Phil Cooke is a strategic advisor to church, nonprofit, and media leaders navigating the intersection of faith, culture, and high-stakes public visibility.
Los Angeles - Nashville
Joined December 2008
- Tweets119K
- Following3K
- Followers29.3K
- Likes735
Phil Cooke retweeted
El-Sayed calls for the eradication of Israel as a Jewish state during his speech, Daria Aliza Chevalier wraps herself in a terrorist rag while delivering her victory remarks. The new crop of Democrats hates America. Their rise is largely due to a combination of shifting demographics and an unserious electorate who can’t think critically about the issues before them.
This is a declaration of a “right of return” for “Palestinian kids” to the “land of their forefathers” in modern day Israel. As I’ve documented at @FoxNews Digital, “Free Palestine” means the “right of return” of diaspora Palestinians to modern day Israel and a demographic overthrow of the nation by Muslims over Jews in Israel to rename it “Palestine.” It’s a “one-state solution.”
Phil Cooke retweeted
In addition to Ilhan Omar’s reelection to Congress, NINE more Somalis were elected to the State Senate and State House across Minnesota, Ohio, and Oregon.
I am speechless.
Phil Cooke retweeted
This is what the people who voted Blue during Midterms really voted for
Muslims in Texas vow to take over America and install Sharia Law
“When we say America will be a Muslim country someday, insha'Allah, people look at us with skepticism. But the reality is that's our goal. Everybody has their own idea what they want America to be. We believe the best thing for America is Islam”
“Islam will rule the world again”
We have to stop the Islamic takeover of America
Phil Cooke retweeted
Somalis celebrate Ilhan Omar’s election to a fifth term in Congress.
The next time a Christian pastor refuses to address an issue because it’s too “political,” play this video.
Other religious communities have no trouble allowing their convictions to inform their political engagement. Why should Christians be expected to do otherwise?
Phil Cooke retweeted
This is how the red-green alliance will end in every country, exactly as in 1979 in Iran 👇
Phil Cooke retweeted
We'll have full election results breakdown / reaction on next Live Free episode, but some quick thoughts...
1) The Sovereignty of God over all things is a deep comfort. As the old Christian saying goes, "I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow."
“For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.” (Psalm 47)
2) It is sad and grievous. Romans 1 says God’s “passive wrath” is when he “gives them up” to their sin and evil desires – when He stops restraining a people from destroying themselves and lets them have the evil things they want.
The United States intentionally chose things like max-boosting infant murder up to the moment of birth, legislated sexual perversion that will wreak havoc on a rising generation, the expansion of Islamic influence on our nation, elected leaders openly hostile to Christianity, and in at least 2 cases (TX and Kansas) chose what the New Testamant would define as (and I do not say this lightly or flippantly) demonic, apostate false teachers to lead them.
This is an example of Romans 1 playing out before your eyes.
3) There is no political solution to a spiritual problem. Politics cannot fix what politics did not break, and Mankind was broken long before any political system.
The hope of the world has been and remains Jesus Christ, reformation and revival in our nation that has the ability to reach inside the chests of men and women and make them new men and women who want (and vote for) new things.
Christ is the only way out of the chaos.
4) Important lessons to be learned for conservatives. Wisdom would not be to blame *everything* on "dumb / evil voters."
Basic leadership: "Face the brutal facts (learn and adjust), maintain unwavering faith."
5) Sadness is ok, but despair is a sin. "Therefore, we DO NOT lose heart" (2 Cor 4:16).
Head up, chest out, knees down, glory up... do not grow weary in doing good, we build and fight (Nehemiah).
What are we going to do? Get up with joy in our eyes, love in our hearts, steel in our spines and keep assaulting heaven for an outpouring of God's Spirit, sharing Christ, planting churches, making disciples and deploying them in all areas of society in eager anticipation of the next Great Awakening in our land.
Tomb's still empty, y'all :)
6) We do what the people of God have always done in time of need: WE PRAY.
See you at Encounter tonight at all Lakepointe campuses at 7pm, doors open early for you to come and "pray for the prayer meeting."
Phil Cooke retweeted
The Republicans were crushed in the 1974 midterms. Reagan later delivered a speech explaining why:
♦️ “The meaning of the last election will not be found among those who voted. It will be found among those who stayed home—the biggest non-voter bloc in our nation’s history. And why did they stay home? Well, because they said they couldn’t see any difference between the two parties.”♦️
There’s a lesson in that worth remembering. You can’t win voters by simply telling them how bad the other side is. You have to give them a compelling reason to vote for you. Stand for something. Be bold, unapologetically conservative, offer a clear contrast, and most importantly, deliver on the promises you campaigned on. Voters need to see a real difference, not just hear about one.
Phil Cooke retweeted
In looking at causes for tonight’s results, one important data point—in the 2022 midterms, around 24% of white evangelical Christians (the most reliably conservative bloc of religious voters) voted. In 2026, only 17% did.
In other words, a significant amount of America’s salt decided not to have flavor when it comes to elections. And when that happens, it fails to preserve.
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
Phil Cooke retweeted
The US has no idea the world of hurt that it has ushered. It is truly soul-crushing to see some of the outcomes. My reaction is not based on partisan politics but rather a deep love and reverence for the US. Regrettably, American Exceptionalism is increasingly disappearing. I will continue fighting in the battle of ideas but I fear that this might be a fatal inflection point. May the America of the Founding Fathers eventually prevail.
Phil Cooke retweeted
Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the left. Yet people still voted for it. Says a lot.
Shaun Maguire wrote that last night. And he's right about something essential: a vote like that can't be explained by logic. It can only be explained by culture.
I talk a lot about institutional capture. And I think a lot of people in business still haven't understood what it actually means.
Institutional capture is what allows a political camp to lose every debate on the facts and still keep winning elections. Because people don't vote with spreadsheets. They vote with the stories they've been told. In school, in college, in movies, in TV shows, in the media. And for fifty years, those stories have been written by one side.
So I want to speak directly to every billionaire and millionaire reading this.
You know the world is going off the rails. You see it. You talk about it in private, at dinners, in group chats.
But you tell yourself: this doesn't concern me. I build my company, I pay my taxes, I stay out of politics.
I'll be blunt: if you keep doing that, you will be dispossessed within the next 10 to 20 years.
Here's what you need to do.
Play the same game.
Everywhere the left runs its propaganda, we need to be there. Fund films. Produce TV series. Build media. Create a counterculture. Tell different stories: stories of builders, of responsibility, of merit, of freedom, of progress.
The left understood a century ago that culture comes before politics. It invested generations in storytelling. We invested in products and left the narrative to others. That's the mistake we have to fix.
Why is it urgent?
Because if you don't, here's what will happen.
The globalist project will come back. And the left will bring in its wealth taxes.
Make no mistake: these taxes are a Trojan horse. It starts with billionaires, at a rate sold as "symbolic" and "one-time." Then the threshold drops. Then the rate rises. Then the exception becomes the rule. The end goal isn't to fund hospitals. It's to dispossess owners.
And this isn't theory. Last night, California voted on a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, with a residency date set retroactively to January 1, 2026. For now, it looks headed for defeat. But only because builders decided to fight and put more than $300 million on the table.
That proves two things. The threat is real. And when we play, we can win.
But we can't win every battle with last-minute checks. If we don't change the culture, there will be another tax, then another, then another. And one day, we'll lose.
Wake up. We have two horizons in front of us.
The first: a 1984-style techno-communism. All-powerful technology controlled by a state that decides what you own, what you say and what you think.
The second: a technological future where we finally apply common sense. Where abundance liberates instead of enslaves. Where those who build get to keep what they built.
The choice between these two futures won't be made at the ballot box. It will be made long before that, in people's minds.
And right now, they're the ones writing the stories.
It's time we picked up the pen.
Spot on…
We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.
It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does. Will these newly-elected commies lower prices? Of course not. Are they gonna get you free healthcare? No, your insurance is gonna get even worse, just like it did the last time they tried socialized medicine. They're not going to do anything they've sold you, but...like Saul Goodman said: if you're committed enough, you can make any story work.
The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly.
It is 100% true that everything's too damn expensive, and we all know that inflated prices are always sticky. Does anyone know that it's entirely the result of shutting down the global economy over the flu and (both naive republicans and democrats) printing infinity dollars for several years? Nope...because nobody has effectively told that story, and it's an unsexy story to tell. "Free stuff!" is a VERY easy story to tell, and when everyone's gotta take out a second mortgage just to pay their insurance premiums, "free healthcare" is an unbeatable story. It doesn't matter that "free healthcare" doesn't exist and socialized medicine is a terrible product...it's not the product, it's the brand. And "FREE!" is a great brand.
You can't get mad at people for having the financial literacy of a 9 year old. I mean, you can, but they outnumber you a million to one, so it's not going to be productive. You need to figure out how to make an unsexy story sexy, or else the "free stuff!" crowd is going to eat your lunch every time. If you give people a choice between earning a six pack on a treadmill or taking Ozempic, they're gonna choose Ozempic...they don't care about the side effects. If you give people a choice between fiscal discipline or free stuff...guess what they'll pick? They don't care about the side effects.
With projected growth of 5%, the economy right now is stronger than it's been in generations. Is that the story you hear? Nope. Is that the vibe you feel? Absolutely not, especially when every time you fill up your gas tank, it feels like a diesel enema.
It's not the product, it's the brand. A great product can fall into oblivion with bad messaging...a single bad review from one effective storyteller can tank a restaurant. The "influencer economy" is lucrative for a reason; everybody inherently understands the importance of effective storytelling...except the right. Zohran Mamdani gets it...he has an army of influencers on staff. In a perfect metaphor of this transitional phase of old guard vs new wave political messaging, Zohran nuked the Vice President into oblivion with maybe the biggest ratio in the history of the internet. By simply posting the subway assistant meme, Mamdani got 2 MILLION likes, quoting a post from the VP that had only 10K likes. If you're reading that sentence thinking "this is fucking ridiculous, you're talking about social media likes as political analysis now?"...you are the problem.
Yes, this stuff matters. Rizz matters. The President did a masterful job of this kind of retail politics in his historic 2024 campaign...you can be angry that this is what politics has been reduced to, but you can either adapt or die.
"No the problem is, you didn't deliver enough for the American people!" Are you a moron? Since when does anybody care about that? What have democrats delivered for Californians in the last 20 years? Unmitigated wildfires, homeless drug zombies everywhere, roads that look like Fallujah in 2004...people don't care about results. They think they care about results. That want you to believe they care about results, just as Nike wants you to believe their shoes are better than New Balance...but at the end of the day, all people really care about is the swoosh.
Adapt or die.
Phil Cooke retweeted
Ten Random Election Night Thoughts:
1. Democrats in power is good business for conservative media and podcasters. Take that for what it is worth.
2. Half of Americans have an IQ of 100 or less.
3. Why is a midterm loss for the Presidential incumbent’s party so common? Are people really that shortsighted and devoid of animating principles? And I mean this in a non-partisan way. Who votes for Obama in 2008 and then helps the GOP win in 2010? Who votes for Trump in 2024 and then helps the Dems win in 2026? Are Americans really that stupidly fickle?
4. Why can’t every state count its votes in a few hours like Florida?
5. Democrat voters are like locusts. They ravage one state, escape that state to a good and decent state, and then turn their new state into the same hellhole they just left. Don’t believe me? Ask Colorado. Now, Texas, apparently.
6. Thune is happy right now.
7. The silver lining is that the Dems are going to accomplish nothing in the next two years other than to run endless, silly investigations and impeachments, which will make them look impotent and weak headed into 2028.
8. Trump is about to be unleashed. He has no midterms to worry about and he probably could care less about the campaign of the 2028 GOP nominee, JD or otherwise. “Unitary executive” is about to take on a new meaning.
9. If I was whomever is in charge of Iran at the moment, I’d be looking at properties in the Cayman Islands.
10. The legacy media still has more power than most conservatives are willing to acknowledge.
