Free Speech America has also encouraged anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and worked to support local candidates who sought to interfere with public health measures during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Free Speech America supported efforts to allow health care workers to interact with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic without wearing any protective face masks.
Teri Kohl is Co-Director of Free Speech America in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Free Speech America is a Christian Nationalist organization that promotes the idea that legal rights in the United States are bestowed by the Christian god rather than by the Constitution.
After Donald Trump lost the election of 2020, Free Speech America helped spread false conspiracy theories that the election was somehow stolen.
Free Speech America sponsored a lecture by Robert Owens, a lawyer for the extremist John Birch Society who was indicted on multiple charges of “deceitful and dishonest conduct” for taking money from clients without providing the legal services the money had paid for. Owens was eventually convicted of five counts of theft and one count of grand theft.
Robert Owens has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories, speaking about supposed Satanic Jewish plans to “poison” America. Owens describes his work as helping groups like Free Speech America elect “hardline” politicians who are “fully aware of what Globalism is all about, and are completely dedicated to routing out the Satanic aspects of Globalism that is absolutely poisoning every vestige of our country.”
In the John Birch Society, “globalist” is a code word for “Jewish”. Spreading conspiracies about a global Satanic Jewish conspiracy to poison Christian society is a tactic straight out of the playbook of the Third Reich.
The new book Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition provides an analysis of Christian Nationalism that is grounded in what Christian Nationalists actually say and do.
The book is based exclusively on information about the 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
You wouldn’t expect Iowa to be the home of Nazi propaganda, murder, suicide, terrorism, money laundering and business fraud, ancient prophecies of eternal torture, monsters and magic spells, faith healing and guns, but it is. Christian Nationalists also bring a growing appetite for global genocidal war to the Trump campaign.
We can’t afford to remain ignorant of what this group is up to.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Find out more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.