Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

[Passages]

They're certainly not sitting on their laurels.


by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
July 13, 5 a.m. EDT

The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the law.

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These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.

ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.

“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1720875618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[CousinIT]

1. VERY important info. ProPublica does GREAT work!

Bookmarked and sharing.

THANK YOU.

[Passages]

3. You are welcome. They do great work indeed.

[Clouds Passing]

2. They must give themselves purpose by creating their spiritual battle fantasies. Otherwise they would

feel like the hucksters and fraudsters they truly are. They are false prophets.

A true sense of purpose lifts and heals all.

[ms liberty]

4. K&R. n/t

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Fuckers

Christian nazi pieces of shit. We need a wealth cap so these fuckers can’t afford to buy our government and churches need to be taxed heavily to limit how much they can have too.

[Danmel]

6. Yet another company to boycott

Bummer. Jockey fits me well.