A Trump-voting Nebraska pastor is running for Senate as a Democrat. He insists it's in good faith.

Pastor Bill Forbes speaking at Paxton New Life Lutheran Church in one of more than two dozen now-deleted video sermons reviewed by the Flatwater Free Press. Forbes, who regularly expressed conservative views in the sermons, is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. Image made from screenshot

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In now-deleted videos of past sermons, Pastor Bill Forbes rejected evolution, warned Islamists will “overtake us” and called for a Christian revival to combat the courts, schools and other perceived enemies.

Andrew Wegley
Flatwater Free Press May 9, 2026 Updated 12 hrs ago

PAXTON — On a Sunday morning, Bill Forbes stood behind his pulpit and read from the Book of John.

“‘You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,’” the pastor recited, before offering: “Truth agrees with what is reality. Truth agrees with what we see with our own eyes.”

But the truth that congregants at Paxton New Life Lutheran Church know from the gospel is far different “from the propaganda-driven reality that is manufactured by the rest of the entities vying for our loyalty for them,” Forbes said in his sermon, video of which from his deleted Facebook page was obtained and reviewed by the Flatwater Free Press.

Those forces want us divided, he said. They want us to distrust each other. Most of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their dictates, he told his church.

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