While the American left and the mainstream media focuses on the Tea Party movement, a massive shift in politicized rightwing Christianity is now poised to have a significant electoral impact in the 2010 elections.

Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, my colleague Rachel Tabachnick and I have been collaboratively researching, as a top priority, the New Apostolic Reformation.

In a new Alternet story, Heads Up: Prayer Warriors and Sarah Palin Are Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America, Bill Berkowitz, who for many years has covered the religious right, interviews Rachel Tabachnick about this movement.

Why should Americans, or Daily Kos readers, care ? Here is a partial list of where "apostles" of the New Apostolic Reformation have recently popped up: