Transform Colorado, the Truth and Liberty entity dedicated to political spending and voter guides, has organized a series of private, closed-to-the-press events at churches throughout Colorado. Last month, Colorado Times Recorder reporter Logan Davis was asked to leave a Transform Colorado event in Commerce City, but CTR recently obtained an audio recording of Transform Colorado’s July 16 event in Del Norte, where speakers Richard Harris and William Federer encouraged the audience to support their conservative political agenda while indulging in wild conspiracies.
The Truth and Liberty Coalition is the political wing of Andrew Wommack’s conservative Christian empire. Harris and Wommack produce a weekly livecast featuring local and national political figures, and Truth and Liberty’s annual conference features speakers like U.S. Representatives Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO), in addition to the leading influencers in the growing charismatic Christian nationalist movement.
“Our mission is to educate, redefine, mobilize believers in Christ to affect the Reformation of nations, specifically through the seven mountains of cultural influence,” explained Harris. “Now, seven mountains is a metaphor for it, right? Well, what it refers to is the idea that there are areas of influence in culture and society that are the same no matter what human civilization you’re in. You can go from Iceland to Indonesia or America to South Africa. It doesn’t matter. Every culture is going to have areas of influence. Generally speaking, they’re pretty much all the same. For example, education is very good. It’s family, business, government, arts and entertainment. Probably the biggest problems we have as Christians is that we bought into this belief that we’re supposed to withdraw from the areas of influence, as opposed to being salt and light, as Jesus commanded.”
According to Harris, Truth and Liberty was formed specifically to oppose LGBTQ rights. “Truth and Liberty was started by Andrew Wommack in, about 2018, 2017,” he said. “The motivation to do it came after the United States Supreme Court decided a case called Obergefell v. Hodges. Do you remember that case? Yeah. It’s a funny name, isn’t it? This is the decision of the Supreme Court, where they found a right in the Constitution to same sex-marriage. Even though the word ‘sex’ and the word ‘marriage’ don’t appear in the document, and even though thousands of years, basically 6,000 years of human history, no civilized society has ever endorsed gay marriage in the entire history of Western civilization. It’s never been endorsed or promoted in the entire history of the common law, it’s never been sanctioned, and yet we had nine folks on the Supreme Court decide that suddenly there it is in the Constitution.”
Harris views Truth and Liberty as the answer to a laundry list of social and cultural issues. “Andrew [Wommack] realized something has to be done and we have to step up, or we have to get involved,” he said. “You can see it today, from porn in our libraries to abortion on demand. Satanism is in our public schools. We have a fatherhood crisis in America, as families are falling apart. Did you know the majority of African American children in America today are born without a father in the home? Drug use, suicide epidemic among our young people. We now live in a nation where censorship is considered okay, as long as you disagree with the other side. It’s okay to cancel someone’s speech if you think they’re wrong. Socialism is considered to be a preferable form of government among Millennials. That, and how many of you would ever think you’d live to see the day where we would have thousands of people protesting in streets and or college campuses in favor of terrorist organizations?”
Davis, the CTR reporter Harris kicked out of a similar Transform Colorado event last month, has reported extensively on Wommack’s entities: how Senior Vice President of Andrew Wommack Ministries, Andrew Wertz, got his start leading an abusive, wife-swapping cult based on Wommack’s teachings, how Wommack’s brand of charismatic Christianity is rife with financial, spiritual, and physical abuse, and Wommack’s growing influence in Teller County and Woodland Park politics.
Harris encouraged the audience to get involved in conservative politics. “How many of you know how to disciple a nation?” he asked. “Well, I’m not sure, but I can tell you how you don’t do it. You don’t do it by staying locked inside the four walls of your church building. You don’t do it by not getting involved, not voting, not talking about culture issues. You don’t do it by consigning your children to indoctrination laboratories called our public education system, where they’re taught that there is no God, that they’re an accident, that they fall from some primordial slime and that they can choose their gender. We do it at a minimum by getting involved. Being salt and light, not being afraid of people not liking us.”
Harris outlined Truth and Liberty’s strategic initiatives, including their livecast, online presence, and their collaborations with other Christian nonprofit groups in Colorado. “There are lots of great conservative Christian organizations out there that are fighting for truth in the public square,” he said. “Organizations like Family Research Council, Students for Life, Focus on the Family, Centennial Institute here in Colorado. And all these organizations are doing their very best. And we’re working from dawn to dusk, and they’re fighting, fighting, fighting, trying to raise money, doing all this stuff.”
Truth and Liberty’s key initiative is their voter guides. “We’re going to be distributing over a million voter guides in Colorado, including covering [House] District 52 and Senate District 6, which I believe we are in now,” said Harris. “Both are going to be on the voter guide, and so I encourage you, what we like to do is just distribute a packet to the local churches, and they distribute them in the mail, on Sunday morning, before the ballots drop.”
Harris also discussed this year’s ballot initiatives targeting transgender people. “There’s two initiative petitions that we are helping to get on the ballot for this fall,” he said. “It’s through an organization that we helped start, Protect Kids Colorado, and it’s set to push back against radical transgender ideology in schools.”
Federer, a Charis Bible College instructor and board member of Truth and Liberty, delivered a long presentation peppered with John Birch Society talking points and a rehashing of Pat Robertson’s 1991 conspiracy tome “The New World Order.”
“Ever heard the term Christian nationalism?” asked Federer. “Did you know that nationalism is the opposite of globalism? There are people who are globalists who want a one world government. Yeah. One was Brock Chisholm. The first director of the World Health Organization. You’ve heard of that group? And he said, ‘To achieve global government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their national patriotism.’ So globalists hate people that want to preserve their nations. Now are nations just going to voluntarily give their freedom to these globalists? No. So they want to create a crisis called the Great Reset. It’s an orchestrated global crisis, health care crisis, food shortage crisis, currency, CDC, the one they wanted. And so that everybody will go to the government saying, ‘Please help us.’”
The “Great Reset” conspiracy became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Initiative, an economic recovery plan drawn up by the group of wealthy elites behind the annual Davos summit, caught the attention of QAnon adherents.
Throughout Federer’s presentation, which addressed the history of the Reformation, Martin Luther King Jr., and extended passages from the Old Testament, he returned to the specter of globalism.
“They want to take away your rights and freedoms and they want their Satanist theocracy, right?” said Federer. “They have transgender dominionism. If you don’t go along with that, they want to cancel you.”
Federer also accused “the globalists” of working to infiltrate Christianity. “It’s interesting, the same globalists —remember we talked about globalists — Rockefellers, the Soroses, the same globalists that are giving money to woke seminaries so they’ll teach the Christians not to get involved in politics,” he claimed. “They’re giving money to the LGBTQ activists to get them involved … They’re giving money to silence the Christians. They’re giving money that activate their supporters.”
In addition to globalism, Federer also mentioned voter fraud. “One church in Virginia, got their men to sit out with their lawn chairs and iced tea in front of the drop off boxes,” he claimed. “And this guy would get out of this car with a whole box of ballots — you’re only supposed to drop off your own — and he’s walking toward the drop off, and these guys, just drinking their iced tea, they pull out their cellphone. This guy looks at them, and sees he’s being recorded, turns around and gets back in his car, drives to another drop off box and there’s more guys with their lawn chairs there. And then another one. And he finally calls his boss, ‘Where do I drop these off?’ And then the polls close, and he doesn’t get a chance to dump them. And that’s how Youngkin won in Virginia.”
The scenario described by Federer was the heart of the conspiracy documentary “2,000 Mules,” which claimed progressive nonprofits used paid ballot “mules” to distribute enough false ballots in battleground states to swing the results of the 2020 election. In May, Salem Media, the company behind the film, issued an apology and said it would halt distribution of the film and remove both the film and book from its platforms. Salem Media is also facing a lawsuit from former Dominion executive Eric Coomer after former KNUS host Randy Corporon platformed Douglas County podcaster Joe Oltmann, whose claims about an alleged “antifa conference call” have been ruled “probably false” by a Denver District Court judge.
Transform Colorado will be holding events throughout Colorado in August and September.
Logan Davis contributed to this reporting.
