Leading up to 2008, McCain knew he needed support of the religious right, & McCain pursued John Hagee (a fast rising star in the movement) for months for the endorsement. After McCain renounced it, he needed to do something dramatic to win back the evangelical right. Hence Palin
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Palin did win back the evangelical right for McCain, but she also scared off independents, who perceived her as extreme & menacingly strange. Behind that was the fact that she was an acolyte of the radical New Apostolic Reformation movement - by 2011, this affiliation was...
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..publicly admitted to by the man who almost singlehandedly had launched the NAR, C. Peter Wagner, who 'fessed up in a 2011 appearance on Terry Gross' WHYY radio show "Fresh Air".
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7) If my multiple stories on Palin & the NAR had gotten any notice from mainstream media, the electoral impact could have been significant, b/c she was closely tied to the growing, radical NAR movement trying to take "dominion" over all sectors of society. As a young woman...
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8)..Palin had been part of an effort to pray to death an Alaskan woman accused of witchcraft. My research pulled together 2 bits of info to prove this. One was a story in Charisma Magazine about the effort, led by NAR apostle & prophet Mary Glazier. The other was audio from...
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9)..a Summer 2008 gathering of major NAR leaders at which Glazier dropped the news that Palin had joined her personal prayer group when the GOP VP nominee had been in her 20s. That meant Palin would have been in Glazier's prayer group during the prayer-warfare against the...
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10)..accused "witch", who in reality was a lesbian who worked in the Alaska prison system. Considerable other evidence I unearthed tied Palin to the NAR, which nobody outside the movement even knew existed, even though it had already impacted US politics, in a massive way...
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11) Remember when the Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris shut down the Florida vote recount in the 2000 election? (subsequent analysis showed that if the recount had preceded, Al Gore would likely have beaten GW Bush.) Well, Harris was an acolyte of 2 of the NAR's most..
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12)..important leaders, Cindy Jacobs & Dutch Sheets, both of whom Harris identified as close friends & advisers. After shutting down the vote recount, Harris came under intense pressure. So Sheets stiffened her resolve by mobilizing the NAR's international prayer networks to...
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13)..bombard Harris with literally 100s of thousands of supportive emails. It worked. Another thing - Katherine Harris shut down the FL vote recount using a fake "riot" staged by dirty trickster Roger Stone as a pretext. As it happens, the NAR & Stone worked together in 2020...
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14)..in a similar fashion to engineer the 2021 coup attempt. In a remarkable new series for Bradley Oneishi's superb Straight White American Jesus podcast, Dr. Matthew Taylor identifies the NAR as "the backbone of Christian Trumpism", & I fully agree...
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15) Taylor argues that the dominant Christian force on the ground at the January 6, 2021 coup attempt was NAR, and that the NAR was by far the most committed bloc on the evangelical right that gave us president Donald Trump by mobilizing for him in 2015 & 2016, and by branding...
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16)..Trump as a King Cyrus figure, an imperfect secular leader who was being used by god as an agent (witting or not) of god's will. The evangelicals who got access to the Trump White House, & who were on Trump's evangelical advisory team were, for the most part (notes Taylor)..
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17)..the apostles & prophets of the NAR who - explains Taylor - heavily mobilized in 2020 to re-elect Trump. The NAR prophets - hundreds if not thousands of them - prophesied a Trump victory. When that didn't happen, what did the NAR leaders do?...
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18) They played a key role in engineering the "big lie" that the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump.* They organized *funding* for the black ops that manufactured fake evidence to back the "big lie". Thus, the question as to how many NAR members breached the Capitol...
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19)..on 1/6/2021 doesn't so much matter, b/c the NAR was behind the "big lie" that had incited the fury of the attackers who did. Now, we know that Roger Stone worked with the "Proud Boys" who were a key part (along with Oath Keepers) of the attack on the Capitol...
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20) The plan was to shut down the electoral vote count (that would validate & seal Biden's victory) and/or erupt into violence, even assassinations, that could serve as pretext for Trump to declare martial law. So, the Stone/NAR dynamic was similar to what happened back in 2000..
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21)..only writ large: a dramatically more ambitious undertaking, that very nearly succeeded. And during the coup attempt itself, who should be out on the lawn in front of the Capitol, directing prayer warfare, but Cindy Jacobs, with Dutch Sheets calling in by phone...
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22) As Dr. Matthew Taylor is laying out in his ongoing series on the NAR (what is it, how did it come to be, etc.), key figures from C. Peter Wagner's inner circle of NAR leaders were at the Capitol on January 6th or inciting angry crowds on the 5th: Cindy Jacobs, Che Ahn...
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23)..Lance Wallnau (who hand branded Trump as a "Cyrus) & others. These top NAR leaders didn't need to themselves participate in the 1/6/2021 attack; they had engineered the social forces that made it happen.
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24) 2000 : 2008 : 2021 - those are points in time that the NAR played a major role in *presidential* elections; the House, Senate & gubernatorial races with significant NAR influence are probably to numerous to detail. I've worked on all three categories of races, with varying...
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25)..levels of success, always with the NAR as a central focus - especially because in the years since I started working on it back in '08 with Palin, the NAR has arguably become the *dominant* Christian force in #Republican politics. To this day, few people know it even exists..
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26)..which is why you should listen to Dr. Matthew Taylor's new series on the NAR at Straight White American Jesus - for deep insight & factual accuracy concerning the NAR, it's unmatched & unprecedented. I don't always agree with Taylor's takes (I have some critiques) but...
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27)...I nonetheless find myself listening to the now 4 parts of his series repeatedly. Now, I am something of a scholar & nut concerning the NAR, but I can guarantee you that if you listen to just the first segment, you'll be hooked.
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