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MAGA pastor/elf-proclaimed "prophet" Hank Kunneman claims the devil is trying to convince Americans that the U.S. wasn't founded as a Christian nation: "The devil and his demons and the fake news and people that believe that stuff have a real problem with lying." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Anti-abortion activist Seth Gruber declares that "we should have a federal litmus test where you cannot run for office or appear on the ballot if you are pro-abortion": "I would never allow someone who is pro-abortion to babysit my kids."

Michele Bachmann says that if Trump defeats Iran, then God will reward him by ensuring that the GOP wins the midterm elections: "I truly believe that if President Trump takes care of this evil now, I think God will deliver the midterms as well."

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith brags that hating Islam is a "winning issue" for Republicans and says he's thrilled by the controversy over his comments: "I love it. I think this is fantastic." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Trump's billion-dollar slush fund is indefensible, so MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau justifies it the only way he can: by lying about it. "It's Trump taking his winnings and saying, 'I don't want the money, I want to help my people.'" www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Todd Starnes says that if he were to moderate a debate for the Texas Senate race, he'd have one question for James Talarico: "Have you now, as a 37-year-old man, finally come to terms with your manhood? Or, do you sir, perhaps have an affinity for frilly underpants? What's up with that?"

Indiana Lt. Gov Micah Beckwith says that Rep. André Carson, who is Muslim, needs to find Jesus: "You'll be a better US representative if you do that, because you'll actually be governing from a place of truth, rather than a place of lies."

MAGA cultist pastor Shane Vaughn tells conservatives they must "lay down your convictions" and "lay down your principles" and blindly support Trump's agenda": "I wish you could vote your conscience, but my conscience won't let me."

Impassioned "intercessor" Lou Engle rejoices that White House insiders made sure that he wound up on stage during the Trump administration's prayer rally to "rededicate" the nation to God. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Rep. Randy Fine says that holding anti-ICE protests on Memorial Day is evidence that "many Democrats hate the United States of America": "You now have Democrats whose goal it is to destroy the country."

Evangelist David Herzog reveals that pastors were invited to attend a private briefing with House Speaker Mike Johnson before the recent prayer event on the National Mall where they were encouraged to mobilize their congregations for the midterms. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Elijah Schaffer attended Ken Paxton's victory party to complain that the chairman of the Texas GOP, Abraham George, is "an Indian man" who "speaks in a Punjab accent": "When an Indian gets into leadership, they tend to look out for their ethnic interests only."

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says the key to saving America is "giving people permission to hate" Islam, like he does: "I hate Islam. It's a demonic death cult." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Is it weird that MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau is laying hands on and praying over cardboard cutouts of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Because it seems kinda weird.

Rep. Glenn Grothman defends Trump's billion dollar MAGA slush fund as necessary to vindicate Trump in the "court of history": "Hopefully this will prevent future Justice Departments from going after their political enemies." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Ken Paxton has been indicted, impeached, and repeatedly accused of adultery but Christian nationalist MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau claims that Paxton has "learned from his wicked way" and therefore Christians must vote for him because he's "a fighter" and "the real deal": "That's just the way it is."

Rep. Mary Miller promotes the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, telling people to stop voting Democrat because "they opened the southern border, they facilitated the invasion of our country to replace you."

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis warns that Trump "is not going to let control of the GOP go anytime soon": "[He's] going to want to dictate his endorsements and who's in the party and all of that almost as a MAGA Inc. sort of banner over the GOP even when he's out of office."

Former GOP Rep. Bob Good rips Republican voters and legislators for their willingness to "obey, worship, submit, adore, surrender to whatever the president says": "We will obey and comply and surrender and just vote for someone because the president tells us to." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that the only hope for the survival of the United States is 'less freedom' and the elimination of freedom of speech. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Trump recycled a heavily-edited pre-recorded video so he could skip his own administration's national prayer event to go golfing, yet MAGA cultist Mark Meckler can't stop gushing about how Trump has been "transformed by God": "I think he is the man chosen by God for this moment."

MAGA pastor Lorenzo Sewell says that Christians must be involved in politics because "Jesus was a politician" and the Founding Fathers believed that "the church should be leading the state."

Trump couldn't even be bothered to send a new message to his own administration's National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving event. Instead, they just recycled the video of him reading 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the America Reads the Bible event a few weeks ago.

Franklin Graham gripes that "America has become morally rotten. Completely sick with sin. Transgenderism, same-sex marriage, opening women's locker rooms to men are just the tip of the iceberg."

MAGA pastor Robert Jeffress tells those gathered for the Trump administration's National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving event that the Founding Fathers "would be called Christian nationalists today."

Patriarchal Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge says that, in general, women should not be able to work because "all of your being in existence should be within the shadow of your husband." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith wishes that Republicans could "be nice" but Democrats "have given themselves over to communism": "Once Marxism tears everything down, [Muslims] are gonna come in and they're gonna start establishing their caliphates."

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declares that Vivek Ramaswamy must be 'demolished' in the Ohio election to send a message to the GOP that "polytheistic, demon-worshiping, cow-worshiping, bare-feet scamming anchor baby Indians" will not be tolerated www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups": "They've never been associated with the right, they've always been associated with the left." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

MAGA pastor/GOP congressional candidate Jackson Lahmeyer says the Trump administration's upcoming prayer rally on the National Mall celebrates the "resurrection" of the nation from the death it suffered under Biden: "The only way you can have a resurrection is something has to die."

Christian nationalist Texas state Rep. Brent Money says that his role as an elected official is not to do what his constituents want, but rather "to do what God wants me to do." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Religious-right leader Tony Perkins gripes that Trump has remade the Republican Party in his image and there is no longer any "ideological core" to the GOP: "There's no ideological anchor or accountability."

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

If you start seeing clips of Nick Fuentes saying he's voting Democratic in the 2026 elections, it's important to know that he's doing so because he thinks that Republicans getting wiped out will "weaken the GOP so that it can be hijacked and taken over."

MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau says Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered by their son because Reiner "opened up his own house" to demonization by criticizing Trump and Christian nationalism. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Glenn Beck and Moms For Liberty held an event at Ellis Island where they celebrated Donald Trump as the ultimate immigration success story. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis claims that only Christians are entitled to religious freedom in America: "It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Nick Fuentes says that America is "n*gger hell," then realizes he probably shouldn't have said that while wearing a James Fishback for Governor quarter zip: "My apologies to the campaign."

Enjoy your rights while you have them, because Joel Webbon says the America First Christian nationalist movement is "going to take over the GOP" by 2032: "It's not if, it's simply when."

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that since people will never give up democracy and the right to vote, they must be taken away by force: "Virtuous, ambitious, masculine men have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is their detriment."

MAGA cultist pastor Shane Vaughn lies about the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack to claim that God performed a "bona fide miracle" to save Trump. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

MAGA cultist Lance Wallanu admits to getting "perverse satisfaction" from the WHCA shooting because members of "the left-wing media" had to feel "the consequences of your rhetoric": "If it's gonna happen, I'm glad it's gonna be an eye-opener for the people that are creating the problem."

North Carolina teachers are marching tomorrow in Raleigh to demand more funding for public education. Rep. Mark Harris says "this is not just democracy, this is Marxism."

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says that the death penalty is "a blessing" because it allows the condemned "to be in the presence of Jesus" after they are executed. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that White House Faith Adviser Paula White is a witch: "She is a witch who casts spells."

Want to listen to 74-year-old white nationalist Jared Taylor rap? Well, too bad because here it is anyway.

White nationalist Lauren Witzke says that immigrants are "parasites" and Greg Bovino agrees that "our culture is at stake": "Our culture is definitely in jeopardy by those hundreds of millions of foreigners that, as you say, don't care about your culture."

Racist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon claims that the indictment of the SPLC proves that racism is "not real": "America does not have a racist problem." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

White nationalist Jared Taylor says the Trump administration's indictment of the SPLC "doesn't make sense": "The whole things seems hokeyed up to me."

Christian nationalist Joshua Haymes tells young men to find a wife who will "obey you" and "submit to your authority": "You can cure a good godly woman of her feminism if she is willing to obey you."

Religious-right activist Tony Perkins is unhappy about the Trump administration decision to reclassify marijuana because "it is opening up our children and, of course, others to demonic activity."

White nationalist Richard Spencer says that "conservatives are dumb" for trying to use the Trump administration's politically motivated indictment of the SPLC to claim that the deadly 2017 Unite The Right rally was a "hoax." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says Democrats "are being led by the minions and the voices of darkness" after Virginians voted to redraw the state's congressional maps last night. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is now complaining that the entire conservative movement has subordinated itself to Trump: "The definition of conservatism now, apparently, is whatever Donald Trump says that it is at any given moment."

Christian nationalist Sen. Josh Hawley says that in order to create a culture of "biblical masculinity," the nation must establish a "Christian economy" where "men can get a job and afford to have a family." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist pastor Landon Schott insists that Trump "respects God, he respects pastors" and thus he deserves grace because he's still "a baby Christian."

MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau defends the Trump as Jesus post on the grounds that Trump is still "a baby Christian." The Religious Right has been giving Trump a pass for being a "baby Christian" for a decade now.

MAGA Christian nationalist pundit Eric Metaxas tells homeschooling activists God has called the church to battle. When he calls authoritarianism evil, he doesn't mean Trump.

Lance Wallnau calls Trump a deliverer sent by God, and connects Trump's dispute with the pope to the "religious war" against "the Prince of Persia"

Trump superfan Shane Vaughn told MAGA to calm down about the Trump-as-Jesus image, saying if they looked again it would remind them that Trump was sent by God to heal America.

Right-wing Catholic Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles and Protestant Christian nationalist Doug Wilson find common ground in their common enemies: progressives and secularists

Christian nationalist Joel Webbon, who thinks women should not have the right to vote, describes women in civic leadership as a sign of God's punishment on a rebellious nation

Joel Webbon says it will take unapologetically Christian nationalist, patriarchal, "race realist" and "J-pilled" candidates to break the cycle of American politics being controlled by "war Jews" and "gay Jews"

Trump's religious-right backers have endless excuses for his amorality, cruelty, and corruption. Dominionist Lance Wallnau suggests God sent Trump as an embarrassingly messy gladiator to shame the church for not fighting hard enough

Furious that American soldiers are being sent "to die for Israel," extremist antisemitic broadcaster Stew Peters declares that "we should drop Lindsey Graham off right in the middle of Tehran to see if these people really do throw queers off of rooftops."

Dominionist Lance Wallnau says Trump's firing of Pam Bondi was a result of God's merciful intervention because the job, and her inability to deliver on all Trump's demands, was taking a toll on her health.

Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge declares that "one of America's biggest threats is white liberal women," which is why "we must, as a nation, repeal the 19th Amendment": "The majority of women are not capable of responsible voting."

At CPAC, Dominionist Lance Wallnau called for greater mobilization of right-wing Christians: "There has to be a fusion of the political and the spiritual and we can no longer be embarrassed or inarticulate in taking that position."

MAGA Pastor Mark Burns at CPAC 2026: Christian nationalists have been “too silent” and must “rise up”

Ted Nugent is disgusted with the youth of today: "These kids need to be stripped naked and thrown into the wilderness without anything for a week. And if they don't make it, tough."

Christian nationalism is being ruled by theocrats like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, who declares that legislators who "blaspheme [Jesus] by not ascribing to Him glory and authority over the governments" will be destroyed: "Kiss the Son or face the beating." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Confronted over allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a minor, far-right Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback yells at streamer Tajy TV that "you should be lynched for lying about me like that."

Bragging that the Trump administration is funneling millions of dollars to Christian ministries, Lance Wallnau says Christians must vote in the midterms because "the devil plans on impeaching Trump and stopping the move of funding." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

MAGA cultist Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau declares that Trump is basically "a prophet in office": "This guy is an actual Old Testament prophet king." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Asked his thoughts about the runoff election between Sen. John Cornyn and Texas AG Ken Paxton, former Rep. Louie Gohmert says Paxton is "the most corrupt attorney general we've had in my lifetime": "He told a lot of lies. As his wife now knows, he lied a lot!"

Right-wing commentators James Kunstler and Eric Metaxas suggest that Trump needs to declare a national emergency and outlaw the Democratic Party: "I think it would probably look something like a civil war." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist Richard Harris hails Trump for having "declared war on the ungodly woke agenda that was subverting our country into an anti-Christian Marxist state," warning that if Democrats win the midterms, they'll "reimpose the Marxist woke globalist pro-Islamist, pro-devil policies."

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith claims that the separation of church and state was made up by SCOTUS Justice Hugo Black because he "hated blacks and he hated Catholics" and "wanted to get the church and godly people out of the way." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd agree with God that "women need to shut up": "Women, shut up! Of course. It is literally an offense to God."

MAGA cultist pastor Shane Vaughn hails Trump's brilliant plan to start the war with Iran now so that gas prices would skyrocket but come down just in time for the midterms: "He timed it perfectly."

When God told Ché Ahn to run for governor, He should have also reminded Ahn to be sure to file all the necessary paperwork so he wouldn't get left off the ballot. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Franklin Graham opened CPAC by hailing Trump for standing up to the "secular socialists in our country" by using the phrase "Merry Christmas": "It's not a little thing. It was huge because it put the woke world on notice that we're not gonna take it anymore."

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declares that gender equality is a Jewish plot to "eradicate white people": "It is the root of all bitter, baseless envy that just seeks to destroy the world." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist pastor Jackson Lahmeyer announced that he is running for Congress in Oklahoma because "President Trump needs a few more bold, America First fighters in Washington, DC to help move his agenda forward."

Rep. Jim Jordan is optimistic about the midterms because he thinks the GOP has a winning message against the Democrats: "They're crazy. We're not."

A warning from Glenn Beck: "I believe there is a possibility that we are living in the End of Days."

Right-wing pastors Alan DiDio, Troy Brewer, and Joseph Z all agree that the long TSA lines at airports is why they need private jets: "If there's ever been a case for preachers to have private airplanes, this is it."

MAGA pastor John Amanchukwu, who steadfastly defended his friend Mark Robinson amid the porn allegations only for Robinson to finally admit they were true, declares "he betrayed my trust": "Me and him had an explosive conversation this past Friday."