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03/25/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

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10/01/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

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08/12/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

Last month, Ché Ahn, a far-right pastor in California, announced that he is running in the 2026 election to become governor of his home state.

Last week, Ahn officially launched his campaign with an event at which he explained how he has been called by God to run for the office.

"On April 28th, I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit at 2:30 in the morning," Ahn said. "The presence of God came upon me and this weighty presence—the kavod of God, the glory of God—came and I felt this incredible knowing. I didn't hear a voice, I didn't see a vision, I didn't have a dream, but I knew I was called to run for governor."

Ahn claimed that he initially resisted the calling and insisted upon receiving a confirmation from God that this is what he has been instructed to do.

"My first reaction, I said, 'Lord, please not this,'" Ahn claimed. "I'll do anything you ask me to do them not run for governor. And yet, I knew that I couldn't shake it. I was up for two hours, until like 4:30 in the morning just praying through this. Then I said, 'Lord, you know my weakness. I need a confirmation. I just can't go on this impression.' ... If I get an invitation from President Trump to come to the White House, then I know this is of you. Two hours later, I get a text saying that I'm going to get an e-mail invitation from President Trump to the White House for the National Day of Prayer at the Rose Garden."

"Now you can't make this up," Ahn declared. "And I said, 'OK, Lord, OK, that's a sign.'"

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As Right Wing Watch reported when he first announced his campaign, Ahn is an ardently pro-Trump Christian nationalist activist and a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation:

The New Apostolic Reformation is a growing religious and political movement that emerged from the Pentecostal corner of American Christianity over the past few decades. President Donald Trump’s rise to power was assisted by NAR leaders who declared that Trump was anointed by God to lead America; in turn, Trump and his spiritual adviser Paula White have given dominionist leaders a level of access and influence they have never had before.

The movement’s leaders, like Ahn, believe that Christians who share their religious and political worldview are commanded to transform whole nations by taking “dominion” over every sphere of influence in society, including government, and "occupy" them until the return of Christ. Ahn’s campaign website says he is running “not out of ambition, but out of obedience.”

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01/21/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

Dominionist pastor Ché Ahn appeared on the Christian nationalist program "FlashPoint" last week, where he declared that those who oppose President Donald Trump or anyone in his administration are "fighting God."

"Concerning all the [cabinet] candidates, I really believe we're seeing Daniel 2 played out where God says I'm going to remove leaders and replace them," Ahn said. "That's what we're seeing. God, in his sovereignty and his mercy on our nation as we have prayed and repented of our sins, he is answering our prayers."

"He's put Trump into position," Ahn continued. "But not only that, [Vice President J.D.] Vance. Are you kidding me? This incredible vice president and as well as the cabinet member, it's like an all-star team, a dream team that you couldn't even figure out or make up. God's doing it and so whoever fights them is really fighting God."

With Trump and his cabinet in place, Ahn proclaimed that America will "have incredible revival and reformation as a result of that for four years and beyond."

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Ahn, a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation and head of Harvest International Ministries ​based in Pasadena, California, was active in the right-wing effort to keep Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election, appearing at a rally on Jan. 5, 2021—one day before the Capitol insurrection—where he proclaimed that Trump would stay in power and told rallygoers that they would “rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.”01/21/2025

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Dominionist pastor Ché Ahn appeared at an event in Oklahoma last night that was organized by the Christian nationalist program “FlashPoint,” where he bragged that several members of his congregation are on the ballot for the November elections in California.

Ahn, a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation and head of Harvest International Ministries ​based in Pasadena, California, was active in the right-wing effort to keep former President Donald Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election, appearing at a rally on Jan. 5, 2021—one day before the Capitol insurrection—where he proclaimed that Trump would stay in power and that they would “rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.”

While Trump did not remain in office, Ahn is still intent on seeing his fellow right-wing Christians “rule and reign” over this nation.

“It is time for the church to rise,” Ahn told the FlashPoint audience. “We have the answers. We are the ones and we can’t just wait for the government—you are his ekklesia, you are his legislative body of the Kingdom of God and you need to be involved.”

“We’re encouraging people to run for office,” he continued. “For the first time in my network of churches … we have had seven people run in the March 5 primaries. They all ran because we gave them money to win and now they’re facing the election in November. They all won (their primaries). Not one lost.”

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The mission of the New Apostolic Reformation was explained in a recent Right Wing Watch review of André Gagné’s book, “American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times”:

NAR’s political mission is “no less than the sociopolitical transformation of nations with the goal of bringing about the Kingdom of God on earth,” Gagné writes. Of course, their view of the Kingdom has no room for people who do not share their religious and political worldviews. “Spiritual warfare” must be waged constantly against God’s enemies—which in the U.S. context includes Trump’s opponents—who are under “demonic control.”

As Gagné notes, “This spiritual warfare theology creates conditions which lead to the demonization of peoples, cultures, and political communities.” And that contributes to a toxic political culture in which compromise and pluralism are seen as sinister rather than essential to healthy society and governing, and in which some “prophets” urge people to stockpile weapons and prepare for civil war:

*These Charismatic leaders showed unwavering support for Trump and for his policies an viewed any opposition to the former president as spiritual warfare. They stigmatized and delegitimized their critics, claiming their enemies to be under demonic influence. These enemies include political and religious leaders who do not share the same enthusiasm for Trump and his vision for the United States. Some Charismatics have even prophesized the coming of a second American civil war—encouraging Christians to defend themselves against all opposition to Trump and their plan for a Christian hegemony. Many of these Trump-supporting Charismatics view democratic pluralism with suspicion and often try to silence church leaders who disagree with them. Pluralism is simply—and literally—demonized.

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