# FREE RE-BROADCAST OF BAD FAITH 2026 FILM & PANEL #
## The live event is Oct 14 from 1-4pm ET. This is free a re-broadcast.##
In the lead-up to NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY Day of Action on October 17 and the 2026 Midterm Elections, **you are invited** to the public online **premiere** of the documentary **BAD FAITH 2026: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN POWER**. The screening will be followed by a live panel with film participants **Rev. Dr. William Barber II**, **Anne Nelson**, **Steve Schmidt**, and **Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove**, discussing how to combat Christian Nationalism by voting early in the 2026 election.
**Date**: Wednesday October 14th
**Virtual Film Screening**: 1pm ET/10am PT
**Live Virtual Panel Discussion**: 2:30-4:00pm ET/ 11:30am-1pm PT
**Sign-up for Live Event**: https://mobilize.us/s/dNYDhv
The live event will be **hosted on The Warning by Steve Schmidt**, with the event also shared across partner platforms.
**Sign up here** to get a recording of the film and panel conversation.
**International guests**: Enter 10040 in the required ZIP code field. And check your email for the join link.
## THE FILM ##
BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision. Learn more at [badfaithdocumentary.com](https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/).
## THE PANELISTS ##
### Reverend Dr. William Barber II ###
**Protestant Minister / Social Activist**
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, pastor and activist, co-founded the Poor People’s Campaign, a National Call for Moral Revival. His organization was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s last campaign in 1968, the Poor People’s March on Washington demanding equal access to jobs and housing for the poor. Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. His latest book, with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, is *White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct America*.
### Anne Nelson ###
**Investigative Journalist**
Anne Nelson is an award-winning investigative journalist who has written extensively about human rights and the defiance of totalitarian regimes. She is the author of *Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right*; the film’s unprecedented exposé of the covert Council for National Policy and its top secret membership rolls was made possible by her ground-breaking investigative work.
### Steve Schmidt ###
**Republican Strategist**
Steve Schmidt, former Republican campaign strategist and co-founder of the Save America Movement alongside Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Schmidt is also founder of THE WARNING, and has been on the front lines sounding the alarm that the Christian Nationalist Republican Party under Trump is openly seeking to destroy American democracy.
### Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove ###
**Faith Activist**
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is an activist, associate of Rev. Barber, and author of *Reconstructing the Gospel and Revolution of Values.* Assistant Director at the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. His latest book, with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, is *White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct America.*
## Can’t make the live event? ##
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**We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.**
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to reject the idea that power belongs to kings, billionaires, or politicians who believe they are above the people and the law.
Now, we are taking the next step, turning people power into voter power. Unlike previous No Kings actions, No Kings: Vote Early, is not purely a protest. Instead, on October 17th, it’s a day of nonpartisan voter participation: we are bringing **our community** together to make a plan to vote early and ensuring every eligible voter understands their options for how to vote and has the opportunity to make their voice heard.
Because no one person gets to decide our leaders before voters do. On October 17th, join us in local events across the country as we get out the early vote and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings.
*No Kings: Vote Early events are nonpartisan and are designed to increase participation from all eligible voters.*
*A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.*