In recent days, we have been digging deep into the election results. We didn’t do a Democrat-Republican analysis. We looked at the results through the lens of how they will impact faith, family, freedom, and the sanctity of life. The results are heartbreaking and hopefully a wake-up call.
If you believe, as we do at JDFI, that all of our children are made in the image of God and should be welcomed into the world and be part of the American family, we just suffered a terrible defeat. Our country just elected the most pro-abortion group of House and Senate candidates in our history. They are already planning to force us to pay for abortions with our taxes.
If you believe, as we do, that God created marriage as the union of one man and one woman and that children should not be subjected to homosexual ideology in the classroom, you and we lost. The politicians who won, in the majority of cases, are the most aggressive LGBTQ advocates ever elected to Congress.
The Congressional Equality Caucus speaks for pro-homosexual congressmen. They bragged, “The American people have made their voices heard. The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of). Let’s get to work.”1
If you believe, as we do, that the Jewish people are God’s covenant people and you reject, as we do, antisemitism, you and we lost on November 3. Voters just elected more anti-Israel, antisemitic congressmen and senators than ever in our country.
We know America was founded on biblical principles, on Judeo-Christian ideas, and on the belief that liberty comes from the God of the Bible, not government. These ideas were defeated on Election Day. The electorate just put anti-Christian bigots, left-wing Christian imposters, radical Islamists, and radical Marxists in charge of the House and Senate.
The idea that America works best when we run our own lives—rather than let the government run them—lost. Our conviction that Jesus is the way, not Karl Marx and godless communism, lost.
Everything we care about got “kicked to the curb.”
Don’t think what happened in the election was just “politics.” The results will negatively affect our faith, our families, and our freedom in ways we can’t even begin to imagine.
Some people concluded that God is giving America one last warning to get its act together. I think that analysis is off in one important way. I accept the idea that God is giving us a warning, but the “us” is not just America. The warning is for the Church, too. The reality is that massive numbers of Christian voters simply did not bother to vote.
White evangelicals, a core conservative voting bloc, consistently make up about 25 percent of the electorate in presidential or midterm elections. This year, however, they accounted for only 17 percent of the electorate.
That’s a third fewer conservative Christian voters. If you do the math, it means eight to ten million Christians simply sat the election out.
Our absence made the difference in dozens of close races. Christian members of Congress lost their seats because of us.
When hostile political forces—literal Marxists2 and Islamists—are openly threatening our freedom, it is immoral for Christians living in a free nation such as America to abandon our civic duty.
But evangelicals weren’t the only Christians who stayed home Tuesday; Protestants and parents took a pass, too.
Two years ago, Protestant voters made up approximately 43 percent of the electorate. This year, that fell to just 38 percent. Not only did fewer Protestant Christians vote, but their support for conservative candidates also fell four points between 2024 and 2026.
While turnout among Catholic voters was relatively stable, their support for conservative candidates was not. That support dropped ten points, from 59 percent in 2024 to 49 percent this year. So, a slim majority of Catholic voters helped put into power a party committed to abortion-on-demand.
Dr. James Dobson regularly warned that if we don’t go into the public square and the voting booth carrying our Christian faith with us, our place will be taken by people whose values reject all we hold dear.
Turnout among those with no religious affiliation and people who don’t believe in God actually increased compared with 2024, and these voters overwhelmingly voted for pro-Marxist, pro-Islamist, anti-Israel candidates. So, the Godless showed up and did their civic duty, while we didn’t.
And it wasn’t just faith-based voters who were AWOL.
Parents with children under eighteen in the home made up 27 percent of the electorate two years ago, and they voted for conservatives by eight points. This year, parents with children—the people with the greatest stake in the future of our country—were just 22 percent of the electorate, and they backed Marxist, Islamist, and pro-trans Democrats by eleven points.
The consequences of this election continue to pile up and will be felt for years to come. But we shouldn’t wallow in this loss. We have only two choices. Either we run up the white flag and hide in our churches hoping no one notices us, or we pick ourselves up and start putting our 2028 plan together. That is an easy choice for JDFI—we are fighting back! Will you?
1. Congressional Equality Caucus, “The American People Have Made Their Voices Heard. The 120th Congress Will Officially . . .,” Facebook post, November 5, 2026, https://www.facebook.com/CongressionalEqualityCaucus/posts/the-american-people-have-made-their-voices-heardthe-120th-congress-will-official/1600541782116534/.
2. Chuck Ross, “Democratic House Hopeful William Lawrence Said He Wants To ‘Redistribute All the Land and All the Money’ To Make Up for America’s ‘Evil Deeds,’” Washington Free Beacon, September 9, 2026, https://freebeacon.com/democrats/democratic-house-hopeful-william-lawrence-said-he-wants-to-redistribute-all-the-land-and-all-the-money-to-make-up-for-americas-evil-deeds/.
