The #Courage #Tour, organized by Trump-promoting #dominionists
-- #Lance #Wallnau and #Mario #Murillo,
-- 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 #Monroeville, 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 #Christian #nationalists ever,”
adding that
“they’re doing it hand in glove in many ways with the #Trump campaign and with the apparatus of the Trump campaign through an organization like #AFPI.”
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 #Project2025, 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 #Charlie #Kirk has also supported the tour.
In 2023, AFPI President #Brooke #Rollins, 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 #Heritage #Foundation 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 #New #Apostolic #Reformation 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 “#demonic #strongholds” 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 #NAR “#spiritual #warfare” 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 #David #Barton spread false Christian nationalist history.
Researcher Jenny Cohn has pointed out that #Rob #Pacienza, 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.”
TFG's brain is cottage cheese. If he is elected, it will be the #dominionists and #fascists of #Project2025 that will be running the #USA. A chilling thought indeed. #election2024
If the thought of 50,000 #Putinist #Russophiles, #hysterical #homophobes, #armed #ammosexuals, #misogynists, #antisemites, #whitesupremacists, #ConspiracyTheorists, #racists, #reproductiverights #deniers and #Evangelical and #Catholic #Dominionists descending upon #Milwaukee has you upchucking your cheese curds, you are certainly not alone.
@ninjacooter It’s bad enough that the Koch bros gave over thirty mil to a Catholic fringe group over 4 years ago and they couldn’t give a fuck about religion. They just want to be power adjacent. #Dominionists #USPol
@peteriskrisjanis The stage at a previous CPAC event was literally shaped like the Odel rune on a Nazi uniform. These theocratic, racist, oligarch wanna bes haven’t hidden it well for a while. #Nazis #GOP #CPAC #Dominionists #USPol @GottaLaff
@GottaLaff They want aTheocracy and an Oligarchy and a white “ethnostate” all rolled into one and don’t see a conflict and they are dead serious. They don’t think they’re fascists or that they want a dictator. In their deranged little heads they believe they will be led by a God appointed savior. #Dominionists #JackPosobiec #Posobiec #USPol #tRump @atrupar
@Threadbane @bhawthorne @GottaLaff I wish this was a joke, but it is scarily close to the reality…
Have you read @timalberta ’s #TheKingdomThePowerAndTheGlory ???
It’s cringe inducing. The situation, not the book
And that talibangelical group is already real, they’re called #Dominionists
The #SatanicTemple isn't engaging in "successful trolling" or undermining #Dominionists; they are actively fueling a culture war that benefits both reactionaries and corporate #Satanists
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-and-christian-nationalists-are-on-the-same-side/
@ZhiZhu @kcarruthers @stevanzetti @TexasObserver #Dominionists can more accurately be referred to as #Talibangelicals.
[Video] #Farright #Christian #dominionists (#Fascists) #target #schools, #civicoffices in #Texas
#AntoniaHylton, reports on the infiltration of far-right #Christian #ideology into #classrooms in #Texas and across #America.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
Watching the Duggar show, finally. Mostly vindicating because I've known what this shit was really about for a very long time. But also infuriating, esp when I saw Michelle Duggar deliver her 19th by c-section and have a miscarriage in her 20th pregnancy. Good thing nobody interfered with her medical care in those instances! #Duggars #shinyhappypeople #quiverfulls #dominionists
@gemelliz @coolxenu oh there’s definitely a plan. #SEVENMOUNTIANMANDATE #dominionists
@gemelliz @Yup_Its_Holly #dominionists waging #jihad on decent society
@micropainter when you understand that #dominionists have taken over the #conservative movement #worldwide under the #IDU IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK
@PBruce who would be dumb enough to trust the #harper #dominionists?
Anti-trans group suffers leaks that exposes the names, and locations of members behind the attacks on trans per WIRED magazine.
#trans #pediatricians #christiannationalists #dominionists #leak #ACP
https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak/