The Trump for President campaign claims that Charles Erickson is a pastor in Cherokee, Iowa…
…but there is no record anywhere online of any pastor named Charles Erickson living in Cherokee County, Iowa.
There is a Facebook profile for a man named Charles Erickson, but it only shows three paintings he uploaded, and mentions nothing about religion. This profile has no friends, and describes no professional status at all.
Charles Erickson appears to be married to Debra Erickson, who the 2024 Trump campaign claims is a “ministry leader”, even though there’s no record we can find of her leading any ministry.
A new book, Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, provides information about all 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
As “a case study in the violent extremism that has come to define the presidential election of 2024,” the book examines the extremist Christian Nationalist ideology in grounded detail about the beliefs and actions of actual Christian Nationalists that is lacking from other, more theoretical, books on Christian Nationalism.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates the law
Let’s learn more about the radical Christian Nationalists who are members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.