Remnant Alliance Hosts Christian Nationalist Conference in Texas
In early October, the Remnant Alliance organized a three-day event in Texas focused on training pastors, featuring several notable Christian nationalist speakers such as Charlie Kirk, Jim Garlow, Rick Green, Steve Deace, Rick Scarborough, and Paul Blair.
According to the Texas Observer, the Remnant Alliance functions as a hub for Christian nationalist ideas, framing political activism as a spiritual battle against evil with the goal of establishing God’s kingdom on earth.
Steve Maxwell from Citizens Defending Freedom spoke at the conference’s “For Such A Time As This Gala” and openly described the Remnant Alliance as a Christian nationalist movement aiming to embed a far-right biblical worldview throughout society.
Maxwell questioned, “The question before us tonight is can America rise once again to defeat a multi-headed enemy that is both inside our homeland and overseas?” He outlined the mission and strategy of the Remnant Alliance, which he said has been effective throughout history and is being implemented anew in the United States.
“It’s called the Remnant Alliance,” Maxwell explained. “The Remnant Alliance is a group of Christ-centered organizations that have come together, combining skill sets and resources, creating a plexus of support for our pastor leaders and citizens throughout the United States through the local church. You say, ‘Steve, you sound like a Christian national.’ And I say, ‘You’re daggum right we sound like a Christian national!’”
The Texas Observer reported that the Remnant Alliance follows a five-step plan to advance its agenda:
First, local pastors are trained to have a “Biblical Worldview” through Liberty Pastors; second, pastors begin teaching a “Biblical Worldview” from the pulpit with the help of preprepared notes; third, congregants are trained on “Biblical Citizenship” and “Constitutional Defense” through the so-called Patriot Academy; fourth, pastors form a “Salt and Light” ministry at their church and are paired with a Citizens Defending Freedom liaison; and fifth, entire congregations are mobilized to “extend the Kingdom of God” with the help of advocacy groups—in other words, to vote for “Biblical values” candidates in races that can be decided by a few hundred votes.
Maxwell further described the plan in his remarks. “So what is the Remnant Alliance?” he asked. “We first have a boot camp for pastors. … Those pastors leave that three-day boot camp with their wives and then they go home and they begin preaching. They have an armful of of sermons and they’re excited and they commit to go home and preach a biblical worldview and teach this history we’re talking about. Next, we train the congregants. Most of our American citizens have never taught our Christian heritage and so we take care of that through Rick Green and [his] Patriot Academy [which has] over 30,000 coaches across the nation. Millions of people have been watching this. We train our congregation.”
“Next is the Salt and Light Council,” Maxwell continued. “It is a toolkit inside that church that now everything involved from selecting and training leaders, to voter guides, how to start a private school, anything you need in that community to get activated, it’s in that toolbox. Our organization is Citizens Defending Freedom. We bring the attorneys at the grassroots level. We bring the media and we bring our own intelligence so we can understand the money flows and what’s going on in that community.”
“Now we have a biblical citizenship ministry [in the local church] and their job is to help shine the light on that community,” Maxwell declared. “There are 320,000 churches in America today; every single one of them is an embassy, or could be an embassy, for the Kingdom of God. We are ambassadors for Christ. This is not our home. Our mission is to represent our Kingdom on Earth.”
Maxwell concluded, “Our job is to extend the Kingdom of God.”
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