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Stephen Wolfe says that Christian nationalists are gaining "real power at the local level" by taking over their local Republican Party: "It is happening. We don't talk about it publicly because it's still kind of under the radar." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
These are the same arguments the right used to prevent the United States from ratifying the Genocide Convention for 40 years. phyllisschlafly.com/phyllis-schl...
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon's wife votes how he tells her to because she is a "submissive wife" who realizes that "evil men stole half of your vote and gave it to me. I'm giving it back."
The Iowa GOP is taking a cue from DHS intimidation tactics www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin has a very confusing gripe about the Graham Platner saga: "The same part that calls itself the No Kings party is now forcing a Democratically-chosen nominee to drop out of the race for a hand-picked replacement. It's pure hypocrisy."
"Prophet" Donna Rigney claims she opened a portal over the White House & Mar-a-Lago so Trump will now "easily be able to get intel from the Holy Spirit": "God is easily going to be able to give him wisdom for decisions he has to make." Also, a "profile of an angel's face" appeared in the clouds.
Once again, the Christian nationalist pseudo-history spread by David Barton is simply false. No, Founding Father Robert Morris did not wind up in debtors' prison because he went bankrupt funding the American Revolution. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Pastor Martin Sedra fumes that "America has created this gay version of Jesus Christ": "Jesus was not effeminate. Jesus was a bold lion. I always tell people Jesus was not a soft guy. He had six packs. He was the most ripped guy you'll ever meet."
Christian nationalist pastor Landon Schott says he believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim: "He pretended to be a Christian and the only thing he did was support Muslim values, compared to Christian values."
Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Christian nationalist Jason Rapert declares "I don't want LGBTQ activists in the Republican Party": "I do not want people active in our party who are against what God says is an [abomination] or what God says in his word."
Republicans did not give Gaetz "the boot." In fact, he was nominated by Trump to be Attorney General and Starnes avidly supported his confirmation.
Reacting to the allegations against Graham Platner, Todd Starnes laughably claims that "whenever there is some sort of a scandalized individual in the Republican Party, they get the heave-ho, they get the boot. We certainly saw that with, for example, Matt Gaetz."
Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says that Muslims have no right to exercise their faith in the public square because "the heritage of America is a Christian heritage and so that's why Christianity takes precedent over all other faiths." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Right-wing pastor 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 art.
Religious-right journalist William Koenig claims that the heat wave and storms that occurred over Independence Day were God's punishment for Trump seeking a peace deal with Iran at the expense of Israel.
Christian nationalists like Chad Connelly are using the nation's 250th anniversary to insist that America was founded as a Christian nation ... and they are doing so by just making stuff up. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Rep. Scott Perry says the Democratic Socialist candidates who have recently won various primaries are "nationalist socialists and they seek the downfall and destruction of our country": "They are closer to destroying this country more than any time since the Civil War."
Christian nationalist Jason Rapert fumes that the Founding Fathers did not risk their lives "so that radical Islamists could come to this nation and take God out of our country" or so "LGBTQ activists could run around looking like nutjobs and say it's okay to cut the penises off of little boys."
Lance Wallnau warns that Zohran Mamdani is "like the devil": "He disguises himself as an angel of light—so cute, so photogenic—and then he brings out the other side of the Bolshevik revolution which invariably is going to be the destruction of Christians and Jews and the collapse of your economy."
Can't imagine why people haven't been flocking to Trump's Great American State Fair
Nick Fuentes says that women should not be able to go to college or travel by themselves: "Islam is right about that. Freedom of movement should not exist for women."
Christian nationalist Alex McFarland falsely claims that the federal government was "modeled after the ecclesiology of the Presbyterian Church": "You know who said that? Our first president, George Washington." Of course, Washington never said anything of the sort. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
As Trump continues to flounder his way through the Iran war that he started, MAGA cultist Rick Green "is honestly in awe of how well he's handling this": "The president is probably the most masterful negotiator and representative of an American government that we've ever seen in our history."
Ralph Reed closed out the annual Road To Majority conference by issuing a dire warning about the midterms: "The [Democrats] are coming, and they are coming in the biggest numbers we have ever seen in a midterm election, and they are coming with unlimited resources." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Radical right-wing Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback claims that, if elected, he'll use Marbury v. Madison to unilaterally declare "any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void." He'll have no such power, of course. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Radical Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon told a James Fishback for governor campaign crowd that "everyone in Florida will be blessed" by electing Fishback: "Everyone in Florida will prosper under the supreme civil magistrate who ultimately is under Christ." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Gene Bailey says Trump's Religious Liberty Commission has not accomplished much: "I was appointed an advisor to the Religious Liberty Commission. Great. That's wonderful. I can't tell you anything that we've done that I've felt—and I could be wrong—that we've really attacked a serious issue."
Religious-right activist Ralph Reed crows that Mike Johnson "came out of our movement" and rose to become Speaker of the House by "divine appointment": "God has given him favor with his colleagues, favor with the president, and favor with the American people."
Right-wing commentator Mary Walter claims that DHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is working to get the government to recognize "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as "a diagnosable mental illness": "It's all very scientific." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...