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Indivisible—a leading anti-Trump resistance group and organizer of the nationwide No Kings protests—is helping bankroll a church-organizing tour run by a group urging pastors to remove American flags from sanctuaries, replace a traditional Independence Day prayer and mobilize congregations against conservative political influence.
That group, Faithful America, also campaigns to abolish ICE, backs the Transgender Bill of Rights and has hosted Pride-related bystander-intervention training with CAIR Oklahoma’s executive director.
Its own public materials spell out the political mission: one tour event promises to discuss how faith-based movements can “target and dismantle” the pillars supporting “the Trump regime.”
Its materials address what Christians hear in worship and how they engage in politics.
The Preacher’s Toolkit recommends pastors “take the American flag out of your church sanctuary.” Anticipating congregational resistance, it offers discussion as an initial step.
It also recommends replacing the Episcopal Independence Day prayer because it “unintentionally verges into Christian nationalism.” Its objection is that the prayer implies the Founding Fathers acted according to divine purposes.
The flag recommendation comes with examples pastors can follow.
One recommended essay describes a congregation removing both the American flag and the Christian flag. Its author, Rebecca Littlejohn, pastor of Vista La Mesa Christian Church in East San Diego County, said discussions prompted by January 6 led to the decision.
Littlejohn argued that placing the flags alongside the cross reinforced Christian nationalism. Her account dates to 2022, before the current Indivisible partnership, and distinguishes opposition to nationalism from rejection of patriotism.
Another recommended essay, by Craig Watts, argues that displaying the national flag in worship elevates American identity over the worldwide Christian community and excludes people who do not feel positively toward the United States. Watts also rejects the argument that American wars have preserved religious freedom.
The group’s 2026 midterm campaign identifies ten figures, including Andy Barr, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ken Paxton and Pete Hegseth, under its False Prophets designation. The list mixes candidates with appointed officials.
The website identifies Faithful America as the campaign’s payer and states that no candidate or candidate committee authorized it.
Under instructions to make a November voting plan, it urges readers to:
“vote, remove these false prophets from power”
Its pressure tactics extend to campaign supporters. A petition to State Farm demands the company withdraw support for Andy Barr over campaign rhetoric Faithful America characterizes as white supremacist. Its profile of Barr also criticizes his opposition to same-sex marriage and DEI.
Faithful America describes itself as a network of progressive Christians. Its mission statement identifies the “American empire” as a source of injustice and calls on members to “Flip tables whenever necessary.” Originally a National Council of Churches project, and later a Faith in Public Life project, it now operates independently as a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization.
Its own documents show how that advocacy works.
Faithful America’s instructions then move from worship to political participation.
The toolkit urges attendance at school-board hearings, legislative committees and city-council meetings, alongside lobbying and press outreach. It proposes “Tracking extremism in your area” and counterprotests around ReAwaken America and Turning Point USA events. It cautions churches against favoring candidates and recommends nonpartisan voter registration.
The organization separately describes a record of pressure campaigns against conservative religious figures and Christian institutions.
On its impact page, Faithful America says more than 18,000 members signed a petition demanding James Altman’s termination and called his bishop’s office. The campaign followed Altman’s statements about Democrats and COVID vaccines; the group highlights his subsequent removal from active ministry.
It also says more than 17,000 members pressured Google over World Vision’s reversal of a policy change concerning gay and lesbian employees. The group points to a Google executive’s subsequent resignation from World Vision’s board.
The same page describes a campaign involving more than 20,000 members against Tony Perkins’s MSNBC appearances and claims its organizing helped ReAwaken America encounter difficulty booking venues. Those are the organization’s accounts of its influence.
During the 2024 election, it says it sponsored anti-Trump events combining prayer vigils, training and press conferences. It also sent a 15-foot inflatable golden calf to political gatherings, using a biblical symbol of false worship to protest Trump and his allies.
Its present campaigns similarly turn religious arguments into demands for specific political action.
The Faithful Pride campaign, launched in 2025, encourages Christians to attend and lead Pride marches, protests and celebrations. It identifies Veronica Laizure, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Oklahoma chapter, as a trainer alongside Faithful America executive director Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck.
Their advertised training covers safely intervening in harassment or violence, online and in person. Faithful America also distributes a Pride rally-sign package and directs readers to guidance on church participation in Pride events.
Its ICE abolition campaign declares:
“Abolishing ICE is not just policy; it is a moral imperative.”
A separate campaign supporting the Transgender Bill of Rights asks Christians to press Congress to support the initiative associated with Democratic lawmakers Pramila Jayapal and Ed Markey. It portrays the Trump administration’s treatment of transgender people as a betrayal of Christian teachings.
Faithful America also opposed Rededicate 250, the Trump-associated religious commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, describing the event as “a front for white Christian Nationalism.” Its petition accused organizers of using the celebration to promote Trump and a particular version of Christianity.
Indivisible, whose organizing guide describes building resistance to Trump and weakening MAGA’s political power, is now helping finance Faithful America’s organizing tour.
The tour page identifies that work as “funded by our partners at Indivisible.” Fleck leads the six-state initiative. Its April Louisiana program included an Indivisible leadership summit; upcoming stops are listed for Arkansas on September 25–27 and Kentucky on October 9–11.
Faithful America’s action center simultaneously describes the organization as “100% grassroots funded,” without billionaire or corporate money. It does not explain there how Indivisible’s support fits that description.
Indivisible’s financial backers include George Soros’s Open Society network, whose grant database lists $7.61 million in awards supporting Indivisible Project between 2017 and 2023. That includes a $3 million grant awarded in 2023 and $350,000 routed through Tides Advocacy in 2017. Its early backers also included Reid Hoffman and foundations or coalitions tied to Herbert Sandler, Patricia Bauman and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, according to 2017 reporting.
The organization reported 2024 revenue of $771,482 and expenses of $782,014, according to figures extracted from its tax return. Those figures predate the tour.
The tour’s public funding disclosure supplies no contribution amount, grant terms or itemized budget. It establishes Indivisible’s support for the tour; it does not establish that Indivisible financed the toolkit or the group’s other campaigns. How much the partnership is worth, and precisely which organizing activities it pays for, remain unanswered.
Faithful America’s campaign reaches from the sanctuary to the ballot box: urging changes to church practices, organizing protests, promoting progressive causes and calling on voters to remove its political opponents. Indivisible is helping fund the tour that brings that organizing into local communities. The group campaigning against Christian nationalism has a political agenda of its own—and it wants America’s churches to help advance it.
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Satan has damaged many Churches, Priests and Pastors for decades.
As Christians we must pray for forgiveness, being thankful and wear the armor of God everyday!
These are more things that point out the fact that normal people must get out and vote (or early vote) to assure this craziness doesn't really overwhelm us. No time to sit by watching it all burn down.