Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."youtu.beWhitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"YouTube video by Aaron Rupar 15642501540
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 28/07/2026ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention prospect.org/2026/07/28/i...prospect.orgICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention - The American ProspectCommunity members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting. 152
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 15/07/2026226 children. That's ICE's daily average in detention right now, every single day, under Trump's second term. 186
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckMorally Obligated @femmewarrior.bsky.social · 10/07/2026🚨 Opening in August 2026 in Alexandria, La👀 #1ceDetention #SlaveryInTheUS2026 #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat #AlexandriaLouisiana #stopiceexpansion 011
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026They filed a 412 page proposed rule to control $1 trillion in federal grants. They gave the public 45 days to comment. They’re counting on you not reading it. Everything you need to know, and what to do before July 13. shannonfleck.substack.com/p/rewriting-...shannonfleck.substack.comThey’re Rewriting Who Gets $1 Trillion in Federal Grants. Most People Don’t Know. That’s the Whole Strategy.Russell Vought’s proposed grant overhaul is a political loyalty filter on $1 trillion in federal money. Here’s the machinery—and how to fight it before July 13. 123
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 17/06/2026JD Vance’s faith memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, isn’t a side note on his resume. It’s a strategy designed to win hearts, diffuse resistance, and make government-by-theocracy feel less like a takeover and more like a homecoming. #ChristianNationalism 030
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"For too long, religion has been used as a weapon against LGBTIQ+ people—especially transgender and nonbinary youth who are being targeted with a cruelty that should break every heart awake to the sacred." Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer for @theadvocatebr.bsky.social. www.advocate.com/opinion/fait...advocate.comFaith leaders: Silence on LGBTQ+ rights is no longer an optionA new multi-faith declaration, Sacred Worth, Shared Freedom, urges religious leaders and communities to defend LGBTQ+ dignity, human rights, and democratic freedoms. 075
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after shares of his rocket company SpaceX soared in its initial public offering. To put that figure in perspective, $1 trillion is enough money to spend $1 million every day for 2,740 years. 075
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X 185
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 10/06/2026GEO Group posted a record $254 million profit in 2025, yet its detainees are being fed worms. They are profiting off of the pain and suffering of our neighbors, and we’re calling them out. Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...actionnetwork.orgPeople of Faith Condemn GEO Group's Abuse of Immigrants in Delaney Hall and nationwideThey are collecting $2.1 billion in federal contracts nationwide to cage our neighbors. They call the abuse "compliance." We declare: NOT IN OUR NAME. GEO Group operates Delaney Hall, an ICE det... 065
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 08/06/2026“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Dr. Maya Angelou 000
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckThis Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The U.S. church didn't just fail to oppose racism. In many cases, it organized to defend it. Pastors wrote the theology. Denominations drew the lines. And they called it faithful Christianity. We can see the pattern again today with white Christian nationalism. 05213
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 04/06/2026DHS says: #DelaneyHall holds “murderers, rapists, pedophiles.” Reality: 88% have no criminal conviction. 70% have NO criminal history. <1% fit that narrative. Conditions: maggot-infested food, denied care, hundreds on a hunger strike. This isn’t security— it’s control. 111
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Radical love of neighbor has never meant neutrality. It means showing up, putting your own safety on the line for your neighbor’s. #faithmatters #christian #dojustice 192
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Markwayne Mullin’s response to maggot-infested food at #DelaneyHall: “This isn’t Holiday Inn.” Not a denial. Shame as defense. That’s cruelty designed as policy. That’s cruelty with a smile. When we stop seeing human beings and start justifying their suffering, something has broken. 230
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckSophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Labor unions gathered for a solidarity rally outside Delaney Hall ice detention center today. People detained inside are on day 10 of a labor strike. 423101965
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckSteve Holcombe @steve-holcombe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Yes, this, too, is how a grew up in Osage County, Oklahoma. Neither the Tulsa Race Riot ... nor, by the way, the Osage Reign of Terror. Thank you @shannonmfleck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/shannonf...open.substack.comGrowing Up White in Oklahoma: Why the Erasure of Black Wall Street Was Never an AccidentThe Erasure Was Intentional: How White Comfort Required Forgetting Black Wall Street 143
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckWord&Way @wordandway.bsky.social · 29/05/2026When President Trump announced his nomination of Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem as DHS secretary in March, @shannonmfleck.bsky.social of @faithfulamerica.bsky.social quickly warned he wasn’t an improvement.publicwitness.wordandway.orgThe Gospel According to MarkwayneICE agents can do all things through Christ who strengthens them. 063
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The letters from #DelaneyHall hit my soul hard. As the hunger strike begins to expand across the country, we absolutely cannot look away. open.substack.com/pub/shannonf... #HungerStrike #ICE #DelaneyLettersopen.substack.comThe Letters From Delaney Hall: The Why of the Hunger StrikeRoughly 300 ICE detainees in Newark are on a hunger and labor strike. Three letters from inside Delaney Hall explain why—and what they’re demanding. 022
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In Exodus, people built a golden calf and called it holy. Today, Christian nationalism does something similar: it turns political power into an idol and wraps it in religious language. Scripture warns us again and again: do not worship false gods. #TrumpGoldenCalf #America250 176
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckSecular Coalition for America @secularcoalition.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Secular Coalition for America, @ffrf.org, @faithfulamerica.bsky.social, and @interfaithalliance.org peacefully protested the government-funded Christian nationalist "Rededicate America" this Sunday The day was filled with support from fellow advocates committed to fighting for our secular democracy 097
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 15/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/shannonf...open.substack.comFifteen Years Out of the Box: What the System Didn’t Teach MeA reflection on the 15th anniversary of my ordination 000
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it. Join us. Visit allroadsleadtothesouth.com #VotingRights #allroadsleadtothesouth #dayofactionallroadsleadtothesouth.comAll Roads Lead to the South — National Day of Action for Voting RightsThe voting rights they marched for are being stripped away right now. We're going back. Are you coming? 23218
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 11/05/2026“They have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshipped it.” - Exodus 32:8 As Christians, we have instructions on how to respond to false prophets. We follow Jesus, not Trump. 174
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This governor is wild y’all. After five days in Louisiana with the people of his state, I am not at all shocked to see this move. #frontlinefaithful #whitechristiannationalism 000
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Louisiana! Our first stop on the Frontline Faithful Tour, and wow was it a good one. Louisiana consistently ranks in the top states for support of Christian nationalism, and that’s exactly why we needed to start here.📍 #FrontlineFaithful 122
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Collecting tour flair! Hook a girl up! www.faithfulamerica.org/frontline-fa... 010
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. I shared these thoughts with For Such a Time as This a few days ago. In oklahoma, we say “Never Forget” about this day… and yet Oklahoma has forgotten. 021
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Everything is in this delusional picture: War. America. Whiteness. And Trump’s claims of holiness in the center of it all. This is Christian nationalism. 024
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The MAGA universe turning on Trump has me wondering what they know that we don’t (yet) know. 🤔 TBD 000
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare. 761195035684
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 01/04/2026“Christian nationalists very much want to shape the government through a lens of their version and interpretation of Christianity, which is really just using the language of the faith in order to gain power and control,” @shannonmfleck.bsky.social for Impactivize. www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...impactivize.orgTrump’s Freedom 250 Event to ‘Rededicate’ USA as ‘One Nation Under God.’ Faith Leaders, Legal Scholars Warn of Dangers of Christian Nationalist Extremism -President Trump's Freedom 250 will stage Rededicate 250 -- a 10-hour Christian Nationalist event at the National Mall on May 17. Part of Trump's hijack of America's 250th birthday, the White House cal... 123
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Today, on the International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate with faithful pride. To our trans neighbors, friends, family members, and communities: We see you. You are valued, you are beautiful, and you are loved -- unconditionally. 🏳️⚧️ 064
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026BREAKING: Separation of church and state no where to be seen in our nation’s capital. 032
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Im asked what to do to push back on white Christian Nationalism with overwhelming regularity. Step one is to get plugged in to the communities that have the most concrete answers. #christiannationalism open.substack.com/pub/smfleck/... 001
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026How a Christian Nationalist Defines an Election Threat: (A Thread) 101
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026“When you put a dominionist at the helm of the Department of Homeland Security, you’re not hiring a watchdog; you’re arming the fox and opening the henhouse door.” open.substack.com/pub/smfleck/... 011
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Extreme Christian nationalism is about to ride shotgun at the Department of Homeland Security.baptistnews.comMarkwayne Mullin has ties to Oklahoma theistic group – Baptist News GlobalThose gleeful over the firing of Kristi Noem should understand the senator nominated to succeed her is every bit a Christian nationalist.. 144
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell the Senate: Don't weaponize our faith to suppress votes. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell the Senate: Don't weaponize our faith to suppress votesThe SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill that would upend voter registration and disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. The bill would require citizens to show a passport or birth certificate tha... 001
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 04/03/2026With all this talk of “Armageddon”, a word of wisdom from the biblically literate. 🙌substack.comRev. Benjamin R. Cremer (@brcremer)The book of Revelation has often been misread as a cryptic forecast of geopolitical events or as a codebook for the end of the world. Yet, at its heart, Revelation is a deeply theological critique of ... 000
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckSamuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Pretty much an iron law that the more unjustified a military campaign is on rational grounds, the more the aggressors will cite God's sanction. Leaders don't need to tell soldiers they're in a holy war when the nation is under attack; they do it when motivation to fight might otherwise be lacking. 26816
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"Years ago, we tore up a nuclear peace deal w/Iran. Months ago, we bombed Iran & "obliterated" their nuke capabilities. And now, we might just have to go to war with Iran bc of their nuke capabilities." -the ppl who tore up the nuclear peace deal w/Iran 1272676951
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckSean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 24/02/2026A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM. 12169863789
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud. 1139299938668
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckFaithful America @faithfulamerica.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Faithful America Executive Director, Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck, (@shannonmfleck.bsky.social) joined 400 Christian leaders calling out the cruel and oppressive Trump administration, and urging all Christians to engage in greater acts of courage to resist injustice. religionnews.com/2026/02/18/4...religionnews.com400 Christian leaders urge resistance to Trump administration on Ash WednesdayThe statement’s signers include a mix of denominational leaders, seminary presidents, scholars and leaders of prominent congregations. 083
Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The Department of War has been hosting monthly Christian worship services in the Pentagon, and this month’s was led by Christian nationalist pastor, Doug Wilson. This man supports repealing women's right to vote, amongst other extreme views. His voice preaching to our leaders is highly alarming. 043
Reposted by Rev Dr Shannon FleckJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/02/2026This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas. 258122964880