According to her LinkedIn profile, Tonya Dorland has been a nursing aide since 2009. There is nothing in her professional record indicating any job that has had anything to do with religion.
On Dorland’s Pinterest profile, she describes herself as “a member of Community of Christ Church”, not as a church leader. According to the Chamber of Commerce, Noel Sherer is the leader of that church, not Tonya Dorland. Sherer claims the positions of President and Financial Officer of the church.
There is no indication that Tonya Dorland has done anything to make her stand out as a genuine ministry leader.
So, why has Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign claimed placed Tonya Dorland in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition? Did the Trump campaign even bother to check Dorland’s identity, or did Donald Trump simply want another name to make his list of religious supporters look more impressive?
The 2024 Trump for President campaign lists Tonya Dorland as a “ministry leader” in Harrison County, Iowa…
…but there is no evidence online of anyone named Tonya Dorland leading any ministry.
Tonya Dorland is a nursing assistant and medication aide who works at CHI Health in Omaha, Nebraska, but lives across the border in Woodbine, Iowa. Woodbine is in Harrison County.
Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a new book about the alarming truth of militant Christian Nationalism hidden behind the innocuous label of faith in Iowa politics.
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, grounded in details about the beliefs and actions of 317 actual Christian Nationalists who are working to undermine democracy across the state of Iowa.
The radicalization of the Iowa Christians profiled in this book enables us to understand the growing toxic influence of Christian Nationalism all across the USA.
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.