating a large imperial military.
- Alex Bollinger @ LGBTQ Nation: Lindsey Graham’s sister uses trans kids to excuse her terrible debate performance
It’s unclear why anyone would be concerned about trans kids in sports in a state that banned them four years ago.
- Phil Williams @ Confront The Hate: As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
- J. David Goodman, Lauren McGaughy, Jesus Jiménez and Ruth Graham @ The New York Times: Islamophobia’s Rise in Texas: ‘I Won’t Rest Until Every Muslim Is Gone’
Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat.
- Matt Cohen @ Democracy Docket: Conservative activist Scott Presler accused of violating Pennsylvania campaign finance laws
Presler’s recent efforts to influence voters in a high-stakes Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election last year may have run afoul of state campaign finance laws, according to a complaint filed by the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen.
- David Gilbert @ Wired: A MAGA County’s Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters
Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related conspiracy theories.
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- Speaker Mike Johnson is confident that Republicans will win the midterm elections because "it's a contest between common sense and communism": "That's going to be a huge thing for turn out for us in November."
- Nick Fuentes declares that, despite finishing a distant third in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary, the campaign run by James Fishback represents the future for the America First movement: "I am interested in a project that installs a far right nationalist into the White House."
- Gene Bailey and Rick Green are thrilled by reports that the Trump administration is funneling billions of dollars to Christian organizations.
- Joel Webbon makes his goal clear: "I want power."
- A painting Glenn Beck made for President Donald Trump is now hanging in the White House.
- Finally, Gary Bauer warns that Christians who don't vote will one day be asked by Jesus to explain "what were you doing when godless communism was talking over the country I blessed you with allowing to live in?"
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Melissa Ryan @ Ctrl Alt Right Delete: Revenge of the White Supremacists
Heidi Beirich isn’t the Trump Regime’s first target, and she won’t be the last.
Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Colorado school district dumps Bible-heavy curriculum borrowed from Texas after 3 days
Montezuma-Cortez officials abandoned the "Bluebonnet" curriculum over the religious material, apparent AI errors, and lessons irrelevant to students in Colorado
Julie Curlee @ The Atlantic: The Wrong Kind of American
I had planned to spend the rest of my career serving my country at the CIA. This White House took my calling, but it will not take my pride, or tell me that I don’t belong, or that I must disappear.
Megan O’Matz@ ProPublica: At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reveals an opaque world with little oversight.
Matt Sledge @ The Intercept: Secret ICE Agent Tried to ‘Entice’ Minneapolis Activists into Confrontational Tactics
investigative reports that the federal government has turned over to defense attorneys show that undercover ICE agents secretly recorded at churches, libraries, and schools even when organizers stressed the importance of nonviolence.
Sarah Posner @ TPM: Evangelicals Think They’ve Found Their Post-Trump Era Leader in … Mike Huckabee?
Evangelicals’ promotion of Huckabee is a bit of a presidential primary Groundhog Day
Will Bunch @ The Philadelphia Inquirer: We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas
Reports that CIA drones attacked fishing boats off the Galapagos Islands may be Trump’s worst war crime yet.
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Evangelicals think that they've found their next great hope as they gear up for the 2028 presidential election.
Journalist Sarah Posner penned a report addressing the new chatter about Mike Huckabee as the new heir of the MAGA evangelicals to regain influence in the Republican Party after Trump has largely placated them.
Discussions looking beyond Trump are also coming at a time when even MAGA evangelicals are starting to lose faith in their president. The far-right political group believes the next GOP pick must be part of an effort to end growing anti-Israel and antisemitic elements in MAGA.
Huckabee has long been a recognizable figure in conservative Christian politics. A former Arkansas governor, presidential candidate, and television host, he has deep ties to evangelical voters and presents a more openly religious, folksy style than Trump. As ambassador to Israel, he has also become a prominent defender of Israel’s right-wing government and of Christian Zionism, which is the belief that the modern state of Israel has special biblical and prophetic importance.
His philosophy is part of an "end times" belief that they can entice Jesus Christ to return by causing an Apocalypse, thereby accelerating the Book of Revelation. Critics describe it as a "death cult."
The message, though, still appeals to many conservative evangelicals. It has also exposed tension inside Trump’s broader MAGA movement. Some figures associated with the populist-nationalist wing, like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, have questioned the United States’ close alignment with Israel and its risks of deeper involvement in Middle East wars. Huckabee's beliefs mandate a pro-Israel stance because Jews returning to Israel fulfill the biblical prophecy that kicks off the end times.
The idea of Huckabee being the new leader comes from David Brody, a Christian Broadcasting Network reporter with deep connections in evangelical politics, Posner explained. Writing for "All Israel News," run by a fellow Christian Zionist, Brody floated Huckabee’s name after Christian nationalist organizer David Lane suggested that pastors should consider him for 2028. Huckabee, now 70, has lost the presidency twice so far.
Brody sees Huckabee as someone who could unite two increasingly divided parts of the GOP coalition. One side includes pro-Israel Christian Zionists, while the other includes MAGA figures and followers skeptical of U.S. involvement with Israel and foreign wars.
"To bolster his case, Brody includes some quotes from leaders of the Christian right’s old guard weighing in on Huckabee’s perceived strengths, including Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and former Republican National Committee Director of Faith Engagement Chad Connelly, who told Brody that the ambassador could 'make the case that supporting an important ally does not mean giving that ally a blank check. That approach could resonate with Republicans who want an America First foreign policy while still recognizing the strategic importance of Israel," cited Posner.
The writer explained that there are obstacles, namely that Huckabee would be 73 in 2028, and American attitudes about older politicians have changed significantly in the past 10 years. It will be difficult to go up against younger Marco Rubio or JD Vance if they also decide to run. Brody, Posner said, merely glosses over the concern.
She also sees most of the pro-Huckabee talk coming from the allies that are close to him, meaning it could merely be a friendly trial balloon rather than an actual movement.
Ultimately, Posner argued that Huckabee speculation reveals less about a likely candidacy than about the Republican evangelical movement trying to regain influence after Trump. Evangelical leaders were once a powerful group for crowning a Republican presidential candidate. But 2016 changed everything.
"The only thing that is clear from this early Huck-mania is that these leaders would like to return to their pre-Trump era of evangelical kingmaking, but are worried that Trump, by courting both them and the anti-Zionist, antisemitic wing of MAGA, and then bungling the Iran war, has complicated their inheritance," Posner closed.
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- Jenna Ellis is frustrated that "a lot of people who are struggling [economically] right now don't attribute this rightfully to the Biden era and how much money was printed during COVID."
- Lauren Witzke says that she would "gladly pay the $20 for a burrito if it means deporting 50 million people from this country and pausing all immigration for the next 50 years."
- William Wolfe fumes that '"the new Never Vance crowd—indiscriminately hurling 'groyper' at everyone slightly more conservative & nationalist than Mitt Romney—is really just the same Never Trump crowd from 10 years ago…now desperately trying to reset the GOP back to the baseline of being beautiful losers at home and war mongers abroad."
- Steve Deace is not impressed by Lindsey Graham's sister seeking his seat in the Senate: "Grahamnesty's death is cynically being used to hand one of only 100 US Senate seats to his sister, who has no known qualifications or beliefs to justify such a thing. The family isn't mourning. It is cravenly capitalizing."
- Eric Metaxas is convinced that Barnes & Nobel is not stocking his new book because "they're effectively communist."
- Finally, Joshua Haymes declares that "having zero dads is better than having two": "You are better off as an orphan than to be raised by alphabet mafia sexual degenerates."
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- James Fishback announces that he has signed "a legally binding contract that says if I break any promise, I cannot run for re-election."
- Starting in September, Lance Wallnau is getting his own program on Kenneth Copeland's Victory Channel network.
- Joel Webbon says that if you are a Christian who is not involved in politics or dislikes Christian nationalism, "then you're stupid and you need to repent."
- Rick Joyner declares that "Marxism is the worst form of slavery that has ever been": "Slavery in America was better than what Marxism does to every nation it takes over."
- Auron MacIntyre asserts that "a country in which Anthony Fauci is not executed by the state after a fair trial is a country that has died a spiritual death."
- Rick Green wants the United States to take permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz.
- Finally, Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith knows exactly how old the Earth is: "6,972 years old."
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- Doug Wilson is calling for a 28th Amendment to be added to the Constitution: "No human fetus shall be subject to abortion after the scientifically-determined age of viability.”
- Speaking of Wilson, Joel Webbon dedicate an entire episode of his program to alleging that "Doug Wilson was bought off" and is now controlled opposition.
- Heidi St. John declares that the wildfires in Spokane, Washington are a direct result of the fact that voters elected "radical environmentalists to manage our forests."
- Nick Fuentes says that it doesn't matter that the general population does not support his radical agenda: “The masses are not Groypers, but that doesn't matter because the masses are not senior policy aides. Senior policy aides are young, precocious white men that were College Republican presidents that were watching this show in their dorm room.”
- Finally, Rep. Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee is refusing to endorse any candidate for governor in the Republican primary because President Donald Trump wouldn't tell her which candidate to support.
08/03/2026
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- Kent Christmas and Steve Shutlz declare that Dr. Anthony Fauci ranks alongside Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot "for the deaths that he has caused worldwide."
- Eric Metaxas says that Fauci is "the new Eichmann": "The Israelis went after Eichmann & other top Nazis for YEARS after WW2 ended. You don't let perpetrators of evil get away with what they did. Fauci must be made to face the consequences of what he did. He is the new Eichmann, the modern face of the 'banality of evil' in our time."
- Since Sean Feucht is rushing to the defense of his "friend" Jake Lang, it is important to point out just who Jake Lang is.
- Sean Davis asserts that "the WNBA is welfare for retarded black lesbians funded by the NBA."
- Joshua Haymes tells women that they were "not designed to 'follow their dreams,' & be 'fiercely independent'": "Do not pursue your dreams. Pursue God's will for your life."
- Finally, Sen. Marsha Blackburn proclaims that while "religious freedom is important to our nation," restricting Islam in Tennessee is perfectly acceptable because "we are a Christian state."
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- David Barton reports that he was part of a Museum of the Bible effort to "identify Christian biblical people [working] in congressional offices" and hold training sessions for them: "When you're getting good people in an office, they can make a good leader a whole lot better and they can help mitigate a bad leader."
- Mark Meckler claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci "is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people here in America" and wants to see him arrested: "They should have taken him away and put him in a jail cell."
- Seth Gruber insists that "the only color of skin today that you're mostly likely to be discriminated against is white skin": "It's been the only legalized form of acceptable racism and discrimination."
- For some reason, Paula White was awarded the Star of Africa by the president of Liberia.
- Finally, Nick Fuentes declares that the sudden mass influx of migrants into Spain makes "you wish that Adolf Hitler would return."
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08/04/2026
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- Chris Marquette @ Politico: Todd Blanche clears Judiciary Committee hurdle on party lines
The attorney general nominee is on track for a final confirmation vote later this week.
- Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The real reason Republican senators should have opposed Todd Blanche
Two key Republican senators drew a line in the sand. It wasn’t far from where Trump already stood.
- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Oh Look, Another Far-Right Extremist at the Pentagon
A senior defense official in Hegseth’s department appears to share these ties—and has expressed Christian nationalist and far-right views on social media. Justin Overbaugh, a retired US Army colonel, currently serves as Deputy Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security.
- Richard Luscombe @ The Guardian: Far-right Republican accused of stiffing student debate champion of $8,000
Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback calls failure to pay Briana Whatley money owed ‘an oversight.’
- Nick Viviani @ Fox 5: Charges dropped against all Reflecting Pool vandalism suspects
Prosecutors are dropping charges against all four people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?
Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.
- Hannah Critchfield and Shane Shifflett @ The Wall Street Journal: How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Kevin Swanson, purveyor of Christian nationalist homeschooling material (Image from Generations podcast posted July 23, 2026)
08/03/2026
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Kevin Swanson, podcaster and producer of Christian nationalist homeschool curricula, devoted a recent episode of his Generations podcast to explaining why he is not a Nazi. (The short answer is that Nazism is a form of tyranny that broke many of the Ten Commandments, like murdering people.) Still, Swanson is not sure whether the “standards of morality” adopted by the winning allied powers were any better than the “standard of morality” adopted by the Nazis.
His guest, Pennsylvania pastor and “Doctrine to Dominion” podcaster Jacob Tanner, affirmed his own non-Nazi status, declaring that even though Jews who still practice Judaism are “enemies of Christianity,” he loves them the way he loves all his enemies.
Swanson, who is promoting his 1,000-page textbook on God’s providential action in American history, has lots of questions about World War II and the post-war consensus around liberal democracy:
Did World War II make the world free for democracy, or did World War II make the world free for international Marxism? Or did World War II make the world free from God’s laws and the Christian law order of the previous one thousand years? … Put another way, were the accepted standards of morality established by the winners any better than the standard of morality advocated by the Nazis and the Axis powers?
According to Swanson, Germany was already “apostasized” by the decriminalization of homosexuality, compulsory public school attendance, and socialism before the Nazis took power. The apostasy of the rest of the West, he said, came after World War II when the victors became prideful and no longer thought they needed God.
Leftist, Marxist, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-godless education, pro-everything that’s against God, came to dominate in these allied nations. They legalized abortion, homosexualized mirage, and they introduced every form of perversion into the schools. So the question is valid: did World War II make the world free for democracy? Or did World War II make the world free for international Marxism? Or did World War II make the world free from God’s laws and the Christian law order that dominated for one thousand years prior? …
Apparently, the lesson that the world was supposed to take from World War II was this—all right, this is the post-World War II consensus: Aggressive nationalism, racial politics, antisemitism, and authoritarianism cause catastrophe. Therefore, post-war society should favor liberal democracy, minority protections, international cooperation, and distrust of extreme nationalism.
But what if liberal democracy, international cooperation, and multiculturalism imposed upon nations could be just as bad as the Nazis? What about that?
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What if the fundamental problem of Germany was 40 years of dabbling homosexuality, naturalistic evolution, or just good old-fashioned Christian apostasy, and a rejection of Jesus Christ, a national pride, and favoring of traditional civilization rooted in paganism as opposed to God’s law revealed in the Old and New Testaments?
Swanson and Tanner talked about the conundrum faced by voters over whether to choose the lesser of two evils. “When you’re left with two evils, just admit it,” Swanson said. “God has turned your nation over to judgment. The handwriting is on the wall.” Only if the church repents, he said, might God save us from annihilation.
Tanner said it is “unfortunate” that in recent years many young men have embraced neo-Nazi ideology. “You cannot be a Christian and hold to that worldview or that ideology,” Tanner said. “You need to be biblically grounded is what we’re getting at here. And so if it’s not the scripture, if it’s not the word of God that is grounding us in whatever our worldview is, then ultimately it doesn’t matter if you end up rejecting Nazism; you’re going to embrace some other evil instead.”
Tanner, who is much younger than Swanson, talked about the generational shift on “opinions regarding the Jews and regarding Israel,” adding that, “there’s a lot of different reasons for that, some of them are theological, some of them are eschatological [having to do with the end times].” The longstanding opinion of the church regarding Jews, Tanner said, was that they were enemies of the gospel, but God would eventually restore them by bringing them into the church. But, he said, in recent decades some leaders like Christian Zionist John Hagee gave Jews an “elevated position” as the chosen people and suggested they were automatically in the kingdom of God:
So then what happens is you have younger guys come along, guys within my generation and the generation before me, who go, ‘Well, that’s clearly not biblical. What does the Bible actually say?’
But it goes back to that false dichotomy we were talking about before. It’s almost as if these men believe that it’s either you love the Jews or you hate the Jews, it’s one or the other. And that’s clearly not the case. We can actually come to a position where we say, ‘Look, those who are still practicing Judaism are enemies of Christianity, and they must receive the gospel, and they must repent of their sins, and they must be saved.’
And I love them in the sense that I love all of my enemies, because I desire earnestly their salvation and their inclusion into the kingdom of God. But they can’t just come in as they are. They need to repent and they need to trust in Jesus Christ by faith alone.
Swanson and Tanner agreed that God does not need the help of secular nations like the modern state of Israel or even the U.S. to establish his kingdom. But Swanson had a warning for all nations:
In the meantime, we call the nations of the earth to kiss the son, lest he be angry and they perish from the way, whether it be a Hitler in Germany, or a Stalin in the Soviet Union, or anywhere else, or even a Trump here in the United States, we call on all of ‘em—Netanyahu out in Israel, kiss the son. Kiss the Lord Jesus Christ, lest he be angry and you perish from the way.
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Mike Johnson Credits Prayer For The Passage Of Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Seth Gruber Declares That 'Of Course, Liberals Are Worse Than Nazis'
Todd Blanche's Goal Is To Make Sure That "Being A Christian ... Is Actually A Benefit"
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07/31/2026
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- Josh Dawsey, Dana Mattioli, Annie Linskey and Emily Glazer @ The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
- Judd Legum and Noel Sims @ Popular Info: Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet
This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta. Under the agreement, Meta will “draw upon Newsmax’s significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platforms to support AI queries across Meta’s apps and devices.” Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said the company was “pleased to work with Meta to help ensure users have access to timely, high-quality journalism through AI technologies.”
- Adam Lynch @ AlterNet: CNN anchor busts Jim Jordan for ruthless double standard — to his face
CNN anchor Pamela Brown let no inconsistency fly in a Thursday interview with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan.
- Bill McKibben @ Rolling Stone: The Wannabe Trump Running for Congress in N.Y. Is Everything Wrong with Our Politics
Sticker magnate Anthony Constantino has called reporters “scumbags” and his veteran primary opponent a “fucking coward.”
- J Oliver Conroy @ The Guardian: College Republicans are fighting and the far right is benefiting: ‘It looks very childish’
Tensions in the national party are trickling down to US college campuses, where a newer student group is rapidly outflanking longstanding moderate rivals
- Phil Williams @ Hate Comes To Main Street: Southern Baptist 'Leader' Listed as Speaker for Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant Conference
William Wolfe heads the Center for Baptist Leadership. This is the controversial company he's keeping at an upcoming conference in Texas.
- Daniel Silliman @ The Roys Report: Greg Locke asks for funds, saying his church has shrunk by 90%
Locke has 2.2 million followers on Facebook. Video clips of his sermons are watched tens of thousands of times — sometimes hundreds of thousands, when they have a controversial title. But the congregation in the warehouse off Interstate-40 in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, has dwindled to a tenth of its former size. Global Vision Bible Church used to draw 3,000 people, according to Locke. Currently, regular attendance is closer to 300.
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07/29/2026
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- Ali Alexander wants to "bring back book burning."
- C. Jay Engel is "coalition building" with white nationalist Austin Lee.
- Tim Ballard was fired from his own anti-trafficking organization amid allegations of sexual assault, but didn't stop Heather Schott from having him on her podcast.
- James Fishback is venturing deep into the groyper swamps by doing an interview with Matt Evans, aka Beardson Beardly.
- Finally, Chad Connelly claims that those promoting socialism "are really angry, wealthy elites" who seek to divide society: "It's godless. It's secular. It's anti-American. It's anti-freedom. It's anti-God."
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07/29/2026
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- Devlin Barrett and Alan Feuer @ The New York Times: With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue
A seven-figure settlement is announced two days before a scheduled Senate committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
- Nicholas Gutteridge @ Texas Monthly: Greg Abbott’s CAIR Terrorist Designation Looks Awfully Similar to an Anti-Muslim Think Tank’s Work
Months before the governor’s proclamation, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy emailed DPS a report that levies similar evidence against the Muslim civil rights group.
- Molly Olmstead @ Slate: The FDA Just Handed Looksmaxxers a Big, Strange Victory
RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement is finding plenty in common with the bros who are obsessed with peptides.
- Noel Sims and Rebecca Crosby @ Popular Information: The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
So why does the Trump administration care so much about controlling the Smithsonian Institution? One factor: the influence of right-wing Christian nationalist “historian” David Barton and his son Tim.
- Kyle Clark @ 9 News: Victor Marx hunts for demons, and votes, in the race for Colorado Governor
The ministry leader says casting off evil spirits is his greatest achievement, but his exorcisms have drawn questions and criticism.
- Leonardo Blair @ The Christian Post: Greg Locke reveals congregation down to few hundred followers
Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke, who is under federal investigation for allegedly misappropriating church funds, says his “tent” church, which drew up to 3,000 people in its heyday, is now down to a few hundred in the wake of his ongoing challenges.
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- Mark Meckler claims that New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is "a terrorist": "He's a terrorist supporter, he's an antisemite, he's anti-American."
- Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers is convinced that Teddy Roosevelt hates windmills just as much as she does.
- Eric Metaxas is still complaining about the time he was told to wear a mask while skiing during the COVID pandemic.
- Seth Gruber declares that "America came into contact and agreement with a demonic trinity in 1973" and will therefore be destroyed within 100 years.
- Finally, Nick Fuentes says that the left hates President Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they are "proud white men": "The left sees Trump as a dictator and a king. We WANT him to be a dictator and a king. The left sees Elon as this right wing, fascist, oligarch. We WANT him to be a right wing, fascist, corporatist, oligarch.”
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07/27/2026
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- Tony Perkins declares that "the decisive battle for America’s future will not ultimately be won in Congress, but in the church as it once again shapes the nation’s moral character": "Change the nation’s character, and its politics will follow."
- Dalton Earthly (aka Chud The Builder) insists that his practice of calling black people the N-word on social media is "the modern day equivalent of a civil rights era black man drinking from the ‘white’s only’ fountain."
- William Wolfe says that his "only criticism of Joseph McCarthy is that he didn’t go far enough."
- A month after an adulterous affair destroyed his congressional campaign, MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer returned to the pulpit at his church in Oklahoma.
- Mario Murillo warns that "the absolutely, unequivocal, undeniable and inevitable end of being woke is communism."
- Finally, Ryan Helfenbein proclaims that "Christian religious liberty as imagined by our Founders and included in our founding documents was never a universal license or accommodation for every other religion or religious practice under the sun."
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07/27/2026
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- Michelle Boorstein @ The Washington Post: ‘Sacred Liberty’ exhibition explores faith and freedom in America
For the Museum of the Bible, founded nine years ago in Washington, D.C., the goal of its centerpiece 250th exhibition, “Sacred Liberty,” is similar to its overall goal as a museum: to prompt curiosity in Christian scripture, and to emphasize its prominence.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: The Justice Dept's new “religious liberty” memo gives Christians more power to discriminate
Todd Blanche's 2026 guidance expands religious exemptions, weakens safeguards, and treats faith as a trump card over other Americans’ rights.
- Molly Sprayregen @ LGBTQ Nation: Failed GOP governor candidate launches anti-marriage equality campaign
Winsome Earle-Sears devoted the crux of her gubernatorial campaign to anti-LGBTQ+ messaging.
- Kelcie Moseley-Morris @ The 19th: The new teen pregnancy prevention plan isn’t that focused on prevention
The Trump administration will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.”
- Emine Yücel @ Talking Points Memo: Senate Poised to Once Again Collapse Into Chaos Over SAVE Act
Trump warns of “LOSING & DEATH” as he calls on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to cancel the upcoming recess and abolish the filibuster — all for the sake of the SAVE Act.
- Posting Through It: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo?
Andy Ngo is MAGA media's go-to "expert" on far-left extremism. The Portland-born social media personality has spent years pushing Republican leaders to treat anti-Trump and leftist movements as terrorist threats, churning out a bevy of hyper-sensationalized and misleading social media content to make his case.
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07/16/2026
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- Tennessee state Rep. Monty Fritts, who is seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination, sat down for a friendly interview with racist and antisemitic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon.
- Braeden Sorbo says that "if we made illegal entry a felony that carried a sentence of the death penalty, lives would be saved."
- "Prophetess" Kat Kerr continues to insist that the 2020 election will be overturned: "The left are about to be crushed down and there will be the biggest landslide of fraud exposure in the history of America and even the world. The Father has assured me they will happen."
- Jack Posobiec gets brutally fact-checked for trying to rewrite the history of his promotion of the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.
- Nick Fuentes declares that it is his mission "to get the GOP to bow to the Groypers."
- Finally, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick gushes over Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton: "We need one of you in every high school in America and every college campus. You have to clone yourself. David, you are the most interesting man I think I've ever talked to."
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07/13/2026
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- Shane Vaughn rages at Republicans who refuse to "blindly follow" President Donald Trump: "Put on the jersey. Put on the cheerleader outfit if you have to. Cheer for your quarterback. Help your team WIN. Or take off that red jersey, walk across the field, and be honest about which side you’re actually helping. But stop standing at midfield, arms crossed, criticizing every play, obstructing your own offense — and calling it 'independent thinking.'"
- Everett Piper declares that "without Christianity in the public realm, our country — indeed, every country — will inevitably become a hell on earth."
- Carrie Prejean appears to be enjoying a wonderful vacation with Candace Owens.
- Nick Fuentes suggests that Sneako is "a craven narcissist and clout chaser" because he did not criticize Kanye West for apologizing for his antisemitism, which makes no sense because Fuentes himself refused to criticize West for doing so.
- Joshua Feuerstein is offering up $100,000 in a bid to get Democratic senate nominee James Talarico to debate him.
- Finally, Lauren Witzke weighs in on the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham: "Lindsey Graham got vaxxed and boosted, and told you to get vaxxed and boosted. Ultimately, it killed him, but thankfully it killed him before he could kill any more of your children in one of his endless wars for Israel."
07/10/2026
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- Rick Green is on a "red, white and blue high" after "such an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime 250th [anniversary] weekend."
- Greg Stephens claims that President Donald Trump "has an honor for the presidency that I haven't seen maybe since [Ronald] Reagan."
- Shane Vaughn celebrates that, thanks to the Trump administration, nobody has been prosecuted because of the Epstein files: "I told my audience that it would be the biggest waste of time because NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN to anyone and NO ONE would be arrested and NO ONE would go to court - and when it was all over and done it would be the biggest nothing burger in American history!!!"
- Brad Dacus warns that there will be a "price to pay" for anyone who continues to support the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Finally, Joshua Feuerstein declares that "I have a Down Syndrome daughter and still use the word 'RETARD.' Why? My daughter is not a retard. She has never voted for a Democrat and never will. THOSE people are retards."
07/13/2026
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- Sam Gringlas @ NPR: South Carolina's governor names Lindsey Graham's sister to serve out his term
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says he is appointing Darline Graham Nordone to finish the term of her late brother, former Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died in office Saturday at age 71.
- David Rohde, Jacqueline Alemany, Laura Barrón-López and Ken Dilanian @ MS Now: Trump election task force to begin releasing classified intel documents
From spy agencies to FEMA, the president appears to be mounting a “whole of government” effort to sway races that will decide control of Congress.
- David Remnick @ The New Yorker: The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Why is the transportation secretary complaining about ‘DEI bike lanes’?
Sean Duffy isn’t the only Republican complaining about DEI, but he seems to have an expansive definition of the idea.
- Daniel Edward Rosen @ The New York Sun: Kash Patel Taps Conservative Influencer and Charlie Kirk Collaborator To Run FBI’s Attack-Dog X Account
Graham Allen, who previously ran the Defense Department’s digital media strategy, will serve as a senior adviser for the FBI’s Rapid Response social media account, sources tell the Sun.
- Sarah K. Burris @ AlterNet: Drained Reflecting Pool betrays Trump’s claim of '350-foot' gash in liner
The ongoing saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continued Monday as the water drained, revealing the damage that was visible. Thus far, there is no 350-foot gash in the lining.
- Edvard Pettersson @ Courthouse News Service: Hunter Biden wins $1.7 million in punitive damages against Patrick Byrne
A federal judge said the former Overstock.com CEO knew his claims that Hunter Biden had sought an $800 million bribe from Iran were fabricated.
07/10/2026
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- Melissa Gira Grant @ The New Republic: ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
- Edgar Sandoval and Hamed Aleaziz @ The New York Times: Man Killed by Federal Agent in Houston Was Not the Target of ICE Search
Officials say agents believed a passenger resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.
- Arelis R. Hernández @ The Washington Post: Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
- Bennito L. Kelty @ Raw Story: MAGA Republican who claimed to have killed people as a child wins Colorado primary
The Republican gubernatorial candidate who claimed to have killed people as a child won his primary, according to the Denver Post.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Why you should care about Trump gutting the Election Assistance Commission
For all of the Republicans’ overwrought rhetoric about “election security,” the gutting of the EAC moves the nation in the opposite direction.
- Kristin Du Mez: When Doug Wilson says he lies, believe him
This is why Wilson is so tricky to interview and write about. He lies. He contradicts himself. Wink wink, nod nod. If you call him out on it, he backpedals. Or he dodges. Or he spews more word salad. He muddies the waters, saying you didn’t understand the context, he obfuscates, he “jokes,” he uses “satire,” he speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
- S.V. Date @ HuffPost: GOP Charging As Much As $20,000 To Be A ‘Delegate’ At Trump’s Fake Convention
The September gathering in Dallas will choose neither a candidate nor a platform, but state parties are charging thousands for the privilege of a floor seat.
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07/09/2026
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- Mario Murillo believes that Tucker Carlson's criticisms of President Donald Trump and Israel are the result of "a demonic attack."
- Paul Blair declares that the Second Amendment grants American citizens the right to own "any type of weapon that the government might have": "The only reason I don't have is tank is I can't afford one."
- Joel Webbon proclaims that "Islam has no place among civilized people in the West": "We already have Islam for White people. It’s called Mormonism."
- Glenn Beck insists that "Immigration today must stop": "Zero new immigration."
- Finally, a week after Right Wing Watch debunked the false Christian history being promulgated by Chad Connelly, he continues to spread the same lies.
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07/07/2026
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- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick featured Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton on his most recent podcast.
- Rick Green claims that the American healthcare system is terrible because "we have a socialist healthcare system in America, thanks to their candidate, Barack Obama."
- Sean Feucht was honored to receive the Pennsylvania Freedom Medal from Christian nationalist state Sen. Doug Mastriano.
- Dale Partridge asserts that "restoring order will require not being moved by the screeching of women, the manipulation of foreigners, or the cries of liberals."
- Brian Sauvé wrote a song about the dangers of young women getting an education, a job, and independence, proving that Christian nationalists can take just about any topic and turn it into terrible, heavy-handed art.
- Finally, Hank Kunneman declares that "our country was founded on Christian principles": "Most of our documents were based on the Bible; the way that our civic government and laws and things and the way that our Constitution was framed." None of that is true.
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07/01/2026
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- After complaining that the Trump administration's Religious Liberty Commission hasn't accomplished anything, Gene Bailey abjectly retracted his criticism.
- Dale Partridge claims that America has lost its glory "because we've abandoned Christ and God's good order for nations": "Zionists have stolen our money to fund people who hate our savior."
- Tony Perkins is outraged about recent Pride parades: "Hell opened its doors for a day and a lot came out."
- Lauren Witzke declares that "women should never have been granted the right to vote, to hold public office, or to wield judicial power as Supreme Court justices."
- Andrew Wommack believes that when America celebrates its 300th anniversary, Christian nationalists like David Barton, Bill Federer, Bob McEwan, and Chad Connelly will be remembered along with the Founding Fathers.
- Finally, Rick Green is giddy about America's 250th anniversary, mainly because "leftist and Marxist are just [shedding] major tears right now": "They're just in a bad mood every day because there's so much red, white, and blue, patriotic songs, stuff going on at the White House. Now you got the state fair or national fair going on on the Mall there. There's just so much. The rededication to God. There's just so much for us to celebrate, and they're just gritting their teeth."
06/30/2026
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- Rick Green fumes that the Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship was "one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history" and "a death knell to Western civilization and the American dream."
- Alex McFarland says that the Southern Poverty Law Center is "the personification of why verses like Ephesians 6:12 say, 'We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, spiritual wickedness, and rulers of the darkness in high places.'"
- Rick Joyner claims that "Marxists in America devised 45 point, 100 year plan for taking over the United States 96 years ago. They have brilliantly and relentlessly implemented this plan and now see the U.S. as ripe for final conquest. Keeping the citizens of the U.S. ignorant of what socialism really is has been a primary weapon, and now we totter on the edge of the ultimate disaster of succumbing to subtle, but very effective and deadly attack."
- Chad Connelly declares that "today’s Democrats hate America and elect people who hate our nation more than they do."
- Finally, Joshua Haymes perfectly demonstrates the impossibility of trying to dismiss as jokes the outrageous things that are said by Nick Fuentes: "Even though he is joking, he's not joking. This is hyperbole, but the general attitude, at least as far as I can tell, is he's serious."
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07/01/2026
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- Eric Lipton @ The New York Times: Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
The president’s move to open new business ventures, rather than eliminate potential conflicts, defies a long-held tradition.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Trump has now made over $1.5 million from his MAGA Bible grift
The "God Bless the USA" Bible has made the president a lot of money. Not bad for a book he's never read.
- Tom Latchem @ The Daily Beast: MAGA Guru Floats Deranged Plan After Trump’s SCOTUS Defeat
Federalist boss Sean Davis reacted to the birthright citizenship ruling with an unhinged list of “ways forward” that alarmed even conservatives.
- David Moye @ HuffPost: GOP Rep. Troy Nehls Goes Full Marie Antoinette About Affordability And, Yeah, It's Bad
One person said the Texas Republican's comments "might be the most tone-deaf thing I've heard a politician say."
- Amos Barshad @ Columbia Journalism Review: ‘All I Have Is the Power to Talk and Be Heard’
Tucker Carlson on pitying Donald Trump, never listening to podcasts, and planning a new political party—while selling you nicotine pouches.
- Ministry Watch: Is America Experiencing A Revival? George Barna Has His Doubts
Mario Murillo has been one of the strongest proponents of the “America is in revival” narrative. He argues that mass tent meetings, conversions in California and elsewhere, and openness among young people indicate that the country is already experiencing a “Third Great Awakening.” Lance Wallnau has likewise said that America is experiencing a spiritual awakening, often linking it with political developments and what he describes as a national “reformation.” But people who study religion say…not so fast.
- Charlie Sabgir @ The Atlantic: Young Republican Activists Are Turning Against Trump
Conservative groups at colleges across the country want a far more radical GOP.
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06/26/2026
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- Dan Diamond @ The Washington Post: Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon
The vice president said he admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president, who resigned amid pressure in 1974, and Trump today.
- Gabe Cohen and Andrew Kaczynski @ CNN: FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say
A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.
- Ruth Graham @ The New York Times: Where Testosterone and the Bible Are the ‘New Punk Rock’
Thousands of men and boys gathered in central Washington for masculinity, Christianity and right-wing politics.
- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: High Ranking GOP Representative Goes on Anti-Somali Rant
“Celebrate your culture, I don’t care. Italian, Polish—you know, Somali, OK. But they don’t assimilate.”
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: ‘Go Back to F*cking Haiti!’ Megyn Kelly Goes on Wild Rant Over Supreme Court Ruling
Podcaster Megyn Kelly celebrated the conservative Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling Thursday that paved the way for the Trump White House to end temporary legal protections and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
- Nick Hilden @ AlterNet: 'Trump wears thin after a while': Evangelicals bail on lame-duck president
As the latest polls show plunging support for President Donald Trump among evangelical Christians — the group that has remained most loyal to him through three elections — experts say it’s because a growing number of them are beginning to question his “cult of personality” and asking themselves whether they “have to keep supporting everything he does.”
06/26/2026
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- David Barton declares that George Soros is "one of the most wicked people we've had in modern history": "He is dedicated to overthrowing everything good, everything Christian, everything godly, everything that is self-government. He an anarchist. He is a bad dude."
- Rick Wiles announces that he's coming out of retirement to buy an AM radio station in Washington, D.C. from which his radical views will be "blasting straight into the White House, Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and thousands of cars stuck in Beltway traffic."
- Todd Starnes is outraged about the incident involving Caitlin Clark: "Clearly, it is open season on straight, white women. What happened to Caitlin Clark was nothing short of a hate crime."
- Dale Partridge says it is the duty of fathers to "provide for the needs of your daughters until you give them away in marriage" and that encouraging them to be self-sufficient and independent will only "make submission even harder in her future marriage."
- Finally, speaking of Partridge, he and his fellow white nationalists like Andrew Torba and Dave Reilly are thrilled to discover that Megyn Kelly is, like they claim all women are, a "natural racist."
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Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Trump Says He’s ‘Preparing Lawsuits Against ABC for False Reporting’
President Donald Trump said his administration is about to sue ABC over its reporting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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- Tony Perkins claims that a lack of "biblical literacy" is weakening the nation: "The Bible is not merely a religious text but one of the foundational documents of American civilization. To understand America, one must understand the Bible. And when that understanding is lost, we lose not only part of our history but part of our identity."
- The National Association of Christian Lawmakers awarded Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton its George Washington Lifetime Christian Leadership Award.
- Wesley Todd says that people should "hate democracy" because it protects "religious freedom, pluralism, and the basic principle that no one’s faith should make them more or less American."
- Dale Partridge shares his thoughts on George and Alexander Soros: "The father of both these men is the devil."
- Finally, Michele Bachmann announces that she has "concerns" about the Iran peace agreement but she is giving President Donald Trump "credit" for the deal because "we've never had a better president for Israel."
06/23/2026
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- Lance Wallnau claims that he was "almost put in jail ... because somebody didn't like what I said with my freedom of speech."
- It cannot be a good sign for President Donald Trump when even Qanon MAGA diehards like Liz Crokin are no longer lapping up the White House's Q slop: "We’re done being treated like shit!"
- Gropyer gubernatorial candidate James Fishback announced that he'll be holding a campaign rally featuring racist, antisemitic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon.
- Dale Partridge declares that he is sexist "and you should be, too."
- Finally, Elijah Schaffer proclaims that "we need to increase the anti-Indian sentiment": "The anti-immigrant sentiment is crucial to making people who shouldn’t be here feel unwelcome. It’s the nicest way to deal w/ them [right now]. They are guests & they’ve overstayed their welcome. It’s time for the Anglo Saxon to hate again."
06/23/2026
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- John Avlon @ Rolling Stone: The Founders Warned Us About Someone Like Trump
As America turns 250, the warnings of Washington, Hamilton, and Madison read more like headlines.
- Will Neal @ The Daily Beast: Adoptive Single Mom Fox Host Rants About Traditional Families
And then she paraded her own adopted kids from two countries.
- Phil Williams @ Hate Comes To Main Street: He Despises Jews, Admires Hitler. Now, He's Starring in Videos for a Candidate for Governor
Dane Chisholm says he produced two social media video for Christian nationalist candidate Monty Fritts, but the GOP candidate did not respond to my reporting.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: ‘There are no limits’: Trump’s views on presidential powers take an even more radical turn
In January, Trump said the scope of his powers was constrained only by his “own morality.” Six months later, he answered a similar question in a worse way.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: There’s Major Unrest at Michael Flynn’s Nonprofit
And we have painfully few clues as to why, beyond a cryptic post about a “drunk night between grown adults."
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Trump Says He’s ‘Preparing Lawsuits Against ABC for False Reporting’
President Donald Trump said his administration is about to sue ABC over its reporting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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- Jon Swaine @ The Washington Post: Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
- Annie Knox @ Utah News Dispatch: New elections official said women in office ‘do not have what it takes.’ They returned the criticism
23-year-old Kai Schwemmer, hired to help run elections in Utah County, has a new title and less authority.
- Ellie Ashby @ The Texas Tribune: Which Bible passages are in Texas’ proposed student reading list? Here’s what the selections reveal.
The chosen readings, to be voted on soon by the State Board of Education, draw heavily from Christian perspectives.
- Ben Taub @ The New Yorker: Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
- Jacob Wendler @ Politico: A small conservative group rises in influence under Trump 2.0
Republicans are increasingly turning to the Capital Research Center’s work in their investigations into nonprofits.
- Anna Maria Barry-Jester @ ProPublica: “A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid
Congress gave orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have largely refused to follow many of them, likely in violation of the law, experts say.
- Anthea Butler @ MS Now: JD Vance’s book ‘Communion’ reveals he hasn’t changed as much as he says he has
As he promotes his new book about his conversion, Vance seems confused about what Catholicism is, and he doesn’t seem to understand that Christian beliefs aren’t the same as a list of conservative talking points.
- Greg Jaffe and Kate Kelly @ The New York Times: Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity
A Black admiral fixed one of the Navy’s worst messes. Mr. Hegseth blocked his promotion anyway.
- Marisa Taylor, Chris Prentice, Kaylee Kang and Allison Martell @ Reuters: How to get a Trump pardon: Forget the DOJ, call “Bobby” and other influencers
A Reuters investigation found nearly all the clemency decisions made by President Trump during his current term flouted longstanding Justice Department guidelines. In place of traditional rules, the White House relies on a network of influential advocates espousing pardons based on partisan, personal criteria.
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- Renzo Downey @ The Texas Tribune: A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
- Daniel Silliman @ The Roys Report: Sean Feucht claims donor who gave $250,000 does not have right to sue for fraud
Worship leader Sean Feucht says he can’t be sued for allegedly misspending $250,000 because the the contribution was given through a donor-advised fund.
- Matt McManus @ The Bulwark: This Far-Right Thought Leader Is Embarrassingly Vacuous
Auron MacIntyre’s world of resentment, decline, and perpetual emergency.
- Riya Misra @ Politico: Trump announces July Fourth ‘TRUMP RALLY’ on National Mall
The announcement comes after many performers withdrew from the Great American State Fair, citing concerns about its ties to Trump.
- Steven Waldman @ The Christian Century: Whose Christian nationalism?
If political power were distributed based on a census of the founding era, the United States would be run by Episcopalians and Congregationalists.
- Sarah Beth Spraggins @ The Spectator: How Paula White-Cain guides Trump through evangelical America
[Paula] White-Cain has platinum blonde hair and a large, Spanish-style house in central Florida, where she spends the majority of her time. Her past two marriages ended but she is currently married to Jonathan Cain, who plays keyboard in the rock band Journey and co-wrote “Don’t Stop Believin’.” She is a televangelist, preacher, fundraiser and founder of Paula White Ministries, a global media and evangelical organization. Like the President, she is an outsider in the upper rooms of the Republican party.
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- Todd Starnes declares that the cage fight held on the lawn of the White House was "one of the most patriotic things I have ever seen in my life."
- Tim Barton proclaims that criticism of the event highlights the disparity between "people that love America, that love God and people that don't like America and reject God": "That was on full display this weekend."
- Rick Green gushes that the event was "red, white and blue nirvana."
- Joel Webbon continues to display his virulent antisemitism by offering up a free audio version of “On The Jews And Their Lies” by Martin Luther.
- Eric Metaxas is very upset about a new portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama: "What president sits like that? It's totally unpresidential. And why is Michelle so big?"
- North Dakota state Rep. Nico Rio says that hating Muslims "is absolutely the right thing to do."
- Finally, Mark Meckler admits that he has nothing but "indifference and disgust for [Rep.] Ilhan Omar": "She's an evil person."
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- Rob McCoy claims that "a man like Charlie [Kirk] comes along one in a thousand years."
- Lauren Witzkebelieves that Idaho is a national treasure probably because it's "like 99% White": "Coincidence? I think not."
- Eric Metaxas asserts that America "should have died under the second Biden administration" but "God had a different plan."
- Dale Partridge declares that freedom of religion only applies to Christians and that by allowing Hindus to immigrate to America, we are "literally ... importing devils into our land."
- Finally, Andrew Isker says that Indians are not welcome in America: "People are what they worship, and they worship poop demons."
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- Tim Barton brags about the role that he and his WallBuilders organization played in writing biographies for a dozen new statues erected by the Trump administration in Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.
- Speaking of which, if you thought the "constitutionalists" at WallBuilders would oppose a president using his administration to create a slush fund to funnel billions of dollars to his political allies, you would be wrong,
- Tony Perkins complains that it is unfair that the Southern Poverty Law Center is able to endorse Democratic members of Congress who will defend the SPLC amid the Trump administration's politically-motivated indictment: "They're playing in the political game while at the same time trying to attack those on the other side and marginalize them with their [hate group] label. How is that fair?"
- Elijah Schaffer announces that he is "boycotting all Hindu owned businesses" out of pure racism and bigotry.
- Finally, Calvin Robinson declares that "Candace Owens is doing wonderful work and I agree with her on much of it."
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When the Trump administration held its National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving gathering on the National Mall earlier this month, it was quite obvious that the event was designed to mobilize conservative Christian voters ahead of the midterm elections.
That was confirmed when right-wing evangelist David Herzog appeared on the Elijah Streams program last week and revealed that pastors in attendance were invited to attend a private gathering with House Speaker Mike Johnson before the event where they were encouraged to mobilize their congregations for the midterms.
"They invited us," Herzog reported. "It was an invitation to be here and get this special briefing from the Speaker of the House and [MAGA pastor Lorenzo Sewell]."
Herzog said that Johnson stressed that pastors are key to ensuring that the effort to "rededicate" the nation to God succeeds
"What he came down to was the reason why we need you pastors here is because you guys are the difference that can decide if this thing is going to go one way or the other," he said. "Basically, he's saying we need the pastors and the leaders, the Christian leaders, to get on board because if you guys don't get on board and spread this thing, it's not going to shift the way it needs to shift."
"They see the importance of the church as the missing link," Herzog added. "You could have a good politician, you could have a good president, you could even pass the right laws, but if the church is asleep at the wheel, nothing going to happen. And then it's also connected to the midterms. I think they want the church to pray, fast, and also mobilize the people to really wake up and be active."
"He was waking up the pastors and the leaders saying, 'Guys, wake up. We need you to be part of this awakening, to spread it to your churches, to pray, and to vote, everything so that we can continue with what God has put Trump in it to do,'" Herzog said.
"The midterms are coming up and if that is lost, and Trump is a lame duck president, he can't really do much more," Herzog warned. "If the Democrats start taking over—you got New York City and an Islamic mayor of a city? You got that in parts of Michigan. In Texas, they're trying to make a Sharia law region—evil's at the door. We have this little sliver of time right now—a president that's for Israel, for the church—we maybe have a year, two years. If we maximize this time, we can not just see a spiritual awakening of conservatism, but actual revival, harvest, people coming to the Lord."
"Basically, that was his main message," Herzog revealed. "You guys have to really take this seriously. We're doing all this for you guys. We're giving you the baton."
Herzog claimed that Johnson also promised those pastors in attendance that the Trump administration has billions of dollars it wants to funnel to right-wing churches to carry out social programs.
"What they were saying was, 'Guys, we have money for you guys for ministries that are helping the poor, that are helping this, that are helping that,'" he said. "There's tons of money just sitting there. We'd rather you guys do those programs. Basically, it's putting the position of power in the church's hand, kind of like Daniel was in a position of power and Joseph. They're saying we want you guys to have those positions, not those who are against God's plans and ideals."
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Talk of the Antichrist has surged in President Donald Trump's first year in office, and the discussion has broken out beyond the traditional right-wing circles.
Christian Paz, writing for Vox, reported Tuesday that talk of the Antichrist has become a larger conversation among more mainstream political circles than the typical evangelical prophecies.
The end-times conversation connects a renewed apocalyptic panic to those desperately searching for ways to grapple with a more complicated "crisis-driven" world by ascribing the "Antichrist" thinking to any figure who could match charismatic leaders in technology, war or politics.
The idea that Trump could fit that description has been proposed by far-right influencers like former Rep. MarjorieTaylor Greene and anti-Semitic commentator Nick Fuentes. Even Tucker Carlson asked the question. It came as Trump posted an AI photo of himself depicted as Jesus Christ. He later claimed that he thought it was a "doctor."
“But he’s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question," conservative Rod Dreher told the *Wall Street Journal*.
In March, CNN reported that billionaire Peter Thiel has been hosting secret lectures about the Antichrist in an undisclosed location in Rome.
"But the appearance of Thiel on the Vatican’s doorstep has raised eyebrows, given the tensions between Thiel’s thinking and that of Pope Leo XIV," the report said. "Two Catholic institutions have distanced themselves from the lecture series, which continues through Wednesday."
On Monday, the pope published his first encyclical, warning that artificial intelligence is causing problems for humanity, particularly when it comes to its use in war.
Meanwhile, "Thiel has previously written and lectured on the subject, arguing that the Antichrist is not necessarily a person but could come as a global government system. It would take control, he has argued, by exploiting people’s fears around artificial intelligence, climate change or nuclear war."
Paz, writing for Vox, explained that the colorful imagery and ambiguity in the Bible talking about the Antichrist can attract people trying to solve a kind of prepper puzzle.
“They read the Bible like it’s a secret code book, and that if they can unlock the code, then they can understand what’s going to happen in the end times,” historian Matthew A. Sutton told Vox. Sutton focuses on American apocalypticism at Washington State University. “It’s a very modern way to read the Bible compared to what you would’ve seen through much of church history.”
When he says "modern," he means the last 100 years. But as the world grapples with climate change, another war in the Middle East, the possibility of a pending economic catastrophe and leaders like Trump, talk of the Antichrist and the end times are being used to explain what people see as troubled times.
“Dressing political theory in apocalyptic robes carries risks," Sutton told Vox, though it's hardly a new idea. But it can become dangerous. "When powerful actors reframe ordinary policy debates, such as about guardrails for AI, as a battle against the antichrist, they raise anxieties, delegitimize compromise, and insinuate that democratic deliberation is spiritually suspect.”
But the panic about Trump has turned the world upside down over the course of his second term. So, while the right is spinning conspiracy theories about his being the Antichrist, he also fits the mold, the report said.
"He is surely a charismatic leader; he’s launched civilizational wars in the Middle East; he’s survived assassination attempts, mimicking the fatal, but healed, wound of the beast of Revelations; and he’s blasphemed and used the trappings of religion to advance his personal brand," said Paz for Vox.
Religious Studies Professor Robert Fuller called talk of the end times a "crisis mentality" and perpetuates hate.
"It makes compromise unthinkable since no one compromises with the devil. It justifies hatred and violence, recasting these traits as virtues," he said.
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- Tim Barton claims that President Donald Trump is "actually more similar to the kind of leaders that God has historically chosen, biblically speaking, than what we're used to."
- Meanwhile, David Barton is on right-wing media spreading the false claims that the two shooters who attacked a San Diego mosque were transgender.
- Rick Green declares that Trump has enacted "the most constitutional, conservative, Christian agenda that I have ever seen in my lifetime."
- Nick Fuentes complains that "you can't live comfortably inside the United States if you're antisemitic and I have a big problem with that."
- Former Family Research Council intern Cole Cuzick knows that God orchestrated his Republican primary win for a seat in the Kentucky legislature.
- Finally, Dale Partridge admits that doesn't actually expect to repeal the 19th Amendment with his new book but wrote it so that when the United States breaks up, he wants the smaller Christian nation that emerges in its wake "to be very clear on not letting women vote."
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05/18/2026
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- Shane Vaughn thinks he has found a way for President Donald Trump to serve a third term by insisting that the 2020 election was stolen and therefore "he wouldn't be elected 3 times against the Constitution but rather a TERM would have to be given back to him."
- Mark Meckler says that his top priority for choosing candidates in the midterm elections is whether or not they will prosecute and jail those who allegedly targeted Trump and his supporters.
- Lance Wallnau claims that "according to Pew research, Christian nationalism is becoming more and more of an acceptable and normative worldview." That is not what the Pew research said.
- Groyper Kai Schwimmer lost his bid to become treasurer of the Utah Republican Party.
- Ché Ahn vows that if he is not elected governor of California in 2026, he is going to run again in 2030.
- Finally, Rep. Thomas Massie is hoping to fend off a Republican primary challenge by campaigning with antisemitic white nationalist David Reilly.
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The eruption of measles in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere, she contends, aren’t isolated events.
Manufactured distrust
“Cases have also surfaced in Alaska, California, New Mexico, New York City, Georgia, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Concern that reports will continue to grow is rising,” she writes.
“It’s especially worrisome considering that the measles virus was completely eliminated in the U.S. as recently as the year 2000. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed this achievement to a “highly effective vaccine program in the United States, as well as better measles control in the Americas region.”
So, how did we get here?
“The answer: distrust. Distrust in health experts, who years ago were revered as national authorities on serious medical issues. Distrust in public health agencies, the CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration specifically, once respected as credible information resources. Distrust in the strength and rigor of vaccine testing protocols, the pharmaceutical industry itself and the broader politicization of public health.”
Haviland and other health experts fear ‘America, which was once considered a world leader in public health, has lost decades of progress in preventing the spread of a deadly disease with a provably safe therapy that has successfully saved millions of American lives.”
The focus on vaccine hesitancy “underplays the significant backlash against vaccines and the flood of anti-vaccine misinformation to which many Americans have been subjected,” Haviland continues.
“The reality is that Americans are increasingly adopting a more dismissive mindset in the way they view vaccine efficacy. Skepticism, rather than hesitancy, is a more accurate term to describe America’s perception of vaccines — and it shows no sign of slowing down.”
A certain arrogance
There is a certain arrogance the MAGA multitude carry. They act as though they have a direct line to God and the divine right to determine what’s best for the rest of us. Hence, the series of seemingly endless toxic, selfish crusades that former youth pastor and author John Pavlovitz argues “amplify baseless anti-science propaganda.”
This poisonous mindset has a human cost. Almost 90,000 people in the Sunshine State have died because of COVID; others have succumbed to preventable diseases like the flu.
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- Jennifer Schuessler @ The New York Times: How an Image of Washington at Prayer Became a Touchstone for the Right
A scene inspired by the winter at Valley Forge has become more prominent in the Trump era, along with claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
- Jerome Copulsky @ Religion News Service: Trump's May 17 rally recalls 250 years of failed attempts at a Christian nation
While it is fitting and proper for individuals and congregations to rededicate themselves to their God in prayer, it is not the role of government to unite America in faith.
- Christian Paz @ Vox: A year of Trump is backfiring on the religious right
Americans don’t really want “Christian nationalism.”
- Cameron Adams @ The Daily Beast: Trump Goon Accused of ‘Religious Coercion’ in Shock Lawsuit
Employees said they feel “unwelcome” in the workplace. BROOKE ROLLINS
- Helen Lewis @ The Atlantic: The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.
- Phil Williams @ News Channel 5: Andy Ogles now denies raising $25,000 from public for children's burial garden that was never built
Tennessee congressman's latest stories about GoFundMe: Money actually came from him and his family, spent on 'children with cancer.'
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: The Right’s Worst New Star Just Shot Someone
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- Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway insists that "we have always, in Missouri, been a pro-life state, even though we had vote that didn't show that last year." She was referencing the decision by the voters to protect reproductive rights in the state constitution.
- Katy Faust claims that marriage equality "was one of the biggest power grabs of the state that we have ever seen."
- Doug Wilson says extraterrestrials and UFOS are "spiritual apparitions designed to mislead and deceive" created by Satan.
- MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer has secured endorsements from House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Reps. Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer, and Lisa McClain in his bid for Congress.
- Brad Dacus declares that the Southern Poverty Law Center is "the most dangerous private organization in the United States to our freedom, to our liberty, to our Constitution, [and] to the unity we have as Americans."
- Finally, Rick Green believes that WallBuilders is widely respected because of its "intellectual consistency." Um, we would beg to differ.
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05/13/2026
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- Jesse Leon Rogers calls on Christians to "take territory" by gaining control of school boards and city councils and then "evicting the wicked" while "replacing them with godly leaders."
- Dale Partridge declares that Christian men must run for political office because "if we refuse to run someone else well": "Often, a woman from India or Somalia or another foreign culture and she's going to work to colonize your community and steal your children's inheritance for the glory of their pagan God."
- Victor Marx says that if he is elected governor of Colorado, the very first thing he will do is "consecrate the state back to God."
- Joshua Haymes proclaims that "we must completely eradicate the LGBT ideology from public life entirely."
- Finally, Shane Vaughn cheers on the GOP effort to expunge the impeachments of President Donald Trump, which is strange since Vaughn steadfastly insists that Trump was never impeached.
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- Michelle Boorstein, Laura Meckler and Natalie Allison @ The Washington Post: White House to host 9-hour prayer festival focused on Christian roots of U.S.
Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson will speak at the event, which centers on the idea that the founders wanted the U.S. to be explicitly Christian.
- Andrew Duehren and Alan Feuer @ The New York Times: Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses.
- Phil Williams @ Hate Comes To Main Street: Far-Right Grudge Match: 'Unite the Right' Organizer Sues Proud Boys Founder
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes had suggested that Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler may have been on the payroll of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Anthony DeBarros and Annie Linskey @ The Wall Street Journal: The Late-Night Truth Social Storms That Offer a Window Into the President’s Mind
A WSJ analysis of thousands of posts found that the president uses the social-media platform to spread conspiracy theories and attack his adversaries.
- Jose Pagliery @ NOTUS: FBI Created ‘Payback Squad’ to Handle Political Cases, Sources Say
Investigators are eyeing cases similar to the recent criminal prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, one current government official told NOTUS.
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[Christian Nationalism ## Christian Nationalists, Grifters, Charlatans & More: A Guide to this Weekend’s White House-sponsored ‘Revival’ to ‘Rededicate’ America to God
Trump is bringing a lot of his Christian nationalist boosters to the Mall this weekend to "rededicate" America as one nation under God, part of his hijacking of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.](https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/christian-nationalists-grifters-charlatans-more-guide-weekends-white-house-sponsored)
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Trump White House plans evangelical Christian festival to 'rededicate country to God' - Alternet.org
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COLOSSUS CRYPTO STAUE NOT A GOLDEN CALF
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- Rick Green says the Democrats "do such evil" that "maybe it's time for the party to be destroyed."
- Mark Meckler claims that fascism is "literally the endgame of all liberalism": "All liberalism ends in fascism."
- Tony Perkins worries that Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts ahead of the midterm elections will end up creating "more moderate" districts that will actually make it harder for the GOP to govern.
- Dale Partridge declares that "homosexual adoption must be outlawed": "To allow a child to be placed in the home of a sexual deviant is a national tragedy."
- Finally, Joel Webbon proclaims that if Christians nationalists want to wield political power, they must "hijack, train, and disciple" the GOP.
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- David A. Lieb and Geoff Mulvihill @ The Associated Press: Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redrawn US House maps, giving Republicans a win
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
- Nikki Schwab @ The Daily Mail: Marjorie Taylor Greene's journalist fiancé quits Washington to focus on their Trump-free nuptials
Former Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's journalist fiancé, Brian Glenn, is also quitting Washington.
- Brendan Rascius @ The Independent: Pastor leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump’s giant gold statue at his own golf course
The president himself called into the ceremony to thank the religious leader and guests in attendance.
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A towering gold statue of Donald Trump was unveiled at the president’s golf course in Doral, Florida, during an emotionally charged ceremony presided over by an Evangelical pastor.
Placed on a pedestal in a clearing of palm trees, the 22‑foot colossus depicts the president thrusting his fist into the air, echoing his defiant gesture after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
At Wednesday’s dedication ceremony, the sculpture was draped in white and blue fabric, resembling a Greek toga. It was encircled by a few dozen guests seated in chairs, as Pastor Mark Burns — a member of Pastors for Trump — spoke at a podium.
“Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment,” Burns wrote on social media before emphasizing that the gilded effigy was not a false idol.
“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” he said. “This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.”
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A pastor dedicated a 22-foot golden statue of Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida on Wednesday, saying it 'stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life' (Getty Images)
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The massive statue was commissioned by a collective of crypto investors and created by sculptor Alan Cottrill (Getty Images)
Burns, who previously described the president as divinely appointed, added that the sculpture stands as a reminder that God is protecting Trump’s life — in a nod to the multiple assassination attempts he has survived.
At one point during the proceedings, Burns held his cell phone up to the microphone, and the president’s voice rang out.
“I want to thank Mark Burns, a pastor, he’s a good pastor, he's a good man,” Trump said. “I’ve known him a long time, he’s been with me from the beginning, right from the beginning, maybe about two days later.”
“I want to thank everybody there,” he added. “I know it was done from love.”
The statue — which rises 15 feet atop a 7-foot base — was commissioned and bankrolled by a collective of crypto investors seeking to boost visibility for their memecoin, $PATRIOT, according to The Daily Beast.
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Pastor Mark Burns has been a longtime supporter of the president and served as his informal spiritual adviser. Here, he is pictured speaking at a Trump rally in 2016 (AFP via Getty Images)
Sculptor Alan Cottrill told The Times in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf.
His suggestion went down like an offering of water “to a person dying of thirst,” he said. “Immediately everybody jumped on board.”
Cottrill, who has molded the likeness of 16 presidents, said he was holding the statue hostage in a warehouse until he was paid the total agreed upon sum.
In a statement to the outlet, the crypto investors said that “the statue was paid in full a year ago,” adding, “He’s an amazing artist and despite his comments we greatly appreciate the work he completed on this historic statue.”
It’s far from the first sculpture of the Republican president to be erected in the U.S. — though it may be the most flattering.
Several statues depicting Trump have recently appeared in front of the Capitol building. One, titled “Best Friends Forever,” portrays the billionaire president alongside the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Another, called “King of the World,” shows the pair posing like Jack and Rose at the prow of the Titanic.
Both installations — commissioned by protest group Secret Handshake — were quickly removed.
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- David Edwards @ Raw Story: Sean Duffy reveals he took a 7-month road trip for reality show while transportation head
Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.
- Hannah Knowles @ The Washington Post: Anti-woke Vivek Ramaswamy confronts racism in his run for Ohio governor
Vivek Ramaswamy built a political brand casting racism as an obsession of Democrats. As a Republican running for Ohio governor, he’s facing racism on the right.
- Zachary Leeman @ Mediaite: Joe Rogan Stunned After Tim Burchett Suggests Would-Be Trump Assassin Was ‘Programmed to Do It’ MKUltra-Style
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the CIA could be behind would-be assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
- Hatewatch: ‘Greater Than’ effort revamps anti-LGBTQ+ junk science against marriage equality
On Jan. 28, the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Them Before Us led the announcement of the “Greater Than” campaign, an effort to repeal marriage equality. The campaign represents an alliance of at least a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups and other allied organizations to promote the debunked claim that “gay marriage resulted in child victimization.”
- Faithful Politics: Peter Montgomery on the Religious Right and Christian Nationalism
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- MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer has secured the endorsement of President Donald Trump in his bid for Congress.
- Rick Green marvels at the "masterful way" Trump has bypassed Congress in carrying out his war against Iran.
- Ali Alexander, on the other hand, now despises Trump: "I don't know that there's ever been a leader in human history to so master this satanic frequency in terms of communications method. Trump has so disoriented the world, and himself, his words mean nothing and are imagined as everything. I don't think any other aspiring minor antichrist has had the dare or technology to allow for what we're all living through now. He's killing America too."
- Calvin Robinson claims that he was canceled for simply saying "my heart goes out to you." Um, there was a little more to it than that.
- Greg Stephens is surprised by the prospect that perhaps "God is moving Muslims to the U.S." so they can hear about Christianity.
- Finally, Nick Fuentes notes that "nobody [on the right] even cares" when he is openly racist and antisemitic but are now suddenly attacking him for saying he is going to vote Democratic.
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- Sarah Fitzpatrick @ The Atlantic: Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Gorka Fumes Against the Left in New Counterterrorism Strategy
Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent left-wing extremists,” “extreme transgender ideologies,” and “violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen @ The Contrarian: The Justice Department’s Appalling Grift Store
Settlements with the president's friends and the possibility of payouts to him are an affront to every taxpayer.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: MAGA Influencers Find a Medicare Fraudster They Love
The strange campaign to secure a pardon for a guy who pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
- Luke Winkie @ Slate: What’s It Like to Spend Your Life in the Internet’s Craziest Corners? Ask Will Sommer.
He chronicled the last era of internet conspiracy theories. We’re not ready for the next one.
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Angry Trump Spirals as Poll Shows Him Losing to Pope Badl
As Trump keeps attacking Pope Leo, a scholar of religion explains how MAGA persuaded Trump that he’s a more hallowed figure than the pope—and why that’s resulting in a total fiasco for him.
- Robert P. Jones @ Redeeming Democracy: Theatre of the Absurd
The Trump Administration's "Anti-Christian Bias" Report.
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- Rick Green wants the Tennessee House of Representatives to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for eliminating the state's only majority-black Democratic district.
- Dale Partridge claims that Americans are having "increased gut issues" because of "third-world immigration": "When you import millions from the parasite and diarrhea capital of the world, they bring their diseases with them."
- Steve Deace declares that "the closest displays of apostolic giftedness that I've ever witnessed is the comprehensive giftedness and discernment that Charlie [Kirk] brought to the table."
- Glenn Beck loves nothing more than spreading fake Christian nationalist history.
- Ché Ahn asserts that "God calling me to run for governor is another sign that we're entering into revival and reformation."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes displays an interesting interpretation of Jesus's Parable of the Talents by insulting his followers who are "too stupid and lazy" to be rich: "You were chosen by God to be poor. Those that have shall have more; those that have less, even what little they have, it will be taken from them."
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MAGA believes 'God has anointed' Trump to 'defeat' the Pope: religious scholar - Alternet.org
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05/05/2026
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- Tim Barton claims that there were so many miracles during the founding of the United States that you can only believe that "God was not directly involved and directing all along the way if you are ignorant of history or somebody who is really salty and angry at God."
- Eric Metaxas asserts that the establishment of the United States was "so overwhelmingly explicitly Christian" because "the Founders wanted to reestablish this nation like on the Sinai Covenant."
- Rick Green says that Democrats "have always used violence" as a political weapon: "This has always been the evil Marxist leftist playbook."
- Intercessors for America quotes George Washington as saying, "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." Washington never said that.
- Finally, Jesse Leon Rogers declares that conservative Christians must get politically engaged because "everything that Christ died for and everything that Christians live for has become a target of evil."
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05/01/2026
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- Jackson Lahmeyer says that he is running for Congress because "the war on Christianity in government is real": "President Trump is fighting to end it. I will carry that fight to Capitol Hill."
- Lauren Witzke insists that "dinosaurs were a Nephilim inspired cross-breeding science experiment that died with the flood and you can’t convince me otherwise."
- Dale Partridge asserts that Abraham and Moses "did not practice Judaism" and were, in fact, "Old Testament Christians."
- Ryan Helfenbein declares that the "political narratives surrounding white supremacy" within the right-wing movement "are not real": "The political machine used to manufacture them must be destroyed. It is the most patriotic and anti-racist thing we can do."
- Finally, Joel Webbon believes that by 2032, the "America First Christian nationalist movement is going to take over the GOP and it's going to win a [presidential] election."
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04/30/2026
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- Mario Murillo says that Democrats "want to end America as you know it": "It is, in my opinion, a crime family and as a crime family, it needs to be ended."
- Mark Meckler claims that "every form of liberalism ultimately leads to fascism."
- Shane Vaughn does not "see how freedom of speech survives in America" because there are too many "ungodly" people in this nation.
- Joel Webbon proclaims that "America’s greatest export is faggotry."
- After failing to qualify for the ballot to be governor of California, Ché Ahn is now running as a write-in candidate.
- Finally, Josh Haymes declares that "mass immigration is a result of mass apostasy": "I believe that our mass immigration is an invasion, it's a judgment from the Lord for our systematic destruction of 70 million unborn babies."
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- Jenna Ellis hopes that voters will be "rational" enough not to vote for the Democrats' "communist, Marxist, nonsensical, un-American agenda" in the midterm elections.
- Mario Murillo predicts that New York City is never "going to have a non-Muslim mayor again."
- Dale Partridge declares that "letting women vote was the greatest political American mistake in history."
- Michele Bachmann asserts that "there would be no America without the Bible."
- Finally, it's rather ironic that Jim Garlow is accusing CNN of getting "dumber and more irrelevant every day" while asserting that "of all the quotes from the 200 Founding Fathers, 34% are from the Bible," since Garlow's claim is entirely untrue.
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04/21/2026
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- Texas State Board of Education member Julie Pickren brags about nominating Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton to serve as a "content expert adviser" for developing the state's social studies curriculum: "We want one of the leading historians in America to help educate children in Texas."
- Joel Webbon declares that Muslims and Jews do not belong in America.
- Rick Joyner claims that "any time a Democrat says something is unconstitutional, you better believe it is constitutional."
- MAGA pastor and GOP congressional candidate Jackson Lahmeyer will be welcoming far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson and various right-wing conspiracy theorists to an event at his church later this week.
- Finally, Rick Green says that any immigrant who is "anti-American" should be deported: "We need to be deporting millions of these people. I don't care if they're citizens or not."
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04/20/2026
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- Rick Joyner gushes over President Donald Trump: "No question, he's the most extraordinary leader we've had in our country in our lifetime. I think he's the most decisive, resolute president we've ever had."
- Alex McFarland asserts that "Donald Trump is the greatest president of our lifetime": "Donald Trump is the Winston Churchill of our times."
- Joshua Feuerstein likewise adores Trump: "I love our President. I believe he loves truth, stands for what he knows to be right ... and I applaud that! He's an amazing leader. He is also in the beginning of a journey towards Jesus": "I believe that before President Trump leaves office ... you will see him bowing at the feet of Jesus. I'm confident he is going to not just lead a nation into prosperity, safety and security ... but that he will help lead this nation back to Jesus."
- Mario Murillo declares that the Democrat Party has "wholly, unquestionably given themselves over to evil."
- Finally, Dale Partridge proclaims that "feminism, like homosexuality, is a death cult."
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04/20/2026
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- Sarah Fitzpatrick @ The Atlantic: The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Confronting ugly allegations, FBI Director Kash Patel files new $250 million lawsuit
The Atlantic reported that FBI personnel have expressed concerns about the director’s unexplained absences and excessive drinking. He sued a few days later.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Caitlyn Jenner Begs Trump for Help Changing Passport Gender
Trans Americans have been suffering under Donald Trump since the very beginning. Caitlyn Jenner has finally realized she’s no exception.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: After angering Christians all week, Trump will read from the Bible as a publicity stunt
The “America Reads the Bible” stunt reveals everything wrong with Christian Nationalism.
- Drew Harwell and Jeremy B. Merrill @ The Washington Post: He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.
- Makena Kelly and David Gilbert @ Wired: Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist
The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Inside Texas Republicans’ Effort to Make the Midterms About Islamophobia
Some in the GOP eye a Muslim panic as a strategy to win.
- Jolie Myers and Noel King @ Vox: Pete Hegseth’s spiritual leader explains his radical faith
The Christian nationalist pastor swaying the Trump administration discusses Trump, Iran, and the pope.
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- Pastor Keith Craft is perfectly comfortable with the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because "the highest IQ'd president in the history of America is Donald Trump": "He's a very strategic thinker."
- Tim Barton says that he has "never seen in my lifetime show [the] kind of boldness or clarity on the Christian message" as Trump. Co-host Rick Green agreed: "Super exciting. Great time to be alive."
- FlashPoint's Gene Bailey is disgusted by celebrations of Pride Month: "It makes me sick."
- Elijah Schaffer is going all in on white nationalism: "Our politicians all want us to live with people who hate us. White Americans made a country for white Americans."
- Finally, Lance Wallnau reveals that he is "very sensitive to the environment because I'm first, a teacher; secondarily, a prophet."
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Right-wing Christian media double down on supporting Trump's Iran war: “King David himself did this when he found himself dealing with a nation that was barbaric”
Trump and Pete Hegseth have framed the war in religious terms, including Hegseth claiming that military operations are being “carried out under the protection of divine providence”
Written by Payton Armstrong
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Some right-wing Christian media figures are continuing their support for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran even as some within the broader right-wing media ecosystem have split with the administration.
These right-wing Christian media personalities — including several prophetic figures who claim to share prophecies, or messages from God, with their audiences — have celebrated that “God was brought in” by Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in public messaging of the war, and claimed that “we are on God's side” so “whatever we do would have His blessing.”
Indeed, Trump and Hegseth have sometimes framed the war in religious terms, drawing support from right-wing Christian media figures, for whom Iran is reportedly “not just a strategic adversary but part of a prophetic story.”
Trump has sometimes framed the Iran war in religious terms, drawing support from Christian outlets while the broader right-wing media sphere has been split on the conflict}:
- At the start of the Iran war, right-wing Christian media figures celebrated that it could signal the “End Times” and claimed “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.”Right-wing Christian media celebrated the start of Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of prophecy, claiming that Trump is “literally becoming Cyrus the Great” and that “the return of Jesus is back on the menu.” Media Matters, [3/4/26]
- Hegseth and Trump have sometimes framed the war against Iran in religious terms.As The New York Times reported, Hegseth has “invok[ed] Christian theology in public statements about the war with Iran,” including urging the American public to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.” During an April 6 press conference after an F-15 fighter crew was rescued from Iran, Hegseth said, “God deserves all the glory. … Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings and strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection.” Trump has suggested God would approve of the war “because God is good and God wants to see people taken care of.” On Truth Social over Easter weekend, Trump warned that unless the Iranians open the Strait of Hormuz, “all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!” The next day, on Easter, his account wrote: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” The New York Times, [3/20/26, 4/6/26; The Associated Press, 4/10/26; The Hill, 4/5/26; AL.com, 4/8/26; BBC, 4/6/26]
- Shortly after criticizing Pope Leo XIV as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” on Truth Social, Trump posted an image of himself as a Jesus-like figure.Forbes reported: “Following backlash from conservative Christian supporters after posting a seemingly AI-generated image of himself in the likeness of Jesus Christ healing the sick, President Donald Trump appeared to remove the image Monday.” Trump's criticism came amid “a series of pounding critiques on the Iran war” from Pope Leo XIV, The Washington Post explained, while “at the same time, Leo’s top lieutenants in the United States are issuing new and remarkable calls for American Catholics to resist the war.” Forbes, [4/13/26; YouTube, Forbes Breaking News,
; The Washington Post, 4/13/26; CBS News, 4/13/26] - The Intercept: “By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.”The Intercept reported: “In evangelical media ecosystems, Iran is not just a strategic adversary but part of a prophetic story — one tied to interpretations of the Book of Revelation and the battle of Armageddon. Suffering, in this worldview, is not merely tragic; it is necessary to actuate the return of Christ. ... There is a long body of research showing that when political power fuses with religious certainty, war intensifies. Religious framing makes wars far more difficult to end, not easier. Conflicts become existential, not negotiable. Identity replaces strategy. Destiny replaces diplomacy.” The Intercept, [4/4/26]
- Pundits in the broader right-wing media ecosystem have been split over Trump’s Iran war. At the beginning of the war, right-wing media figures questioned whether Israel dragged the U.S. into war, with some saying Trump “fell in line” with Israel and others declaring, “Nobody drags Donald Trump into anything.” As a ceasefire was announced on April 7, some figures claimed that Trump “negotiated the deal of his life,” while others argued he “chickened out again” and warned the deal “could be an amazing victory for Iran.” Media Matters, [4/8/26, 3/9/26]
- ### Right-wing Christian media figures continue support for Trump’s Iran war, claiming “the unseen hand of God is moving” and “we are on God's side” so “whatever we do would have His blessing”
- Self-described “prophet” Hank Kunneman cheered that “God was brought in” by Trump and Hegseth in their public messaging on the war. Kunneman — who prophesied that Trump would win in 2020 and claimed in 2021 that Trump had not yet been restored to the White House because God wants to make it look like the prophets are wrong — celebrated Hegseth crediting God with the F-15 crew’s rescue and said: “You look at the history of the kings that serve God throughout Israel's history, especially and whenever they would honor God like you heard in President Trump and Pete Hegseth, it was amazing. God was brought in. It does something of supernatural preservation and intervention.” YouTube, *FlashPoint*, [4/6/26; Media Matters, 7/18/23; Right Wing Watch, 1/20/21, 9/8/21; Newsweek, 6/11/21; Elijah’s List, 11/9/20]
- Trump ally Amanda Grace, who regularly shares prophecies that she claims are messages from God, agreed with pastor Jackson Lahmeyer that the “unseen hand of God is moving, and that gives me confidence everything's going to be all right.” Lahmeyer, a member of Trump’s National Faith Advisory Board who recently announced he is running for Congress in Oklahoma, claimed, “We're seeing the unseen hand of God is moving, and that gives me confidence everything's going to be all right. The providence of God is operating like He always has. … We may not know how all of this will unfold, but we do know that the Lord is highly involved.” YouTube, *Ark of Grace Ministries*, [4/7/26; NOTUS, 3/24/26; Media Matters, 5/30/24; Charisma magazine, 10/16/23, 3/14/23, 3/31/26, 4/10/26]
- Grace later compared Trump to David in the Bible employing a “madman strategy” against Iran and, after mentioning Trump’s Easter weekend threat to strike bridges and power plants, said “we see David actually do something similar in scripture.” Grace told her audience: “We're going to talk about President Trump and how it ties to David. We are going to talk about why he's doing this and how King David himself did this when he found himself dealing with a nation that was barbaric. With a nation that was pagan. With a nation that wanted to see his people destroyed.” YouTube, *Ark of Grace Ministries*, [4/7/26]
- Right-wing Christian radio host Eric Metaxas, who sits on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, said “there's something beautiful about this nation” that its people “want God's will to be done. … We are on God's side, and that whatever we do would have His blessing.” Metaxas — who has pushed Christian nationalism and argued for conservative Christians to stage an “infiltration” of government — said the war with Iran is “a legitimate war, not Israel's war,” and later explained, “There's something beautiful about this nation because this nation always has had people, not all, but a lot of people who pray and who want God's will to be done. Not that we win, but that God wins, that we are on God's side, and that whatever we do would have His blessing. We're not interested in merely winning because many people in America are sincere Christians who are wise enough to know you don't want to win if you're not on God's side.” Salem Media,*The Eric Metaxas Show*, [4/6/26; Media Matters, 7/12/23, 6/12/25]
- On Metaxas’ show, conservative author John Zmirak said he felt “vindicated” in supporting the war and fearmongered about “a regime run by end-of-the-world fanatics who believe that a destructive global war would bring on the Islamic second coming.”Zmirak said: “Think about a regime run by end-of-the-world fanatics who believe that a destructive global war would bring on the Islamic second coming, if you will, the Islamic apocalypse. And them having nuclear weapons and missiles that could reach Paris and Rome and Vienna.” YouTube, *The Eric Metaxas Show*, [4/3/26; The Stream, accessed 4/14/26]
- Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who is closely connected to Hegseth and was invited to lead a February worship service at the Pentagon, lashed out at critics who “want us to intervene and ‘make Pete stop it’” and said it would be “way out of line” to provide Hegseth with policy advice.Hegseth reportedly attends a church that belongs to Wilson’s denomination and during the worship service, he thanked Wilson for his “mentorship” and his “willingness to be bold.” Wilson — who CNN’s Pamela Brown has noted, “started a movement from Idaho to turn the world into a Christian theocracy based on a strict biblical interpretation” — wrote on his blog that “we either trust him or we don’t. It should be obvious that I do,” adding: “Think for a minute. Do these same critics really want me or any of my fellow pastors—with no background on the intel, with no military training at this level, with no security clearance, and with no basis for sticking our noses into the internal workings of the Pentagon—to be giving Pete any specific policy advice? That would be what keen observers would call way out of line.” Blog & Mablog, [4/8/26; The Columbian, 2/19/26; The Bulwark, 3/18/26; Instagram, 8/7/25]
- ElijahStreamshost Steve Shultz and self-described “prophet” Robin Bullock said the war was predicted in “the prophecies” that God is “going to free the Iranian people.” Shultz, who has interviewed members of the Trump family on the show, said, “When I see people say, well, this is because Trump did this or wants to do that, this is about this oil and that oil, this is about the deep state — and it may involve all of those things that I just said … but the prophecies majored on ‘I'm going to free the Iranian people.’ The prophecies were making a big deal out of all those other things might have been going on, but God had heard the cries just like he heard the cries of the people in Israel when he visited Moses.” Bullock replied, “And the prophecies that were given were given way ahead of that, way ahead of that, and I don't know why I'm saying it really at the time. I just said boom, boom, this is going to happen and the Persian people will be free.” Bullock — who repeatedly prophesied that Trump would win reelection in 2020 and has previously claimed “Trump was anointed to be king” — now compared the president’s actions to biblical descriptions of Cyrus the Great: “You'll see exactly where Trump and what he's doing.” Rumble, *ElijahStreams*, [4/9/26; Media Matters, 10/18/24, 5/30/24; Right Wing Watch, 1/20/21, 7/27/23]
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Religious-right leaders have been spent decades trying to get more Christians engaged in politics. So are they excited about a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate who is a Christian and a seminarian who speaks fluently about how his faith informs his politics? Hell no.
From the moment that Texas state legislator and former public school teacher James Talarico won the March 3 Democratic primary—and even before—right-wing Christian nationalists have been attacking Talarico. It’s not hard to understand why. Talarico is an effective speaker who is comfortable talking about his faith while promoting LGBTQ equality and reproductive choice and challenging his Republican colleagues. When Talarico appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast last summer, the host who endorsed Trump in 2024 encouraged him to run for president.
Polls show that Talarico is currently running neck-and-neck with either of the two Republicans who are battling each other in a runoff that will be held in May. That means he is drawing support from millions of Christian Democrats and Independents.
That is unacceptable to Christian-right leaders who have tried to make supporting Donald Trump and voting for Republicans an article of faith. To undermine Talarico’s appeal, they are attacking his faith as well as his politics.
In other words, the same people who are quick to cry “religious persecution” when their political goals or tactics are criticized have no problem denouncing the faith of a fellow Christian who disagrees with their political positions.
Indeed, they take it on themselves to decide who counts as a “real Christian” based on whether a person is aligned with their religious and political worldview. And they viciously smear anyone who isn’t part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
The attacks on Talarico are adding to the evidence that Christian nationalists’ religious bigotry and intolerance does not only extend to non-Christians.
Here are just some of the examples we’ve seen in the past month:
Brooks Potteiger, pastor of the church that Christian nationalist Doug Wilson planted in DC to take advantage of his relationship with Pete Hegseth and boost his influence among Christians in the Trump administration, and Joshua Haymes made news in March when they called Talarico’s theology demonic and deceitful. They said they hoped that God would “crucify him” in Christ—a metaphor for a spiritual overhaul. But Haynes added that if that wasn’t part of the plan God should “stop him by any means necessary.”
Wilson, whose vision for a Christian republic includes legal discrimination against non-Christians and liberal Christians, denounced Talarico as “a death angel from Texas,” explaining that “A death cult is any manner of life conducted outside Jesus Christ.”
One of the most Talarico-obsessed Christian-right figures is Gary Bauer, who has been pushing toxic right-wing politics since the days when he urged Ronald Reagan not to let any gay people serve on the first AIDS commission because it would insult conservative Christians. Bauer publishes a daily email newsletter that he has used to repeatedly go after Talarico.
In one of his diatribes, Bauer called Talarico the “poster boy” for “the concerted effort by the Democrat Party to steal the Gospel of Jesus to sell Marxism and moral depravity.” Bauer has called Talarico “far-left” and flat-out lied about Talarico’s position on border security, falsely claiming that he wants “open borders.” Bearing false witness, anyone?
There’s more.
Dominionist James Garlow’s Well Versed newsletter urged people to “beware” of the “heretical” Talarico. The Blaze’s far-right Steve Deace declared “James Talarico is going to be Legion” and called him “an object and a vessel of malevolence.” Anti-Islam author Michael Youssef denounced Talarico and progressive Christianity as “false gospels.”
Texas pastor Daniel Hayworth used the platform of the right-wing Human Events to call Talarico a wicked wolf in sheep’s clothing. Heyworth is married to the daughter of the notoriously corrupt GOP attorney general and is promoting his Senate candidacy.
Even Trump himself couldn’t resist getting in on the Talarico-bashing, charging on social media that Talarico was insulting Jesus. Talarico responded, “You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war.”
MAGA podcaster Eric Metaxas declared Talarico “diabolical” and a “fake Christian” during a conversation with right-wing author Megan Basham. Basham declared that Talarico is “not a Christian,” claiming that it wasn’t enough that Talarico affirms the historic Nicene Creed, saying “Satan could affirm the Nicene creed.” She claimed that Talarico is a “rank heretic” who has “antichrist views” and that “scripture commands us” not to treat him as a Christian brother. Metaxas and Masham bashed Christian journalists and publications that have treated Talarico and his Christian witness respectfully, going so far as to question their Christianity. “Any true Christian,” she claimed would denounce Talarico as a non-Christian heretic.
It is surely a disappointment to Metaxas and Basham that they don’t actually speak for all Christians. As polling suggests, Talarico’s message is resonating with plenty of Christians in Texas and elsewhere, including many who are tired of seeing their faith used to prop up Donald Trump and welcome a strong Christian critique of right-wing Christian nationalism.
David French, for example, wrote a New York Times op ed on Talarico’s appeal. Here’s an excerpt:
This miserable political moment won’t end when the left takes back the government from the right or if the right continues to beat the left. It will end when our politicians — especially Christian politicians — forsake cruelty for compassion and realize that we shall know Christians in politics not by their stridency and ideology, but by their integrity and love, including their love for, as Talarico put it, “all of our neighbors.”
That’s the significance of the Talarico moment — not the old news that a Christian can be progressive, but rather that Christian politicians can actually act like Christians. Kindness still has a place in the public square, even if it doesn’t always seem that way.
Among the Christian journalists whose openness to Talarico engrages Metaxas and Basham is Mike Cosper, a writer and producer who said on a Christianity Today podcast, “As evangelicals, there’s something good about seeing certain aspects of Christianity represented in the public square in the way that I think Talarico is doing it. I’m more encouraged by Talarico’s expression of Christianity in the public square than by a lot of what we’ve seen in MAGA world.”
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When U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to destroy "a whole civilization" in Iran in an April 7 post on his Truth Social platform, the comment drew scathing condemnation not only from countless liberals, progressives and centrist Democrats, but also, from many Never Trump conservatives and libertarians. Even some far-right MAGA influencers, including Infowars' Alex Jones, former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), are calling Trump out.
Yet in far-right white evangelical circles, Trump still has plenty of loyal supporters.
In a biting article published on April 10, Salon's Amanda Marcotte argues that white evangelicals' feelings of "persecution" are helping fuel a "disastrous" war.
"For over a decade now, the Christian Right has deflected criticism of Trump's immorality and sadism by insisting they are facing persecution for their religious beliefs," Marcotte explains. "In their minds, they are the real victims of a culture gone to hell, and they see the president as their only hope to beat back these imaginary forces of oppression. Nothing, it seems, can shatter this persecution complex. As the Iran war continues to become an ever-bigger disaster, evangelicals are clinging harder than ever to the notion that because they need to defeat their fictional persecutors, Trump's myriad flaws are excusable and forgivable."
Far-right white evangelicals' "paranoid anger," Marcotte argues, is so extreme that they even view "devout Catholics" like Pope Leo XIV as persecutors.
"Regardless of what is being said in private to Catholic leaders," Marcotte observes, "it's clear that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his allies are furious at the pontiff for undermining their efforts to frame this war as a Christian enterprise — and are suggesting that those who oppose it are the equivalent of Christ's persecutors…. (Pastor) Doug Wilson, who heads the denomination Hegseth belongs to, demonstrated how valuable the phony Christian persecution narrative is for conservatives who need an excuse to stick by the (Trump) Administration amid the Iran debacle…. In the real world, Hegseth is a belligerent official who relishes threatening Iranians with 'death and destruction from above.' But in Wilson’s telling, the defense secretary is a humble servant of God, besieged on all sides by the faithless in their ongoing war against Christ's followers."
Marcotte adds, " As the administration's skirmish with Pope Leo shows, though, it's getting harder for the Christian Right to package the Iran war as a product of God's love — even to followers who have a long history of swallowing all sorts of cruelty in the name of Christ…. Some who have been among the president's loudest supporters in the past, like former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and podcaster Tucker Carlson, are now proclaiming that this war goes against everything Christians should stand for. In an effort to bring critics like these back in line, many evangelical leaders are clinging to false narratives of religious persecution."
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04/03/2026
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- Pastor Keith Craft is perfectly comfortable with the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because "the highest IQ'd president in the history of America is Donald Trump": "He's a very strategic thinker."
- Tim Barton says that he has "never seen in my lifetime show [the] kind of boldness or clarity on the Christian message" as Trump. Co-host Rick Green agreed: "Super exciting. Great time to be alive."
- FlashPoint's Gene Bailey is disgusted by celebrations of Pride Month: "It makes me sick."
- Elijah Schaffer is going all in on white nationalism: "Our politicians all want us to live with people who hate us. White Americans made a country for white Americans."
- Finally, Lance Wallnau reveals that he is "very sensitive to the environment because I'm first, a teacher; secondarily, a prophet."
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03/30/2026
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- Todd Starnes has a message for the millions of protesters who turned out for the "No Kings" rallies: "Donald Trump is not your king. He’s your daddy."
- Floyd Brown says that Islam "represents an existential threat to the United States Constitution."
- William Wolfe laments that "after 9/11, we could have restricted Muslim migration, investigated every mosque, and denaturalized/deported every potential threat. Instead, we instead decided to force American citizens to suffer the humiliation ritual of modern TSA screening and then let so many Muslims in over the last 20 years that Dearborn looks like a foreign country and Mamdani got elected mayor of NYC. Insanity."
- Tony Perkins believes that "one of the best indicators of what is happening across America is what we're hearing on conservative talk radio."
- Elijah Schaffer vows that his new show will be "the most racially real, anti-Israel, pro-male, anti-India, pro-America, pro-white, sexual patriot, raw, real, anti-trans agenda, anti- Iran war, daily show."
- Finally, when Hank Kunneman instructs his congregation to do something, he expects them to "move quickly": "We gotta learn, when God says something, move."
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03/25/2026
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- MAGA cultist Shane Vaughn defends President Donald Trump's celebration of the death of Robert Mueller: "If I told you Hitler died how would you respond? If I told you that Charles Manson died how would you respond? They were horrible men They destroyed lives.... You'll pardon Donald Trump if he equates Bob Mueller as a destroyer of lives."
- Erick Stakelbeck declares that Trump is "the standard bearer not just for America, but for all of Judeo-Christian western civilization."
- Right-wing reporter Ben Bergquam claims that "everything you see coming from the mainstream media is a lie": "If it's coming out of any of these mainstream media outlets, it's a lie. If it's coming from a Democrat, you better believe it's a lie."
- James Fishback promises that if he is elected governor of Florida, he will require public schools to teach that President Richard Nixon was "a brilliant, brilliant man."
- Finally, Lance Wallnau insists that he is very careful about labeling things demonic because it is dangerous to "call something extreme when it really doesn't qualify." Really? Because we have an archive fullof videos showing Wallnau repeatedly calling things demonic.
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03/24/2026
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- John Doyle celebrates the death of Robert Mueller: "I am actually glad that he's dead."
- MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer has officially launched his campaign for Congress, running to ensure "that sharia law never takes root in America."
- Joshua Haymes declares that "this is a Christian country": "We can and should ban mosques as well as every other temple and statue erected to false gods."
- Rick Green says that if the United States does not carry out mass deportations, "then this will be a cesspool of a nation": "Without this, we will become an Islamic nation in a short period of time. We will become a chaotic cesspool of a nation. We will end up in civil war."
- Finally, Dale Partridge laments that modern Christian men are far less intense than their ancestors: "I point to the way that our ancestors dealt with Muslim invaders. They would kill them, cut their heads off, and stick them on spikes and set them outside of the city to make sure that no more Muslims would come in."
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Good Christian Sexism': Dale Partridge Seeks To Repeal The 19th Amendment In The Next Decade
Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge is releasing a book that he hopes will lead to the repeal of the 19th Amendment within the next decade: "If we can repeal Roe v. Wade, then I think we can overturn the 19th Amendment."
William Wolfe And Donald Trump
William Wolfe Admits Christian Nationalists 'Are Going To Impose [Our Morality] Upon You'
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'Good Christian Sexism': Dale Partridge Seeks To Repeal The 19th Amendment In The Next Decade
William Wolfe And Donald Trump
William Wolfe Admits Christian Nationalists 'Are Going To Impose [Our Morality] Upon You'
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03/18/2026
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- Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak warn about the establishment of "Catholic sharia."
- Joshua Feuerstein is likewise not a fan of Catholicism: "I’m beginning to really dislike the Catholic Church. The harlot is responsible for the anti Israel sentiment more than Islam is."
- Mike Evans declares that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are "extremely intelligent men": "I would say both of them are close to geniuses."
- Groyper gubernatorial candidate James Fishback was once again featured on the program hosted by racist antisemitic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon.
- Finally, one would expect that America's self-proclaimed "Constitution Coach" Rick Green would care whether Trump's war with Iran is constitutional, but that is not the case: "Constitutionally, it doesn't really matter.. I know people say, 'Well, Congress has to declare war.' Eh. Kind of."
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03/18/2026
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- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Markwayne’s World: The ‘Cinematic’ And ‘Fantastical’ Life Of Trump’s DHS Pick
Markwayne Mullin has an incredible story. The Republican U.S. senator is an entrepreneur and former mixed martial arts fighter. That unique experience has been a core part of Mullin’s political brand and featured in multiple campaign ads, including one that showed off his punching bag workouts alongside footage of President Donald Trump declaring, “Markwayne Mullin, you don’t want to fight with him.” However, following his nomination by Trump to lead the Department of Homeland Security, some aspects of Mullin’s record have come under scrutiny.
- Robert Davis @ Raw Story: MAGA civil war breaks out as Trump ally runs Epstein ads to block Steve Bannon from CPAC
The late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's "sprawling web" continues to ensnare the MAGA movement.
- Julie Ingersoll @ The Bulwark: What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America
Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.
- Tom Latchem @ The Daily Beast: Insider Reveals Humiliating Reason for Ousted Border Patrol Goon’s Next Move
A DHS insider noted Gregory Bovino had an internal investigation looming when he announced he was quitting.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Republican Senator Claims ID Is Required ‘To Have a Child’
Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) claimed that having an identification card is required “to have a child” in the U.S. He did not elaborate as to when or to whom he thinks the ID would need to be presented.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Extremist pastor plots comeback campaign in deep-red Oklahoma district
Once a failed Senate candidate, Jackson Lahmeyer hopes to benefit from a party captured by Christian Nationalism.
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- C. Jay Engel has launched a new 501(c)4 organization called the White Civil Advocacy Project.
- Rick Green declares that since returning to office, President Donald Trump has had "the best 14 months of any president in history."
- Dale Partridge says that the United States must "deport millions and re-migrate all non-Christian foreigners."
- For $45, you can be the proud owner of a super cool FlashPoint jean jacket.
- Finally, David and Tim Barton report that the Trump administration is commissioning marble statues of biblical figures—such as Moses, Jesus, Paul, Peter, and Nehemiah—in preparation for the 250th anniversary prayer rally on the National Mall.
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03/12/2026
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- President Donald Trump has officially removed Carrie Prejean Boller from his administration's Religious Liberty Commission.
- Lance Wallnau says that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democrats are under the spell of witchcraft: "It's a manipulative and controlling and dominating spirit."
- Ali Alexander reports that he is "prayerfully working on two solutions to stop the war." Well, that is a relief.
- Nick Fuentes claims to have "insider information" from the Department of Homeland Security that "mass deportations are officially over": "This is from our guys in the admin."
- Finally, Dale Partridge asserts that the birth control pill has contributed to the "demise of society" in a variety of ways: "It fostered feminism by offering women unnatural control over fertility to pursue autonomy and career."
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03/09/2026
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- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Trump’s Holy Warriors Finally Got the Apocalypse They’ve Prayed For
Hundreds are dead. Iran is retaliating. And some of the people who helped start this war think it’s going exactly as God intended.
- Tim Dickinson @ The Contrarian: These Christian Nationalists Are Loving War with Iran
“God is using President Trump to execute judgment on wicked civilizations.”
- Frederick Clarkson @ Good Faith Media: Rifts on the Religious Right
Media coverage often paints the Christian Right as monolithic, usually under the rubric of Christian nationalism. But, in fact, the movement has always been varied and not always of one mind on essential matters. Profound differences exist on a wide range of issues—from the role of the U.S. in Gaza to Donald Trump and the Epstein files. But there are rifts that may not grab headlines yet remain important. Two are of special note for those who support a broad vision of social justice that includes religious freedom, reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality, separation of church and state, and constitutional democracy itself.
- Karissa Waddick @ USA Today: Trump’s Freedom 250 sparks debate over America’s Christian origins
Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.
- Mike Rothschild @ Talking Points Memo: How the Epstein Files Reveal the Final Failure of QAnon
The most enduring conspiracy theories often contain kernels of truth, though it is debatable whether any popularly theorized conspiracy has later been proven as real by unassailable facts. But if one popular conspiracy theory seems to have been promoted from “theory” to fact, it would appear to be QAnon. What started as a far-right prophecy scam using codes and ciphers on 4chan to “reveal” the horrors of a pedophile cabal ruling the world has taken on a distinct tinge of truth thanks to millions of newly-released files involving fixer and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
- Olivia Little and Kayla Gogarty @ Media Matters: Candace Owens is crashing out online. She's never been more popular.
Owens has over 24.5 million followers and subscribers across several major platforms, an 80% increase since January 1, 2025.
- Ali Breland @ The Atlantic: ‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
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03/09/2026
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- Ralph Reed has "never been prouder" of President Donald Trump than he is over the US attack on Iran.
- Mario Murillo, on the other hand, is refusing to comment on the war because "that's water under the bridge."
- Seth Gruber says that "anyone who uses the phrase 'trans-kids' should be banned from running for public office. And possibly investigated by CPS."
- Doug Wilson wants to see the nation go back to "the America that my great-grandfather lived his entire life under."
- Finally, Randy Caldwell issues a warning to Tucker Carlson over his criticism of Israel: "You're walking on dangerous ground, my friend. God will only go so far with people who go against his plan and his people."
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President Donald Trump has excited many of his Charismatic Christian supporters by posting on social media a nearly twenty-year-old prophecy by the late Kim Clement about Trump’s rise to power. “Donald Trump Goes Prophetic” read a headline at the Trump-promoting Pentacostal-oriented media outlet Charisma on Monday. “Donald Trump just posted the Kim Clements Prophecy!” tweeted MAGA marketer and dominionist Lance Wallnau.
Before his death in 2016, Clement traveled the country giving “prophetic” performances and was promoted by outlets like Charisma and The Elijah List. The prophesies Trump shared this week were delivered in Redding, California, home of controversial and influential megachurch Bethel, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2007.
Trump’s dominionists backers have shared Clement’s prophecies for years, contending that Trump’s elections and actions have fulfilled them. Trump sharing them now could be a sign that he is taking to heart the idea that he is anointed and carrying out a divine mission. Or it could be a way to rally support from his religious-right backers at a time when his economic policies and war on Iran are causing his popularity to drop. Either way, Trump’s move seems designed to strengthen his political hand by portraying his opponents as enemies of God.
One disturbing aspect of Trump embracing the Clement prophecies is the suggestion that his authoritarian, media-controlling tendencies are God’s will. Part of the prophecy that Trump shared on social media Monday includes this:
…TIME Magazine will have no choice but to say what I want them to say. Newsweek, what I want to say. The View, what I want to say. Trump shall become a Trumpet, says the Lord. Trump shall become a trumpet. I will raise up the Trump to become a Trumpet…For I shall fill him with my spirit when he goes into office and there will be a praying man in the highest seat in your land.
In another prophecy included in the clip shared by Trump, Clement says:
For the spirit of God says, ‘Yes, he may have hot blood, but he will bring the walls of protection on this country in a greater way and the economy of this country shall change rapidly,’ says the Lord of Hosts….God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and my power,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
Dominionist musician and MAGA activist Sean Feucht, who is partnering with the Trump administration on a series of religious revival events tied to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is celebrating. It’s not the first time Feucht has shared Clement’s prophecies about Trump; a year ago he wrote that Clement was “unbelievably accurate.”
Feucht’s claim about Clement’s accuracy is far from universally accepted. Many of Clement’s prophecies over the years did not come true, leading a number of Christian apologists to denounce him as a falseprophet. But when Clement died in 2016, New Apostolic Reformation figure Cindy Jacobs called him “one of the most anointed prophetic psalmists that I have ever known.”
In the prophecies Trump shared, Clement also predicted that God would raise up Bill Gates “to open up the gate of a financial realm for the church.” Not a lot of folks talking about that one, given that Gates is not exactly a favorite of the MAGA crowd.
Other outlets trumpeting Trump’s prophetic turn included Daystar Television Network and, not surprisingly, Clement’s House of Destiny, which frequently posts videos about Clement’s prophecies related to current events, including Trump’s efforts to undermine the U.N. and the release of the government’s UFO files.
In 2014, Right Wing Watch reported that Clement warned that Satan was attempting to put a “witch” with a “Jezebel spirit” in the White House and prophesied that God was raising up a leader who would “kill the giant of socialism” and “the giant of secular humanism.”
Clay Clark, the businessman who created the ReAwaken America tour that traveled the country in 2024 promoting far-right conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and Donald Trump, was convinced that he and Trump were the subjects of a vague 2013 prophecy from Clement about a man named Clark and another named Donald.
Long after his death, Clement’s prophecies tend to get put to lots of use. In 2019, for example, a right-wing pastor declared that Trump’s promised border wall was a “done deal” because it was part of Clements’ 2007 prophecy. This year, Jennifer LeClaire suggested that the election of New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani could be the fulfillment of Clement warning that the church would have to fight an “infiltration” of New York.
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03/06/2026
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- Jim Garlow warns Texans to be wary of Democratic senate candidate James Talarico: "This guy has heretical, anti-biblical views. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Beware."
- Republican congressional candidate Steve Toth fumes that Talarico is "the most unbiblical and evil man that has ever run for office": "He is a terribly despicable human being."
- Joel Webbon declares that Talarico is "a son of Satan."
- Ali Alexander asserts that "Iran is being used by Jesus Christ to humiliate Donald J. Trump's adultery against the American people."
- Lauren Witzke proclaims that "homosexuality is a demonic spirit of perversion": "These demons never just wanted a civil piece of paper from their local Clerk of the Peace. They wanted unrestricted access to defenseless victims that they can rape."
- Finally, Ben Bergquam says that President Donald Trump was right to not inform Democrats about his plans to attack Iran because they are "traitors to our nation" who would have immediately warned Iran.
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Washington Post readers are pushing back against the paper and an op-ed that laments what its author sees as a shortage of evangelical Christians in the “halls of power.”
“Evangelicals are 23 percent of U.S. adults and one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs, with 81 percent backing Donald Trump in 2024,” writes author Aaron M. Renn. “Yet despite six of the nine Supreme Court justices being appointed by Republican presidents, there are no evangelicals on the Supreme Court.”
The Supreme Court “is just one of the many elite institutions in which evangelicals are absent or underrepresented,” he continues. Declaring that evangelicals “have excelled in politics,” he points to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and House Speaker Mike Johnson as examples.
Arguing that evangelicals “are also prominent in well-run and profitable businesses with relatively low cultural impact, such as food processing (Tyson Foods) and retail (Hobby Lobby),” he says that “they are all but absent from the leadership of prestigious universities, major foundations, Big Tech companies, leading financial firms and large media companies.”
“A stronger evangelical presence in elite institutions could strengthen them while addressing polarization and public mistrust,” he continues. “The lack of evangelicals in the halls of power contributes to anti-institutional public sentiment. It also deprives those institutions of an important pool of talent.”
Washington Post readers scorched the op-ed and the paper.
“The author remarked, more than once, of the lack of formal education among the vast numbers of evangelicals,” wrote one reader. “He then questions the lack of said evangelicals on corporate and college boards and in executive offices. Am I the only one seeing a connection here?”
“Is this not a request for a new DEI program to benefit evangelicals?” asked a reader.
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03/05/2026
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- Self-proclaimed "prophet" Hank Kunneman claims that Heaven is celebrating the US/Israel attack on Iran.
- Rick Green gripes that the Senate vote on the war powers resolution amid military action against Iran "was nothing but an embarrassment and a weakening of the United States."
- Alex McFarland warns Texas voters that Democratic senate candidate James Talarico is "a charlatan who says he's a Christian."
- William Wolfe believes that "multiculturalism is rape."
- Nick Fuentes reveals that when Elijah Schaffer interviewed him on The Blaze in 2021, he did so by sneaking him into through a back door on a Saturday.
- Finally, Christian nationalist Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers reveals that he is considering running for the U.S. Senate now that Sen. Markwayne Mullins has been tapped to become DHS secretary.
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Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal “the second coming” or the “End Times” and said “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass”
Written by Payton Armstrong
Published 03/04/26
Right-wing Christian media are praising President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching military strikes against Iran, with some figures likening Trump to Cyrus the Great and Constantine the Great and claiming that “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.”
Christian media figures have said the war could be a sign of “the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming,” claiming that he has “literally become Constantine the Great”; asserting that “God is using President Trump in a prophetic moment”; and telling audiences, “It’s all going to be happening in God's timing.”
Trump joined Israel in striking Iran — a longtime goal of right-wing evangelicals who believe in End Times prophecy
- The U.S. and Israel launched wide-ranging military strikes on Iran, reportedly killing multiple high-ranking Iranian leaders and many civilians, and thrusting the region into a new era of instability.As of March 3, at least six American service members have reportedly been killed in action since the conflict began, and Trump has said, “There will likely be more before it ends.” Additionally, a girls’ elementary school in Minab was hit during the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, killing 165 people and injuring 96 others, according to Iranian state media. NPR, [2/28/26, 3/2/26; BBC, 3/3/26; The Guardian, 3/1/26]
- Military commanders have been accused of tying the Iran war to biblical prophecy, with one combat-unit commander reportedly telling noncommissioned officers that Trump is “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” Military.com reported: “An organization that has been fighting against religious extremism in the United States military for two decades has reported more than 200 new complaints since Saturday’s initial strikes against Iran, with members across all services claiming that high-ranking officers are tying the mission overseas to fulfilling a Christian prophecy.” Military.com, [3/3/26]
- For years, Christian media figures have likened Trump to Cyrus the Great and claimed he is “anointed” by God.Vox explained the comparison in 2018: “Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE, conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile.” NPR, [1/20/25; Reuters, 3/22/24; Vox, 3/5/18]
- Evangelical leaders and right-wing media figures have long claimed Israel is central to the supposed End Times and Iran is “not simply a talking point, but what many … believe is a land of biblical significance” and “considered a major player in End Times prophecy.”For years, those figures have cited various conflicts in the Middle East to warn that the End Times are either here or imminent, and have suggested that Iran could represent the antagonist “Gog” or “Magog” in a biblical prophecy. According to Britannica, in the Bible, “the names Gog and Magog are applied to the evil forces that will join with Satan in the great struggle at the end of time.” Baptist News, [3/2/26; Media Matters, 11/7/23, 7/19/11; Harvest, 3/2/26; Right Wing Watch, 6/20/25; Britannica, accessed 3/3/26]
- Conservative media figures have so far been divided over Trump’s war with Iran. Many prominent right-wing figures have supported the war, but a wide variety of streamers and podcasters have broken with the administration, with Tucker Carlson calling the attacks “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Media Matters, [3/2/26]
- ### Right-wing Christian media celebrated Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of prophecy, saying that Trump is “literally becoming Cyrus the Great” and that “the return of Jesus is back on the menu”
- FlashPointhost Gene Bailey and “self-styled prophet” Lance Wallnau likened Trump to Cyrus the Great liberating Babylon, with Wallnau saying, “Cyrus Trump holds the cards.”Bailey opened a segment discussing Iran by saying: “History has a strange way of repeating itself. … When Cyrus the Great entered Babylon, he didn't crush a people. He didn't crush a people group. He liberated them. The Persians still call him Cyrus the Great because he restored dignity, honored faith, and broke the back of the oppressive regime. His name is etched in Persian memory, not as a tyrant but as a deliverer. So, let's fast forward two thousand five hundred years now, many Persians see something similar to Donald Trump.” Wallnau later said, “Cyrus Trump holds the cards.” Bailey has interviewed Trump on FlashPoint at least seven times. Trump appointed Bailey to an advisory board on his Religious Liberty Commission, and told the host during an interview, “We’re with you 1,000%.” YouTube, *FlashPoint* [2/28/26; Media Matters, 6/12/25; The Wall Street Journal, 10/9/24]
- Wallnau declared: “The return of Jesus is back on the menu.”Wallnau said: “Things are happening right in alignment with actual feasts. … There's always a feast day manifestation because Israel and the return of Jesus is back on the menu.” Right Wing Watch, [3/2/26]
- Also onFlashPoint, right-wing pastor Andrew Sedra said “we're seeing President Trump literally become Constantine the Great, he's literally becoming Cyrus the Great.”Sedra celebrated that “Trump is going after the head of the snake, which is Islam,” adding, “It is a very, very good time to be alive where we're seeing President Trump literally become Constantine the Great, he's literally becoming Cyrus the Great. He's taking decisive action to make sure that Christendom freedom will last across the West for a hundred more years.” Sedra also said, “God is using President Trump in a prophetic moment of time to execute judgment on evil and wicked civilizations.” YouTube, *FlashPoint*, [2/28/26, 2/28/26; Daily Mail, 6/22/23; Ministry Watch, 3/11/24]
- Pro-Trump pastor and podcaster Greg Laurie — who interviewed Secretary of State Marco Rubio in October — declared that the war could be a sign of “the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming.” Laurie, who hosts The Greg Laurie Show, said: “It reminds me of the words of Jesus who said, ‘When you see these things begin to happen, look up because your redemption is drawing near.’ As far as I can see, the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the rapture of the church. … When that event happens, all of the prophetic things that are going to take place are like dominoes closely stacked to each other. And once the first domino falls, the others will fall: the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming, the millennial reign of Christ, heaven and Earth become one, and somewhere in that prophetic scenario is the invasion of Magog with her ally Persia. So, it's all going to be happening in God's timing.” YouTube, [3/1/26; The Greg Laurie Show, 10/28/25; Christianity Today, 5/12/25]
- Trump ally and “prophet” Amanda Grace claimed that the strikes on Iran were “prophesied back in December,” adding, “We are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.” Grace often shares what she calls prophetic warnings and alerts and “a Word from the Lord” on YouTube and has interviewed members of the Trump family including Eric and Lara Trump. YouTube, *Ark of Grace Ministries,* [2/28/26; Media Matters, 5/30/24; YouTube, accessed 9/2/25]
- Pro-Trump “prophet” Julie Green said, while discussing Iran, “We should be celebrating and being in comfort and being at peace knowing that God is in control.” Green, who has hosted Eric and Lara Trump on her online show, told her audience: “Prophetically, God has been talking about what we're seeing right now. So this is something that we should be celebrating and being in comfort and being at peace knowing that God is in control, knowing that God is having his way and he is removing every evil leader out of their powerful positions.” Rumble, *Mornings with Julie*, [3/2/26; Media Matters, 10/4/21, 5/30/24]
- Right-wing pastor John Hagee streamed a sermon on YouTube titled “God's Coming Operation ‘Epic Fury’” in which he said that “we rejoice in the prophetic scriptures.” Hagee, who founded and chairs a group called Christians United for Israel and has previously argued for military strikes against Iran, opened his sermon by stating: “We thank you for our president, Donald Trump, whose wisdom and courage has crushed the enemies of Zion. Today we rejoice in the prophetic scriptures of Ezekiel, revealing God's operation fury for the enemies of Israel.” YouTube, [3/1/26, 3/1/26; The Nation, 6/24/25; The Guardian, 3/6/23]
- Pastor Sean Feucht — a self avowed Christian nationalist who recently announced a “revival” partnership with the federal government for the country’s 250th celebration — noted during a YouTube stream that his evangelical group has had a presence in the Middle East since “the height of ISIS” and said, “God has us positioned there for the end-time open doors of what he's going to do in Iran.”Feucht added: “We're going to see the gospel go forth like never before.” Right Wing Watch reported that during a February livestream, “Feucht announced details of what he called the ‘Roots Of Revival’ tour in which the federal government will partner with him as he hosts prayer events ‘from coast to coast [in] all the historic and epic places of revival and awakening that were birthed in America.’” YouTube, [3/1/26; Right Wing Watch, 2/11/26, 4/21/23]
- Right-wing pastor Jack Hibbs uploaded a sermon on YouTube in which he discussed the strikes against Iran in front of a screen saying “Bible prophecy update.”Hibbs, who in 2024 was invited by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to serve as the House of Representatives’ guest chaplain, invoked a verse from Jeremiah 49, which references “the latter days,” and said, “Is that what we're watching? Is that what we're seeing? We'll see. We shall see. But that prophecy has never been fulfilled. Not in total.” YouTube, [3/1/26; Media Matters, 1/31/24; One for Israel, accessed 3/3/26]
- Joseph Z — who regularly shares “prophetic updates” on YouTube and in his bio has said he practices “Last Days Prophetic Journalism” — said strikes against Iran “could be Bible prophecy playing out” and “we're going to see an absolute revival come to Iran.” He suggested “what took place in Jeremiah 49” could “be a prophetic fulfillment of what's happening in Iran.” YouTube, [3/1/26, accessed 8/11/25; Right Wing Watch, 8/12/24]
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- Outraged over the US/Israel attack on Iran, Nick Fuentes tells his followers, "Do not vote in the midterms, and if you do, vote for Democrats."
- Joel Webbon fears that the attack on Iran will allow Israel to "gain strength and political power" and eventually "become a rival superpower to these United States."
- In defending the administration's attack, David Barton says President Donald Trump has proven track record when it comes to successful military operations based on the arrest and capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro for trafficking fentanyl into the United States. Of course, the claim that Maduro and Venezuela were smuggling large amounts of fentanyl into the country was totally false.
- Robert Knight warns that Christian Democratic politicians like Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Texas state Rep, James Talarico are wolves in sheep's clothing.
- Finally, groyper Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback did an in-person interview with two overt white nationalists, where they had a discussion about "the Jewish question."
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'The Return Of Jesus Is Back On The Menu': MAGA Evangelicals Celebrate The Attack On Iran
03/02/2026
by Kyle Mantyla
When Israel launched an attack on Iran in June of 2025, religious-right activists celebrated, excited by the prospect that it could precipitate the End Times and the return of Jesus Christ.
Predictably, these same religious-right activists are once again overjoyed after the United States and Israel began jointly bombing Iran over the weekend, killing the nation's supreme leader and dozens of top military commanders.
While the attack has generated retaliatory strikes and fears of a wider Middle East war, evangelical Trump supporters are gushing over President Donald Trump's action, with megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs declaring that "for such a time as this, this man is being led by God."
During a special sermon on Sunday, Hibbs absurdly declared that "this is not regime change, this is removing the obstacle so that the people [of Iran] can pick their leadership," before marveling that the attack was carried out on 9/11 of the Islamic calendar.
"Who planned this?" he asked. "I think God planned it."
On Sunday, pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, delivered a special "prophetic sermon" in response to the attacks to explain "what God's plan of fury is for Iran."
"It's refreshing to know that God is in total control and he has plans that will not be removed," Hagee said.
During a service later on Sunday, Hagee led his congregation in thanking God "for the fabulous military victory over the enemies of Israel" and "for our president, Donald Trump, whose wise courage has crushed the enemies of Zion."
Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht likewise praised the attacks, saying that God has positioned his own prayer team in Iraq in order to take advantage of "the End Time open doors of what he is going to do in Iran when this regime is prayerfully removed."
In a separate video, Feucht declared that the attacks represent "the greatest day of harvest" for Christians to spread the gospel in Iran.
"God is using this moment to open wide the doors for evangelism like we haven't seen in 50 years," he celebrated. "Let see the gospel penetrate this ancient land."
On Saturday, Trump cultist Shane Vaughn did an emergency broadcast to explain how Trump is a "prophetic instrument of God" who "has an assignment to protect Israel."
"Yahweh raised up a man to do what happened this morning," Vaughn proclaimed. "Donald Trump did not strike Iran today because of a foreign policy doctrine ... Yahweh, the God of Heaven, raised up Donald Trump for today."
The Christian nationalist program "FlashPoint" likewise did a special broadcast on Saturday, during which MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau insisted that Trump did not want to attack Iran but "God made the Iranians just recalcitrant" during negotiations, just like when "God hardened Pharaoh's heart" in Exodus, thereby forcing Trump to take action.
"They refused to budge," Wallnau said. "And when Trump saw that they were not going to move and that there was no sense in delaying, he went ahead and made the decision, as he always does."
Later in the broadcast, Wallnau noted that the attack fell just before the Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the failure of Haman's plot to destroy the Jews as told in the book of Esther.
"Isn't it interesting that the ancient stronghold of the Prince of Persia that sought to exterminate all the Jews is now coming down again under the authority of another modern-day ruler who the prayers of God's people have been empowering?" Wallnau declared. "During their feast of Purim, when they had a reversal of a destructive threat, we're watching that reversal happen again in our day."
"Things are happening right in alignment with actual feasts," Wallnau added. "There's always a feast day manifestation because Israel and the return of Jesus is back on the menu."
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02/26/2026
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- Shane Vaughn lashed out at transgender legislator Sarah McBride over a fake quote criticizing President Donald Trump's anti-trans remarks during the State of the Union address: "BECAUSE YOUR NOT A WOMAN !!!! You should have felt DISPRESPECTED because you are DISRESPECTFUL to SOCIETY - a LEECH - A VIRUS - A LIE - A DECEPTION - you are a MENTAL CASE dressed up as a DOLL."
- David Barton says that the people honored by former President Joe Biden during his State of the Union addresses weren't the sort "that connected with me," whereas those honored by Trump are "the kind that connect with the average American."
- Groyper Kai Schwemmer was invited to attend the State of the Union address by Rep. Burgess Owens.
- Todd Starnes declares that "the Democrats and the Legacy Media hate Americans who love their country. They loathe all of us gun-toting, Bible-clinging, flag-waving patriots": "We must stand together and defeat this anti-American infestation."
- Nick Fuentes proclaims that America is a Christian country, so Muslims and Jews better "get on board or get the fuck outta here": "This is the new Rome, bitch."
- William Wolfe alleges that Democrats want undocumented immigrants to vote because their goal is to "turn the United States of America into a dystopian gay race communist hellscape."
- Finally, John Doyle asserts that the Central Park Five, all of whom were exonerated, "were violent thugs whose myth only exists to prop up racial grievance and the jury was right to convict them."
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02/20/2026
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- :{:{After the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, MAGA cultist Shane Vaughn}:
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- Lauren Witzke is not impressed by the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files: "They are killing me with their responses. I am really trying to take his side ... [but you're] killing me, Trump."
- Jackson Lahmeyer is a proud Christian nationalist and declares that people who use that term as a pejorative do so "because they hate God and they hate America."
- Far be it from us to disagree with white nationalist Lilly Gaddis: "I’m despicable; Probably the worst person on the internet. I do not pretend to be good, or a moral standard for anyone to look up to."
- Finally, Seth Gruber warns that "if the West dies, it will be because we bowed down and refused to speak out against the idols of Ashtoreth and Baal—baby killing and sex cults."
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02/19/2026
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- Tony Perkins claims that the Founding Fathers saw the Bible "as the blueprint to build a nation."
- Doug Wilson says that "one of the very best things we could possibly do for everyone, Blacks especially, is repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act."
- Nate Schatzline reports that he is overseeing the National Faith Advisory Board's midterm election strategy, focusing on mobilizing churches in 18 swing states "to put passionate, Bible-believing Christians that are pursuing the presence of God back into those seats in government."
- James Fishback continues to focus his Florida gubernatorial campaign on reaching far-right audiences, appearing again with streamer Sneako and then appearing on "Fresh and Fit," hosted by Hitler-loving antisemite Myron Gaines.
- Finally, John Doyle asserts that Martin Luther King Jr. belief in nonviolence "was mostly just an optics thing": "King was just trying to cover his ass. He knew that the fear of rioting and looting could be used as something that could coerce white people into accepting race communism."
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02/18/2026
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- Joel Webbon declares that "the leading cause of antisemitism is Jewish behavior."
- Dale Partridge decries immigration, calling on Christian Americans to "rise up and recover our home."
- Shane Vaughn celebrates a Republican special election win in a heavily Republican district in Oklahoma: "The red wave keeps rolling."
- Joshua Haymes is a "Christian supremacist": "Every other religion worships dumb idols and demons."
- Sean Feucht is outraged that the Army Chaplains Corp acknowledged the Hindu festival Maha Shivaratri: "Why is an official US Army account celebrating a false demonic god?! This is disgusting."
- Finally, Nate Schatzline blasts pastors who criticized the racist image posted on President Donald Trump's social media account: "No one cares about your selective outrage on an AI video."
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02/17/2026
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- Jason Rapert says that "we should oust" all "communists and Islamic activists from government office."
- Jim Garlow is outraged that Sen. Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to protect the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, fuming that Schumer "desecrates all that is sacred, be it God’s declaration of male & female (by 'trans'), joining them in marriage (by same sex so called 'marriage'), and procreating offspring (by murderous abortion). And he calls America’s sodomous beginnings 'sacred ground.' Blasphemy."
- John Doyle falsely claims that "Emmet Till sexually assaulted Carolyn Bryant."
- Nick Fuentes asserts that the rise of "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular "is an absolutely game-changing phenomenon."
- Finally, Samuel Rodriguez did not like the Super Bowl halftime show: "Stop trying to shove your woke, cancel culture, anti-Judeo-Christian value worldview full of relativism, decadence, and perversion down our throats."
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02/17/2026
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- Will Neal @ The Daily Beast: Trump Exploits Civil Rights Leader’s Death to Take Petty Swipe at Obama
The MAGA president is making claims about the late Rev. Jesse Jackson that he is no longer around to dispute.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Instead of being honest, Southern Baptists are whitewashing the bigoted legacy of Wiley Drake
As Southern Baptist leaders honor the controversial pastor, their refusal to confront his extremism exposes a deeper institutional rot.
- Grace Segers @ The New Republic: Christian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—and Vice Versa
A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute shows how support for the president correlates significantly with Christian nationalist views.
- Eleanor Klibanoff @ The Texas Tribune: Aaron Reitz, Paxton’s endorsed successor, vows to “destroy the left” if elected Texas attorney general
Reitz believes the nation is at war with liberals, and the best bulwark against them is a fully empowered Texas attorney general’s office — with him at the helm.
- Steve Benen @ the Maddow Blog: As the midterms draw closer, Republicans’ anti-Muslim messaging gets less subtle
GOP officials have sent an unmistakable signal: In the contemporary Republican Party, animus toward Muslim Americans is tolerated, if not encouraged.
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Right-wing Catholic booted off Trump panel after remarks at antisemitism event - Alternet.org
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- Ed Rush insists that everyone benefits when Christian nationalists are in control: "When Christians are in charge, it's better."
- John Doyle didn't watch the Super Bowl halftime show, but that didn't stop him from ranting about it.
- Jim Garlow gushes that he is "so impressed with what RFK, Jr is doing for America physically, and now spiritually": "I texted him recently. He took the time to carry on a conversation back and forth via a number of texts. Very personable. His transformation is quite compelling, and God honoring. Praise God."
- Frank Gaffney declares that banning sharia law must "become an issue in every race" in the 2026 elections.
- Finally, Nick Fuentes says that when he becomes president, every woman and girl will be "sent to the gulags": "They have to be imprisoned."
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Seth Gruber Says Christian Nationalists Will Eventually 'Outbreed The Left' | People For
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Last year, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner teamed up with Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht to host a Christian worship service on the National Mall.
Shortly thereafter, Feucht revealed that he was working with members of the Trump administration to organize a series of similar worship services around the country in 2026, tied to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
During a livestream broadcast on Monday, Feucht announced details of what he called the "Roots Of Revival" tour in which the federal government will partner with him as he hosts prayer events "from coast to coast [in] all the historic and epic places of revival and awakening that were birthed in America."
"As I was praying and fasting leading into the new year, I felt like the Lord said, 'Remind America on the 250 year anniversary of her heritage in revival and awakening.' In other words, call America back to God, this is the source of our strength," Feucht said.
"Here's the exciting thing," he continued. "The coolest part is we get to do it together with the Freedom 250 organization, which is the White House/Trump administration arm executing the mandate of celebrating America's 250 year birthday. We're so excited. We have come into an agreement with them to partner together, to collaborate together. They're going to be coming out to some of our events. We're going to be championing other things they're doing and so it's just very, very amazing. It is a dream come true and such a blessing."
"It's just an amazing season from God to be able to do this in partnership with our own government and to know that they have our back and to be able to be an extension of literally the Faith Office inside of the White House, all the people that are praying inside of there, so many members of the the Cabinet and the Trump administration love Jesus and they're going to be a part of this in various ways," Feucht gushed. "It's just so exciting to announce that we are officially partnering together."
Feucht also announced that his "Roots Of Revival" tour was going to be participating in the Trump administration's National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving to be held on the National Mall on May 17.
"We're going back with the White House, with our own government, to help them host a whole day of worship and prayer," he said. "We're so excited. May 17 is when that happens on the National Mall, but the whole year, Roots of Revival is going to be partnered with the White House and many other organizations."
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02/10/2026
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- Groyper gubernatorial candidate James Fishback is now promoting the radical "Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates" book written by Matt Trewhella.
- FlashPoint's Gene Bailey is gullible enough to believe anti-Trump protesters are admitting to being directly recruited and paid by George Soros.
- Seth Gruber says that "if you're a pro-choice Christian, you need to repent because to be a pro-choice Christian is to commit a Christological heresy."
- Todd Starnes brags that "a good God-fearing conservative" who used to work for him has been hired as an assistant editor at the Washington Post: "Now conservatives have an inroad into the publication."
- Finally, the mother of Brook Potteiger—the far-right pastor who was recently tapped to serve at the Washington DC church founded by Christian nationalist Doug Wilson—recounts how Potteiger became psychically abusive and domineering after falling under Wilson's influence, so much so that she filed a report with child protective services against him.
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02/09/2026
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- Far-right pastor Patrick Wooden says that whoever was responsible for posting a racist image of the Obamas on President Donald Trump's social media page should be fired.
- Andrew Isker declares that "the Central Park 5 were guilty as sin" and that "only race-obsessed lefties care more about their race than whether sadistic, violent criminals are punished." The Central Park 5 were all exonerated.
- Jenna Ellis complains about the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Super Bowl: "It's trying to bring an element of Marxism and a false world view into a sporting event."
- Joel Webbon believes that "white boomers" can be brought into the white nationalism movement if it is sold to them as simply opposing racism and discrimination.
- Joshua Haymes is confident that "Pizzagate is real."
- Finally, we recognize that Mike Lindell's gubernatorial campaign already has a ton of baggage, but his ties to white nationalist conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke should not be overlooked.
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02/06/2026
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- William Wolfe says that an ad aimed at combating antisemitism that is set to air during the Super Bowl is really just "anti-White racism."
- Speaking of the game, Sean Feucht predicts that this will be "the most gospel-centered Super Bowl of our lifetime."
- Lance Wallnau believes that with President Donald Trump, we have "a prophet in the White House."
- Joshua Haymes declares that he wants to "pursue legislation that criminalizes adultery" and that "capital punishment for adultery should be on the table.
- Dale Partridge has a simple ten-step program for recovering a Christian America, including making Christianity the national religion, banning all other religions, and prohibiting women from voting.
- Finally, the new merchandise being sold by groyper gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has an intentionally familiar look.
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02/05/2026
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- Jim Garlow thanks God for President Donald Trump: "We have been profoundly blessed, as the people of God."
- Joshua Haymes declares that there will be "no more drag shows, no more Pride parades": "We are done with it. We are going to put an end to the public display of this filth and we're going to do it because Christ is king. We will see it done."
- William Wolfe says that Jesus "would support ICE and mass deportations" and proclaims that "if we want to save Western Civilization, we must become immune to the tears of liberal women."
- Joel Webbon claims that a college student recently informed him that all the rich, popular, smart frat bros love Nick Fuentes.
- Finally, Trump announced that his administration will be hosting a day of prayer, praise and thanksgiving on the National Mall in May during which participants will be "solemnly rededicating our country as One Nation under God."
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- Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: Trump Kicks Off Prayer Breakfast in WILD Fashion — Attacks Christian Conservative and Democrats
President Donald Trump kicked off Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast in wild fashion, attacking conservative, Christian Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), libertarian gadfly Thomas Massie (R-KY), and, of course, the Democratic Party.
- Joseph Palacios @ Common Sense Liberalism: Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast and the Rise of “Trump Faith”
When “Prayer” Becomes a Trump Rally.
- Mike Rothchild @ Talking Points Memo: Donald Trump Became President By Appealing to Conspiracy Theorists — Now He’s Driving Them Away
Donald Trump may not have been the first president to believe in conspiracy theories, but he was definitely the first candidate whose election was fueled by pandering to those who do.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump shares his plan for the $10 billion he expects to receive from his IRS lawsuit
The more the president tries to defend his desire for a taxpayer-financed payout, the worse his position appears.
- Jerry Mitchell @ Mississippi Today: Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: A Shocking Sex Scandal Rocks the Trad Right
Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project.
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Donald Trump seems to believe he will get to Heaven when he dies, but according to an analysis from The Bulwark, he has created a "dangerous" force by engaging in violence on behalf of Christianity.
Amid the ongoing concerns about Trump's advanced age and physical health, observers have often cited the president's frequent comments about getting into Heavenwhen he dies, arguing that they are a sign of a person grappling with mortality. Trump most recently made such comments during Wednesday's National Prayer Breakfast event in Washington, D.C., where he suggested that he ought to make it to Heaven, given all that he claims to have done for Christianity.
"I really think I probably should make it,” Trump said. “I mean, I’m not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people.”
Analyzing Trump's comments on Friday, Andrew Egger, White House correspondent for The Bulwark, argued that Trump views himself not as a proper Christian, in a way that he views someone like House Speaker Mike Johnson, but as someone willing to commit violence and other transgressions in the name of protecting the religion.
"He sees himself as Christianity’s Punisher, the guy who will blacken his own soul to do what must be done to protect the righteous," Egger wrote.
To this point, Egger also highlighted comments Trump made about his military campaign against Islamists in Nigeria: "When Christians come under attack, they know [their attackers] are going to be attacked violently and viciously by President Trump. I know it’s not a nice thing to say, but that’s the way it is.”
"That violently and viciously isn’t just rhetorical window-dressing," Egger continued. "This is the service Trump explicitly offers to conservative Christians: There’s dirty work that needs doing. Let me be the one to do it for you. And it isn’t just a political pitch. Trump sincerely seems to believe he has reached a moral accommodation with God for his unique services rendered."
Egger further argued that, despite how Trump and his Christian allies might feel about his actions, his actions are, in fact, fundamentally incompatible with the faith's teachings.
"This is part of what makes Trump-brand Christianity as a cultural and political force so dangerous," Egger concluded. "Trump’s political project is seen by the MAGA faithful as utterly righteous, the work of God on earth against the forces of Satan. But he has broad license to transgress all moral boundaries as he does that work. When he does so, it doesn’t cause MAGA Christians to reevaluate whether he’s actually on the side of the angels. Instead, it makes them perversely grateful that he’sdoing it so theirhands can be clean. None of this, it should probably go without saying, is compatible in the slightest with the teachings of actual Christianity. Sin is sin, the faith teaches, no matter whom it’s directed against..."
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After being introduced as the “Greatest of All Time,” President Donald Trump used his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to launch a partisan attack on Democrats.
“I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat,” he told the largely conservative Christian audience. “I really don’t.”
“And I know we have some here today, and I don’t know why they’re here, because they certainly don’t give us their vote,” he complained.
Trump then turned his sights onto voter ID.
“I certainly know that we’re not gonna be convincing them to vote for a little thing called voter ID,” the president said of Democrats.
“It polls at 97 percent,” he alleged. “And even the Democrats, the people, the voters, are at 82 percent for voter ID, but the leaders don’t want to approve it.”
“It’s polling at over 90 percent,” he claimed.
According to the Pew Research Center, majorities of both parties support voter ID, with an average of 81 percent.
Trump then attacked Democrats, alleging, “they cheat.”
He also praised himself, saying, “I’ve done more for religion than any other president,” and declared, “not too many presidents have done too much for religion.”
“They want to be neutral or against. You know, the Democrats are against” religion, he charged.
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- Mark Meckler tells Christian parents to remove their children from public schools: "You are sacrificing your children to Moloch if you leave them in those schools. You are leaving them to the mercy of demons and people who hate the Creator."
- Hank Kunneman claims that he issued a prophetic "word of warning" to President Donald Trump's campaign that resulted in Trump being pulled off the campaign trail for his safety.
- John Doyle says that he is committed to destroying the "myths of the Civil Rights movement" so that "we can give people the permission to do what needs to be done without feeling guilty about it."
- Rick Green insists that he has been "completely intellectually consistent" that anyone who attacks police deserves prosecution and punishment. He's lying.
- Finally, Lara Logan warns that "there is an aggressive plan underway to take the House and the Senate, impeach Pres Trump & then savagely consolidate a permanent grip on power": "We are in a war. If you fail to see that, you will be one of those crying out in shock as they usher you into a gas chamber or killing field."
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02/02/2026
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- Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is urging students "to organize a 'Pro MAGA' day in their public schools and organize walk outs while wearing maga gear and 'pro ICE / law enforcement' swag."
- Eric Metaxas says that those who doubt or criticize President Donald Trump are the "voice of the devil."
- Joel Webbon cannot even make it though a short video about the arrest of journalist Don Lemon without ranting that "there is Jewish preference in our nation."
- William Wolfe insists that "convicting Don Lemon and putting him behind bars for a long time is actually critical for the future of Western civilization": "If Christian churches are now fair game, the Left will attack, terrorize, and burn every single one that they can."
- Dale Partridge thinks that "gay couples should be banned."
- Everett Piper declares that "'progressive’ Christians, not evangelicals, are the moral sellouts."
- Finally, if you want to hang out with racist livestreamers Rebecca Hargraves and David Reilly, it'll cost you at least $1,000.
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Why these 'faith-based voters' are 'recoiling at Trump’s cruelty'
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01/30/2026
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- Joshua Haymes supports jailing people for posting social media content that he dislikes: "I'm in favor of using political power to tamp down on evil, degenerate, anti-social behavior."
- William Wolfe will never cry over "dead commies."
- Ben Zeisloft says that "Jesus is dishonored by Obergefell" and "we should honor Jesus by overturning it."
- Dale Partridge declares that we must "outlaw women judges, outlaw gay judges, [and] outlaw foreign judges" because judges "are designed to be impartial toward Christian Americans."
- Joel Webbon told white nationalist Jared Taylor that he became a "race realist" after realizing that "prior generations were morally superior to me and my generation in every single arena," including race.
- Finally, something exciting to look forward to: "2026 is the year that the Died Suddenly Team proves to the world beyond any reasonable doubt that God is real."
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- Jessica Morris @ The Roys Report: Pastor Dale Partridge says women lack the emotional capacity to vote
Reformed pastor Dale Partridge says he doesn’t hate women, but he doesn’t think they have the emotional capacity to vote. After months of tirades against emancipated females, he published a video on Jan. 24 calling white liberal women “the epitome of stupid.”
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Although President Donald Trump's overall approval ratings are weak, he continues to poll well among his hardcore MAGA base — including far-right white Christian fundamentalist evangelicals. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her allies in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are using Christian nationalist arguments to recruit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, quoting scripture in videos posted on Instagram.
But Never Trump conservative Peter Wehner, in an article published by The Atlantic on January 20, argues that the Trump Administration's militarized ICE raids are inconsistent with traditional "Christian values."
To make his point, Wehner references Tobias Cremer — a member of the European Parliament and author of the 2023 book, "The Godless Crusade."
"Right-wing populists don't view Christianity as a faith; rather, Cremer suggests, they use Christianity as a cultural identity marker of the 'pure people' against external 'others,' while in many cases remaining disconnected from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions," Wehner explains. "Many right-wing populists, despite being secular, are successfully recruiting Christians to their cause. And rather than Christians leavening the secular right-wing movements, those movements are prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus."
Wehner continues, "The Trump Administration has gone one step further, inverting authentic Christian faith by selling, in a dozen different ways, cruelty and the will to power in the name of Jesus. It has welcomed Christians into a theological twilight zone, where the beatitudes are invoked on behalf of a political movement with authoritarian tendencies."
The Never Trump conservative notes that Christianity, over the years, has had "glorious moments" as well as "some very dark turns."
"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals — not just cultural Christians, but also, those who faithfully attend church and Bible-study sessions and prayer gatherings — prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus," Wehner laments. "Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so, they have worked hard to construct rationalizations. It's rather remarkable, really, to see tens of millions of Christians validate, to themselves and to one another, a political movement led by a malignant narcissist — who is driven by hate and bent on revenge, who mocks the dead, and who delights in inflicting pain on the powerless."
Wehner adds, "The wreckage to the Christian faith is incalculable, yet most evangelicals will never break with him. They have invested too much of themselves and their identity in Trump and what he stands for. This moment, and what it reveals about American Christianity, will be studied for a long time to come."
*Peter Wehner's full article for The Atlantic is available at this link (subscription required).
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01/29/2026
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- Eric Metaxas says that anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis are part of a "communist insurgency": "These are Marxists. These are people at war with America."
- Todd Coconato wonders if there was some sort of "underhanded nefarious" weather modification at work behind the recent winter storm that coated Nashville with a sheet of ice.
- Jan. 6 insurrectionist John Stand has secured the endorsement of "Silk" of Diamond & Silk in his bid for Congress.
- Joel Webbon agrees with Jews who assert that "the New Testament is antisemitic."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes doesn't care what it takes to deport millions of immigrants: "Get 'em out. And horrible things are gonna have to happen."
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- After having spent decades defending the Second Amendment as the only thing that can defend Americans from "the tyranny of the government," Rick Green has a new message for gun owners in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti: "You're not the Founding Fathers fighting the British. You're not some hero who is going to go down in the books as being the one who stood against slavery and started the Civil War."
- Jesse Kelly lays out his vision for how the Trump administration should respond to anti-ICE protests: "Go find every single freaking person who invaded my country illegally, throw handcuffs on them—through the crying, through the weeping, through the gnashing of teeth, through the protests—and deport them back from whence they came, if not to a horrible deserted island somewhere as a message to the rest of them who might think about coming into my country illegally. All gas, no brakes. Do not back off. Do not slow down. Do not extend a hand to communist animals fighting a revolution in this country. Mash every single one of them into a fine powder and save the United States of America."
- Elijah Schaffer reports that he lost his job as a contributor to an unnamed website because Vice President J.D. Vance's office threatened to revoke the outlet's press pass if they didn't fire him. Presumably, Schaffer was referring to his former position with Gateway Pundit.
- Jon Miller declares "the 19th should be repealed, followed by sexual enslavement and legalized rape."
- Ali Alexander says that Jews are the most racist people on the planet": "Jesus was not racist. That's actually part of the reason the Jews lynched Him."
- Finally, Joel Webbontells Jews that they are not allowed to quote from the Old Testament because it belongs to Christians and that "God does not hear your prayers."
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01/26/2026
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- Kyle Langford reacted to the killing of Alex Pretti by calling for law and order as exemplified by fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
- Eric Metaxas declares that Pretti "was a soldier of the Marxist left."
- Jason Rapert is outraged by former President Bill Clinton's response to Pretti's killing: "You are one of the most corrupt and profane men to ever be elected to public office. This is nothing but an effort for you to once again deflect and dodge being held accountable for your own lifetime of misdeeds. SHAME ON YOU BILL CLINTON."
- Jon Miller thinks that ICE "should be allowed to shoot whomever they please as long as they continue to do God’s work."
- Joshua Haymes says that "Darwinian evolution is fake and gay."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes reveals that he had discussions with fellow white nationalist Eric Orwoll about creating a training program for budding white nationalists with the intention of getting them positions in Washington, DC, but the plan was scrapped because they could not agree on its scope.
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Roughly two and one-half weeks after the fatal January 7 shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agent, yet another Minneapolis resident was fatally shot during a protest in the city: 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, who worked in an internal care unit in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Stephen Miller are claiming that Pretti was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in self-defense, noting that he was carrying a concealed weapon. But critics of President Donald Trump's ICE raids in Minneapolis are countering Pretti never pointed the gun at Border Patrol agents and that he was shot after being forced onto the ground and disarmed.
In an article published on Monday, January 26 — two days after Pretti's death — Salon's Amanda Marcotte offers a blistering critique of the response that far-right white evangelicals have had to the unrest in Minneapolis.
"The Christian Right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution," Marcotte argues. "These days, they're especially eager to play the victim. Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they, in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota: A woman killed in front of her wife, children ripped from their parents, a baby nearly killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a family driving home from a basketball game. On Saturday, there was another unjustifiable shooting. Video appears to show 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, helping a woman to her feet when Border Patrol agents swarm and pepper-spray him — and then shoot him in the head."
Marcotte adds, "All this, though, apparently pales in comparison to a more serious form of oppression: right-wing Christians being told it's immoral to support a brutal, racist assault on their neighbors."
The Salon journalist is referring to a Sunday, January 18 protest in which activists disrupted a service at the evangelical Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota because one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is an ICE field director in the area. MAGA Republicans, from Noem to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, described that disruption as an attack on religious freedom — an argument Marcotte considers disingenuous.
Tim Whitaker, a former Christian nationalist, told Salon, "Cities Church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, which was founded in 1845 over the right to own slaves. This church should be disrupted. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus would've been right with those protesters…. (Cities Church) is home to a pastor that works for a federal agency kidnapping brown-skinned immigrants and killing unarmed citizens."
Marcotte notes that one of the protesters arrested during the January 18 protest at Cities Church is herself an ordained Christian minister.
"Unfortunately, the right's histrionic language about 'religious freedom' has cowed many centrists and even liberals into thinking the protesters who interrupted a single church service are in the wrong," Marcotte writes. "Instead, they should be applauded as following the tradition of Jesus himself confronting the moneychangers in the temple."
Religious freedom means the right to worship as you see fit. By the same token, it also allows everyone else the right to question what churches are teaching — especially when they impact people and communities outside the church doors."
Marcotte adds, "In an era when Christian churches are condoning outright evil actions such as ICE’s deadly rampage through Minnesota, it’s more important than ever to not allow this dishonest definition of 'religious freedom' browbeat the rest of us into silence over spiritual oppression."
Amanda Marcotte's full article for Salon is available at this link.
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01/21/2026
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- Joshua Haymes wants to take America "back to 1750": "I want to take us back to a time when we were 99 percent Christian."
- Ryan Helfenbein says the Trump administration must act quickly and forcefully in response to the anti-ICE protest at a Minneapolis church: "Bolshevik activity was outlawed before and it's high time we enforce the law now."
- David Barton is giddy over the fact that a musical about George Washington's "ring of spies" written by the wife of Rep. Marlin Stutzman will be performed at the Kennedy Center: "That tells you something of the quality of this." It certainly does.
- Nick Fuentes unleashed an antisemitic rant in response to the controversy that erupted after he and several other far-right figures danced to Kanye West's "Heil Hitler" in a Miami Beach night club: "We do not care about the Holocaust!"
- Finally, Lauren Witzke and Edward Szall announce that they have "huge stuff planned for 2026": "We are going to prove to the world that God is real."
01/21/2026
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- Ryan Bort @ Rolling Stone: Trump in Davos: ‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator’
The president delivered an erratic address to the World Economic Forum, pushing for the U.S. to take control of Greenland.
- Steven Bechloss @ America, America: The Goal Was (And Is) Dictatorship
This was clear years ago: Trump hungered for total power and retribution, while extremist Republicans mocked liberal government and right-wing groups plotted a fascist takeover.
- Jim Carroll @ Flux: MAGA authoritarianism takes square aim at Minnesota
As the Trump administration unleashes repressive mayhem in Minneapolis-St. Paul, crippling biases and blind spots keep the Democrats and major media from conveying the full story to the public.
- Nina Martin @ Mother Jones: Trump’s Abortion Strategy? Do Nothing. But His Base Has Other Plans
Historian Mary Ziegler sees conservative courts poised to force his hand.
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: Hegseth Shares War Psalm He Prayed During Venezuela Attack
During the first Christian worship service at the Pentagon in 2026 — and the first since the U.S. military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth framed that military action as a godly mission. Hegseth also detailed the Bible passage he prayed during the mission and urged the military personnel present to similarly pray for their work decisions.
- Ruth Graham @ The New York Times: An Alabama Pastor Credits Trump for Putting ‘Christ’ Back in Christmas
The president has given a new class of evangelists direct access to the White House. In return, many support him without question.
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- Robert Downen @ Texas Monthly: This Texas Church Became a Political Machine. Now It’s Going National.
With a prayer house across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court building, leaders of the Fort Worth–based Mercy Culture Church are taking their spiritual battle to Washington, D.C.
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01/20/2026
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- Eric Metaxas says the anti-ICE protestors who disrupted a church service were "following in the footsteps of the KGB" and the Gestapo.
- Will Chamberlain claims that the protest was "the closest thing we've had for left-wing protesters doing something akin to Jan. 6."
- Joshua Haymes used his Martin Luther King Jr. Day program to explain that King was "worse than Stalin."
- North Dakota state Rep. Nico Rios declares that King "was a communist pos."
- Rep. Eric Burlison thinks that "if we had had four more years of Joe Biden, we really were at the precipice of no longer recognizing this country."
- Rick Green gushes that the last year under President Donald Trump was "remarkable" and that, if he had to nitpick, he could find fault with "maybe five percent of the things that he did."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes proclaims that Jeffrey Epstein "was cool as fuck."
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One religious scholar is warning that the 2026 midterm elections could prompt a violent response from far-right evangelical Christians.
During a Monday interview with Zeteo host John Harwood, Public Religion Research Institute founder and president Robert P. Jones – who holds an M. Div from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Emory University — spoke about how President Donald Trump's MAGA movement has captured a vast bulk of Christian evangelicals. Harwood asked Jones whether MAGA Christians were excusing Trump's "brutality and cruel behavior" due to innate racism, or if they were simply people fearing becoming a demographic minority and overwhelmed by the "loss of life they were accustomed to."
"Do you feel sorry for the people who are embracing what the Trump administration is doing because they're scared or what?" Harwood asked.
"Well, I should just say I am those people. These are my people. Like I said, I grew up in the deep, deep South," Jones said. "... This is deep for me, and personal. It's a big mix of emotions ... I feel some anger about it, for sure. But I also feel some compassion, mostly because I feel like what has happened is they have let their own fears take control of their lives, and they let it snuff out the primary vision of Christianity, which is supposed to be about love."
"There's even now, in some white evangelical circles, a straightforward and serious theological attack on the virtue of empathy," he continued. "Like that's where we are, right? They're deconstructing empathy because Elon Musk has cast empathy as the great weakness of the Western world ... I think those people are sincerely lost. They're lost religiously, they're lost politically, and I'm hoping we can call enough of them back to the fold in order to save the country."
Harwood then asked questions from viewers, including one who wanted Jones' perspective on whether the United States was on the brink of civil war given the Trump administration's actions in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The viewer pointed to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and residents of Minneapolis asking local police to confront U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, calling it "extremely dangerous."
Jones responded by pointing to parallels from the 19th century, in which Christian denominations frequently split into North and South factions due to fundamental disagreements over the issue of chattel slavery. He added that the Episcopal Church felt compelled to dismantle its refugee resettlement program entirely due to its disagreement with the Trump administration prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa over Brown and Black refugees from other countries.
"So we're already seeing some moves, and even breaks within the Christian world," Jones said. "I think we may be heading for some very difficult days."
"You mean actual violence or do you mean very, very intense political disagreement? Harwood asked.
"I'm deeply, deeply worried about the midterm elections being a flashpoint for violence in this country," Jones responded.
Watch the segment below
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Christian nationalists believe Trump on a 'mission from God' to occupy cities: author
MAGA claims of 'massive religious revival' meticulously debunked
Christian leader debunks MAGA claim that America was 'intended to be a theocracy'
'Moral stain': Catholic outlet questions VP's faith after his Minneapolis shooting speech
How Christian Reconstructionism influences US politics: scholar
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01/16/2026
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- Tim Barton insists that President Donald Trump "really does have America on his heart and he doesn't want to do things that are going to make it worse for America."
- Lance Wallnau panics that "the Hispanic vote is not gong to be there for the midterms" because of the Trump administration's brutal deportation operations.
- Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback continues to make the rounds of far-right podcasts, joining Clavicular and Sneako on the latter's program last night.
- Speaking of GOP candidates appearing on far-right podcasts, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch appeared on Joel Webbon's show on Thursday.
- Finally, Dale Partridge says that multiculturalism is leading to "national suicide" and the only solution is for "heritage American Christians to pursue public office in order to protect their descendants from being ruled by foreigners."
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01/15/2026
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Charisma, a conservative Pentecostal-oriented media outlet, has long been in the tank for President Donald Trump, relentlessly portraying him as anointed by God to lead the U.S. This week, after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military even more aggressively against American citizens, Charisma’s Abby Trivett declared, “We may be on the brink of a new America.”
Trivett falsely characterized Gov. Tim Walz’s recent comments encouraging Minnesotans to continue documenting ICE’s “organized brutality.” Walz explicitly and repeatedly urged people to protest peacefully, but Trivett claimed that he had “encouraged Minnesotans to continue to clash with ICE agents violently.”
Trivett’s post provided a good example of Christian nationalists’ obsession with authoritarian order and their embrace of the Trump regime’s violence against immigrants as a righteous form of spiritual warfare:
America is approaching a hinge point in history, and Minnesota may be the place where the door finally swings. As lawlessness is celebrated and those tasked with upholding order are mocked, restrained or resisted, the clash between civil authority and spiritual authority is becoming impossible to ignore.
Scripture warns that in the last days “lawlessness will increase” and people would call evil good and good evil — and for many watching what is unfolding in Minnesota right now, that warning feels less theoretical and more like a headline.
Whether critics like it or not, the nation is being forced to choose between chaos and order, rebellion and restraint, anarchy and accountability. And in moments like these, history reveals a pattern: God often exposes the cracks in a nation before He heals it.
Trivett’s comments align with other religious-right leaders who consistently act as public relations agents of the Trump White House and who have adopted the administration’s dishonest rhetoric about the killing of Minneapolis mom Renee Good by an ICE agent.
Pastor and MAGA activist Franklin Graham, who has claimed that anti-ICE protests are organized by radical leftists who want to destroy America, organized a nationwide prayer event this week urging people to pray for Trump administration leaders. Dominionist Dutch Sheets promoted Graham’s call, delivering a prayer that called anti-ICE protesters evil.
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01/14/2026
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- Joshua Haymes says that "only Christians are allowed to serve as civil magistrates."
- Shane Vaughn declares that "there is no freedom to protest in America."
- Joshua Lisec proclaims that "Scott Adams was the Mark Twain of King Solomons": "It’s likely that he saved millions of lives if not hundreds of millions—from lifting the hopeless out of depression with life-changing hypnotic reframes, to bringing his once-in-a-civilization influence directly to the President of Peace, Donald J. Trump."
- Kari Lake doesn't know if Amy Grant is "just naive and gullible" or if blackmail might be behind the release of her song lamenting the Jan. 6 insurrection.
- Finally, William Wolfe can't understand why anyone would oppose Christian nationalism: "We are going to order ourselves as this people, as this nation with Christianity as a very important, if not the most important, identity marker for us in how we do our laws, our civil customs, our civil religion, the life that we expect to share together and what we call people to aspire to. Why would you not want that?"
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[Christian Nationalism ## MAGA Pastor Rob Pacienza on ‘Destroying’ the ‘Stronghold’ of Progressive Christianity
MAGA pastor Rob Pacienza devoted an episode of his "Truths that Transform" series to "Destroying Strongholds: Progressive Christianity"](https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/maga-pastor-rob-pacienza-destroying-stronghold-progressive-christianity)
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01/13/2026
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- Gene Bailey has a question regarding Rep. Ilhan Omar: "Why is she still in the country? She should be deported."
- Right-wing pastor Brian Gibson is urging the members of his congregation to have seven kids in order to "outbreed radical Islam in Jesus' name."
- Tim Barton, like his Christian nationalist pseudo-historian father David, has no qualms about misrepresenting Bible verses in support of his right-wing political agenda.
- Eric Metaxas is now censoring the name "Nick Fuentes" in his own social media posts, presumably in order to avoid attracting the ire of Fuentes' groyper followers.
- Finally, speaking of Fuentes, he voiced his support for far-right Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback: "I'm pretty impressed with him. I like him."
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Ross Vought is often credited as the architect of Project 2025, and as Donald Trump's director for the Office of Management and Budget, he has helped oversee historically destructive government cuts throughout 2025. In addition to his standing as an "amoral political actor," per a new analysis from The New Republic, what sets him apart from the worst of the White House "hatchet men" is his claim to carry out his actions in the name of his "devout" Christianity.
Writing an extensive breakdown of Vought's tenure as OMB director on Monday, journalist Timothy Noah observed that "conservatives used to think you could be a political hatchet artist or you could serve the Lord." Now, he argued, "they say: Why choose?" This idea is typified by Vought, who has stressed his devout adherence to Christianity throughout his time in politics, suggested that the US is an exclusively Christian nation and written in defense of "Christian nationalism."
"Vought wishes trauma on civil servants and has inflicted same; boasts about turning his think tank into a 'Death Star'; panders to the right’s paranoid streak by claiming Marxists rule America; helps Trump withhold aid to Ukraine illegally after its leader declines to investigate the son of Trump’s 2020 opponent; and impounds congressional appropriations in gleeful defiance of court precedent," Noah wrote. "Pretty sinful, no? Not to Vought. While doing all this Vought proudly declares his deep devotion to the Christian faith."
Vought, he continued, does not practice any form of Christianity devoted to helping the poor or downtrodden, or any sort of "sentimental nonsense about the least among us." Noah highlighted a part of Project 2025 in which Vought decried the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as “a permanent and immiserating feature of the global landscape.”
"That’s a novel way to describe a program to alleviate global poverty," Noah wrote.
According to an October profile of Vought from ProPublica, when it was suggested that the agency's budget be cut in half, he countered that it should be brought as close to zero as possible. An estimate from Boston University estimated that these cuts have been responsible for "640,000 people, 430,000 of them children," with the total deaths estimated later being increased by 38,000.
"... How on earth does the prevailing Christian ethos in Donald Trump’s Washington, as practiced by Russell Vought, align with the Christianity that the goyim have been telling me about my whole life?" Noah wrote in conclusion, suggesting that "Vought would run over his own grandmother to serve his president," and "also do it to please his Creator."
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12/19/2025
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- Jim Garlow has written a book offering up "A Biblical Analysis of the Executive Orders of President Donald Trump."
- Jackson Lahmeyer recounts the time he accidentally booked a room in "a gay hotel" while campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 2022.
- Andrew Torba is outraged that there is a menorah on the White House lawn: "This is not an accident, it is a statement of power. A humiliation ritual of a conquering tribe over a conquered nation."
- Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge declares that "in order for the old world to return, the new world must die" and the only way to ensure that happens is for Christians not to care when they are called white supremacists and Nazis.
- Dalton Eatherly insists that he's not a racist just because he goes around town calling Black people the N-word.
- Finally, Brian Sauvé asserts that when it comes to consuming popular culture, Christians must stop "lowering our standards to the point where just the minimum threshold of faggotry is inspiring to us."
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12/18/2025
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- Shane Vaughn claims that "a true believing Muslim cannot pledge allegiance to the United States of America."
- Jackson Lahmeyer asserts that "God hates Islam."
- Cliff Kincaid says that "Rob Reiner hated Trump more than he loved his son": "Nick Reiner should have been in a mandatory treatment facility. It looks like Rob Reiner projected his verdict on Trump as a mental case that should have been applied to his own son Nick Reiner."
- C. Jay Engel wants to see "the Heritage American revolt against Vivekism."
- Doug Wilson declares that Black Christians who support the Democratic Party "have compromised in a terrible fashion and are under a fearsome judgment."
- Finally, Joel Webbon has made a decision: "After careful consideration, I realized I must become worse… and win. Or my kids die."
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12/15/2025
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- Glenn Beck insists that he did not design his AI George Washington to sound like Glenn Beck: "I just sound a little like the Founding Fathers."
- Last week, David Barton testified before the Trump administration's Religious Liberty Commission.
- Jackson Lahmeyer declares that "the West needs another Crusade against Islam otherwise WE ARE FINISHED."
- Joel Webbon wants to see Mike Huckabee deported due to his support for Israel.
- James Fishback stands by his support for Nick Fuentes and his followers: "I want to clarify and apologize for absolutely nothing."
- Finally, William Wolfe has no interest in seeing Democrats represented in Congress: "I want them disenfranchised as we usher in a multi-decade Iron Reign of the Right."
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12/12/2025
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- Jane C. Timm @ NBC News: Indiana Senate rejects GOP-drawn congressional map in a major rebuke of Trump
Trump and national Republicans pushed Indiana lawmakers for new district lines that could have allowed the party to gain two seats in next year’s midterms.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Indiana Lt. Gov. Confirms Trump Threatened Entire State if It Didn’t Redraw Congressional Map
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the Trump administration threatened the state if the Republican-controlled legislature failed to gerrymander its congressional map.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump’s pardon for Colorado’s Tina Peters suffers from one fatal flaw
Presidents can’t pardon individuals convicted of state crimes. Whether Trump understands that isn’t entirely clear.
- Leigh Kimmins @ The Daily Beast: Marjorie Taylor Greene Plots Major Move to Make Fresh MAGA Chaos
The Trump-bashing congresswoman is said to be quietly trying to stage a revolt against House Speaker Mike Johnson.
- Tracy Simmons @ Religion News Service: Christ Church at 50: How Doug Wilson pushed Christian nationalism to the center
The pastor, celebrating 50 years in his pulpit, has never had more influence than he does under the current presidential administration.
- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: ‘Positively Authoritarian’: White House Tweets and Deletes ‘Naughty List’ of Journalists
The White House appears to have tweeted then deleted a “Naughty List” of journalists, including top news reporters and outlets, in an act that is being described as “positively authoritarian” by one legal expert.
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12/12/2025
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- Rep. Chip Roy says that Republicans in the House of Representatives will be holding hearings to expose how George Soros, NGOs, and the United Nations have been using the SPLC and antifa to promote "Marxists and Islamists who want to take this country over."
- "Prophet" Mark Taylor fumes that "Susie Wiles and her people are the ones responsible for single handedly KILLING the America First Agenda!": "She is a demonic infiltrator in the highest order sent in to destroy the President and the America First Agenda."
- InfoWars can't believe that Dalton Eatherly is being persecuted just because he is a racist who says the N-word.
- Speaking of racists who say the N-word, Nick Fuentes revealed that he recently recorded an interview with Joel Webbon that will be airing soon.
- Finally, Fuentes has reportedly been ordered to attend anger management and do 75 hours of community service for pepper-spraying and shoving a woman last year.
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12/10/2025
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- Joshua Haymes declares that Black Americans must abandon "ghetto Black culture" and "assimilate into Anglo-Protestant culture."
- Nick Fuentes vows that if an upcoming Turning Point USA livestream responding to the wild allegations being made by Candace Owens regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk does not expose Owens as a complete fraud, he will do so himself.
- Andrew Torba claims that the far-right is taking over and cannot be stopped: "We’re enjoying the memes and the camaraderie and the sheer absurdity of watching a dying regime flail against the inevitable. We’re having fun, because why wouldn’t we? God is on His throne. History is turning. The future belongs to those who show up for it. Their world is ending. Ours is just beginning."
- Montana state Rep. Lukas Schubert asserts that "Derek Chauvin was lynched by a radical leftist court under pressure from a violent mob of BLM activists."
- Finally, Rick Green says that he is not a fan of government subsidies but he is willing to support President Donald Trump's plan to spend $12 billion bailing out farmers because this is "a mess that he's inherited." In actual fact, Trump is spending billions to rescue farmers who are being devastated by his own policies.
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Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith Blasts Republicans Who Refuse To Redistrict As 'Neville Chamberlain Type' Appeasers
12/08/2025
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Facing the prospect of seeing their current congressional majorities wiped out in the 2026 elections, President Donald Trump is pressuring Republican legislators all over the country to gerrymander congressional districts in their states in a desperate bid to hold on to power.
Currently, the focus is on Indiana, where an effort to do Trump's bidding is in danger of being thwarted by Republican hold-outs in the state Senate.
On Friday, Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith appeared on the "FlashPoint" program, where he said that those Republicans who are refusing to bow the knee to Trump are "Neville Chamberlain type" figures, thinking that "they can make peace with Hitler."
"We're living in an era of Neville Chamberlains versus the Winston Churchills," Beckwith said. "Those 18 senators are Neville Chamberlain types. They think they can make peace with Hitler, make peace with evil, pet a demon, and that the demon will leave him alone."
"What I'm trying to tell them is, 'Guys, the Democrat Party is not your grandparents' Democrat Party. This is not the party of JFK; JFK fought against the communists, now his party wants to be the communists," Beckwith continued. "We're trying to get them to wake up and see, guys, it is time to fight."
"For crying out loud, they tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice," he added. "They did assassinate Charlie Kirk. They are doing everything to destroy this great nation that God has given us and it is now time for us to pull out the rod—be the shepherds that God has called us to be—and go fight."
"They think we can just be peaceful, we can be non-conflict and it will go away," Beckwith griped. "It's not going to blow over. We lose this fight, we lose our future and so that's what they just don't understand. I think they're slowly starting to wake up to it, but it's been a lot harder than it should have been in Indiana."
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12/08/2025
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- In Joel Webbon's ideal Christian nation, mosques, synagogues, Mormon temples, and Jehovah's Witness halls would all be banned.
- Gene Bailey is frustrated that Rep. Ilhan Omar "feels safe enough" to stand up to President Donald Trump.
- Lucas Miles is fascinated by Doug Wilson's desire to repeal the 19th Amendment.
- Glenn Beck is now very sorry for all of the things he said about Trump during the 2016 campaign because he claims that Trump "really is that very genteel, very kind kind of guy."
- Finally, Mark Meckler has no problem with FBI agents being assigned to escort FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend's drunk friends home from the bar: "Maybe [the critics] would rather she was drunk and got into an Uber by herself, maybe to be taken advantage of by somebody, or to be sexually assaulted."
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12/05/2025
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- The recent arrest of the suspected Jan. 6 pipe bomber has forced The Blaze to retract its own recent article wrongly identifying a different, completely innocent person as the prime suspect.
- Joshua Haymes declares that "foreigners should NEVER be permitted to serve as an American civil magistrate": "Biblically, we shouldn’t even permit citizenship until a person‘s family has been here for at least three generations."
- Rick Green says that if you let your children play outside, it will lead to better brain development and "then they'll vote Republican."
- Nick Fuentes has "Candace Owens fatigue" because she's "a total loudmouth, fucking Black female narcissist ret*rded idiot."
- Finally, Joel Webbon wants to remind people that he is not just antisemitic, but also homophobic and sexist: "I've got other great qualities too."
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Mario Murillo Says 'You Are Full Of The Devil If You Vote For Any Democrat'
12/04/2025
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On Wednesday night's episode of the "Fire Power" program, co-host Mario Murillo, a far-right evangelist, faith healer, and full-blown MAGA cultist, declared that anyone who votes for any Democratic candidate in the 2026 midterm elections is "full of the devil."
"What I really am excited about," Murillo declared, "is there's an intersection of when the political and the spiritual unite; when men of God, women of God are willing to, in their pulpit, to call out sin and political corruption and take a stand on all the issues, take a stand against the Democratic Party."
"You cannot help Donald Trump until you recognize that the Democratic Party has sold its soul to Satan and is now categorically working to destroy the United States of America," he continued. "We don't have a two-party system; we've got good and we've got evil."
"Folks, the midterm elections are coming up," Murillo added. "It's unfathomable to me that we would ever allow the Democrat majority. ... I literally campaigned for Donald Trump in the last election. I lost a lot of friends. A lot of doors were closed to me. But this midterm, I'm going to be shouting it from the rooftop that you are full of the devil if you vote for any Democrat. You are literally spitting on the grave of the apostles, if you, in any way, shape, or form, have anything to do with voting for [Democrats] or not voting. If you decide to stay out, you're as guilty as voting for a Democrat."
"I'm going to get in trouble for saying that," Murillo proclaimed, "but I know with all my heart, this midterm, more than any other election, is life and death."
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12/04/2025
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- Jason Rapert's National Association of Christian Lawmakers is basically the Christian nationalist version of the American Legislative Exchange Council, so it seems fitting that Rapert was invited to lead a devotion during a recent ALEC meeting.
- Nick Fuentes insists that he is not an antisemite, but we have multiple clips that suggest otherwise.
- It is clear that North Dakota state Rep. Nico Rios is a groyper.
- Elijah Schaffer revealed that far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist Anna Perez is the producer of the "DC Dive" program that airs on his network.
- Shane Vaughn declares that conservatives cannot believe Candace Owens' conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and still support President Donald Trump: "If you believe Candace… then you believe Donald Trump either allowed it, ignored it, or orchestrated the environment for it."
- Finally, warning people not to listen to conspiracy theorists like Owens, Ryan Helfenbein said that "if someone has been consistently wrong, if their theories collapse, if they show no humility, turn it off and move on." Helfenbein does not, of course, apply that same standard to Trump.
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- Mark Meckler says that the Democrats have blood on their hands for "fomenting" the deadly attack on two National Guard soldiers in Washington DC.
- Jason Rapert has been in Israel, praying over Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
- It was really only a matter of time before Joel Webbon started embracing Holocaust revisionism.
- Lance Wallnau warns Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to stop attacking President Donald Trump: "Honor the king."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes claims that he has "never been a fan" of Marjorie Taylor Greene, which is surprising given that after she spoke at Fuentes' APFAC conference in 2022, he gushed about how "presidential" she was: "We wanna have 250 Marjorie Taylor Greenes in Congress."
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President Donald Trump’s "wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the MAGA evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression," writes The Guardian's Bill McKibben.
McKibben notes that Trump's " most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest, but perhaps its most illuminating," came when he started postingplans of his gilded ballroom and then posted an AI video dumping feceson American cities.
"He has done things 10,000 times as bad – the current estimate of deaths from his cuts to USAID is 600,000 and rising, and this week a studypredicted his fossil fuel policies would kill another 1.3 million. But nothing as definitional," McKibben says.
But "no one – not Richard Nixon, not Andrew Jackson, not Warren Harding, not anyone – would have imagined boasting about defecating on the American citizenry," he notes.
" Trump has managed to turn America’s idea of itself entirely upside down. And he has done it with the active consent of an entire political party," McKibben adds.
McKibben says that those, including himself, raised as "mainline Protestant Christians" should not be surprised by any of this.
"We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be," he writes.
"At its most basic, they turned a figure of love into a figure of hate who blesses precisely the cruelties that he condemned in the Gospel; we went from 'the meek shall inherit the Earth' to 'the meek shall die of cholera'," he says.
McKibben says that despite this, he and his fellow Christians have not fought back against this effectively, if at all.
"What particularly hurts is the fact that at no point did we manage to fight back, not effectively anyway. Without intending to, we surrendered control of the idea of Jesus. It is a story that may provide some insights into how to fight the attack on democracy."
McKibben explains how Christianity has morphed into something completely different than it was in the 1950s when a majority of Americans subscribed to some form of the religion.
"Now the most public and powerful forms of Christianity, the vast and often denominationally independent megachurches and TV ministries, are as wildly different from that version of Protestantism as Donald Trump is from Eisenhower," he says.
Today's "newly ascendant version of Christianity," McKibben explains, is a far cry from that.
"The Jesus of this imagination – muscular, aggressive and American – is a different man than the one I grew up worshipping," he says. "The idea that he can be invoked to justify cutting off aid to foreign countries and bundling immigrants into the back of unmarked vans is repulsive to me, but also mystifying – as if gravity suddenly pulled objects upward."
McKibben says that "I am less concerned with the shrinkage of the mainline church than with the replacement of its Jesus with this very different one."
Allie Beth Stuckey, "one heir to Charlie Kirk’s placeat the top of Maga Christianity," McKibben writes, has a very different version of the Jesus he grew up worshipping.
"She is a distillation of the currently dominant American Christianity, and above all, her Jesus rejects empathy," he says.
"Basing your support for ICE raids on terrified immigrants on a relatively obscure passage in a relatively obscure Old Testament story is a good example of what is known as prooftexting – the citing of some verse somewhere to support your predetermined beliefs," he explains.
The Bible, McKibben says, also says nothing on much of the culture wars MAGA mouthpieces use verse to attack.
It "has almost nothing to say about the rest of their favorite culture war hobby horses – you can find five scattered references to what might be homosexuality in the Bible, though recent scholarship makes clear they were actually attacks on prostitution and abuse," he writes.
And while the Bible says nothing about transgender people, he writes, "57 percent of the Republican party’s advertising spending in her race had reportedly gone to attacking transgender people, a topic – again – that Jesus ignored."
"None of that spending went to attacking Elon Musk (a recently self-proclaimed “cultural Christian”), who had managed to kill 600,000 poor people by 'feeding USAID into a woodchipper' in the first weekend of his Doge campaign," McKibben notes.
The parallels in today's MAGA movement are there, but they are lost on them completely, he explains.
"If you think I am being hyperbolic here, a 'rich young ruler' actually presented himself to Jesus and asked what he should do, and Jesus said he should sell his stuff and give it to the poor. This is what Jesus was about." he writes.
The hypocrisy, McKibben notes, has become downright farcical.
"The idea that personal salvation – as opposed to concern for others – was at the heart of Christianity always bordered on the heretical, but over the decades it has morphed into the absurd farce we see now, where Jesus is held to bless every show of dominance and aggression we can imagine," he says.
More people are becoming aware of this and acknowledging and fighting against it, he says.
Rep. James Talarico(D-TX), a part-time Presbyterian seminary student, has surged on the "strength of his forthright declaration of the kind of retro Christianity," McKibben says.
In a sermon Talarico gave two years ago, he said, "Jesus came to transform the world. Christian nationalism is here to maintain the status quo. They have coopted the Son of God. They have turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear mongering fascist. And, it is incumbent upon all Christians to confront it, and denounce it.”
McKibben saysPope Leo's recent words condemning the Trump administration's cruelty show demonstrate this denunciation as well, and he hopes there will be more.
"America is best defended, in other words, by reference to the best about American history, just as Christianity is best defended by reference to what makes it distinctive and beautiful, which is the example of Jesus," he says.
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- Eric Metaxas says that the Democrats who filmed a video urging members of the military not to obey illegal orders are "traitors to the United States."
- William Wolfe declares that "if you claim to be a Christian and are helping illegal aliens avoid ICE, you’re not a hero, you’re not the Good Samaritan—you’re in sin": "You’re committing treason against our nation and engaging in deeply immoral and destructive behavior that harms your American neighbors."
- Joel Webbon is fine with “swift justice” disproportionately jailing Black people because "I would like to have a country, whatever it takes."
- Ryan Helfenbein warns that the Trump administration must destroy antifa because "antifa and their allies have made their intentions clear: They will use force to silence the opposition. When they regain power, and they will try, they will wield the sword of government against conservatives."
- Finally, in the midst of a 20+ minute antisemitic rant, Nick Fuentes proclaimed "this is the age of an American fist": "Five fingers curled up, American power saying, 'If you don't like it, get out."
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11/19/2025
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- Dutch Sheets says that America is undergoing a spiritual war and a "clash of kingdoms" and that Zohran Mamdani "is anti-Christ."
- Eric Metaxas declares that "radical Islam is the enemy of Christian faith and America": "We must outlaw it in our country if we are to survive."
- Nick Fuentes laughably claims that conservative elites hate him because "they really just hate the poor." Fuentes himself hates the poor.
- After once again suggesting that former First Lady Michelle Obama is a man, Hank Kunneman desperately insisted that he is not "a conspiracy theorist" and was just "joking about Michelle Obama."
- Finally, in a misguided attempt to defend the Catholic Church, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has come rushing to the defense of Megyn Kelly: "For too long, the media and the chattering class have said that the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal was due to 'pedophile priests.' Wrong. The data clearly show that the vast majority of priestly victims were male (81 percent) and that 78 percent were postpubescent. Why is this important? Because it means the molesters were homosexuals. When males have sex with males who are postpubsecent, that’s called homosexuality, not pedophilia."
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11/19/2025
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- Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck @ CNN: Trump pick for deputy UN job questioned loyalty of American Muslims
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.
- Gabe Kaminsky and Tanner Nau @ The Free Press: Nick Fuentes’s Plan to ‘Infiltrate Politics’ and Subvert the GOP
The white nationalist streamer is building an organization to pressure Republicans by developing ‘elite human capital’ and ‘mapping out’ his pro-Israel foes.
- Mark Silk @ Religion News Service: On the right, Judeo-Christian values are out and Christian nationalism is in
As someone who has been studying the use of ‘Judeo-Christian’ in American public discourse for over 40 years, I can say with confidence its usage has come full circle.
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: Christ the Christian Nationalist Sunday?
On Thursday (Nov. 13), the Michigan House of Representatives passed a resolution to officially declare Nov. 23 as “Christ the King Sunday” in the Mitten State. The resolution, which passed without debate on a voice vote that did not seem to draw any opposition, declares that the lawmakers “honor and acknowledge Christ’s Kingship within every aspect of life.”
- Julia Ornedo @ The Daily Beast: Trump Loyalist Laura Loomer Issues Treacherous 2028 Prediction
The far-right activist called on the GOP to address its “Nazi problem.”
- Phil Williams @ News Channel 5: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
Jon Minadeo courts kids in video chat apps, berating children of color, encouraging white kids to arm themselves for 'race war.'
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11/18/2025
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- Mark Meckler reports that he is now the CEO of the right-wing Just The News network.
- Right-wing pastor Jurgen Matthesius claims that the left is under the control of a "murderous, malicious, malevolent, violent spirit."
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- Nick Fuentes announces that he is relaunching his America First Foundation to engage in the 2026 midterm elections.
- Finally,white nationalist John Doyle now has a podcast on The Blaze because, he says, he is "assimilating to the mainstream": "If you want our ideas to be mainstream, you need people in the mainstream representing those ideas."
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11/17/2025
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- Mat Staver says that the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefellruling "is a rebellious insult to God who created us in His image" and vows that "we will not rest until it is overturned."
- Shane Vaughn confidently proclaims that President Donald Trump will be completely exonerated once the Epstein files are released: "His PARTY is OBSESSED with something that is [not] to going to make ONE IOTA of a difference in any of our lives when this SIDE SHOW IS OVER - and its about to be over - and TRUMP will SMELL LIKE A ROSE again."
- Virulent antisemite Andrew Torba declares that Israel is "a parasitic intelligence apparatus that has attached itself to the heart of our nation and feeds on our sovereignty": "You have to understand that parasites don’t care about the health of the host. They weaken it, manipulate it, and make it serve the parasite’s needs until the host is a hollowed-out husk. That’s what they’ve done to our country for decades."
- Eric Orwell, who is building a white's only community in Arkansas, thinks that "America's founding fathers were White Nationalists."
- Finally, James Lindsay claims that Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" followers oppose Trump and support the election of Democrats "because they're leftists": "I think they all hate MAGA, I think they all hate the conservative movement. They are leftists, in my opinion, posing as conservatives to take down from the inside what could not be taken down from the outside." Lindsay's opinion, for the record, is asinine.
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Fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon calls on Trump to become "the American Caesar" and start arresting and imprisoning judges, mayors, governors and any other elected official who opposes his deportation policies: "He must cross the Rubicon."
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11/13/2025
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- Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver is introducing a resolution to designate Nov. 23 as “Christ the King Sunday."
- Mario Murillo says that conservatives must not turn against President Donald Trump: "I know what Satan is doing, he's trying to make Trump's effectiveness be undermined."
- Glenn Beck proclaims that "we're already in World War III," which is something he's been saying for more than a decade.
- Jackson Lahmeyer believes that the Rapture is imminent and "we will soon hear a trumpet blast and the sky will open up and we, his church—like John [The Revelator]—will be taken up."
- Finally, Ryan Helfenbein declares that "50 years from now, our children will thank us" for overturning Obergefell, thereby ensuring that "civilization [is] not dead from the gay rot."
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11/07/2025
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- Lance Wallnau reports that he is working with CPAC, which he says is "opening up a new division on faith."
- Andrew Torba proclaims that "2026 and 2028 will not be fought on left versus right": "The battle line is now the Jewish donor class versus the American people. If your campaign whines about antisemitism and pledges fealty to a foreign nation, that is our signal. You are not on our side. We will not just withhold our vote; we will become your most determined opposition."
- Isabella Moody says that "n*ggers gonna n*gger. Chimps gonna chimp. These are facts of LIFE!"
- Doug Wilson declares that with Zohran Mamdani elected mayor, New York City will soon be "torn down by immigrants with an immigrant at the vanguard."
- Finally, Ben Zeisloft reacts to Mamdani's election: "The rule of foreign invaders over an apostate people is a sign of their judgment from God, especially if that people brazenly commits public sins. There are dozens of abortion mills operating in New York City, four of which are public clinics operated by the city government and offer free abortions. The people who live in New York City are murdering their own offspring for reasons of convenience and prosperity, and now foreigners are not only flooding into the city, but starting to rule over the city."
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- Jesse Leon Rogers declares that the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is "a tragedy" and warns that Mamdani is "a covert jihadi."
- Jack Hibbs proclaims that Mamdani's election is a sign that "God's plan is unfolding upon a Christ-rejecting nation."
- Ché Ahn believes that he will be elected governor of California by winning "conservative Democrats over because I'm an Asian immigrant."
- Ryan Helfenbein says that "God did create man in his own image to live in a material world and to steward that material world," therefore "owning a home isn't merely a material ambition, it's fulfilling a creation mandate we see in Genesis 1 and 2."
- Finally, the fact that Glenn Beck thinks that Nick Fuentes should be ignored by the conservative movement because he's just engaging in "performance art" and "says the most outrageous things for attention" shows just how uninformed Beck is and why nobody should rely on his analysis for anything.
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11/06/2025
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- Jim Garlow hopes that the board of the Heritage Foundation will force president Kevin Roberts to resign over the controversy caused by his defense of Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes.
- Speaking of Fuentes, he declares that his America First movement "must infiltrate, and subvert, and take over the Republican Party."
- Following Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City, Shane Vaughn brags that President Donald Trump will cut off federal funding for special education programs, school lunch programs, after school programs, universal pre-K programs, and various social services.
- Joel Webbon vows that he will never pronounce Mamdani's name correctly "on principle" because "when it comes to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, how many Zohrans where there?"
- The Daily Caller's Amber Duke is likewise outraged by Mamdani's election: "Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. recently are entitled, refuse to assimilate, bitch incessantly, hate American values and resent our Judeo-Christian traditions."
- Finally, Andrew Torba proclaims that "Christian nationalists are ascendant": "We are the ones who will labor in the fields until the land is reclaimed and restored. We are the ones who will see the seeds sown in 2022 blossom into a nation renewed by faith and bound by divine purpose. We will not stop. We cannot be bargained with. The future belongs to us.
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11/05/2025
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- Heidi St. John is devastated by the Democrat's sweeping wins in the off-year elections: "This is the fruit of our broken education system, and a nation that has rejected the roots of its Christian faith. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves!"
- Shane Vaughn is aghast that Zohran Mamdani was electedmayor of New York City: "Make no mistake, folks — this is not politics. This is prophecy. This is a harbinger — the torch of Liberty trembling in her own hand."
- Rick Joyner warns that "America is in even more jeopardy than almost anyone thought. The Marxist 100 Year Plan has been at work for 95 years now with relentless devotion. They think they have won, and the next 5 years will likely determine if America remains free, or succumbs to the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known, or fight to eliminate the Marxist threat to our land."
- William Wolfe relentlessly blames the election results on immigration, urging people to read the anti-immigrant novel "The Camp of the Saints."
- Finally, Joel Webbon blames the election results on allowing women to vote: "You can save your country or you can allow women to vote. But you cannot do both."
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Churches are seeing a mass exodus of formerly evangelical Christian women who are "disengaging from religion" due to conflicting viewpoints and politics,according to a reportin the Religion News Service (RNS).
These women, known as "exvangelicals," have found themselves turned off by their churches' and families' embrace of President Donald Trump and his far-right viewpoints.
"What upsets me most is how politics has become so intertwined with the church,” said Taylor Yoder. “It turned a lot of evangelicalsin my life really ugly.”
Yoder said her family's support of Trump caused her to "deconstruct" her faith. She also said that friendships with LGBTQ co-workers caused her to "reexamine what she’d been told about homosexuality."
“Do I really believe that these people deserve to burn in hell just because they don’t believe like me?” she asked.
Yoder, now an atheist, critiques evangelicalism and its political ties in videos on TikTok, where she has amassed an impressive following.
This trend of "exvangelicals," RNS writes, is catching on with many young women like Yoder, who are generating "a flurry of memoirs, podcasts, social media posts and YouTube channels depicting evangelical culture as oppressive, unhealthy and even harmful."
"Their critiques converge on four themes: politics, patriarchy, abuse and the treatment of LGBTQ people. They tell of churches rallying behind Trump, keeping women out of leadership and instead promoting a culture of 'purity,' while failing to address abuse scandals exposed in the #ChurchToo movement that followed #MeToo," they explain.
Some call this divine intervention.
“I think God is raising up women to speak out,” said Amy Hawk, author of “The Judas Effect: How Evangelicals Betrayed Jesus for Power.” “God is allowing this so that we can see the corruption and step away from it.”
Hawk also has an impressive following on social media where she argues, "Bible in hand, that it is unbiblical to support Trump," RNS writes.
This has made her a beacon for women who have left the church. “Many are coming to me and saying, ‘Thank you, I thought I was going out of my mind,'" she said.
April Ajoy, author of “Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith,” woke up when she saw a former church acquaintance on TV storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 "under Christian nationalist flags." Then her brother came out as gay.
“I spent nights crying because I felt so alone and confused, questioning if everything I ever believed was a lie,” she said, and only later recalled things she’d said to others. “I didn’t realize my own hypocrisy in the middle of it,” said Ajoy. “I feel like the evangelical God is in a very tiny box.”
Yoder said her decision to leave the church was confirmed after seeing late MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk elevated to martyr status.
"He embodies how hateful and divisive they can be toward LGBTQ people. He was very much the opposite of what I wanted to be a part of," she said.
According to the Pew Research Center, research from the Public Religion Research Institute suggests that exvangelicals are comprised of 58 percent female and 42 percent male.
Their reasons vary, RNS writes: "80 percent say they no longer believe their religion’s teachings, 58 percent cite anti-LGBTQ views, while half say their faith harmed their mental health."
Beth Allison Barr, a Baylor University historian who chronicles women’s roles in the early and medieval church, says that women make up more of the exvangelical movement for one reason in particular.
"Women don’t see a place for themselves in the church,” Barr said. “They don’t hear women-elevated stories. They do not feel like their callings are appreciated.”
For many women, "Trump’s rise — and evangelical support for him — was a turning point," RNS explains. About 80 percent of white evangelical Protestants voted for him in the past three presidential elections.
“I honestly could not believe that the church was holding him up as anybody besides a con man and an abuser,” Hawk said. “I spent all those years ministering to women, being the hands and feet of Jesus, and then the church is telling me I should be excited about somebody that attacks women.”
Christian author Sheila Wray Gregoire likens the stories of exvangelical women to the early stages of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.
It’s a “rejection of Christianity as being about power,” Gregoire said. “I think that’s where we are, where people are dissatisfied with the church as it is. What’s coming hasn’t come yet. And we can’t see what that’s going to look like. But it’s an exciting place to be.”
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11/04/2025
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- William Wolfe believes that "we should be having a serious, national discussion - led by the Right - about how people like Ilhan Omar, Omar Fateh, and Zohran Mamdani aren't Americans in any meaningful or real sense (they are "paperwork Americans") and they should have no ability to hold public office in our nation."
- Wesley Todd asserts that "Republicans would win in Virginia if they had run a [competent] white man. Like they did in 2022. When they won."
- Eric Metaxas says that "Nick Fuentes is a hateful tool of the devil."
- Jason Rapert shares that sentiment: "Amid the current controversy over whether conservative commentators or organizations should platform individuals with antisemitic, Hitler-promoting, or Holocaust-denying views - I am honestly disgusted by those who do that. We can uphold free speech as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, while also rebuking those who say horrible and evil things. That’s our right under free speech as well!"
- Finally, Doug Wilson declares that "it is no sin for a woman to hold political office, provided it is as rare as a blue comet": "The lesson to be drawn is obviously that women in positions of civic leadership is not prohibited, provided that you maintain males in those positions at 90% or higher. That would be the level at which a society could safely be considered a patriarchal one."
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- Steve Deace says that Nick Fuentes is "the Louis Farrakhan of the right."
- William Wolfe has no problem with Tucker Carlson interviewing Fuentes because "if Kamala had won, most of us would be in prison": "If we don't win, there won't be a 'Right' to argue with about who goes on what podcast. Because there won't be an America. There will be a dystopian, gay race communist security state that steals your kids, locks you up, and empties your bank accounts just for believing what our Founding Fathers believed."
- For his part, Fuentes declares that people who are attacking him are "disgusting": "This is treachery and treason of the highest order against America."
- Mario Murillo believes there is only one explanation for why New Yorkers would elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor: "Without demons, it's impossible."
- Finally, Christian nationalist Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline announced that he will not be seeking reelection and will instead be taking a position with the National Faith Advisory Board under White House faith adviser Paula White.
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10/29/2025
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- Eric Metaxas declares that Zohran Mamdani is "about as wicked a figure as we have ever seen": "I don't think I have ever seen anyone as nefarious, as wicked as Mamdani. He's frightening."
- Joshua Haymes asserts that "a woman’s job is home-making": "When they neglect or reject this calling, not only does it make them miserable in the long run, it literally destroys society."
- Shane Vaughn proclaims that there are "two types of Americans": "In America, we have devout Americans that believe in the ideals, and then we have liberals who do not believe in those founding ideals. That's why we say of those liberals, they are not American."
- Lauren Witzke says that "TPUSA is where it is currently thanks to Nick Fuentes and the groypers steering Charlie in the right direction": "Others can try and deny it, but TPUSA and Charlie's views have evolved over time thanks to Nick."
- Finally, speaking of Fuentes, he brags that following his interview with Tucker Carlson, "I am no longer the radical on the outside; I'm actually the leader on the inside."
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Disgraced techbro launches app to 'hasten the coming of Christ's return'
Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger on May 6, 2014 (Image: Shutterstock)
Carl GibsonOctober 28, 2025
The former CEO of Intel is now rolling out an artificial intelligence-powered app aimed at churches and faith communities — and is being particularly open about what's motivating him.
The Guardian reported Tuesday that Pat Gelsinger — who led Intel between 2021 and 2024 before he was forced out after being sued by shareholders — is heavily promoting his evangelical philosophy as the head of tech company Gloo. In March of this year, Gelsinger took the helm of Gloo, which is a combination AI chatbot and workspace platform for churches. Gloo boasts that it serves more than 140,000 "faith, ministry and nonprofit leaders."
Gelsinger, who is a born-again Christian, said he was passionate about combining AI with his Christian values, and said Gloo was his opportunity to develop a large language model (LLM) infused with fundamentalist Christian theology.
"My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return," Gelsinger said.
Gizmodo's A.J. Dellinger wrote Tuesday that Gelsinger's quote about the second coming of Christ is particularly alarming, as it "would spell the end of the humanity, which would not be great for every human on the planet."
"Luckily, Gelsinger’s attempts to expedite the second coming via selling churches on a chatbot subscription or whatever are probably no more likely to be a conduit to the End Times than those TikTokers predicting the Rapture," Dellinger quipped.
The former Intel CEO's forced retirement in 2024 came despite the semiconductor industry experiencing a boom in previous years. Intel's performance in the industry was lackluster in comparison to competitors like Nvidia and AMD. Just before Gelsinger was driven out of his role, Intel had laid off roughly 15,000 people, making up about 15 percent of its workforce.
Click here to read the Guardian's full report.
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- Jim Garlow insists that the massive ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding "is a very important and needed addition to the White House complex."
- On a related note, Shane Vaughn is angry with those who are daring to criticize Trump over it: "The President absolutely has the authority to move forward with his ballroom construction without local permits when it involves a historic building. Stop acting like armchair attorneys. Do you honestly think you know more than the President’s own legal counsel and White House preservation team?"
- Brian Sauvé declares that pastors must be denounce feminism and be willing to "endure the shrieking and reviling of unrepentant loud women who manipulate their husbands and try to get you fired."
- Drenda Keesee says that "Christians have every reason to support ICE."
- Finally, Jurgen Matthesius asserts that "God calls all Christians to be nationalists": "The person who is the architect of not being a nationalist is Lucifer."
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Jesse Leon Rodgers Calls For Muslims To Be Banned From Holding Public Office
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Earlier this week, right-wing pastorJesse Leon Rodgers released a promotional video for his City Elders organization, which is a Christian nationalist group that seeks to "establish divine order in spiritual and civil governance" by bringing local pastors together with elected officials and religious-right activists.
In the video, Rodgers proclaimed that the Democratic Party is quite possibly "the most wicked institution" in world history, while also calling for Muslims to be banned from holding public office.
"We almost lost our country, our nation, our republic: the United States of America," Rodgers proclaimed. "Had the wicked won the election in 2024, this nation would have gone to Hell so rapidly you would not be able to recognize it today. They would have kept the border open, granted amnesty to 20 million illegals, stacked the Supreme Court, and gotten rid of the Electoral College. They would have continued their evil agenda to destroy the family, morality, marriage, children, and the unborn. Truly, the Democrat Party has become the most wicked institution in the history of the United States and possibly the world."
Later in the video, Rodgers repeated his warning that Muslims are running for office, which is something he falsely claimed had once been illegal.
"In this last election cycle, more than 800 Muslims ran for public office in the United States," he said. "Before Joe Biden was in the Senate, we had a law on the books in the United States prohibiting a Muslim from holding public office in this nation. And short of a divine miracle, New York City, America's largest city, in this next election cycle will have a Muslim mayor. We said we would never forget September 11, 2001, but 24 years later, the largest city in America is electing a socialist, communist, Muslim mayor. The United States of America must once again put a law on the books prohibiting a Muslim from holding public office, and the rest of the nation must do what the state of Texas has done, making Sharia illegal in this nation."
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Right-wing Christians exposed in 'explosive report' detailing abuse
Photo by Alicia Quan on Unsplash
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Religion News Service reports that the anti-LGBTQ, hyper conservative Anglican Church of North America is being hounded by new controversy connected to a troublemaking leader.
"Archbishop Steve Wood, who heads the Anglican Church of North America, faces allegations of sexual harassment, bullying and plagiarism, according to an explosive report released by The Washington Post on Thursday (Oct. 23)."
“I was in shock,” said former children’s ministry director Claire Buxton, who claims Wood tried to kiss her and later gave her more than $3,000 from church funds. “It’s just bizarre to me how far we — the Anglican Church in North America and its leadership — have gotten away from basic morals and principles.”
The young denomination was founded in 2009 after some 700 churches split from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in Canada over a host of disagreements, including the acceptance of women priests, LGBTQ+ affirmation and the rewritten Book of Common Prayer.
Now the denomination is more known for a rector accusing Wood of preaching sermons he didn’t write, publicly cursing at colleagues and misusing a $60,000 truck provided by the diocese for church visits.
Buxton told reporters that Wood began acting inappropriately with her in 2021, repeatedly showering her with money, calling her “Claire Bear” and offering to send her to a luxury resort. Buxton said she was fearful Wood would attempt to start a physical relationship with her. When she confronted him, she claims Wood told her: “You know how special you are to me. You’re my favorite person in the world.” And when she got up to leave, she claims he put his hand against the back of her head and tried to kiss her.
This is not the denomination’s first shake-up, reports Religion News. In July 2021, a mother went public with allegations that Mark Rivera, a leader at Christ Our Light Anglican Church in Big Rock, Illinois, had sexually abused her 9-year-old daughter. And at least nine other people have shared grooming or sexual misconduct allegations against Rivera, who has since been convicted of felony sexual assault and felony child sexual assault.
“Additionally, more than 10 clergy and other lay leaders in the Upper Midwest diocese have been accused of misconduct as a result, and its bishop, Stewart Ruch, stood trial in a proceeding that concluded Oct. 15 — but not before two prosectors had resigned amid claims of procedural misconduct,” reports Religion News. “The church court’s order is expected on or before Dec. 16.”
Another bishop was defrocked in 2020 due to his use of adult content, and in 2024, another bishop, Todd Atkinson, was ousted for inappropriate relationships with women.
Read the Religion news report at this link.
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10/22/2025
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- Elijah Schaffer says that women serving as pastors is "the infantalization of God": "I don't understand how you can be a lesbian pastor. I understand how you can be a lesbian: you just get molested when you're younger."
- Doug Billings declares that former President Barack Obama sought to "fundamentally transform America away from the divine providence of God and the intent of the Founding Fathers": "That was the most anti-American sentiment that any president has ever uttered."
- Lana Lokteff is thrilled that "white girls are saying ni**er on the internet."
- Nate Schatzline is using his new podcast to spread right-wing disinformation.
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The Rev. Tony Suárez, an evangelical pastor who once advised President Donald Trump and publicly backed his 2016 campaign, said Wednesday he no longer plans to endorse political candidates, citing frustration with divisive politics and the Trump administration’s hardline immigration stance.
Speaking at the Religion News Service symposium “God, Government and the Algorithm” in New York City, Suárez, vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said he now hopes to focus on “policy, not personality.”
“I don’t know that I’ll endorse any more candidates after this go-round,” Suárez said, per a Religion News Service report.
“I’d like to talk more about concepts and ideas and policy more than, ‘How dare you vote for that man?’ or ‘How dare you vote for that woman?’”
Suárez, who has voted for Trump three times, said he once believed the president supported immigration reform. But he now blames White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for policies that created fear in Hispanic churches.
“I don’t blame President Trump as much as I blame Stephen Miller,” he said. “I’m not a Stephen Miller fan. I’m very frustrated with him, and I hold him responsible for a lot of the ideology.”
The Tennessee pastor said both parties have failed Latino voters on immigration, accusing Democrats of “empty promises” and Republicans of refusing to “come to the table of reason.”
Suárez added that the supplicant attitude around Trump’s movement made him uncomfortable. “It becomes borderline idolatry,” he said. “I can’t participate in it.”
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Religious leaders mount 'moral counter' to Trump’s 'distortions of Christian values'
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Does religion drive Americans to support or oppose economic inequality? That’s a question explored by a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University who recently examined ten years of a megachurch’s sermons in a published paper: “‘I Thank God We’re Rich’: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation.”
“To investigate how evangelical leaders confront the conflict between inequality and egalitarian passages of the Bible, I conducted a sermon analysis study of New River, a Midwestern suburban megachurch,” wrote Dawson P. R. Vosburg.
“New River’s approach to inequality was one of clear justification of the status quo, centered on the justification of wealth accumulation and the minimization of inequality’s moral importance,” Vosburg added.
The church’s pastors, he found, “justified economic inequality in several ways: proclaiming that God did not condemn ownership of vast wealth; minimizing domestic inequality in comparison to global inequality; selectively spiritualizing economic passages of the Bible; and saying that God owns everything and thus the status quo distribution is justified.”
Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist examined the paper. He writes that Vosburg found sermons “that discussed anything financial—by searching for terms like ‘rich,’ ‘tithe,’ ‘debt,’ ‘billionaire,’ etc.—and analyzed the results to see how this typical white evangelical megachurch minimized the wealth gap.” He also noted that Vosburg anonymized the name of the church.
Mehta looked at the four ways New River downplayed wealth inequality:
“They condemned ‘rich shaming’ anyone”
The pastor, Mehta found, “delivered an anecdote about a rich couple that left another church and came to his because they felt personally attacked when their previous pastor condemned wealth from the pulpit. (At their new home, of course, their tithes would go into New River’s coffers.)”
“They downplayed U.S. inequality by focusing on global inequality”
Essentially, pastors told congregants that compared to the world’s poor, they were doing quite well.
“They re-interpreted Bible verses about poverty—even the direct ones”
When it comes to preaching about the poor, Mehta wrote, the pastor was “not talking about financially poor people, he’s talking about spiritually impoverished people.”
Vosburg told Mehta that pastors stressed tithing “over 150 times across 16 separate sermons.”
“They said God owns everything, anyway”
Ultimately, Mehta explained, the pastor’s point was to not be mad “at people with private jets and yachts and multiple summer homes.”
“The takeaway from all this,” Mehta wrote, “is that conservative policies that benefit the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else in society are going to be supported by congregations like this one that are being brainwashed into thinking God loves the rich and the poor deserve their lot in life.”
Mehta also blasted the New River pastor.
“Pastors like this one hollow out Christ’s teachings until all that’s left is a gilded throne for the wealthy. In their hands, Scripture is a weapon to shame the poor, a shield to protect billionaires, and a drug to keep their congregations quiet while the cancer of inequality grows around them.”
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10/20/2025
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- Peter Michaels claims that participants in the "No Kings" protests "are not interested in protesting kings and defending democracy. In truth, they are more interested in tearing down the United States, Christianity especially": "They rebel like the devil did against order, against hierarchy, and against the immutable fact that Christ is King not only over each of them but also over society by natural right."
- Kandiss Taylor says that "liberal white women are destroying our country."
- John Amanchukwu declares that any black person who is a member of Joel Webbon's congregation must leave his church: "This Grand Wizard-talking KKK master, he's messed up and he's saying the quiet part out loud, proudly and in a pompous and arrogant way."
- Chad Connely asserts that Charlie Kirk was "the leading conservative icon of this century and maybe one of the best evangelists to ever live in America."
- Finally, Jon Miller insists that "it is impossible for a man to [rape] his wife": "in fact bro can crack her whenever he wants and it’s a sin for her to refuse."
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Religious leaders infuriated by Eric Trump claim his father is 'saving' Christianity
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10/16/2025 RWW
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- Mario Murillo says that America has two options: "Revival or civil war."
- Todd Coconato likes when President Donald Trump shoves aside other world leaders so that he can stand in front and thinks that the church "could learn from him and his leadership [style]."
- Nick Fuentes is now selling a WANGHAF T-Shirt, which stands for "White Ass Niggas Going Hard As Fuck."
- Speaking of Fuentes, he has no qualms about berating his own supporters who give him money via superchats during his programs because they are hurting him by asking stupid questions and wasting the opportunity to "get to talk to one of the exceptional people of the world."
- Finally, Jack Hibbs has a simple explanation for why Christians should be involved in politics: "Because if we're not involved in politics, lunatics will be."
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Conservative journalist David French, in his New York Times columns, has often stressed that religion — including Christianity — plays a valuable role in American life. But in his October 16 column, the Never Trump conservative offers a grim critique on the state of U.S. Christianity almost nine months into President Donald Trump's second term.
French, on one hand, laments that many Americans are still turned off to religion in 2025. But he also fears that MAGA converts to evangelical Christianity are embracing a mean-spirited view of faith.
"Despite what you may have heard about the renewal of interest in religion in America," French explains, "we are not experiencing a true revival, at least not yet. Instead, America is closer to a religious revolution, and the difference between revolution and revival is immensely important for the health of our country — and of the Christian church in America. At this point, it's almost beyond debate that something important is stirring in American religion. There is too much data — and too many anecdotes — to ignore."
French argues that "as a Christian who has long lamented the decline of church attendance in the United States," he "should be very happy about" a growing interest in religion on college campuses. But he is worried about MAGA's role in these conversions.
"There is darkness right alongside the light," the conservative columnist warns. "Christians stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Christians have believed and applauded dark prophecies that compare Donald Trump to Jehu, a murderous Old Testament king who commanded the slaughter of the previous queen, Jezebel, and had the severed heads of the previous king's sons brought to him in baskets. Incredibly, Christians are attacking what they call the 'sin of empathy,' warning fellow believers against identifying too much with, say, illegal immigrants, gay people or women who seek abortions. Empathy, in this formulation, can block moral and theological clarity. What's wrong is wrong, and too much empathy will cloud your soul."
French continues, "There was the ReAwaken America tour that crisscrossed America during Joe Biden's presidency, during which angry Christians called for vengeance at sold-out venues from coast to coast. And, as I wrote last month, the (Charlie) Kirk memorial itself mixed calls for love — most notably, Erika Kirk's decision to forgive her husband's killer — with the Trump administration's explicit hate."
French finds the us-versus-them rhetoric of MAGA evangelicals especially troubling.
"Revival begins with the people proclaiming, by word and deed, 'I have sinned,'" French writes. "MAGA Christianity has a different message. It looks at American culture and declares, 'You have sinned.' And it doesn't stop there. It also says, 'We will defeat you.' In its most extreme forms, it also says, 'We will rule over you.' That's not revival; it’s revolution, a religious revolution that seeks to overthrow one political order and replace it with another — one that has echoes of the religious kingdoms of ages past."
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*David French's full New York Times column is available at this link (subscription required).
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Eric Trump’s controversial remarks — declaring that his father is guided by God and praising what he describes as a divinely orchestrated series of events leading America to this moment — are being blasted by a group of hundreds of national security experts.
“I can’t tell you how many things are lining up,” the President’s son told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson.
“I mean, think about the fact that this book came out on Charlie Kirk’s birthday, on the same day as we have peace in the Middle East,” he said, of his new book. “You know, I mean, so many different factors are all coming together at once in the most unthinkable, unbelievable journey.”
“Look how much better humanity and our world is,” under Trump, he claimed.
“You know, we’re saving Christianity. We’re saving God, we’re saving the family unit. We’re saving this nation. I mean, you know, DEI is out the window, Benny. You know, I mean, you no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem,” Trump continued. “You no longer have Budweiser going, woke as h–, all of this is dead.”
Trump claimed a resurgence in church attendance, and “a return to people, you know, valuing their children, and valuing society, and believing in the white picket fence, and what the American dream represents, and what the American dream stands for, and American exceptionalism, and peace around the world, and that people can coexist with one another without having to, you know, pick up arms and destroy each other for no reason whatsoever, other than, you know, incompetent, and, you know, and egotistical governments.”
“It’s a beautiful time, and he will go to heaven for all of that,’ he said of his father. “God absolutely guided this journey.”
The Steady State, a group of over 330 former national security officials, slammed the Trump scion’s remarks.
“Eric Trump is not talking politics,” they wrote. “Instead, he’s declaring a new moral order.”
“Framing Trump as God-guided and destined for heaven, he claims America has been ‘saved’ from DEI, protest, and pluralism. This is prophetic, authoritarian language,” they warned.
“Dissent becomes evil, and their victory becomes divine destiny.”
Former Obama head speechwriter turned political commentator Jon Favreau remarked, “We’ve moved rather quickly from ‘God saved Trump’ to ‘Trump is saving God,’ which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?”
Author Jennifer Erin Valent, winner of a Christian writers’ award commented, “No one ‘saves’ God. Every Christian should know that and be repulsed by the very assertion.”
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Joel Webbon Tells Christians To Join ICE And 'Make Jesus Smile' By Enacting ‘God’s Vengeance’ on Immigrants
10/07/2025
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Christian nationalists have vocally supported the militantly harsh deportation campaign that President Donald Trump has enacted since returning to the White House, so it was no surprise to see racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic pastor Joel Webbon urge Christians to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement effort on Monday's episode of his "Right Response Ministries" podcast.
"You can't be vigilante, but you literally can join ICE and be God's appointed avenger who seeks to carry out God's vengeance on the evildoer," Webbon told his audience. "Immigration is evil, at least at the level that we have it today."
"Those who are flooding our country—it's not theirs—they are flooding our country like a swarm of locusts and eating up the inheritance that your fathers, by their blood, sweat, and tears, laid up for you," Webbon continued. "It is a breach, a rebellion, against the Fifth Commandment to honor your father and mother."
Webbon declared that this nation, which belongs to "heritage Americans," is "being devoured by those who it does not belong to."
"And so to join the proper mechanism through ICE and to become, in that sense, God's appointed deacon to carry out vengeance on the evildoer who is devouring the inheritance of the children, that is a righteous thing," Webbon proclaimed. "You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country. That is a godly, glorious endeavor."
Webbon's co-host Wesley Todd then noted that, as an added bonus, ICE agents "also get to throw libs to the ground too."
"That is also a God-glorifying endeavor," Todd said.
"These are people who hate you," Webbon agreed. "They hate the country. They're trying to destroy it. These are criminals. It's treason. These are traitors. They're traitors to America, and it's time to clean up our country."
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- Liberty Counsel declares that "the 'queer' movement seeks to silence and punish ALL Christians for their faith, and Obergefell is the source of their attacks": "Obergefell is the cancer, and it must go. It is incompatible with reality, biology, and religious freedom."
- Todd Starnes claims that Democrats "wish they could kill Republicans, piss on their graves and then force Republican mothers to watch as their children are slaughtered": "The Democrat Party is the Party of Satan."
- Mario Murillo says that "convincing preachers to stay out of politics was the masterstroke of the Devil."
- Tyler O'Neil of The Daily Signal reports that he has been speaking with member of Congress about launching investigations into the Southern Poverty Law Center, which MAGA has been targeting in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
- Finally, Hung Cao, who asserted that Wiccans had taken over California and brought "a lot of witchcraft" to the state while warning that "we can't let that happen in Virginia" during his failed Senate campaign in 2024, is now Under Secretary of the Navy.
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Liberal Georgia-based journalist Zaid Jilani, who was raised Muslim, has a long history of criticizing the Religious Right. Jilani, back in the 1990s and 2000s, often argued that while there's nothing wrong with faith and religion, "theocracy" has no place in a constitutional democratic republic like the United States.
But in an op-ed published by the New York Times on September 26, Jilani lays out some reasons why he finds 2025's MAGA Christian nationalists much more troubling than the fundamentalist evangelicals he criticized in the past.
"As the George W. Bush years rolled on," Jilani recalls, "I joined my fellow liberal activists in watching documentaries like 'Jesus Camp,' which warned of an impending Christian theocracy. I argued vigorously for separation of church and state, and I waited on pins and needles for the end of a movement I viewed as stifling freedom of religion and freedom of expression. But I'm starting to miss the Christian conservatives I grew up with. Unlike the Christian Right of my childhood, today's variations — some of which see President Trump as a religious figure — seem incapable of being compassionate toward outgroups like mine."
Jilani recalls that after al-Qaeda's 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-President George W. Bush was careful to make a distinction between jihadist and non-jihadist Muslims. Bush described Islam as a "great religion," making it clear that he didn't blame all Muslims for 9/11.
"I think back to the days right after September 11, when Mr. Bush — the politician most closely associated with the 21st-Century Christian Right — visited a mosque in Washington, D.C., to emphasize that Muslims were just as American as anyone else," Jilani explains. "It's easy to laugh this off, given what happened afterward — he set off a bungling war on terrorism that included an unnecessary war in Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Yet Mr. Bush set the tone for the millions of devout Christians who voted for him."
MAGA's "Christian nationalism," Jilani laments, "can be distinguished more by cruelty than kindness."
"These new Christian conservatives are represented by people like Matt Walsh, a popular right-wing Catholic commentator," the Georgia-based journalist warns. "Conservatives spent years working across the aisle on criminal justice reform. Mr. Walsh has floated the return of whipping and amputations as punishments and said that by resisting Mr. Trump's militarization of law enforcement in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson had committed treason and should be 'given the requisite punishment for a capital offense'…. There is no issue where the current crop of Christian Right politicians departs more from the old than immigration."
Zilani, who is Pakistani-American, adds, "Christians like Mr. Bush condemned nativism. These new activists embrace it."
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During a Sunday, September 21 memorial for Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, a speech from his widow, Erika Kirk, was followed by a speech from President Donald Trump — who told attendees that unlike her, "I hate my opponents."
The following day on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough discussed Trump's call for revenge with one of his guests: New York Times columnist and fellow Never Trump conservative David French, who warned that the obsession with revenge is one of the things white evangelical Christians like about Trump. VID]
, a former GOP congressman, "You have, on the one hand, a church that will rise and rightly applaud the incredible words of Erika Kirk and then turn around and happily go to the polls not in spite of Trump's vengeance, but because of Trump's sense of vengeance….. If you've been paying attention to American religion and American politics over the last decade, it wouldn't surprise you to see that Erika Kirk speech and to hear the applause and then to hear the Donald Trump speech and hear the laughter and applause to that as well — and realize that, in many ways, that is what politics is doing to American Christianity."
French continued, "It is creating this face of vengeance. Because Americans know he has the power to work his vengeance because of the church. It is the church that put him into office — the evangelical church — more than any other American constituency. And so, what we watched unfold in front of us — when he spoke like that, this wasn't in contradiction of what so many Christians wanted out of their president here. It is exactly why so many Christians voted for this president…. That is the frustrating complexity of what is happening in this moment."
Scarborough, who was raised Baptist in the South, argued that the vengeance theme of Trump's speech was a major contrast to what former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) — a vehement critic of Trump — said about the U.S. president.
Scarborough told French, "This takes me back to practicing Catholic Nancy Pelosi saying that she prayed for Donald Trump every day. As Jesus commanded us in Matthew 5, you love your enemies. You pray for those who persecute you."
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aha hmmn how much of this is std www hype one upmanship and how much just into violence?
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09/23/2025
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- Jim Garlow says that Charlie Kirk's memorial service "will go down in history as one of America’s – and maybe the world’s – most significant days."
- Tony Perkins, on the other hand, was "troubled by a few of the speeches" at Kirk's memorial service because some of the speakers seemed to be delivering "a political Gospel."
- Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith believes that Kirk is now in Heaven "getting handshakes from Moses."
- Tim Barton claims that Democrats who refused to vote for a House resolution honoring Kirk were "choosing the side of the devil."
- Joel Webbon thinks that Erika Kirk's decision to forgive her husband's killer shows "why you can't have women in leadership."
- Finally, in the wake of Kirk's murder, Andrew Isker wants to see "a maximum amount of force is wielded against the left in this country to such an extent that even I might get uncomfortable": "If I start to be uncomfortable, then it's like, okay, we are on the right track."
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09/23/2025
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Donald Trump’s religious-right allies have not been shy about claiming that he was anointed by God to lead the United States. It’s been going on since Trump’s first presidential campaign and gained new intensity since Trump survived an assassination attempt last year. Trump has been happy to amplify his supporters’ claim that he was chosen—and saved—by God to carry out a divine mission as president.
Now Trump, a relentless fundraiser, has adopted a fundraising tactic employed by his spiritual and political adviser, White House aide Paula White. White is a proponent of the prosperity gospel, with a track record of promising supporters that they can obtain spiritual blessings by sending her money. Prosperity preachers call this “sowing a seed of faith,” and many Christians consider White and the prosperity gospel heretical.
But it seems to bring in the bucks, so it’s not entirely surprising that Trump has decided to borrow the rhetorical device. In an email sent to MAGA supporters today, Trump tells supporters, “I need you NOW” and urges them to send him money to defeat the “radical left” on which he has declared war:
And remember this – when you give, you are not just contributing to a political cause. You are sowing a SEED OF FAITH into the future of our Nation.
The Bible tells us faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains. And together, our faith will move America back to GOD. Back to TRUTH. Back to GREATNESS.
Trump’s email opens with the kind of rhetoric employed by religious-right operatives who portray those who disagree with them as enemies of God:
Since the day I returned to the White House, I have felt the mighty hand of God guiding this movement. His Word reminds us: “If God is for us, who can be against us?”*
The enemies of freedom thought they could break us with lies, with courts, with endless persecution – but they were WRONG.
The virtual merger between the evangelical right and the MAGA movement was on display at last weekend’s gathering in honor of the murdered MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, which was partly an evangelical worship service, partly a MAGA rally, and partly a call to war against “the left,” the “forces of evil,” and the movement’s enemies. While Kirk’s widow and successor as head of TPUSA Erika Kirk said she forgave his killer and talked about the Christian imperative to love one’s enemies, she was followed to the microphone by Trump who, in addition to his typical litany of grievances, directly contradicted her when he said he does not love his opponents but hates them, thus giving the event’s massive audience permission to ignore her call to Christian conscience and embrace his call to war.
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09/18/2025
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- Cliff Kincaid says that the cultural "embrace of homosexuality" is responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk and hopes that "Trump will act to purge the perverts from the Republican Party and his administration."
- Liberty Counsel shares that view: "Tyler Robinson, radicalized by this agenda and living with another confused young man, took that anger out with a rifle shot to Charlie Kirk’s neck. Robinson’s case shows the extremes Obergefell has caused."
- Eric Metaxas declares that "CHARLIE KIRK IS THE BONHOEFFER OF OUR TIME": "He was never silent in the face of evil and was therefore as powerful a witness for the faith as anyone could be."
- After reportedly seeing Charlie Kirk rewarded in Heaven, Kat Kerr claims to have subsequently spotted him enjoying a large ice cream cone.
- It seems that Mario Murillo is a 9/11 truther.
- Finally, David Reilly asserts that the Holocaust isn't real.
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09/17/2025
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- Lance Wallnau claims that Charlie Kirk was "the first martyr of the Third Great Awakening."
- Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says that "the radical Left doesn’t just tolerate political violence—they weaponize it": "They nod, they wink, they issue their pathetic 'generic condemnations,' and then they watch as their mobs do the dirty work: burning cities, terrorizing families, silencing dissent, and celebrating assassinations of conservative leaders. Let’s stop pretending this is some fringe accident. This is the Left’s playbook. They thrive on fear and chaos. They want Christians hiding. They want patriots intimidated. They want America crushed under their boot."
- Elijah Schaffer and Olivia Krolczyk celebrate getting some 400 people fired for allegedly mocking Kirk's death.
- Tim Barton continues to insist that "the majority of the ideas that influenced the Founding Fathers came from the Bible" even though it is not true.
- Finally, Alex Stein will be speaking at an upcoming Moms For Liberty summit, which seems like a ... questionable choice.
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09/09/2025
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- Eric Metaxas declares that "America was on the verge of going away forever" until President Donald Trump saved religious liberty: "So I praise Jesus for this commission, for this president, and for this nation."
- It is telling the slavery-apologist Doug Wilson repeatedly refers to the Civil War as "the War between the States."
- Elijah Schaffer reports that he is seeking to obtain the uncensored footage of a young white woman being brutally murdered by a mentally-ill black man with plans to release it "out of the necessity to prevent a race war."
- Reacting to the same murder, Wesley Todd says that black people are inherently more violent because "when you worship demons for thousands of years, you tend to be a violent, impulsive people. Old habits die hard."
- Finally, Joshua Haymes proclaims that "every single politician should be giving special treatment to Christianity."
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