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Graphic from the website of 50 Day Fight, a dominionist spiritual warfare project.

In 2020, a group of Donald Trump’s religious-right supporters announced the “50 Day Fight,” a spiritual warfare project to defeat “the enemy” and ask God to perform “a second miracle” by giving Trump another victory. This year’s version of the “50 Day Fight” kicked off Sunday night Sept. 15, with anti-equality dominionist Jim Garlow as keynoter and a number of Florida politicians as speakers, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.

The 50-day concept refers to both the 50 days before the election and the 50 states. A promotional video for the project says that participants will be praying “state-by-state for candidates we believe will uphold our biblical values once in office.” Last night featured prayers for Alaskan congressional candidate Nick Begich.

“Tonight, we begin 50 days of getting our country back to its Christian foundation,” said Daniel Bernard, president of Somebody Cares Tampa Bay and organizer of the 50 Day Fight. “It’s going to take the church to be God’s army,” he said, adding that he expected God to show up as captain of the army of angels.

Garlow gained national prominence by organizing against marriage equality among California’s evangelical churches during the 2008 Prop 8 campaign. He is listed as a “facilitator” on the 50 Day Fight website. He told the audience at Community Bible Baptist Church in Pinellas Park, Florida, that Florida was the only state with a chance to defeat an abortion rights measure on the ballot this year “unless we see God move in a miraculous way.”

Garlow was not the only speaker to urge attendees to mobilize against Amendment 4, which would provide state constitutional protection for access to abortion before fetal viability and when a woman’s doctor believes it necessary to protect her health. But Luna, locked in a competitive race, has been _dodging questions_ about how she will vote on the measure, even though, as the New York Times has noted, she “has previously referred to herself as a ‘pro-life extremist'” and said last year that she does not believe in exceptions for “terrible circumstances.”

In his remarks, Garlow equated social justice with Marxism and warned that the United Nations and World Health Organization are out to destroy American sovereignty. He said “globalism is always associated with the spirit of antichrist” and that people with an antichrist spirit hate Trump “because he’s blocking the globalist agenda.”

Garlow also promoted his latest book, “Re-Versed: From Culturally Woke to Biblically Awake,” which claims to cover “biblical foundations” for 60 topics, including climate change, critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Garlow offered discounts to people who would buy his book by the case, and announced that he has produced a coloring-book version for kids.

Rep. Luna declared, “We are in a spiritual battle for our country.” Luna confidently predicted that Trump would win this year’s election, saying that “come this November, we will have a praying man again in the White House.”

Florida State Rep. Berny Jacques touted actions taken by the legislature to fight “indoctrination” in education and teacher training, adding, “we also passed the law that allows chaplains now to go into our schools, taking us a step further to bringing God back into our schools.”

Also highlighted were candidates for school board, a judgeship, the St. Petersburg City Council, and Pinellas County Commission.

The project’s website lists a number of religious-right groups as partners and sponsors, including WallBuilders, the Florida Faith & Freedom Coalition, voter turnout operation My Faith Votes, and Intercessors for America. A representative of the Pinellas County-based Florida Faith Foundations asked that their prayers would “pull down these demonic strongholds that have asserted themselves into the atmosphere of the United States of America.”

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‘The Last Election We Would Ever Have’: Jim Garlow (Again) Prophesies Doom if Voters Don’t Elect Candidates Dedicated to ‘Biblical Governance’

By Kyle Mantyla | August 8, 2023

Heading into the 2012 election, right-wing pastor Jim Garlow warned that if then-President Barack Obama was reelected, the United States would be “unsalvageable.”

We have about ten months left to save this nation. It’s not that the nation will cease to exist after November, it’s just that the die will have been cast in such a way that we will never, ever be able to reclaim that which we once had. Whether it be in the arena of reclaiming safety for the womb, the definition of marriage, or of the economic fact that we’re$15 trillion in the hole now and $110 trillion in unfunded liabilities – this is a nation that will be decimated, it will be unsalvageable after November if we cannot get it turned. Even with the strongest leadership that we might be able to elect it is still going to be a very hard task because of how far down we have fallen both morally and economically as it relates to biblical understanding.

As the election neared, Garlow’s warnings became even more dire, asserting that Obama’s reelection would mean that “America as we have known her will be forever gone.”

We have 61 days of America left. If we do not turn at this point, America as we have known her will be forever gone. It is crisic that people vote, that they activate, that they become informed and they influence every other people they can regardless of how unreceptive people might be to them announcing where they stand on the issues. It is time for us to be unbelievably bold.

Despite those warnings, the nation somehow managed to survive, prompting Garlow to declare prior to the 2016 election that “we have a limited time for resuscitation.” Presumably, the election of former President Donald Trump temporarily rescued the nation, but the mortal danger remained. As such, just before the 2020 election, Garlow, a die-hard Trump supporter, frantically proclaimed that “you are about to lose your country” if Joe Biden became president.

With another election just over the horizon, Garlow is once again prophesying doom, using his Sunday night World Prayer Network livesteam to predict that if voters don’t elect candidates committed to “biblical governance,” then “this will be the last election we would ever have.”

“Every year, we say, ‘This is the most important election we’ve ever had,'” Garlow. “You know why we say that? Because it’s true. And this is the most important election we’ve ever had. Folks, if we don’t score right on this one and get us moved to biblical governance, this will be the last election we would ever have." [vid]

"i’m not trying to be melodramatic,” Garlow insisted. “I’m just laying out the facts as they are.”

Given that Garlow has been regularly issuing this same warning for over a decade now, it’s probably safe to say that he is, in fact, just being melodramatic.

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Kingdom In Politics Is Training Right-Wing Christians to Run for Office for the Purpose of ‘Bringing Heaven to Earth’

Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | May 25, 2023

Wednesday night’s World Prayer Network livestream was dedicated entirely to encouraging right-wing Christians to see serving in government as a “mission field” in order to ensure that God’s will shall “be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.”

An outgrowth of a prayer movement that began in the wake of the 2020 presidential election when religious-right activists began to gather together several times a week to pray for God to intervene and overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss, the World Prayer Network has since transformed into a bi-weekly livestream.

While WPN founders, right-wing activists Jim Garlow and Mario Bramnick, often use the program as a conduit for the promotion of wild conspiracy theories, Wednesday night’s program featuring a conservative Christian political strategist named Aamon Ross who runs a political consulting business called Kingdom In Politics, the purpose of which is to “prepare and inspire believers to take an active role in politics.”

Ross revealed that he got involved in politics in 2016 after literally hearing the voice of God instruct him to do, prompting him to team up with his good friend Kevin Stitt to run Stitt’s successful campaign for governor in Oklahoma.

“I was in the business world for 20 years,” Ross said. “On a half mission/half business trip to China back in 2016, [I] was walking along the Great Wall and heard the voice of God—literally—and it scared me to death. He said, ‘Aamon, you think too small. You don’t think generationally,’ I came back to the states, meeting with one of my really good friends and shared that. He said, ‘What do you think it means?’ I said, ‘For some reason, I feel like God wants you and me to put godly leaders in positions of authority in the political sphere.’ He said, ‘Don’t tell anybody, but I’m thinking God’s calling me to run for governor.’ So I ended up leaving the business world and ran his campaign for governor with zero political experience. … He won the general election, so he’s actually now in his second term as governor of Oklahoma, doing an incredible job bringing Kingdom ideals there.”

Ross’s reference to putting “godly leaders in positions of authority in the political sphere” seems to be a reference to Seven Mountains dominionism, which Garlow and Bramnick promote, and that movement’s intention to put right-wing Christians in authority over every “mountain” or “sphere” of cultural influence in society, including government.

Stitt is a Christian nationalist who last year dedicated “every square inch” of Oklahoma to Jesus.

Ross then revealed that it is the goal of his organization to recruit “1,000 churches to commit to run one person for school board” and to “raise up 100,000 believers to run for office over the next 10 years.”

Ross declared that it is imperative that conservative Christians begin to see serving in government at all levels as a “mission field,” which means penetrating an area of society for the purpose of spreading Christianity and implementing its teaching.

“They are trying to cancel Jesus,” Ross declared. “We want to be leaders, and we want to set the tone and set the country on a path to kingdom [principles]. The Lord’s Prayer, right? Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. How does that happen if we’re not the ones bringing Heaven to Earth? … What if the world of politics is the next big mission field? What if we viewed this as we’re sending missionaries into city council, we’re sending missionaries into the state House or Senate, we’re sending them to Congress. If we started viewing the world of politics like the next big mission field, I think we could make a dramatic difference in just a couple of short years.”

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