Maine media ignore thousands of End Timers gathered in Capitol Park
Christian-Nationalist Troubadour warns of coming pandemic, invites cultists to pre-Election rally in Washington D.C
When I heard that the millionaire Christian-Nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht was staging a revival and cash grab in Capitol Park in Augusta, Maine on May 26, I knew I had to go. For the last year, I’ve been researching Christian-Nationalist lawmakers in Maine to identify and understand the current crop of right-wing religious extremists vying for seats in the Legislature. And I wanted to see how many of them would show up for Feucht’s traveling dog-and-pony show on the beautiful summer-like Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.
Feucht, a known grifter (more on that in a bit) who says he’s been coming to Maine on vacation for over a decade, is allegedly on a mission from God, intent on leading revivals in all 50 state capitals before the November election. Augusta was number 35. Feucht, a star in the chud-o-sphere, is pulling in millions annually from his suckers… I mean followers. Feucht, a major Trump suck-boy, also loves to chill with other famous Christo-Nashers like Lauren Boebert, Josh Hawley, Charlie Kirk and Ted Nugent.
For the purposes of my upcoming series of Crash Reports on Christo-Nashers running for the Maine State House, I define Christian-Nationalism as the political movement that believes the United States is a Christian Nation that has lost its way. These Christo-chuds believe their long-bearded sky-god created the U.S. as a white Christian-Ethnostate, a refuge for his chosen people, to be ruled by Biblical law. Perpetual victims, they blame feminism, pluralism and multiculturalism for replacing straight white Christian men with multi-gendered woke queers.
These Christo-Nash aren’t denominational Christians or Jesus-loving hippy freaks. This brand of Christianity has disdain for Protestants with social justice goals of bringing the Kingdom of God to planet Earth in order to transform modern society into one that is inclusive, loving and healing for all.
Most Christian-Nationalists identify as independent charismatics or Pentecostal Christians. Their God is angry and grudge-holding. Theirs is a world of miracles and of speaking-in-tongues. Demons, demonic possession and constant spiritual warfare are part of their everyday life, because they believe Satan has it out for them. And they believe that their God speaks through modern prophets and apostles, thanks to the New Apostolic Reformation and Five Folds Ministry (which we’ll go into more detail later in our reporting) to gain control over society. And, if we’re to believe what they preach, it’s all in order to fulfill prophecy and bring about the End Times.
When it’s convenient and fits their policy goals, the Christo-Nash are Bible literalists, believing the Old and New Testament to be inerrant. Instead of viewing Scripture through a lens of allegory, symbolism and folk tale, these folks believe their interpretation of God as a mean, discriminatory sky ogre is the sole legit reading of the Bible.
Also, most Christo-Nash are influenced (even if they don’t realize it) by some version of what’s called the Seven Mountains Mandate (7MM). Later, I’ll be writing more about this relatively new far-right movement (the phrase “Seven Mountains” wasn’t even coined until 2013) whose origin story is super-supernatural. Here’s the short version: According to legend, in 1975 the Christian God allegedly entered the dreams of two American preachers (on the same night, apparently, but in separate beds in different places) informing them that Christians need to conquer the seven spheres of modern society: family, religion, education, media, arts & entertainment, business and government.
Then, once all Seven Mountains are under Christian control (according to prophecy) Jesus returns and the End Times begin.
To recap: Inspired by a pair of prophetic dreams, the growing Christo-Nash movement wants to control society in order to accelerate the destruction of our world. And the most important mountain to conquer, according to the current 7MM mindset, is the government, because the government mountain regulates all the other mountains.
Yikes.
I’ve been researching religious extremism for years and despite Maine being one of the least religious states in the country, I’m aware of a whole bunch of apocalyptic Christian churches being planted across the state. So it wasn’t a shocker, to me, that a large crowd of end times cultists would show up for Feucht’s “Let Us Pray” revival. Not to belabor the point, but none of these folks are talking about the loving and kind Jesus. They aren’t praising the compassionate Savior who tells you to love your neighbor and welcome refugees with open arms. The Christians who showed up for Feucht’s revival were hard-liners, eager to embrace their vindictive God and his “Lake of Fire for sinners” concept rather than the hugs and tolerance of the woke-Christ.
A perfect example of this type was a group of a dozen middle-aged death-cultists I encountered during Feucht’s sound check just before the revival. (The short vid below is a quick look at this posse.) While muttering about abortion, they drank simulated blood, ate simulated flesh, then blew shofars and banged cymbals to drive out the demons and evil spirits lurking, just 500 feet away, in the Maine State House.
A quick aside. Blowing a shofar has never been a Christian thing. The curved ram’s horn, traditionally, was blown by ancient Jews as a battle signal and was used as both a call to war and a call to freedom. (In modern Judaism, the shofar is part of synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur.) In recent years, the Christo-Nash appropriated the horn-blowing into their spiritual warfare arsenal.
And, in the case of the shofar-blowing women at the Feucht revival, they were just getting into the mood to battle all the agents of the Devil they believe are currently occupying the Maine State House.
After a mere five minutes of observation and eavesdropping, though, it became pretty clear that Jesus would not have hung out with these angry, judgmental shofar-blowing ladies. Also, in my professional opinion (as an exorcist and aura-reader,) there’s a good chance a couple of these women were possessed by demons.
I can already hear the apologists complaining about me being mean to the Christo-Nash. Defenders of Feucht’s revival will claim it’s just a group of harmless Christians practicing their constitutional right to worship. On the surface, I agree, the optics aren’t sinister. There was lots of joyful hugging, hopping and jump-dancing, along with a fair amount of kids, adolescents and millennials, which gave the revival an almost music festival vibe.
Listening to Feucht’s song and dance, though, in the context of the Christo-Nash prophecies and beliefs, it’s clear these people are fucking crazy. Especially since they want their enemies to suffer horribly while we all await doomsday. They spew venom towards who they perceive as sinners, including but not limited to Democrats, LGBTQ folks, public school teachers, school boards and Taylor Swift.
Also, depending on their particular sub-cult’s interpretation of the Book of Revelations, Armageddon will starts with the Rapture or the Great Tribulation or the arrival of the Seven Bowls of God’s wrath (aka the Seven Plagues) in order for all “saved” Christians (even those that identify as male) to go to heaven, don white linen gowns, and become Brides of Christ. Which sounds like the biggest poly-wedding ceremony ever. And I’m sure the chud-men-in-heaven will look ravishing in their wedding dresses.
Yikes. And these people want to run the world.
Correction: some of these people are already running the world with the hope to destroy it. House Speaker Mike Johnson subscribes to this philosophy. Many GOP congressional members, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Mary Miller and others self-ID as Christo-Nash. And in Maine, House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham leads a cadre of lawmakers who share the same philosophy.
(In the coming months, leading up to the 2024 election, I’ll be publishing Crash Reports on Maine’s Christo-Nash legislators and wannabe lawmakers, while taking a very close look at the churches and pastors that influence their legislative agendas. Next week, we start with Faulkingham and his house of worship, because, despite sinking his lobster boat and falsely blaming a rogue wave, he’s still the leader (and most powerful) of the current cabal of Christo-Nash in the Maine Legislature.)
While Feucht’s revival had lots of music and singing and hands stretched toward heaven in exultation, it seemed more of a political event and networking opportunity than worship service. (Except for the altar call and casting out of demons. More on that later.) Between songs, Feucht used his altar-stage as a way to platform his agenda of Trump-licking, demon-fighting, anti-woke and libtard-bashing, with his jam band droning on behind his rhapsodizing.
And the crowd ate it up, big-time. All through the two hours plus of revival, there was a long line at the merch table, with folks trying on hats and tees while perusing Feucht’s books and music, trading cash for swag while Feucht crooned and preached.
As for networking, a couple dozen independent charismatic preachers from across the state had a chance to bond in a half-hour long private prayer and prophecy circle during sound check. Then those Maine ministers served as an opening act for Feucht, each one offering a short and snappy benediction before handing the mic to the next rev. I lost track of who blessed what, but their message was clear. The devil needs his ass kicked out of the State House and their God is the one to do it. Most of the preachers hung around in the crowd during the service then returned down front to channel the Holy Spirit and cast out demons during the altar call.
Also, I spotted several lawmakers in attendance, possibly plotting and praying on how to conquer the government mountain in order to trigger the end times. My state rep Tammy Schmersal had a small crowd around her. I’m pretty sure Bangor State Rep. Dick Campbell and Maine GOP’s Joel Stetkis were there too, but it’s tough to be 100 percent sure because there were so many mustachioed milquetoast middle aged white dudes with lawn chairs in attendance. Also in praying with the masses, according to her socials, was Q-adjacent State Rep.Katrina Smith.
And I watched former GOP chair Demi Kouzounas, who claims Susan Collins urged her to challenge Senator Angus King, press the flesh and work the crowd during the worship service. She explained to one interested chud (me, but in disguise) how a crowded 4-candidate race and ranked-choice voting could be key to her beating King in November.
And I’m sure there were other politicians and wannabes out in the crowd, as 7MMers like to say, “climbing the government mountain.” All just doing their part to trigger the End Times so saved Christians (and anti-woke Orthodox and Trad Cats) can be re-united with their grandparents and others that died before them. Provided each of the dead-kin are select Christians who will be re-animated (?!?) after surviving the Day of Reckoning.
Feucht himself tried (and failed) “to climb the government mountain.” Back in 2020, he ran, as a Republican for U.S. House District 3 in northern California. He raised and spent about $325,000, but still lost bigly, coming in third with just 13.5 percent of the vote during the “Non-Partisan Primary.” Feucht told interviewers the reason for his loss was simple: the Church didn’t go out and vote. From there, he pivoted from politics to conspiracy. (There’s been lots of reporting on Feucht’s Covid-era denial and shenanigans. None of which, btw, stopped him from taking almost $21,000 in PPP loans.)
These days, on tour and in Maine, with the State House dome behind him, Feucht’s mix of “Freedom” prayers, coupled with Old Testament motivational stories, were all designed to foment discontent with secularism. His stage chatter gave Biblical justifications for waging spiritual warfare against the enemies, both real and imaginary.
At one point, Feucht warned the crowd that the government has “other pandemics planned,” which made people around me groan. However, according to their End Times theology, a new pandemic should’ve been considered good news, since God intends to send plagues to Earth as part of his divine plan.
Also, I’m pretty sure Feucht would love another pandemic. And not just because plagues are a big part of his God’s punishment of sinners on the way to the end of days. For Feucht, COVID made him a very wealthy man. A cursory look at his non-profit’s currently available IRS 990s shows the grifty truth. In 2018, the dude pulled in $210,895 with $268,563 in expenses, meaning over a $50k deficit. In 2019, he reported $283,272, with $269,911 in expenses. Then in 2020, after losing his bid for Congress, he hit the road, singing and dancing on how he wouldn’t allow the government to take away the Christians’ right to pray, no matter what sort of pestilence his God unleashes on Earth.
I hope you’re sitting down because, on his 2020 990, his gross “Program Service Revenue” was $5,313,651. Since it takes money to make money, he deducted about $1.1 million in expenses, meaning he only cleared $4.1 million. And I’m not sure if that number includes his aforementioned PPP loan of about $21k. Also, 2020 is his last 990 available through the IRS, which I found odd, since other charities I’ve monitored have more current data.
Walking among the masses, most folks looked pretty normal to me. Many sported message-tees, with about 30 percent being Trump-licking while the remaining 70 percent were Christ-centered meme-shirts. Also, I saw signs of Trad-Cats, 3-percenters and gun nuts and a fair number of bros with military-bearing and tattoos, some of whom were conceal carrying. All pretty much what I expected to find at a Christo-Nash revival. To be blunt, it was pretty damn boring. The music was lame. There were no food trucks or beer garden. And I spotted only one freelance healer wandering the crowd, laying her hands on the ill and casting out demons.
The only thing that really surprised me was the intensity of Feucht’s altar call. For those who don’t hang out in evangelical circles, the altar call is when the preacher invites sinners to come down front and beg their God for forgiveness and make a new spiritual commitment to their Savior.
Below, I’ve posted my video of Feucht’s altar call, so you can see what surprised me. I was less than 50 feet stage left and had a clear view of the people rushing to the “altar.” And leading the way, first in line, running, is a fella I recognized. I’ve put a red circle around him so you can see what I’m talking about.
In the red circle 34-year old Nicholas Blanchard, of Augusta, a chud who goes by the nickname Corn Pop, though J-6 researchers refer to him as #PartyPantsGnome, mocking him for wearing easy-to-identify gray camouflage trousers and red, white and blue neck gaiter during the Capitol insurrection.
In the video below, Blanchard is first leading a “Fuck Antifa” chant, followed by some very brief footage of Blanchard dismantling barricades on the Capitol steps that were turned them into weapons used during the rioting. As of today, he hasn’t been arrested for J-6, yet, but in 2021, a FBI agent who interviewed “Corn Pop” told me that Blanchard "loved to talk."
Blanchard is the rare shit-poster who is also active in irl. He attends every Trump rally in Maine or New Hampshire wearing a clownish costume. Boots on the ground, in the last couple of years, he’s harassed school board members, trans-folk and pro-choice activists across the state. A regular caller on Info-Wars, he often references Q-Anon garbage on-air and on the socials. He claims the earth is flat and, lately, he’s been showing interest in becoming a sovereign citizen. And his Pride Month social media posts and Rumble videos are sure to offend. Always seeking the limelight and attention, he’s organized dozens of “flag waves” in Waterville and Augusta where his flamboyantly Trump-themed car draws a combination of honks and curses.
During the weekend before Feucht’s revival, he’d been down in New Hampshire, at the Londonderry American Legion, where he hosted a party for a J-6er who’d just gotten out of prison. And that would be the last road trip for his Trump-mobile.
At 5:30 a.m. on May 20, the Monday after the New Hampshire party and a week prior to the revival, Blanchard was involved in what police say was a head-on collision on Route 201 in Winslow, Maine. The accident took the life of the other driver, a 21-year-old young man from Waterville who friends describe as “caring, kind-hearted and the type of fun character you only get to meet once in a lifetime.” Police say the crash is still under investigation.
Blanchard posted the photos (below) of his destroyed car on Facebook less than a half hour after the fatal incident.
The pictures stayed up for the next ten hours, amassing tons of thoughts and prayers, before he removed ‘em. A replacement post announced he was taking a break from social media. A pledge that lasted six days, when he posted pix of his young son at the Revival.
All that to say Blanchard was the first to drop to his knees and prostrate himself in front of Feucht. Hundreds of others followed Corn Pop, kneeling and crying, including a trio of crying bearded and buff bros, with 3-percenter tattoos and tears in their eyes. Lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth. And wailing.
Also during this altar call, Feucht promised he and his crew of heroic ministers would heal various ills and cast out the evil causing problems. Most notably, he asked for teenagers considering suicide to reveal themselves. I saw two young folk raise their hands and instantly, the teens were swarmed by strangers praying over them. Multiple men placed their hands on the kids, speaking-in-tongues and other Bible-babble over them, trying to exorcise the self-destructive demons that lurked within.
I’m not gonna show my footage of the praying and laying on hands of these minors, who, in front of thousands of strangers, admitted to suicidal ideation. Feucht, however, had no problem using vid of the kid on his socials, as proof the miracle-making and healing-power of his revival.
Next, Feucht cast out more demons, leading the crowd in praying away the gay and the trans confusion that he knew folks attending the revival felt. Then he got people to quit smoking, chewing and vaping tobacco products by tossing their vices on stage. All the while, preachers roamed the crowd, placing hands on heads, muttering incantations, calling on the Holy Spirit to intervene in earthly matters.
After all the jibber-jabber and tears, however, the real reason for the event became obvious, getting paid. Feucht told the crowd that it cost behind 60 and 100 grand to put on each revival. Ministers circulated Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets (yes, KFC buckets were used as collection baskets) to amass buckets of cash while Feucht kept repeating the Venmo for digital-donations.
Now that the whole crowd was hyped up on the Holy Ghost, disinfo and weird Biblical references, Feucht invited his sheeple to the next big party, a “Jesus March” through the streets of Washington D.C. ending on the Washington Mall on October 26, which he says is eight days before the presidential election. Actually, depending on how you count the days, it’s 9 or 10 days prior, not eight, but if he wants to confuse his followers, that’s okay with me.
To re-cap: a millionaire guitar-playing evangelical grifter is using his 50-state capital revival tour to spread conspiracy theories and hype a Jesus march and prayer rally in Washington D.C. just days before the election. Also, he’s promising “special guests” he can’t name and guarantees the rally is “gonna be wild.” Gotta wonder if one of the special guest has a tiny mushroom-shaped phallus and 34 felony convictions?
Also, this preacher is telling his many sheeple that the government is planning another pandemic. And he holds a revival — with thousands in attendance — in the park in front of the Maine State House, with the stated intent of casting out the bad juju from government.
And the Maine media doesn’t report on it. At all. Not a single TV station, radio or newspaper has even mentioned the revival.
(More proof that the Crash Report goes where others won’t. If you appreciate my journalism, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.)
Also noteworthy was that there was zero police presence. At least among the crowd and on the park grounds. Which seemed odd, considering a conspiracy-theorizing end times cult leader was issued a permit for a gathering 500 feet south of the Capitol dome. I’ve attended many non-religious events — with much smaller crowd numbers — where gun-toting riot cops watched the peaceful crowd with jaundiced eyes.
And yet for the two hour plus revival, the lone uniform was this dude. Unarmed, except for the crucifix he carried and his “Trust in the Lord” wristband. His shoulder patch said “Maine Department of Public Safety” and his hat identified him as “Capitol Police Security Agent for the State of Maine.” His hands were full though, for the whole revival, laden with his cross and water bottle.
Always the question with events like these is how many people? My guess is between two and three thousand. But you can count for yourself, thanks to this cool drone shot by Feucht’s camera man showing the shear number of end times cultists eager for a theocratic dictatorships to trigger the second coming of their Messiah in order to own the pluralistic libtards.
(First reader to correctly ID me in the drone footage, btw, wins a free night, mid-week, at the Camp at Brigid Spring in the foothills of western Maine. Here’s a clue: I’m the middle-aged white guy with a goatee.)
Next week, I’ll begin my series of Crash Reports on the Christian-Nationalist politicians in Maine who are praying for a November victory and the coming End Times. We’re starting with a 4-part exploration of the holy spirits and dastardly demons that have influence over House Minority Leader and wannabe governor Billy Bob Faulkingham.
(Click here if you haven’t listened to my Disinfomaniac’s podcast debunking Faulkingham’s claims of a rogue wave sinking his lobster boat and nearly killing his sternman. During the pod, you can hear him tell his fishy story, crediting God for keeping his capsized boat afloat long enough to be rescued and how he suggests that an angelic version of a recently deceased young lobsterman had helped in the rescue. Double yikes.)
The multi-part series on Faulkingham is a deep dive on the after-effects of sinking his boat, financial and otherwise, and discusses Faulkingham’s recent baptism at a growing End Times church. And we look at how his new-found religiosity influences Faulkingham’s policy and politics as part of the Seven Mountain’s Mandate to control society in order to bring forth Judgement Day, during which the Christian God judges all humans, past and present, separating the sinners from the chosen, just prior to the ultimate destruction of heaven and earth due to contamination bad humans.
Wut?
Wow. Just wow. What a grift.
Great reporting looking forward to the next part of this series.
Also those are depressingly impressive numbers. It's interesting how so many can get caught up in the emotion of this stage show and not see it for what it is.