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I was warning about this back in 2005. Profile picture
I was warning about this back in 2005.
@brucewilson
I researched & wrote extensively on the New Apostolic Reformation movement from 2008-2014 & was the first to tie Sarah Palin to the NAR.
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Nov 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Who owns Bluesky? Turns out that between 25% and 50% of the capitalization of Blockchain Capital, LLC - which just invested $15 million in Bluesky - is owned by Brock Jeffrey Pierce, who has quite an interesting resume: @davetroyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pie… Though he has in the past worked with Steve Bannon, Brock Pierce is not exactly your standard far-right operative. They call him the "hippie king of crypto". His ventures frequently crash & burn but he always seems to emerge unscathed. Image
Oct 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Crashing the economy is how the crypto bros & tech utopian billionaires plan to launch, using the disaster, their corporate feudal fascist "network cities". It's also the Christian theocrat plan for how to kickstart local, church-based "biblical law". Trump now OPENLY says he'll give unprecedented control of the US economy to Elon Musk.

Do you think this is BIG NEWS? I hope so. I do.
Oct 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What did Biden really mean? -> look at his ACTIONS. He's given generous disaster relief to all America, both red states & blue states.

It was Trump who withheld hurricane disaster relief from Puerto Rico for 2 YEARS, prolly 'cause he truly thinks it's "floating garbage" Joe Biden's legislation has provided unprecedented investment in rebuilding American manufacturing, and the bulk of this is happening in Trump-supporting states. These were not the actions of man who thinks Trump supporters are "garbage", but who's president for all Americans.
Oct 28 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
In 2016, Donald Trump met with William S. Lind, author of the 2014 book "Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War", that depicts white Christian militias overthrowing the federal government & implementing mass deportation, from the US mainland, of Puerto Ricans. Image Lind popularized the now-ubiquitous conspiracy theory about "cultural Marxism" as a Marxist plot to undermine the United States with waves of immigration by destroying America's cultural coherence. The white Christian militias reestablish white supremacy by mass deportation and..
Oct 8 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Then, Republicans will come for the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Getting rid of all constitutional amendments beyond the 10th Amendment is part of the Christian Reconstructionist agenda which is fast becoming the GOP agenda. cnn.com/2017/12/10/pol… x.com/MollyJongFast/… "Trump bible" being bought for Oklahoma schools has a US Constitution w/out the constitutional amendments 11-27, inc. the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. Eliminating all amendments past the 10th Amendment has long been on Christian Reconstructionism's wish list.
Sep 30 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Yeah, I immediately said "Purge!" but I was wrong. This isn't "The Purge" at all. Trump was proposing a national campaign of extrajudicial executions by police.

This is the very essence of fascism. To get a sense of what groups would be targeted for such police murders, consider the broad range of groups vilified, over the past year, in right-wing rhetoric.
Sep 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The GOP's Russian compromise traces back to the late 1990s, w/the Russian/US paleocon creation of the "World Congress of Families" out of, in part, concern for white demographic decline. Within 5 years the newly formed NAR movement had entrained & proclaimed Putin God's agent... But the story goes back at least to the early 1990s. While covert US evangelical efforts to evangelize in Russia had been ongoing for decades, w/the collapse of the Soviet Union, far-right US missionaries flooded into Russia in 1992, under the banner of the "Co-Mission", to...
Sep 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Why should we care about this deceased "faith healer" from the 1940s & 1950s? The answer is that William Branham is the leading inspirational influence for the New Apostolic Reformation movement that's now the biggest Christian base of support for Trump & his radicalized (and racist) Republican Party... Branham's fake faith healing has recently been exposed through the efforts of walkaways from the right-wing charismatic Christian movement he inspired. Branham was allied w/the KKK & the white supremacist movement that became "Christian Identity". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian…
Aug 27 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
🧵In 2008, I shifted the presidential election by exposing how GOP candidate John McCain accepted an endorsement from Christians United For Israel head & founder John Hagee, whose 2005 sermon (broadcast globally) claimed Hitler was an agent sent by God, to persecute Europe's Jews These "Christian United for Israel" are to this day Israel's most uncritical US base of support, and they're still pumping out anti-Jewish propaganda. The most politically dominant MAGA pro-Trump Christian faction today is the NAR movement, which promotes the conspiracy theory...
Aug 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What would happen if Trump deported 15-20 million immigrants? The US farm industry would collapse w/out replacement labor. In 2016, Trump met w/William S. Lind, whose novel envisions forcing black families from cities and into neo-slavery sharecropping in the country. Back in 2016 I wrote, at length, about this Trump/Lind meeting. Much of Trumpism conforms to Lind's racist vision. 4thgenwar.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/tru…
Aug 2 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A county-level "Handmaid's Tale"

They wouldn't even need the feds -> in the event of a Trump/Vance victory in November, such local PDs & sheriffs depts. would work w/NAR churches & the New Apostolic Reformation's "City Elders" to regulate & control women's reproductive choices. TalkingPointsMemo's Josh Marshall calls JD Vance a "menstrual surveillance hawk". It's creepy and [insert "w" word here.] talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jd-vanc…
Jul 31 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
For years prior to founding his "Christians United for Israel" group, John Hagee had worked to conflate "bad Jews" with the antichrist, whom Hagee claimed would be a gay and "partially Jewish" as (claimed Hagee) was Hitler.

People thought Hagee was insane, but there was a method to his madness... In his writing & sermons, Hagee demonized liberal Jews - even suggesting they sacrificed their own children to Molech; "Good Jews" were the orthodox who moved to Israel; God had sent Hitler to chase Europe's Jews to the "holy land", the only place god wanted Jews to live.
Jul 22 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Hey @nytimes, one of the candidates is out of his depth, and it ain't Kamala.
Image Donald Trump isn't fit for the presidency in so many ways! For example, he's been pushing for a national missile defense system that can block Russian ICBMs. But he's ignorant of Nuclear Deterrence 101 -> building such a system would *guarantee* nuclear war.
Jul 20 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Starting in 1990 w/the "Promise Keepers", a charismatic Christian initiative sought to move white conservative Christians past their traditional racism. This effort made common cause with the elite Christianity of the National Prayer Breakfast set, which viewed racism as a... ...as an obstacle to Christian world conquest because, on a global level, most Christians are African, Asian, & Latin American. So *overt* racism had to be suppressed & structural racism ignored. "We are race-blind" became the mantra.
Jul 4 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
The head of Oklahoma's schools is working w/a group that wants to impose theonomy ("biblical law"). Republican politicians with national stature, such as Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, speak at City Elders events. In a sane world, Stitt's support for a plot to impose theocracy (biblical law, that is) would be not just national, but *international* news.
May 26 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In 2016, I alluded to the potential fascism threat of CSPOA sheriffs w/paramilitary "posses", which I thought would arise under Trump's presidency.

Per @jennycohn1, the elite US far right wargamed the scenario back in 2020. And now...

Image @jennycohn1 The wilder wing of the pro-Trump, pro-sedition right is clearly taken with such openly fascist thinking, as just demonstrated by Michael Flynn associate Ivan Raiklan:
May 1 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
We now have clear, strong evidence tying the New Apostolic Reformation movement to the inspiring & scripting of political violence, inc. incipient domestic terrorism. The story @TaylorMatthewD refers to notes former WA Rep. Matt Shea's tie to said network.

Shea is NAR.
@TaylorMatthewD A December 19, 2019 story from the Seattle Times reported on a Washington State House of Representatives report that concluded Matt Shea had engaged in domestic terrorism. Image
Apr 6 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
These uniformed public servants implicitly endorsing the fascist destruction of American democracy appear to be taxpayer-supported Michigan sheriffs. And... it seems that we have names. Mason County MI Sheriff, Kim Cole:

Feb 29 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Since time immemorial, one of the key functions of religion has been to consecrate secular power.

From the 2000 presidential election, when prayer warriors of the NAR sent many thousands of emails in support of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who had shut down... ...the vote recount in Florida, a key decision leading to the ascent of George W. Bush to the presidency (Harris was an acolyte of Dutch Sheets, who would donate heavily to her 2006 bid for a US Senate seat), New Apostolic Reformation leaders have sacralized the most extreme...
Feb 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We have arrived at a point in US history where a plurality of organizations on the American far right are now openly declaring their intent to overthrow American democracy and impose religious fascism.

A few examples: At the heart of this is the "2025 Project", which has a 900 page-plus theocratic action plan signed onto by 100-odd conservative groups & orgs, under leadership of the Heritage Foundation.

One of those groups is Turning Point USA, whose head Charlie Kirk just declared...
Jan 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ron Johnson has courted the New Apostolic Reformation movement, which aspires to destroy art, cultural objects, & scripture associated with competing faiths, and aims to impose biblical law. IN this 1/2/2024 thread, I included some data points establishing that imposing biblical law is a goal of the NAR movement: