Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Keri Ladner

Keri Ladner earned her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and specializes in the intersection of fundamentalist religion and American politics. She is the author of American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom (Bloomsbury, 2026) and End Time Politics: From Moral Majority to QAnon (Fortress Press, 2024). 

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Religion Dispatches

The Dark Horse Candidate to Succeed Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA?

Since Kirk's death elements of the Right have targeted TPUSA leading many to wonder what comes next.
Between one speaker’s defense of burning witches and another (visibly pregnant) speaker’s declaration that hell should be afraid because she’s “bringing forth a threat to his kingdom,” this past…
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An image of a woman preaching against a cloudy sky
Political Research Associates

The Unthinkable Becomes the Norm

An Excerpt from American Dominion
In this excerpt from American Dominion, Keri Ladner explores how the domionists in the New Apostolic Reformation embraced Trumpism and played a key role in the development of Project 2025.
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Hand holds a sign reading "project 2025: dictatorship for the USA"
Religion Dispatches

Allegations of Sexual Abuse Emerge at Influential Bethel Church

The moral failure is systemic
Heartbreaking allegations of sexual abuse at Bethel Church , a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California, has recently come to light. Bob Hartley, previously one of the core “prophets” at the…
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Bob Hartley looks at the camera mournfully.