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Ziklag is described in the current corpus as a private network of wealthy Christian donors organized through the official nonprofit tax-name layer Usatransform, a Texas 501(c)(3) that current reporting ties to election-focused and Seven Mountains-style influence activity. The 2024 Usatransform filing directly supports major grant-making, a related-organization relationship with United in Purpose, and a 570,000 grant to Lance Wallnau Ministries. Public WaterStone / Christian Community Foundation Schedule I rows now add an upstream recurring grant pattern to USA Transform / USATransform for fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
In this repository, Ziklag matters as a donor network linking Christian nationalist rhetoric, Seven Mountains-style dominion language, practical election-year operations, and a narrower education-litigation funding layer. The current source base presents it as both a long-term ideological project and a short-term electoral actor. The Wallnau reporting extends that electoral layer into a Courage Tour funding claim tied to swing-state rallies and a JD Vance appearance. A locally preserved Vimeo excerpt now directly supports the reported Wallnau ballot-initiative mobilization passage, and a Documented-hosted FAM Committee excerpt now directly supports internal discussion of swing-state county targeting, possible Turning Point Action / TPA app use, and county-level organizer assignment. The newest filing pass sharpens the direct record: Usatransform, EIN 82-4819179, reported 15,369,499 in 2024 revenue, 12,808,201 in domestic grants, a direct grant to Lance Wallnau Ministries, and a Schedule R related-organization relationship with United in Purpose. Current reporting remains the basis for treating Ziklag as the public-facing network identity.
Usatransform, EIN 82-4819179, Southlake, Texas15,369,499; domestic organization grants 12,808,201570,000 grant to Lance Wallnau MinistriesUsatransform; older filing notes also preserve trade-name and cost-sharing evidence2021-2025 cash grants to USA Transform / USATransform totaling 7,434,458; allocation, intent, and later program use are not established by those rows.ProPublica / Documented reporting, based on internal Ziklag files, describes three named 2024 operations targeting battleground-state voters. Treat these operation descriptions as attributed reporting from the retained article unless a separate direct source is named below.
| Operation | Reported focus | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Checkmate |
Funding so-called election-integrity groups and voter-roll challenge infrastructure | Grants, election-integrity coalitions, EagleAI voter-roll challenge tooling, Arizona vote-target planning | Money, technical capacity, voter-roll challenge capacity, electoral effort | reported relationship; direct tax-row support for some adjacent grant pathways | ProPublica / Documented reporting; 2024 Usatransform filing pass for grant-table context |
Watchtower |
Parental-rights and anti-transgender mobilization, including proposed ballot initiatives in battleground or Senate-competitive states | Messaging and data lab, partner-group messaging, ballot initiatives, Wallnau member briefing / video excerpt | Attention, issue framing, turnout motivation, policy language | reported relationship plus direct local video-excerpt support for the ballot-initiative mechanism | ProPublica / Documented reporting; local Vimeo 991564992 excerpt |
Steeplechase |
Conservative pastor and church voter mobilization | Pastor summits, church-focused messaging and events, pastor resources, coordination with conservative faith-voter groups | Religious authority, legitimacy, turnout capacity, congregational attention | reported relationship | ProPublica / Documented reporting |
Checkmate is the election-integrity / voter-roll-pruning lane. The retained article reports that Ziklag planned to fund groups working on the ground to shift the 2024 electorate and describes Cleta Mitchell-linked election-integrity infrastructure as a major focus. It reports a planned 800,000 investment in EagleAI's roll-cleaning project and lists two Checkmate objectives: securing additional Arizona votes roughly keyed to the 2020 presidential margin and removing large numbers of registrations or voters that Ziklag characterized as ineligible across Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
The current repo has direct filing evidence for broader Usatransform grantmaking and election-adjacent recipients, plus the Vimeo 1001297249 FAM Committee excerpt showing discussion of swing-state / county targeting and possible TPA app tooling. It still does not contain the underlying Checkmate budget, grant agreements, voter files, EagleAI contract, TPA app agreement, challenge lists, county-lead roster, or implementation records. Do not treat Checkmate or the FAM Committee excerpt as proof that any particular voter was invalidly removed, that any app workflow was deployed, or that the plan achieved its stated election effect.
Watchtower is the parental-rights / anti-trans ballot-initiative lane. The retained article reports that Ziklag aimed to use parental-rights messaging and opposition to transgender rights and gender-affirming policy as a turnout mechanism. It says the files described a planned messaging and data lab that would supply winning parental-rights messaging to partner groups, and it reports Wallnau saying Ziklag planned ballot initiatives in seven states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and Ohio.
The local Vimeo 991564992 excerpt is important because it directly supports the central Watchtower mechanism at the excerpt level: Wallnau discusses citizen-initiated ballot measures, transgenderism as a wedge issue, swing states, signature gathering, ballot language fights, parental-notification framing, and ballot initiatives as a turnout mechanism. The excerpt does not name Protect Kids Colorado and does not prove Ziklag funding execution, legal control, sponsorship, campaign effect, or that any specific later initiative was funded from this plan.
Steeplechase is the church-and-pastor turnout lane. The retained article reports that the operation urged conservative pastors to mobilize congregants for the 2024 election and described work with or alongside prominent conservative faith-voter groups, including Turning Point USA's faith-based arm, Faith and Freedom Coalition, and America First Policy Institute. It also reports internal-video language about pastor summits, church-focused messaging and events, and pastor resources.
The current repo should treat Steeplechase as a reported church-mobilization mechanism, not as direct evidence that any named church, pastor, or congregation participated unless a separate source documents that participation.
Usatransform filing lists a direct 570,000 grant to Lance Wallnau Ministries, while the ministry's 2024 filing reports direct Courage Tour income.Usatransform capture now directly shows Eldred as chairman on the rendered organization page, while retained reporting describes Ziklag as his brainchild.2021-2025 WaterStone / Christian Community Foundation cash grants to USA Transform / USATransform totaling 7,434,458. This is direct money-flow evidence to the official USATransform filing layer, not proof of Ziklag-specific intent, donor source, restrictions, or later Courage Tour allocation.wiki/summaries/education/alliance-defending-freedom-school-voucher-strategy-and-ziklag-funding-cluster.md: bounded synthesis of the current ADF / Ziklag / school-voucher strategy layer.wiki/summaries/religious-politics/lance-wallnau-flashpoint-and-courage-tour-political-mobilization-cluster.md: adds the current reporting layer tying Ziklag to Wallnau-led Courage Tour mobilization in swing states and to a JD Vance event that drew tax-law scrutiny.raw/articles/2026-04-04T181415-0600 Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country.md: describes Ziklag's donor network, Seven Mountains framing, 2024 electoral operations, and a reporting-level lineage in which Ziklag emerged from United In Purpose.raw/articles/2026-04-06T142715-0600 ADF Education Litigation Funding Proposal to Ziklag, May 2021.md: adds a direct documentary layer showing ADF requesting Ziklag support for education litigation and voucher strategy, while still not proving every later funding outcome.raw/datasets/2026-04-15T143133-0600 usatransform-nonprofit-explorer-api-propublica.md: resolves the official nonprofit tax-name layer and adds a direct rendered officer-table note showing Ken Eldred as chairman.raw/datasets/2026-04-17T180000-0600 nacl-uip-ziklag-wallnau-propublica-filing-pass.md: adds the filing-grade Usatransform grant table, officer-history, related-organization, and Wallnau cash-flow extraction.raw/datasets/propublica-nonprofit-explorer/waterstone-usatransform-recurring-schedule-i-2026-05-02/source-note.md: public ProPublica-rendered Schedule I reconstruction showing 2021-2025 WaterStone / Christian Community Foundation rows to USA Transform / USATransform totaling 7,434,458, with unresolved donor-source and allocation questions.raw/datasets/propublica-nonprofit-explorer/waterstone-usatransform-2026-05-01/source-note.md: public ProPublica-rendered Schedule I check corroborating the Christian Community Foundation / WaterStone 1,158,083 general-support grant row to USA Transform.wiki/summaries/restricted-source/waterstone-gmail-attachment-source-cluster-2020-2021.md: restricted-source local summary of WaterStone / Christian Community Foundation filings, including broader support-organization and financial-statement context. The USA Transform grant row now has a separate public-source capture; broader package-derived claims should still not be published without explicit user approval or separate public-source reconstruction.raw/video/local/ziklag-vimeo-991564992/source-note.md: local two-minute Vimeo 991564992 excerpt and generated ASR transcript that directly support the Wallnau ballot-initiative mechanism reported by ProPublica / Documented.raw/video/vimeo/1001297249/source-note.md: Documented-hosted Vimeo excerpt from a September 27, 2023 FAM Committee meeting that directly supports discussion of swing-state county targeting, possible Turning Point Action / TPA app use, and county-level organizer assignment.Ziklag as a network brand and Usatransform as a nonprofit record still rests partly on reporting.Usatransform -> Lance Wallnau Ministries grant and direct Lance Wallnau Ministries -> Courage Tour income line, but it still lacks a restricted-grant agreement or ledger showing that specific Ziklag dollars paid for specific Courage Tour rallies.United in Purpose, Ken Eldred, and Ziklag; that directional conflict remains logged in QA.United in Purpose, which affects how confidently the repo should describe the UIP-to-Ziklag lineage.