Posted on 05/27/2026 6:17:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The numbers don’t lie. Democrats are staring down the barrel of another midterm cycle where their secular base simply isn’t big enough to win in the places that matter. So they’ve decided to stop pretending and start poaching. Not with policy changes or soul-searching. With collars. With Bibles. With men and women who once stood in pulpits now running for Congress and statewide office as proud Democrats.
Progressive faith networks like Vote Common Good are tracking roughly 30 white Christian clergy (mostly from mainline Protestant denominations) seeking Democrat nominations this cycle. That’s no coincidence. It’s a deliberate surge aimed straight at the heart of Republican strength: the religious voter. White evangelicals, practicing Protestants, and traditional Catholics have anchored the GOP for generations. Democrats know it. They’ve studied the polls. And instead of reforming their agenda on life, family, and religious liberty, they’re trying to rent the pews.
Look at the map. In Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, a Trump stronghold, Presbyterian pastor Lindsay James is on the ballot. Former United Methodist minister Clint Twedt-Ball is right there with her. Over in the 3rd District, ordained Lutheran minister and state Senator Sarah Trone Garriott is pushing the same line. Three pastors in one battleground state, all Democrats, all framing bigger government, open borders, and progressive priorities as pure Gospel.
Up in Alaska’s at-large House seat, Presbyterian pastor Matt Schultz campaigns on feeding the hungry and standing up to “bullies” ‒– code, of course, for anyone who dares defend biological sex or parental rights in schools. In Kansas, the senior pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, Adam Hamilton, with his 24,000-member congregation, is running for Senate as an “independent-minded Democrat.” These aren’t outliers. They’re the vanguard of a strategy that treats faith communities like enemy territory to be infiltrated
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Soldiers of satan is what I call them.
Wolves in sheeps clothing.
Leftist extremist ignorant barbarian democrat “preachers” have been spewing their bile for over 30 years in northern New Hampshire and Vermont.
The article says they’re targeting liberal Protestant voters. They are not the republican base. If anything they are already voting democrat.
Smell them a mile away
Infiltrating? They make it sound like the Democrats are at war with Republicans. :smirk:
Agreed. Pulpit socialism is not a new concept or issue.
They got the pope. Good thing nobody listens to that commie homo.
Exactly. It goes to show, once again, how completely out of touch Democrats are with religious folk, the general population and any conservatives in particular. “Let’s run a dude in a collar! That’ll definitely get them to vote for us! Those backward hicks will never know”
Nah....we see the deception and smell the stench of desperation from a mile of bibles away.
The Left has already broken down its religious cutout over the past 80 years where communists destroyed the education institutions.
The reason why people don’t go to church is because most people don’t believe and have been taught not to believe.
In the breach stands President Trump and the red hats.
I see the problem...
🤔. So convert the religious and moral into anti religious zealots with no morals. Okay then.
The kind of people who thought that the “Reverend” Jim Jones was a Christian.
Hey, what about that “separation of church and state” thing?
I hate these scare stories. Democrat pastors are infiltrating Republican churches and are going to undermine Republican strength. Scary! Really? The story has it ass-backward if it thinks that a Woke pastor coming to a solid Christian church is going to turn the parishioners into Godless Dem voters. The strength of the church is in the biblical message, and no Elmer Gantry-like pastor can lead that astray.
Exactly.
Yep.
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