In 2018, when Ginny Caligiuri ran as a candidate for U.S. Congress, she failed to gather enough legitimate petition signatures to appear on the Republican ballot. In spite of her organizational failure, she continued to promote herself as a write-in candidate. Caligiuri got only 20% of the Republican vote.
Ginny Caliguri is listed by the 2024 Trump for President campaign as a “ministry leader” in Clarke County, Iowa…
…but she is in fact a failed politician who campaigned for US Congress in 2018 but failed to earn a place on the Republican primary ballot.
Ginny Caligiuri’s Facebook page lists her as a “political candidate”, not as a ministry leader.
Caligiuri is a retired bank vice president and small business owner.
Caligiuri has never led a church or other religious group. She has, however, been an activist for extremist Christian Nationalist political groups. She was Iowa director for the Congressional Prayer Caucus, and also was a member of the National Governor's Prayer Team and the U.S. National Prayer Council.
Ginny Caligiuri has repeatedly promoted the idea of overthrowing traditional American democracy, replacing it with a Christian Nationalist theocracy.
In 2018, she told Iowa journalist Jason Parrot she would “work to get our nation turned back towards biblical foundations” and said, “I have a biblical foundation so everything that I vote on is going to go through my biblical filter and that is how I am going to answer things.”
She wrote to her supporters: “Let’s make America great again by putting God back into first place!”
The Republicans voters of her congressional district in Iowa roundly rejected her Christian Nationalist political agenda. 80% of them voted against Caligiuri.
The “small business” that Caligiuri ran was Kingdom Builder Enterprises, which Caliurgi described as “A multi-faceted organization that brings change to society by applying biblical principles. Partnering with apostolic, prophetic, intercessory prayer that invades the 7 mountain structure and opens up people groups, businesses, cities, states, and nations to reach their potential and their destiny.”
The 7 Mountain Mandate is a part of the Christian Nationalist New Apostolic Reformation ideology. The New Apostolic Reformation declares that Christianity must take control over all aspects of society, ranging from the national government to people’s private lives. Caligiuri wrote that Kingdom Builder Enterprises would “Shift the spiritual atmosphere over Iowa and our nation through apostolic prophetic intercession and prayer, moving individuals, businesses, cities, states, and nations in the mountains of Family, Education, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, Business, and Religion into their kingdom purpose and destiny.”
Kingdom Builder Enterprises appears to have been a short-term effort that has gone out of business.
Many people have a difficult time understanding why some Christians are such fervent devotees of Donald Trump. To grasp what motivates Trump Christians, it’s essential to look at what they actually say and do.
In the new book Donald Trump’s Army of God, authors Clifford and Anise Cook provide a case study of Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
Instead of speculating, they looked at the evidence available to the public, and found murder, terrorism, a lust for religious war, fraud, corruption, bigotry, demons and Nazi propaganda surfing through the minds of Donald Trump’s Christian supporters in Iowa.
It’s a bizarre realm of faith-based fascism, but we can’t just dismiss it. In 2024, more than ever, we need to take this strange movement seriously.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.