
How the Christian right helped foment insurrection
Christian-right activists inside and outside of government promoted the election fraud lie and claimed God told them to “let the church roar.”
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JOIN TODAY!Sarah Posner is the author of Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump, and a reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, VICE, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, HuffPost, and Talking Points Memo. Her coverage and analysis of politics and religion has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Moment, Politico, and many other outlets. Her story “How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream,” co-authored with David Neiwert, and published before the 2016 election, won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award.
Christian-right activists inside and outside of government promoted the election fraud lie and claimed God told them to “let the church roar.”
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