South Carolina Senator Tim Scott spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference. Watch: It looks like Scott is going to run as Black conservative at a time when most conservatives believe that Democrats are dividing the […]
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North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson endorses Trump in 2024
Mark Robinson is running for governor of North Carolina. Watch his speech at Ralph Reed’s Road to Majority conference: Robinson was the first non-candidate to make an endorsement: The right move [for America] is to get someone into office who […]
Asa Hutchinson: A 1980s-style conservative evangelical and a seemingly good guy with no chance at winning the GOP nomination
Yesterday former Arkansas governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson visited the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority 2023 conference. Watch: Like most of these candidates, Hutchinson established his evangelical credentials. Let me pause at this moment to […]
Lindsey Graham keeps pushing his 15-week abortion ban
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham came to pay his respects to the Christian Right at the rally known as “Road to Majority.” Abortion was the focus of his speech. Watch: Graham attacks a new bill introduced by House Democrats called […]
Vivek Ramaswamy’s does a nice job articulating a basic conservative message, but as a Hindu he’ll have a hard time resonating with the Christian Right
Businessman and author Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority” conference. The director of the Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition introduced him by saying that he was responsible for removing Don Lemon from CNN. Ramaswamy says that he […]
Josh Hawley’s conservative populism was on full display at Road to Majority 2023
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made a visit on Friday to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference. Watch: If you watched the speech you can see that Hawley wasted no time identifying with the crowd: I’m proud […]
Mike Pence at Road to Majority 2023
Mike Pence was the first 2024 GOP presidential candidate to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference this weekend. Pence’s walkout music was Kid Rock’s “Born Free.” The applause was sparse. Watch his speech: After listening […]
Alveda King on those who say America is not a Christian nation: “What malarkey!”
Avelda King is Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, outspoken leader of the Christian Right, and Trump court evangelical. Watch her speech at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference today: A few comments: King believes she is an officer in […]
The Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference opens with a sermon: “Blacks have become the cheap prostitutes of the Democratic Party”
Ralph Reed’s Christian Right gathering this weekend began with a sermon by Black preacher John M. Amanchukwu. Amanchukwu is a former North Carolina State football player, a graduate of Liberty University, and appears on shows such as The Charlie Kirk […]
Ralph Reed opens the “Road Majority Conference”: Christians should be “at the top, and not the bottom, of our political system”
The God and country crowd is gathered at the Washington D.C. Hilton this weekend for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority Conference.” Christian Right political activist Ralph Reed founded the Faith and Freedom Coalition in 2009 to oppose […]
The Atlantic tackles Seven Mountain Dominionism
A nice piece of reporting here by Stephanie McCrummen. Here is a taste of “The Woman Who Bought a Mountain For God”: On the day she heard God tell her to buy a mountain, Tami Barthen already sensed that her life […]
Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht takes communion in the U.S. Capitol
Christian nationalists take historic Christian rites like the Lord’s Supper and use them to advance American nationalism. This is blasphemy. I told a reporter today that Christian nationalism is not a religious movement, it is a political movement. It is […]
More evangelical responses to the Trump indictment
Donald Trump is the first president in United States history to face a federal indictment. How are some of his most loyal followers responding? (We published some earlier responses last night). Speaker of the House: MAGA worship leader: Paula White […]
Court evangelical Robert Jeffress claims he just texted Trump: “There are millions of Christians praying for you right now”
A Southern Baptist once told me that the most dangerous place in the Southern Baptist Convention is between Robert Jeffress and a camera. The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas does not seem phased by the Trump federal […]
Burge: “People are picking their religion based on their politics, not their politics based on their religion.”
Political scientist Ryan Burge writes: “There is no doubt in my mind that politics is one of the main culprits for the emptying out of American religion.” After laying out his statistical case, Burge adds: Social behavior doesn’t just change […]
The court evangelicals are getting the old band back together
Readers of this blog know what a court evangelical is. But for the uninitiated, I encourage you to read this piece or this book. After last night’s CNN town hall, it appears that Donald Trump just might be the GOP […]
Franklin Graham on the verdict in the Trump sexual assault case
I suffered through most of last night’s CNN New Hampshire townhall meeting with Donald Trump. Here is what we “learned”: You can learn more here. During the interview Collins, who often fact-checked Trump in real time, asked the former president […]
The never-Trumpers, the semi-fascists, and the rationalizers
Over at The Bulwark, Nicholas Grossman breaks down the GOP into three categories: TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS SEGMENT of Republicans is so DeSantis-needy, let’s briefly revisit the typology of the GOP following its crackup. Donald Trump’s election and presidency split […]
Sean Feucht continues to confuse the Kingdom of God with the United States of America
We blogged about this over the weekend. Sean is still at it. This time he is in Austin (the second video is from Feucht’s Tulsa comments, the one we wrote about over the weekend). In Christian theology the “King” is […]
Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht says the quiet part out loud
Here is Feucht at Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma: Right Wing Watch has the full story. Watch the entire speech.