Kirk and Wallnau Announce Courage Tour Partnership — TPUSA Faith + NAR Revival Infrastructure Merged for 2024 Election

On January 17, 2024, Rolling Stone reported the formal public launch of the Courage Tour partnership between Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Faith and Lance Wallnau — constituting the most explicit documented merger of the NAR/Seven Mountains Dominionism infrastructure with Kirk’s evangelical-political mobilization operation. Wallnau announced the partnership publicly, describing a joint strategy meeting: “We’re going to join Charlie, and Charlie’s joining with us. We had a meeting and decided that Arizona…” The tour targeted 19 key counties in seven swing states (Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, and Michigan), combining TPUSA’s claimed 2,500-church network with Wallnau’s NAR-prophetic revival meeting format, co-sponsored by the America First Policy Institute.

What Happened / Key Facts

The Courage Tour was organized by Lance Wallnau and evangelist Mario Murillo, with TPUSA Faith as the primary political-infrastructure partner and AFPI providing additional policy-and-candidate-access content. Rolling Stone’s January 17, 2024 reporting confirmed the partnership announcement; Right Wing Watch documented the first events; and The Guardian covered the Michigan stop in August 2024.

Key quotes establishing the partnership and its theological-political register:

Wallnau describing the merger: “We’re going to join Charlie, and Charlie’s joining with us. We had a meeting and decided that Arizona [is a priority].”

Kirk’s electoral framing: “there is almost no way Donald Trump loses” if Trump secures over 81% of the evangelical vote in 2024 — the specific mobilization target Kirk set for the TPUSA-Wallnau church-recruitment effort.

Mario Murillo (Courage Tour co-organizer): “Our nation has been taken over by demonic power” — spiritual warfare framing of electoral politics in classic NAR idiom.

Tour format: Daytime political activism sessions merged with evening “signs and wonders” and Gospel-presentation segments — the NAR revival-meeting format applied to electoral mobilization. Per Rolling Stone’s reporting, the tour “merges political rallies with Christian revival meetings.”

Announced locations: Duluth, Georgia (April 11–13); Scottsdale, Arizona (April 21–24); Eau Claire, Wisconsin (July 28–31); Monroeville, Pennsylvania (end of September). AFPI’s role: provided policy content and candidate access; TPUSA Faith provided church-recruitment infrastructure; Wallnau provided prophetic/charismatic framing and NAR network access.

TPUSA’s church claim: Wallnau stated TPUSA had already recruited 2,500 churches “to stand with an America First Agenda” — the organizational infrastructure Kirk had been building through TPUSA Faith Pastors Summits since 2022.

The Courage Tour also drew documented criticism: Newsweek (May 2024) reported that thousands of Christians signed a petition condemning Kirk and Wallnau as “false prophets” promoting Trump in theological terms, confirming the tour’s explicitly theological-political character was visible and contested within Christianity.

Why This Event Matters

The January 2024 Courage Tour announcement is the formal institutional merger event in the Kirk-NAR relationship — moving from the co-platform appearances documented at the September 2023 San Diego Pastors Summit (Wallnau appeared at a TPUSA event) to a joint organizational partnership where TPUSA Faith and Wallnau’s NAR revival infrastructure were co-branded and co-funded.

For the Kirk-as-three-tracks-bridge thesis, the Courage Tour is structurally the most consequential NAR-track evidence because:

1. It was explicitly co-produced, not merely a platform-sharing appearance. Kirk’s TPUSA Faith provided the church-recruitment infrastructure (2,500 churches); Wallnau provided the NAR prophetic revival format. The merger was organizational, not incidental.

2. AFPI co-sponsorship — the America First Policy Institute’s formal co-sponsorship of the Courage Tour connects the NAR-revival mobilization to the broader executive-capture infrastructure documented in seven-mountains-dominionism and america-first-policy-institute-afpi-christian-nationalist-government-in-waiting-now-government. AFPI’s Richard Rogers (Faith Director) worked on the Courage Tour; Wallnau celebrated Pam Bondi’s AG nomination as “part of a great group I had the privilege of working with.”

3. The Courage Tour preceded the September 28, 2024 Monroeville PA stop where JD Vance appeared — the event already documented as 2024-09-28–vance-wallnau-courage-tour. Kirk’s TPUSA Faith organization was the co-producer of the platform on which Vance publicly aligned with the NAR track. This makes Kirk the organizational architect of Vance’s NAR-track receipt, not merely a parallel figure.

Wallnau’s characterization of Kirk — calling him “the face of Christian Nationalism” trying to conquer the education “mountain” — positions Kirk explicitly within the Seven Mountains framework’s government/education mountain capture operation, with Wallnau himself supplying the theological framing that Kirk’s secular-origin TPUSA lacked.

Broader Context

The Newsweek petition — signed by thousands of Christians objecting to Kirk and Wallnau being named together as “false prophets” — is a Tier-1 confirmation that the Kirk-Wallnau partnership was visible, public, and theologically legible to Christian observers in 2024. This is not a case where the NAR connection was obscure or embedded in subcultural signals: the merger of TPUSA Faith’s church-mobilization infrastructure with Wallnau’s NAR revival format was a national news story covered by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Newsweek, NBC News, and Right Wing Watch.

The AFPI connection also links the Courage Tour to the broader Capture Cascade framework: AFPI embedded 73 personnel in the Trump administration; its Faith Director’s collaboration on a NAR revival tour with TPUSA demonstrates the integration of electoral mobilization, government capture, and theological legitimation that the three-tracks thesis documents.

Seven Mountains vocabulary in Kirk’s own framing: By this period, Kirk had begun using language drawn from Seven Mountains theology without always citing it by name. His January 2024 statements about Christians needing to dominate every “domain” and his 2025 Faith Forward remarks about Jesus wanting the church “to be expansionist, to be in every single domain” track the Seven Mountains conceptual vocabulary through Kirk’s own address — the synthesis Rob McCoy introduced in 2019–2020 had become Kirk’s own rhetorical register by the Courage Tour announcement.

Research Gaps

• Whether Kirk personally appeared at any Courage Tour stops (beyond organizing and providing church infrastructure)
• The specific date of the Kirk-Wallnau joint strategy meeting that preceded the January 17 announcement
• AFPI Richard Rogers’s specific organizational role in the Courage Tour (AFPI connection documented but details thin)

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