Darrell Lucus

Darrell Lucus

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A 2000 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Darrell has been blogging for lasting change for more than a decade and a half at Daily Kos.

His work has also appeared at The National Memo, Liberal America and RDTDaily. He has a particular interest in turning the hot lights on right-wing religious extremism, having narrowly escaped a cultish campus ministry at Carolina that was part and parcel of the religious right. A survivor of an abusive marriage, Darrell also has an interest in child abuse and domestic abuse issues. He created the

A Christian Nationalist Church Held A Conference and Sold Neo-Nazi Literature 06/19/2026

One of the most notorious theobros just went there.

A Christian Nationalist Church Held A Conference and Sold Neo-Nazi Literature The Christian nationalism to Neo-Nazi trajectory is less a pipeline, more one of those water slides that drops you straight down into the depths.

Joe Rogan Fires Back At Haters Of UFC White House Event 06/18/2026

You shut up, Joe Rogan. You condoned racism.

Joe Rogan Fires Back At Haters Of UFC White House Event Joe Rogan is firing back at the critics of the UFC's White House event. Over the weekend, the UFC held an event on the south lawn of the White House.

06/18/2026

Long and angry post ahead, so bear with me. One of my friends here in MI—let’s call her Carson—was accused of violating a protective order slapped on her by a guy she briefly dated. But in the course of filing the complaint, the guy and a local pastor blasted out her trauma history into court records when they had no defensible reason to do so. It now has Carson in fear for her safety after her abuser berated her at a gas station.

Gentlemen—a term I use in its loosest possible sense—I say HOW FU***NG DARE YOU! Releasing that information isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. And even if it isn’t illegal, the bar for acceptable behavior is much higher than the bar below which you go to jail. You are showing a complete lack of humanity. And if any, any, ANY harm befalls Carson, there are going to be a lot of people falling all over themselves to make damn sure you are sued into poverty, lose your jobs, the lot. Including me. Even if you believe Carson did something wrong, what you did was many times worse. If you even thought this was okay, you are missing the part that makes you human.

House candidate who started Pastors for Trump drops out of race after text messaging scandal 06/17/2026

The Christian nationalist founder of Pastors for Trump was on a glide path to representing Tulsa in Congress until a sexting scandal broke. He had one foot in Congress and the other on a banana peel—and put all of his weight on the banana peel. This is one of the reddest urban seats in the country.

House candidate who started Pastors for Trump drops out of race after text messaging scandal Jackson Lahmeyer had been backed by President Trump, although the president dropped his endorsement shortly before Lahmeyer dropped out.

Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone 06/17/2026

Presented without comment… except this… 🤮

Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone Is Having an Education Advisor Married to a Registered S*x Offender Really a Good Look for TPUSA?

06/16/2026

Why are so many churches with off-the-chain worship so toxic? Bethel, Gateway, IHOPKC, MorningStar—now Mosaic?

I've heard from several people who attended MOSAIC that they saw cultish control tactics there. If anyone else has Mosaic stories, drop em here. (I've been watching Danny on The Valley repeatedly verbally and emotionally abuse his wife and neglect his kids while she defends him and they are vocal members of Mosaic, P.S. These marriage dynamics also track with stories I've heard from people who've attended.)

06/16/2026

Reading about the ten-year anniversary of how SB Nation allowed an overly sympathetic piece about a convicted r*pist made me think back to an equally egregious journalistic lapse—Julie Roys announcing Jen Hatmaker’s divorce before Hatmaker could do so. Julie only apologized five years later when Hatmaker publicly called Julie out in the Old Grey Lady, and also revealed in her book that she was still so shattered by her husband’s cheating that she hadn’t even told her family about it. She said that she intends to do better. But when there’s a failure of this magnitude, we can’t just take her word for it. SB Nation commissioned a lengthy peer review, with recommendations on how to prevent another lapse. Julie hasn’t done so. Maybe it’s just me, but you’d think it would be especially incumbent on a Christian reporter to demonstrate how she will work to keep such a lapse from happening again. It’s all the more reason why I can’t in good conscience platform her again. How do we know she won’t do this to someone else? She could potentially make it harder to hold these wolves to account, especially those who enabled Trump.

Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right (Gift Article) 06/15/2026

More proof of how depraved this White House is. That this could even be considered by any president is appalling. Any president with an iota of decency would have shut this down at once. No crime is ever so heinous that it justifies shredding the Constitution.

Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right (Gift Article) Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.

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