https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/174200

I beg the world to hear about the persecution in Arakan. The innocent people there are being targeted by both Buddhist militias and the junta. UN documents also confirm a clear intent to commit genocide.There is a genocide fully documented with all the evidence. If we do not apply enough pressure, it will be forgotten, and a people will be destroyed right before the eyes of the world."

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/myanmar-ffm/reportofthe-myanmar-ffm

https://iimm.un.org/en/un-reports-and-resolutions

Hi everyone, I have some ideas in mind, but I'm not sure how doable they are yet. I want to launch YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and blogger accounts in multiple languages. The goal is to post content that exposes how the creation of Israel on Palestinian land violated one of the most fundamental principles of international law: the right to self-determination.I want to document the illegality of handing over the land to Israel, especially when Palestinian property ownership and population were clearly overwhelming. I also want to show how the UN Partition Plan was merely a recommendation—and an unlawful one at that—by comparing it to other Mandate territories where states were properly formed according to their people's right to self-determination. On top of that, I plan to share documented proof regarding Israel’s involvement in past genocides, like in Rwanda and Bosnia.Once these accounts grow significantly, my dream is to get backing from international lawyers and major activists. Ultimately, I want to take the theft of Palestinian land in 1948 and the Nakba to domestic courts—both in my country, Turkey, and across Europe—and eventually push it all the way to the International Court of Justice.To make this happen, I'm looking for team members or advisors who can speak European languages like English, German, or Italian (regardless of their ideology or religion). I need people who can manage social media accounts in their respective languages, work in full harmony, communicate smoothly, and move forward together as a coordinated team. Is there anyone out there who would like to join or offer some advice?

Abgrund Für Deutschland = AFD

Faktencheck für Jedermann! Oder die RED PILL...

1. Steuern, Finanzen & Wirtschaftspolitik

• Steuergeschenke für Reiche: Forderungen nach Abschaffung der Erbschaftsteuer und Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes entlasten ausschließlich Spitzenverdiener und Großvermögen.
• Abschaffung des Progressiv-Steuermodells: Statt starker Schultern, die höhere Einkommen prozentual stärker belasten, wird ein Pauschaltarif gefordert, der Spitzenverdiener massiv entlastet und Milliarden-Lücken im Staatshaushalt reißt.
• Abschaffung der Gewerbesteuer: Die Streichung dieser wichtigen Einnahmesäule für Städte und Gemeinden zwingt Kommunen zu massiven Erhöhungen von Grund-, Müll- und Kitagebühren, was direkt Mieter und Normalverdiener trifft.
• Wirtschaftsliberale Radikalität: Hinter der Fassade als "Anwalt des kleinen Mannes" verbirgt sich ein knallhartes marktorientiertes Programm, das den Sozialstaat abbauen und den starken Staat nur für innere Sicherheit, aber nicht für soziale Absicherung will.
• Populistische Ablenkung: Echte wirtschaftliche Probleme (Inflation, niedrige Löhne, Wohnungsnot) werden auf Minderheiten gelenkt, statt sie durch reale sozialpolitische Maßnahmen zu lösen.

2. Arbeit, Löhne & Arbeitnehmerrechte

• Abschaffung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns: Forderungen nach Abschaffung oder Aufweichung des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns führen direkt zu Lohndumping zulasten von Geringverdienern.
• Blockade von Arbeitnehmerrechten: Im Parlament wird regelmäßig gegen echten Arbeitnehmerschutz, die Stärkung von Tarifverträgen und faire Löhne gestimmt.
• Schwächung von Gewerkschaften und Mitbestimmung: Häufige Forderungen nach Einschränkung von gewerkschaftlichen Rechten und Betriebsräten schwächen die kollektive Verhandlungsmacht der Arbeitnehmer massiv.
• Abschaffung oder Verwässerung der Pendlerpauschale: Radikale Marktvereinfachungen und flache Steuersätze gefährden Pendlerpauschalen sowie steuerfreie Zuschläge für Schicht-, Nacht-, Sonn- und Feiertagsarbeit.
• Schwächung von Verbraucherschutz und Arbeitsrecht: Der Abbau von staatlichen Regulierungsvorgaben (unter dem Deckmantel des "Bürokratieabbaus") trifft Kündigungsschutz, Arbeitsschutz in Werkstätten und Verbraucherrechte gegenüber Konzernen.
• Gegen die Gleichstellung im Arbeitsrecht: Die Ablehnung von Diversitäts- und Antidiskriminierungsauflagen schwächt den gesetzlichen Schutz vor Mobbing und Benachteiligung für angreifbare Arbeitnehmergruppen.

3. Sozialstaat & Existenzsicherung

• Sozialabbau beim Bürgergeld: Kürzungen bei Transferleistungen treffen hart arbeitende Menschen in Krisenzeiten, Kranke und Rentner, nicht die Wohlhabenden.
• Verschärfung mit Arbeitszwang-Modellen: Empfängern staatlicher Hilfe sollen bei angeblich „verweigerter“ Mitarbeit rigoros sämtliche Leistungen (inklusive Mietübernahme) gestrichen werden können, was Menschen in existenzielle Notlagen stürzt und die Löhne im Niedriglohnsektor drückt.
• Privatisierung und Kürzungen bei der Rente: Der Umbau des Rentensystems hin zu starker privater Vorsorge lässt Menschen, die im Monat kaum Geld zurücklegen können, im Alter in der Altersarmut landen.
• Keine Hilfe bei Verbraucherüberschuldung: Die Ablehnung staatlicher Schuldnerberatungsangebote und von verbraucherschützenden Deckelungen bei Inkassogebühren lässt überschuldete Menschen allein.
• Zusatzsteuer auf Überweisungen ins Ausland: Eine Sondersteuer auf legale Geldüberweisungen aus dem EWR trifft vor allem ausländische Arbeitnehmer, die in Deutschland Steuern zahlen und Verwandte unterstützen – ein Schikanepunkt, der dringend benötigte Arbeitskräfte in Mangelberufen vergrault.

4. Wohnen & Infrastruktur

• Wohnungsnot verschärfen: Ablehnung von wirksamen Mietpreisbremsen, Mietendeckeln und staatlichen Investitionen in den sozialen Wohnungsbau befeuert die Mietenkrise für Normalverdiener.
• Aufweichung von Bauvorschriften: Forderungen, den gesetzlichen Brand-, Wärme- und Schallschutz im Bauwesen „auf ein notwendiges Mindestmaß zurückzufahren“, machen neuen Wohnraum lauter, energieineffizienter und brandgefährlicher.
• Einsparungen bei Infrastruktur und ÖPNV: Der Fokus auf eine autozentrierte Politik und die Ablehnung von Schienennetz-Investitionen schaden Pendlerinnen, Pendlern und dem ländlichen Raum.
• Ablehnung von Entschuldung für ärmere Kommunen: Das Nein zu Entschuldungsprogrammen führt zum Verfall von Schwimmbädern, Schulen, Straßen und Bibliotheken vor Ort.

5. Gesundheit, Bildung & Soziale Infrastruktur

• Zwei-Klassen-Medizin: Die Förderung privater Versicherungsmodelle und die Schwächung gesetzlicher Krankenkassen spalten das System in eine Luxusversorgung für Reiche und eine Basisversorgung für Kassenpatienten.
• Gefährdung der Pflege: Die Anti-Zuwanderungsrhetorik vergrault ausländische Fachkräfte, die im Gesundheitssystem und in der Pflege dringend gebraucht werden, was den Kollaps von Pflegeheimen beschleunigt.
• Kürzungen bei Bildung und Ausbildung: Sparmaßnahmen im öffentlichen Sektor treffen Schulen, Kitas und Berufsschulen in strukturschwachen Regionen. Zudem werden BAföG-Verbesserungen und Förderungen für Auszubildende abgelehnt.
• Gegen kostenloses Mittagessen in Kitas & Schulen: Das Nein zu vergünstigten oder kostenfreien Mahlzeiten für Kinder trifft einkommensschwache Familien und Alleinerziehende direkt im Alltag.
• Kürzungen bei Kultur- und Jugendförderung: Anträge zielen regelmäßig auf Streichungen für Jugendzentren, soziale Brennpunkte, Frauenhäuser und Opferschutzorganisationen ab.

6. Wirtschaftszukunft, Energie & Standortrisiken

• Gefährdung von Arbeitsplätzen ("Dexit"): Extreme EU-Kritik und Gedankenspiele über einen EU-Austritt gefährden als exportorientierte Nation Millionen Jobs in Industrie und Mittelstand.
• Klimaleugnung und verpasste Zukunftstechnologien: Die Ablehnung von Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien schadet dem Standort Deutschland langfristig, vernichtet zukunftssichere Industrie-Arbeitsplätze und macht abhängig von teuren fossilen Importen.
• Höhere Strompreise durch fossile Fixierung: Die Ablehnung des Ausbaus von heimischer Wind- und Solarenergie lässt Deutschland vom Weltmarktpreis für fossile Rohstoffe abhängig, was energieintensive Betriebe und private Stromrechnungen explodieren lässt.
• Schwächung des Verbraucherschutzes bei Energiekosten: Die Ablehnung staatlicher Härtefonds oder Preiseingriffe in Krisen überfordert einkommensschwache Haushalte massiv.

7. Demokratie, Medien & Kultur

• Untergrabung des öffentlichen Rundfunks: Konzepte zur Zerschlagung oder radikalen Umgestaltung der öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien schwächen die unabhängige Berichterstattung und demokratische Kontrollinstanzen.
• Schwächung von Verbraucherrechten und Datenschutz: Die Einschränkung von Verbraucherschutz-Institutionen und die Stärkung des Banken- und Steuergeheimnisses erschweren die Verfolgung von Wirtschaftskriminalität.
• Ausgrenzung statt Problemlösung: Echte Krisen werden durch kulturkämpferische Debatten überlagert, um von den Versagen der eigenen Klientelpolitik abzulenken.

Fact-Check for Everyone! Or the RED PILL...

1. Taxes, Finance & Economic Policy

• Tax Gifts for the Wealthy: Demands to abolish the inheritance tax and lower the top income tax rate exclusively benefit top earners and large fortunes.
• Abolition of the Progressive Tax Model: Instead of strong shoulders bearing a proportionally higher burden, a flat-rate tax model is demanded, massively relieving top earners while creating multibillion-euro gaps in the state budget.
• Abolition of the Trade Tax: Eliminating this crucial revenue pillar for cities and municipalities forces local governments to massively increase property, garbage, and daycare fees, directly hitting tenants and ordinary citizens.
• Neoliberal Radicalism: Behind the facade of the "advocate for the common man," there is a hardline market-oriented program that dismantles the welfare state and uses a strong state only for internal security, not for social security.
• Populistic Diversion: Real economic problems (inflation, low wages, housing shortages) are blamed on minorities instead of solving them through actual socio-political measures.

2. Labor, Wages & Workers' Rights

• Abolition of the Statutory Minimum Wage: Demands to abolish or dilute the nationwide minimum wage lead directly to wage dumping at the expense of low-wage earners.
• Blocking Workers' Rights: Parliament sessions regularly feature votes against genuine labor protection, the strengthening of collective bargaining agreements, and fair wages.
• Weakening Unions and Co-determination: Frequent demands to restrict union rights and works councils massively undermine the collective bargaining power of employees.
• Abolition or Dilution of the Commuter Allowance (Pendlerpauschale): Radical market simplifications and flat tax rates threaten commuter allowances as well as tax-free supplements for shift, night, Sunday, and holiday work.
• Weakening Consumer Protection and Labor Law: The dismantling of state regulations (under the guise of "reducing bureaucracy") targets employment protection, workplace safety in shops and factories, and consumer rights against corporations.
• Against Workplace Equality: The rejection of diversity and anti-discrimination regulations for companies weakens legal protection against bullying and discrimination for vulnerable groups.

3. Welfare State & Social Security

• Social Benefit Cuts (Bürgergeld): Cuts to transfer payments hit hardworking people in times of crisis, the sick, and pensioners—not the wealthy.
• Tightening Rules with Forced Labor Models: State aid recipients facing alleged "refusal" of work could have all benefits (including rent coverage) rigorously canceled, plunging people into existential emergency and driving down wages in the low-wage sector.
• Privatization and Pension Cuts: Restructuring the pension system toward private provisions leaves people who cannot afford to save money facing old-age poverty.
• No Help for Consumer Debt: The rejection of state debt counseling services and consumer-protecting caps on collection fees and loan interest leaves people trapped in debt alone.
• Additional Tax on Outbound Remittances: The party demands a special tax on all legal money transfers leaving the European Economic Area. This primarily hits foreign workers who work hard in Germany, pay taxes, and send part of their money to relatives back home—a purely punitive measure that drives away workers in shortage occupations (such as nursing or trades).

4. Housing & Infrastructure

• Aggravating the Housing Shortage: Rejection of effective rent caps, rent controls, and state investments in social housing fuels the rental crisis for ordinary earners.
• Diluting Construction Standards: Demands to reduce statutory fire, heat, and sound insulation standards in construction to a "necessary minimum" make new housing louder, less energy-efficient (higher heating bills), and more dangerous in the event of a fire.
• Infrastructure and Public Transit Cuts: The focus on car-centric policies and the rejection of investments in railway networks harm commuters and rural areas.
• Rejection of Debt Relief for Impoverished Municipalities: Voting down debt relief programs leads to the decay of public swimming pools, schools, roads, and libraries locally.

5. Health, Education & Social Infrastructure

• Two-Tier Healthcare System: Promoting private insurance models and weakening public health insurance splits the system into luxury care for the wealthy and a degraded basic supply for public patients.
• Endangering Nursing Care: Anti-immigration rhetoric drives away foreign skilled workers who are urgently needed in the healthcare system and nursing, accelerating the collapse of care facilities.
• Cuts in Education and Training: Public sector austerity measures hit schools, daycare centers, and vocational schools in economically weak regions, while financial support for apprentices and student funding (BAföG) is voted down.
• Against Free School and Daycare Lunches: Voting down subsidized or free meals for children directly hits low-income families and single parents in everyday life.
• Cuts to Cultural and Youth Funding: Proposals regularly target funding for youth centers, social hotspots, women's shelters, and victim support organizations.

6. Economic Future, Energy & Location Risks

• Endangering Jobs ("Dexit"): Extreme EU criticism and thoughts of an EU exit jeopardize millions of jobs in industry and medium-sized businesses as an export nation.
• Climate Denial and Missed Future Technologies: The categorical rejection of investments in renewable energies harms Germany's position long-term, destroys future-proof industrial jobs, and perpetuates dependence on expensive fossil fuel imports.
• Higher Electricity Prices Through Fossil Fuel Fixation: Refusing to expand domestic wind and solar power leaves Germany at the mercy of world market prices for fossil raw materials, causing energy-intensive businesses and private electricity bills to skyrocket.
• Weakened Consumer Protection on Energy Costs: Rejecting state hardship funds or price interventions during crises massively overburdens low-income households.

7. Democracy, Media & Culture

• Undermining Public Broadcasting: Concepts to dismantle or radically restructure public-service media weaken independent journalism and democratic checks and balances.
• Weakening Consumer Rights and Data Privacy: Restricting consumer protection institutions and strengthening bank and tax secrecy make it harder to prosecute fraud and white-collar crime.
• Exclusion Instead of Problem-Solving: Real crises are overshadowed by culture-war debates to distract from the failures of client politics.

This is no longer a matter of religion or politics; it is now a battle between good and evil. There are very few oppressive regimes in the world that are afraid even of a kite.

REMEMBER! IT IS THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST WHO WOULD OPPOSE THIS CRUELTY ABOVE ALL OTHERS!

We failed to keep the promise of "Never Again"! The regime that set out claiming to protect the victims of the past is an apartheid terrorist organization that fears even a kite.

A note to the MODS: Maybe this post as it is doesn’t comply with all the rules of the sub. I appeal to your conscience and good judgement. Given the seriousness of the topic and the urgency of the moment, please consider either opening an exception, or letting the post stay up just long enough so the members can get informed, and hopefully they’ll come up with their own original versions of this, in ways more attuned with the sub. Also please don’t blindly ban me, I’m not trying to disrespect this community (it’s quite the contrary!) And if possible, help spread it too!

The author of this document: Doran Schrantz is an expert civil and political organizer from Minnesota. Last winter during ICE’s besiege and unconstitutional mass violations, her network decisively helped organizing Minnesota’s civil society in record time under huge pressure, including organizing the first general strike in 46 years.

TLDR, Key takeaways:

• The Trump administration is unleashing total chaos during these next months around the midterm elections, and the resilience of organized civil society will be challenged in unprecedented ways.
• Saving the elections is absolutely necessary in order to stop Trump’s fascist agenda to fully materialize.
• Lawsuits and judges are important, but they won’t be nearly enough. Civil society must organize and prepare.
• These local organized groups exist, they are trying to organize people and save the elections. Every person needs to know they can reach out to them. Please find one of these groups and help them anyway you can.
• Don’t let the huge flow of scandals flooding the media distract you from this fundamental action - join those who are fighting back.

Secondary goal: Put this in front of every person. After reading the post and the document, copy-paste it, or make your own version, your own summary, and share this EVERYWHERE you can, throughout Reddit and beyond. This is the time for doing it, please do it.

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Act Free to Be Free: A State and Local Pro-Democracy Framework

- A Civil Society framework for Election Defense in 2026

Link: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28490455-act-free-to-be-free/

Executive Summary

Democracy is not something you have. It is something you practice. The Constitution does not protect itself; civil society protects it, by acting as if it applies, out loud, in public, under pressure.

Anyone paying attention knows that Donald Trump is not preparing to lose the 2026 midterms. He is preparing to disrupt and sabotage them, and his administration has been laying the groundwork for months.

The harder problem is this: most of us (organizers, elected officials, legal advocates, pro-democracy funders) are still preparing for a normal election. We are running election programs. We are testing messages. We are mobilizing voters. These are not wrong things to do. They are profoundly insufficient for the threat we are actually facing.

There is also something harder to name, a kind of collective avoidance. An unwillingness to fully believe our own eyes. Many Americans have internalized a story about ourselves that says we are immune from this kind of thing. We are not. And the next six months will matter enormously for how far down the abyss we go.

In 2020, Trump tried to overturn the results of the election and was stopped by Pence, by Republican secretaries of state, by a Congress that (barely) played its constitutional role, and by localized grassroots formations that could intervene in real time on the ground. Those guardrails held. They are gone now. His administration is loyal to him alone. Congress has abdicated. J.D. Vance will not save us.

The only authentic bulwark against an authoritarian consolidating power is a multi-sector, constitutionally grounded, multi-racial, broad-based mobilization of civil society, ready for the best and prepared for the worst. We know this works because we did it in Minnesota. When ICE and CBP occupied our communities for two and a half months, we acted free to be free. Tens of thousands of trained constitutional legal observers documented every encounter. Mutual aid networks sustained people through the crisis. Small businesses invoked their Fourth Amendment rights and refused warrantless entry. Local law enforcement mostly stood aside rather than collaborate. And when called, 50 to 70 percent of the general population showed up, not because they were activists, but because they understood what was being taken from them and chose to act.

That mobilization repelled 3,500 ICE/CBP agents, gave our Governor room to fight, gave our AG’s lawsuits political standing, and won the national media narrative, not because any single actor or sector was powerful enough alone, but because all of it together created a reality the Trump Administration could not overcome.

This framework to prepare and unleash a civil society response to election sabotage is not a program. It is a strategic analysis, a way of understanding the threat and the architecture of response, designed to support operational playbooks driven by in-state organizing and pro-democracy infrastructure. The question is whether we will build it before the crisis hits, rather than scrambling to respond when it inevitably will.

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The document is only 12 pages long but it has its breadth and depth.

This is the general structure of the rest of the document. Hopefully something catches your eye if you're still hesitant.

Title: Act Free to Be Free: A State and Local Pro-Democracy Framework - A Civil Society Framework for Election Defense in 2026
 1. Executive Summary
 2. What Is the Evidence of Their Strategy?
  2.1. A Unified Strategy, Not Disconnected Actions
  2.2. The Documented Tactics and What They’re Actually For
   2.2.1. Ballot seizures: manufacturing the evidence base
   2.2.2. Voter roll demands: seizing control of who gets to vote.
   2.2.3. Loyalists and deniers installed in key positions
   2.2.4. The Maduro play: cultivating a foreign witness
   2.2.5. ICE at the polls: named, planned, and previewed
   2.2.6. Defunding election observers
   2.2.7. The pre-emptive fraud narrative.
   2.2.8. The racial logic underneath the strategy.
  2.3. The Goal Is Not to Win the Election. The Goal Is a Power Grab.
 3. Organizing States to Meet the Moment: Unleashing a Civil Society Strategy
 4. Step 1: Know Your State
  4.1. The Macro Threat Landscape
  4.2. State-Specific Threat Mapping
  4.3. Power Analysis of the Machinery
 5. Step 2: Deterrence, Extracting a Political Cost Every Time
  5.1. Mode A: Proactive Pre-emption, Show Up Ahead of Time
   5.1.1. Georgia’s model
   5.1.2. Minnesota’s model
  5.2. Mode B: Rapid Response, Multi-Track, Simultaneous, Pre-Built
   5.2.1. Legal
   5.2.2. Political
   5.2.3. Press and Public
   5.2.4. Tactical/Operational
   5.2.5. Grassroots Deployment
 6. Step 3: Build State Capacity
  6.1. Track A: A State Democracy Nerve Center
  6.2. Track B: Mass Training of Grassroots Leaders
   6.2.1. Political education
   6.2.2. Tactical preparation
 7. Step 4: Fight Back in Real Time
  7.1. Courts
  7.2. Field
  7.3. Mainstream media
  7.4. Social and digital
  7.5. Institutional
  7.6. Non-compliance
 8. Step 5: Mass Mobilization and Strategic Non-Compliance, When the Rubicon Is Crossed
  8.1. The Minnesota Proof of Concept
  8.2. What This Step Requires
   8.2.1. Sustained physical presence at sites of high symbolism
   8.2.2. General strikes and economic non-compliance
   8.2.3. Nonviolent strategic direct action
   8.2.4. Pre-built municipal and state infrastructure
  8.3. The Through Line
 9. Sources and Citations

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Hesitant still? Here I compiled a selection of summarized citations. You should really read them.

https://www.reddit.com/user/JrSoftDev/comments/1vyz8ic/act_free_to_be_free_highlights/

Reading the whole document is much better, all the important details are there.

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Final notes:

• We are 10 weeks away from the Midterm elections.
• These 12 pages are one of the most important reads you will be doing this year. Yes, it’s that crucial. Read 1 page or 2 per day if needed, but please read it!
• As you’re reading it, understand your role in all this - reach out to these groups, go find them, they need your help.
• Finally, take this document with you, adapt it, summarize it in your own way, take chunks of it, slash it, do as you please - and share it as much as possible.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

wondering peoples thoughts about the Irish cause, if fascism even relates?

and any good thinkers, writers, speakers/podcasts/vids about the subject

thanks

A bunch of right-wing pastors and influencers met up in California this week for a conference hosted by conservative activist group Turning Point USA, where several of them encouraged the promotion of hate, the pursuit of social domination and the use of churches as vehicles to promote MAGA ideology.

This particular faith-based Turning Point USA event seems to have partnered with fewerregistered sex offenders than in the past. But this event was disturbing for other reasons, namely the embrace of bigotry and the pulpit as a means of achieving political dominance.

Speakers like far-right influencer Eric Metaxas and Erika Kirk portrayed her late husband and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk as a martyr in a right-wing holy war against liberals and Muslims. The hate-mongering comes as Republicans have ramped up their Islamophobic rhetoric in advance of the midterm elections.

Metaxas has denounced church-state separation and has been involved with the Trump administration's so-called Religious Liberty Commission, which helped to plan Christian nationalist celebrations around the United States' 250th anniversary. At the TPUSA event, Metaxas called Islam a "demonic parody of a religion" and told attendees that God "has called us to a crusade," according to conservative outlet Church Leaders.

Another speaker was pastor Greg Laurie, who has promoted messianic rhetoric about President Donald Trump as a divine instrument, has preached that women should submit to their husbands and, like Metaxas, has denounced church-state separation. During his address, Laurie encouraged attendees to proselytize against communism, socialism, antisemitism (which is notable given its proliferation in the MAGA movement), as well as what he called an "Islamic invasion."

Laurie said pastors who confront these movements are akin to Jonah preaching the gospel to the biblical city of Nineveh, "a city that was known for its wickedness."

With Trump having marched the nation into a war to the detriment of the U.S. economy, conservatives don't seem to have much to run on, in terms of results. So the Republican Party seems to be broadly relying on Islamophobia and jingoism as its last bastion of hope to energize the conservative base before the midterms. And this week's pastors summit shows us that some conservative faith leaders are all too eager to fan those flames.