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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.

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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."

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(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men. Its audience is small but growing, and their movement has ties to powerful religious and political figures.

Joel Webbon, from left, Dale Partridge, Joshua Haymes, and Michael Spangler. A previous image included an individual not in the article. (RNS illustration/Chaz Russo/AI used)

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(RNS) — Michael Spangler does not look like a white supremacist and antisemite.

He has no visible tattoos, no shaven head, no black overcoat or jackboots. No hood, no Confederate flag and no Nazi images appear in the background as he sits in front of a screen for a recent Zoom interview.

Instead, the soft-spoken Christian school teacher and pastor of Piedmont Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sporting a neatly trimmed beard, was dressed in a charcoal suit and sat in front of a fish tank that seemed straight off the set of Pixar’s “Finding Nemo.”

Then he began talking about Jews. And a broad smile broke across his face.

“You’re asking if I oppose the Jews who murdered Christ?” said Spangler as he paraphrased a verse from the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, which he says labels Jews as “the enemies of God and all men.”

“We need to consider them and treat them accordingly.”

A segregationist and “race realist” whose start-up church, which has a handful of families, bars Black people out of fear of “harmful race-mixing,” Spangler is one of a small but growing group of pastors and internet influencers who openly embrace racist and antisemitic views, casting them as true Christian ideas.

This group, many of whom fit the Reformed Christian theobro typology — known for their distinctive beards, suits and penchant for exegeting over whiskey — has wedded old-school segregationist theology from the Jim Crow-era South with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy, mostly to disillusioned young men on the internet.

And along the way, they are turning outrage into cash.

Selling white supremacy

In May of 2025, Joel Webbon, a Texas pastor and self-described Christian nationalist with more than 100,000 followers on X, launched On the Nose Media LLC, a new for-profit media company.

The company, which does business as NXR Studios — short for “New Christian Right” — bought the YouTube channel formerly run by Right Response Ministries, a nonprofit founded by Webbon in 2019.

That channel currently has 187,000 subscribers and more than 20 million views. Webbon told RNS, in an email after this article was originally published, that at the time of sale, the channel had 125,000 subscribers and “under 16 million views.” He said the channel had added more than 50,000 subscribers and “more than 8 million views this year.”

Joel Webbon. (RNS illustration/Chaz Russo)

Webbon, who had declined an interview before publication, also told RNS that the channel does not promote white supremacy and never has. “Our content is explicitly Christian, grounded in the theological and political vision of the Scriptures and the historic Protestant tradition,” Webbon said in a post-publication email.

The new company, which lists Webbon among its principals in documents filed with the state of Texas, has turned the channel into a bullhorn for Christian nationalism, antisemitism and white supremacy. One of the first videos for the new NXR channel was an interview with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist influencer whom Webbon called “the most significant man in America.” (Fuentes was paid for his appearance, the company’s CFO recently disclosed.)

Along with subscriptions, which range from $9.99 a month for premium content and $19.99 for VIP access, the company sells a “Christian Nationalist Starter Pack” of books for $99.99 with titles like “White Genocide” and T-shirts emblazoned with “It’s Ok to be White” and “I’ll Take the Christian, Hold the Judeo,” among other slogans. (The group also sells pro-nicotine T-shirts, part of their pro-smoking message.) Subscribers can listen to an audiobook version of Martin Luther’s “On the Jews and Their Lies” as well.

Webbon’s company also hosts conferences and sells ads, offering “millions of impressions each month across high-engagement content, connecting your brand with a loyal and values-driven audience.”

The mix of extreme views and commerce can be jarring.

Jesus is not front and center with these guys.

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During a recent episode, Webbon, whose church boasted of having about 200 members back in 2023, jumped from dissing Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks and extolling the virtues of the Patriot Front, a white nationalist group, to a pitch for affordable “grass-fed, pasture-raised beef” sold by Wild Pastures, a meat subscription service.

“Try it for yourself, get 20% off,” he said, then hopped back into praising the “physically fit, well-behaved, disciplined” members of the Patriot Front.

YouTube influencer Joshua Haymes is even more enthusiastic. Once a ponytailed hipster church planter with a soul-patch in the early days of COVID-19, Haymes has defended slavery using the Bible, and claims Hitler — who he calls “the mustache man” — was misunderstood.

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“It is not inherently evil to own another human being,” he said about slavery in a late December episode on his Reformation Red Pill YouTube channel, adding that “it is very important that every Christian affirm what I just said.”

“Christians in America have been led astray on this issue,” he said, saying the Bible defends slavery. Then Haymes, who often sports a brown blazer, tie and pipe, launched into an energetic pitch for Beam Dream Sleep Powder.

“It’s literally like a hot chocolate before bed, and it tastes really good,” he said. “So guys, go get some Beam Dream Sleep Powder and use my code RRP for up to 35% off.”

Haymes is also a big fan, at least on his channel, of a Christian protein powder and teriyaki beef sticks from a sponsor.

Ramping up

Podcaster Will Spencer, who runs a podcast focused on Christianity and men’s issues, said pro-white supremacist pastors have mastered some of the lessons of other internet influencers. Spencer, who grew up in a Jewish family and later converted to Christianity after meeting a church group at the Burning Man festival, has warned of the dangers of neo-Nazi ideas invading churches by targeting young men.

Spencer, who faced backlash after disowning an interview he’d done with influencer Corey Mahler after finding out about Mahler’s neo-Nazi views, said extreme views can be a proven strategy for building an audience online. He said in general, women share and engage with social media content more than men do.

“But there is an exception to that. If you could tap into a segment of young, angry, disaffected men with disposable income — they are hyper-tribal, hyper-loyal, they share and engage consistently — you become their guy — you can circumvent the way social media usually works,” he said.

But that strategy requires a constant stream of outrage.

“The problem,” he said, is that “you have to keep shoveling them increasing red bits of meat — it is a one-way trip.”

Dale Partridge. (RNS illustration/Chaz Russo)

For Dale Partridge, an Arizona pastor and another member of the New Christian Right channel, that one-way trip has included significant transformation.

A decade ago, Partridge was a lifestyle blogger and social justice evangelical entrepreneur who had been “saved from success.” In 2015, he gave a TEDx talk called “How to Value People over Profits” based on his book of the same title. His most controversial view was that yoga pants are sinful.

In recent years, Partridge, who has more than 300,000 social media followers and more than 40,000 on YouTube, has rebranded himself as a chain-smoking, hardcore Christian nationalist, claiming women should not be allowed to vote, Black Americans should not be citizens and Jews were ruining Germany before the Nazis took over.

“So this Nazi or National Socialist movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism,” he said in a video clip posted on social media.

Partridge, who did not respond to a request for an interview, also runs “Manhood.org,” which offers a get-rich program based on his past business experience for $200 a month or $2,200 a year.

At his church, King’s Way Reformed Church, Partridge recently preached a series of sermons on the curse of Ham — a reference to an obscure Old Testament story historically used to justify slavery and segregation. He advocated for a return to “European Christian colonization of African nations.”

Elsewhere, Partridge has argued for America to become 90% white again, as it was in the 1960s, and called for the deportation of 100 million immigrants.

Dale Partridge. (Video screen grab)

Partridge and King’s Way Reformed Church, which has about 100 members and is located in Prescott, Arizona, were featured this year in the New York Times for the congregations’ embrace of biblical patriarchy and household voting, the idea that every household gets one vote and the husband casts it.

Many of these pastors, including Partridge, Webbon and Spangler, have brick-and-mortar churches, but while their congregations are small, their online audiences run in the hundreds of thousands.

No longer taboo

Partridge and Webbon, along with Calvin Robinson, a British cleric who lost his ministerial credentials for making a Nazi-like salute at an event, recently took part in a long YouTube discussion on what to do about “the Black problem.”

Along with arguing for mass deportations, the panelists claimed the Civil Rights Act has held Black Americans back, that Black Americans are less intelligent than white Americans and that interracial marriage, while not banned by the Bible, is ill-advised, and minorities should know their place.

George Yancey, a professor of sociology at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, believes the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have created space for these kinds of racist ideas to thrive.

“When Trump was elected, and the way Trump talks about race, that created a permission structure for people to talk about race,” he said. “Some people had these racist ideas, but they were afraid to say it before Trump.”

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Yancey also wonders if the George Floyd-era discussions about racism have played a role as well. In those discussions, the definition of racism was expanded beyond what he called “no-doubt about it” hateful forms of racism to include disagreements on how best to address racial disparities.

“I really want to reserve that term for people who engage in the sort of hateful racism that I grew up seeing,” Yancey said.

Webbon, who declined a request for an interview, recently sat down in a wood-paneled studio with Thomas Rousseau, founder of the Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization. After a promo for the NXR’s upcoming fall conference, “Christ is King: America After Trump,” which offered deep discounts for families, they discussed, among other things, whether Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is Black, should be deported to Africa along with other Black Americans.

Pastor Joel Webbon, right, interviews Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau. (Video screen grab)

In an excerpt of the interview, posted online by Nashville investigative journalist Phil Williams, Rousseau said yes, in his version of America, Thomas could not be an American. Webbon said no, adding that Thomas is one of the few Black people who should be allowed to vote. Both said the United States should not be a multi-racial country.

Webbon, dressed in his uniform of a dark sport coat and khaki pants, assured Rousseau that he doesn’t find his claim that Black people cannot be Americans racist.

“I just want you to know, and I hope you know this. Like, I don’t hear that and say, ‘You dirty racist. Okay, that’s terrible, or I can’t believe that,’” Webbon said. “I perfectly understand the position.”

Webbon, a former aspiring musician and one-time Vineyard church planter, has not always held such extreme views on race. As recently as 2024, he posted a video saying if his daughter brought home a Black Christian man “who loved the Lord,” Webbon said, “I want to say, praise God, marry my daughter.”

Webbon’s change in views grieves Samuel Sey, a conservative Black Christian blogger who was once on friendly terms with the Texas pastor, even speaking on a panel together at a church conference in 2022.

He believes Webbon and pastors like him chose ambition and controversy over preaching Christianity. To quote the Bible, he said in a reference to a New Testament passage, they want to gain the world but are losing their souls.

Sey, who was born in Ghana and immigrated in childhood to Canada, worries that all the language of white supremacy will lead to violence.

“You can’t keep saying all these things, and therefore there not to be a violent consequence at some point,” he said.

Reconstructing racism

Spangler, who has been a pastor since 2018 and was expelled from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 2024 for his views, also went through an extreme transformation. He grew up attening services at Lloyd Presbyterian Church, a historic African American congregation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) where his mother was pastor.

Michael Spangler. (RNS illustration/Chaz Russo)

Things started to change when he was a student at Davidson College. At the time, Spangler, an aspiring minister, was engaged to another aspiring minister.

“My fiancé and I were going to be pastors together in the PCUSA,” he said in an interview.

Spangler said he had a conversion experience while reading a sermon on the New Testament book of Ephesians and came to believe women should obey men.

That did not go over with his wife-to-be. In Spangler’s retelling, she ended up dumping both him and Jesus, becoming a lesbian and Jewish. Spangler, who in the past has said America needs a Protestant Hitler, said his views on feminism later changed how he views matters of race.

“Just as God did not make the sexes equal, he did not make races equal,” Spangler told RNS.

Spangler and his friend, the Rev. Samuel Ketcham, who was defrocked by the Reformed Presbyterian Church for his racist views earlier this year, have started their own denomination, known as the Southern Presbytery.

That name is telling. Southern Presbyterians during the Civil War era were zealous proponents of the righteousness of slavery and racism, said R. Ward Holder, director for the Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Holder said during the Civil War, Presbyterians, like the Baptists, split between the North and the South. Theologians like James Henley Thornwell and Robert Lewis Dabney, in what was known as the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America, believed the Bible supported slavery and their way of life.

Michael Spangler. (Video screen grab)

Holder sees a parallel in pastors and influencers like Spangler, for whom the racism and sexism of America’s past are not sins to be overcome but an essential part of the Christian America they want to build.

They are features, not bugs, for pastors like Spangler.

“If you’re a true believer, that’s not going to bother you,” said Holder.

True believers?

Jemar Tisby, the New York Times bestselling author of “The Color of Compromise,” compared the return of racist ideas to the Redemption era, which followed Reconstruction. In that era, Southern Blacks lost much of the social standing and political influence they’d gained after the Civil War.

“Redemption is a Bible word that means restoring a people to right relationship with God,” he said. “But in the hands of white supremacists, redemption meant taking back the country for white people. That’s essentially what this resurgence of racism is about.”

Tisby said the ideas promoted by pastors like Spangler and Webbon are gaining attention but are unlikely to convince large numbers of people.

“There are some people who always believed it who are now being more vocal about it,” he said. “But I don’t know that they’re being effective evangelists of their ideology.”

Hunter Baker, senior fellow for civic renewal and religious liberty at the First Liberty Institute, said for pastors like Partridge or Webbon, creating outrage is “almost like a fun activity.”

Some of the nationalist influencers, Baker said, seem to have adopted a “pre-Christian identity” and have rejected teachings of Jesus, especially the Sermon on the Mount.

“Jesus is not front and center with these guys,” he said.

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On Monday's episode of the "Christian Nationalism Weekly" program, co-hosts Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd weighed in on the case of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman on trial for killing her three children.

Clancy and her attorneys argue that she cannot be held criminally responsible for the murders as she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and Webbon and Todd actually agree, but for virulently misogynistic reasons.

Webbon and Todd, who are both overtly misogynistic, argued that women in general can never really be held responsible for anything they do because a woman simply "doesn't really have the same level of agency as a man."

"The Bible is correct," declared Webbon. "Women really do have less agency than men. And because they have less agency, they also, in political society, must have fewer rights."

"Since the 13th century—influenced by Christendom—in England, the law system said women are covered," Todd declared. "They're underneath the umbrella of their father and their husband. They could not transact property. They could not enter into legal agreements. They did not have the same responsibility."

"If your grandmother is 85 years old, she was alive in the 1960s when, in America, a woman could not open a bank account, a woman could not open a credit card because she was considered underneath her husband," he continued. "Her husband had that authority and the husbands having authority in the home; so many vices from OnlyFans, from abortion, from women murdering their children, from women voting for politicians that will enact policies to welcome in immigrants from the Third World, all of these things are downstream of men letting women have agency. So for the love of children, for the love of your nation, for the love of your wife, for the love of your daughters, take their rights away."

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## Joel Webbon Says Vivek Ramaswamy Must Be 'Demolished' To Send A Message To The GOP Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declares that Vivek Ramaswamy must be 'demolished' in the Ohio gubernatorial election to send a message to the GOP that they will not tolerate "polytheistic, demon-worshiping, cow-worshiping, bare-feet scamming anchor baby Indians" as candidates.

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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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When the Trump administration unveiled its politically motivated indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the organization of "manufacturing racism to justify its existence."

While the indictment merely alleges that the SPLC committed financial crimes by making payments to informants working in various extremist groups, Blanche's inflammatory framing was designed to create the impression that the well-documented racism, sexism, and antisemitic extremism within the right-wing movement doesn't actually exist.

The SPLC had long drawn the ireof conservatives who are now eager to use the indictment to discredit the SPLC and its decades of work tracking and exposing right-wing extremism and, by extension, whitewash the movement's long history of extremism. .

This is leading to absurd situations where racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon is using the indictment as evidence that "America does not have a racist problem."

"It's so clear that America does not have a racist problem, at least in terms of like pure, baseless, mindless hatred towards minority people," Webbon said on his program last Friday.

"If America really was racist against brown people, black people, whatever, there wouldn't be much money to be made," Webbon claimed. "It wouldn't be lucrative. They wouldn't be doing it. They're only doing it because it's not real."

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This whole witch hunt for white supremacists who hate brown people simply because they're brown, the reason why that's so lucrative and there are NGOs with millions and millions of dollars for that is because the white people in America are predominantly, on the whole, not racist. White people in America are, if anything, I think, too trusting, too gullible, toxic empathy. White people in America are like, 'You know what? I know that this will kill my grandchildren, but can we just import half of the country of Haiti, just to be nice?' So not only is racism non-existent, if anything, we could probably use a little bit more racism in America."}:

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As amply demonstrated by this very video, Webbon himself is proof that racism in America is very real, and this is just the latest a long line of examples from him.

In 2024, Webbon declared that if he were facing the choice between seeing to a black doctor or a white doctor, he's chose the white doctor because "if there’s a chance that one of them was not qualified, and was given a free pass, it’d be the black guy."

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In 2025, Webbon told black people to "stop whining" about the oppression they have suffered throughout American history because "it's your fault."

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That same year, Webbon urged white parents to have "the talk" with their children about avoiding black people.

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In 2026, he said that he would discourage his daughter from marrying a moral, godly, upstanding Christian black man because "I would prefer for my grandchildren to look like me."

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Shortly after that, Webbon proclaimed that it is fair to generalize that all black people are impulsive and lazy.

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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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Joel Webbon is a hard-core Christian nationalist who believes women should not have the right to vote and Jews should not be able to hold public office. Along with Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, Webbon contributed to “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel," which declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.”

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Joel Webbon, a Christian nationalist who believes women should not have the right to vote and Jewish people should not be able to hold public office in the U.S., devoted an episode of his “New Christian Right” podcast to reveling in recent media coverage he has received, treating it as evidence of the ascendancy of his antisemitic, anti-feminist, and anti-equality brand of Christian nationalism among right-wing youth and young adults.

One of Webbon’s co-hosts read from a recent New York Times article that quoted Webbon writing “the youth are ours” after attending the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. That article quotes an administration official estimating that 75 percent of young Republican staffers are groypers, the name given to followers of the antisemitic and racist “America First” online personality Nick Fuentes.

On the podcast, Webbon described young people feeling betrayed by Trump’s decision to go to war and being radicalized by the lack of economic opportunity and declining expectations for their quality of life. “They’re like, we can’t pay for gas, we can’t pay for groceries, we can’t afford a house, we can’t get married, we can’t start a family.”

Webbon has an all-too-familiar answer to those frustrations: blame the Jews. Webbon described President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as just the latest episode in an ongoing cycle of American politics being manipulated by both conservative and liberal Jews. He suggested that the Trump administration “pretended to put the woke away just long enough to get the young Christian Southern white boys in the military to go and fight the war and die.”

So like, this is American politics in a nutshell. You need to understand this. You have right-wing Jews and left-wing Jews, right? The GOP and the DNC. So you have war Jews and gay Jews, war Jews and homosexual Jews.

When the war Jews are in charge, they fight Muslims because they're very, very, very dangerous, which displaces them. Then, all of a sudden, four years later, or maybe eight, and the left-wing Jews are in charge, and then they open up our borders and say, we need to have sympathy and compassion and let these refugees in.

…That's American politics. If you're wondering, what is American politics? It is Jewish supremacy, gay Jews on the left, war Jews on the right. Gay Jews on the left, war Jews on the right. Those are your choices. The only alternative is an American first Christian nationalism.

Webbon laid out four characteristics that a genuinely “America first, America only, Christian nationalist” candidate would have to exhibit to earn his vote:

He must be unapologetically and explicitly Christian nationalist

He must be anti-feminist and anti-egalitarian and “be willing to say some form of this: ‘Women, go home. It's time to bake pies. Go home. We do not need loudmouth, boss babe, pantsuit women in politics, leading men, disparaging men.’”

He must be a “race realist” and “be able to say, ‘We don't have a gun problem in the United States. We have a black crime problem in the United States.’”

He must be “J-pilled” and go beyond criticism of Israel to say, “There is a Jewish problem.”

Webbon said that if Christian nationalists will refuse to vote for anyone who does not meet the above criteria, “then guess what—they’ll run those candidates.”

Webbon went on to say, “It’s not all Jews, but it’s always Jews” behind “degenerate filth” in entertainment and mass migration to “replace all the white young men in their jobs.”

Webbon criticized Trump for elevating people like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel in his administration, saying it was “playing to a leftist framework around diversity.”

The true strong man, right? The true Caesar who will come, when he comes, he won't play to leftist tropes. He won't. He won't give the pretense of diversity….He'll mock it. He'll say, no, we're not going to pretend to be diverse because we're not going, what fellowship does light have with darkness? What fellowship does evil have with good? What fellowship does Christ have with Beelzebub? Diversity is an egalitarian scheme.

Webbon went on to insist that diversity is neither a strength nor a virtue, and should be “outright publicly, unapologetically rejected.”

He claimed biblical support for his belief that not only is it is an offense to God for women to have influence in the governing of society, it is actually God’s way of punishing nations that rebel against him:

Women in positions, formal positions of civil governing authority are God's judgment on a nation, his punishment on a nation. Because if you think what could hurt a nation, God's rod of discipline, punishment for a nation steeped in idolatry, a nation that's rebelling against him, God looks at a nation like that and says, ‘They're disobedient, they must be disciplined, and it has to hurt so they might come to their senses and repent.’ And when God thinks, ‘I need discipline, will hurt this nation currently in rebellion,’ he thinks, ‘I know what will hurt: women in leadership.’

Nothing hurts more than women in formal leadership, because they will do exactly the opposite of everything that leads to prosperity and life and blessing. And the nation will be crushed under their incompetent, deceptive, and foolish leadership. And eventually they will cry out and say, God, save us from this gynocracy. Save us from this woman-ruled world. We earned it by our rebellion and our idolatry. We earned your rod. And the rod has written on it, women in leadership. We earned it. We deserved it. We repent in dust and ashes. We cannot take another day of women leading our government. Please have mercy. Please have mercy.

Webbon is part of a loose network of far-right Christian figures that some people call “theobros.” Along with Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, Webbon contributed to “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel," which declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” The statement was published by Canon Press, Christian nationalist Doug Wilson’s publishing arm.

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Joel Webbon Says Gender Equality Is A Jewish Plot To 'Eradicate White People'

03/25/2026

Kyle Mantyla

It is well established that Joel Webbon is a deeply misogynistic, antisemitic, white nationalist far-right pastor, so it was no surprise to see him put all of these qualities on display during a recent episode of his "Right Response" program, where he alleged that gender equality is a Jewish plot to eliminate white people and destroy the world.

The crux of Webbon's argument is that nefarious forces are at work providing women with various means and reasons to forgo motherhood in favor of having a career, and that these forces are intentionally doing so in order to "eradicate white people."

"The end game in pushing egalitarianism pertaining to the sexes almost exclusively in the West and nowhere else is because they want Western people, particularly those of European descent—AKA white people—to stop procreating," Webbon declared. "True equality for women with men can only be attained if women have all the same opportunities that men have and they never ever will so long as they bear children, so long as women can get pregnant."

"So how do you achieve then equality between men and women?" he continued. "There is only one way to do it: you have to cut off motherhood; you have to cut off procreation. So then what is the outcome? What is the real end game, the real driving incentive and motive of those who have pushed for an egalitarian system as it pertains to men and women, but done so almost exclusively in the West among those of European descent? I'll cut to the chase. Here it is. It's very simple: They want to eradicate white people."

"This is the destruction of the world," Webbon added. "Egalitarianism is not baked into the scripture. It is baked into the fabric of communism. It's baked into the fabric of Marxism. And it is baked into the fabric of Judaism, which I believe is the root of communism. It is the root of transgenderism. It is the root of Marxism. It is the root of all bitter, baseless envy that just seeks to destroy the world."

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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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Kyle Mantyla

Last year, racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon conducted a lengthy interview with fellow Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic,Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Since the beginning of the year, Webbon has been releasing weekly installments from this ten-part series of programs. During a recent episode on "race realism"—which, in this case, is just a modern euphemism for scientific racism—Webbon asserted that it is fair to generalize that all black people are impulsive and lazy and that all Jewish people are subversive.

"I could say all people—and you have to understand the disclaimer; all people [is] a generalization. Of course, there are exceptions—but in a general sense, I would say all white people are suicidal, [have] toxic empathy, and [are] cowardly," Webbon said. "That's why the West is falling apart."

"And then I feel like I could also say all black people are impulsive [and] lazy," he continued. "Of course, there are exceptions. I'm not thinking of Thomas Sowell, I'm not thinking of Clarence Thomas."

"And I think I could also, to go one step further, say all Jews are subversive," Webbon added. "There would, of course, be some exceptions there as well."

"I can say those things and not say, 'And therefore I hate them, or I wish them harm, or I would mistreat them as a lower class of citizens, or deprive them of certain rights,' but I can still prejudge," Webbon declared. "I know that among these people, because the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, race is a tribe, it's an extended family and I know that this family has these kinds of characteristics, both good and bad. Here are some of the bad ones in particular."

"If this is a black man who's a member of my church and a friend, I'm not thinking about any of that," Webbon said. "But if it's a perfect stranger and I've never met before, then I'm thinking of [the bad characteristics]. I do this with white people. I meet a random white person in 2025, and I'm thinking, this guy's probably a cuck, he's probably cowardly ... and I have a fairly high statistical chance of being right. I don't think that that's mean. I don't think that's a sin."

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a Godly Sense Of Terror: Theocratic Fascist Joel Webbon Backs James Fishback

02/17/2026

Kyle Mantyla

James Fishback is a radical far-right Republican candidate for governor in Florida whose campaign has overtly appealed to the white nationalist movement, with Fishback making multiple appearances on programs hosted by virulently antisemitic white nationalists and voicing his admiration for white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" movement.

On Monday, Fishback made a second appearance on a program hosted by racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon, appearing in person in Webbon's Texas studio.

When Webbon noted that there are activists in the white Christian nationalist movement who are skeptical of Fishback's campaign and feel that it's embrace of unsubtle antisemitism is just an election ploy, Fishback sought to reassure them.

"I listened to people like you, Joel, and I got more information about the issues that were actually affecting us, " Fishback said. "Israel chief among them."

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Webbon, for his part, needed no convincing regarding Fishback's views or what a victory in the GOP primary could mean for the white Christian nationalist movement.

"There is a nationwide impact if James Fishback wins," Webbon declared. "If he wins, what that signals—the message conveyed to all the neocons, to the GOP, from MAGA to Mitch McConnell, to everyone—is that this platform, this message is actually a viable winning message."

"A politician at a governor level can say 'Christ is king' and not wish people a happy Diwali and say, 'No, we don't hate anyone, but this is a Christian nation, the preeminence is given to Christianity,' Webbon continued. "If James wins, it's a shot across the bow. It sends a message to every politician in America."

"Even at the presidential level, people will be looking and say, 'This guy on that message, on that platform with no funding, without the Trump endorsement, without this, without that, without Miriam Adelson and all of her millions of dollars in support, this guy won,'" Webbon continued. "This is significant, and what it will do is it will strike terror—a godly sense of fear—in the hearts of every traitor, in the hearts of all our enemies, but it will also inspire hope."

Webbon said that if Fishback can win, then it'll inspire hundreds of far-right young white Christian men to run for office on the same platform and with the same messaging.

"To all of our listeners in Florida, and to listeners who aren't in Florida, July 20th, that's your deadline, move to Florida, register to vote," Webbon proclaimed. "It is absolutely vital that James Fishback wins."

"If he runs an organic grassroots campaign on 'Christ is king' and America first, and it's formidable for the third largest state in the Union for a governor position, it changes the entire political landscape," Webbon declared. "You need to recognize how significant this actually is and get behind James Fishback."

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In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who openly declared his intention to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."

In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like the “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that featured a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.

It is important to remember that Webbon is a theocratic fascist who believesthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; and women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault.

Fishback, it seems, is the embodiment of precisely the sort of candidate that Webbon wants to see running for office in order to bring about this theocratic vision.

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02/05/2026

Kyle Mantyla

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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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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12/18/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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

Kyle Mantyla

In addition to being a racist and deeply misogynistic far-right pastor, Joel Webbon is theocratic fascist Christian nationalist who has become more virulently antisemitic in recent months, which is saying something given that Webbon has openly proclaimed that he hopes the world will one day learn to "humanize Hitler."

Predictably, Webbon is a big fan of Hitler-loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobic,Christian nationalist, fascist, white nationalist Nick Fuentes and recently dedicated an episode of his own "Right Response Ministries" podcast to praising Fuentes' recent appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

During that interview, Morgan grilled Fuentes about his admiration for Hitler and his Holocaust denialism, which Fuentes' smugly and vociferously defended.

On his program, Webbon applauded Fuentes' performance, particularly regarding the Holocaust, which Webbon fumed has been turned into a "false, wicked, satanic religion" that is used to oppress young white men in America.

"That historical event is no mere historical event," Webbon seethed. "It is a religion. It is an ideology. It is a worldview. It is a weaponized bludgeon that has beat generation after generation after generation of white young men into believing they're not allowed to have a future."

"It is time for Holocaustianity—that false, wicked, satanic religion of Holocaustianity—to fall and crumble like the idol that it is," he bellowed. "[When] somebody raises an Islamic 90-foot statue in my state, which they have outside of Houston, my prayer is that statue would be ground into dust. Let no false god be worshiped on American soil. This is a Christian nation and Christ is king."

"The same principle applies to a more powerful false religion that has had America, my nation, in a stranglehold a lot longer and a lot tighter than Islam ever has or likely ever will," Webbon continued. "That is the false religion, not of Islam, but Holocaustianity and all its idols, and all its high priests, and all of its altars, and all of its sacraments must be ground into dust!"

"If that requires some young men to use language that makes you feel a little icky, God bless it," Webbon proclaimed.

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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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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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Over the years, right-wing firebrand author Ann Coulter argued, on various occasions, that the United States needs to "reconsider women's suffrage." And during Trump's second presidency, however, an increasing number of Christian nationalists and MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.

Dale Patridge, a far-right evangelical Christian nationalist pastor, said, "I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America." Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate called for the U.S. to "stop letting women vote," and anti-feminist Hanna Pearl Davis repeatedly calls for women to lose their voting rights. Another opponent of women's suffrage is Idaho-based pastor Doug Wilson, an ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In a column published on December 4, The Guardian's Moira Donegan warns that the movement to repeal the 19th Amendment is quite real among Christian nationalists and MAGA Republicans.

"More and more," the progressive observes, "influential voices in the MAGA movement and the far-right Republican Party are calling to strip women of the franchise. It's not that this is strictly a new development. Opposition to women's voting rights has long been a fringe, but persistent, feature of the American right. It's been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers; it trended among Trump supporters on social media in the lead-up to the 2016 election, when polls showed that Trump would win if only men voted."

Since 1920, Donegan notes, "opposition to women's right to vote" has "simmered at the extreme edges of political opinion." But increasingly, she emphasizes, MAGA figures are saying the quiet part out loud in 2025.

"Joel Webbon, a pastor and YouTube personality, has been at the forefront of this brand of misogynist Christian reaction….. The opponents of women's suffrage have, for now, no way of enacting their ambition: there is no path to repealing the 19th Amendment," Donegan warns. "But they are part of a growing movement to blame women's advancement — and their increased access, participation and visibility in education, the workforce, politics and public life — for a slew of social problems, from political polarization to economic stagnation to a vague sense of spiritual anomie…. This range of sexisms that have attained mainstream credibility in politics and the press rest on one assumption: that women's citizenship is partial and conditional compared with men's, that we have less of a claim on rights, dignity and public participation than our brothers do."

Donegan adds, "That this assumption is even held is an insult to women's dignity; that it is now so blithely accepted is a sign of how far women’s status has already sunk."

*Moira Donegan's full column for The Guardian is available at this link.

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To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”

These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.

Kiera Butler November+December 2024 Issue

*Our November+December issue investigates the Christian nationalist movement that aspires to take over government at all levels, from school boards and state legislatures to Congress and the Supreme Court. Read the series of stories here.

On July 15, when former President Donald Trump first appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he brought along two new accessories. One was a large bandage covering his ear, which had been nicked by a would-be assassin’s bullet. The other was Ohio’s first-term senator and Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance, who was about to debut as the GOP vice presidential hopeful.

Two days later, after paying tribute to his wife, Usha—the child of immigrants from India—and their three biracial kids, Vance portrayed a vision of America that resonated deeply with Trump voters. “America is not just an idea,” he said solemnly. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”

To many viewers at home, this seemed like the stuff of a boilerplate, patriotic stump speech. But the words “shared history” lit up a far-right evangelical corner of social media. “America is a particular place with a particular people,” Joel Webbon, a Texas pastor and podcaster, wrote on X. “This is one of the most important political questions facing America right now,” posted former Trump administration official William Wolfe. “Answer it wrong, we will go the way of Europe, where the native-born populations are being utterly displaced by third world migrants and Muslims. Answer it right, and we can renew America once more.”

Vance was embracing one of their most cherished beliefs: America should belong to Christians, and, more specifically, white ones. “The American nation is an actual historical people,” says Stephen Wolfe (no relation to William), the author of the 2022 book The Case for Christian Nationalism, “not just a hodgepodge of various ethnicities, but actually a place of settlement and rootedness.” For this group of evangelical leaders, Vance, a 40-year-old former Marine who waxes rapturous about masculinity and women’s revered role as mothers, was the perfect tribune to spread their gospel of patriarchal Christian nationalism.

For years, graying, khaki-clad evangelists have faithfully made the rounds at conservative events. However, as Wolfe, a 41-year-old former Princeton postdoc, writes in his book, these “men in wrinkled, short-sleeve golf shirts, sitting plump in their seats” are yesterday’s Christians. Among younger activists, they inspire the rolling of eyes—they are the embodiment of an ineffective boomer approach to taking over the United States for Jesus.

In their place, a group of young pastors hope to spearhead a Christian nationalist glow-up as they eagerly await a “Christian prince” to rule America. These often bearded thirty- and fortysomethings have suits that actually fit. They are extremely online, constantly posting on myriad platforms, broadcasting their YouTube shows from mancaves, and convening an endless stream of conferences for likeminded followers. Let’s call them, as one scholar I spoke with did, the TheoBros.

For all their youthful modishness, this group is actually more conservative than their older counterparts. Many TheoBros, for example, don’t think women belong in the pulpit or the voting booth—and even want to repeal the 19th Amendment. For some, prison reform would involve replacing incarceration with public flogging. Unlike more mainstream Christian nationalists, like House Speaker Mike Johnson, who are obsessed with the US Constitution, many TheoBros believe that the Constitution is dead and that we should be governed by the Ten Commandments.

In American Reformer, their unofficial magazine, hagiographies of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco appear alongside full-throated defenses of countries that execute gay people. On podcasts, the TheoBros unpack “the perils of multiculturalism,” expose “Burning Man’s wicked agenda,” and peel back the nefarious feminist plot of Taylor Swift. In Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism, one of their seminal texts, he writes that in an ideal Christian nation, heretics could be executed.

The rise of the TheoBros worries more mainstream religious conservatives. Janet Mefferd, a former Christian radio host and journalist who tracks their ascendancy, says her community is alarmed to see an extremist movement gaining traction. “I’m not sure what the endgame is, other than they want to advance Christian nationalism,” she says. “But a lot of us find that terrifying.”

“I’m not sure what the endgame is, other than they want to advance Christian nationalism—but a lot of us find that terrifying.”

The TheoBros’ strategy is bottom-up: They aim to convert small American towns into Christian enclaves. But it is also top-down: Some are working to position themselves close to the locus of federal power. Vance, a Catholic convert married to a Hindu, would seem an unlikely hero for a movement of devout Protestants who believe in a homogeneous America. But over the last few years, his political orbit has increasingly overlapped with that of the TheoBros—so much so that to careful observers, his public echoes of their ideas are beginning to sound less like coincidence and more like dog whistles.

And those dog whistles signal the major themes of this election: hypermasculinity, declining birthrates, ethnonationalism—and no small measure of carefully curated misogyny. If you want to know some of the actors who red-pilled Vance, or at least those who flock to him, you need to meet the TheoBros.

Clockwise from top-left: Douglas Wilson, Joel Webbon, Josh Abbotoy, Andrew Isker, William Wolfe, and Brian SauvéYouTube

With no meetings, website, or an explicit statement of faith that unifies their beliefs, the TheoBros are not an official organization. They identify with 16th-century French theologian John Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism. Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religion scholar, traces the current movement back to R.J. Rushdoony, an Armenian American philosopher who popularized the idea of Christian nationalism (and homeschooling) in the early 1970s.

Out of Rushdoony’s movement emerged two camps: the charismatic Christians, now known as the New Apostolic Reformation, and the reformed Protestants, which include the TheoBros. They share the goal of creating a Christian nation, says Ingersoll, but differ on a key point of theology: Adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that God is still speaking directly to people through pastors who have declared themselves apostles and prophets. The TheoBros, meanwhile, believe that God said all he needed to say in the Bible.

Many TheoBros are also proponents of postmillennialism, the idea that believers can hasten Jesus’ return by fighting against the satanic forces of liberal excess. TheoBro Aaron Renn, an Accenture consultant turned Christian pundit, has described our current era as a “negative world,” where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs. Andrew Isker, another Bro, calls it “trashworld.”

Like all self-respecting millennials, the TheoBros have little tolerance for boomers, with the exception of their patriarch, Douglas Wilson, a 71-year-old pastor in Moscow, Idaho. When he was younger, Wilson imagined himself going into the family business—Christian bookstores—but after a stint in the military, he moved to Moscow in 1975 to study philosophy at the University of Idaho, where he became involved with the Jesus People, a kind of mashup of evangelical and hippie culture. He helped found Christ Church, the congregation over which he still presides and that regularly draws crowds of 1,300.

Wilson has since turned the college town into his own Christian kingdom. He helped found New Saint Andrews College, the Canon Press publishing house, and Logos School, one of the nation’s first classical Christian schools, where students exclusively study the Western canon. Wilson embraced Calvinism in 1988 and remade his church from the freewheeling Jesus People hub into something far more sober and buttoned-up, where women couldn’t be church leaders and the only music allowed was hymns and psalms. In the early 1990s, Wilson helped launch the Association of Classical Christian Schools, which had 502 member institutions across the United States as of March 2023.

“The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”

His influence over Moscow has not been without controversy. In a 2021 Vice exposé, former members of Christ Church alleged that ministers had encouraged them to stay in abusive relationships. That tracks with Wilson’s 1999 book, Fidelity: How to Be a One-Woman Man, in which he wrote, “The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” For that reason, Wilson wrote, the dynamic of a dominant man and a submissive woman is “an erotic necessity.” (Wilson called allegations of the church urging women to stay in abusive relationships “categorically false.”)

Wilson has also promoted another form of dominance. In the 1996 book Southern Slavery: As It Was, Wilson and his co-author argued that the master-slave dynamic was “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” and “there has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world” as that of the antebellum South. (In a 2020 blog post, Wilson said he now allows that while “the benevolent master is not a myth, the idea of the horrific taskmaster is no abolitionist myth either.”) When I asked Wilson about his controversial statements, he likened himself to a chef who strategically deploys jalapeno peppers: “Then some of my enemies online have combed through my writings, have gathered up all the jalapenos and put them on one Ritz cracker.”

:In July, at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC, Wilson shared the stage with Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah), as well as Vance, who auditioned his “America is a people” bit a week before his star turn at the GOP convention. Wilson agrees with Vance’s suggestion that children should be allotted votes, managed by their parents. “I would like to see elections where households vote,” he told me. Men, as the heads of households, would actually cast the votes. Though he believes that women’s suffrage was “a mistake,” he would allow a special exception for single mothers.}:

Wilson offered the crowd a few one-liners (“I’m a Presbyterian, not a Lesbyterian”), but mostly, he talked about the persecution of Christians. “It used to be that the sexually troubled had to keep their kinks hidden away in the closet,” he mused. “Now it is the conservative Christian who needs to keep his virtues hidden in the recesses of the closet.” After the National Conservatism Conference, Wilson appeared at the Believers’ Summit, which was headlined by Trump and hosted by the conservative political group Turning Point USA.

But it’s not just conferences and interviews with the likes of where Wilson promotes his ideas. He has a blog, a podcast, and a YouTube channel, thanks mostly to the urging of his children and younger colleagues. One example is that every year since 2018, Wilson has been celebrating what he calls No Quarter November: “The month where we say out loud what everyone is thinking.” In a, which was the brainchild of one of his sons, Wilson sits at a sumptuously appointed Thanksgiving table, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and addresses the camera. “If you think of my blog as a shotgun,” he says, “this is the month when I saw off all my typical, careful qualifications and blast away with a double-barreled shorty.” His wife, clad in an apron, brings out a turkey and places it in front of him, and then the tranquil scene is interrupted by a blaring alarm and a glowing red “perimeter breach” sign. Wilson excuses himself, heads to his garage, and straps on a flamethrower. After using it to light a cigar, he aims the fire at cardboard cutouts of Disney princesses Elsa and Ariel, and the logos of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Netflix.

Wilson’s willingness to make campy content sets him apart, says Rachel Tabachnick, an extremism researcher who has been studying Christian nationalism for decades. “Instead of a crotchety old guy talking about stoning people, he’s like, super cool,” she says. “He’s witty.”

In subsequent videos, Wilson tackled women’s culpability in rape, the dark side of empathy, and the virtues of “something called the patriarchy—that which, according to our soi-disant and lisping political theorists, must be smashed. Only they say something like ‘thmasth.’”

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Wilson has used his platforms to anoint the next generation of ultraconservative reformed Christian pastors, all of whom happened to be men. Mefferd, the conservative Christian journalist, told me that Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism got traction in mainstream Christian circles in part “because Doug Wilson endorsed.” Another Wilson is Joel Webbon, a 38-year-old pastor who hosts a podcast and YouTube show, which he films from a wingback leather chair in a book-lined room.

Webbon wasn’t always reformed—he is an alumnus of a Bible school run by a New Apostolic Reformation affiliated outfit, which he now considers “straight-up heretical.” In his 20s, he broke from the group, moved to Texas, and started his own church. In a video from a few years ago, Webbon Wilson with emboldening him to say whatever he wanted—like telling a guest that the Founding Fathers weren’t responsible for the slave trade because Africans had done the actual kidnapping and enslaving.

“Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them. She wants them destroyed. She wants you to never be able to have this. She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

For Webbon, it was intensely liberating to watch Wilson speak in public without worrying about being canceled. “You stay in your little corner, you stay on your little leash, because you’re like, I don’t know what will happen,” Webbon said. “But when you see some other guy do it, and you’re like—that’s the worst thing that can happen? Vice writes an article about you? [Christianity Today editor-in-chief] Russell Moore won’t invite you to his birthday party anymore? Like, that’s it.” At a, he registered dismay over immigrants in his community. “It’s like full, straight-up Hindu garb at our neighborhood swimming pool, that my daughter is asking [about and] I’m trying to explain.”

In August, he remarked on his show that “a lot of people are gonna be surprised” when “you’re spending eternity worshipping Christ next to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and Jonathan Edwards, and, you know, George Whitefield and Martin Luther King Jr.’s in hell.”

Webbon is so impressed by his own audacity that he maintains an online list of all the controversies in which he’s become embroiled. There, he explains why he called Christian men living in California “stupid” (they could just move to a red state); why he once ordered his wife to stop reading a book on theology (he didn’t want her exposed to beliefs that were different from his own); and why he believes in a patriarchal household structure (the Bible says so). Webbon, who is planning to host a conference in Texas next spring called “Christ Is King: How to Defeat Trashworld!” maintains that a “return to the Constitution is impossible” and that the only viable alternative is the Ten Commandments.

Some of Wilson’s other acolytes are attempting to create their own versions of Moscow, Idaho. Take Brian Sauvé, a 33-year-old Christian recording artist, podcaster, and pastor of Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah. Like Webbon, Sauvé wasn’t always reformed—Refuge began as a charismatic Christian church. After the lead pastor resigned in a scandal, the then-24-year-old Sauvé ascended to take his place, immersed himself in reformed theology, and moved the church in a new direction. Today, he presides over a Moscow-esque ecosystem: a publishing house called New Christendom Press, as well as St. Brendan’s Classical Christian Academy, modeled after those in Wilson’s network. “Can you feel it in the sails?” reads St. Brendan’s website. “The stiff breeze out of Moscow, Idaho? We can.”

On his three podcasts and to his more than 53,000 followers on X, Sauvé regularly states that women’s primary function is to bear children. In July, after Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies who are miserable” began widely circulating, he posted: “It is desperately sad to think of all the intentionally barren women who will find themselves totally alone in their 50s, realizing their irreversible mistake. They will wish they could trade it all—money, vacations, independence, all of it—for children they can now never have.”

But unlike more mainstream conservatives, Sauvé does not even pretend to champion the idea of a Judeo-Christian nation. He posted in July, “[O]ur political system is heavily influenced by Jews who reject Christ and embrace all manner of evils.”

An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is Josh Abbotoy, executive director of American Reformer and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called New Founding. A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the Claremont Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a Project 2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session” hosted by the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation. Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist Chris Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher of American Reformer. (The publication’s cofounder, Nate Fischer, later clarified to Mother Jones that Buskirk’s listing in the filing had been a clerical error, and that he was actually a board member of American Reformer.) In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the Rockbridge Network, a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network? None other than JD Vance.

Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement. Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign. In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate, Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director, Josh Clemans: a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers. The caption read “Our guy.”

New Founding lists as a partner the Society for American Civic Renewal, a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron Charles Haywood, who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “warlord.” According to founder Nate Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime” and that its members “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.” But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities. Promotional materials describe a community of “unmatched seclusion” where “simple country faith” protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime. Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay. “Who’s going to grab the land? Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring, something authentic to the region’s history, or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro Andrew Isker—the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church, studied divinity at New Saint Andrews, and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with Andrew Torba, the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform Gab. In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee. Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion, not to mention how hospitable the state has been to refugees. “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the “war on white America” alongside Paul Gottfried, the mentor of prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer. The conference was hosted by the True Texas Project, a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Like many TheoBros, Isker sees much to like in Vance. In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).” In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers, “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse. Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them. She wants them destroyed. She wants you to never be able to have this. She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to. Enter William Wolfe, the founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it, the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States, has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism. Baptists are only the beginning. Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream, which he and other TheoBros refer to as “Big Eva.” In August, he posted on X, “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

Wolfe served in the Trump administration both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense and as director of House affairs at the Department of State. He is also an alumnus of Heritage Action, a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025, whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.” A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists. The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors and Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers as a co-author, called for “civil magistrates” to usher in “the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals. As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses, including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.” The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage. There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says. “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media, but in mainstream conservative outlets, it was Stephen Wolfe who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world. In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and theAmerican Conservative, Wolfe paints America as a “gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders. (Sound familiar?) He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

Wolfe grew up in Napa, California, and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to “do the Wendell Berry thing” in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe” and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.” The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online. He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure. Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited. Women would not be allowed to vote—instead, men would vote for their households.

When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed. “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy, but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper, suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.” The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty, so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé: “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity, or Judeo-Christian worldview, or Judeo-Christian whatever, and really eradicate that from our thinking. Because if we say that America is a Judeo-Christian country, then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?” What role, I asked him, would Jews play? After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

“We need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity, or Judeo-Christian worldview, or Judeo-Christian whatever, and really eradicate that from our thinking. Because if we say that America is a Judeo-Christian country, then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech, and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about America as a people. The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.” America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness, but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.” Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America—as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all, but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate. Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him. “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life, and to seek to restore that,” he said. “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was.”

In his keynote at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,” Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.” WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted, and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate. As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.” Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

*Correction, September 19: An earlier version of this article inaccurately described Chris Buskirk’s role at American Reformer.

Update, January 14: After this story was published, Nate Fischer, CEO of New Founding and co-founder of American Reformer, clarified toMother Jonesthat Buskirk’s listing in tax filings as the editor and publisher ofAmerican Reformerhad been a “clerical error (presumably copying his bio fromAmerican Greatness, where he was editor and publisher)” and that Buskirk was actually a board member ofAmerican Reformer. The sentence has been revised.*

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11/13/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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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11/06/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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

Kyle Mantyla

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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In the years before he was murdered, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had transitioned the group away from its libertarian leanings and toward a dominionist Christian nationalist ideology and agenda. It appears that the group’s current leadership is continuing that shift.

TPUSA Faith, the group’s religious organizing arm, is hosting a “pastor roundtable” featuring two Christian nationalists, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers and author and former Trump administration official William Wolfe, according to a flyer Deevers posted on his X account Wednesday. Both men have connections to extreme Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, who has been in the news recently, both for his claim that women should not have the right to vote and for his efforts to strengthen his influence within the Trump administration.

Right Wing Watch noted recently, “Few elected officials can match Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers in their desire to see the United States turned into a Christian nationalist theocracy.” Deevers calls the separation of church and state “blasphemous.” In a sermon at Wilson’s Idaho church last year, Deevers declared that it is the duty of civil leaders to “submit” to the authority of Christ. He has called on Christian men to “make offensive war on the gates of hell” and “dominionize” the world.

Wolfe is an ardent Christian nationalist who declared in 2023 that "we are getting close" to a point where Christians will have to "heed the call to arms." Wolfe has charged that Democrats are Marxists and “violent revolutionaries” and claimed that “the Democrats hate God, they hate family, they hate marriage, they hate children, they hate our nation." At the far-right National Conservatism conference this year, he called for a “Protestant Christian Political Manhattan Project.”

Wolfe was a visiting fellow at OMB Director Russ Vought’s Center for Renewing America, which identified Christian nationalism as a priority for the Trump administration. Early in Trump’s second term, he celebrated that the administration was being filled with “people who are our guys.” After meeting with Trump in March, Wolfe declared, “This is our land and we've had it really sort of violently taken away from us by radical leftists who are fundamentally steeped in a Marxist worldview that is anti-God, anti-human, anti-family, all those things.” He has been a cheerleader for the Trump regime’s mass deportation agenda.

Deevers and Wolfe, along with theobro Joel Webbon, were among the drafters of a 2023 document called The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel. It declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” The statement affirms that “the Christian Nationalist project entails a national recognition of essential Christian orthodoxy” and supports laws against “public blasphemy.”

The TPUSA roundtable is being co-sponsored by the Center for Baptist Leadership and its parent organization American Reformer. The Center for Baptist Leadership, founded by Wolfe, thinks the Southern Baptist Convention is too liberal. The American Reformer is a group backed by venture capitalists that wants to bring the U.S. back into alignment with what they see as its explicitly Protestant Christian heritage. It’s connected to networks of theobros associated in various ways with Wilson; its advisory board is rich with people connected to the hard-right Claremont Institute.

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Angry that Bad Bunny has been chosen to perform at the Super Bowl, Turning Point USA will be hosting an alternate "All-American Halftime Show."
Racist far-right commentator Isabella Moody is desperately trying to get a position as a host of the "Her Take" podcast.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville responds to those who are upset that "Israel [is] killing all these innocent people in Gaza": "What about the ten thousands Christians that have been killed this year in Nigeria by Islamic terrorists?"
Nick Fuentes declares that "if you're not Catholic, you're going to Hell": "Catholics are Christians, protestants are heretics."
Finally, Joel Webbon says that "if you fire into a crowd of liberals, you've got about a hundred percent chance of hitting exclusively child predators."

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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

Kyle Mantyla

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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Brian Sauvé Calls For Rebellious Young Black Men To Be Killed By The State

10/06/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Brian Sauvé and Eric Conn, two far-right Christian nationalist pastors at Refuge Church in Utah, dedicated a recent episode of their "The King's Hall" podcast to discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was brutally killed by a mentally ill Black man while riding a metro train in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this year.

During the program, Sauvé and Conn—who are both aligned with racist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon, having made multiple appearances at his conferences and on his podcast—blamed the murder on "black culture," and called for "rebellious" young Black men to be executed by the state, in accordance with the Bible.

"Let's say that somebody was coming into our church and they're Black," Sauvé said. "Would they be eligible for membership in our church? Yes, of course they would. They'd be eligible for membership in our church. But would they be permitted to participate in, embody, and practice what I would call black culture generally in our church? The answer is absolutely not. Why? Because the things, the characteristics that mark black culture [are] as a generalization in the same way Paul's talking about Cretans on Crete: They are evil, murderous, violent, bestial people; they steal, they kill, they destroy, they look like Satan in how they act, they are sinful to the core, they have besetting sins that are like fatherlessness, sexual immorality, they molest children at a high rate. Any criminal statistic that you could look at almost pretty much without exception, they excel at them, black culture.

"When we make this generalization, one of the purposes of it," Sauvé added, "[is] for policymakers to make the kind of political movements in terms of law and order that would usher in the change over time of that culture. One of them would be something like ... the law of Moses in Deuteronomy 21 concerning a rebellious child."

"I think it's something like five percent of Black males are murderers," Sauvé continued. "If you take that and then you took a law like Deuteronomy 21, which is a just law that got enacted through Moses; the law was that if you had a rebellious son, you have a child who's coming up into their manhood and they're rebellious, they don't listen—he lists some characteristics—and even though they're disciplined, they will not turn, he says the father is to bring them out into the town square, this is a rebellious son, and then they stone him to death. They kill him."

"And an armed robber would certainly be one of those," Conn replied.

"Oh, absolutely, Sauvé agreed. "Armed robber, all the ghetto culture; basically, take ghetto culture, it would describe this to a T. If you did that over three generations, how much violent crime would you have in the third and fourth generation? Much, much less."

"What we've done instead is we've actually, with unjust weights and measures, we have wildly penalized Whites for even virtuous acts in lawfare," Sauvé claimed. "Because liberals have appointed Blacks to positions of power, and they're practicing ethnic and racial in-group preference, like the several Black women who were involved in releasing Decarlos [Brown], the murderer in the city of Charlotte ... His younger brother was a murderer in prison. His father was a violent criminal. Okay, so there's two sons and a father. If they'd cut that line off back the generation or two before, there's no Decarlos to slit the throat."

"In this case, [we have] the double whammy of Black female judges [and] politicians who have appointed these sorts of people," Sauvé said. "If you look at who appointed the judge and the judge that released them, it's two Black women. And what did they do? They said, 'Oh, it's mental health, it's homelessness, it's this, it's that. It's not a criminal tendency of Black males that needs to be cut off through the wielding of the sword by the civil magistrate.'"

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Joel Webbon Has A Message For Black People Regarding America's History Of Oppression: 'It's Your Fault'

10/01/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Joel Webbon, a racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic Christian nationalist Texas-based pastor, used a recent episode of his Right Response Ministries podcast to tell Black people to "stop whining" about the oppression they have suffered throughout American history.

"Cut it out," Webbon said. "You need to grow up. Stop throwing a fit. You're throwing a tantrum. Stop being a little boy. You're whining and crying about something that's ultimately your fault. Stop blaming it on other people. It's your fault."

"It's like, 'Whoa, slavery.' The richest Black people on God's green earth are African Americans. If slavery never happened, then you would be in a grass hut," he continued. "'Well, we need reparations.' Your reparations are that you get to live in America. You're welcome."

"The greatest moment in history for any brown or black country is the moment that the White man's ships arrive on your shore," Webbon declared. "He brings the gospel of Jesus Christ, he catechizes you and your children, he brings exports, he brings hospitals, medicine, life expansion increases, GDP and resources increase, medicine increases, and most importantly, you get taught the gospel of Jesus Christ so that you can live longer on Earth and then go to Heaven instead of Hell."

Webbon said that while White people have certainly committed sins, they did so while worshiping Jesus whereas "much of the rest of the world has been worshiping demons."

"European people have been building cathedrals; non-European people have been building grass huts," Webbon asserted. "And for those who are of non-European descent, but live in the Western world, you are exceedingly blessed. And the response shouldn't be, 'Let's push back against wokeness and just say nobody talk about race.' No, the response should be: Stop whining, stop throwing a fit, get it together. God has blessed you, and he blessed you in large part through White people. So stop doing it. And also, as for you and your house, do your part to change the FBI crime statistics and stop killing people."

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This sort of racist statement is quite common for Webbon given that he is an unapologetic fascist who thinks that this country must be governed by a Christian dictator that will “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault; and the government used to "absolutely terrorize" his political enemies.

In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who declared his desire to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."

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09/24/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Joel Webbon, a racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic Christian nationalist Texas-based pastor, used a recent episode of his Right Response Ministries podcast to call for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, to be public executed on national television after he is found guilty.

Webbon asserted that if a capital crime is committed against a "public national figure," then the perpetrator should be subject to a capital punishment that likewise takes place on national public level.

"It needs to be proportional justice; it needs to be fair justice—there's a fair trial; it needs to be swift justice—not delayed; and if it's a public national crime, like the case of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, then that justice should be carried out publicly," Webbon proclaimed. "What do I mean? I'll speak in no uncertain terms: I believe that Charlie Kirk's murderer should be put to death and that his execution should be publicly, nationally televised."

"I do think that execution, that capital punishment for a capital crime with a national level crime, that justice should be carried out nationally and publicly where everyone is able to witness it if they so desire," he added.

"It's good for the public to see if they so desire," Webbon asserted. "But more importantly, arguably, it is good for others who have murderous hearts, who may be thinking of carrying out wicked deeds against conservatives, against Christians, it's good for them to see."

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This view is unsurprising given that Webbon is an unapologetic fascist who thinks that this country must be governed by a Christian dictator that will “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault; and the government used to "absolutely terrorize" his political enemies.

In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who declared his desire to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."

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09/23/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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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09/09/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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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How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women

The rise of the manosphere, with its call for a return to traditional gender roles, reflects a backlash to power-shifting cultural changes.

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They say the Bible - and their churches - provide safeguards for the toxicity found in some segments of the manosphere.

Experts say the rise in the manosphere is a backlash against cultural shifts that have advanced women's and LGBTQ+ rights.

Critics warn that this ideology could reverse decades of progress for women's equality in society and politics.

In Moscow, Idaho, conservative evangelical pastor Doug Wilson last year praised the nomination of now-U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his opposition to women in combat.

Then, in an interview broadcast last month, Wilson that in his vision of a Christian America, women would hold few leadership positions beyond being "chief executive" of the home and raising children.

"Women are the kind of people that people come out of," he said. "It doesn't take any talent to simply reproduce biologically."

Meanwhile, at Covenant Bible Church, an evangelical church in suburban Austin, Texas, pastor Joel Webbon has echoed Wilson's view that in a Christian nation, women shouldn’t be able to vote.

The manosphere — a movement encompassing hypermasculinity, male supremacy, misogyny and traditional gender roles and driven by podcasters, bloggers and social media warriors — has become increasingly mainstream. And now, it is converging with a segment of conservative Christianity.

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“There’s a version of ‘men in charge, women in submission’ that goes back as far as I can think of” in conservative Christian circles, said Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida. In other words, she said, most Sunday congregations would agree that while married couples more or less decide things together, the man has the ultimate say.

But over the last decade, Ingersoll said, this soft patriarchalism — sometimes called “complementarianism,” the idea that men and women have distinct but complementary roles — has yielded to more transgressive hierarchical versions. The shift, she and others say, is part of a backlash against power-shifting cultural developments and a reflection of how the emergence of the so-called manosphere overlaps with certain segments of Christianity.

“Complementarianism now is not like it was in the 1980s,” Ingersoll said. “It’s harsh.”

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“They all believe society has a natural order, that some people should be in charge and others are meant to be followers,” Ingersoll said. “That weaves in misogyny, because the people perceived to be appropriately at top are always men, so by definition women have a secondary position.”

Both Wilson and Webbon rely on strict interpretations of the Bible to back up their views that husbands rule over their wives and thus their households. Both pastors said the Bible and their churches provide safeguards to curb the toxicity found in some parts of the manosphere.

"The woman's role is a feminine and domestic role," Webbon told USA TODAY. "Her voice matters, but it is subject to her husband’s authority. Women should hold no positions of authority over men in the church, neither should they hold positions of authority over men in politics."

Wilson told USA TODAY that such views "are grounded in scripture, which we believe to be the word of God, and are important for that reason."

Cultural changes in recent decades have seen advancements for women and the LGBTQ+ community, eroding conservative Christian views of U.S. identity, said Matthew Taylor, an expert on religious extremism at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. The backlash has prompted calls for a return to traditional gender roles.

“If you think about what American culture was until the 1950s, it was overwhelmingly dominated by White Christian males,” Taylor said. “In the 1960s and 1970s, you had the Civil Rights Movement, women’s liberation, heightened immigration and Supreme Court jurisprudence that changed the balance of church and state. ... What we’re experiencing now is the backlash to that very rapid cultural change we’ve undergone.

“It’s also religious and often racial, and it’s often White men making this articulation,” Taylor said. “The trend lines are toward a cultural retrenchment of forces in American society that feel like they’re losing power.”

Where Christianity and the manosphere find commonality is in male entitlement, especially where Christian nationalism — the idea that Christian people and biblical law should govern American life — overlaps with evangelicalism, said Sheila Wray Gregoire, a former evangelical whose “Bare Marriage” podcast explores the marital and sexual satisfaction of evangelical women in the U.S. and Canada.

“It’s the idea that men are meant to have authority over women and women are supposed to serve, especially sexually,” she said. “There’s very little light between the two.”

Taylor said two major ascendant far right Christian movements in the U.S. heavily overlap with the manosphere, both of them highly patriarchal.

First, he said, are traditionalist Catholics. Second are reformed reconstructionist Christians, which he describes as a basically Calvinist, largely evangelical world of pastors and preachers, many of them young with well-groomed beards — the so-called TheoBros.

One preacher's rise illustrates the phenomenon

While the Christian manosphere is largely an evangelical phenomenon, it's also taken root in conservative Catholic and Presbyterian circles, smaller denominations and independent churches, said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The rise of Idaho pastor Wilson, now in his early 70s, illustrates how fringe evangelicalism has seeped into the mainstream over time, she said. By 1998, when Wilson co-founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, he was still an outlier who held benign views of American slavery and mocked evangelical megachurch leaders he would ultimately parody as spineless “Evangellyfish” in a novel of the same name.

“On the surface, he was not well connected,” said Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Christian Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” “He had set up his own outpost in Moscow (Idaho) and started a church, school and publishing house.”

Wilson’s rising profile, Du Mez said, was boosted by a podcast following of homeschooling families and impressionable young men, endorsements from old-school patriarchs like Protestant preacher John Piper and attention from commentator and the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

Meanwhile, Canon Press, the publishing house he founded, published “The Case for Christian Nationalism” while Wilson himself women’s voting rights as harmful to male-headed families.

“He has emerged as one of the primary spokespeople for a rightwing, highly patriarchal, politically incorrect Christianity that aligns quite closely with the MAGA agenda,” Du Mez said.

Wilson’s bombastic and irreverent approach are also characteristic of the manosphere, she said.

“He gives his listeners permission to set aside proprieties and civility, to say it like it is,” Du Mez said. “He’s famously curmudgeon-ly and combative, and that tone and mood are having a moment. He’s kind of the grandfather of this in Christian spaces.”

Wilson and his Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches — a network which Hegseth’s Nashville-area church has since joined — have since launched a church and school in Washington, D.C.

“They want a position from which to shape the Trump administration and exert their influence,” Du Mez said.

Are TheoBros really separate from the manosphere?

As notions of Christianity-supported gender equality gained acceptance in the 1970s and 1980s, Ingersoll said, Piper and other conservative evangelicals formed the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in response. That led to the 1991 publication of “Reclaiming Biblical Manhood and Womanhood,” an influential book of essays co-edited by Piper that advocated complementarianism.

The principle is popular among conservative denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention, which in recent years has disfellowshipped prominent churches that have installed women pastors.

“Men who want to feel important are gravitating toward evangelical churches because they’re being told, this is what God wants for you and you don’t have to do anything except be a man,” said Gregoire, the podcaster and former evangelical. “…. This is the only place in society where they can find that.”

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Ingersoll said that while selective Bible verses are often used to justify patriarchy, “I don’t think people read the Bible and then conclude how they should be. I think people are a certain way and then read the Bible in a way that fits with how they are…. Their perspective on how the world should be comes first.”

That’s why, she said, the TechBros and TheoBros have much in common — because they start from the same hierarchical worldview.

Ingersoll points to Vice President JD Vance as an illustration of the overlap. Vance’s political rise was funded in part by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal whose views on women have come under scrutiny. But the vice president’s religious views, she said, align with Catholic Integralism, a political ideology that blurs the lines between church and state and frowns on religious pluralism.

“You can see all those things coming together in him in an amalgam,” she said. “I don’t see the Christian patriarchal TheoBro world as something separate from the manosphere; I see it as part of it. They really are the same group of people.”

Du Mez also cited Jordan Peterson, a secular figure with a YouTube following of more than 8 million, as someone instrumental in the rise of the Christian manosphere. Peterson’s have found an audience among young men seeking direction and prompted soul-searching among Christian podcasting pastors.

“He was held up as an example to say, we should be in those spaces,” Du Mez said. “Like, ‘he’s not one of us, but he’s saying real truths.’ So the overlap has been around a while.”

Many of these podcasting pastors draw the line at radically misogynist figures like Andrew Tate, the former social media influencer now under investigation in Romania on accusations including of human trafficking and organized crime. Tate has denied the claims. But while they see Tate as overtly abusive, crass and profane, Du Mez said, “it doesn’t mean their listeners are drawing the same line.”

Wilson and Webbon told USA TODAY that scripture provides safeguards against toxic behavior. The Bible, Wilson said, "requires husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, and this is a standard that we hold the men to. If a husband veered into the kind of toxicity that is on display in some of those quarters, he would be disciplined by our church."

Webbon agreed, saying "abuses must be prevented by using scripture as our guide."

"The manosphrere is correct in much of their diagnoses of feminism, but they offer no biblical solutions," he said.

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Gregoire said her research has found higher divorce rates and lower marital satisfaction among married couples with ideals of male hierarchy. Meanwhile, Sons of Patriarchy is a podcast focused entirely on stories of intimate partner abuse in Doug Wilson-influenced churches nationally and globally.

“What happens when biblical patriarchy, Christian nationalism, and a theology of authority and submission become the pillars of a movement?” the podcast’s tagline asks.

But some see broader social dangers at work as such ideology creeps into national politics.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an Albuquerque-based group that supports religious freedom for U.S. military members, said the misogyny of Christian nationalism “wants to replace our democracy with this barbaric version of Christianity, and an essential part of that is male dominance… It’s right out of Handmaid’s Tale.”

Consigning women to the home has socioeconomic effects, Ingersoll added, limiting their ability to act should a marriage turn sour or harmful and cutting them off from retirement benefits that reward a paid career.

“It’s talked about as a complementary, equal contribution to the life of the family, but in monetary terms it’s not recognized as that,” she said. “So women are at a real disadvantage when they’re older and have less Social Security because they didn’t work outside the home.”

Ingersoll cited Hegseth’s testimony when he was grilled as a nominee about his views about women in the military.

“Did he say women shouldn’t be in the military?” she said. “Technically not; he said women shouldn’t be in combat. But if you think about it, the way you get promoted to the highest ranks, the way you get the training to go on to other jobs like being a pilot — if women can’t be in combat they won’t be able to get to those positions because that’s the mechanism by which they get there.”

The America envisioned by the Christian manosphere, Ingersoll said, is “incredibly dangerous to the gains that women have made in terms of equality over the last half-century. Roe v. Wade overturning was just the start. These people want women having as many children as possible. They want to ban birth control.... It’s putting a certain segment of society back in charge of everything and sidelining everyone else.”

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08/11/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Joshua Haymes declares that feminism must be defeated because "feminism is wrong, bad, evil, untrue, destructive, & fundamentally anti-Christian."
While blasting Texas Democrats for their effort to prevent Republicans from gerrymandering the state to help President Donald Trump, Tim Barton insisted that when Republican legislators in Oregon refused to show up for weeks to prevent Democrats from passing laws they didn't like in 2023, it was praiseworthy because they did it for a "greater moral good."
It seems like Braden Sorbo might be somewhat racist.
Jackson Lahmeyer brags about how he once faked a negative COVID test so that he could attend a Duke University basketball game.
Eric Metaxas proclaims that "Donald Trump is God's Alpha Male Warrior answer to the satanic Jezebelic Spirit that's been destroying the West."
Finally, Joel Webbon asserts that if America is going to survive, it must become distinctly Christian, patriarchal, anti-Zionist, and "race-realist."

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07/30/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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During a press conference on Tuesday morning, July 22, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced that he was cutting the week's legislative activities short and sending lawmakers in order avoid a vote on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. And he blamed Democrats, accusing them of "endless efforts to politicize the Epstein investigation" and adding, "We're not going to play political games with this."

Johnson's announcement drew plenty of criticism online, with many social media users accusing him of running interference for President Donald Trump.

Mother Jones' Kiera Butler, in a biting article, argues that far-right "Christian nationalism" is influencing that decision and others from the House speaker.

"On Tuesday," Butler explains, "House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a departure from his previous calls for transparency, announced that he would not ask for a vote on whether the files pertaining to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should be released…. It's impossible to truly know what prompted Johnson's about-face, but it's worth noting that he has long been connected to the New Apostolic Reformation — a charismatic evangelical movement that teaches that Christians are called to take 'dominion' over all aspects of society, including the government. Johnson has publicly acknowledged that NAR has had a 'profound influence' on his life, according to a report issued by the Congressional Freethought Caucus last year."

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Butler adds, "It's also worth noting that arguably the most influential and visible NAR leader, a Texas business strategist named Lance Wallnau, has been outspoken in recent weeks in his defense of Trump on the Epstein issue. On July 14, Wallnau told his 100,000 YouTube followers that he believed that Trump was acting in the best interest of the country by not releasing the files."

The Mother Jones reporter notes, however, that Wallnau isn't the only far-right evangelical "Christian nationalist influencer" who is closely allied with MAGA Republicans.

"Another prominent Christian nationalist influencer, Texas pastor Joel Webbon, has also arrived at a belief in Trump's innocence —but from a different perspective," Butler observes. "Webbon isn’t connected with the NAR like Johnson and Wallnau — instead, he's a member of the TheoBros, a network of Christian nationalist Millennial influencers. Many of them believe that women shouldn't be allowed to vote, and that the Ten Commandments should replace the U.S. Constitution."

Butler continues, "Like NAR, the TheoBros are also well-connected to Republican politicians. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a TheoBros-aligned church, and (Vice President JD) Vance has socialized with members of the movement as well."

Webbon, according to Butler, isn't shy about expressing "antisemitic views."

In a November 2, 2024 post on X, formerly Twitter, Webbon wrote, "I hate Judaism, but I love Jews and wish them a very pleasant conversion to Christianity. If you really want to know my full thoughts on the modern nation/state of Israel, you can watch the new series I recently published with @BonifaceOption…. Christ Is King."

Webbon told Mother Jones he stands by "everything I've said about Judaism. It is a pernicious evil."

*Kiera Butler's full article for Mother Jones is available at this link.

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Joel Webbon Says Only 'Christian American Men' Should Be Able To Hold Office | People For

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06/23/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Dutch Sheets says that the Trump administration's airstrikes on Iran were "one of the most impressive military operations in the history of the world."
Mario Murillo likewise gushes that Trump "made history—history on the level of a Winston Churchill."
David Barton is entirely unbothered about Trump taking military action against Iran without congressional approval: "Show me in the Constitution where that's required." Okay: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11.
Stew Peters has written a racist children's book.
Finally, Joel Webbon believes that if any of the Founding Fathers were alive today, "they would be talking about how do we get all of these Hindus and Muslims out of our country."

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Joel Webbon Hopes The World Will Soon Learn To 'Humanize' Hitler

06/09/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Far-right pastor Joel Webbon is an unapologetic Christian nationalist and theocratic fascist who believesthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault; and the government used to "absolutely terrorize" his political enemies.

Fully aware that promoting these sorts of views gets him labeled as a Nazi, Webbon appeared on "The J. Burden Show" last week where he voiced his hope that someday soon, people will be able to "get over Hitler" and learn to "humanize" the German dictator so that Webbon's own political agenda of authoritarian nationalism and patriarchy won't appear so radical.

"Why can't we have nice things in the west like tradition and nationalism and a love for our people?" Webbon asked. "Why can't we have America First? Why can't we have these kinds of things? And of course the answer is because of the Austrian painter with a funny mustache."

"Why can't we have those basic thoughts and beliefs?" he continued. "Because of an Austrian painter who might, depending on your World War II history, might have been a little overly zealous."

Saying that he doesn't necessarily feel that "Hitler has to be lionized," Webbon does think that Hitler "he needs to be humanized," hoping that the world can eventually "just come to a place where you move from demonizing someone, not to lionizing, but to humanizing."

"When we do history and we try to do it objectively, we have to take our emotions out of the equation and our personal biases and so I honestly I think it's just a matter of time," Webbon said. "I think we're seeing this happening in real time right now. Like, we're getting to that 80-year mark and history seems to kind of happen in 80-year cycles. Whether it's the War for Independence and then skip forward about 80 years [to the] Civil War, skip forward about 80 years [to] World War II, skip forward about 80 years and here we are today."

Webbon claimed that it usually takes about two generations for a society to overcome the "personal biases" of the people who lived through an event in order to be "able to look at the past with more objectivity."

"I'm hopeful not for a Third Reich renaissance because I think there really were atrocities that I don't want to see repeated," Webbon said. "I'm not wanting to lionize Hitler or have some kind of Third Reich renaissance but I am very hopeful that we could get over Hitler; not obsess about him, but get over Hitler to where we're able to humanize him. Continue to name whatever was truly wicked but also be able to see there's probably some reasons why people are looking to Weimar Germany and seeing the parallels and these kinds of things."

"Why can we not have nice things in the west?" Webbon reiterated. "Because of in large part the post-war consensus and the 'never again' mentality and people attributing certain atrocities of authoritarian figures to the emphasis towards tradition, nationalism, patriarchy."

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Joel Webbon is closely associated with influential MAGA-world figures. He was a contributor to “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel” along with Christian nationalist William Wolfe, an associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, whose Center for Renewing America viewed the promotion of Christian nationalism as a top priority for a second Trump administration. Webbon is one of the misogynist “theobros” connected to the far-right slavery-apologist pastor Doug Wilson, whose Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches is planting a new congregation in Washington, D.C. to take advantage of their ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and “calibrate” the Christians in the Trump administration.

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06/04/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Christian nationalist Andrew Isker thinks that "in order to restore the original constitutional order and the rights therein, it requires a unitary executive" and "I would like to dissolve Congress and the judiciary and vest all power into a sovereign ruler named Donald J. Trump."
Fellow Christian nationalist Joel Webbon is now approvingly quoting fascist dictators: "For my enemies, the Law."
We are just going to archive this comment from Kandiss Taylor standing by her assertion that Muslims should be banned from serving in government for when she inevitably tries to claim she never said it.
Seth Gruber would "love to be black" because he thinks it would benefit his anti-choice efforts: "Black privilege is a real thing."
Finally, Jackson Lahmeyer says the religious-right MAGA movement is working to "make the Johnson Amendment one of the issues at the forefront to mobilize, to energize the Christian community to get out and vote" in the 2026 midterms.

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06/02/2025 RWW

Kyle Mantyla

Time and again, conspiracy theories that emerge from the right-wing fever swamps end up being promoted from the White House.

Trump repost on Truth Social: “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference.”

Joel Webbon says that "nobody is poor in America unless you choose to be."

Lauren Witzke continues to demonstrate that she is overtly racist.

Elijah Schaffer claims that "if you're a powerful guy, and you haven't been accused of being a pedophile, a rapist, a sexual assaulter, something like that, I wonder if you have real influence."

John Amanchukwu warns that "feminism is a stepping stone to lesbianism."

Finally, with the Congressional Budget Office warning that the GOP's spending bill will add trillions to the deficit, Speaker Mike Johnson now dismisses the CBO as "historically inaccurate" and "run by Democrats." Of course, he had a totally different view when Biden & the Democrats were in power.

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05/20/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Michele Bachmann reveals that she gave current White House adviser Stephen Miller his first job in Congress, based on a recommendation from David Horowitz.

Jackson Lahmeyer says that Alexander Soros and Huma Abedin are "like Ahab and Jezebel in a modern-day equivalency."

Reacting to the news that former President Joe Biden has cancer, Cheryl Chumley declares that "the Democrat Party itself has become a cancer to American society."

After losing his job for throwing a Sieg Heil-like salute earlier this year, far-right priest Calvin Robinson was still invited to the White House in April.

Finally, Joel Webbon is urging right-wing Christian business owners to "crush their enemies" by refusing to hire non-Christians.

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04/14/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Joel Webbon says that things were great for Black Americans during segregation until "it all came crashing down with civil rights [and] welfare."
Andrew Isker praises the Trump administration's deportation policies for sending the message to immigrants that "we might accidentally put you in the most brutal prison in the world. Oops. You better get out of the country now."
Kandiss Taylor shares her thoughts on the origins of the universe: "Explosions kill. They don’t give life. Big bang theory is the most idiotic theory ever spoken, written, and perpetuated. This theory should be deleted from school curriculum. It just brainwashes children to keep them from finding their Savior."
C. Jay Engel declares that "the Great Replacement needs to be seen as a religious war on Christendom": "It’s all about facilitating ancient religious conflict and continuing the eradication of the Christian character of the West."
Is Joshua Haymes being racist or misogynistic or both?
Finally, Kevin Roberts and William Wolfe have a recommendation for President Donald Trump: "With the 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s resurrection just eight years away, Trump can lead the charge by announcing plans for huge national celebrations in spring 2033."

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03/05/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Rep. Glenn Grothman says that "there are a lot of people driven by hatred, which is what I think causes them to become Democrats in the first place."
Steve Deace tells Republicans to move hard to the right and then govern effectively to "completely marginalize the Democratic Party."
Kandiss Taylor promises that, if elected to Congress, she "will set a high bar in Congress for honesty."
Lucas Gage claims that the Founding Fathers created a system where only white landowners could vote "and everyone else just had to step in line": "Our country was great when we had an aristocracy."
Joel Webbon insists that "it is not safe for my children to share a country with Democrats."
Finally, George Pearsons brags that Kenneth Copeland "literally prophesied" that Donald Trump would become president. Of course, Copeland and Pearsons also literally prophesied that Ted Cruz would become president.

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02/27/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Mario Murillo says that "the American people elected Donald Trump to save this country," therefore "anyone who thinks he ought to be stopped is in favor of the destruction of this nation."
Virginia state Delegate Nick Freitas was supposed to appear on Joel Webbon's podcast Wednesday night, but he bailed.
Richard Harris announced that he will no longer use the term "abortion" because it is too sterile. Instead, he's taken to calling it "intra-uterine murder."
Rebecca Hargraves will not tolerate anyone who claims that Adolf Hitler was unattractive: "Hitler's a solid 8."
Finally, outraged that Kash Patel was sworn in with a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, Ben Zeisloft fumes about the "demonic forces which have for millennia deceived Hindus into believing in their false gods, which are nothing more than worthless idols": "[The Founding Fathers] never intended a nation in which the idols of the Hindus and other false religions could have equal footing with Jesus Christ as authorities in whom our leaders trust, from whom our leaders derive laws, and before whom our leaders swear oaths."

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During the 2024 presidential race, progressive filmmaker/activist Michael Moore predicted that female voters — furious over draconian anti-abortion laws and the MAGA movement's overt misogyny — would give Democratic nominee Kamala Harris a decisive victory. But Donald Trump defeated Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote (according to the Cook Political Report), and receiving 53 percent of the female vote wasn't enough to get Harris past the finish line.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte, over the years, has often stressed that when GOP women cater to "misogyny," that doesn't mean that GOP men will respect them. And in an article published on February 26, she argues that this disrespect is evident during Trump's second presidency.

"Forty-five percent of female voters backed Trump in 2024, despite his overt misogyny," Marcotte explains. "Most, no doubt, believed that complicity would protect them and that the attacks would be centered on other women. But while the GOP certainly wants to strip liberal and feminist women of their rights, male MAGA leaders are showing increasing interest in bringing Republican women to heel, both culturally and through the force of law. After all, they are more likely to live and work with Republican women. If they want to feel the full flowering of male domination, it's Republican women they need to see submitting."

Marcotte cites specific examples, noting that Christian nationalists, including Pastor Joel Webbon, are pushing to oust right-wing activist Kristan Hawkins as head of a student anti-abortion group.

"It started after she objected to Republican legislators introducing bills to charge women who get abortions with murder — an extreme move she fears will backfire on the movement," Marcotte observes. "But mostly, it was about growing male anger on the Christian Right that women are allowed leadership positions at all."

Webbon and the TheoBros movement, Marcotte adds, are "clamoring more loudly, in recent months, about their wish to strip women, especially their own wives, of the right to vote." And according to The New Republic's Sarah Stankorb, more and more Christian nationalists are calling for the repeal of the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment.

"This isn't mere idle chatter, either," Marcotte warns. "House Republicans passed a bill, which stalled in the Senate, this session to require citizens to have a passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport — an estimated 69 million women. It would also disproportionately affect Republican women, who are more likely to be married, more likely to have changed their name and less likely to have a passport."

Marcotte continues, "Similarly, there's been a slowly rising volume on the right of talk about banning no-fault divorce, fueled by Republicans like Vice President JD Vance saying it's too easy for women — even those in abusive marriages — to leave their marriages."

The Salon journalist argues that "Republican women are fools" if they believe that an "increasingly misogynist MAGA movement" will spare them.

"On the contrary, because Republican women tend to be in closer proximity to Republican men," Marcotte warns, "they're far more likely to be on the receiving end of anger over talkback or other perceived insubordination."

*Amanda Marcotte's full article for Salon is available at this link.

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02/19/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Sarah Rumpf @ Mediaite: Trump Calls Himself ‘The King’ While Tooting His Own Horn for Killing Controversial NYC Congestion Pricing

President Donald Trump crowned himself with a new title Wednesday as he gave himself credit for “saving” Manhattan from congestion traffic pricing, writing a Truth Social post in which he declared “LONG LIVE THE KING!”

Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Why DOGE’s ‘Receipts’ Show Elon Musk’s Math Doesn’t Add Up

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency finally released a “wall of receipts” as part of its “maximum transparency” promise Monday, but some of their figures are not quite adding up.

Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab

Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.

Lawrence Norden and Derek Tisler @ Slate: The Trump Administration Is Going After Our Elections Too

Government employees have long protected the ballot from attacks. The president is preparing to fire many of them.

Angry White Men: Christian Nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon Promotes Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory

On a recent livestream, white Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon and his co-hosts were asked for their thoughts on a Trump-themed goat statue displayed at Mar-a-Lago. In response, Webbon suggested it was indicative of demon worship and promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

Khaya Himmelman @ Talking Points Memo: Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ

A right-wing conspiracy theory website is at the heart of the latest Justice Department resignation in protest of the Trump administration’s interference at the DOJ.

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02/18/2025

Kyle Mantyla

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Eric Metaxas declares that "the evil and corruption being uncovered in our govt is too horrible for most of us to process. It's like the world in 1945 for the first time seeing that the Nazis systematically murdered millions. It's simply unfathomable in its evil."

Tim Barton has a question: "Why do we think it's okay to arrest students that break the Ten Commandments, but not okay to show them the Ten Commandments to teach them it's wrong?"

Joel Webbon says "we need to repeal not just the 19th Amendment, we need to repeal the entire 20th Century."

Stew Peters really loves Adolf Hitler.

Joshua Haymes says that feminism is "evil" and "cringe" and biblical patriarchy is the only solution.

Finally, Richard Harris wants to return to an America where there are no casinos or tattoo parlors, kids are praying in schools, abortion is outlawed, and businesses closed on Sunday.

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02/12/2025

Kyle Mantyla

David Gilmour @ Mediaite: Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as DNI — Mitch McConnell Breaks Ranks as Only Republican ‘No’ Vote

The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence in a 52-46 vote on Thursday—but not without Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sending a signal to President Donald Trump as the lone Republican “no” vote.

Pema Levy and Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Ignoring Court Orders Would Make Trump a King

How Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Christian nationalist figures are pushing a fresh constitutional crisis.

Angry White Men: Joel Webbon: ‘European Culture’ Exists And Is ‘Superior’ To All Others

On a Friday livestream, racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, and misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon asserted that white people do, in fact, have their own culture. He also claimed that this “European culture” has been “superior” to all other cultures because it was “heavily influenced by the Christian gospel and the Christian faith.”

Arthur Delaney @ HuffPost: Republican Introduces Bill To Rename Greenland ‘Red, White And Blueland’

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has pioneered a new kind of symbolic legislation to flatter President Donald Trump.

Pavan Acharya and Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: In quest to infuse more religion into Texas schools, advocates say courts are now on their side

Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious right feel empowered by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

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02/06/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Elijah Schaffer doesn't want the Holocaust taught in American schools: "No more catering to subversive minorities."
MAGA pastor Mark Burns was "honored to host my friend NYC Mayor Eric Adams" at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Andrew Isker says that Rep. Ilhan Omar "should not even be here much less wielding political power over us": "She has to go back."
Eric Metaxas claims that USAID is "a satanic attempt to destroy the United States of America": "Every patriot should do all he can to war against it."
Finally, Joel Webbon declares that "the left has to be absolutely overwhelmed, they have to be crushed ... to the point where they are overcome with despair, they have zero hope and they just lose the will to even try."

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02/05/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: Senate Republicans Shrug As Unelected Musk Seizes Their Power

In the early days of the second Trump administration, those “practical limits” are not to be found in Congress, where most Republican senators, to hear them tell it, are delighted with Musk’s unprecedented appropriation of the legislature’s power of the purse.

Nicole Narea @ Vox: Elon Musk’s secretive government IT takeover, explained

Musk’s growing influence over the government’s digital infrastructure raises concerns about privacy and overreach.

Jason Kandel @ Law & Crime: ‘Retribution is inevitable’: Proud Boys leader plans to defy judge who stripped group of trademark in fight with vandalized Black church

The far-right Proud Boys extremist group has lost control of its trademarked name, which has now been handed over to a historically Black church in Washington, D.C., that members of the group vandalized in 2020.

Angry White Men: Joel Webbon: Indigenous People ‘Lived In Tents,’ ‘Worshiped Demon Gods,’ And ‘Used Drugs’

In a Feb. 2, 2025 sermon, racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, and misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declared that “there were no civilized people” in America when white Christians arrived. He also said that Indigenous people “lived in tents,” “worshiped demon gods,” and “used drugs.”

Edith Olmsted @ The New Republic: Republican Congressman Issues Unhinged Call to Deport Ilhan Omar

Representative Ilhan Omar’s Republican colleagues are once again calling for her to be deported because they don’t understand U.S. law.

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02/03/2025

Kyle Mantyla

William Wolfe claims that saying that Jesus Christ was a refugee amounts to taking the Lord's name is vain.
Virulent antisemite Lucas Gage asserts that "we must dehumanize our enemies": "Those who invade and demand to live among us against our will are, by definition, parasites. Start calling them what they are."
Wendy Rogers says that "with this constant stream of disasters, all I keep thinking is that I’m grateful to have competent ADULTS BACK IN CHARGE." Did it ever occur to Rogers that maybe the "adults in charge" might be responsible for "this constant stream of disasters"?
Christian nationalist C. Jay Engel is thrilled by the actions taken by President Donald Trump: "I didn’t vote for cheaper eggs or more efficient computers. I voted to repeal the twentieth century."

Texas state Rep. Brent Money told Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon that "we always need to find ways to better conform the law to God's intent for mankind."
Finally, speaking of Webbon, he used his Sunday sermon to declare that "you have not met wickedness until you have met 20th Century liberals": "They're not merely infidels, not merely unbelievers; they are something far more unnatural and degraded than that. The 19th and 20th Century liberal today is not merely an unregenerate man, he is a monster."

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01/07/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: Here Are the 5 Craziest Moments from Trump’s Off-the-Wall Presser — From ‘Gulf of America’ to Hezbollah Capitol Rioters

President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday with the ostensible aim of touting foreign investment in the United States in anticipation of his administration. It ended up being so much more than that.

Bob Smietana @ Religion News Service: Trump Bible gets new 'Inauguration Day Edition' just in time for Jan. 6

A new ad urges supporters to buy a Bible commemorating Trump's return to the White House. The new edition of the God Bless the USA Bible features Trump's name on the cover and will be on sale until Jan. 19.

Amanda Marcotte @ Salon: Why Mike Johnson's fake "Jefferson prayer" matters

Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement.

Jared Holt @ MSNBC: How Brandon Gill went from clickbait to Congress

The 30-year-old Texas congressman helped promote the big lie documentary “2,000 Mules” and founded a far-right website.

Angry White Men: Christian Nationalists Attempt To Rewrite Jan. 6

On Monday, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon celebrated the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection by lauding the violent mob as “patriots.” Webbon’s guest, far-right blogger Charles Haywood, agreed, and called on President-elect Trump to issue medals to the insurrectionists while imprisoning those who prosecuted them.

Julie Roys @ The Roys Report: Jesse Duplantis, Lance Wallnau, Jack Graham & Kunnemans Leave Daystar TV in Wake of Scandal

More programmers have confirmed they’ve left Daystar TV network, following allegations of sex abuse cover-up and financial misconduct, including televangelists Jesse Duplantis, Lance Wallnau, and Hank and Brenda Kunneman.

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12/02/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Texas pastor Joel Webbon is a radical Christian nationalist who has been very open about his belief that only Christians who share his Protestant theology should be allowed to serve in public office or express their faith publicly.

Naturally, that means that Webbon believes that all non-Christians, especially Jews, should likewise be prohibited from serving in government, which he made abundantly clear during of his podcast last month.

"In a legislative sense and in terms of public rituals, things that are celebrated—virtues, holidays, all those kinds of things—the public square, legislatively and culturally, it would absolutely, unapologetically play favorites," Webbon declared. "And there would be one favorite, and it would be Anglo-Protestants. That would be the favorite. So, there will be no public Catholic parade, but you could have a public Protestant parade. And there would be no law that says Jews can't live here, but what there would be is anybody to hold public office would have to make a Christian profession of faith ... and they would have to have a track record of it. So, no practicing Jew who hasn't converted to Christianity will be able to serve in public office."

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Webbon doubled down on that position during his podcast, declaring that Judaism is a "parasitical" religion.

"Judaism as an ideology and as a religion, I do believe, is parasitical," Webbon said. "What it has done historically throughout the ages is typically go into other countries, other peoples with other religions, and kind of cozy up but not really for their benefit; not a mutually beneficial relationship, but where they ultimately get far more out of the deal than the Christian nation does."

"Jews need Christians," Webbon proclaimed. "Christians do not need Jews. It is not a mutually beneficial relationship."

"I love Jews and I wish them a very pleasant conversion to Christianity," he continued. "If you are a citizen of Israel and you refuse to convert to Christianity—you are a Jewish citizen, Israeli citizen—I do wish for you not to serve in public office in my nation. You can come here if you're going to play nice like any other immigrant and contribute, but no, you do not get to pull levers of power in my nation's government."

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Webbon believesthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; and women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault.

In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like next year’s “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that is scheduled to feature a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.

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Liberty Counsel vehemently opposes Donald Trump's plan to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General: "The nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General is shocking and disappointing to those who have followed this man and the lurid scandals and serious allegations of sex parties and drugs during his tenure in the U.S. Congress."
Public Advocate is not happy that Sen. John Thune was elected Majority Leader: "NEW MAJORITY LEADER JOHN THUNE SUCKS"
Stew Peters declares that "whites need to re-empower themselves in America."
What does Lauren Witzke want to see during the Trump administration? "Ban abortion, promote sterilization (of libtards)."
Finally, Joel Webbon proclaims that "Judaism is a lying, false religion from the pit of Hell."

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## They Need To Be Killed': Joel Webbon Says Anyone Trying To Cross The Border Must Be Shot Radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says anyone trying to cross the border must be shot and killed: "That is the way biblical justice is done."

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Dalton Clodfelter asserts that "rape isn't real."
Finally, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon preached that physical abuse is not "a justifiable case for divorce because it's not in the Bible."

10/29/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon delivered a sermon on divorce which he said would not even be necessary if we had a "just society" that put adulterers to death: "Divorce would not be necessary because there would not be a spouse left living to divorce."

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10/25/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: ‘WHEN I WIN’: Trump Vows Crackdown On ‘Unscrupulous Behavior’ With ‘Prison Sentences’ At ‘Levels Never Seen Before’

Former President Donald Trump posted an ominous threat to Truth Social on Friday, promising prosecutions at “levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”

David Gardner @ The Daily Beast: Trump Calls America a ‘Garbage Can for the World’ in Dark Illegal Immigration Rant

Donald Trump likened America to a “garbage can for the world” while ranting about illegal immigration in a doom-laden rally speech in Arizona on Thursday.

Devlin Barrett, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman @ The New York Times: Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance

The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket’s phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.

Nikki McCann Ramirez and Andrew Perez @ Rolling Stone: Supreme Court Puppetmaster Tries to Buy Protection in Congress

Leonard Leo spends big to help Republicans win the Senate and keep the House, as he defies Dems’ subpoena over gifts to Supreme Court justices.

Angry White Men: Joel Webbon: The Civil Rights Movement ‘Destroyed Our Culture’

On an Oct. 23, 2024 livestream, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and declared that the civil rights movement “destroyed our culture.” Webbon also expressed hope that, one day, the “average normie” American will come to believe that the Civil Rights Act “was a disaster.”

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Kyle Mantyla

Douglas Wilson that if Kamala Harris wins in a close election, it'll only be because the election was stolen and will spark a constitutional crisis.
Floyd Brown says that America has "become completely paganized" and prays that "the spirit of delusion" over the nation will be broken.

Neo-Nazi Ryan Sanchez makes the "The Nationalist Case For Trump": "Trump will buy us four more precious years to build a revolutionary consciousness among our People, and organize a movement to take back our Homeland."
Trump campaign troll Brenden Dilley is calling upon his "meme team" to "unleash their absolute dankest memes" in the closing days of the presidential campaign.
Finally, Joel Webbon that his fellow Christians should not criticize him for his extreme views because it is radicals like him who help to shift the Overton Window.

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Kyle Mantyla

Frederick Clarkson @ Religion Dispatches: Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC

On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the Washington Mall. The event, called A Million Women, was staged by some of the leading apos

Andy Kroll, Phoebe Petrovic and Nick Surgey @ ProPublic: JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws, Experts Say

Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in political campaigns.

Tim Dickinson and Nikki McCann Ramirez @ Rolling Stone: ‘Mass Exorcism’: Christian Supremacists Take Over the National Mall

Last week’s MAGA-inflected spectacle cast Kamala Harris as demonic, and Trump an avatar of biblical justice.

Angry White Men: ‘The World Is Ours’: Joel Webbon Claims Christians Are ‘Destined To Colonize The Stars’

Bigoted Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declared on an Oct. 16, 2024 livestream that the world rightfully belongs to Christians, such as himself, as they were promised “dominion” over it. Webbon also stated that Christians are “destined to colonize” not just the world, but also “the stars.”

Shawn Musgrave @ The Intercept: Trump’s Big Lie Attorneys Are Back

In lawsuits filed across the country, attorneys who worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat are alleging rampant voting fraud.

Pema Levy @ Mother Jones: Trump Has a Plan to Win Without the Votes—and the Fight Is On to Stop Him

Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box. But this year, Donald Trump’s campaign appears to be trying to win on a different field of battle. With dozens of lawsuits already filed across the country, the Republicans are using state and federal courts as a key pillar of their strategy to retake the White House.

Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: DeSantis Lawyer Sounds Alarm About Administration’s Authoritarian Turn

Last week, a lawyer who worked for the Florida Department of Health resigned, and a letter obtained Thursday by the Miami Herald indicates that he didn’t like the state agency’s decision to prosecute television stations for airing political ads.

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10/17/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Texas pastor Joel Webbon is a radical Christian nationalist who advocates something called general equity theonomy, a far-right Christian theology that asserts that laws and rules set out in the Old Testament still apply today. While those laws and rules may have originally applied to conditions and circumstances specific to the ancient Israelites, general equity theonomists assert that the general principles behind those rules ought to still be in effect today.

This idea was the driving force behind legislation unabashed Christian nationalist pastor and Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers introduced earlier this year that would have amended the law for "willfully, knowingly and without probable cause [making] a false report" alleging that someone committed a crime by changing the penalty so that those found guilty would face the same punishment that the falsely reported crime carries.

Filing a false report was already illegal in Oklahoma, but Deevers' wanted the legislation changed simply so that the punishment will be in accordance with the Bible, repeatedly citing the Bible's various "eye for an eye" provisions found in the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy.

Webbon, who is a close associate of Deevers', used vid] a to advocate for this sort of legislation, asserting that it could be used to publicly execute women who file false reports of sexual assault, which is perfectly in keeping with Webbon's virulent misogyny.

"In Israel, and this should be the law of the land in our country and every country still to this day, this is a timeless principle, a timeless, universal truth," Webbon preached. "If you perjure yourself by bearing false witness accusing somebody else, whatever the penalty would have been for that person had they been found guilty, then that penalty should fall on your head for falsely accusing them."

"So if you accuse in a court of law, falsely accuse someone of murder and it turns out in the final analysis that that person is not guilty of murder," Webbon continued, "and the penalty for murder should be capital punishment—life for life—then you, even though you have not committed murder, because you falsely accused someone else for murder and the penalty for that crime would have been death, you should be put to death."

"If that were to occur and the just penalties were to be enforced, you, the false accuser, is now put to death," Webbon declared. "And that's a public death. It's a public sentence, publicly carried out, then the citizens of these United States of America, you know what they would do? #MeToo would end real fast. False accusing, playing the victim when you're actually not; you know how to end that real fast? All you have to do is publicly execute a few women who have lied."

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In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.”

In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like next year’s “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that is scheduled to feature a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.

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Kyle Mantyla

Dalton Clodfelter declares that "women shouldn’t have rights."
Jackson Lahmeyer warns that "the future Antichrist will be a HOMOSEXUAL of Jewish descent."
Eric Trump says that his family has done all it can to save the United States, but if Evangelical voters don't show up at the polls, America will not survive.
Andrew Isker and C. Jay Engel think it's safe for them to say radical things because Right Wing Watch doesn't know who they are. Surprise!
Finally, poor John Amanchukwu encountered an all gender restroom and was traumatized.

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Texas pastor Joel Webbon is a radical Christian nationalist who believesthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Webbon, of course, is also a misogynist who wants to see women banned from voting, so naturally he is deeply alarmed by the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris winning the election in November, as he made clear during a. vid]

“I believe it’s Isaiah that says that one of God’s judgments and curses on a nation is that they will be ruled by children and women,” Webbon said, citing Isaiah 3.”It’s not like if we get Kamala, then we’re going to have sinful policies and then we’ll be judged by God. That’s true, but it’s not just that Kamala will invoke judgment by wicked policies; Kamala is the judgment because of all the wickedness that we’ve already accrued.”

“We have been a wicked, rebellious, apostate nation for decades and decades and decades,” he continued. “Kamala is not the sin that will result in judgment; Kamala is the judgment that is the result for all of our past. The judgment is being ruled by women.”

“Why is that a judgment?” he asked, rhetorically. “Because the Bible said so. That’s why.”

“Women are not fit for that role,” Webbon asserted.

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In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like next year’s “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that is scheduled to feature a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.

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Christian Nationalist Joel Webbon Dreams Of ‘Making Leftist Thought a Complete Pariah’

By Kyle Mantyla | September 3, 2024 rww

Earlier this year, hardcore Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declared that Christians who share his worldview must gain political power and then use that power for the purpose of “crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.”

During the most recent of his “Theology Applied” program, Webbon elaborated about just what “crushing our enemies” would entail in his utopian Christian nationalist theocracy.

“What does it mean culturally to crush your enemies?” he asked rhetorically. “It means making leftist thought a complete pariah to where someone is ashamed to publicly utter views that the Lord hates, that God hates.”

“Leftists should be ashamed and anyone who has said those things publicly in any serious position of power and media, they should be crushed. Meaning what?” he continued. “It means they lose their job. It means they lose their livelihood. They lose stock. They lose credibility. It means all those things.”

“We’re talking socially, culturally, politically in all these ways that are perfectly conducive with biblical standards,” Webbon proclaimed. “We’re talking about all the mechanisms that are at our disposal and that are righteous to use. And in those ways, that’s what we mean by crushing enemies and rewarding friends. This is perfectly conducive with Christian thought.”

Webbon’s guest Charles Haywood, the creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal who longs to one day serve as a “warlord” at the head of an “armed patronage network,” wholeheartedly agreed, saying that the first order of business would be to put leftists on trial.

“It is entirely appropriate at some future point for the right to set up judicial tribunals to try people for crimes that took place in the past,” Haywood said. “It would be similar to something like was done after World War II with the de-Nazification program, where you basically examine the behavior of people in the past, you find particular malefactors and you sentence them to jail for some period of time.”

“It’s not revenge,” Webbon insisted. “It’s justice.”

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Elsewhere, Webbon has made his extremist political agenda quite clear, insistingthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to “pretend to be Christian.” Under such a dictator, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; women banned from voting; and non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood.

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Texas-based pastor Joel Webbon was among the contributors to a 2023 document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.”

In his own capacity, Webbon has been even aggressively theocratic, proclaiming that Christian nationalists must gain and use political power for the purpose of “crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.” Christian nationalists must wield that power, Webbon has argued, because the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to “pretend to be Christian.” Under such a dictator, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; women banned from voting; and non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood.

During a on “The Green Dragon Tavern Show,” Webbon explained what life under this sort of Christian nationalism would be like for non-Christians, who would be banned from any public displays of faith in order to prevent the judgment of God from falling on the nation.

“How do we deal with our unbelieving neighbors in a manner that is fitting to the Christian gospel?” Webbon said. “I would not have a government police system that’s going into private homes of Muslims or Jews or Hindus and trying to catch them mid-family worship as they’re bowing down to some idol. I think that that would be incredibly inappropriate and a breach of the sanctity of individual privacy and that it would be the government stepping outside of its jurisdiction that God has given.”

“However,” he continued. “I would be comfortable saying there will be no Islamic parades. For instance, in Minnesota [there are] Islamic, five times a day, public calls to prayer. I would say you can have church bells—Christian church bells—that everyone in town can hear, including the non-Christians and they can just kind of put up with it. It’s not unnecessarily antagonistic—church bells, not church sirens; you’re not going out of your way to be a jerk—it’s a pleasant sound, but it is a publicly universally heard sound throughout the day by all the citizens, whether they’re Christian or not. But you could not have Islamic siren calls to prayer, even if they were pretty. You still couldn’t have them because allowing for private worship in the home of a Muslim would be permissible, but public displays of worship to false gods, that’s erecting high places in a nation to false gods and God will not bless that.”

“It’s not even in the Muslims’ best interest for them to have public high places to false gods,” Webbon insisted. “He and his family would experience more joy and more peace and more tangible temporal blessing in their life if they worshipped Allah privately and did not bring reproach upon the nation publicly so that the nation could continue to receive the blessings of the triune God.”

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In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like next year’s “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that is scheduled to feature a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Dusty Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others. William Wolfe, one of Webbon’s co-editors of “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel,” is a former Heritage Action employee and close associate of Russ Vought, a Project 2025 leader who hopes to infuse a future Trump administration with Christian nationalism.

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joel Webbon’s Christian Nationalist Agenda: ‘Crushing Our Enemies and Rewarding Our Friends’

By Kyle Mantyla | July 25, 2024

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Radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon used his to explicitly lay out his agenda, which boils down to gaining political power and then using that power for the purpose of “crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.”

That agenda is perfectly in line with Webbon’s previously stated beliefs that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and therefore must be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to “pretend to be Christian.” Under such a dictator, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; women banned from voting, and non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood.

“We need to win,” Webbon declared. “We need to wield power righteously. … I want Christians to have power and with that power, I want it to be wielded righteously. What does that mean? It means crushing our enemies and rewarding our friends.”

What that will look like in practice, explained co-host Wesley Todd, is “the end of Pride Month, the end of DEI society” and the enforcement of “Christian virtues.”

“When you see those four things: our enemies fired en masse; friends hired, ascendant to positions of power all over as judges, as appointments by the Senate, as vice president; money flowing to our networks; and then society reinforcing those values that those leaders and those friends and those networks are pushing, that’s when you know we’ve made good progress,” said Todd.

Webbon added that a good first step is seeing people fired from their jobs for having made posts on social media celebrating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and/or lamenting its failure.

“The solution isn’t to prevent [those people from being fired],” Webbon declared. “The solution, by the grace of God, is that that would multiply by 10,000. We need so much more of that.”

The biggest impediment to achieving “so much more of that,” Webbon griped, is “female leadership.”

“Women are supposed to think, when a husband comes home and says, ‘Yeah, this woman lost her job at Home Depot,’ the correct natural response from your wife is, ‘Oh, that’s sad, I feel bad for her,'” Webbon said. “That’s a good instinct for her to have. It becomes a bad instinct, though, if she’s got her own podcast and she’s wearing a pantsuit and she’s got a blog and a million followers of other suburban moms, and all of them have a vote and all of them actually make more money than their husbands, and the court system is in their direction to where, if they ever divorce their husband, they get all the stuff and they get the kids. So in a in a gynocracy, in a woman-led nation and culture—which is what we currently have—there’s only two types of leaders: women and those who are women-adjacent. That’s it. So, in that society, it’s going to be really hard for us to get friends hired, enemies fired, those kinds of things because those are things that men do.”

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In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like “Blueprints for Christendom 2.0: Seven Doctrines for Ruling the World,” which took place earlier this year and militant Christian nationalists like Doug Wilson and Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers as speakers.

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Lance Wallnau claims that he prophesied former President Donald Trump’s decision to choose Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate.

Racists and Christian nationalists are not happy about Harmeet Dhillon delivering a prayer at the RNC last night.

Days after Oklahoma state superintendent of education Ryan Walters tapped several right-wing propagandists to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum, he wrote an op-ed with two of them (David Barton and Steve Deace) urging Christians to vote for Trump because “he will end atheism as a state-run religion.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert says that she is “always praying for our government to be righteous, that God would remove the unrighteous and install righteous men and women who will honor his word and his people because that’s what we need now more than ever.”

Joel Webbon asserts that he an obligation to protect his family from the “invasion of military-aged men who hate our country and hate families like mine; white, traditional conservative families.”

Finally, while Tony Perkins now insists that we must stop demonizing our political opponents, just a month ago he declared that “[the Biden administration] is aligned with the devil and we have to not be afraid to say that.”

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In June, a variety of far-right pastors gathered in Utah for a “Building Christian Boroughs” conference organized by the New Christendom Press. Among the participants was pastor Joel Webbon, an ardent Christian nationalist who believes that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and therefore must be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Webbon—who wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; and women banned from voting—participated in a conference on “Christian Nationalism, Women in Politics, & Jewish Influence on American Society” during which he declared that immigration must be curtailed and the southern border sealed because his neighborhood in Texas is being overrun by non-white non-Christians.

“We can’t afford to lose Texas,” Webbon said. “Unless something drastically happens, I think by 2028, Texas will officially be blue in presidential elections, in large part because of the border.”

“I walk around my neighborhood and it’s not that there are [just] different shades of white and brown,” he added. “No, it’s like full, straight-up Hindu garb at our neighborhood swimming pool that my daughter is asking [about and] I’m trying to explain.”

“I don’t even know what country I’m in, in my own neighborhood,” Webbon declared. “I don’t know where I am.”

“When we go on a family walk, the number of Pakistanis, Hindus, [there are] all these different not just ethnicities but religions with visible religious outfits on,” Webbon griped. “And the same thing when we go to Costco. I’m like, ‘Where am I?'”

“We’ll go on a family walk and every now and then we’ll pass by, you know, a white family that’s a man and a woman and has more than one kid,” he continued. “And every time I see it, I’m like, I don’t want to be this way but I feel this small sense of relief. Like, ‘I I see you. I’m glad you’re one of my neighbors.'”

Insisting that his outrage is “not about whiteness,” Webbon claimed that his concern is that “at the end of the day, if things get rough, I don’t know if my Hindu neighbor is going to fight to save the lives of my children.”

“I love this country. I am willing to fight to defend it. A lot of people here I don’t think are,” Webbon asserted. “One thing that it’s time for is to shut down the border.”

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Christian Nationalist Joel Webbon Claims To Have The Support Of ‘Massively Influential People’

By Kyle Mantyla | June 4, 2024 rww

During a of his “Theology Applied” podcast, far-right pastor Joel Webbon said that his critics would be shocked to learn that “massively influential” and wealthy people are reaching out to him to voice their support for his radical Christian nationalist agenda.

Webbon is an ardent Christian nationalist who believes that the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and therefore must be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.” Under this Christian leader, Webbon says, the Constitution will be amended to include the Apostles’ Creed, abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control will all be outlawed, and women will be banned from voting.

On Monday’s podcast, after Webbon and his guest, fellow Christian nationalist Adam Robles, discussed the need for the United States to be ruled by an “American Caesar” or “Protestant Franco,” they both agreed that Christian nationalism is not just some small, fringe movement.

“I think people would be surprised if you found out the kinds of people that we’re talking to and are following us,” Robles said. “It’s very easy to mock Christian nationalism as a small movements, it’s fringe, nobody cares. And as far as I’m concerned, they can keep doing it.”

“You’re absolutely right,” Webbon agreed. “Without sharing too many details or names, it is a fact that people—massively influential people, high, high, high, high up—it’s not just that we have a speculation; no, they are calling us, texting us, ‘Hey, I saw what you posted on Twitter. I think that’s really good. Hey, I watched your podcast, I think that’s really good.’ I’m talking massive celebrities. Millionaires, if not billionaires.”

“You can keep patting yourself on the back and consoling yourself that Christian nationalism will go away,” Webbon said. “It won’t. It won’t. You might as well go ahead and get with the program.”

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In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries through which he organizes events like “Blueprints for Christendom 2.0: Seven Doctrines for Ruling the World,” which took place earlier this year and militant Christian nationalists like Doug Wilson and Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers as speakers.

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Joel Webbon Says Women Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote

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