This 2/22/21 piece by @anelson is a crucial historical document. It does what ⁦@January6thCmte⁩ failed to do: detail Christian Right involvement in Stop the Steal. The Council for National policy (CNP) is the Christian Right’s umbrella group. 1/ washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
The Council for National Policy’s status as an umbrella group means that the leaders of many (maybe most) other prominent Christian Right organizations are members. The Christofascist assault on America is coordinated. #Christofascism #CNP 2/ Image
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a massive underreported Christian dominionist movement that was heavily involved in Stop the Steal & Jan 6 too. I haven’t yet researched whether the NAR’s top leaders (Wallnau, Garlow, Sheets, Jacobs, Barton) belong to the CNP. 3/
4/ But there are organizations to which these NAR have belonged, such as United in Purpose (UIP), whose leaders belong to the CNP. UIP was founded by CNP member Bill Dallas. NAR leader Jim Garlow has sat on the board of a UIP entity.
5/ I can’t get the link to my United in Purpose article to open. I’ll look into it. But this tweet links to it.

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