Lorenzo Sewell, the Detroit pastor whose profile has risen steadily within Republican and MAGA circles, is calling for "another January 6" in the aftermath of Democrats' sweeping victories in the midterms, according to a report published by Right Wing Watch. The reference points to January 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol as Congress met in joint session to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Sewell leads 180 Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation based in Detroit, and has grown increasingly connected to GOP and MAGA politics over the past several years. He served as a guest speaker at the 2024 Republican National Convention, and in 2025 he delivered one of the benedictions at President Donald Trump's second-term inauguration. Reports have also suggested that he is weighing a run for public office himself as a Republican.

In its report this week, Right Wing Watch described Sewell as "an ardent stolen election conspiracy theorist whose obsession with exposing alleged voter fraud has become too extreme even for the Trump White House."

His refusal to accept results unfavorable to Republicans and the MAGA movement has continued. During an appearance on the "FlashPoint" podcast following the midterm blue wave, Sewell once again labeled the elections fraudulent and suggested that Trump's followers should rise up against the outcome.

Sewell's case for why fraud must have occurred echoed a common right-wing misconception about elections, one often lampooned with the phrase "land doesn't vote." Under that reasoning, an electoral map showing more counties shaded red is treated as proof that a state should elect Republicans in statewide races — an argument that overlooks the fact that Democrats tend to carry the more heavily populated counties, giving them their statewide edge. Arguments built on county counts like these circulated widely after the 2020 election, when fraud claims were pursued through lawsuits and reviews without changing any state's certified result.

"Apparently unable to understand the concept of population density, Sewell insisted that states like Texas, Michigan, and Ohio are red states and therefore could not have possibly elected Democrats," the report explained.

"Out of 83 counties in Michigan, [Republican gubernatorial candidate] John James won 69 of them," Sewell declared. "Do you know that even [Democratic Senate candidate James] Talarico, he won—watch this—he only won 31 counties? There's over 204 counties in Texas. In [Republican Ohio Senate candidate Jon] Husted and [Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod] Brown, Brown only won 16 counties. There's 88 counties in Ohio."

He continued: "These are Democrat Socialists. How is it that they take every single important seat? They literally did the midterm massacre. That's what happened last night and I have a spiritual suspicion, Gene, I got a Holy Ghost hunch that we need another January 6th. I'm telling you, I'm gearing up for it. I'm ready to go to the Capitol. I'm ready to present my evidence because I won't let them steal my nation... I'm not taking this lightly. I've already talked to a few of my friends, and we're ready to go and literally present our evidence, because the president doesn't have a presidency anymore. We gotta understand this. His presidency is done. The only thing the church can do is stand up. We have to pursue, overtake, and we need to reclaim all that the devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy."

Whether Sewell follows through on his stated plan — and whether remarks draw any response from Republican officials — remains to be seen.