CONTENTS

Dramatis Personae

Prologue

1. In the Beginning: Texas

2. The Birth of the CNP: Washington

3. Lords of the Air: The CNP’s Media Empire

4. The News Hole in the Heart of America

5. Money People

6. Fishers of Men: Electoral Stratagems

7. Ideology 101: The CNP’s Campus Partners

8. Koch, DeVos, Soros: Donors, Politics, and Pastors

9. The Obama Challenge

10. Data Wars

11. The Art of the Deal: New York, June 21, 2016

12. “The Miracle”

13. Midterms

14. “Democracy in America”

Epilogue

Color Plates

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Select Organizations

Notes

Recommended Reading

Index

A Note on the Author