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Ziklag (organization)
Ziklag is a Christian dominionist organization named after the biblical city of Ziklag. Its membership is exclusively for individuals with a net worth over $25 million as well as faith-based interests. The organization's goal is to "take dominion over the Seven Mountains" of society. History Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ken Eldred created Ziklag after the 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency. It was registered in 2018 as a 501(c)(3) organization named USATransform. Until December 2022 its CEO was Rebecca Hagelin; she was replaced by interim CEO Julie Nimmons. Ziklag's revenue in 2022 was $12 million. Members The organization's membership is exclusively for individuals with a net worth of over $25 million as well as faith-based interests. It appears to have over 125 members. Lance Wallnau, a self-described Christian nationalist, is an advisor to and a force behind Ziklag. Wallnau is a prominent figure of the New Apostolic Reformation, of which he says he is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziklag
Ziklag () is the Bible, biblical name of a town in the Negev region in the southwest of what was the Kingdom of Judah. It was a provincial town in the Philistine kingdom of Gath (city), Gath when Achish was king. Its exact location has not been identified with any certainty. Identification At least 14 sites have been proposed as the location of Ziklag. At the end of the 19th century, both Elusa (Haluza), Haluza (by Wadi Asluj, south of Beersheba)Cheyne and Black, ''s:Encyclopaedia Biblica/Zereth Shahar-Zuzim#ZIKLAG, Encyclopedia Biblica'' and Khirbet Zuheiliqah (northwest of Beersheba and south-southeast of Gaza City) had been suggested as possible locations. Conder and Kitchener identified Khirbet Zuheiliqah as the location on the basis of ''Ziklag'' being a corruption of ''Zahaliku'', whence also ''Zuheiliqah''. The more recently proposed identifications for Ziklag are: *Albrecht Alt (1883–1956) proposed Tel Halif/Tell el-Khuweilifeh, just beside kibbutz Lahav, some northeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Defending Freedom
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, is an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group that works to expand Christian religious practices within public schools and in government. ADF is most known for its stance on outlawing abortion, opposing same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ rights, transgender rights, and anti-discrimination laws. ADF has played a role in at least 74 Supreme Court victories and directly represented 15 parties in Supreme Court wins. ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with branch offices in several locations including Washington, D.C., and New York. Its international subsidiary, Alliance Defending Freedom International, with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, operates in over 100 countries. ADF is one of the most organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the United States based on its budget, caseload, network of allied attorneys, and connections to significant members of the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Christian Political Organizations
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Prosperity Theology
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, seed-faith gospel, Faith movement, or Word-Faith movement) is a belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive scriptural confession, and giving to charitable and religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Material and especially financial success is seen as an evidence of divine grace or favor and blessings. Prosperity theology has been criticized by leaders from various Christian denominations, including within some Pentecostal and charismatic movements, who maintain that it is irresponsible, promotes idolatry, and is contrary to the Bible. Secular as well as Christian observers have also criticized some versions of the prosperity theology as exploitative of the poor. The practices of some preachers have attracted scandal and some have been ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProPublica
ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City. ProPublica's investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast. In some cases, reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story. ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations and has won several Pulitzer Prizes. In 2010, ProPublica became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize; the story chronicled the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina,''The Guardian'', April 13, 2010Pulitzer progress for non-profit newsProPublicaPulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial and it was published both in the ''New York Times Magazine'' Sheri Fink, ''New York Times Magazine'', August 25, 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Kirk
Charles James Kirk (born October 14, 1993) is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative political activist, author and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist media personality. With Bill Montgomery (activist), Bill Montgomery, he co-founded Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012, for which Kirk serves as executive director. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Turning Point Action, Turning Point Academy, and Turning Point Faith; president of Turning Point Endowment; and a member of the Council for National Policy. Kirk was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights, Illinois, Arlington Heights and Prospect Heights, Illinois. In high school, Kirk actively engaged in politics, supporting Mark Kirk's United States Senate, U.S. Senate campaign and campaigning against a price increase in his school's cafeteria. He briefly attended Harper College before dropping out to pursue political activism full-time, influenced by Tea Party movement, Tea Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for Conservatism in the United States, conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses. It was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery (activist), Bill Montgomery. TPUSA's affiliate groups include Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action and TPUSA Faith. TPUSA has been described as the fastest growing organization of campus chapters in America, and according to ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', is the dominant force in campus conservatism. In 2016, the organization launched Professor Watchlist, a website that lists academic staff that according to TPUSA "discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom". TPUSA has attempted to influence student government elections in an effort to "combat Modern liberalism in the United States, liberalism on college and university campuses". In 2021, TPUSA started its School Board W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EagleAI
EagleAI NETwork (pronounced "Eagle Eye") is an electoral roll management system that conservative activists use to file mass challenges to voter registration in the United States. It is considered an alternative to the bipartisan, non-profit Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) which is run by professional election administrators. Critics describe EagleAI as a way for private citizens to challenge voter registrations using unreliable data that highlights issues that professional election workers would know to dismiss, disrupting the overall process instead of improving it. NBC News describes the tool as "voter fraud vigilantism".Timm, Jane C. (August 17, 2023)"Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool". NBC News. Retrieved August 13, 2024. Cleta Mitchell, former legal advisor to Donald Trump and founder of the Election Integrity Network, is associated with the nationwide attempt to rollout EagleAI as a replacement for ERIC. Unlike ERIC, EagleAI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Meadows
Mark Randall Meadows (born July 28, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021 under the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. During his legislative tenure, Meadows chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of Donald Trump's closest allies in the House of Representatives before his appointment as chief of staff. A Tea Party Republican, Meadows was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus. During his time in Congress, he was one of the most conservative Republican lawmakers and played an important part of the United States federal government shutdown of 2013. He also sought to remove John Boehner as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Meadows resigned from Congress on March 31, 2020, to become White House chief of staff. As chief of staff, he played an influe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Partnership Institute
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is a United States-based conservative 501(c)(3) political education and advocacy nonprofit organization. The stated purpose of CPI is the professional development of conservative staffers and elected officials. Under the leadership of Mark Meadows, since 2017 the nonprofit has grown sixfold to become the "nerve center" of the Make America Great Again movement, bolstering notable figures such as U.S. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, according to ''The Washington Post''. In 2024, journalist Jonathan Blitzer in ''The New Yorker'' called it a well-financed network of about two dozen right-wing organizations, the next Trump Administration "in waiting", and a "base of operations" for conservatives who not only target Democrats but other Republicans who they believe to be insufficiently conservative. According to one supporter, the staff of the organization have "thought deeply about what’s needed to create the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleta Mitchell
Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell ( Deatherage; born September 16, 1950) is an American lawyer, former politician, and Republican elections activist. Elected in 1976, Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984, representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. In 1996, she registered as a Republican. Since then, she has worked as a Republican lawyer and activist focused on elections, asserting, without evidence, that Democrats win elections only by cheating. After Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 presidential election, Mitchell aided Donald Trump in his Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, efforts to overturn the election results and pressure election officials to "find" sufficient votes for him to win. After participating in a Trump–Raffensperger scandal, telephone call in which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parental Rights Movement
The parental rights movement is a Social conservatism, socially conservative political movement aimed at restricting schools' ability to teach or practice certain viewpoints on gender, sexuality, and Race (human categorization), race without parental consent. One of the aims of the movement is to prevent schools from using the Preferred gender pronoun, preferred pronouns or chosen names of transgender and Non-binary gender, non-binary youth without disclosing to, or gaining permission from parents. More broadly, it aims to prevent the teaching of LGBT issues in public schools without parents' agreement. Additionally, the parental rights movement has sought to increase parents' control over how children are taught about sexuality and race relations. The parental rights movement was brought to mainstream attention with the passage of the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, Parental Rights in Education Act in Florida, colloquially known as the ''Don't Say Gay'' law, by Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
