Is another January 6th action in the works with the Million Crusader Cross March announcement?

We all know how vindictive the Trump Administration can be. The White House has already called into question the validity of the recent mid-term elections and just days after the election there was an announcement made calling for a Million Crusader Cross March at the US Capitol.

The flyer for the event is listed for January 3rd, but the language reads as follows:

• Peaceful Protests & Christian Unity Against the Rigged Midterms
• Bring Your Cross
• Faith, Freedom, Future * For Christ. For Country. Forever.

Of course the flyer is AI generated, as is the image with the Facebook event page Jake Lang Million Crusader Cross March on US Capitol.

Before looking at the list of speakers for the Million Crusader Cross March I wanted to talk about two things. First, GRIID has written numerous pieces about the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. I did an article on the one year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, how the West Michigan commercial news reported on that event, along with how the ideologically far right groups in West Michigan think about and are connected to the closing days of the first Trump Administration.

Second, I think it is important that we talk about the fact that the event being planned for January 3, 2027 is called the Million Crusader Cross March. The Christian Crusades were a bloody and brutal attack against other religions, particularly against Islam. Therefore, for organizers of the event on January 3, 2027 to call it a Crusade conjures up notions of a holy war against non-Christian religions. However, the reality is that just like the Crusades of the Middle Ages, this Crusade will also be a war dictated by white supremacists.

Of course this kind of talk about another Christian Crusade against Islam is not knew. Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, ““views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe.” He claims Prince encouraged likeminded employees to “take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis.”  This is based on courtroom testimony of former Blackwater employees.

These same sentiments are consistent with the part list of speakers that will be part of the Million Crusader Cross March, along with other vile ideological beliefs that the follow group of Christians espouse.

Jake Lang – Lang is probably the mostly identifiable speaker on the list of those who will address the people who attend the Million Crusader Cross March. On his X page Lang urged 1 million Christian Crusaders to bring their crosses and “STAND LIKE MEN.” Just a few days before this comment Lang called the next insurrection “Round 2,” and claimed, “We are taking this COUNTRY BACK!!!!!!!!!” Land would know, since he  took part in the January 6, 2021 insurrection and has boasted about his role that day every chance he can get.

During the current Trump Administration Lang has made a name for himself by not only being an ardent support of Trump, but someone who has consistently called for Muslims and immigrants to to kicked out of the US. Recently, he told the Dearborn, Michigan City Council on August 18: “We will not allow these third world mongrels to run roughshod over us without a fight. … Join the Crusades and extricate this filth from our country. We will have our way! Come blood or sweat. We will have our way! This is a Christian land! Christ is King! Christ is King!”

Pastor David Manning – As pastor of ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem, N.Y., Manning long has been known for his opposition to Muslims. In August, he went on the “Pass the Salt” podcast for an episode about “taking back” New York City from Muslims.

Manning directs ATLAH Worldwide Church (All The Land Anointed Holy) in Harlem, New York, and is known for his virulent anti-LGBT views, which he often posts on the church sign, including “Jesus would stone homos.”

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell – Sewell is the pastor of a church in Detroit. He’s been rising in popularity among Republicans since praying at Trump’s second inauguration. According to the online site Right Wing Watch, just days after the Midterms elections Sewell claimed that the elections were stolen and is calling for “another January 6” insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

When Jake Land appeared in Detroit earlier this year and attempted to burn a copy of the Koran, Pastor Sewell prayed over Lang and told him that he loved him.

Pastor Dale Partridge – As the pastor of King’s Way Reformed Church in Prescott, Ariz., Dale Partridge believes Black people are cursed by God to “a civilizational station of subordination and dependence.” He desires repeal of the 19th amendment because, “Nearly every legalized moral atrocity of the last 100 years was made possible by the female vote.” And he says he won’t allow his daughter to marry a Black man because doing so would lead to lower IQs for their children and because “our Christian forefathers treated interracial marriage as illegal.”

Partridge also said that Germany was “attacked from within by grossly immoral Jewish forces during the Weimar Republic,” which naturally made Nazism “extremely appealing”: “This Nazi movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism.”

Evangelist Joel Tenney – Tenney was wearing camouflage in the back of the pickup truck with Lang when they drove onto the sidewalk in Minneapolis while holding a giant cross and a sign that said, “Jake Lang loves Black people, but hates niggers.”

Tenney spoke a few years back during a rally for then candidate Trump, but before the prayer, the pastor said the 2024 presidential election was a “spiritual battle”. “This election is part of a spiritual battle. There are demonic forces at play. But judgment is coming. When Trump becomes the 47th president, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country,” Tenney said.

In September Tenney stated that Islam is not compatible with America, then when on to proclaim that Christianity is.

Crusader White Rabbit – White Rabbit and White Rabbit 6 are aliases used by a Crusader named Eric Murgo. Like the others on Lang’s list, White Rabbit is known for anti-Muslim rhetoric. He promoted Lang’s Christian Crusade in Dearborn on social media.

In a video on social media just before Jake Lang came to Dearborn, Michigan Crusader White Rabbit share this video calling on people to come to Dearborn and not allow Islamists to take over America.

Crusader Tori Branum – According to Branum’s website, the Christian war against Islam is crucial because “if we do not awaken now, we may awaken too late — and find that we have allowed love itself to disappear from the face of the earth.”

But lest anyone accuse her of spreading Islamophobia, she says, “There is a very just reason to be afraid” because Muslims are taught “a mind controlling way of life” that starts with “public displays of prayer” and ends with genocide.

Lastly, it is worth noting that Branum, while running as a Republican for District 12 in Georgia, claims she tipped off ICE to a Hyundai plant where South Korean workers were arrested. She has defended the claim and her candidacy despite backlash.

All of the speakers that are listed on the flyer are despicable and hateful people that promote violence against Muslims, immigrants and LGBTQ people.

Over the next month I am going to be monitoring some of the far rights groups in West Michigan, including churches to see of they will be promoting the Million Crusader Cross March on January 3rd.