In 2023, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and unabashed Trump cultist Lance Wallnau announced his intention to travel the country ahead of the 2024 elections in order to break the “demonic strongholds” in swing states that are supposedly preventing Republicans from winning elections. That idea eventually merged with the revival Fire and Glory Tour that Wallnau was doing with fellow MAGA cultist Mario Murillo, resulting in plans to merge political rallies with Christian revival meetings in order to help former President Donald Trump return to the White House.

Wallnau’s dream is now coming to fruition with the announcement of “The Courage Tour” in which Wallnau and Murillo will be joined by the likes of Floyd Brown, Lou Engle, and others for a series of events “dedicated to impacting the spiritual climate in 7 key states and 19 key counties!” The first three announced events will take place in the swing states of Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.

The partisan purpose of the tour was made quite clear during a recent interview Wallnau did with fellow Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. Kirk, whose TPUSA Faith operation is also involved in the Courage Tour, told Wallnau that it is his mission to ensure that Trump receives more than 81 percent of the evangelical vote in 2024, asserting that if that can be achieved “there is almost no way Donald Trump loses.”

Energized by this plan, Wallnau said that his Courage Tour is “latching on” to Kirk’s effort by organizing rallies in key swing states.

Separately, Murillo promoted the Courage Tour on his own “Fire Power” program, saying it is being targeted “at specific cities where conservatives are there but they didn’t vote and we’re going to wake them up and get them to vote.”

The events will consist of two sections, Murillo reported, with the days being dedicated to political activism while the evenings are dedicated to “signs and wonders and a totally focused presentation on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

It is worth noting that Wallnau and others involved in this project are associated with the spiritual warfare-waging New Apostolic Reformation movement and Seven Mountains Dominionism, an ideology grounded in the belief that the nation will be “transformed” when the right kind of Christians have taken control of every sphere of influence in society.

As Right Wing Watch reported earlier this week, religious-right organizations and activists are gearing up to make a widespread and sustained effort to mobilize conservative Christian voters for the purpose of electing Trump to office. In turn, Trump has already promised to return the favor by giving them unprecedented power to use the levels of government to impose their Christian nationalist agenda on the nation.

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• Nicole Narea @ Vox: Mark Robinson, the North Carolina GOP nominee for governor, is off the rails even by MAGA standards

The Republican Party under Donald Trump has habitually elevated extreme right-wing candidates who can’t find enough support outside of hardcore partisans to win elections. But Mark Robinson, who won the GOP nomination for governor of North Carolina Tuesday night, is a special case even by the modern GOP’s standards.

• John Fea @ Current: More cherry-picking from the Bartons

He wants his audience to believe that the founders sought national unity at the time the Revolution through the “general principles of Christianity.”

• Telling Jefferson Lies: Conspiracy of Silence

After David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies was pulled from publication in August, 2012, some Christian organizations wrote critical articles and publicly distanced themselves from Barton and Wallbuilders. Other groups some were caught off guard. The leaders of these groups knew they had false and misleading material being offered to their constituents, but they didn’t make any moves to remove it.

• Dan Diamond and Alex Horton @ The Washington Post: Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after probe into White House behavior

Jackson is no longer a retired admiral. The Navy demoted him in July 2022 following a damaging Pentagon inspector general’s report that substantiated allegations about his inappropriate behavior as a White House physician.

• Julie Roys @ The Roys Report: Charismatic Christian Leaders Declare Mike Bickle ‘Unfit’ and ‘Disqualified’ from Ministry

Eight, prominent, charismatic and Messianic Christian leaders today released a joint statement, declaring International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC) Founder Mike Bickle “unfit” and “disqualified from public ministry.”

• Steven Monacelli @ The Daily Dot: A new social network built on a vision of Christian supremacy in America gains traction with GOP politicians

Three candidates for Congress, a candidate for lieutenant governor, three state House candidates, a county commissioner, a school board trustee, and a handful of former candidates for elected office are all members of the Nexus Mountain Network, a social media platform created by proponents of the Seven Mountains Mandate.

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• David Barton says that “if you are opposed to school choice, you are supporting socialism,” comparing opponents to segregationist Gov. George Wallace.
• Self-proclaimed “prophet” Donna Rigney reports that God told her that “vindication is coming to Donald Trump and to all who have been falsely accused, even those who have been imprisoned since Jan. 6.”
• Shane Vaughn explains that he gets upset “at the use of SPANISH and other LANGUAGES as acceptable ALTERNATIVES to English in our society” because “IT IS NOT AMERICAN LANGUAGE !!!!”
• Jason Rapert declares that Democrats “don’t love America the way you and I should love America”: “If you’re in the Democrat Party, get out of it!”
• Finally, Lance Wallnau proclaims that “the left is loaded with demons” just like in Nazi Germany: “I don’t think it’s people anymore; I think you’re dealing with demons talking through people.”

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• Christian nationalist William Cook’s America’s Black Robe Regiment group is teaming up for an event with Rick Joyner, Che Ahn, and others in North Carolina.
• Lance Wallnau claims that everyone knows that former President Barack Obama was “a closet Muslim.”
• Andrew Torba declares that modern Jews are part of a “broader movement or attitude that opposes or seeks to replace Christ … thus making them antichrist”: “When they call you ‘antisemitic’ you need to be calling them antichrist, because they are. One of those words is in the Bible, the other is made up by antichrist Jews. If that offends you, take it up with God.”
• Speaking of antisemites, Ryan Dawson proclaims that “the Israelites are not Satan’s chosen race. They are the race that chose Satan. They are a cancer upon the world. They lie, steal, blameshift, rape, torture, and desecrate, and murder.”
• Finally, Convention of States’ Mark Meckler says “there’s no such thing as trans people; they don’t exist” and that people who claim to be trans are really just “perverts.”

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• Josh Bernstein insists that there is “no way” that the collapse of the bridge in Baltimore was an accident: “This was an implosion of some kind.”
• Jim Garlow asserts that the collapse was either the result of “DEI incompetence” or terrorism.
• Dutch Sheets claims that he had a prophetic dream about the collapse a week before it happened.
• Lance Wallnau also believes there is “prophetic significance” to the bridge incident.
• MAGA pastor Mark Burns tells Christians that they must give up their secular friends because “secular friends are Satan’s windows into your life.”
• Rep. Tracey Mann assured Sean Feucht that “the Lord is alive and well and active in the halls of the United States Congress.”
• Finally, Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz, says he became involved in right-wing politics after hearing Jimmy Carter speak in 1976: “The first time I heard Jimmy Carter campaign, I knew the man was a communist. He sounded just like Fidel Castro.”

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• Jackson Lahmeyer says that former President Donald Trump hawking Bibles is “one of the greatest spiritual moments in U.S. history,” adding that this Bible is particularly useful because “all of our founding documents are derived from Scripture.” No, they aren’t.
• Hank Kunneman asserts that Trump is like Samson and Christians who refuse to support him “have tied up a deliverer that God has appointed and anointed.” Kunneman also issued a warning to those who mock his prophecies: “You’re touching God. You’re touching what God has said.”
• While the Family Research Council insists that there is nothing antisemitic about the phrase “Christ is King,” the FRC’s own senior fellow Owen Strachan recognizes that it is “real and rank antisemitism” when Nick Fuentes and his ilk use the phrase.
• Elijah Schaffer proclaims that Jews are “enemies of the cross of Christ and they prove it time and time again,” declaring that this is Holy Week and Jews “should shut the hell up.”
• Finally, Lance Wallnau claims that “Christian nationalism” is a term invented by the left to slander conservative Christians, which is awkward given that Wallnau has openly declared that, “Yes, I am a Christian nationalist.”

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• Lance Wallnau sees the “silver lining” in the Baltimore bridge collapse, saying that it might be a sign from God about the importance of the 2024 election.
• Self-proclaimed “prophetess” Kat Kerr keeps rewriting her prophetic history and is now asserting that former Vice President Mike Pence will not become president, as she repeatedly prophesied, because he failed to adequately support former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
• Right-wing pastor John Amanchukwu claims that Democrats already “took Christmas away from us” and are now trying to destroy Easter, declaring that Christians cannot vote for “the party that peed on Easter Sunday.”
• Candace Owens insists that the issue behind her firing from The Daily Wire was never about her growing antisemitism but rather “it was always anti-Christian bigotry.”
• Finally, Donald Trump Jr. claims that anyone who bought a Bible was reported by their bank to the FBI.

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• Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Florida Voters Will Get to Vote on Hyper-Restrictive Abortion Ban in November

The six-week ban can be implemented, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday—but voters will get the opportunity to overturn it.

• Telling Jefferson Lies: The True Story of the False Origins of the Seven Mountains Message

Everybody in Christian nationalism is talking about the seven mountains message. The message is at the root of much violent rhetoric coming from Christian nationalists but according to one of the key players in the movement, the origin story is fake.

• Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Tommy Tuberville accuses Dems of being part of ‘a Satanic cult’

Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently campaigned for an ally in Utah, where the Alabama Republican made the case that supernatural forces were undermining the United States.

• Angry White Men: Elijah Schaffer Claims That ‘Racism’s A Good Thing’

Elijah Schaffer is a racist, anti-LGBTQ, and antisemitic propagandist who has openly defended white nationalists. As such, it was unsurprising that Schaffer used his Rumble show, Slightly Offensive, to tell his audience that they should wear accusations of racism as a “badge of honor,” and that “racism’s a good thing.”

• Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Daily Caller retracts Biden ‘War on Easter’ story that sent MAGA into meltdown

The conservative Daily Caller publication has retracted an article that claimed President Joe Biden was responsible for enacting a policy of banning religious-themed Easter eggs at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

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• Lance Wallnau reveals that he was the one who connected Charlie Kirk with “prophet” Hank Kunneman, whose church recently hosted a TPUSA rally aimed at pressuring the Nebraska legislature to change the way allocates its electoral votes for the benefit of Donald Trump.
• South Dakota state Rep. Nico Rios mourns the passing of O.J. Simpson: “RIP 2 A REAL ASS ONE. Shame they never caught the guy who framed him for murder SMH.”
• Drenda Keesee, the Seven Mountains dominionist who appears poised to become a county commissioner in Knox County, Ohio, says “God’s plan is the answer for every ill we see in society.”
• Shane Vaughn apologized for his attack on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, though he seemed to be apologizing for his attacks on her physical appearance and not the racism.
• Finally, Nala Ray is a former OnlyFans model who is now “giving it all up for Christ,” but misogynistic incel Nick Fuentes is not impressed, asserting that men should “beat the shit” out of her and claiming that in an Islamic nation, she’d be killed by her family because Muslims know how to properly control their women.

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• Right-wing pastor Drenda Keesee, who is running unopposed for office in Ohio, says that the United States has become a “banana republic” under President Joe Biden.
• Nick Fuentes reported that he had dinner with right-wing MMA fighter Jake Shields last night.
• Christian nationalist/Seven Mountains dominionist Lance Wallnau called for prayer to protect Rep. Barry Loudermilk because he’s on “the Lord’s mission” to expose the “truth” about Jan. 6 and the devil is therefore trying to take him out of office.
• MAGA pastor and GOP congressional candidate Mark Burns says there must be wall on the southern border because “there is a wall in Heaven” to keep people out.
• Finally, we’ll never understand how posting clips of right-wing activists like Lauren Chen saying things constitutes a “smear.” But what do we know? We’re “intellectually dishonest.”

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