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July 28, 2026
The Many Kingdoms of Sean Feucht
Sean Feucht built a multimillion-dollar Christian nationalist empire while becoming a regular presence in Trump’s White House. As whistleblowers allege financial misconduct and a major donor sues for fraud, this profile examines how one of the movement’s most influential figures built a vast political, financial, and religious network while remaining a key ally in post–Project 2025 America.
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09/30/2026
- Jesse Leon Rogers is offering "Training for Reigning" courses to help right-wing Christians "restore rule and righteousness in the earth."
- Sean Feucht claims the people of Minnesota "have been hijacked with toxic empathy" for Muslims and LGBTQ people.
- White nationalists were outraged over an ad from Gov. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders touting the state's welfare-to-work requirement and James Fishback was eager to capitalize by rushing to Arkansas to hold a press conference.
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09/28/2026
- Mark Meckler says that the midterm elections are a choice between "Trump and crazy:" "I literally mean crazy, and wild, and satanic, and weird."
- Dale Partridge has a warning for white Christian American men: "Soon a 'jury of your peers' will mean 'fellow humans'—a feminist, a Muslim man, a Hindu woman, a gay Mexican, and a black atheist."
- John Doyle asserts that "any woman who places 'conditions' on 'submission' is defective or trying to control you. Women don’t have some switch they flip that makes them 'submit' to a man. They do it naturally with men they respect."
- Sean Feucht aims to acquire property in all 50 states, not to boost his own substantial real estate holdings, of course, but to keep those properties out of the hands of Muslims.
- Finally, "prophetess" Kat Kerr was recently in Washington, D.C., issuing decrees over the Supreme Court, Capitol, White House, and Washington Monument.
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Sean Feucht Says God Orchestrated His Failed Congressional Bid To Prepare To Defy COVID Lockdowns
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07/07/2026
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- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick featured Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton on his most recent podcast.
- Rick Green claims that the American healthcare system is terrible because "we have a socialist healthcare system in America, thanks to their candidate, Barack Obama."
- Sean Feucht was honored to receive the Pennsylvania Freedom Medal from Christian nationalist state Sen. Doug Mastriano.
- Dale Partridge asserts that "restoring order will require not being moved by the screeching of women, the manipulation of foreigners, or the cries of liberals."
- Brian Sauvé wrote a song about the dangers of young women getting an education, a job, and independence, proving that Christian nationalists can take just about any topic and turn it into terrible, heavy-handed art.
- Finally, Hank Kunneman declares that "our country was founded on Christian principles": "Most of our documents were based on the Bible; the way that our civic government and laws and things and the way that our Constitution was framed." None of that is true.
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03/17/2026
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- Julian E. Barnes, Robert Draper, and Luke Broadwater @ The New York Times: Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War
Mr. Kent is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He is also known for his support of conspiracy theories.
- Erkki Forster @ The Daily Beast: Power-Hungry Trump Thirsts Over ‘Taking’ Another Country
“Whether I free it, take it—I can do anything I want with it,” the president said.
- Jeff Brumley @ Baptist Press: Sean Feucht partners with Trump admin for ‘Roots of Revival’ tour
Christian nationalist revival leader and Trump loyalist Sean Feucht announced he is partnering with the federal government on a worship tour that will coincide with the nation’s 250th anniversary. The “Roots of Revival” tour will include 20 stops from March to September in locations ranging from Sante Fe, N.M., and Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg, Penn., to Nashville, Tenn.
- Susan Svrluga @ The Washington Post: College Republicans group disbanded after students allegedly give Nazi salute
The University of Florida’s chapter accused the Florida Federation of College Republicans of lying “to silence christian conservative groups on campus.”
- Jay Michaelson @ Forward: Antisemitism is exploding on the right but the Jewish establishment is focused on the left
Obsessed with Israel, the anti-antisemitism industry is failing to confront the threat of right-wing nationalism — and, in some cases, making it worse.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Laura Loomer Gets Roasted on Trip to India
FAR-RIGHT ACTIVIST AND DONALD TRUMP ADVISER Laura Loomer has hit the global stage. Over the weekend, she traveled to New Delhi with her new fiancé to relay a message from Trump to India’s 1.43 billion people. “I love India! Please let them know I love India,” Loomer said on stage at the India Today Conclave, reading a message she said the president had given to her. Unfortunately, many of those in attendance did not seem to reciprocate the sentiment—at least not toward Loomer. That’s because they have access to the internet, and could easily look up the speaker’s many attacks on their country and its people, like the time she said Kamala Harris would make the White House smell like curry.
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President Donald Trump has excited many of his Charismatic Christian supporters by posting on social media a nearly twenty-year-old prophecy by the late Kim Clement about Trump’s rise to power. “Donald Trump Goes Prophetic” read a headline at the Trump-promoting Pentacostal-oriented media outlet Charisma on Monday. “Donald Trump just posted the Kim Clements Prophecy!” tweeted MAGA marketer and dominionist Lance Wallnau.
Before his death in 2016, Clement traveled the country giving “prophetic” performances and was promoted by outlets like Charisma and The Elijah List. The prophesies Trump shared this week were delivered in Redding, California, home of controversial and influential megachurch Bethel, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2007.
Trump’s dominionists backers have shared Clement’s prophecies for years, contending that Trump’s elections and actions have fulfilled them. Trump sharing them now could be a sign that he is taking to heart the idea that he is anointed and carrying out a divine mission. Or it could be a way to rally support from his religious-right backers at a time when his economic policies and war on Iran are causing his popularity to drop. Either way, Trump’s move seems designed to strengthen his political hand by portraying his opponents as enemies of God.
One disturbing aspect of Trump embracing the Clement prophecies is the suggestion that his authoritarian, media-controlling tendencies are God’s will. Part of the prophecy that Trump shared on social media Monday includes this:
…TIME Magazine will have no choice but to say what I want them to say. Newsweek, what I want to say. The View, what I want to say. Trump shall become a Trumpet, says the Lord. Trump shall become a trumpet. I will raise up the Trump to become a Trumpet…For I shall fill him with my spirit when he goes into office and there will be a praying man in the highest seat in your land.
In another prophecy included in the clip shared by Trump, Clement says:
For the spirit of God says, ‘Yes, he may have hot blood, but he will bring the walls of protection on this country in a greater way and the economy of this country shall change rapidly,’ says the Lord of Hosts….God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and my power,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
Dominionist musician and MAGA activist Sean Feucht, who is partnering with the Trump administration on a series of religious revival events tied to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is celebrating. It’s not the first time Feucht has shared Clement’s prophecies about Trump; a year ago he wrote that Clement was “unbelievably accurate.”
Feucht’s claim about Clement’s accuracy is far from universally accepted. Many of Clement’s prophecies over the years did not come true, leading a number of Christian apologists to denounce him as a falseprophet. But when Clement died in 2016, New Apostolic Reformation figure Cindy Jacobs called him “one of the most anointed prophetic psalmists that I have ever known.”
In the prophecies Trump shared, Clement also predicted that God would raise up Bill Gates “to open up the gate of a financial realm for the church.” Not a lot of folks talking about that one, given that Gates is not exactly a favorite of the MAGA crowd.
Other outlets trumpeting Trump’s prophetic turn included Daystar Television Network and, not surprisingly, Clement’s House of Destiny, which frequently posts videos about Clement’s prophecies related to current events, including Trump’s efforts to undermine the U.N. and the release of the government’s UFO files.
In 2014, Right Wing Watch reported that Clement warned that Satan was attempting to put a “witch” with a “Jezebel spirit” in the White House and prophesied that God was raising up a leader who would “kill the giant of socialism” and “the giant of secular humanism.”
Clay Clark, the businessman who created the ReAwaken America tour that traveled the country in 2024 promoting far-right conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and Donald Trump, was convinced that he and Trump were the subjects of a vague 2013 prophecy from Clement about a man named Clark and another named Donald.
Long after his death, Clement’s prophecies tend to get put to lots of use. In 2019, for example, a right-wing pastor declared that Trump’s promised border wall was a “done deal” because it was part of Clements’ 2007 prophecy. This year, Jennifer LeClaire suggested that the election of New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani could be the fulfillment of Clement warning that the church would have to fight an “infiltration” of New York.
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- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Ex-Spokane mayor demands $10M from city after backlash over extremist prayer rally
Nadine Woodward appeared on stage with Christian extremists Sean Feucht and Matt Shea. She says criticism of that event destroyed her reputation.
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Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal “the second coming” or the “End Times” and said “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass”
Written by Payton Armstrong
Published 03/04/26
Right-wing Christian media are praising President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching military strikes against Iran, with some figures likening Trump to Cyrus the Great and Constantine the Great and claiming that “we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.”
Christian media figures have said the war could be a sign of “the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming,” claiming that he has “literally become Constantine the Great”; asserting that “God is using President Trump in a prophetic moment”; and telling audiences, “It’s all going to be happening in God's timing.”
Trump joined Israel in striking Iran — a longtime goal of right-wing evangelicals who believe in End Times prophecy
- The U.S. and Israel launched wide-ranging military strikes on Iran, reportedly killing multiple high-ranking Iranian leaders and many civilians, and thrusting the region into a new era of instability.As of March 3, at least six American service members have reportedly been killed in action since the conflict began, and Trump has said, “There will likely be more before it ends.” Additionally, a girls’ elementary school in Minab was hit during the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, killing 165 people and injuring 96 others, according to Iranian state media. NPR, [2/28/26, 3/2/26; BBC, 3/3/26; The Guardian, 3/1/26]
- Military commanders have been accused of tying the Iran war to biblical prophecy, with one combat-unit commander reportedly telling noncommissioned officers that Trump is “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” Military.com reported: “An organization that has been fighting against religious extremism in the United States military for two decades has reported more than 200 new complaints since Saturday’s initial strikes against Iran, with members across all services claiming that high-ranking officers are tying the mission overseas to fulfilling a Christian prophecy.” Military.com, [3/3/26]
- For years, Christian media figures have likened Trump to Cyrus the Great and claimed he is “anointed” by God.Vox explained the comparison in 2018: “Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE, conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile.” NPR, [1/20/25; Reuters, 3/22/24; Vox, 3/5/18]
- Evangelical leaders and right-wing media figures have long claimed Israel is central to the supposed End Times and Iran is “not simply a talking point, but what many … believe is a land of biblical significance” and “considered a major player in End Times prophecy.”For years, those figures have cited various conflicts in the Middle East to warn that the End Times are either here or imminent, and have suggested that Iran could represent the antagonist “Gog” or “Magog” in a biblical prophecy. According to Britannica, in the Bible, “the names Gog and Magog are applied to the evil forces that will join with Satan in the great struggle at the end of time.” Baptist News, [3/2/26; Media Matters, 11/7/23, 7/19/11; Harvest, 3/2/26; Right Wing Watch, 6/20/25; Britannica, accessed 3/3/26]
- Conservative media figures have so far been divided over Trump’s war with Iran. Many prominent right-wing figures have supported the war, but a wide variety of streamers and podcasters have broken with the administration, with Tucker Carlson calling the attacks “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Media Matters, [3/2/26]
- ### Right-wing Christian media celebrated Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of prophecy, saying that Trump is “literally becoming Cyrus the Great” and that “the return of Jesus is back on the menu”
- FlashPointhost Gene Bailey and “self-styled prophet” Lance Wallnau likened Trump to Cyrus the Great liberating Babylon, with Wallnau saying, “Cyrus Trump holds the cards.”Bailey opened a segment discussing Iran by saying: “History has a strange way of repeating itself. … When Cyrus the Great entered Babylon, he didn't crush a people. He didn't crush a people group. He liberated them. The Persians still call him Cyrus the Great because he restored dignity, honored faith, and broke the back of the oppressive regime. His name is etched in Persian memory, not as a tyrant but as a deliverer. So, let's fast forward two thousand five hundred years now, many Persians see something similar to Donald Trump.” Wallnau later said, “Cyrus Trump holds the cards.” Bailey has interviewed Trump on FlashPoint at least seven times. Trump appointed Bailey to an advisory board on his Religious Liberty Commission, and told the host during an interview, “We’re with you 1,000%.” YouTube, *FlashPoint* [2/28/26; Media Matters, 6/12/25; The Wall Street Journal, 10/9/24]
- Wallnau declared: “The return of Jesus is back on the menu.”Wallnau said: “Things are happening right in alignment with actual feasts. … There's always a feast day manifestation because Israel and the return of Jesus is back on the menu.” Right Wing Watch, [3/2/26]
- Also onFlashPoint, right-wing pastor Andrew Sedra said “we're seeing President Trump literally become Constantine the Great, he's literally becoming Cyrus the Great.”Sedra celebrated that “Trump is going after the head of the snake, which is Islam,” adding, “It is a very, very good time to be alive where we're seeing President Trump literally become Constantine the Great, he's literally becoming Cyrus the Great. He's taking decisive action to make sure that Christendom freedom will last across the West for a hundred more years.” Sedra also said, “God is using President Trump in a prophetic moment of time to execute judgment on evil and wicked civilizations.” YouTube, *FlashPoint*, [2/28/26, 2/28/26; Daily Mail, 6/22/23; Ministry Watch, 3/11/24]
- Pro-Trump pastor and podcaster Greg Laurie — who interviewed Secretary of State Marco Rubio in October — declared that the war could be a sign of “the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming.” Laurie, who hosts The Greg Laurie Show, said: “It reminds me of the words of Jesus who said, ‘When you see these things begin to happen, look up because your redemption is drawing near.’ As far as I can see, the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the rapture of the church. … When that event happens, all of the prophetic things that are going to take place are like dominoes closely stacked to each other. And once the first domino falls, the others will fall: the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation period, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming, the millennial reign of Christ, heaven and Earth become one, and somewhere in that prophetic scenario is the invasion of Magog with her ally Persia. So, it's all going to be happening in God's timing.” YouTube, [3/1/26; The Greg Laurie Show, 10/28/25; Christianity Today, 5/12/25]
- Trump ally and “prophet” Amanda Grace claimed that the strikes on Iran were “prophesied back in December,” adding, “We are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.” Grace often shares what she calls prophetic warnings and alerts and “a Word from the Lord” on YouTube and has interviewed members of the Trump family including Eric and Lara Trump. YouTube, *Ark of Grace Ministries,* [2/28/26; Media Matters, 5/30/24; YouTube, accessed 9/2/25]
- Pro-Trump “prophet” Julie Green said, while discussing Iran, “We should be celebrating and being in comfort and being at peace knowing that God is in control.” Green, who has hosted Eric and Lara Trump on her online show, told her audience: “Prophetically, God has been talking about what we're seeing right now. So this is something that we should be celebrating and being in comfort and being at peace knowing that God is in control, knowing that God is having his way and he is removing every evil leader out of their powerful positions.” Rumble, *Mornings with Julie*, [3/2/26; Media Matters, 10/4/21, 5/30/24]
- Right-wing pastor John Hagee streamed a sermon on YouTube titled “God's Coming Operation ‘Epic Fury’” in which he said that “we rejoice in the prophetic scriptures.” Hagee, who founded and chairs a group called Christians United for Israel and has previously argued for military strikes against Iran, opened his sermon by stating: “We thank you for our president, Donald Trump, whose wisdom and courage has crushed the enemies of Zion. Today we rejoice in the prophetic scriptures of Ezekiel, revealing God's operation fury for the enemies of Israel.” YouTube, [3/1/26, 3/1/26; The Nation, 6/24/25; The Guardian, 3/6/23]
- Pastor Sean Feucht — a self avowed Christian nationalist who recently announced a “revival” partnership with the federal government for the country’s 250th celebration — noted during a YouTube stream that his evangelical group has had a presence in the Middle East since “the height of ISIS” and said, “God has us positioned there for the end-time open doors of what he's going to do in Iran.”Feucht added: “We're going to see the gospel go forth like never before.” Right Wing Watch reported that during a February livestream, “Feucht announced details of what he called the ‘Roots Of Revival’ tour in which the federal government will partner with him as he hosts prayer events ‘from coast to coast [in] all the historic and epic places of revival and awakening that were birthed in America.’” YouTube, [3/1/26; Right Wing Watch, 2/11/26, 4/21/23]
- Right-wing pastor Jack Hibbs uploaded a sermon on YouTube in which he discussed the strikes against Iran in front of a screen saying “Bible prophecy update.”Hibbs, who in 2024 was invited by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to serve as the House of Representatives’ guest chaplain, invoked a verse from Jeremiah 49, which references “the latter days,” and said, “Is that what we're watching? Is that what we're seeing? We'll see. We shall see. But that prophecy has never been fulfilled. Not in total.” YouTube, [3/1/26; Media Matters, 1/31/24; One for Israel, accessed 3/3/26]
- Joseph Z — who regularly shares “prophetic updates” on YouTube and in his bio has said he practices “Last Days Prophetic Journalism” — said strikes against Iran “could be Bible prophecy playing out” and “we're going to see an absolute revival come to Iran.” He suggested “what took place in Jeremiah 49” could “be a prophetic fulfillment of what's happening in Iran.” YouTube, [3/1/26, accessed 8/11/25; Right Wing Watch, 8/12/24]
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Feucht, Muslim Prayer, And A Case Study In Christian Nationalism
02/24/2026
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On Saturday, Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht posted a video on social media expressing his outrage that several hundred Muslims had gathered in Times Square the day before to pray.
"Thousands of Muslims have blocked off Times Square in New York City, shouting 'Allahu Akbar,' releasing demonic prayers and decrees over the city," Feucht fumed. "Are you kidding me? In America!"
"You have Muslims taking over the streets of Times Square [in] New York City 25 years after 9/11," he continued. "The streets are being completely hijacked with prayers to a foreign god in America's greatest city. How did we get here? How in the world is this happening?"
This is happening because Muslims have religious freedom in this country, much to the dismay of Christian nationalists like Feucht, who apparently believes that only Christian worship services should be held in Times Square, like the ones he has organized in recent years.
On top of that, Feucht has also held events in New York City where he used public fountains to perform baptisms.
The greatest irony, of course, is that Feucht partnered with the federal government last year to host a Christian worship service on the National Mall and is partnering with the government once again to host a series of such worship events across the nation throughout 2026.
Feucht's outrage perfectly demonstrates the central tenet of the Christian nationalist worldview, which is that only Christians should be allowed to exercise their faith in public and influence society, culture, or politics.
Calling the Muslim prayer "a forceful display of dominance," Feucht announced that he will be returning to Times Square this summer.
"We're gonna dethrone all that mess and all that stuff that has been released over the last few days," he said. "We're gonna raise up a sound to King Jesus and we're gonna declare his rulership over that city."
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Last year, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner teamed up with Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht to host a Christian worship service on the National Mall.
Shortly thereafter, Feucht revealed that he was working with members of the Trump administration to organize a series of similar worship services around the country in 2026, tied to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
During a livestream broadcast on Monday, Feucht announced details of what he called the "Roots Of Revival" tour in which the federal government will partner with him as he hosts prayer events "from coast to coast [in] all the historic and epic places of revival and awakening that were birthed in America."
"As I was praying and fasting leading into the new year, I felt like the Lord said, 'Remind America on the 250 year anniversary of her heritage in revival and awakening.' In other words, call America back to God, this is the source of our strength," Feucht said.
"Here's the exciting thing," he continued. "The coolest part is we get to do it together with the Freedom 250 organization, which is the White House/Trump administration arm executing the mandate of celebrating America's 250 year birthday. We're so excited. We have come into an agreement with them to partner together, to collaborate together. They're going to be coming out to some of our events. We're going to be championing other things they're doing and so it's just very, very amazing. It is a dream come true and such a blessing."
"It's just an amazing season from God to be able to do this in partnership with our own government and to know that they have our back and to be able to be an extension of literally the Faith Office inside of the White House, all the people that are praying inside of there, so many members of the the Cabinet and the Trump administration love Jesus and they're going to be a part of this in various ways," Feucht gushed. "It's just so exciting to announce that we are officially partnering together."
Feucht also announced that his "Roots Of Revival" tour was going to be participating in the Trump administration's National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving to be held on the National Mall on May 17.
"We're going back with the White House, with our own government, to help them host a whole day of worship and prayer," he said. "We're so excited. May 17 is when that happens on the National Mall, but the whole year, Roots of Revival is going to be partnered with the White House and many other organizations."
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- Vittoria Elliott @ Wired: Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown
Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.
- Deepa Bharath @ The Associated Press: Worship leader Sean Feucht mismanaged millions in ministry funds, former associates say
Alongside his Christian rockstar status, revenue to Feucht’s ministry also skyrocketed, jumping from $243,000 in 2019 to $5 million in 2020 — the last year his ministry filed a Form 990 with the IRS. It’s that deluge of money, Feucht’s and his ministry’s amassing of expensive real estate in its wake and their lack of financial transparency, which has former ministry staff and volunteers now accusing the worship leader of mismanaging ministry funds.
- Molly Olmstead @ Slate: This Is the Moment Christian Nationalists Have Been Waiting For
Some MAGA Christians see Charlie Kirk’s killing as the start of a “revival”—and the moment for remaking America.
- Patrick Svitek @ The Washington Post: Madison Cawthorn, ousted from House in 2022, tries comeback in Florida
The Republican will run for Florida’s 19th Congressional District, where a seat is open because Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is seeking the state’s governorship.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Liberty Counsel manufactured panic over "Witchy Wednesday" at a Florida high school
A Florida teen's segment during morning announcements became fodder for the Christian outrage machine.
- Matthew Sheffield @ Flux: Trump’s mass censorship is what far-right Republicans have always wanted
Historian Seth Cotlar discusses how far-right Republicans like William F. Buckley and Ben Shapiro embrace authoritarianism and conspiracism.
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Far-right MAGA pundit Candace Owens is claiming that Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was getting ready to convert to Catholicism near the end of his life, but evangelical Christian fundamentalists are denying that claim. And reporters Sam Stein and Will Sommer appeared skeptical about that alleged conversion during a conversation for the conservative website The Bulwark.
Kirk, who was 31 when he was fatally shot in Utah, was closely identified with evangelical Christian nationalism. And The Guardian's J. Oliver Conroy, in an article published on September 20, reports that Christian nationalists are "positioning Charlie Kirk as a martyr for their movement."
After Kirk's murder, his widow, Erika Kirk, posted, on Instagram, that the "world is evil" and declared, "They have no idea what they just ignited within this wife."
Author Jeff Sharlet, known for his writings on Christian nationalism, discussed Erika Kirk's comments with The Guardian — warning, "That's holy war, that's accelerationism, and it's incredibly powerful."
Conroy notes some of the other things far-right Christian nationalists have been saying since Kirk's death.
In a video, megachurch pastor Matt Tuggle said of Kirk's murder, "If your pastor isn't telling you the left believes (in an) evil demonic belief system, you are in the wrong church."
Sean Feucht, a Christian nationalist pastor who worked with Kirk, said, "We know that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The devil is not gonna win. The forces want us to be silent; they want us to shut up.… We need to be more bold."
Conroy describes Christian nationalism as "the belief that the U.S. is and should be an explicitly Christian nation."
"Kirk had been an evangelical Christian since childhood but earlier in his career, expressed reluctance at politicizing his religious views," Conroy explains. "That changed during the peak of the early pandemic, when Kirk made the acquaintance of several charismatic megachurch pastors protesting church lockdowns. He began to traffic in ideas influenced by the (New Apostolic Reformation),including the seven-mountain mandate. Turning Point USA also began to forge partnerships with churches."
*Read J. Oliver Conroy's full article for The Guardian at this link.
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Christian-right media outlets, which function as an unofficial public relations operation for President Donald Trump, set out this week to smear in advance the ‘No Kings’ protests being held across the country on Sat. June 14 to protest Trump’s authoritarianism and defiance of the law and Constitution.
“As America prepares to honor the birthday of President Donald J. Trump on June 14,” began a screed that ran on the right-wing “America Faith” platform and was republished by the Pentecostal-oriented Charisma News—not even bothering to sustain the official fiction that Trump’s military parade is more about honoring the armed forces than a presidential exercise in self-glorification.
The diatribe was written by right-wing southern California pastor Phil Hotsenpiller, who founded American Faith after Trump was defeated in the 2020 election.
In this week’s column, Hotsenpiller warned of the “disturbing agenda” of the No Kings rallies: “to crush Donald Trump’s influence, undermine constitutional authority, and destabilize American sovereignty.”
“Let’s be clear,” wrote Hotsenpiller, “this is not about preserving democracy—it’s about preventing Trump from returning to power.”
Huh? Trump has already returned to power and is flagrantly abusing that power. That’s why Americans are rallying to defend the rule of law and the constitutional checks and balances Trump’s team is working so hard to dismantle.
Hotsenpiller spun a conspiracy theory about the “Walton-Weingarten Nexus”—WalMart heiress and philanthropist Christy Walton and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, two “dangerous” women “merging to push a vision of America that looks more like socialist Europe—or communist China—than a constitutional republic.”
“June 14 is not just a protest,” Hotsenpiller ranted. “It’s a declaration of war—against populism, against Trump and ultimately against the America our Founders envisioned.”
While MAGA religious leaders portray themselves as the voice of American Christians, many Christians and other faith leaders are urging Americans to participate in peaceful No Kings protests—and have been on the front lines this week protesting the brutality of the administration’s militarized anti-immigrant operations.
Trump has threatened “very heavy force” against anyone who protests his parade. No Kings organizers have not planned an event in D.C., encouraging locals to join a flagship rally in Philadelphia, participate in Virginia or Maryland events, or take part in DC Joy Day.
American Faith hosted the ReAwaken America Tour, a traveling cavalcade of far-right conspiracies, Christian nationalism, and pro-Trump propaganda. Last year, Hostenpiller’s Influence Church hosted Christian nationalist MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, who used the occasion to rail against seminaries “infiltrated with wokeism, social justice nonsense” and “overly feminine ‘pastor-men.’” Hotsenpiller has also teamed up with MAGA musician Sean Feucht.
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- In response to the anti-ICE protests in California, Shane Vaughn says the state is "a hemorrhoid on the nation."
- Nick Fuentes is disappointed that the protests have not spun out of control, leading to chaos and a military crackdown: "I wanna see people waking up and saying, 'We need another Hitler.'"
- Glenn Beck is preparing for the upcoming nationwide "No Kings" protests by selling "No Kings but Christ" merchandise.
- Sean Feucht responded to the allegations of financial, moral, and spiritual misconduct against him by insisting that they are coming from "embittered, angry, upset former volunteers" who were dismissed "for moral issues."
- Finally, David Barton declares that "all the good things that have happened in American history were led by Christians at some point."
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- Kim Roberts @ Ministry Watch: Sean Feucht Accused of Moral, Ethical, and Financial Failure by Former Leaders
Five former leaders of groups associated with Sean Feucht have issued a formal statement bringing to light what they call “longstanding and serious moral, ethical, financial, organizational and governance failures” by Feucht and calling for an independent investigation into possible fraud and embezzlement.
- David Edwards @ Raw Story: Mike Lindell claims 'Satan' controls voting machines ahead of defamation trial
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said "Satan" was behind allegedly rigged voting machines ahead of his defamation trial.
- David Frum @ The Atlantic: The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist
He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.
- Jake Lahut @ Wired: Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer. They Hope the President Is Too
Trump advisers tell WIRED that their mutually beneficial arrangements with the notorious right wing influencer may be coming to an end.
- Will Neal @ The Daily Beast: Trump Official Backpedals as Wild ‘Trauma’ Plot Exposed
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought had said he wants government employees “to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”
- Tracy Simmons @ Religion News Service: With new campus, Pastor Doug Wilson's Christian Valhalla grows in Idaho
Wilson's expanding infrastructure puts him at the center of a larger debate about the role of faith in public life reaching from small-town Idaho to the highest levels of government.
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- Religious-right lawyer Brad Dacus reveals that he has been involved in drafting executive orders for President Donald Trump that he hopes will be signed in coming weeks.
- Eric Trump claims that "we are going to bankrupt our country if we keep running it the way Joe Biden did and I think DOGE might go down in history as maybe the most meaningful effort in the savior of this nation."
- Rick Green has a simple formula for determining whether the federal government should undertake any particular task: "If it's in the Yellow Pages, government shouldn't do it."
- A Fox News analyst fainted during a segment and Ali Alexander had an odd response: "Zionist commentator fainted on Fox News Live TV! Be very careful. God will not be mocked! Jews need to ask for forgiveness from the Father!"
- Finally, it's fortunate that Russel Brand was granted bail in his sexual assault case so he'll be free to participate in Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht's upcoming mass baptism event.
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02/11/2025
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- Sean Feucht is outraged that Pope Francis dared to criticize President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown: "This Pope is clearly WOKE. It's time for all my Catholic friends to rise up and say something."
- Ali Alexander declares that "everyone in Charleston knows about [Rep. Nancy] Mace's sex addiction."
- There is something almost comically ironic about the fact that Milo Yiannopoulos is scheduled to be a presenter at "The Grifties," which bills itself as "the premier award show that humorously honors those who ride the waves of influence fueled by current events."
- Wesley Todd says that he could "cure 90% of depression cases with a gym membership, with some sunlight, some outdoor activity, and some hard work."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes gripes that he did not receive any of the millions of dollars that Russia was funneling to right-wing influencers: "I was Russia's biggest supporter! Where's my money?"
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Christian nationalist Sean Feucht says that citizens of Canada and Mexico should pray about the tariffs imposed by Trump because they are part of God's plan to save their nations from "Marxist demonic leaders."]
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Last week, Richard Rogers of the America First Policy Institute appeared on "The Jim Bakker Show," where he reported that the Trump administration would be appointing a "faith director" to serve under every Cabinet member who would be tasked with ensuring that anti-Christian policies are not enacted.
On Wednesday, Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht posted a video in which he reported something similar, claiming that the Trump administration intends to assign a "government-sanctioned intercessor" to every Cabinet member who will be responsible for praying for them and shaping their decisions.
Returning from the inauguration, Feucht complained again about the remarks delivered by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde at the National Prayer Service held at the Washington National Cathedral before bragging that he had been invited to hold worship services inside the Pentagon by Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and inside the U.S. Capitol by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
But that was only the beginning.
"I can't wait to tell you guys the God connections," Feucht marveled. "Mind boggling. I got invited to do worship at the Pentagon with my friend Pete Hegseth. I got invited by Speaker Mike Johnson to go into the Capitol and worship. I mean, it's crazy guys."
"It's wide open, right now," he continued. "Our government has people in it now—I've never seen this and never heard of this before—where worship is being invited in and the Trump team actually has a faith department where every Cabinet member has almost like an intercessor, like a government-sanctioned intercessor, that's responsible to pray and integrate faith and prayer and decision making into every facet of the government."
"It's absolutely unprecedented.," Feucht rejoiced.
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It is unclear if the "faith director" positions mentioned by Rogers are the same as the "government-sanctioned intercessor" positions mentioned by Feucht, but either way, this is further evidence of the deep influence of dominionist and Christian nationalist activists within the MAGA movement as well as the impact that institutions like the America First Policy Institute are already having on the federal government under Trump.
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Donald Trump and his Christian nationalist supporters are demonstrating once again that much of the harshest anti-Christian rhetoric in our political life doesn’t come from secular leftists, it comes from right-wing Christian leaders and activists who bitterly trash the faith of Christians who don’t share their religious and political worldviews.
Their most recent target is Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, who spoke at the National Prayer Service held at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday. Budde talked for about 15 minutes on the topic of unity, using her last few minutes to directly and respectfully address Trump and ask for mercy on behalf of gay, lesbian, and transgender people, immigrants, and refugees.
The same religious-right leaders and activists who have embraced or explained away Trump’s relentless lying, cruelty, corruption, and criminality, were outraged by Budde’s willingness to challenge him over the harmful impact his actions as president will have on many people.
Sean Feucht, a dominionist musician, political activist, and ardent Trump supporter, was contemptuous, referring to Bishop Budde as “the priestess” and saying, “They should let Christians preach next time.”
In a video posted from within the Cathedral, Feucht literally sneered at the interfaith service’s inclusion of “all these random religions and faiths,” concluding, “this was not a church service.” He continued:
We’re gonna go have a real church service with a bunch of folks that were in here. We’re gonna go lift up the name of Jesus because we are one nation under God, not all these other random religions. We don’t all worship the same God. And we definitely don’t worship the God of the LGTBQ mafia.
Feucht’s comments are a reminder that religious-right activists leaders are be quick to claim anti-Christian persecution when they are criticized for their harmful agendas or dishonest rhetoric, but they are themselves quick to attack other Christians. (Marjorie Taylor Greene recently provided another example, attacking the Catholic faith of Martin O’Malley because of his pro-choice position on abortion.)
“The Washington National Cathedral has become the Sanctuary of Satan,” ranted pundit Todd Starnes. He went on to denounce the Episcopal Church as “barely a religion.” He charged that “the blasphemous bishop at National Cathedral preached hate from her pagan pulpit.”
MAGA “prophet” Shave Vaughn declared Budde “a Bishop of Babylon.” Anti-LGBTQ activist John Amanchukwu denounced Budde as “a wolf in Bishop garments,” calling her “heretical” and “diabolical.” Dominionist Jim Garlow complained that it was “torture” to listen to Budde.
The kind of religious-right figures who constantly complain that conservative pastors aren’t preaching enough about politics complained that Bishop Budde would “lecture us about contemporary political positions,” in the words of Choral Ridge Ministries’ Rob Pacienza.
Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins denounced Budde’s comments as “rather pathetic,” tweeting that “The cause of America’s decline was not what was sitting in the pew but what was standing behind the pulpit.” Wallbuilders’ Tim Barton had the gall to complain about Budde “making a political speech from the pulpit” and griped about the service including people of other faiths.
Pastor and Trump apologist Robert Jeffress complained that Budde had “insulted rather than encouraged our great president.” Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia declared on X, “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.” Alex Jones denounced Budde as a “wokist cult leader.”
Trump himself demeaned Budde on his Truth social feed, calling her a “so-called Bishop.”
Meanwhile, Feucht also posted a celebratory video sharing his excitement that Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth has invited him to hold one of his Christians-only religious revivals in the Pentagon.
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Mark Driscoll and Sean Feucht Say Harris/Walz Are Backed by Demonic Forces

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Christian nationalist worship leader and right-wing political activist Sean Feucht
a podcast hosted by controversial right-wing pastor Mark Driscoll last week to discuss the topic "Is America Doomed?"
During the course of their discussion, both Feucht and Driscoll asserted that Vice President Kamala Harris' success in the presidential election is due to demonic power.
"There is some serious demonic sorcery witchcraft thing going on here that would even remotely make this race tight because for three and a half years, these guys have destroyed America on every level," Feucht claimed. "And now you have a person that is actually convincing a lot of America that she is going to do something she hasn't done in the last three."
"That's the most mind boggling thing to me," he said. "You've got to be under some serious wicked spell to buy into that."
"How are people not awake? It's shocking to me," Feucht added. "I'm hoping that there will be some kind of supernatural awareness that's going to come in the next 40 days."
Driscoll—who resigned from his previous pastoral position in 2014 amid allegations of arrogance, bullying, and treating staff in a "domineering manner" only to launch a new church in 2021, prompting former elders to declare him to be "unrepentant" and "unfit" for ministry—went much, much further in his attacks on Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz.
Driscoll, who has a long history of overt misogyny, began by blaming "suburban women" for Harris' popularity, saying that they will just blindly vote for a woman "because they've been so indoctrinated in feminism."
"I think what's driving the surge—I would call it the Kamalagasm, which is driven by the media—is a lot of just classic feminism that says, 'We're just voting for her because she's a woman, regardless of policy or fitness or ability,'" Driscoll said. "Part of that is spiritual, where you do see demonic forces at work in politics."
"You especially see this in the days of of of Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah," Driscoll continued. "What you see there is Ahab is the the king but he's this passive, weak, soft, incompetent; he's very Bidenesque. Jezebel is very, very powerful. She is really the power behind the throne and she comes with significant demonic authority."
Driscoll then likened Harris to Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel who became the only female monarch to rule over ancient Israel.
"If you read the storyline of the Bible, the only woman that ever held the senior political office in the nation of Israel was Jezebel's daughter, Athaliah," he said. "One hundred percent demonic activity; a clairvoyant spirit at work behind the scenes to enable and allow that to come to pass. ... It seems to me like Kamala Harris is very Athaliahian and working with that same sort of spirit."
"It is anti-God," he added.
Driscoll then attacked Harris for being a member of the American Baptist Church, which he said is a "completely apostate" and "completely anti-God denomination" that is "an abomination." Driscoll likewise attacked Walz for being a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which he said is a "completely apostate, completely anti-Christ abomination denomination."
"These are people who profess to be Christians," Driscoll said. "They go to churches that are synagogues of Satan."
"Is there not a demonic spirit that is trying to get someone who is anti-Christ but a member of a church and denomination into a political office?" he asked. "If they win, you're going to have literally two people who are anti-Christ but claim to be Christians and members of the church pulling the levers for the United States of America for four years And you know for a fact, if I'm Satan and demons, I'm like, 'Give me the guy or gal who claims Christ but is anti-Christ. How can I help them be more efficient at their undermining mission?'"
"It's nefarious," Driscoll
. "It's horrifying."
Feucht, whose worship services in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda have been attended by members of Congress, is wrapping up a 50-state “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour, which will culminate with a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 26. Sen. Josh Hawley has appeared at previous Feucht gatherings.
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Christian nationalist musician-politician Sean Feucht “can’t take it anymore.” On Thursday, Feucht sent his followers
fuming about the fact that all Christian leaders are not outspoken MAGA activists like him, which he called a “leadership crisis.”
Feucht is associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation movement, whose U.S. leaders see politics through the lens of spiritual warfare and Donald Trump as anointed by God to defeat his enemies. Feucht apparently shares Trump’s frustration with the excitement being generated by the Democratic presidential ticket and the enthusiastic, celebratory vibe of this week’s Democratic National Convention. On his video, he ranted against abortion and “transgenderism and child perversion,” and asked, “Where are the real Christians?”
Feucht compared American politics today to the biblical story about a wicked queen Jezebel and her husband Ahab, and called for God to raise up “the Jehus.” In the Bible, Jehu is sent to execute Jezebel, tramples her body under his horses’ hooves, and oversees the slaughter of her husband Ahab’s extended family. Feucht says Jehu was “commissioned in a season where Jezebel was reigning supreme and wreaking havoc and terror.” He goes on:
I don’t have to be more obvious than this. You have Ahab, which is the docile, sheepish, you know, leader that abdicates his authority to a wicked woman that is hell-bent on perversion and abortion and Baal and destruction, and she has smooth lips and tender eyes and she’s demonic. And it’s like, ‘Yeah, welcome to 2024!’
Like, this is happening today, and you know what the answer is to the spirit of Jezebel? It’s the rising up of the Jehus of a generation that are—they don’t care about being called crazy. …
Guys, I am so, like, blown away this week with the silence of the masses of church leaders and people with platforms. They’re unwilling to call out darkness. They’re unwilling to call out perversion. And you know what? Like, there’s a vacuum right now in America, in the nations of the world. We need the Jehus. We need those that have a mandate to dethrone Jezebel and bring the kingdom, we need you to rise up! …
And listen, if you can’t speak out about a mobile death abortion clinic that’s circling around the DNC in Chicago, I don’t know what you can speak about. That is absolutely from the pit of hell. And I’m telling you, it is from the pit of hell, and we need some real followers of Jesus, like not intellectuals, not just people that maybe know the theology, not just people that know people. No, we need real wild Jehus, like those that are willing to ride for Jesus, those that are willing to destroy works of darkness.
He described a recent dream as a warning about the coming persecution of Christians:
Don’t you guys see where this is going? Like, it is time for us to rise up. I’m not playing nice anymore. I’ve never been the nice guy, but definitely in this season, it’s not a season to be nice. It’s a season to rise up with truth and righteousness and justice. And so it’s time to ride like a madman, like it says about Jehu. It’s time to dethrone the works of Jezebel. It’s time to restore righteousness to our nation, and it’s time to see a harvest of souls come to Jesus, and we can only do that if we expose the works of darkness.
Feucht has held worship services in the U.S. Capitol attended by members of Congress and rallies on the National Mall where Sen. John Hawley has spoken. Feucht is close to completing a 50-state “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour, which has drawn MAGA Republican officials to his public worship services and political rallies. He used this week’s video to promote the remaining eight state events and the Oct. 26 pre-election rally on the National Mall that will be the final stop on the tour:
This is not just a gathering for women or for men or for young people or for old people. We need all legit followers of Jesus to show up, those that truly care about the future of our nation and the future of our generations. We’re going to do a massive Jesus march through the streets of the city. We’re going to march by the White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol. We’re going to remind all the powers and the principalities that God is not finished writing the story in our nation. And then we’re going to gather on the National Mall, thousands of us, tens of thousands of us. I believe it’s going to be massive, just days before the election, and we are going to commission the worshipers to take his presence across the land. …
And so listen, I just have a burning in my spirit. I’ve been praying and fasting this week leading up to these three capital cities, Minnesota, Ohio and Michigan. And I want to call the crazy people. I want to call the madman for Jesus, the mad women for Jesus, those that are pricked in their spirit, those that are not okay with the current narrative of what’s happening in America. If you’re out there, please join me.
Jezebel—often portrayed as a demonic spirit—is a frequent topic of New Apostolic Reformation figures like Lance Wallnau, who recently claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris represents “the spirit of Jezebel.”
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- Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service: The Washington insiders helping Sean Feucht spread Christian nationalism in Congress
While Feucht often frames himself as a Washington outsider, arguably his most powerful ally is a figure who hovered along the edge of his Rotunda concert, hands raised in prayer: a Republican strategist named Timothy Teepell.
- Heath Druzin @ Idaho Capital Sun: New Extremely American podcast tackles Christian nationalism through story of an Idaho town
A fundamentalist congregation called Christ Church wants to make Moscow an explicitly Christian city, governed by Biblical principles. To accomplish this, they and their allies are buying up big swaths of real estate and opening businesses to increase their footprint and economic might.
- James O’Rourke @ Colorado Times Recorder: After Passing Laws Banning Abortion, Christian Nationalists Turn Same Strategies to Outlawing LGBTQ Content in Schools
Janet Porter’s latest project, titled “The Child Protection Bill,” attempts to capitalize on the success of the legislative mechanism made infamous by Texas’ 2021 heartbeat bill, which bans abortion after six weeks – before many women are aware of their pregnancy.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Conservative Leader Issues Cryptic Threat to Liberals, Says ‘Second American Revolution’ Will Be ‘Bloodless If the Left Allows It to Be’
The leader of the Heritage Foundation issued an unhinged declaration on Tuesday, telling liberals that they are currently on the business end of “the second American Revolution,” which could turn bloody if they resist.
- Ed Mazza @ HuffPost: Marjorie Taylor Greene Botches Basic American History In Most Humiliating Way
Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to celebrate American history over the Independence Day weekend ― but got schooled by critics after she botched some basic details.
- Olivia Little @ Media Matters: Indiana’s lieutenant prophet
Indiana’s GOP lieutenant governor nominee has spent years livestreaming his so-called prophecies and wild political ramblings.
- Paul Myers, Olga Robinson, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Mike Wendling @ BBC: A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans
A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal.
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- Sean Feucht has filed a lawsuit against the city of Spokane for criticizing the former mayor for speaking at an event with him and radical right-wing pastor Matt Shea, declaring, “I won’t sit quietly and let these anti-Christian bigots get away with persecuting Christians for exercising our Constitutional Rights. So I filed a lawsuit. I’m taking them to court. Their anti-Christian bigotry has gone too far.”
- Parents and local activists are outraged over Kandiss Taylor’s “‘racist and sad’ online behavior.”
- Self-proclaimed “prophetess” Kat Kerr, who repeatedly guaranteed that Trump would win the 2020 election, still refuses to accept the results, claiming that hundreds of thousands of Trump ballots are still being found: “They even shot down a Black Hawk helicopter [carrying military ballots] so that they could never be counted.”
- Rep. Matt Rosendale declares that First Lady Jill Biden “should be absolutely ashamed of herself”: “I think that she is guilty of elder abuse.”
- After spreading the right-wing myth that schools are putting litter boxes in bathrooms for students who identify as cats, self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman says that if former President Donald Trump is reelected, he must put “deliverance rooms in every single school” to cast the “liberal demons” out of teachers.
- Finally, Lauren Chen asserts that if Trump is reelected, he must go “full-on scorched earth”: “I want him to be exactly the type person that the left fearmongers he could possibly be.”
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- Sean Feucht is outraged over a German church that held a Taylor Swift-themed service: “This is not a church. This is a shrine to the demon god of Molech.”
- Self-proclaimed “prophet” Robin Bullock calls on God to “save people who know the election was stolen and bring them out to speak the truth.”
- Jackson Lahmeyer voices his support for bringing back arranged marriages.
- Tony Perkins and Bill Koenig assert that God has been punishing the U.S. with tornadoes and floods as punishment for pressuring Israel over the Gaza war: “There’s no other explanation.”
- Ben Zeisloft proclaims that “every legislature, courtroom, and executive mansion in our land must be brought into submission to the risen and ascended Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.”
- Finally, since what Elijah Schaffer seemingly means to say is that “Adolf Hitler was right,” he should probably just come right out and say that.
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- Kate Riga @ Mediaite: Fearing Blowback, A Couple Arizona Senate Republicans Join Democrats To Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban
A couple Arizona Senate Republicans crossed over Wednesday to help Democrats repeal the state’s 1864 ban as national Republicans hope to avert electoral punishment.
- Jaxon White @ Lancaster Online: Conservative lawmakers, faith leaders meet with Christian dominionist activist in Harrisburg
Two Republican state lawmakers and several faith leaders were among those who met Wednesday with a controversial Christian activist to discuss promoting a prayer rally in Harrisburg ahead of the general election. Sean Feucht, an evangelical musician who has become increasingly active in politics, told several dozen people at the Capitol media center in Harrisburg that his organization, Let Us Worship, will host a prayer rally on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol in October to “prophesize over” the fall election.
- Angry White Men: AZ State Senator Anthony Kern Appears On Rumble Show Of Holocaust Denier Stew Peters
On May 1, 2024, AZ State Sen. Anthony Kern made a guest appearance on the Rumble show of Stew Peters. Peters is a Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer with a history of violent, racist, anti-LGBTQ, and antisemitic rhetoric. Kern, who was recently indicted for his role in Donald Trump’s fake electors plot, claimed that God was “raising up” Trump and Peters.
- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: MAGA State Superintendent Supports Chaplains in Public Schools – But Not From All Religions
As several Oklahoma news outlets report, there’s a wrinkle lawmakers may not have anticipated.
- Joe Jervis: MAGA Prophet: Trump Critics Will Be Struck With Boils
“My children, you are about to see biblical-type plagues strike some of your enemies, even on their faces. Boils will be seen. See who was infected by them. See how they will try to explain it away. But know your enemies are very afraid just as they were in Egypt.”
- Evan Vorpahl @ True North: True North Issues New Research Report Detailing Who Is Targeting State Courts to Limit Freedoms
True North is issuing a new research report shining a light on those men–Leonard Leo, Dick Uihlein, Charles Koch, and Jeff Yass–and right-wing groups targeting state courts and other levers of power to change the rules and limit our freedoms. This new report also documents how Leo used the Federalist Society to target state supreme courts and the judicial selection process in order to advance his agenda, and more.
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- Sean Feucht says that “we are living in the last days”: “These are the end times … we’re living in the midst of it.”
- Mark Meckler of Convention of States and Rick Green of Patriot Academy and WallBuilders are teaming up for a series of events to explain the “pivotal role the Wild West can play in shaping America’s future.”
- Stephen Wolfe, author of “The Case for Christian Nationalism,” declares that “in places where Christians can assert their will in politics, then they should do that.” And if people don’t like it, well, “tough.”
- “Apostle” Dutch Sheets, a leading figure within the New Apostolic Reformation, asserts that Democrats who oppose former President Donald Trump are “fighting against the purpose of God for this nation.”
- Finally, self-proclaimed “prophet” Cindy Jacobs and “The Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders” held an emergency livestream last night so Jacobs could tearfully deliver a warning from God that the Gaza protests are an insurrection aimed at establishing an Islamic state in North America.
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two right-wing media figures with extremist backgrounds and connections are planning a “United For Israel” countermarch on April 25 in response to the reportedly peaceful student-led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, with one claiming the campus has “been taken over by radical Pro-Hamas protestors,” and the other urging “every Christian who can” to “join us in standing with Israel.”
Christian nationalist media figure Sean Feucht has used a member of the Proud Boys as security at an event he held, while right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas has admitted to punching an anti-Trump protester in the face in 2020.
Other far-right media figures such as Laura Loomer and Andy Ngô have also promoted the march to their hundreds of thousands of social media followers. Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was also reportedly seen on Columbia University’s campus near the protest the day before the scheduled countermarch.
Far-right figures Feucht and Metaxas are planning a counterprotest to the reportedly peaceful pro-Palestinian student protests}:
- The pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University have included some arrests, but New York police officials say they have not included violence.NBC New York reported that the New York Police Department had “received no reports of physical violence against anyone” on Columbia University’s campus, and the department’s deputy commissioner of public information said there were “no credible threats to any particular group or individual.” NBC New York, [4/22/24, 4/18/24]
- Feucht and Metaxas have claimed Columbia has “been taken over by radical Pro-Hamas protestors” and “on April 25, that changes,” urging people to join them for a “United for Israel” countermarch and claiming Navy Seals will provide protection for it.Feucht shared a flyer for the march that lists him and Metaxas as featured speakers, and he claimed that “folks are making plans and taking planes, buses and trains to join us” and “partner organizations are joining us from across the nation.” Feucht also announced that “a large group of former Navy Seals just reached out and said they will provide all security and safety for our UNITED FOR ISRAEL MARCH.” Metaxas declared on social media that “every Christian who can should join us in standing with Israel this Thurs in NYC!” Twitter/X, [4/22/24, 4/23/24, 4/23/24, 4/23/24]
- Feucht is a Christian nationalist media figure who has associated with far-right extremists and held rallies that faith leaders have condemned as an attempt to “court political violence across our region and the country.”Feucht has repeatedly associated with right-wing extremists, including using a member of the Proud Boys as rally security and praising former Republican Washington state lawmaker Matt Shea — who authored a document titled the “Biblical Basis for War” that called for the execution of nonconservative males — as a “hero.” (Shea was the subject of a report by the Washington legislature arguing he had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism” by supporting armed confrontations with the government.) Additionally, after Feucht went on a joint worship tour with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Faith, dozens of faith leaders from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho called the rallies an attempt to “court political violence across our region and the country.” Media Matters, [9/14/23; Religion News Services, 8/13/21]
- Metaxas is a right-wing Christian radio host who spreads extreme rhetoric and has admitted to punching an anti-Trump protester at the 2020 Republican National Convention.In 2020, Metaxas reportedly admitted that he punched a protester because he became fearful, saying that he tried to “knock him away,” and ”it just happened.” Metaxas uses his Salem Media program to spread extreme rhetoric, including the idea that far-right Christians should control the government. He also spoke ahead of January 6 at the Jericho marches, a Christian-based protest movement against nonexistent election fraud that some have argued laid the groundwork for the insurrection. Religion Unplugged, [9/3/20; Media Matters, 7/12/23]
Far-right media figures and some actors with large followings are promoting the march on social media}:
- Feucht appeared on Christian Broadcasting Network to promote the march, and he claimed that the war in the Middle East and discord on campus “reminds us, like, we are living in the last days” and ”these are the End Times.”Other Christian nationalist and right-wing media figures have also embraced the war between Israel and Hamas as a sign of the “End Times,” claiming “the role of Christians is to convert the Jews.” YouTube,[
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- Feucht appeared on Christian Broadcasting Network to promote the march, and he claimed that the war in the Middle East and discord on campus “reminds us, like, we are living in the last days” and ”these are the End Times.”Other Christian nationalist and right-wing media figures have also embraced the war between Israel and Hamas as a sign of the “End Times,” claiming “the role of Christians is to convert the Jews.” YouTube,[
- On X (formerly Twitter), “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer promoted the march and thanked Metaxas, saying he is “leading the charge.”Loomer claimed that “Jew hatred and support of Islamic terrorism on college campuses across America” is “being supported and egged on by @JoeBiden and the Democrat Party.” Loomer has nearly 900,000 followers on X and is known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, having called herself a “proud Islamophobe.” Twitter/X, [4/23/24; Media Matters, 2/26/24]
- Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngô promoted the march, claiming that at Columbia, there “has been days of an extremist CHAZ-style occupation for Gaza.” Ngô has 1.4 million followers on X. Twitter/X, [4/23/24]
- Charisma, a far-right Christian outlet, promoted the march under a “spiritual warfare” label on its website and said that the march “is needed now more than ever,” calling student protesters “terror-supporting extremists.”The outlet connected the student protests to “spiritual warfare taking place in America” that it said is a result of “adopting ungodly morals and ethics.” Charisma, [4/22/24; Twitter/X, 4/22/24; Media Matters, 4/8/24]
- Actor Patricia Heaton, who has been beloved in right-wing circles for her anti-abortion views, also promoted the march to her more than 500,000 X followers.She wrote, “Friends, here is an opportunity to stand up for humanity, for decency, for democracy, for Judeo- Christian values, for Israel, for America, for Western civilization.” Twitter/X, [4/23/24; Media Matters, 11/16/18; Breitbart, 3/12/24]
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Alabama Supreme Court chief justice spreads Christian nationalist rhetoric on QAnon conspiracy theorist's show
Chief Justice Tom Parker’s recent concurring opinion in a case granting rights to embryos drew criticism for invoking religious language
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WRITTEN BY PAYTON ARMSTRONG (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/payton-armstrong)
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During a recent interview on the program of self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated that he is a proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a theological approach that calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life.
Enlow is a pro-Trump “prophet” (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/18/how-christian-prophets-give-credence-to-trumps-election-fantasies-469598) and leading proponent (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/enlow-government-media-should-function-on-earth-as-they-do-in-heaven/) of the “Seven Mountain Mandate (https://theoutline.com/post/8856/seven-mountain-mandate-trump-paula-white),” a “quasi-biblical blueprint for theocracy (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lance-wallnau-doug-mastriano-christian-dominion-1234602214/)” that asserts that Christians must impose fundamentalist values on American society by conquering the “seven mountains” of cultural influence in U.S. life: government, education, media, religion, family, business, and entertainment.
Enlow has also repeatedly pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory, sometimes even connecting (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/johnny-enlow-marries-seven-mountains-dominionism-to-the-qanon-conspiracy-theory/) it to the Seven Mountain Mandate. Per Right Wing Watch, Enlow has claimed (https://x.com/RightWingWatch/status/1574775299270664192?s=20) that world leaders are “satanic” pedophiles who “steal blood” and “do sacrifices” and that (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1664365715023880192) “there is presently no real democracy on the planet” because over 90 percent of world leaders are involved in pedophilia and are being blackmailed.
On February 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled (https://www.businessinsider.com/alabama-judge-rules-frozen-embryos-are-people-ivf-2024-2) that frozen embryos are people, with the same rights as living children, and that a person can be held liable for destroying them, imperiling in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. In a concurring opinion, Parker quoted the Bible, suggested (https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D) that Alabama had adopted a “theologically based view of the sanctity of life,” and said that “human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”
In the interview on Enlow’s program — which was uploaded the same day as the ruling was issued — Parker claimed that “God created government” and said it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.” Parker then invoked the Seven Mountain Mandate, saying, “And that's why he is calling and equipping people to step back into these mountains right now.”
Parker suggested a familiarity with Enlow’s work, telling him, “As you've emphasized in the past, we've abandoned those Seven Mountains and they've been occupied by the opposite side.”
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CitationFrom the February 16, 2024, edition of Restore Seven's Someone You Should Know
Parker discussed (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4016799) his “call” to what Enlow called the “mountain of government,” and later told (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4016802) Enlow that he appreciates what he’s done by “giving us the overview and the vision that allows us to really contemplate what God is calling each of us to for our role on those Seven Mountains.”
Enlow praised Parker, telling him he’s “in such a key place that we don't want to have any conversations that hurt you in any kind of way, but we appreciate who you are, who you are in the kingdom.”
Parker also claimed (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4016800) that God “is equipping me with something for the very specific situation that I’m facing,” and responded affirmatively when Enlow asked if “the holy spirit is there” when he’s “arbitrating a session” and performing his job as chief justice.
Parker’s ties to extreme right-wing Christian and “prophetic” media figures extends beyond the interview with Enlow.
Last year, Christian nationalist media figure Sean Feucht (https://www.mediamatters.org/turning-point-usa/right-wing-media-are-promoting-sean-feucht-christian-nationalist-singer-bringing#::text=Feucht%20tweeted%20that%20in%20Montgomery%2C%20Alabama%2C%20Tom%20Parker%2C%20chief%20justice%20of%20the%20state%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%2C%20attended%20his%20rally.%20Feucht%20said%20that%20Parker%20also%20invited%20him%20into%20the%20court%E2%80%99s%20chambers%20for%20a%20worship%20session%20and%20shared%20a%20picture%20of%20the%20pair.%20%5BTwitter/X%2C%203/19/23%5D) said Parker had invited him into the court’s chambers for a worship session. Parker also joined a prayer call in March 2023 with supposed prophets and apostles, and he prayed (https://www.claynash.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130727692/mar_9_prayer_call.pdf) that “there will be a growing hunger in the judges of Alabama, and around the nation for more of God. And that they will be receptive to his moves toward restoration of the judges, so that they can play their forecast role in revival in this nation.”
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July 31, 2023
- Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht held a service outside the Idaho state capitol Sunday where he bragged about gathering with elected officials beforehand to declare that “this state belongs to Jesus.”
- America First activist Dalton Clodfelter insists that the Holocaust never happened.
- America First activist Jon Miller helpfully admits what has long been known: “I’m an anti-semite.”
- America First activist Matt Evans (aka Beardson Beardly) doesn’tcare “what they call Twitter, just let me say the n-word.”
- America First activist Steven Franssen would like “one of these Indians that want to be President [to] instead just lead all of their people back home.”
- Finally, America First leader Nick Fuentes insists that “sex is a gay act” and therefore “if you seek sex, you will become gay.” That is why the straightest people are those who remain celibate, like priests.
Tags: Dalton Clodfelter Jon Miller Matt Evans Nick Fuentes Sean Feucht Steve Franssen Leftovers America First
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July 24, 2023
- MAGA pastor Mark Burns complains that the Department of Justice is “a Gestapo-like weapon” that is being used against former President Donald Trump and flat-out says he doesn’t care what crimes Trump may have committed because “he’s God’s anointed.”
- Dalton Clodfelter admits that believes “in censoring our opposition.”
- Stew Peters’ conspiracy theorizing is becoming increasingly predictable and lazy: “The moon landing was FAKE. Buzz Aldrin is FAKE. Buzz Aldrin’s mom is FAKE.“
- Sean Feucht is starting “a 3-day prayer and fasting movement in preparation” for his upcoming events in the Pacific Northwest because “it is #1 for witchcraft and demonic activity.”
- Finally, Republican Rep. Eric Burlison says that he was “red-pilled” by Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton years ago and declares that he wouldn’t be involved in politics today had he not been exposed to Barton’s work.
Tags: Dalton Clodfelter David Barton Eric Burlison Mark Burns Sean Feucht Stew Peters Leftovers
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aha you cannot talk to crazy but you can ignore; evil MUST be physically fought. or it will spread/get worse
Satan created a “woke mind virus.”
it's ok to kill sub-human (diseased, possessed, infected) but req to kill evil (or it will kill you and your kids)
if we continue to self segregate from Them, less chance to human interaction is dispel lies.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-figures-prepare-spiritual-war-2024-claiming-their-opponents-are-demonic
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right-wing media figures prepare for “spiritual war” in 2024 by claiming their opponents are demonic entities
Figures have invoked “demonic portals” and the occult to dehumanize LGBTQ people, perceived political enemies, and others
WRITTEN BY PAYTON ARMSTRONG & NOAH DOWE
PUBLISHED 07/05/23
Right-wing media figures are ramping up apocalyptic political rhetoric that literally demonizes LGBTQ people, perceived political enemies, and progressive causes, with some absurdly suggesting that demons are using portals to enter Earth and wage “spiritual war” against humanity.
Rhetoric about “demonic” influence and an existential, “spiritual” war has become a hallmark of right-wing punditry and Republican politics ahead of the 2024 elections, as Christian nationalism grows in popularity among Republican voters.Language that demonizes and dehumanizes political opponents has been a staple of right-wing commentary for years, but these recent accusations are not simple rhetorical flourishes; a number of media figures have begun to warn their audiences about occult rituals from the left and supposed portals to hell from which demons would enter the Earth. Last year, Trump ally and provocateur Roger Stone even claimed that a “Satanic portal” had opened over the White House after President Joe Biden took office.
This sort of framing, which posits that political enemies are literal “demons” waging a “spiritual war,” stems largely from a right-wing Christian movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation. For years, the NAR movement has reportedly sought “to take dominion over politics, business and culture in preparation for the end times and the return of Jesus.” Rolling Stone described the core NAR belief in spiritual war in a profile of one of the movement’s leading figures, commentator and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau:
NAR followers like Wallnau believe that America is specially anointed by God to project Christianity across the globe. And the NAR movement’s followers view foes of their quest as satanic. This is not metaphorical. They hold that the physical world is enveloped by a supernatural dimension, featuring warring angels and demons, and are convinced that demons afflict their enemies on behalf of the devil. The movement holds that these spiritual battles are reflected in earthly politics. As the late NAR founder C. Peter Wagner explained in a striking NPR interview in 2011: “I believe there’s a lot of demonic control over Congress … that needs to be dispersed.”
Fiery rhetoric of a spiritual war coupled with demonization of opponents has created an atmosphere in which violence appears permissible and justifiable to followers. For instance, the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was largely undergirded and inspired by boisterous cries of spiritual warfare from prominent figures on the religious right — including Wallnau — who have conditioned their audiences to consider political violence a legitimate tactic.
Over the last two years, right-wing media figures have increasingly adopted the scorched-earth rhetoric of movements like the NAR, setting the stage for a potentially dangerous political atmosphere in 2024. Here are a number of examples:
Right-wing media figures have suggested that demons are entering Earth, with some claiming they are using actual “portals” to hell
On several occasions, prominent right-wing media figures have claimed that demons are using “portals” to attack conservative causes or even fearmongered that Satan created a “woke mind virus.”
Right-wing media gadfly Roger Stone — who observers have noted has increasingly adopted rhetoric around “spiritual war” — claimed on Eric Metaxas’ Salem radio show that “a demonic portal” had been visible above the White House since Biden’s inauguration. Stone suggested that through the “portal,”demons began to “populate the Biden administration,” arguing “you can’t tell whether they are men or women.”
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Salem media host Charlie Kirk said that “we’re in the midst of the most consequential spiritual war” in millennia because “there is no other way to explain the campaign of arson and destruction against our country other than diabolical, spiritually dark influences that are fighting for dominion over this nation.” He also argued that “witchcraft and the occult is a real thing, and there are portals to darkness and you have to be vigilant about this.” Kirk also alleged that Satan had created “the woke mind virus” to destroy America and called on religious leaders to “excommunicate … the demons of the woke.”
Video an episode of Real Life with Jack Hibbs, aired on Fox Business Network on May 6, 2023
Conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones warned that the European Council for Nuclear Research had used the Large Hadron Collider for “satanic rituals” which he claimed “definitely has opened up a gate” to hell and let demons into the Earth “like paratroopers.” Jones has also claimed that an “alien offworld force” with demons as its agents is “working against us around the clock because they know we are about to go from our embryonic level to birthing into the next level.” What’s more, in his trial for defamation of the families of the Sandy Hook massacre, Jones attacked the judge and plaintiffs’ lawyers as “committed to occult ideology of the new world order” and implied they were “demonically possessed.”
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CitationFrom the April 11, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said of reports of interactions with aliens: “Aliens are just demons for liberals who don't want to admit metaphysical reality."
Right-wing media figures have labeled LGBTQ people, gender-affirming care, and abortion “demonic”
Conservative media figures have also revved up their attacks on trans people, LGBTQ Pride month, and abortion by claiming they are inspired by “demons in our society.”
Knowles — who demanded this year that so-called “transgenderism” be “eradicated from public life entirely” — claimed that trans people are “demonic” and that demons are “always trans.”
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CitationFrom the March 14, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
On her prime-time Fox News show, Laura Ingraham referred to gender-affirming care as “a demonic campaign to destroy the natural biological order.”
Daily Wire host Candace Owens called trans people “demons in our society” and smeared “any actor, actress, individual that supports this” as “demonic.” Owens has also argued that surrogacy is “deeply demonic.”
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CitationFrom the February 7, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's Candace Owens
On Fox, now-former host Tucker Carlson used the Covenant School shooting in Tennessee to falsely claim that “the trans movement is targeting Christians, including with violence,” and denounced the trans community as part of “a deranged and demonic ideology.”
On YouTube, BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler said that “if you took the three most disgusting, demonic ideologies that you could possibly think of and put them all in one flag you would get the trans flag.”
Doomsday prophet and repeat Trinity Broadcast Network guest Jonathan Cahn recently declared that Biden had put the United States under “demonic possession” at the hands of an ancient goddess of “sexual immorality” by lighting up the White House in the colors of the rainbow for LGBTQ Pride.
Two days after a shooter killed five people in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club,Infowars host Owen Shroyer ran footage of drag queens and questioned whether “these people are even human,” ranting: “Demon possession is real. Satanic agendas are real. I don’t know how else to describe any of this.”
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CitationFrom the November 22, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show
BlazeTV host Steve Deace partnered with far-right Christian filmmakers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon to produce a right-wing movie that argued humanity is engaged in a spiritual war against demonic forces such as abortion and LGBTQ equality. On his podcast, in an episode titled “Hot Take: Demonic or Democrats?” Deace said that people who advertise drag story hours are “literally inhabited by a demon” and are “a manifestation of a demonic presence.”
Salem Radio host Eric Metaxas and his guest John Zmirak proclaimed that Satan himself was behind the LGBTQ rights movement, with Zmirak decrying “blasphemous drag queen rituals, in your church, mocking Christ” and comparing the Pride flag to an inverted pentagram, claiming Satan “wants you to use the pronoun they.” Metaxas then warned his audience that if they did not boycott companies that celebrate Pride Month, they would be comparable to Germans who failed to stop the Holocaust, saying, “The death camps were the result of good people saying, ‘I don’t want to deal with this. Just let me live my life.’”
Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs, whose sermons air on Fox Business Network, declared that transgender people are “satanic,” saying that in “the last days there’s going to be doctrines of demons and deceiving spirits. Wonder what that’s going to be like? You’re in it.” Per Right Wing Watch, Hibbs has also claimed that "demonism” has caused public support for trans rights.
Christian nationalist influencer and repeat Fox guest Sean Feucht has described abortion and the movement for trans rights as demonic, ascribing public support to “demons” and “the demonic spirit.” Feucht is closely associated with prominent NAR movement leaders and “apostles.”
Right-wing radio host Jesse Kelly said that “we have a society so full of demons that baby murder is now popular” and also referred to the LGBTQ community as “the LGTBQ demon mob.”
Lance Wallnau, a contributor for The Victory Channel’s Christian nationalist show FlashPoint, has repeatedly invoked demons while discussing LGBTQ people. In an April show, Wallnau said that transgender people represent “a fundamental deception” and that accepting them has made society “sympathetic with evil.” Wallnau said that demons target people to make them trans, saying, “I believe a demon comes along that enters into that confusion that affirms that they are the opposite gender.” Per Right Wing Watch, Wallnau also claimed that people become trans because "Satan has taken 'em over with crazy talk about them being in the wrong bodies.”
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CitationFrom the April 13, 2023, edition of The Victory Channel's Flashpoint
Right-wing media personalities have also warned that Democrats and other perceived enemies are “demonic” and “satanic”
Far-right Christian media figures and prominent right-wing commentators have told their audiences that the left is engaged with “satanic worship” and “demonic forces,” rationalizing ideological opposition as a product of the “demon-possessed.”
Fox prime-time host Jesse Watters claimed that viewers should be afraid of “demonic teachers” interested in “turning their classroom into a drag show.”
Carlson warned on Glenn Beck’s show that there are “spiritual forces surrounding” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), calling him “a force of darkness.”
On a FlashPoint broadcast, contributor and pastor Hank Kunneman told viewers that “we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities, powers, spiritual wickedness in high places — you know, demonic entities.” Earlier in the episode, Wallnau said that tragedies in society such as mass shootings should be understood through a lens where “you don’t deal with current events, you deal with a demonic spin cycle.”
BlazeTV founder and longtime conspiracy theorist Glenn Beckproclaimed that the 2020 election was not contested against Democrats, but against “Satan himself,” which he claimed was prophesied to him in a dream. Beck has an extensive history of linking progressives to “the devil” and warning of “demonic” influence.
Disgraced Trump ally-turned-podcast-host Steve Bannon suggested that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is “satanic” because he “exudes … pure evil” and “hangs with Satanic Groomers.”
During his Christian nationalist ReAwaken America Tour, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has frequently asserted that there is a “spiritual war” in America. He has also called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a “demon.”
Right-wing podcast host Benny Johnson attacked the grand jury forewoman investigating Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference in Georgia, calling her “borderline demonic” and “demon-possessed.” He has also claimed that “you can see demonic forces at work" in Schiff's district, claiming that the congressman is “on the side of the demons.” Johnson has previously embraced the rhetoric of spiritual warfare, saying, “This rabbit hole goes down so far into the occult … This is a spiritual battle. This is a battle of possession, and there are stages of demonic possession, and we are in the oppression stage right now.”
Far-right pundit Stew Peters fearmongered about “SatanCon,” an event that is hosted by “a progressive church that doesn't worship the devil but instead uses the word to get attention,” claiming it was evidence of “full-blown satanic worship” in America. His guest, Sean Feucht, insisted that we are witnessing “the total unveiling of this demonic realm, this demonic spirit.” Feucht then warned that these alleged forces of Satan were “agitated and upset and trying everything they can do to intimidate Christians.”
On his BlazeTV podcast, Deace called the Democratic Party “a demonic construct, a satanically influenced entity, and a death cult.”
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June 26, 2023
- If you missed the right-wing Road To Majority conference last week, we can pretty much sum it all up for you in just one word: Woke.
- Tim Barton says that critics have to use ad hominem attacks on him and his father, Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, for not having any academic credentials as historians because they know they can’t attack the history they present “because what we’re promoting is actually true.”
- The fact that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hosting a “health policy roundtable” featuring unhinged anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Sherri Tenpenny should tell you all you need to know.
- Jarrin Jackson is angry that GOP figures talk generically about God: “Be specific. Jesus Christ. The One of Scripture. The One Who rose (bodily) from the grave for the remission of sins. It is a deception to not be specific when He so clearly changed the course of history on the cross. Don’t let Muslims smuggle in Allah. Or Buddhists Buddha. Or Jews ‘not Christ’. Or pagans Thor. Or atheists science & reason. Christ is King.”
- Sean Feucht brags that members of Congress helped him sneak into the U.S Capitol so that he could take communion in the Rotunda: “We laid hands all over that place. We brought oil. We brought shofars. We’re crazy.”
- Finally, if you arrive at church to find Alex Jones up on stage with your pastor, ranting about how they’ll require you “to cut your children’s genitals off to get ESG money” as they mandate “government-forced suicide” perhaps it is time to find another church?
Tags: Alex Jones Jarrin Jackson Rodney Howard-Browne Sean Feucht Tim Barton Leftovers Road to Majority Conference Faith and Freedom Coalition
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conservative Christian movement that has been quietly consolidating power for years is now making moves, and it's all starting in Pennsylvania, according to a report from Salon.
The movement is centered on "unfriending" anyone who believes any differently, including other less-extreme sects of Christianity, according to Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates. Writing for Salon, Clarkson added that Pennsylvania is the first target.
"'You've got a friend in Pennsylvania!' was the theme of the state's ad campaign to promote tourism in the 1980s. That was a veiled historical reference to the Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, the liberal Christian sect to which William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named, belonged," Clarkson writes. But since the early 2000s there has been a quiet campaign in the Keystone State and beyond to unfriend anyone outside certain precincts of Christianity — and most Quakers would almost certainly be among the outcasts."
That campaign "got a lot less quiet" this April, as many leaders of the neo-charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, who have been hiding in plain sight for a generation, "began ramping up a contest for theocratic power in the nation and the world." Their first target is Pennsylvania, but there will be many more cities on the schedule, court records show.
"On April 30, Sean Feucht, a musician and evangelist for conservative Christian dominion, spoke at Life Center Ministries, the Harrisburg megachurch of Apostle Charles Stock. (The honorific 'Apostle' designates a leading church office in the NAR. That said, there are many apostles in the movement, and not all of them pastor churches.) During his appearance, Feucht highlighted his national tour of state capitals, called Kingdom to the Capitol, that he was conducting along with Turning Point USA, the far-right youth group led by Charlie Kirk. "[W]e are going to end this 50-state tour here in Harrisburg,":{ he }:{.:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"/maxresdefault.jpg):{.}:
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Tags: Doug Blex Jason Goetz Ken Rahjes Kevin Stitt Kris Kobach Rick Kloos Sean Feucht Tracey Mann Virgil Peck Christian Nationalism
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-nationalist-sean-feucht-prayed-over-multiple-elected-officials-nothing-can-stop-the-kingdom-of-god/
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Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht Prayed Over Multiple Elected Officials: ‘Nothing Can Stop the Kingdom of God’
Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | April 26, 2023 3:12 pm
Christian musician turned right-wing political activist Sean Feucht made a stop at MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer’s church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last Thursday, where he proudly declared himself a Christian nationalist.
Christian nationalists believe the U.S. and state governments should operate and legislate according to their interpretation of the Bible, and that only Christians who share their political and religious worldview should control the reins of power. While many right-wing activists seek to downplay or obfuscate their Christian nationalist agenda, Feucht was very open about his intentions.
“We want God to be in control of everything,” he declared. “We want believers to be the ones writing the laws. Yes. Guilty as charged.”
Feucht was in Oklahoma last week because it was the latest stop on the“Kingdom to the Capitol” tour,a joint project he launched with right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA to bring Feucht’s mix of worship and hard-right politics to every state capitol in the nation.
Last Friday, Feucht and his “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour set up shop on the grounds of the Oklahoma capitol, where Feucht was welcomed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, who last year dedicated “every square inch” of the state to Jesus.
Following brief remarks from Stitt, Feucht laid hands upon the governor and led the audience in praying over him.
“This is so biblical, and it’s so appropriate for us to come as the people of God and release a blessing over this building, over this man, over the government,” Feucht proclaimed. “This is really Davidic what we’re doing here, it’s like David bringing an offering to the Lord at the most important governmental building in the state, and we’re just so honored to have the governor here with us.”
“Lord, we just thank you for this man of God,” Feucht continued. “We thank you for the state of Oklahoma. God, we thank you for what you’re doing here. We thank you, God, how you’re raising up this state to be a model state for America. God, we thank you that you’ve put a mantle of leadership on Gov. Kevin and you put a mantle of leadership on the legislature of this state. God, we need godly leaders in America, and we thank you that you have them in Oklahoma. Lord, we pray God that you would take the pattern of what you’re doing here and that you would duplicate it across the land.”
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Two days later, Feucht and his tour stopped at the capitol in Topeka, Kansas, where multiple members of the state legislature, Rep. Tracey Mann, and far-right state Attorney General Kris Kobach all prayed and were then prayed over by Feucht in return.
“No longer can the church afford to vacate the political realm,” Feucht declared. “Lord, we thank you, God, that you have raised up men and women to stand as watchmen on the wall for the state of Kansas. Lord, we commit as the Church of Jesus Christ to pray for them. Lord, we thank you that you’ve put them in positions of authority. … We just declare over this capitol building: Nothing can stop the kingdom of God. Nothing can stop the plans of God.”
Among the Kansas legislators who appeared on stage with Feucht were state Reps. Doug Blex, Jason Goetz, and Ken Rahjes, and state Sens. Virgil Peck and Rick Kloos.
Tags: Doug Blex Jason Goetz Ken Rahjes Kevin Stitt Kris Kobach Rick Kloos Sean Feucht Tracey Mann Virgil Peck Christian Nationalism
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Kirk and his conservative student-oriented organization Turning Point USA have spent the last two years bolstering connections with faith leaders on the religious right and Christian nationalist influencers as part of a “mission” to “restore America’s biblical values.”
As part of this effort, TPUSA is pressuring pastors to push right-wing politics, deepening ties with extremist pastors and groups that push Christian nationalist talking points, and teaching kids Christian fundamentalist curriculums under the guise of more innocuous “patriotic” and “Christian education.”
Christian nationalism, which contends that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation and should be governed by right-wing Christian beliefs, has been on the rise in Republican politics. According to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution,more than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism.
This undercurrent of right-wing religious fundamentalism has helped fuel a torrent of anti-LGBTQ legislation and anti-abortion laws in GOP-led state legislatures across the country. The 2022 midterm elections also saw increased fervor from the religious right on the campaign trail, such as in the candidacy of Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, who experts warned had centered the dangerous Christian nationalist ideology at the heart of his campaign. (Kirk, however, praised Mastriano as "a fabulous person.”)
Turning Point USA, Kirk’s student-oriented youth group which he founded to increase right-wing political influence, has historically focused on college campuses, where its student chapters have a troubling history of racist incidents. Kirk also has espoused virulently anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and lamented supposed Christian persecution.
TPUSA Faith was launched in 2021, with a Turning Point spokesperson saying that “it was a no-brainer to recreate” the TPUSA model of activism for the faith community. Kirk has depicted the country as engaged in a “spiritual battle,”and this latest initiative seeks to win that supposed battle by restoring “America’s biblical values.” After Kirk partnered with extreme pastors and religious right leaders, some observers noted that TPUSA has increasingly grounded its mission in “the theology of Christian nationalism” and religious fundamentalism.
Kirk pushes Christian churches to spread bigotry by separating them into three groups: The cowardly, the courageous, and the complicit
Since co-founding TPUSA Faith with far-right pastor Rob McCoy, who reportedly played a key role in Kirk’s rejection of the principle of the separation between church and state, Kirk has traveled to churches across the country and attacked pastors he deems inadequately political.
At self-described “Christian extremist” Kenneth Copeland’s FlashPoint Live event in 2022, Kirk described what he sees as the three kinds of Christian churches: the “cowardly,” the “courageous,” and the “complicit.” He explained a simple litmus test for a “cowardly pastor” and church: “They didn't say a word after Roe vs. Wadewas overturned. … They should resign from the ministry or find some courage because we just overturned one of the worst demonic decisions in the history of our country.” Kirk elaborated that “We should try to bring the cowardly pastors into the courageous category. We should challenge them.”
During the event, Kirk described Copeland’s audience and church as “the good type of ministry” and “the courageous church that stands boldly and speaks with moral truth.” Kirk downplayed and mocked criticisms of Christian nationalism, telling the audience that critiques of this ideology “means you're starting to care and they're getting scared.” Kirk also suggested that the only true faith that will lead to salvation is Christianity, and he baselessly fearmongered that “young people are being preyed on by government school predators and groomers.”
Kirk described “complicit” churches as going “out of their way for the seal of approval of the world,” ridiculing churches that put the “gay flag outside of their church or the Black Lives Matter flag." Earlier in the speech, he questioned whether the U.S. is a “conquered country” due to the presenceof these flags.
Kirk's TPUSA Faith has partnered with groups associated with Christian nationalists
According to TPUSA’s 2021 Investor Prospectus, its TPUSA Faith initiative had a $6.4 million budget, making it one of the largest line items in the organization’s operating budget. TPUSA Faith's budget has seemingly funded a variety of events and programs, often in partnership with groups associated with Christian nationalists.
- TPUSA Faith recently announced a partnership with Christian nationalist pastor and musician Sean Feucht for a “revival” tour in 2023 and 2024 called “Kingdom to the Capitol.”The tour has the intention of “visiting every single state capitol in America.” Feucht, TPUSA's new partner, built a profile during the COVID-19 pandemic with his fierce opposition to public health measures that temporarily closed churches, holding events in defiance that “often fused Christian nationalism with conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines and globalism.” Feucht recently embraced Christian nationalism overtly, declaring that Christians must “be the ones writing the laws” and that “we want God to be in control of everything.”
- In 2021, Kirk launched TPUSA Faith’s “Saving America Tour” at megachurches around the country.At events, Kirk “melds the political with the spiritual” and frames political issues “as not just earthly policy differences, but part of the spiritual war between good and evil,” as described by The Arizona Republic. At one Saving America event in 2022, Kirk called on men in the audience to confront and physically prevent trans student athletes from competing in sports.
- TPUSA Faith also holds annual pastors summits with right-wing pastors and figures.David Barton, a Christian nationalist activist who has worked for decades to end the separation between church and state, is listed as a speaker at this May’s annual gathering. Last year’s summit featured Mat Staver, who runs the anti-LGBTQ extremist group Liberty Counsel; right-wing pastor Jack Hibbs; and Chad Connelly, the former RNC faith director who worked with Barton during the 2022 midterm elections to activate right-wing Christian voters by spreading debunked talking points about the Bible.
- Starting in 2021, TPUSA Faith partnered with Patriot Academy on courses to teach “biblical citizenship” and other programming denying the separation of church and state. Patriot Academy is an initiative of Barton’s anti-LGBTQ group Wallbuilders that seeks to “train citizens to understand and influence government policy with a Biblical worldview.” TPUSA and Patriot Academy collaborated on “biblical citizenship” courses and a workbook that denies the existence of the separation between church and state. The website also notes that the “biblical citizenship” is critical as “we fulfill the Great Commission and ‘make disciples of all nations.’”
- Through TPUSA Faith, Kirk holds monthly “Freedom Night in America” events at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, in an “effort to continue fighting America’s culture war … with the intent to call the faith community to action.”The watchdog Right Wing Watch has tracked and sometimes debunked Kirk when he has pushed popular Christian nationalist talking points at Freedom Night events, including claiming that the church is supposed to be the “counselor” to the government. Kirk recently held a Freedom Night event with TPUSA advisory council member and former Rep. Bob McEwen (R-OH), who is the current executive director of the Council for National Policy, a shadowy but influential right-wing networking group that serves as a political nerve center for the religious right. (Kirk is also reportedly a member of the Council for National Policy).
- To further expand its influence in recent years, TPUSA Faith launched Freedom Life Church, a network of TPUSA-aligned congregations.TPUSA Faith also reportedly hired a network of over 30 full-time “faith representatives” to launch faith groups across the country.
Kirk has praised extremist figures in the Christian nationalist movement and endorsed the “Seven Mountain Mandate”
Kirk has closely associated with high-profile members of the Christian nationalist “dominionist” movement, which asserts that Christians have been called to exert God’s will on society. Lance Wallnau, a self-proclaimed “prophet” and “Christian nationalist” who has been dubbed the “father of American Dominionism,” popularized the “quasi-biblical blueprint for theocracy” that is at the heart of dominionism called the “Seven Mountain Mandate.”
The Seven Mountain Mandate demands that Christians impose fundamentalist values on American society by conquering the “seven mountains” of cultural influence in U.S. life: government, education, media, religion, family, business, and entertainment. Wallnau has an extensively documented history of extreme and violent rhetoric. Recently, he called Biden the “antichrist,” referred to LGBTQ people as the “trans taliban,” and warned that God may soon start killing those who are “persecuting” Trump.
In addition to endorsing the Seven Mountain Mandate himself in a 2020 speech, Kirk has interviewed Wallnau multiple times since 2020, including at TPUSA’s 2022 Young Women’s Leadership Summit. In an interview, Kirk
on Wallnau, calling him “one of my all time favorite people.” Kirk has also repeatedly appeared alongside Wallnau in
and at in-person events for Kenneth Copeland’s right-wing Christian network The Victory Channel, where Wallnau serves as a “regular” for its panel show FlashPoint.
Kirk has also aligned TPUSA with the right-wing cellphone company Patriot Mobile. The company is closely associated with the dominionist movement, explicitly defends Christian nationalism on its website, and has become a force in Texas school board politics against LGBTQ inclusion and curriculums that teach about diversity. Patriot Mobile has sponsored a TPUSA Faith event, Kirk’s podcast, and other TPUSA events; held special events with him; and sent a senior leader to speak at a TPUSA conference.
TPUSA’s increasing Christian fundamentalism has led to an increased focus on young kids
TPUSA announced last summer that it would open its first brick and mortar school, Turning Point Academy, in collaboration with Dream City Christian School in Arizona, a K-12 private school that claims the “current political and spiritual climate in the country is in turmoil.” Kirk has said that the “Christian, Classical, conservative, church-based” school is just "the first in a growing network of schools that will launch across the country in the coming years.”
As Media Matters previously reported, Turning Point Academy attempts to
what right-wing figures have labeled as threats to kids, assuring parents that “CRT, postmodernism, ‘Wokeism,’ deconstructionism, queer theory, radical LGBT agendas, and anti-American ideas such as the 1619 project will have no place at our institution."
TPUSA’s expansion into K-12 education also aligns the organization with a long-term goal of the Christian nationalist movement: teaching kids Christian fundamentalist curriculums under the guise of simply “patriotic” and “Christian education.”
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church musician turned political activist Sean Feucht has teamed up with the religious arm of right-wing youth organizing group Turning Point USA for a two-year, 50-state road trip designed to bring Feucht’s mix of worship and hard-right politics to every state capitol.
After a kickoff event attended by seven members of Congress in the U.S. Capitol rotunda March 9, the “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour headed south with a swing through
, Jackson, Mississippi, and
this past weekend. In Alabama, Chief Justice Tom Parker, a longtime ally of the disgraced former Chief Justice Roy Moore, participated in the tour and invited Feucht to pray in the Supreme Court chamber.
Rep. Lauren Boebert was among the members of Congress who joined a small crowd in the U.S. Capitol March 9 to sing along with Feucht as he strummed his guitar. Afterwards, Feucht tweeted, “The Capitol became an Altar…There is ONE KING over America…”
Feucht, a missionary musician associated with controversial Northern California megachurch Bethel, ran for Congress in 2020 in what he said was obedience to a call from God. Despite playing up a Dec. 2019 visit to the Oval Office where he prayed over former President Donald Trump, Feucht did not make it through the primary. But the failed run hooked him on politics, and he formed a political group called Hold the Line in 2020 and ramped up his activism in opposition to public health restrictions on church gatherings that were designed to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Since then, Feucht has held “Let Us Worship” rallies on the National Mall featuring appearances by Sen. Josh Hawley, New Apostolic Reformation leader Ché Ahn, and dominionistLou Engle, as well as video remarks from Trump. He also started a podcast; when Boebert was a guest, Feucht praised her as a “gangster for Jesus.”
While Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 with a libertarian bent, founder Charlie Kirk has since teamed up with Christian nationalists, and endorsed Feucht’s congressional run in 2020. In 2021, Kirk launched TPUSA Faith as a political vehicle for “restoring traditional biblical values in our nation” by pushing conservative pastors to get more active politically. It held its first summit for pastors last year. Kirk regularly makes “Freedom Night” presentations in churches.
Since his failed run for office, Feucht has established a beachhead for spiritual warfare two blocks from the U.S. Capitol in a rowhouse he has dubbed “Camp Elah,” which he says is a biblical reference to the stream where David picked up the stones that he used to slay Goliath.
Feucht and Kirk have both been influenced by Rob McCoy, a California pastor-politician who is allied with Christian Nationalist political operative David Lane. McCoy serves as TPUSA Faith’s co-chair. In an interview on Feucht’s Hold the Line podcast, McCoy acknowledged that his Calvary Chapel church has theological differences with Bethel’s charismatic Pentecostalism, but he praised Feucht’s political activism and his collaboration with TPUSA Faith. “We have an agenda,” Feucht said. “We want the kingdom of God to take over. It’s a clear agenda from heaven.”
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former President Donald Trump passed up a 9/11 memorial event attended by other former U.S. presidents over the weekend, choosing instead to address two gatherings organized by right-wing religious figures and ending his day providing color commentary for a boxing match. Using the high-profile anniversary to touch base with religious conservatives was one more signthat Trump appears to be putting a major emphasis on mobilizing the religious right, his most loyal constituents, as he puts the machinery in the place for another presidential campaign.
Trump appeared by prerecorded video at a “Let Us Worship” event on the National Mall organized by religious-right musician and politician Sean Feucht and at a “Rally of Hope” conference sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation, a group affiliated with the Unification Church, which has a long and intimate relationship with the U.S. religious and political right.
Feucht’s Saturday evening rally was one of several public prayer and worship events on Saturday and Sunday that were organized by Feucht, a musician and missionary associated with the controversial and influential Northern California megachurch Bethel. The worship events were preceded by a Saturday political summit organized by Hold the Line, a political action group Feucht founded last year after California voters rejected his bid for Congress.
The introduction to Trump’s video, narrated by Feucht, had the unmistakable feel of a pro-Trump campaign commercial. With footage of Marine One approaching the White House, Feucht’s voiceover declared:
He stood and fought for us. He stood for conservatives and defended family values. He stood for Christians and fought for our freedom to worship. He stood for life and fought for the unborn. He stood for Israel and fought to recognize Jerusalem as its rightful capital. No president has endured the onslaught of attacks that he faced from the media, Big Tech, corporations, and big businesses. They went after him tooth and nail. But he never backed down. He stood firm, and he never quit fighting for us.
While Trump’s remarks initially focused on the 9/11 anniversary and praise for first responders, servicemembers, and vets, he veered directly into political territory, slamming “terrible” decisions made by the Biden administration regarding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump told the story of Mychal Judge, a New York Fire Department chaplain killed by debris when the South Tower fell, saying that Judge “reminds us that in the end there is only one true answer to the depth and the evil that we saw on Sept. 11. It is God that is the answer.”
In his remarks to the online Unification Church event, Trump cheered himself for having traveled to North Korea and praised the late Sun Myung Moon, a Korean religious leader who founded the Unification Church, for starting the right-wing Washington Times newspaper. (The Washington Times, which Moon founded early in the Reagan administration and which remains a platform for right-wing commentary and misinformation, dutifully reported on Trump’s appearance.)
Earlier “Rally of Hope” events have featured former Trump administration officials Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo and right-wing stalwarts like Newt Gingrich.
The Universal Peace Federation is presided over by Sun Myung Moon’s widow and successor, Hak Ja Han Moon, who Trump praised as “a tremendous person” in his recorded remarks. A separate offshoot run by one of the Moons’ sons, Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, has also actively promoted Trump through Rod of Iron Ministries, a group that worships with AR-15 rifles. Former White House aide Steve Bannon participated in Rod of Iron events to boost Trump’s reelection prospects in Pennsylvania. Sean Moon and some of his supporters were present at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, a sort of reprise of the group rallying at the U.S. Capitol to defend former President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Rod of Iron has purchased a property in Texas as a place for “patriots” to prepare for a coming war with the “deep state.”
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