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Lawyer for Christian nationalist evangelist named US attorney for Eastern WA

Pasco Mayor Pete Serrano, who represented the anti-queer worship pastor Sean Feucht in a lawsuit against Spokane, will oversee all federal cases in Eastern WA, including those of the Spokane 9.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 13 Aug 2025

Police reform advocates win legislative concession in Olympia

For and by Christians: How Idaho’s influential Christian Nationalist group wants to reshape the state

With powerful allies in the pulpit and the Pentagon, the Idaho Family Policy Center seizes its moment

By Daniel Walters

/ 5 Aug 2025

The six degrees of an embattled charismatic ministry

Time-share presentation or good Christian representation of the gospel?

Thousands of local believers gathered for Life Surge at the Spokane Arena to hear the Lord’s messengers on why it’s biblical to be wealthy. Some of the presenters were openly pro-wealth and anti-queer.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 10 Jun 2025

With new campus, Pastor Doug Wilson’s Christian Valhalla grows in Idaho

As Christian nationalism has taken a front stage at the national level, a local pastor is expanding his influence and his Moscow empire

By Tracy Simmons

/ 2 Jun 2025

Home Church: The tax man says a religious ‘retreat’ must pay

Spokane apostle Cal Pierce bought a $1M home through his nonprofit Healing Rooms Ministries — a 25-year project with a global presence and ties to far-right Christianity. He tried to exempt it from property taxes, but Washington denied his application.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 10 Oct 2024

What dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation are and what they have to do with Spokane

Everything you need to know about the hard-right flavor of Christian nationalism that has remade national conservative politics, fueled Trump and has passionate local adherents.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 12 Sep 2024

The traveling anti-queer pastor Sean Feucht announces lawsuit against Spokane

During a recent Spokane visit, Feucht preached on a bridge, continued his anti-queer rhetoric about Pride month and prepared to drop a lawsuit against the city for their 2023 denouncement of then-Mayor Woodward

By Aaron Hedge

/ 5 Jun 2024

Sean Feucht is back in Spokane

Matt Shea is hosting Sean Feucht for a worship event at his church, the latest in a spring series of Christian nationalist events. Here's what he's been up to since he was in town last year and who he is.

By Aaron Hedge and Holly VanVoorhis

/ 31 May 2024

It’s going to be a hell of a summer for a local far-right church

As the 2024 election approaches, Matt Shea is hosting a spate of events with prominent Christian nationalist figures — including former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn — in preparation for a ‘season of revival’ and, Shea hopes, a remaking of Washington in the Christian God’s image.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 15 May 2024

‘I think they forgot we existed here, too’

Spokane City Council was quick with a resolution supporting Israel and denouncing anti-Semitism. 74 days later, with Islamophobic hate ongoing in Spokane, Muslim and Arab community members wonder if support for them will ever come.

By Adir Blüm

/ 22 Dec 2023

What’s behind the ‘Don’t mess with our kids’ message Nadine Woodward is posing next to

A photo of the mayor posing with a constituent wearing an anti-trans shirt came two days before a heated election and two months after her controversial appearance at a Christian nationalist concert.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 6 Nov 2023

Zach Williams meets the redemption machine

Far-right celebrity pastor Sean Feucht, Matt Shea and allies built a massive media campaign claiming to have saved the soul of an unhoused Spokane man. The man tells a different story.

By Aaron Hedge

/ 29 Oct 2023