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09/28/2025

The Idol of Whiteness and the Power They Tried to Steal – Sermonette Series
By Kairos Reed · InnerKwest Sermonettes · September 28, 2025

Beloved, there is a false faith at work in our land. It dresses itself in crosses, it waves open Bibles, it quotes fragments of holy words — but beneath its garments, it bows to another god. That god is not the Lord of Israel. That god is not the Christ who hung between thieves. That god is not the Spirit who hovered over the waters at creation. No, that false god is Whiteness itself — enthroned as an idol, worshiped as if it were salvation.
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This sermonette exposes White Christian nationalism as idolatry, revealing how it seeks to strip power, purpose, and prowess — and calls us back to Christ. Whiteness

09/24/2025

Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters Mandates Turning Point USA in Every High School: Indoctrination Masquerading as Education

By InnerKwest Editorial Board | September 25, 2025
A Disturbing New Precedent

Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Ryan Walters has announced a plan that every public high school in the state must host a chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) — the conservative youth-activist organization rebranded locally as “Club America.” While the practical details remain vague, Walters has made clear that non-compliant schools may face threats to their accreditation. This is not merely another school club. It is a state-sanctioned effort to embed a partisan political machine into classrooms, and the implications for impressionable children are staggering.

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters’ plan to force Turning Point USA chapters into every public high school risks indoctrinating impressionable children, echoing authoritarian youth movements of the past.

09/16/2025

InnerKwest Global Intelligence Team | September 17, 2025

Daylight and Darkness

On September 15, 2025, the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a 21-year-old student from Grenada, Mississippi, was found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University, a historically Black college. The discovery was made around 7:05 a.m. near the campus pickleball courts — an area designed for recreation, not secrecy.
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The suspicious hanging of Trey Reed, a 21-year-old HBCU student at Delta State, raises urgent questions about history, justice, and the silence of national leaders. InnerKwest investigates the cycle of denial, scapegoating, and selective empathy that threatens Black safety today.

09/13/2025

Missouri’s Extermination Order Meets Utah’s Present: When a Slave-State Playbook Haunts Modern Rhetoric

From EO-44 to a campus killing, the through-line is how dehumanizing language trains the hand that pulls the trigger.

Analysis | InnerKwest Editorial Team — September 11, 2025 (ET)
Editor’s Note — September 11, 2025: This date marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. InnerKwest remembers the victims and first responders. We publish this analysis with renewed commitment to resisting dehumanization in all forms.

Charlie Kirk—conservative media figure, Turning Point USA co-founder, and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump—was shot and killed during a public event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called it a “political assassination,” National outlets report a single rooftop shot that struck Kirk as he addressed roughly 3,000 attendees. Political leaders across parties condemned the killing. (Reuters)

Charlie Kirk’s killing in Utah collides with the Latter-day Saint memory of Missouri’s Extermination Order—and Missouri’s slavery-encoded DNA. Words aren’t harmless.

09/11/2025

Missouri’s Extermination Order Meets Utah’s Present: When a Slave-State Playbook Haunts Modern Rhetoric

From EO-44 to a campus killing, the through-line is how dehumanizing language trains the hand that pulls the trigger.

Analysis | InnerKwest Editorial Team — September 11, 2025 (ET)

Editor’s Note — September 11, 2025: Today marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. InnerKwest remembers the victims and first responders. We publish this analysis with renewed commitment to resisting dehumanization in all forms.

Charlie Kirk—conservative media figure, Turning Point USA co-founder, and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump—was shot and killed during a public event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called it a “political assassination,” and the manhunt continues. National outlets report a single rooftop shot that struck Kirk as he addressed roughly 3,000 attendees. Political leaders across parties condemned the killing. (Reuters)

Charlie Kirk’s killing in Utah collides with the Latter-day Saint memory of Missouri’s Extermination Order—and Missouri’s slavery-encoded DNA. Words aren’t harmless.

08/27/2025

Celebrity Influence Under Fire: When Rick Ross Meets a Community Boycott
By InnerKwest Editorial Team | Published August 27, 2025

A Playful Video with Serious Consequences
Rapper Rick Ross likely thought he was sharing a lighthearted moment when he filmed himself cruising through a Target store on a motorized cart, bantering with his girlfriend Jazzma Kendrick about kitchen appliances and cinnamon rolls. The clip, uploaded to social media, showed the couple jokingly referring to the ride as “kidnapping” and “riding dirty,” casting the scene as carefree fun.

Pastor Jamal Bryant calls out Rick Ross for shopping at Target amid a nationwide boycott, raising urgent questions about celebrity influence, community solidarity, and economic justice

08/25/2025

The Ethiopian Bible predates the King James and Catholic versions.
It preserves 81 books, including Enoch, Jubilees, and Hermas — texts removed in the West for political reasons.
Ethiopia was not just uncolonized in land, but uncolonized in spirit.
Full reference article 👉 InnerKwest.com
https://innerkwest.com/africa/ethiopia-first-christian-civilization-bible-politics/08/2025/

08/24/2025

The Sahel’s Sovereignty Turn: Ibrahim Traoré, the AES, and Africa’s Battle for Its Own Voice
InnerKwest Ghana Bureau | Published August 24, 2025

From Ouagadougou to Niamey, the leaders of the Sahel Alliance are not asking Africa to adopt new enemies—only to claim its right to choose its own friends.

Ibrahim Traoré, Mali, and Niger lead the Sahel Alliance, redefining sovereignty as Africa resists foreign control in security and media.

08/20/2025

Haiti’s Stolen Centuries: From France’s 1825 “Ransom” to Vectus Global’s New Incursion
By InnerKwest – Haiti Historian – August 20, 2025

Two hundred years after France forced the world’s first Black republic to pay for its own freedom, Haiti faces a new bill—this time in the currency of sovereignty. In mid-August 2025, Blackwater founder Erik Prince said his new company, Vectus Global, has a 10-year deal with Haiti’s interim authorities: first to fight gangs, then to help collect taxes at the Dominican border—a core function of the state. The promise is “security and revenue.” The price may be deeper dependency—and a quiet receivership by private force (Reuters, AP).

Two centuries after France’s “independence ransom,” Haiti faces a new threat: Vectus Global’s mercenary incursion and a bid to privatize border taxes. 200 years after France’s ransom, Haiti faces Vectus Global’s mercenaries and a plan to privatize its border taxes. Stabilization—or rec...

08/19/2025

The Rockbridge Network: Building a Shadow Political Machine

By Marcus D. Zalt, Senior Correspondent

Inside the donor club co-founded by J.D. Vance and Chris Buskirk — where the money flows, where they meet, and why watchdogs say its posture is anti-democratic.
A Private Club With Public Ambitions

The Rockbridge Network is not a household name, but it is rapidly becoming one of the most influential forces in American conservative politics. Founded in 2021 by J.D. Vance and Chris Buskirk, the network operates less like a traditional think tank and more like a command center — a donor pool, strategy hub, and operations incubator rolled into one.

Rockbridge pitches itself to wealthy conservatives as “political venture capital.” Membership ranges from $100,000 to $1 million, with an inner circle of 150–200 donors. Budgets have ballooned: roughly $30 million in 2022, with targets of $70–80 million for the 2024 cycle. Money flows into a portfolio of projects that bypass the Republican Party’s traditional infrastructure.

The Rockbridge Network and Winklevoss twins’ Gemini push finance and politics into libertarian, anti-DEI territory, raising alarms for democracy.

08/18/2025

Haiti’s “Receivership 2.0”? Erik Prince, Border Taxes, and the Return of Private Sovereignty
By InnerKwest – Haiti Historian – August 17, 2025

A 10-year security-and-tax deal in Haiti gives a private firm sweeping power over borders and revenue. Is this stabilization—or a soft reboot of the old customs receivership playbook?

What’s Actually Been Agreed
Erik Prince’s company, Vectus Global, has secured a 10-year arrangement with Haiti’s interim government. The mandate covers both military-style operations against heavily armed gangs and the eventual management of border taxes and customs points. The firm has already begun deploying a few hundred personnel, equipped with drones, helicopters, snipers, and maritime units, to retake gang-held territory and secure key trade corridors.

Once secured, these border crossings will funnel revenue back into the Haitian treasury—at least, that’s the plan.

A 10-year plan puts private hands on Haiti’s borders and tax flows. InnerKwest investigates the risks, the history, and the fine print.

08/16/2025

The New Cartography of African Sovereignty
By InnerKwest Editorial-Research Desk • August 16, 2025

Executive Summary
Across Africa, sovereignty functions on a spectrum—pulled by foreign military footprints and air operations, hard-currency pegs and IMF programs, port leases and security pacts, and recognition politics. This report maps where external levers are strongest right now and explains how they translate into day-to-day constraints on government choices.

Vectors of influence we track:

Military & Airspace: foreign bases, advisors, drone strikes, and overflight realities.
Money & Markets: IMF programs, debt restructurings, currency pegs.
Diplomatic & Legal Pressure: recognition disputes, port/sea-access deals, territorial arrangements.

Where and how external militaries, lenders, and recognition deals shape African sovereignty today—mapped and explained with clear, verifiable source notes.