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  • Frank Schaeffer

    Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia.

  • Matthew Boedy

    Welcome to Turning Points a free newsletter about all things TPUSA. New article on Wednesdays. I am a Professor of Rhetoric in Georgia and author of a book about TPUSA titled The Seven Mountains Mandate

  • Keri Ladner

    Wonderfully and autistically made. Check out my books, American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom and End Time Politics: From Moral Majority to QAnon.

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