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== Christian Nationalist Influencers and Digital Networks ==

Christian nationalism in the digital era does not operate through a single organization, denomination, media outlet, or political movement. The material surveyed here instead depicts a decentralized and overlapping communications ecosystem consisting of pastors, prophets, political activists, podcasters, publishers, social-media personalities, alternative technology companies, touring ministries, advocacy organizations, churches, conferences, merchandise businesses, and political organizations.

Digital communication is not merely a way for Christian nationalist ideas to be advertised. Several academic studies and journalistic investigations argue that media itself has become part of the movement's organizational infrastructure. Podcasts, livestreams, YouTube channels, social-media feeds, conferences, publishing houses, alternative platforms, online courses, crowdfunding systems, and subscription services allow personalities and organizations to develop audiences independently of traditional churches, denominations, political parties, and mainstream news organizations.

These networks are diverse and sometimes internally divided. Charismatic New Apostolic Reformation leaders, Reformed Christian nationalists, Catholic integralists, conservative evangelical influencers, alternative-platform entrepreneurs, political activists, and lifestyle influencers may differ substantially in theology and political strategy. Nevertheless, digital platforms enable ideas, audiences, personalities, and organizations from these different currents to interact and cross-promote one another.

=== Digital Media as Movement Infrastructure ===

Research on Christian nationalism increasingly treats communications networks as an important component of the movement itself. Podcasts, livestream ministries, short-form video, newsletters, publishing houses, social-media accounts, online stores, conferences, and subscription platforms provide mechanisms through which religious and political messages can be repeatedly distributed.

Some scholarship describes Christian nationalist media as a form of media ecology in which communications infrastructure contributes to the creation and maintenance of political identity. Instead of relying exclusively on established religious institutions, activists and influencers can develop independent audiences through YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, podcasts, Rumble, Telegram, Truth Social, Gab, and other services.

Algorithmic recommendation systems can amplify material that generates strong emotional engagement. Researchers examining religious and political social media have described how narratives involving persecution, social decline, gender conflict, spiritual warfare, national identity, threats to Christianity, or civilizational crisis can receive repeated exposure within highly engaged online communities.

Digital platforms also produce what researchers sometimes call parasocial relationships. Followers may feel that they personally know podcasters, influencers, pastors, or political personalities after consuming large quantities of informal and personal content. This form of perceived intimacy can give online personalities substantial cultural and religious authority even when they hold no formal institutional position.

=== Influencers and the Personalization of Political Religion ===

One of the most important developments documented in the material is the growing influence of individual religious-media personalities.

Figures such as Lance Wallnau, Sean Feucht, Douglas Wilson, Joel Webbon, Allie Beth Stuckey, Andrew Torba, and numerous pastors, political commentators, prophets, authors, and lifestyle influencers maintain audiences through combinations of podcasts, video programs, books, livestreams, speaking tours, social-media accounts, newsletters, merchandise, conferences, and political events.

The influencer model differs from traditional institutional religious communication. Rather than receiving religious or political interpretation primarily from churches, denominational leaders, or established media organizations, audiences may follow individual personalities whose influence extends simultaneously across religion, politics, entertainment, lifestyle, family, and culture.

Long-form podcasting has become particularly important. Podcasts provide hours of relatively unrestricted discussion in which Christian nationalist ideas can be explained, defended, criticized, debated, or developed in considerably greater detail than is possible in conventional television interviews or short social-media posts.

Short-form platforms perform a different function. TikTok clips, Instagram videos, YouTube Shorts, memes, quotations, and excerpts from longer programs can introduce ideas to much larger audiences and direct users toward podcasts, books, conferences, churches, or subscription platforms.

=== New Apostolic Reformation and Charismatic Networks ===

The New Apostolic Reformation and related charismatic networks occupy a prominent position in the material.

These networks emphasize contemporary apostles, prophets, spiritual warfare, revival, and the transformation of society. Some leaders associated with these currents promote versions of the Seven Mountains Mandate, which encourages Christian influence within government, media, education, business, family, religion, and entertainment.

Lance Wallnau has been particularly influential in popularizing Seven Mountains terminology within American political Christianity. His books, podcasts, social-media broadcasts, conferences, and political tours illustrate how charismatic theology can move between religious audiences and electoral politics.

Programs such as ''FlashPoint'' connect prophets, pastors, political candidates, conservative commentators, activists, and audiences through television, livestreaming, rallies, and social media. The program demonstrates how religious broadcasting can function simultaneously as worship-oriented programming, political commentary, prophetic interpretation, and activist networking.

Other charismatic personalities, including Dutch Sheets and various prophetic ministries, use daily videos, prayer broadcasts, conferences, social-media posts, and email networks to interpret political events through frameworks involving spiritual warfare, prophecy, revival, and national destiny.

=== Turning Point USA and TPUSA Faith ===

Turning Point USA and its religious outreach operations represent another major node within contemporary digital Christian political organizing.

TPUSA developed originally as a conservative youth organization, but its media ecosystem expanded into podcasts, campus organizations, conferences, influencer networks, digital video, merchandise, political organizing, and religious programming.

TPUSA Faith seeks to connect pastors, churches, political activists, speakers, online audiences, voter-registration activities, and educational programs. Its combination of physical events and digital communication demonstrates how contemporary political organizations can develop religious networks without functioning as conventional denominations or churches.

AmericaFest, pastors' gatherings, women's conferences, campus tours, and other Turning Point events bring together religious influencers, conservative political personalities, pastors, activists, and large online audiences.

The organization also illustrates the relationship between offline events and digital influence. Speeches and panel discussions delivered at conferences become livestreams, podcast episodes, social-media clips, viral quotations, and promotional material that can continue circulating long after an event has ended.

=== Reformed Christian Nationalist Networks ===

A distinct Reformed Christian nationalist media network has developed around authors, pastors, publishers, podcasts, and online personalities.

Douglas Wilson and the institutions associated with him have become particularly prominent within this environment. Canon Press publishes books, study materials, podcasts, and videos addressing Christian political thought, education, family life, theology, and cultural conflict.

Stephen Wolfe's ''The Case for Christian Nationalism'' became an important reference point in debates over Reformed Christian nationalism and generated substantial discussion through podcasts, conferences, books, articles, and social media.

More recently, personalities including Joel Webbon and associated digital media projects have developed subscription-based video and podcast networks. Reporting on these networks describes a younger online audience attracted to combinations of Christian nationalism, masculinity, political reaction, theological controversy, and deliberately provocative media.

Some journalists have described parts of this emerging milieu using the informal term "theobros," particularly when referring to young male religious influencers who combine conservative Reformed theology, internet culture, political commentary, masculinity, and nationalist ideas.

These networks are not identical to charismatic Christian nationalism. Reformed Christian nationalists often criticize charismatic prophecy and differ substantially in theology, yet digital media permits personalities from different Christian nationalist traditions to appear on one another's podcasts, attend overlapping conferences, and participate in common political debates.

=== Alternative Platforms and the Parallel Digital Economy ===

Concerns about moderation by major technology companies have encouraged some Christian nationalist and adjacent movements to develop alternative digital infrastructure.

Gab founder Andrew Torba has explicitly promoted the development of a parallel Christian economy encompassing social media, commerce, technology, finance, publishing, and political organization.

Other platforms and services, including Rumble, Telegram, GiveSendGo, CloutHub, Truth Social, alternative hosting companies, and specialized online stores, have contributed to an increasingly diversified communications environment.

These services perform different functions. Some provide social networking, others video hosting, crowdfunding, payments, commerce, messaging, or livestreaming. Together they can reduce dependence on mainstream technology companies.

The development of parallel platforms also makes online communities more resilient. A personality banned or restricted on one service may continue communicating through another platform, podcast feed, email list, website, crowdfunding system, or subscription service.

=== ReAwaken America and Touring Media Networks ===

The ReAwaken America Tour illustrates how online media and physical political events can reinforce one another.

The tour combined political speeches, Christian worship, conspiracy-oriented material, prophecy, health claims, election-related activism, merchandise, livestreaming, and appearances by prominent personalities.

Michael Flynn became one of the most visible figures associated with the events. Reporting described the tour as both a traveling political-religious gathering and a mechanism for building relationships among activists, pastors, media personalities, political candidates, and audiences.

The same speakers could appear repeatedly in different cities while videos and excerpts circulated nationally through livestreams, podcasts, Telegram channels, social media, and alternative media outlets.

This touring model demonstrates how Christian nationalist networks frequently operate simultaneously online and offline rather than belonging exclusively to either sphere.

=== Sean Feucht and Worship-Based Political Mobilization ===

Worship leader Sean Feucht represents another model of religious influencer politics.

Feucht developed a large audience through contemporary Christian music, outdoor worship events, political activism, social media, fundraising, touring, and the ''Hold the Line'' podcast.

His events demonstrate how familiar evangelical worship practices can be incorporated into political gatherings. Songs, prayer, preaching, patriotic symbolism, political speeches, social-media broadcasts, and activist messaging may appear within the same event.

Feucht's national tours also illustrate the importance of influencer economics. Donations, merchandise, online audiences, event promotion, podcasting, and organizational partnerships can sustain a ministry that operates across religious, cultural, and political environments.

Investigative reporting in the uploaded material also discusses financial allegations involving Feucht's ministry and related projects. Feucht has disputed allegations of wrongdoing.

=== Tradwives, Gender, and Lifestyle Influencers ===

Christian nationalist themes are not transmitted only through explicitly political content.

Researchers examining "tradwife" communities have found that social-media accounts focused on homemaking, motherhood, femininity, marriage, homeschooling, rural life, traditional gender roles, fashion, food, and family can sometimes overlap with religious conservatism, nationalism, or far-right political ideas.

The term "tradwife" covers a broad and internally diverse group. Academic research emphasizes that some creators primarily produce lifestyle content while others explicitly promote nationalist, racial, or authoritarian ideas. The label therefore should not automatically be applied as a political classification to everyone who advocates traditional household roles.

Influencers such as Brittany Dawn and personalities appearing at conservative women's conferences illustrate how religious content, lifestyle branding, motherhood, femininity, political commentary, and commercial sponsorship can coexist within the same media persona.

Allie Beth Stuckey and other conservative Christian personalities similarly demonstrate how podcasting and social media have created large audiences around discussions of gender, feminism, family, Christianity, education, and politics.

=== Youth Culture and Influencer Politics ===

Research on conservative youth organizations demonstrates that digital aesthetics can be as important as formal political argument.

Studies of Turning Point USA influencers describe the use of Instagram aesthetics, merchandise, humor, lifestyle branding, personal storytelling, fashion, campus culture, and perceived authenticity to make political identities socially attractive.

Young followers may encounter political ideas through personalities whose feeds combine ordinary lifestyle material with religious and political messages.

This approach differs from traditional political advertising because the ideological content becomes integrated into entertainment, identity, friendship networks, fashion, consumer products, and everyday social-media use.

Influencer culture can therefore blur boundaries among political activism, religion, celebrity, entertainment, and commerce.

=== Militias, Firearms Culture, and Networked Masculinity ===

Some reporting in the source material examines the overlap between Christian nationalist imagery and online firearms or militia-style communities.

Instagram accounts associated with young Christian militant or paramilitary networks have used firearms imagery, physical fitness, tactical equipment, masculine identity, religious symbolism, apparel brands, and cross-promotion to build decentralized online audiences.

These networks often rely on tags, shared merchandise, podcast appearances, reposting, comments, and mutual promotion rather than centralized organizational structures.

The material does not suggest that Christian nationalism as a whole constitutes a militia movement. Rather, it documents specific online subcultures in which Christian symbolism, nationalist politics, weapons culture, masculinity, and influencer marketing overlap.

=== Monetization and the Influencer Economy ===

Digital Christian political networks increasingly operate within the broader creator economy.

Revenue can come from subscriptions, advertisements, donations, crowdfunding, merchandise, books, speaking fees, conferences, online courses, paid communities, sponsorships, and membership programs.

This financial structure allows media personalities to build institutions largely independent of churches or traditional political organizations.

The growth of NXR Studios and similar subscription-oriented projects illustrates how controversial or highly engaged political-religious audiences can support independent media businesses.

Commercial infrastructure also contributes to movement identity. Clothing, books, flags, coffee, courses, memberships, conference tickets, and other products allow political and religious affiliation to be expressed through consumption.

=== Algorithms, Attention, and Radicalization ===

Several sources examine the role of platform algorithms in political polarization and religious radicalization.

Recommendation systems are designed to maximize engagement rather than determine theological or political accuracy. Material that provokes outrage, fear, conflict, moral urgency, or identity reinforcement can therefore receive significant visibility.

Researchers studying Christian nationalism, QAnon, far-right movements, and online religious communities have noted that users can move gradually between overlapping networks through algorithmic recommendations and cross-platform links.

However, algorithms do not independently create political movements. Existing religious institutions, political organizations, social relationships, cultural conflicts, and individual choices remain important.

The significance of digital platforms lies partly in their ability to increase the speed, scale, repetition, and visibility with which political and religious messages circulate.

=== Political and Religious Authority in the Influencer Era ===

Online religious influence is part of a broader transformation in religious authority.

Younger audiences increasingly encounter theological interpretation through podcasts, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms rather than exclusively through clergy or local congregations.

This trend extends well beyond Christian nationalism. Religious educators, progressive Christians, conservative evangelicals, biblical scholars, critics of religion, pastors, and independent commentators all participate in the same attention economy.

Christian nationalist influencers therefore operate within a much larger digital religious marketplace in which formal credentials are only one source of authority.

Audience size, charisma, entertainment value, personal authenticity, controversy, frequency of posting, and mastery of platform algorithms may significantly affect who becomes influential.

=== Counter-Networks and Christian Opposition ===

Digital networks also facilitate opposition to Christian nationalism.

Christians Against Christian Nationalism, Faithful America, denominational organizations, academics, journalists, clergy, TikTok creators, podcasters, and former conservative Christian media personalities have developed their own online networks.

Creators such as April Ajoy have used humor, personal experience, satire, podcasting, and short-form video to criticize Christian nationalist ideas and explain how they circulate within evangelical culture.

Other organizations have used digital network mapping to document relationships among advocacy groups, political organizations, religious leaders, donors, and initiatives such as Project 2025.

These counter-networks illustrate an important characteristic of contemporary digital politics: social media provides infrastructure both for political-religious movements and for organized resistance to them.

=== Internal Christian Debate ===

Christian nationalism remains heavily contested within Christianity itself.

Some Christian leaders explicitly embrace the term. Others support stronger Christian political influence but reject the Christian nationalist label. Still others argue that Christian nationalism conflicts with Christian theology, religious liberty, pluralism, or democratic government.

The source material includes evangelical writers cautioning that the term can sometimes be applied too broadly. This disagreement is important because "Christian nationalism" can refer to different combinations of religious identity, national identity, political theology, cultural conservatism, institutional strategy, and attitudes toward church-state relations.

Academic research likewise distinguishes several varieties of Christian nationalism rather than treating the phenomenon as a single unified ideology.

Among the currents frequently discussed are charismatic dominionism associated with portions of the New Apostolic Reformation, Reformed or Calvinist Christian nationalism, Catholic integralism, populist evangelical nationalism, and more diffuse forms of Christian-national identity.

=== Transnational Networks ===

Although much of the material focuses on the United States, Christian nationalist and religious-nationalist ideas circulate internationally.

Research has examined the interaction between American Christian nationalist networks and broader transnational right-wing movements.

Social media makes geographic boundaries less important. American personalities can develop international audiences, while political and religious ideas originating elsewhere can rapidly enter American debates.

Reporting concerning Britain and Canada illustrates how Christian nationalist-style rhetoric, rallies, touring speakers, social-media campaigns, and disputes over religious nationalism can cross national boundaries.

The precise meaning of Christian nationalism varies by national context, however, and American definitions should not automatically be applied to political movements in other countries.

=== From Online Audiences to Offline Organization ===

One of the clearest patterns across the material is the repeated movement between digital communication and physical organization.

Podcasts promote conferences.

Conferences generate livestreams.

Livestreams produce social-media clips.

Clips attract followers.

Followers purchase books or merchandise.

Online audiences join churches, political groups, courses, tours, or local organizations.

Political events generate additional media content, beginning the cycle again.

This interaction makes it difficult to separate "online" Christian nationalism from offline religious and political activity. Digital networks often function as connective infrastructure linking churches, media organizations, donors, political campaigns, activist groups, conferences, publishers, businesses, and individual followers.

=== A Decentralized Network Rather Than a Single Movement ===

The combined material suggests that Christian nationalist digital influence is best understood as a networked ecosystem rather than a centrally controlled organization.

Different groups disagree about theology, political strategy, race, gender, economics, denominational identity, charismatic gifts, Catholicism, Protestantism, electoral politics, and the proper relationship between church and state.

Nevertheless, digital communication allows these otherwise distinct groups to share audiences and infrastructure.

A person may encounter one part of the ecosystem through a worship event, another through a political podcast, another through an Instagram lifestyle influencer, another through a theological book, and another through an alternative social-media platform.

Cross-promotion makes these networks more interconnected than their institutional differences might otherwise suggest.

=== Conclusion ===

Christian nationalist influencers and digital networks represent a significant transformation in the relationship among religion, politics, media, and political organization.

The uploaded material portrays an ecosystem in which political and religious influence increasingly flows through individuals and decentralized networks rather than exclusively through established churches, denominations, political parties, or traditional media institutions.

Podcasts, livestreams, YouTube channels, social-media platforms, conferences, publishing houses, online stores, fundraising services, subscription communities, and alternative technology platforms allow religious-political personalities to create audiences and institutions of their own.

Within this environment, charismatic prophets, Reformed Christian nationalists, conservative evangelical influencers, Turning Point USA personalities, alternative-platform entrepreneurs, worship leaders, tradwife creators, firearms-oriented communities, political activists, and religious critics may operate in separate subcultures while still interacting through shared audiences and digital infrastructure.

The same technologies also support scholars, journalists, churches, former insiders, Christian critics, and advocacy organizations opposing Christian nationalism or disputing how the term should be defined.

The result is not a single Christian nationalist communications system but an increasingly complex digital marketplace of competing religious and political narratives.

Understanding Christian nationalism in the twenty-first century therefore requires examining not only its beliefs and political objectives but also the communications infrastructure through which those ideas spread. Influencers, algorithms, podcasts, alternative platforms, conferences, publishing networks, merchandise, fundraising systems, and online communities have become central mechanisms through which religious identity and political mobilization intersect.

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=== Digital Media, Algorithms, and Influencer Culture ===

[Christian Nationalism: The Lordship of Christ Over the Nations | ChristianNationalist.com | Website / digital media project | current]
 Primary-source online publishing project advocating Christian governance and illustrating development of explicitly branded Christian nationalist digital infrastructure.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/27/she-helped-lead-far-right-internet-movement-then-it-turned-her/ | The Washington Post | The Washington Post | September 27, 2026]
 Profiles Amy Dangerfield and the online "groypette" community, showing how anti-feminist lifestyle content, influencer economics and far-right networks overlap.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/how-christian-nationalism-shows-up-in-patriotic-worship-services/ | Rick Pidcock | Baptist News Global | July 7, 2026]
 Uses church Facebook posts and patriotic worship services to examine how nationalist themes spread through congregational social media.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/social-media-and-rallies-drive-growth-of-christian-nationalism-in-uk/ | Caroline Cook | Baptist News Global | June 25, 2026]
 Examines the role of social media, rallies and religious symbolism in the growth of Christian nationalist-style politics in the United Kingdom.

[Why “Christian Nationalism” Is Dividing Christians | TPUSA Faith | YouTube | June 1, 2026]
 Primary-source video featuring Lucas Miles and Mike Signorelli discussing competing interpretations of Christian nationalism within conservative Christianity.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/08/religion-online-influencers-young-people/ | Michelle Boorstein | The Washington Post | March 8, 2026]
 Examines younger religious influencers on YouTube, TikTok and podcasts and the shift of religious authority away from traditional institutions toward online personalities. Profiles "Redeemed Zoomer" Richard Ackerman and Dan McClellan, illustrating the broader digital religious marketplace in which Christian nationalist personalities also operate.

[Why Christian Nationalism Terrifies The Evangelical Church | Seth Gruber with Douglas Wilson | YouTube | January 6, 2026]
 Primary-source long-form interview illustrating how Christian nationalism is defended and debated through conservative Christian YouTube channels and podcast ecosystems.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/01/05/faith-fame-and-the-feed-how-influencers-shape-what-we-believe/ | Jonathan Woodward | Religion News Service | January 5, 2026]
 Explores how social-media personalities increasingly shape religious identity, moral authority and politics through parasocial relationships and attention-driven platforms. Discusses the attention economy, parasocial authority and why social-media personalities increasingly compete with clergy and institutions for religious influence.

[Platforms of Providence: Algorithmic Media and the Circulation of Christian Nationalism | Michaela Calahan | American Academy of Religion | 2026]
 Examines podcasts, livestream ministries, short-form media, and algorithms as infrastructures through which Christian nationalist narratives about persecution, national decline, and religious identity circulate.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/top-analysis-piece-traced-charlie-kirks-rise-as-maga-influencer/ | Jeff Brumley | Baptist News Global | December 30, 2025]
 Reviews reporting on Kirk's evolution from conservative campus organizer into an influential evangelical and political media personality.

[https://religionnews.com/2025/12/26/amid-rage-bait-posts-and-ai-slop-these-faith-based-influencers-found-real-audiences-in-2025/ | RNS Staff | Religion News Service | December 26, 2025]
 Surveys prominent religion-focused digital personalities and illustrates the broader media environment in which Christian nationalist influencers compete for attention.

[Christian Nationalism as Media | Reed Van Schenck | International Journal of Communication | September 26, 2025]
 Examines Christian nationalism through media ecology, arguing that control of communications infrastructure and alternative media networks is not incidental to the movement but central to its strategy.

[https://wheredoweogopod.libsyn.com/april-ajoy-on-christian-nationalism-and-star-spangled-jesus | April Ajoy | Where Do We Go From Here? | September 24, 2025]
 Interview explores how TikTok satire, podcasting and online deconstruction communities respond to Christian nationalism.

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-martyr-christian-nationalist-movement | Alice Herman | The Guardian | September 20, 2025]
 Examines how Kirk's image was transformed after his death through social media, evangelical networks and Christian nationalist martyr narratives.

[Department of War quotes Bible on social media. Some link it to Christian nationalism | Fiona André | Religion News Service | September 9, 2025]
 Examines official military social-media accounts using biblical quotations and the wider debate over Christian-nationalist imagery within digital government communications.

[https://www.wired.com/story/christian-militias-instagram-recruit-influencers/ | Tess Owen | WIRED | August 14, 2025]
 Investigates young Christian nationalist-aligned paramilitary accounts using Instagram aesthetics, branded merchandise, fitness culture and cross-promotion to build audiences. Details the use of apparel brands such as Kill Evil, tagged accounts and cross-promotion among Christian nationalist militia-style Instagram pages. Highlights firearms influencer Lucas Botkin and T-Rex Arms as examples of the overlap among Christian messaging, gun culture and networked online influence. Describes Instagram's role in connecting decentralized local groups through comments, tags, merchandise, fitness content and shared religious symbolism.

[Canadian cities cancel US Christian nationalist’s performances | Leyland Cecco | The Guardian | August 8, 2025]
 Examines the international spread and controversy surrounding Feucht's touring model and the role publicity, social media, political activism, and religious performance play in his influence.

[https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/greg-laurie-trump-white-house-prayer-harvest/ | Emily Belz | Christianity Today | May 2025]
 Examines Greg Laurie's relationship to political power and his use of social media to discuss Christianity, patriotism and White House access.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/april-ajoy-has-the-receipts-on-her-journey-out-of-christian-nationalism/ | Mark Wingfield | Baptist News Global | April 7, 2025]
 Profiles TikTok creator and former Christian-media producer April Ajoy and her transition from conservative religious broadcasting to online criticism of Christian nationalism.

[https://www.unitedshestands.com/p/breaking-free-from-christian-nationalism | Sara Petrie and Ashley Kindsvatter | United SHE Stands | January 21, 2025]
 Profiles April Ajoy's use of humor, TikTok and podcasting to explain and critique the evangelical culture in which she was raised.

[Christian Militants Are Using Instagram to Recruit—and Becoming Influencers in the Process | — | WIRED | 2025]
 Investigates younger Christian nationalist-linked paramilitary networks that use Instagram influencer techniques, cross-promotion, firearms culture, fitness imagery, and tagged accounts to recruit and build decentralized networks.

[https://www.eauk.org/resources/our-resources/videos-and-podcasts/cross-section/2025s-vibe-shift-political-extremes-christian-nationalism-and-the-quiet-revival | Evangelical Alliance | Cross Section | 2025]
 Podcast discusses TikTok politics, social-media influence, Christian nationalism and changes in younger Christians' political and religious engagement in Britain.

[https://wordandway.org/2024/11/04/looking-back-and-forward/ | Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood | Word&Way | November 4, 2024]
 Discusses how podcasts, webinars, social media and book promotion are used by authors and religious organizations responding to Christian nationalism.

[Why experts say Christian nationalists’ rhetoric may spur violence | Alice Herman | The Guardian | October 19, 2024]
 Examines how figures in charismatic and Christian nationalist networks circulate good-versus-evil political narratives through podcasts, YouTube, Christian television, rallies, and congregations.

[How #Trad Catholics Challenge Current Constructions of Christian Nationalism: Counterknowledge, Masculinity, and Elite Aesthetics on Instagram | Lauren Horn Griffin | Journal of Media and Religion | September 30, 2024]
 Studies traditionalist Catholic Instagram networks and how visual aesthetics, masculinity, counterknowledge, and algorithmic curation create online religious-political communities.

[https://ca.rollingstone.com/politics/is-nicole-shanahan-flirting-with-qanon-and-christian-nationalism/ | Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone | June 26, 2024]
 Examines the use of spiritual-warfare and demonic rhetoric on social media and its overlap with QAnon and some Christian nationalist discourse.

[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2024.2366579 | Anna Floerke Scheid | Political Theology | June 14, 2024]
 Analyzes how social-media algorithms can amplify polarization, misinformation and radicalization, focusing partly on overlap between Christian nationalism and QAnon. Argues that algorithmic systems can intensify extremism by repeatedly exposing users to polarized communities, with Christian nationalism and QAnon used as overlapping case studies.

[https://wordandway.org/2024/01/08/christians-against-christian-nationalism-translates-tiktok-activism-to-local-politics/ | Kathryn Post | Word&Way / Religion News Service | January 8, 2024]
 Profiles TikTok creator Maggie Siddiqi McKee and shows how counter-messaging about Christian nationalism can move from viral online content into local political activism.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/01/08/christians-against-christian-nationalism-translates-tiktok-activism-to-local-politics/ | Kathryn Post | Religion News Service | January 8, 2024]
 Examines the deliberate use of short-form TikTok videos to explain Christian nationalism and connect digital audiences with grassroots organizing.

[Social Media Algorithms, Christian Extremism, and Catholic Ethics for Faith-Based Advocacy to Build a Culture of Encounter | — | Political Theology | 2024]
 Discusses the role of social-media recommendation algorithms in political polarization and online radicalization, including overlap between Christian nationalism and QAnon.

[https://www.peoplefor.org/foundation/people-american-way-foundation-and-influencer-kat-abughazaleh-launch-new-video-series | People For the American Way Foundation | People For the American Way | 2024]
 Announces a multi-platform TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads video campaign about white Christian nationalism, illustrating the growing role of influencer-style political education.

=== Alternative Platforms and Parallel Digital Infrastructure ===

[https://wordandway.org/2026/09/28/the-rise-of-the-jim-crow-theobros/ | Bob Smietana | Word&Way | September 28, 2026]
 Reprints and expands attention to the online "theobro" ecosystem, including Joel Webbon's NXR Studios, subscription media, Nick Fuentes interviews and the monetization of provocative religious-political content.

[Christian Nationalism Explained | Basic Logic | Rumble | 2026]
 Primary-source example of explicitly Christian nationalist educational content distributed through Rumble and connected to Discord and alternative-platform communities.

[https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048325000069 | — | Politics and Religion / Cambridge University Press | 2025]
 Academic study distinguishes several varieties of American Christian nationalism, including charismatic dominionism, Calvinist nationalism and Catholic integralism, helping explain cooperation across distinct digital networks. Notes Andrew Torba and Andrew Isker's ''Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide for Taking Dominion and Discipling Nations'' as an influential text associated with an explicitly digital Christian nationalist ecosystem.

[How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right | Jack Jenkins | Washington Post / Religion News Service | January 26, 2022]
 Examines how social media, Telegram networks, QAnon personalities, Proud Boys channels, and Christian Identity material interacted after January 6.

[https://www.adl.org/resources/article/andrew-torba-five-things-know | Anti-Defamation League | ADL | 2022]
 Profiles Gab founder Andrew Torba and documents his efforts to build coalitions of Christian nationalists and attract politicians to his alternative social-media platform. Documents Torba's promotion of elected officials who joined Gab and his attempts to position the platform as infrastructure for a Christian nationalist political coalition.

[Christian nationalists seek a ‘parallel’ digital world to skirt the power of Big Tech | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service / Washington Post | October 19, 2021]
 Investigates Gab, CloutHub, Brighteon, GiveSendGo and other alternative platforms that developed into a parallel communications, fundraising, hosting, and social-media ecosystem for Christian nationalist and adjacent movements.

=== Reformed Christian Nationalist Media Networks ===

[Pete Hegseth | Right Wing Watch | People For the American Way | current]
 Tracks Hegseth's connections with Douglas Wilson's religious network and the circulation of Christian nationalist ideas through media interviews, social posts, institutional events, and conservative networks.

[Responding To Controversies | Joel Webbon | Right Response Ministries | current]
 Primary-source hub linking videos with Douglas Wilson and others addressing Christian nationalism, patriarchy, theonomy, and related controversies across YouTube and podcast platforms.

[Right Response Ministries | Joel Webbon | Right Response Ministries | current]
 Digital publishing, podcasting and video hub illustrating the growth of a self-contained Christian nationalist media ecosystem.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/09/24/the-rise-of-the-jim-crow-theobros/ | Bob Smietana | Religion News Service | September 24, 2026]
 Examines Joel Webbon, NXR Studios, Right Response Ministries and a developing group of Reformed Christian online personalities combining Christian nationalism, hypermasculinity, racial politics, paid subscriptions, merchandise and YouTube broadcasting. Concludes this batch with a particularly revealing example of the next generation of digital Christian nationalist organizing: independent studios, YouTube channels, paid subscriptions, podcasts, merchandise, cross-promotion and deliberately provocative personalities can create media institutions largely independent of churches or traditional conservative organizations.

[The Connection of Christian Nationalism To The Salvation Of Your Kids | Joel Webbon | Right Response Ministries | September 10, 2026]
 Primary-source podcast linking Christian nationalist politics with family formation, religious continuity, education, inheritance, and intergenerational community building.

[https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/can-cissie-graham-lynch-save-the-office-of-international-religious-freedom/ | Thomas Farr and Dennis Hoover | Christianity Today | September 2026]
 Discusses debates about Christian nationalism, Doug Wilson and religious freedom within evangelical policy and media circles.

[5 Views on Christian Nationalism | Joe Rigney, Douglas Wilson, Paul D. Miller, Albert Mohler Jr., R.R. Reno | Canon Press | August 4, 2026]
 Illustrates how Christian nationalism has become a major subject of online evangelical debate and how publishers, podcasts, and digital platforms connect competing intellectual currents.

[https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/well-kill-you-we-love-you-joel-webbon-calls-white-christians-re-colonize-africa | Kyle Mantyla | Right Wing Watch | August 3, 2026]
 Reports on Joel Webbon's appearance on Dave Reilly's program and illustrates how Christian nationalist personalities move between podcasts and overlapping far-right media audiences.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/al-mohler-cozies-up-to-doug-wilson/ | Mark Wingfield | Baptist News Global | June 19, 2026]
 Analyzes Albert Mohler's podcast appearance with Douglas Wilson, Jared Longshore and Joe Rigney and the cross-pollination occurring between Southern Baptist and Christian nationalist media audiences.

[https://juicyecumenism.com/2026/04/29/theobros-radicalizing-young-christians/ | Mark Tooley | Juicy Ecumenism | April 29, 2026]
 Discusses the influence of TikTok, podcasts and online personalities on young Christian men and examines intersections among Christian nationalism, antisemitism, Catholic integralism and Reformed Christian nationalism.

[The Rise of Christian Nationalism | Pamela Brown | CNN / The Whole Story | March 22, 2026]
 Documentary investigation including Douglas Wilson and other Christian nationalist currents, with attention to the movement's growth from religious subcultures into a highly visible political-media phenomenon.

[https://dougwilsonsays.com/blog/the-great-commission-means-christian-nationalism/ | Nathan Wells | Doug Wilson Says | October 13, 2025]
 Collects and analyzes Wilson's public arguments connecting the Great Commission, Christendom and Christian nationalism, illustrating how quotes from podcasts, books and online essays circulate in the debate.

[We’re Sorry Christian Nationalism Is Happening To You | Joel Webbon and Stephen Wolfe | Right Response Ministries | September 5, 2025]
 Primary-source podcast discussing practical implementation of Christian nationalism, political strategy, relationships, local networks, pastors, business owners, and long-term movement-building.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/07/15/with-pete-hegseth-in-the-pews-a-christian-nationalist-church-plant-launches-in-dc/ | Jack Jenkins | Word&Way / Religion News Service | July 15, 2025]
 Examines the extension of Douglas Wilson's Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches network into Washington, D.C., and notes the importance of Wilson's YouTube channels and media appearances to his political rise.

[Christian Nationalists Call On The Government To Seize ‘Wicked, Apostate’ Churches | Kyle Mantyla | Right Wing Watch | March 25, 2025]
 Reports on Joel Webbon's Right Response Ministries podcast and illustrates how podcasts provide an important venue for discussing more radical Christian nationalist proposals.

[How big Christian nationalism has come courting in North Idaho | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | February 22, 2023]
 Examines Douglas Wilson, Christ Church, Canon Press, Stephen Wolfe, Andrew Isker, and their growing role in an interconnected Reformed Christian nationalist intellectual and media network.

[A Companion to The Case for Christian Nationalism | Canon Press | Canon Press | November 1, 2022]
 Study guide intended to help churches and small groups discuss Wolfe's book, demonstrating how publishing, study materials, audio, and online communities reinforce the movement's intellectual network.

[The Case for Christian Nationalism | Stephen Wolfe | Canon Press | 2022]
 Major primary-source text within the Reformed Christian nationalist online ecosystem, widely promoted through podcasts, social media, Canon Press, and related digital networks.

=== Prophetic Media, NAR, Seven Mountains, and ReAwaken Networks ===

[FlashPoint | Right Wing Watch | People For the American Way | current]
 Background profile of the Victory Channel program and its recurring network of Gene Bailey, Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, political guests, prophets, livestream events, and Christian nationalist messaging.

[https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/organizations/flashpoint | Right Wing Watch | People For the American Way | current]
 Background page tracks FlashPoint's repeated use of Christian nationalist guests, prophets, political figures and traveling events.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/09/26/what-are-christian-antichrists-dr-matthew-d-taylor-explains/ | Paul Brandeis Raushenbush and Matthew D. Taylor | State of Belief / Religion News Service | September 26, 2026]
 Interview discusses Christian nationalism, the New Apostolic Reformation and charismatic political networks with scholar Matthew D. Taylor. Provides a researcher-focused overview of the New Apostolic Reformation and Christian nationalist political influence for a podcast audience.

[A ‘Bible-sized blind spot’: congressman sounds alarm on rising Christian nationalism | David Smith | The Guardian | August 26, 2026]
 Surveys New Apostolic Reformation influencers, radical traditionalist Catholic networks, Doug Wilson's Reformed network, Nick Fuentes, Lance Wallnau, Paula White-Cain, and connections with technology and political elites.

[https://indianacitizen.org/flashpoint-how-a-christian-political-media-network-became-a-platform-for-indianas-lt-gov/ | Sydney Byerly | The Indiana Citizen | June 25, 2026]
 Examines FlashPoint as a national Christian political-media network and documents repeated appearances by Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. Provides a detailed case study of how a livestream-oriented Christian media outlet can provide recurring access and amplification for an elected official who identifies with Christian nationalism.

[https://globalextremism.org/post/lance-wallnau/ | Global Project Against Hate and Extremism | GPAHE | June 15, 2026]
 Profiles Lance Wallnau's role in developing and marketing Seven Mountains ideology through books, social media, revival tours and political organizing.

[https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2026/5/7/timely-talk-christian-nationalism | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | PCUSA | May 7, 2026]
 Educational discussion describes the New Apostolic Reformation as a global network of loosely connected apostles and prophets and explains its dominion theology.

[https://bjconline.org/podcast/best-of-inside-the-reawaken-america-tour/ | Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman | BJC Podcast | April 2, 2026]
 Podcast describes ReAwaken America as a hybrid of Christian worship, conspiracy theories, election denial and political mobilization.

[Platformed Prophecy: Digital Prayer and the Politics of Christian Nationalism | Andrew Ambrose Mackey | American Academy of Religion | 2026]
 Analyzes nearly 3,000 posts from Dutch Sheets' Give Him 15 platform, finding recurring themes of spiritual warfare, national identity, persecution, political mobilization, and prophetic interpretation.

[Christian Nationalist Influencers and Digital Networks: emerging structure | Multiple researchers and reporting organizations | Research synthesis | 2019–2026]
 Taken together, the literature depicts a decentralized digital ecosystem rather than a single organization: charismatic prophets, pastors, political influencers, alternative social platforms, conservative youth organizations, publishers, podcasts, livestream ministries, merchandise businesses and touring events cross-promote one another. Mainstream platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok coexist with alternative systems such as Gab, Rumble, Telegram, Truth Social, CloutHub and Christian-oriented fundraising and commerce platforms. These connections allow religious messages, political narratives, lifestyle content, products and organizing appeals to move rapidly between online audiences and offline churches, conferences, rallies and political campaigns.

[https://religionnews.com/2025/07/08/what-is-the-seven-mountains-mandate-and-how-is-it-linked-to-political-extremism-in-the-us/ | Art Jipson | The Conversation / Religion News Service | July 8, 2025]
 Explains the Seven Mountains Mandate and the New Apostolic Reformation's emphasis on influencing government, media, education, business, family, religion and entertainment.

[https://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/05/video-yang-scholars-2025-christian-nationalism-global-perspective | Harvard Divinity School | Harvard University | March 5, 2025]
 Academic discussion distinguishes charismatic dominionism, Calvinist nationalism and Catholic integralism while identifying New Apostolic Reformation networks as particularly influential.

[Christian nationalism-embracing media figures declare victory after IRS argues churches can endorse political candidates | — | Media Matters | 2025]
 Tracks reactions by Lance Wallnau and other religious-media figures and shows how FlashPoint and social platforms circulate advocacy concerning church political activity.

[Important FlashPoint Update | Kenneth Copeland Ministries | Victory Channel / KCM | 2025]
 Primary-source account of FlashPoint's expansion to four broadcasts per week, demonstrating the institutional growth of prophetic political media.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/11/11/new-apostolic-reformation-evangelicals-see-trump-as-gods-warrior-in-battle-to-christianize-america/ | Paul A. Djupe and Ryan P. Burge | The Conversation / Religion News Service | November 11, 2024]
 Describes NAR spiritual-warfare beliefs and the role of Lance Wallnau and other religious influencers in translating them into political activism.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/10/10/get-thee-behind-me-satan/ | Jim Wallis | Religion News Service | October 10, 2024]
 Commentary discusses the Courage Tour and the language of spiritual warfare used at rallies involving New Apostolic Reformation figures.

[Pro-Trump prophets suggest Hurricanes Helene and Milton are ‘spiritual’ | Media Matters Staff | Media Matters | October 9, 2024]
 Examines Lance Wallnau, Hank Kunneman and FlashPoint as an example of political events and natural disasters being interpreted through prophetic and spiritual-warfare narratives.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/09/28/jd-vance-courage-tour/ | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | September 28, 2024]
 Reports from Lance Wallnau's Courage Tour and describes how charismatic Christian media personalities, revival-style events and electoral politics intersect.

[Inside Ziklag: The secret group of rich Christians trying to sway elections and change the country | ProPublica / republished by Salon | Salon | July 15, 2024]
 Investigates Ziklag's wealthy donor network and describes Lance Wallnau as a Seven Mountains strategist linking donors, Christian organizations, media, and electoral mobilization.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/05/06/how-trumpism-has-pushed-a-fringe-charismatic-theology-into-the-mainstream/ | Matthew D. Taylor | Religion News Service | May 6, 2024]
 Explains how NAR prophets, apostles and their media networks moved from relatively obscure charismatic subcultures into national political discourse.

[The strange world of Catholic ‘integralism’ — and Christian nationalism | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | April 3, 2024]
 Examines Catholic integralism, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Church Militant, EWTN, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and other overlapping religious-media personalities and institutions.

[https://baptistnews.com/article/flashpoint-prophets-declare-god-supports-trump-and-christian-nationalism/ | Steve Rabey | Baptist News Global | February 21, 2024]
 Reports on a FlashPoint Live gathering featuring Hank Kunneman, Lance Wallnau and Andrew Wommack, showing the interaction between prophecy, livestream media and politics.

[Meet the New Apostolic Reformation, cutting edge of the Christian right | Paul Rosenberg | Salon | January 2, 2024]
 Surveys Lance Wallnau, Paula White-Cain and the broader NAR network, including its prophets, apostles, dominion theology, Seven Mountains strategy, and media infrastructure.

[Behind Christian Nationalism’s Influence on the 2024 Election | ProPublica | ProPublica | 2024]
 Interactive investigation tracing Christian nationalist history and contemporary organizing, with particular attention to Lance Wallnau, the Seven Mountain Mandate, political mobilization, prophetic networks, and media influence.

[Sell the Steal: How Michael Flynn built a business and MAGA following out of election denialism | CNN | CNN | 2024]
 Examines Flynn's monetized political network and the role of ReAwaken America, speaking engagements, media appearances, businesses, and election-denial activism.

[What’s a ‘Jezebel spirit’? Some Christians use the term to paint Kamala Harris with a demonic brush | Associated Press | AP | 2024]
 Examines Lance Wallnau and New Apostolic Reformation rhetoric, particularly the way spiritual-warfare concepts move from charismatic religious networks into political communication.

[https://projects.propublica.org/christian-nationalism-origins/ | ProPublica | ProPublica | 2024]
 Interactive investigation traces Wallnau's influence, Seven Mountains theology and the use of conferences, digital communication and political tours to connect charismatic Christian networks.

[At far-right roadshow, Trump is God’s ‘anointed one,’ QAnon is king, and ‘everything you believe is right’ | Sarah D. Wire | Los Angeles Times | October 12, 2023]
 Detailed reporting from the ReAwaken America Tour, describing Michael Flynn, Clay Clark, Amanda Grace, online personality Bo Polny, livestreams, conspiracy media, merchandise, prophecy, and political mobilization.

[FlashPoint guest connects record heat waves to potential GOP impeachment of Biden | Media Matters Staff | Media Matters | July 27, 2023]
 Illustrates FlashPoint's fusion of prophecy, political commentary, religious imagery, and current-events interpretation.

[Far-right project that pushed election lies expands mission as Trump ramps up 2024 campaign | Peter Stone | The Guardian | January 30, 2023]
 Examines organizations and personalities connected to ReAwaken America, including Michael Flynn, Clay Clark, Greg Locke, and other figures circulating election and COVID-related narratives.

[Who are the Christian nationalists? A taxonomy for the post-Jan. 6 world | Bob Smietana and Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | January 6, 2023]
 Maps several overlapping Christian nationalist networks, including MAGA/QAnon activists, Trump prophets, New Apostolic Reformation figures, online personalities, Andrew Torba, Nick Fuentes, and ReAwaken America speakers.

[Ahead of 2024, Republican politicians are appearing on the Victory Channel’s FlashPoint | — | Media Matters | 2023]
 Detailed examination of FlashPoint's prophetic personalities, political guests, Christian nationalist rhetoric, spiritual-warfare framing, and role as an alternative political-media platform.

[Fox’s Jeanine Pirro appears on Christian nationalist program FlashPoint | — | Media Matters | 2023]
 Shows the network effect through which Christian nationalist media platforms connect prophetic figures with personalities from larger conservative television outlets.

[More Republicans are identifying as Christian nationalists | — | Washington Post | October 25, 2022]
 Discusses the rapid rise of the term Christian nationalism in online political discourse, including statements by Marjorie Taylor Greene and ReAwaken America organizer Clay Clark.

[Right-wing roadshow promotes Christian nationalism before midterms | Annie Gowen | Washington Post | October 23, 2022]
 Reports on the ReAwaken America Tour's combination of political speeches, prophecy, conspiracy narratives, entertainment, religious ritual, livestreaming, and electoral mobilization.

[Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken Roadshow Recruits ‘Army of God’ | Richard Lardner and Michelle R. Smith | AP / PBS FRONTLINE | October 7, 2022]
 Investigates ReAwaken America as a traveling recruitment network combining Christian nationalism, live events, streaming media, political activism, baptisms, merchandise, and conspiracy narratives.

[Michael Flynn is recruiting an ‘Army of God’ in growing Christian nationalist movement | Richard Lardner and Michelle R. Smith | PBS NewsHour / Associated Press | October 2022]
 Describes how the ReAwaken America Tour carried the same religious-political messaging from city to city while expanding a national activist network.

[Michael Flynn: From Government Insider to Holy Warrior | Associated Press / FRONTLINE | PBS FRONTLINE | October 2022]
 Profiles Flynn's transition into a major figure in an ecosystem of election-denial media, religious nationalism, ReAwaken America events, podcasts, and political organizations.

[‘Jan. 6 comes to church’: A look at the Christian nationalism surrounding ReAwaken America | Tom Dinki | Buffalo Toronto Public Media | August 21, 2022]
 Examines Christian nationalist messages at ReAwaken America and Michael Flynn's role in connecting religious gatherings, political activism, and nationwide touring networks.

[At the intersection of politics and religion, AP reports from Michael Flynn’s Christian nationalist road show | Associated Press | AP | 2022]
 Behind-the-scenes account of reporting on ReAwaken America and the tour's mix of political messaging, religious activity, commerce, livestreaming, conspiracy culture, and recruitment.

[‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration | David Smith | The Guardian | January 11, 2019]
 Earlier account of figures including Lance Wallnau and Paula White and the religious narratives that later became central to Christian nationalist digital networks.

=== Turning Point USA, Youth, and Campus Networks ===

[America Needs A Strong Church | TPUSA Faith | Turning Point USA Faith | current]
 Primary-source overview of TPUSA Faith's national network of pastors, churches, courses, events, digital video, and local chapters aimed at combining Christian faith with civic and cultural engagement.

[Watch Online | TPUSA Faith | Turning Point USA Faith | current]
 Shows TPUSA Faith's use of livestreams, Shorts, Facebook, Instagram, courses, and video programming to connect national speakers with local Christian audiences.

[Join the Movement | TPUSA Faith | Turning Point USA Faith | current]
 Describes a scalable organizational model of church groups, speaking events, Biblical Citizenship courses, voter-registration efforts, local chapters, and viral online programming.

[TPUSA Faith | Turning Point USA | TPUSA | current]
 Contributor portal linking articles, personalities, videos, and campaigns within Turning Point's expanding faith-oriented digital media network.

[Lucas Miles | TPUSA Faith | Turning Point USA Faith | current]
 Profile of one of TPUSA Faith's most visible religious-media figures and a useful entry point into the organization's influencer, podcast, event, and church networks.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/09/09/one-year-after-charlie-kirks-death-can-faith-hold-turning-point-together/ | Kathryn Post | Religion News Service | September 9, 2026]
 Traces TPUSA's growing reliance on faith-oriented programming, pastors, online curricula, spiritual-warfare language and religious symbolism after Charlie Kirk's death.

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/09/turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-killing-one-year-later | Alice Herman | The Guardian | September 9, 2026]
 Investigates online conspiracy theories and internal disputes surrounding Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk's assassination, including the influence of Candace Owens and other digital personalities.

[https://wordandway.org/2026/04/22/a-tpusa-tour-stop-triggered-a-pro-lgbtq-event-at-baylor-then-came-the-baptist-blowback/ | Kathryn Post | Word&Way / Religion News Service | April 22, 2026]
 Examines TPUSA's continuing campus network and debates over whether its religious messaging constitutes Christian nationalism.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/12/30/2025-in-review/ | Brian Kaylor | Word&Way | December 30, 2025]
 Retrospective shows Christian nationalism, TPUSA Faith and related political-religious networks becoming recurring subjects in independent religion journalism.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/12/22/at-amfest-turning-point-usa-leaders-leverage-kirks-martyrdom-to-rally-young-voters/ | Kathryn Post | Word&Way / Religion News Service | December 22, 2025]
 Reports on AmericaFest, TPUSA Faith's expanding church network and the use of Kirk's death, online curricula and touring events to mobilize religious audiences.

[https://religionnews.com/2025/12/22/jd-vance-includes-the-unspeakable/ | Mark Silk | Religion News Service | December 22, 2025]
 Analyzes rhetoric delivered at TPUSA's AmericaFest and demonstrates how large political conventions function as nodes connecting elected officials, activists and Christian nationalist audiences.

[https://religionnews.com/2025/12/19/who-inherits-the-seven-mountains-mandate-after-charlie-kirk/ | Matthew Boedy | Religion News Service | December 19, 2025]
 Examines the future of Seven Mountains organizing and Turning Point USA's increasingly important role in connecting churches, political activism and Christian nationalist networks.

[https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/2025-in-review | Brian Kaylor | A Public Witness | December 2025]
 Reviews extensive coverage of TPUSA pastors' gatherings, biblical authoritarianism and Christian nationalist activism during 2025.

[https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/08/16/pastor-doug-wilson-idaho-christian-nationalism/ | Mariya Manzhos | Deseret News | August 16, 2025]
 Examines Douglas Wilson's expanding national profile following appearances with Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk and other conservative-media personalities.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/03/24/inside-turning-point-usas-pastors-summit/ | Matthew Boedy | Word&Way | March 24, 2025]
 First-person reporting from a TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit examining worship, podcasts, pastors, political messaging and the organization's church-centered mobilization strategy.

[https://lancewallnau.com/episode-1636-from-chaos-to-comeback-lance-wallnau-sean-kelly-reveal-the-key-to-americas-next-great-awakening/ | Lance Wallnau | Lance Wallnau Show | 2025]
 Primary-source podcast with Digital Social Hour host Sean Kelly discussing the Seven Mountains framework, AmericaFest and the use of cultural influence as a religious-political strategy.

[‘God is not done with America’: Trump supporters take victory lap at star-studded Turning Point USA event | Alice Herman | The Guardian | December 23, 2024]
 Reports on AmericaFest as a convergence point for Turning Point USA, TPUSA Faith, Lance Wallnau, Lucas Miles, Christian influencers, political speakers, and Seven Mountains ideas.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/11/01/charlie-kirks-tpusa-opens-a-new-front-in-spiritual-warfare-on-christian-campuses/ | Kathryn Post | Religion News Service | November 1, 2024]
 Investigates TPUSA's growing activity on Christian college campuses and the organization's adoption of spiritual-warfare and "reclaim the country for Christ" rhetoric.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/10/30/we-tried-christian-nationalism-in-america-it-went-badly/ | Mark Silk | Religion News Service | October 30, 2024]
 Historical commentary responds to Charlie Kirk's online advocacy for a return to explicitly Christian political institutions.

[https://wordandway.org/2024/06/03/the-second-coming-of-doug-wilson/ | Jack Jenkins | Word&Way / Religion News Service | June 3, 2024]
 Describes Wilson's emergence as a prominent Christian nationalist media figure through Tucker Carlson's program, Charlie Kirk's podcast, conferences and Canon Press.

[A far-right US youth group is ramping up its movement to back election deniers | Peter Stone | The Guardian | March 2, 2024]
 Examines Turning Point Action's large-scale organizing operation and collaboration with Lance Wallnau's Courage Tour to mobilize churches and voters.

[Socialism sucks: campus conservatives, digital media, and the rebranding of Christian nationalism | Catherine Tebaldi and Katie Gaddini | Information, Communication & Society | 2023]
 Digital ethnography of Turning Point USA and other conservative youth networks showing how influencers, Instagram aesthetics, merchandise, and political events help circulate Christian-nationalist-aligned identities among young people.

=== Gender, Tradwives, and Lifestyle Influencers ===

[https://religionnews.com/2026/07/08/i-was-raised-as-christian-pronatalist-the-movement-is-white-supremacist/ | Tia Levings | Religion News Service | July 8, 2026]
 Personal essay connects older Quiverfull networks with contemporary pronatalist and tradwife subcultures that now circulate heavily through social media.

[The Evangelical Tradwife: Nostalgic Femininity, Faith, and Cowboy Culture | Jessica Alessandra Wagner and Anna Kira Hippert | Oxford Academic | June 25, 2026]
 Studies evangelical influencer Brittany Dawn and the convergence of tradwife aesthetics, gender roles, conservative evangelicalism, nationalism, and Instagram influencer culture.

[https://podscan.fm/podcasts/relatable-with-allie-beth-stuckey/episodes/ep-1360-yesteryear-amp-the-hollywood-plot-to-demonize-christian-women | Allie Beth Stuckey | Relatable | June 15, 2026]
 Primary-source podcast illustrating how a major conservative Christian influencer discusses tradwife culture, Christian nationalism, feminism and online debates over gender.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/06/08/at-tpusas-womens-summit-christian-influencers-say-feminism-threatens-motherhood/ | Kathryn Post | Religion News Service | June 8, 2026]
 Reports on Allie Beth Stuckey, Isabel Brown, Erika Kirk and other personalities at TPUSA's Women's Leadership Summit and the merging of influencer culture with conservative Christian gender politics. Shows how online personalities translate podcast and social-media followings into conference audiences, merchandise sales and organizational relationships with TPUSA.

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/28/wife-school-christian-women-submissive | Alice Herman | The Guardian | April 28, 2026]
 Examines "wife school," tradwife culture and personalities including Tilly Dillehay, Allie Beth Stuckey and other women promoting conservative Christian gender hierarchies online.

[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tradwives-social-media-and-christian-nationalism/id1772141068?i=1000763787382 | Kelsey McGinnis | Sons of Patriarchy | April 27, 2026]
 Podcast explores algorithms, influencer marketing, parenting content and the commodification of Christian femininity in tradwife culture.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVAaC0D6bE | Kelsey McGinnis | Sons of Patriarchy | April 27, 2026]
 Video edition of a discussion examining connections among evangelical internet culture, tradwife content, gender roles and Christian nationalism.

[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912416241246273 | Sophia Sykes and Veronica Hopner | Gender & Society | 2024]
 Studies tradwife influencers and finds several ideological subtypes ranging from lifestyle conservatism to explicitly nationalist and alt-right content. Finds that influencer aesthetics can disguise significant ideological differences among tradwives, ranging from largely apolitical homemaking content to explicit white-nationalist narratives.

=== Sean Feucht, Worship, and Religious Celebrity ===

[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hold-the-line-podcast/id1572540011 | Sean Feucht | Hold the Line Podcast | current]
 Primary-source podcast combining Christianity, political activism, interviews and movement-building aimed particularly at younger conservative Christians.

[https://apnews.com/article/45cd178768c4dac0c64f82695e18dc6b | Associated Press | AP | October 2, 2026]
 Reports on litigation concerning a donation to Sean Feucht's Kingdom to the Capitol Tour and documents the tour's financial connection with Turning Point USA. Feucht disputes the allegations.

[Trump tests his luck with the religious right amid feud with pope and AI Jesus posts | David Smith | The Guardian | April 19, 2026]
 Examines how AI-generated religious imagery circulated through Truth Social and triggered reactions from figures including Douglas Wilson and Sean Feucht.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/04/13/in-criticizing-leo-and-depicting-himself-as-jesus-trump-sparks-outcry-from-religious-allies/ | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | April 13, 2026]
 Examines reaction on X and Truth Social to AI-generated religious imagery and includes responses from Sean Feucht and other conservative Christian personalities.

[https://religionnews.com/2025/06/06/why-maga-christianity-should-fear-the-new-pope/ | Jennifer Butler | Religion News Service | June 6, 2025]
 Discusses Sean Feucht's use of social media to criticize Pope Leo XIV and illustrates how influencer commentary connects religious controversies with nationalist politics.

[Worship leader Sean Feucht mismanaged millions in ministry funds, former associates say | Associated Press | AP | 2025]
 Investigates Feucht's rapidly expanded ministry, fundraising operation, social-media audience, property holdings, volunteers, and political-religious celebrity.

[Takeaways from AP’s report about financial allegations against worship leader Sean Feucht | Associated Press | AP | 2025]
 Summary of AP's investigation into the organizational finances and rapid growth surrounding Feucht's ministry and public profile.

[The Christian right celebrates after prophecy of Trump win comes to pass | Alice Herman | The Guardian | November 7, 2024]
 Reports on Sean Feucht, Charlie Kirk, prophets, prayer networks, and social media posts framing the 2024 election result as religiously significant.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/29/christian-nationalists-trump-church-state/ | Hannah Knowles and Sarah Ellison | The Washington Post | October 29, 2024]
 Examines Christian nationalist election-season networks operating through the Courage Tour, ReAwaken America and Kingdom to the Capitol.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/05/01/how-a-beloved-worship-song-became-the-theme-of-christian-nationalism-how-great-is-our-god-sean-feucht/ | Bob Smietana | Religion News Service | May 1, 2024]
 Examines Sean Feucht's use of familiar worship music to connect political rallies with the emotional culture of evangelical worship.

[Meet the drag queen who hit No 1 on the Christian music charts – with help from a Trump ally | Josiah Hesse | The Guardian | August 13, 2023]
 Demonstrates the amplification dynamics of influencer conflict after Sean Feucht's criticism of musician Flamy Grant helped drive widespread online attention.

[How a Sean Feucht worship service convinced me I am no longer an evangelical | — | Religion News Service | September 23, 2020]
 Commentary from a participant observing how Feucht's worship gatherings combined evangelical worship, political symbolism, livestream culture, and nationalist themes.

=== Counter-Networks, Critiques, and Intra-Christian Debate ===

[https://baptistnews.com/article/why-coercive-religious-politics-undermine-christianity-and-democracy/ | Juan Garcia | Baptist News Global | June 29, 2026]
 Offers a Christian critique of state-enforced religion and contributes to the wider online theological debate over Christian nationalism.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/07/15/united-church-of-christ-brings-a-still-speaking-god-into-the-christian-nationalist-era/ | Jeremy Fuzy | Word&Way | July 15, 2025]
 Shows how mainline denominations increasingly communicate opposition to Christian nationalism through conventions, publications and digital outreach.

[https://wordandway.org/2025/04/07/shannon-fleck-who-took-on-christian-nationalists-in-oklahoma-named-faithful-america-leader/ | Bob Smietana and Jack Jenkins | Word&Way / Religion News Service | April 7, 2025]
 Profiles a leader of Faithful America, illustrating how digital advocacy organizations have formed counter-networks around Christian nationalism.

[Tennessee pastor posts video burning book that critiques Christian nationalism | Aysha Khan | Religion News Service | October 24, 2019]
 Early example of Greg Locke using provocative social-media video to generate attention around Christian nationalist historical narratives.

=== International and Transnational Networks ===

[Christian Nationalism and the Far Right: A Transnational Entanglement | Marietta van der Tol | Political Insight / SAGE | June 10, 2025]
 Places American Christian nationalist networks within a broader international far-right communications and ideological ecosystem.

=== General Christian Nationalist Media, Politics, and Network Analysis ===

[https://www.wired.com/story/these-extremists-are-running-for-election-in-november | WIRED Staff | WIRED | September 2026]
 Network analysis identifies hundreds of political candidates linked to far-right Facebook groups involving militia, gun-rights and Christian nationalist themes.

[https://comment.org/podcasts/what-do-christian-nationalists-actually-want/ | Matthew Kaemingk, Shadi Hamid and William Wolfe | Comment / Zealots at the Gate | August 31, 2026]
 Interview with self-described Christian nationalist William Wolfe demonstrates how podcasts increasingly serve as venues for extended presentations of Christian nationalist political theory.

[https://comment.org/podcasts/a-christian-case-against-christian-nationalism/ | Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid | Comment / Zealots at the Gate | August 31, 2026]
 Follow-up discussion evaluates claims made by William Wolfe and illustrates how online podcast networks host sustained intra-Christian debate over nationalism.

[https://religionnews.com/2026/08/21/christian-nationalists-professed-support-for-religious-pluralism-is-often-drowned-out-by-perceptions-that-christians-are-under-threat/ | Researchers via The Conversation | Religion News Service | August 21, 2026]
 Research examines the importance of perceived threats to Christians, a recurring narrative frequently reinforced through Christian nationalist media and social networks.

[https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/denomination-presbyterian-christian-nationalism-study/ | Megan Fowler | Christianity Today | July 30, 2026]
 Reports on evangelical and Protestant denominations formally studying Christian nationalism as the issue becomes increasingly prominent in church communications and public discourse.

[https://www.crooked.com/podcast/how-christian-nationalism-threatens-democracy-2/ | Stacey Abrams and Guests | Crooked Media | June 16, 2026]
 Podcast explores Christian nationalism, Project 2025 and the role of modern communications in mobilizing religious-political movements.

[https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/05/not-everything-is-christian-nationalism/ | Chris Butler | Christianity Today | May 5, 2026]
 Provides a dissenting evangelical perspective warning against applying the Christian nationalist label too broadly, useful for understanding disagreement over terminology inside Christian media.

[The AI images Trump can’t get enough of | — | The Guardian | April 15, 2026]
 Explores AI-generated Christian imagery as an increasingly important part of online political communication and religious symbolism.

[https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2025-11-11/christian-nationalism-is-pushing-out-americas-civil-religion-asu-professor-says | Lauren Gilger | KJZZ | November 11, 2025]
 Interview discusses Christian nationalism's expanding visibility and the relationship between religious symbolism, political movements and contemporary media.

[Business of Christian Nationalism: Examining Retailers’ Self-Descriptions on a Conservative Christian Alternative to Amazon.com | — | Sociology of Religion | June 25, 2025]
 Studies PublicSquare and the development of a conservative Christian commercial ecosystem in which some sellers explicitly frame consumption as participation in a religious and political culture war.

[https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/401-christian-nationalism-and-the-new-right | Sam Harris and Katherine Stewart | Making Sense | February 18, 2025]
 Long-form podcast discusses Christian nationalism, the New Right, media ecosystems and the organizations involved in Project 2025.

[https://www.buzzsprout.com/1325890/episodes/16502824-leaving-christian-nationalism-and-finding-a-true-faith-w-april-ajoy | Nelson Perez and April Ajoy | The Social Chemist | January 29, 2025]
 Podcast discusses social-media influence, conspiracy culture and Ajoy's experience inside conservative Christian media.

[“We Should all be Christian Nationalists”: Elite Influence on Identification with Christian Nationalism | — | Political Behavior | 2025]
 Examines how statements by political elites and highly visible public figures can increase public identification with the Christian nationalist label and traces major spikes in online searches for the term.

[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-religion/issue/A7C95C3E7891013F3252A1EE99DB59B5 | Various Authors | Politics and Religion | 2025]
 Journal issue includes scholarship examining ideological and theological differences among American Christian nationalist movements and how otherwise separate networks cooperate.

[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-025-10074-y | — | Political Behavior | 2025]
 Research on elite cues finds that prominent politicians and religious personalities can increase willingness among supporters to identify explicitly with the Christian nationalist label.

[https://religionnews.com/2024/08/16/how-a-movement-to-resist-christian-nationalism-took-on-project-2025/ | Ruth Braunstein | Religion News Service | August 16, 2024]
 Describes Christopher and Mendi Tackett's use of social-media threads and network mapping to trace relationships among Christian nationalist organizations and Project 2025.

[Claiming Christian Nationalism | Stephen Wolfe | The American Mind | November 1, 2023]
 Wolfe argues that Christian nationalism requires organized political will and institutions rather than remaining merely an intellectual or theological position.

[Josh Hawley tweet sparks allegations of Christian nationalism | Jack Jenkins | Washington Post / Religion News Service | July 7, 2023]
 Shows how a viral historical quotation attributed incorrectly to Patrick Henry became part of an online debate over Christian nationalism and American founding history.

[Post-Trump, Christian nationalists preach a theology of vaccine resistance | Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service | September 14, 2021]
 Reports on Greg Locke, Mike Lindell, rallies, livestreams and other networks combining Christian nationalism, anti-vaccine activism, and online misinformation.