MN07 fake DFL candidate attended Dec. 20, 2020 Jericho March, took selfie with Kim Crockett

Based on Jim Shaw's column A Republican runs as a Democrat in the Forum News chain, we posted Year of the Republican Women shines in Minnesotan's Seventh Congressional race on Sunday. Shaw reported:

Attention, Minnesota voters. I have a quick question for you. Who are the two Democratic Party candidates running for Congress from the state's 7th District in next month’s primary? That’s what I thought. You don’t know.

Well, you should know. That’s because one of them is really a Republican. I wouldn’t make that up.

The unanimously endorsed Democratic candidate is retired English teacher Jill Abahsain of Sauk Centre. Abahsain sounds like a Democrat. She told me she’s an advocate for women’s reproductive rights, rural medical access, infrastructure for small towns and common sense gun control. Abahsain also told me she “loathed” the way Donald Trump behaved as president.

“Jill is a very educated and passionate candidate who understands western Minnesota,” said 7th District DFL Chair Jennifer Cronin.

The other candidate is Alycia Gruenhagen, who doesn’t exactly push the Democratic Party agenda. On her candidate Facebook page she proudly claims, “I am a freedom loving, patriotic, pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment conservative Democrat from the heart of Minnesota’s 7th District.”

So, you might be thinking she’s acting like a conservative Democrat in rural Minnesota. Well, then you should know that her father is Republican Minnesota State Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen. . . .

One piece of evidence that Alycia Gruenhagen might not really be a Democrat? Her attendance at the December 20, 2020 Jericho Prayer March at the Minnesota state capitol. Here's a selfie she posted to her personal Facebook page that day with her dear friends, whom we believe to be Kim Crockett, now the endorsed Republican candidate for Minnesota Secretary of State, and Sue Witherington, wife of RestoreMN head and Minnesota Legislative Prayer Caucus state director Dale Witherington. Yes, that guy.

Here's the selfie:

We identified Witherington through this portrait, downloaded from Eric Lucero's Facebook page (Lucero was a sponsor and emcee for the event [video here]). She's the person at the right, wearing the same hairband and scarf as the woman in Ms. Gruenhagen's selfie:

We can't seem to find photos of Gruenhagen with Democrats from Minnesota's Seventh District (before or after redistricting), but we can find photos of her with sketchy Republicans like Crockett. 

For those whose memory has been diminished by the heat wave, let us remind you of the posts:  MNGOP endorsed secretary of state candidate's election ignorance pairs well with past racism and GOP SOS candidate we scolded for racism, incompetence gets antisemitism added.

And Witherington's husband? Not exactly a fan of one DFL congresswoman, we reported in  State director of MN Legislative Prayer Caucus wants to see Ilhan Omar & others hanged.

But it's not just the company the fake DFL congressional candidate keeps that signals she's not a Democrat. It's the Jericho Prayer March itself that's a marker for her fraud.

What was the Jericho March?

According to an article in conservative Christian CBN News, Jericho Marchers Praying the Walls of Corruption Will Come Tumbling Down:

Religious believers are gathering at state capitols around the nation and holding what are known as Jericho Marches. They're showing up to pray, peacefully protest, and march for election integrity, transparency and reform.

A Catholic and an evangelical Christian both individually and separately had a vision on Nov. 5 of doing prayer rallies and marches around the various state capitols.

Then that Catholic – Arina Grossu – and evangelical – Rob Weaver -- met and found out they shared the same vision.

'God Was Calling Us'

Grossu said they then realized, "God was calling us to set up these marches and help mobilize our people – saints and patriots – out around their state capitols, especially in the swing states."

Those are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

"We wanted to encourage people to go and peacefully pray, protest and march around their state capitol seven times every single day at noon in collaboration with everyone else until December 14, 2020, when the Electoral College votes," Grossu said. . . .

'Want to Make Sure the Election is not Stolen'

"We want election integrity, reform, and transparency," Grossu explained. "We want to know the truth about this election and want to make sure the election is not stolen from the American people."

They now have a website – JerichoMarch.org – dedicated to these marches, most of which are springing up at the grassroots level, organized by local believers called to the same mission as Grossu and Weaver. ...

Visit that website now, and there's just a message condemning the violence at the January 6 gathering in DC, while urging local prayer marches only.

The Religious News Service reported on January 5 in Jericho March Returns to DC to Pray for a Trump Miracle:

. .  . Organizers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to overturn the recent presidential election.

Marchers plan to blow ritual Jewish horns called shofars on the first day before circling the Supreme Court building seven times in imitation of the Israelites’ siege of the city of Jericho described in the Bible’s Book of Joshua. On Wednesday, they plan to do the same around the US Capitol building.

The demonstrators will also pray that Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress will reject slates of electors from Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Nevada, where Trump loyalists claim there was rampant election fraud.

Courts in those states, along with federal courts, including the US Supreme Court, have rejected a series of lawsuits filed by supporters of President Donald Trump, ruling that there was no evidence of election fraud. Former US Attorney General William Barr told the Associated Press in early December that the Department of Justice had found no evidence of wide-scale election fraud.

Preceding the two days of protest, the organizers will hold candlelight prayer vigils and “self-led” marches in the nation’s capital. Similar marches will take place in the states where marchers claim the elections were fraudulent. . . .

That still doesn't seem like a Democratic crowd, but perhaps Gruenhagen knows more about this stuff and Kim Crockett than the rest of us.

 At the Atlantic, Emma Green reported on January 8 in A Christian Insurrection:

Many of those who mobbed the Capitol on Wednesday claimed to be enacting God’s will.

The name of God was everywhere during Wednesday’s insurrection against the American government. The mob carried signs and flag declaring jesus saves! and god, guns & guts made america, let’s keep all three. Some were participants in the Jericho March, a gathering of Christians to “pray, march, fast, and rally for election integrity.” After calling on God to “save the republic” during rallies at state capitols and in D.C. over the past two months, the marchers returned to Washington with flourish. On the National Mall, one man waved the flag of Israel above a sign begging passersby to say yes to jesus. “Shout if you love Jesus!” someone yelled, and the crowd cheered. “Shout if you love Trump!” The crowd cheered louder. The group’s name is drawn from the biblical story of Jericho, “a city of false gods and corruption,” the march’s website says. Just as God instructed Joshua to march around Jericho seven times with priests blowing trumpets, Christians gathered in D.C., blowing shofars, the ram’s horn typically used in Jewish worship, to banish the “darkness of election fraud” and ensure that “the walls of corruption crumble.”

The Jericho March is evidence that Donald Trump has bent elements of American Christianity to his will, and that many Christians have obligingly remade their faith in his image. Defiant masses literally broke down the walls of government, some believing they were marching under Jesus’s banner to implement God’s will to keep Trump in the White House. The group’s co-founders are essentially unknown in the organized Christian world. Robert Weaver, an evangelical Oklahoma insurance salesman, was nominated by Trump to lead the Indian Health Service but withdrew after The Wall Street Journal reported that he misrepresented his qualifications. Arina Grossu, who is Catholic, recently worked as a contract communications adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services. (Weaver and Grossu declined to comment. “Jericho March denounces any and all acts of violence and destruction, including any that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,” a PR spokesperson for the March wrote to me in an email after the publication of this article.) Still, they will have far more influence in shaping the reputation of Christianity for the outside world than many denominational giants: They helped stage a stunning effort to circumvent the 2020 election, all in the name of their faith. White evangelicals, in particular, overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016 and 2020. Some of these supporters participated in the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday. But many in the country hold all Trump voters responsible—especially those who lent him the moral authority of their faith. . . .

The Wikipedia entry for Jericho March begins:

The Jericho March is a loose, pro-Trump, Judeo-Christian^[1] coalition who pray, fast, and march for what they claim to be election integrity and transparency in response to Donald Trump's accusations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, in which then-President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden. Following this, people affiliated with the movement started fasting, praying, and marching daily around their state capitols, and sought divine intervention to overturn the election results. . . .

Former national security advisor Michael Flynn likened the protesters at Stop the Steal events to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho in the Battle of Jericho.^[2][3] Organizers of Stop The Steal and church groups urged supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump to participate in "Jericho Marches" and prayer rallies in Washington, D.C., to protest Trump's election loss and try to overturn the result.^[4]

Jericho, as mentioned in Joshua 6, was a city of false gods and corruption. Just as Joshua and the Israelites were instructed to march around Jericho seven times, during the Jericho Marches, participants walked around seven times, praying, singing songs, and blowing shofars.^[5][6]. . .

Other than these details, Glenn Gruenhagen's daughter totally seems like a DFLer.

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