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Chuck DarwinVance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a> will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallnau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wallnau</a>, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices <a href="https://c.im/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witchcraft</a> and has written that the US is headed toward <a href="https://c.im/tags/bloody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloody</a> internal <a href="https://c.im/tags/conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conflict</a>.The campaign announced earlier this week that the Republican vice-presidential candidate will participate in a “town hall” as part of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Courage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tour</a>, a traveling pro-Trump tent revival, during a stop in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Monroeville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monroeville</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pennsylvania</a>.Wallnau, who hosts the tour and broadcasts its speakers on his online show – drawing hundreds in-person and sometimes tens of thousands virtually – is a proponent of the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/seven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seven</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mountains</a>” <a href="https://c.im/tags/mandate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mandate</a>, which commands Christians to seek leadership in seven key areas of society – the church, the education system, the family, the media, the arts, business and government.He is also a leader in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apostolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apostolic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reformation</a> (NAR), a movement that features modern-day <a href="https://c.im/tags/apostles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apostles</a> and has taken hold in particular in non-denominational <a href="https://c.im/tags/charismatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#charismatic</a> churches that embrace faith healing and believe that the Holy Spirit can speak directly through believers in the form of speaking in tongues and prophesy. These religious spaces often also practice “deliverance ministry” and “spiritual warfare” to cleanse people of demonic entities.Karrie Gaspard-Hogewood, a scholar whose research focuses on such groups, noted that NAR-aligned practitioners engage in a unique form of “<a href="https://c.im/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spiritual</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warfare</a>” – fighting malign forces in not only individuals who are believed to be inhabited by a malign entity, but also entire geographic areas.“Spiritual warfare is the belief that a demon has taken up residence and is controlling anything from a large geographic space to a culture, to the White House or the supreme court,” said Gaspard-Hogewood.Extremism researchers worry that spiritual warfare, which is by definition waged in the supernatural realm, could become dangerous if interpreted excessively literally. On January 6, spiritual warriors affiliated with the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jericho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jericho</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/March" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#March</a> rallied at the Capitol to protest against the election results, engaging in a form of spiritual warfare on the National Mall. Wallnau, who himself prophesied that Trump would win the 2016 election and rejected the outcome when he didn’t win again in 2020, doubled down on his position at a stop of the Courage tour in Wisconsin.“January 6 was not an insurrection – it was an election fraud intervention!” Wallnau exclaimed to the roaring crowd.Wallnau has also written in his book, "God’s Chaos Candidate: Donald J Trump and the American Unraveling", that he believes the United States is headed toward a potentially bloody clash – a “fiery trial” that will come “both to believers and nations”. In his book, in which he also claims to have met with Trump on multiple occasions, Wallnau writes that the US is entering a “crucible”, which will involve “a ‘conflict’ of ideologies, often arms, to determine a victor in the power clash”.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/vance-lance-wallnau-event?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/vance-lance-wallnau-event?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Chuck DarwinThe <a href="https://c.im/tags/Courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Courage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tour</a>, organized by Trump-promoting <a href="https://c.im/tags/dominionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominionists</a> -- <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallnau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wallnau</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mario</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Murillo</a>, -- and co-sponsored by the MAGA movement organization "America First Policy Institute", rolls into Pennsylvania this week on its tour of 19 swing counties that could decide the outcome of the presidential election. The event will be held Friday night and all day Saturday in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Monroeville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monroeville</a>, which is located east of Pittsburgh.Scholar Matthew Taylor, who attended a Wisconsin stop, called the tour “the most targeted and tactical voter mobilization effort done by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nationalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nationalists</a> ever,” adding that “they’re doing it hand in glove in many ways with the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> campaign and with the apparatus of the Trump campaign through an organization like <a href="https://c.im/tags/AFPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFPI</a>.”Indeed, the Courage Tour exemplifies 💥the de facto merger between the MAGA movement and dominionist Christian nationalists. AFPI, a “think tank” organized by and filled with former Trump administration officials, is an active participant in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a>, another example of the shared authoritarian goals of Trumpworld and the Christian nationalists who helped put Trump in power in 2016 as part of their long-term plan to take “dominion” over every sphere of influence in society. Turning Point USA’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Charlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Charlie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kirk</a> has also supported the tour.In 2023, AFPI President <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brooke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brooke</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rollins</a>, a former Trump adviser who had been preparing his second-term agenda before he lost the 2020 election, held an "America First Summit" where she discussed AFPI’s Vision 2025, a preview of Project 2025’s plans for the aggressive use of government power to promote the far-right agenda. Rollins happily admitted that their “ideologically revolutionary” goal is to 🔥“seize control of the administrative state” as part of “an America First confrontation against anti-conservative institutions.”  That echoed language used by the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heritage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Foundation</a> when it launched Project 2025 as a plan for the MAGA movement to “take the reins of government.”The Courage Tour’s combination of tent revival-style religious rallies with political mobilization reflects the beliefs of <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#New</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apostolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apostolic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reformation</a> figures like Wallnau and Murillo that spiritual revival will lead to political transformation of the country to bring it into alignment with their particular biblical worldview. Wallnau has said the tour’s purpose is to break “<a href="https://c.im/tags/demonic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#demonic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/strongholds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strongholds</a>” that have supposedly kept Republicans from winning elections, and to prepare Christians to rule and reign after Christ’s return by training them to “occupy territory now.” In other words, the Courage Tour is an example of <a href="https://c.im/tags/NAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NAR</a> “<a href="https://c.im/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spiritual</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warfare</a>” in pursuit of earthly power —for Trump and for themselves.Right Wing Watch reported that when the tour stopped in Wisconsin in July, the leader of a group called "The Lion of Judah" urged people to sign up to serve as election workers so that they could be in effect a “Trojan Horse” for the Christian nationalist political movement. At an earlier stop in Michigan, Christian nationalist political operative <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barton</a> spread false Christian nationalist history.Researcher Jenny Cohn has pointed out that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rob</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pacienza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pacienza</a>, senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida—a longtime center of Christian-right political organizing—is a senior fellow in the Center for the American Dream at AFPI. This Wednesday, Sept. 25, Pacienza will kick off 40 days of prayer leading up to the election with an online event with Courage Tour speaker Alveda King. Pacienza’s project comes with a daily prayer guide that includes prayers for policies protecting life “from conception until natural death” and “restoration” of marriage being limited to one man and one woman. It includes a prayer that “Christians would use the power we have as citizens to rein in big government so that the State never becomes our Master.” It also urges people to pray that God would “remove those from office who oppose Him” and “cause chaos and confusion among groups who oppose Him and His people so that their plans are thwarted.”<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominionist-courage-tour-heads-to-pennsylvania-in-bid-to-put-unleashed-trump-in-power/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominionist-courage-tour-heads-to-pennsylvania-in-bid-to-put-unleashed-trump-in-power/</a>

scunningFolks in <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Allegheny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Allegheny</a> county: This Friday's <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/AlleghenyVotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlleghenyVotes</a> newsletter put out a call for volunteers for the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/primary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#primary</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elections</a> on Tuesday 23 April 2024. Spots are available in <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Pittsburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Bridgeville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bridgeville</a>, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Millvale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Millvale</a>, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Monroeville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monroeville</a>, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Robinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robinson</a>, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SouthFayette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthFayette</a>, and <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/UpperSaintClair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UpperSaintClair</a>. If you're interested, call 412-350-4500 and select option 5. <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vote</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/primaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#primaries</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/2024Primaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2024Primaries</a>

PghExpatMonroeville officials: Hobby Lobby welcome, just not at convention centerWell this is interesting… and looks like it’s going to turn ugly…<a href="https://pgh.social/tags/Monroeville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monroeville</a> <a href="https://pgh.social/tags/Pittsburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pittsburgh</a> <a href="https://pgh.social/tags/SteelCityCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteelCityCon</a> <a href="https://pgh.social/tags/HobbyLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HobbyLobby</a> <a href="https://triblive.com/local/monroeville/monroeville-officials-hobby-lobby-welcome-just-not-at-convention-center/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://triblive.com/local/monroeville/monroeville-officials-hobby-lobby-welcome-just-not-at-convention-center/</a>

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