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If you’re a Christian and you’ve ignored the OneTaste trial because it sounds too weird, too fringe, or too far removed from your world, think again. This case may not look like a religious liberty battle on the surface, but make no mistake, it absolutely is. What’s happening in that courtroom should send shockwaves through every church, every homeschool co-op, every faith-based nonprofit, and every believer in the country.
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Here’s the kicker. The lawfare machine doesn’t start with big headline cases. It runs test drills on the fringe, the weird, the obscure, and the easy-to-ignore. They sharpen their tools where no one’s watching. And once the playbook is perfectly polished and all the kinks are worked out, they unleash it on the rest of us. By then, it’s too late to act surprised.
We won’t know what hit us. But we should have. And that’s the whole point.
Right now, two people are facing twenty years in federal prison, not for assault or trafficking, but for something called “coercive control.” It’s an obscure legal theory borrowed from the UK of all places. The law is vague by design and is now being used by the Biden holdovers at the EDNY to criminalize the following: influence, belief systems, and community structure. Doesn’t that sound like any church, parent group, or political movement you’ve been involved with?
If this law can be used against OneTaste, it can absolutely be used against Christians. This same framework can be applied to pastors, women’s Bible studies, men’s retreats, or even traditional marriages. If your church asks you to serve, give, avoid sin, or cut ties with toxic relationships, under this theory, you’re part of a coercive control system. That should terrify you.
Whatever you think of Daedone’s Buddhist-influenced teachings, the theory undergirding the government’s coercive-control prosecution should give all Americans, including conservative evangelical Christians like me who believe sex outside one-man-one-woman marriage is a sin, reason for pause. The criminal case against Cherwitz and Daedone, replete with allegations of recruitment, trauma, and shunning, can be readily repackaged and deployed against churches, religious institutions, or other designated enemies of the moment.
Against conservative Christians, the playbook would be straightforward. Evangelization becomes recruitment. Labor is extracted through church ministries. Holding others accountable for sin and instructing the faithful to avoid temptation is control. Church discipline and excommunication become the last steps in a campaign of shame and humiliation. There is no limiting principle. The same rationale can be applied to other religions. Taken to its logical conclusion, coercive control applied to intraorganizational dynamics criminalizes what could be subjectively perceived as harmful influence.
To be clear, sex traffickers and rapists deserve prison or worse. And none of this is to say troubled and abusive interpersonal relationships are not a problem. Christians know strong churches are primed to solve such problems by reconciling people to God through faith in Jesus Christ and then to each other. But those very efforts could be chilled by prosecuting Cherwitz and Daedone under our federal criminal laws.
So, how did we allow this to happen? Well, the FBI and Biden’s DOJ worked hand-in-hand with a TDS “cult expert” by the name of Steven Hassan, who has found a way to weaponize feelings and past trauma into federal charges.
We covered the influence of Hassan and his BITE Model, which claims to identify mind control within certain groups.
To understand how the federal government built its case against OneTaste, you have to start with the influence of Steven Hassan, a self-identified cult expert. Hassan’s BITE Model stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control. It’s designed to explain how so-called cults gain control over people’s minds. Shockingly, the FBI has embraced this model and now uses it to train agents on how to spot alleged victims of coercive control.
That same model is now being used in legal settings to brand everyday beliefs and behaviors as dangerous manipulation. They’re turning therapy into a weapon, and conservative Christian communities are absolutely on their list.
In the middle of a quietly unfolding federal trial against former executives of a Silicon Valley wellness company called OneTaste, something truly extraordinary happened. Through the grind and determination of civil litigation, subpoena battles, and courtroom discovery, OneTaste stumbled onto a trail of evidence that doesn’t just raise questions about their own prosecution; it raises red flags about the very foundations of how federal agencies have been operating since the start of the lawfare era.
At the center of this discovery is a man named Steven Hassan, a self-described “cult expert” who authored a book titled “The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control.”
This is the man whose work is now featured on the FBI official website. And the man whose “BITE Model,” a subjective framework built on emotional, behavioral, and thought control, is being used to train FBI agents on how to identify cult victims.
This questionable training has been directly linked to criminal cases involving spiritual communities like OneTaste, where former members were encouraged to reinterpret their past experiences as “trauma” with the help of taxpayer-funded “victim services” and workshops hosted by Mr. Hassan.
But Hassan wasn’t just weaponizing therapy-speak. He was also counseling key prosecution witnesses in the OneTaste case, witnesses who initially didn’t see themselves as victims but who later emerged from his sessions claiming they had been “brainwashed.” What a coincidence, eh? The Revolver piece continues:
According to documents reviewed by Revolver, federal prosecutors directed OneTaste’s defense attorneys to “look to the media,” specifically referencing a BBC podcast featuring Steven Hassan and several former members, saying it would help them understand the crime under investigation. That podcast, which is now the subject of a legal complaint by OneTaste, contains no formal criminal allegations or defined legal violations. It offers only personal stories, cult rhetoric, and opinion-based commentary. The only criminal allegation it puts forward is the story of Ayries Blanck, the government’s lead witness up until four weeks before trial. Once the defense proved she had perjured her testimony and fabricated false evidence in coordination with Netflix, prosecutors were forced to drop her.
And here’s what hasn’t been reported—until now.
According to sources close to the case and court-reviewed communications, Steven Hassan wasn’t just a media pundit or an FBI-approved “cult expert.” He was also the personal therapist for both Michal, the central figure in the 2018 Bloomberg article that triggered the FBI investigation (more on that shortly), and Ayries Blanck, the same witness who, according to court filings, allegedly worked with FBI Agent McGinnis to create fraudulent evidence.
There’s much more to this case and Steven Hassan’s role in the future of religious freedom. You can read the entire piece by clicking below:
Exclusive: Meet the TDS Cult ‘Expert’ Behind the FBI’s Lawfare Machine
Just because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you can’t support this fight. In fact, you should. This case may center on a group you wouldn’t personally join, but the battle they’re in is the same one facing every American who values conscience, speech, and freedom of belief.
This isn’t about defending OneTaste’s teachings. It’s about defending the line between justice and persecution. When the DOJ decides it can redefine belief systems as criminal conspiracies, no group is safe, least of all the ones the ruling class already despises.
Meanwhile, OneTaste is fighting lawfare head-on.
The OneTaste case isn’t about whether you agree with their teachings. This is about something far bigger: a regime using the justice system as a political missile. OneTaste became a target during the height of the #MeToo era, not because of evidence, but because the FBI and DOJ were desperate to virtue-signal their support for “believe all women.” They wanted headlines. They wanted praise. So they went hunting. And OneTaste was an easy target: female-led, sexually nontraditional, and just provocative enough to justify a witch trial in the press, and they figured nobody would really pay attention.
But OneTaste didn’t roll over. They’re fighting back.
In a move that’s catching the eye of conservatives and free-speech warriors across the political aisle, OneTaste is now calling out this prosecution for what it really is: dirty rotten lawfare. The same tactics used against President Trump, J6 defendants, Douglass Mackey, and pro-life activists are now being unleashed on people whose only real “crime” was stepping outside polite society’s norms.
This case isn’t just about OneTaste anymore. It’s about every American who’s ever dared to think differently, speak freely, or live outside the box. Think about it, the regime has already tried to demonize parents, homesteaders, and even people who question vaccines.
Who’s next? Born-again Christians? Will they be called a “cult” next?
Nobody’s safe from this new therapy-style lawfare. We’re all sitting ducks unless we start standing together and shutting this down.
OneTaste has used legal firepower to wage war against the lawfare machine. The Revolver piece goes on:
Thankfully, OneTaste didn’t crawl into a corner and beg for mercy. They stood up, looked the machine dead in the eye, and started swinging.
Nicole Daedone and her team knew exactly what they were up against: a media-driven prosecution built on politics and weaponized therapy-speak, not proof. So instead of playing defense, they went on offense. In the lead-up to Netflix’s hit piece, they filed a lawsuit against Ayries Blanck, the former employee who broke her contract and handed their internal materials to Hollywood producers. They wanted to expose the coordination between bitter ex-staffers and the media-industrial complex that profits from smearing people for clicks and ratings.
In December 2024, OneTaste filed a formal complaint with the Inspectors General of both the FBI and DOJ. While the media painted OneTaste as controversial, edgy, and even cult-like, what’s unfolding now has little to do with titillation and everything to do with tyranny.
Then in April 2025, things really got heated.
A congressional inquiry was launched, pressing for answers on how and why the full weight of the federal government was thrown at a niche wellness company without a shred of criminal evidence. OneTaste wasn’t just defending itself; they were helping expose the entire blueprint of lawfare the regime now uses as sport.
Thanks to OneTaste’s digging, we now know the FBI employs a Stage 5 TDS whack job who has twisted legitimate cult-identification tools into a full-blown playbook for targeting Christians, MAGA supporters, and anyone else who refuses to march in lockstep with the progressive army.
Behind the scenes, OneTaste filed more than 600 Freedom of Information Act requests targeting the entire prosecution team. They asked for everything: emails, texts, notes, and communications with the press. If this case was clean, the DOJ would have nothing to hide. But we all know that’s not how this works, right? The FOIA requests are still coming in and could reveal just how politically motivated this case really is.
You can read this entire piece by clicking below:
Inside a David vs. Goliath fight against DOJ lawfare—OneTaste takes us behind the scenes…
So ask yourself: if they can do this to OneTaste, what’s stopping them from doing it to your church, your family, or your community?
The answer is nothing, unless we start pushing back, too.
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