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PROLOGUE

    1. Robert Leonard, “Want to Get Rid of Trump? Only Fox News Can Do It,” New York Times, July 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/opinion/trump-fox-news-media.html.

    2. Emily Nussbaum, “The TV that Created Donald Trump,” New Yorker, July 24, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/the-tv-that-created-donald-trump.

    3. Rob Faris et al., “Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,” Berkman Klein Center, August 16, 2017, https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud.

    4. David Daley, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017), 215.

    5. “The Patriot WDTK,” Salem Media Group, accessed July 16, 2019, http://salemmedia.com/radio-stations/newstalk1400-wdtk-the-patriot/.

    6. “FaithTalk 99.5 FM KDIS,” Salem Media Group, accessed July 16, 2019, http://salemmedia.com/radio-stations/faithtalk-99-5-fm-kdis/.

    7. “On Homosexuality, Moore Running with God, the Founders, George Washington, Antonin Scalia, Sam Alito, and Clarence,” AFR Focal Point, September 22, 2017, https://afr.net/podcasts/focal-point/2017/september/on-homosexuality-moore-running-with-god-the-founders-george-washington-antonin-scalia-sam-alito-and-clarence/.

    8. Richard Kelsey, “Watch Your Language: Progressivism is Not Progress,” Committed Conservative, February 6, 2017, http://committedconservative.com/2017/02/06/watch-language-progressivism-not-progress/?v=iLY4uls76aE%3B%20https%3A%2F%2F.

CHAPTER 1: IN THE BEGINNING

    1. Rachel Siegel, “The Gripping Sermon that Got ‘Under G-d’ Added to the Pledge of Allegiance on Flag Day,” Washington Post, June 14, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/14/the-gripping-sermon-that-got-under-god-added-to-the-pledge-of-allegiance-on-flag-day/?utm_term=.7dc7ec921249.

    2. “Urban and Rural Population for the U.S. and All States: 1900–2000,” Iowa Data Center, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.iowadatacenter.org/datatables/UnitedStates/urusstpop19002000.pdf.

    3. Laurie Goodstein, “Percentage of Protestant American is in Steep Decline, Study Finds” New York Times, October 9, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/us/study-finds-that-percentage-of-protestant-americans-is-declining.html.

    4. “Strict Construction,” Cornell Law School, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_construction.

    5. M. F. Fiegel, “The Baptist Church and the Confederate Cause,” in Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 47 (1967): 314.

    6. Samuel Boykin, “Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions at the Beginning of the American Civil War—1861,” Baptist History Homepage, accessed July 16, 2019, http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/sbc.resolution.civil.war.html.

    7. John W. Storey, Texas Baptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 1900–1980 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986).

    8. “Southern Baptist Convention States,” Association of Religious Data Archives, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.thearda.com/ql2010/QL_S_ALL_2_1168c.asp.

    9. Glenna Whitley, “Baptist Holy War,” D Magazine, January 1991, https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1991/january/baptist-holy-war/.

  10. Jeff Robinson, “Pressler: SBC Conservative Resurgence was Grassroots Movement,” Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, March 30, 2004, http://news.sbts.edu/2004/03/30/pressler-sbc-conservative-resurgence-was-grassroots-movement/. See also Michael Foust, “25 Years Ago, Conservative Resurgence Got Its Start,” Baptist Press, June 15, 2004, http://www.bpnews.net/18486/25-years-ago-conservative-resurgence-got-its-start.

  11. Will Campbell, “When History Is All We Have,” Christianity and Crisis, September 4, 1990, https://www.religion-online.org/article/when-history-is-all-we-have/.

  12. Michael Erard, “Don’t Stop Believing: Renegade Bloggers Besiege the Southern Baptist Convention,” Texas Observer, July 13, 2007, https://www.texasobserver.org/2547-dont-stop-believing-renegade-bloggers-besiege-the-southern-baptist-convention/.

  13. George Grant, The Changing of the Guard (Fort Worth: Dominion Press, 1987), 50, https://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/pdf/the_changing_of_the_guard.pdf.

  14. “The Seven Mountains of Societal Influence,” Generals International, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.generals.org/rpn/the-seven-mountains/.

  15. Glenn H. Utter and John Woodrow Storey, The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001), 122.

  16. David Grann, “Robespierre of the Right,” New Republic, October 27, 1997, https://newrepublic.com/article/61338/robespierre-the-right.

  17. Molly Jackman, “ALEC’s Influence over Lawmaking in State Legislatures,” Brookings, December 6, 2013, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/alecs-influence-over-lawmaking-in-state-legislatures/.

  18. Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 183.

  19. Another eighty-four stations nationwide continued to carry Robison’s program.

  20. Kathy Sawyer, “Linking Religion and Politics,” Washington Post, August 24, 1980, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/08/24/linking-religion-and-politics/3d68ea8c-ed85-4d5d-94da-8b429f911a96.

  21. Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor, Rivalry and Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 229.

  22. W. Scott Lamb, “35th Anniversary of Reagan’s ‘I Know You Can’t Endorse Me. But I Endorse You,” Washington Times, August 21, 2015, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/21/w-scott-lamb-this-day-in-us-history-reagans-endors/.

  23. W. Scott Lamb, Mike Huckabee: The Authorized Biography (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2015), 142.

  24. Lamb, “35th Anniversary.”

  25. Holly Bailey, “Meet Rafael Cruz: Ted Cruz’s Secret Evangelical Weapon,” Yahoo News, October 27, 2015, https://news.yahoo.com/meet-rafael-cruz-ted-cruz-1286671921045558.html.

  26. “Taking Over the Republican Party,” Theocracy Watch, last updated February 2005, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm. See also “Life and Liberty for All Who Believe,” Theocracy Watch, accessed July 16, 2019, http://www.theocracywatch.org/audio-video.htm.

  27. “Ronald Reagan: National Affairs Campaign Address on Religious Liberty (Abridged),” American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank transcript, accessed July 16, 2019, https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganreligiousliberty.htm.

  28. Dan Gilgoff, The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007), 80.

  29. Ibid.

  30. James C. Haley, The Truth in Crisis (Hannibal, MO: Hannibal Books, 1988), 210, https://billmoyers.com/content/battle-bible.

  31. “Life and Liberty for All Who Believe,” Theocracy Watch.

  32. Paul Pressler, A Hill on Which to Die: One Southern Baptist’s Journey (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2002), 247.

  33. Ibid., 247–48.

  34. Ibid., 248.

  35. Pressler was thoroughly enmeshed in Republican politics, but he came late to the party. He spent the first half of his life as a conservative Democrat, “believing some hope for the party still existed.” It was only in 1988 that he changed his affiliation.

  36. Mike Anglin, “The ‘Baker vs. Wade’ Litigation,” Dallas Way, November 23, 2017, http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2017/11/23/baker-vs-wade.

  37. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 72.

  38. Ibid., 82.

CHAPTER 2: THE BIRTH OF THE CNP

    1. William Gilbert, Renaissance and Reformation (Lawrence, KS: Carrie, 1998), ch. 14, http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html.

    2. Wallace M. Alston Jr., The Church of the Living God (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 45. See for priests as intermediaries, a concept basic to religious history. Also Thomas Davis, ed., John Calvin’s American Legacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 70. See for the role of elders.

    3. Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination (Woodstock, Ontario: Devoted Publishing, 2017), 166.

    4. Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 421.

    5. “Book TV: Richard Viguerie, ‘Takeover,’ ” YouTube video, 10:00, BookTV, August 5, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7VtuqPpsTQ. See 4:34.

    6. “Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat Days: Newsreel,” YouTube video, 9:20, tsgvideoplace, July 19, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU0lXeJbi4. See 00:50.

    7. “Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party,” American Presidency Project, August 14, 1948, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party.

    8. J. R. Moeringher, “Amid Uproar, Bob Jones U. Keeps the Faith,” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2000, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-27-mn-3089-story.html. See also Justin Taylor, “Is Segregation Scriptural? A Radio Address from Bob Jones on Easter 1960,” Gospel Coalition, July 26, 2016, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/is-segregation-scriptural-a-radio-address-from-bob-jones-on-easter-of-1960.

    9. Randall Balmer, “The Real Origins of the Religious Right,” Politico Magazine, May 27, 2014, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133.

  10. Taylor, “Is Segregation Scriptural?”

  11. Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor, “Rivalry and Reform: Building a Movement Party,” University of Virginia Miller Center, accessed July 16, 2019. https://millercenter.org/rivalry-and-reform/building-movement-party.

  12. Bob Jones Sr., “Is Segregation Scriptural?,” transcript, April 17, 1960, 13–15, https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6A7PtfmRgT7Q1kzZEVxUThMLWc/edit.

  13. Frances FitzGerald, “The Triumphs of the New Right,” New York Review of Books, November 19, 1981, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1981/11/19/the-triumphs-of-the-new-right.

  14. Lee Roy Chapman, “The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis,” This Land Press, November 2, 2012, http://thislandpress.com/2012/11/02/the-strange-love-of-dr-billy-james-hargis.

  15. Adam Bernstein, “Evangelist Billy James Hargis Dies; Spread Anti-Communist Message,” Washington Post, November 30, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20975-2004Nov29.html.

  16. “Obituary: Billy James Hargis,” Economist, December 16, 2004, https://www.economist.com/obituary/2004/12/16/billy-james-hargis.

  17. Richard Viguerie, Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It (New York: WND, 2014), xvi, 16.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid., 18.

  20. People Staff, “Richard Viguerie,” People, December 28, 1981, https://people.com/archive/richard-viguerie-vol-16-no-26.

  21. “Blackwell, Morton C.: Files, 1981–1984,” Reagan Library, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/archives/textual/smof/blackwell.pdf. See also “Morton Blackwell—Staff and Faculty at the Leadership Institute,” Leadership Institute, June 4, 2019, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/training/contact.cfm?FacultyID=7159.

  22. “CPAC: A Detailed History of the First 30 Years,” American Conservative Union, accessed July 16, 2019, https://conservative.org/article/cpac-detailed-history-first-30-years. See also Morton C. Blackwell, “A Tribute to Paul Weyrich,” Leadership Institute, October 6, 2015, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/writings/?ID=1.

  23. Viguerie, Takeover, 43–44. See also Morton C. Blackwell, “The Real Nature of Politics,” Leadership Institute News, August 6, 2012, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/news/?NR=8425.

  24. Blackwell, “Real Nature of Politics.”

  25. Ibid.

  26. Richard J. Meagher, “Political Strategy and the Building of the GOP Coalition,” Political Research Associates, June 10, 2009, https://www.politicalresearch.org/2009/06/10/remembering-the-new-right-political-strategy-and-the-building-of-the-gop-coalition.

  27. “CPAC: A Detailed History of the First 30 Years,” American Conservative Union, accessed July 16, 2019, https://conservative.org/article/cpac-detailed-history-first-30-years. See also Blackwell, “A Tribute to Paul Weyrich.”

  28. “Reagan at the first CPAC, ‘We Will be a City Upon a Hill,’ ” Frontiers of Freedom, March 12, 2013, https://www.ff.org/reagan-at-the-first-cpac-we-will-be-a-city-upon-a-hill.

  29. Meagher, “Political Strategy.”

  30. Alex Jones, Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 37.

  31. Phyllis Schlafly, “ERA Would Affect Social Security for Stay-at-Home Moms and Widows,” Illinois Review, February 28, 2008, https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2008/02/era-would-affec.html. See also Robert. J. Gray, “ ‘An Amendment that Requires Both Sexes to be Treated Equally:’ A Men’s Rights Activist Voices Support for the ERA,” History Matters, accessed July 16, 2019, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7028.

  32. Richard A. Ostling, “Jerry Falwell’s Crusade,” Time 126 (September 2, 1985): 50.

  33. Mary T. Schmich, “A Spokeslady of the Right,” Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1986, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-23-8601210901-story.html.

  34. BookTV, “Book TV: Richard Vigeruie, ‘Takeover.’ ” See 5:19.

  35. Gray, “ ‘An Amendment that Requires Both Sexes to be Treated Equally.’ ”

  36. Blackwell, “Real Nature of Politics.”

  37. Viguerie, Takeover, 49.

  38. Adam Clymer, “Conservatives Gather in Umbrella Council for a National Policy,” New York Times, May 20, 1981, https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/20/us/conservatives-gather-in-umbrella-council-for-a-national-policy.html.

  39. Viguerie, Takeover, 44.

  40. Ibid., 44, 49.

  41. Adam Clymer, “Conservatives Gather in Umbrella Council.”

  42. Alissa Wilkinson, “The ‘Left Behind’ Series was just the Latest Way America Prepared for the Rapture,” Washington Post, July 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/13/the-left-behind-series-was-just-the-latest-way-america-prepared-for-the-rapture.

  43. Great Oaks is at 910 North Foster Drive. Jenkins lived just down the road at 912. Four years into his tenure, Jenkins urged the CNP to buy Great Oaks, but Paul Weyrich decided the organization should move to Washington. Jenkins resigned and stayed in Baton Rouge, remaining a long-term member. He bought Great Oaks in 1984 as a home base for his various media and business enterprises.

  44. Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection (Boston: South End Press, 1999), 38. See also “Illinois Sues Former KKK Member, others, who Sought Money for AIDS Victims,” United Press International Archives, January 26, 1990, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/01/26/Illinois-sues-former-KKK-member-others-who-sought-money-for-AIDS-victims/8604633330000.

  45. Baton Rouge State-Times, “Powerful Conservative Organization Formed to Influence Congress, Impact Foreign Policy,” People for the American Way, January 8, 1987, http://media.pfaw.org/Right/CNP-IRAN.txt.

  46. “Nicaragua and Iran Timeline,” Brown University, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/timeline-n-i.php.

  47. Janet Cawley and Nathaniel Sheppard Jr., “Contributors Tell of ‘1-2 Punch’ for Contra Aid,” Chicago Tribune, May 22, 1987, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-05-22-8702070939-story.html.

  48. Baton Rouge State-Times, “Powerful Conservative Organization Formed.”

  49. Guy Gugliotta, “D’Aubuisson Kept U.S. on its Guard,” Washington Post, January 4, 1994, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/01/04/daubuisson-kept-us-on-its-guard/c2ede026-fb05-49e7-80f2-12b568eb023b/?utm_term=.a5add721b58c.

  50. Joanne Omang, “D’Aubuisson Honored by Conservatives at Capitol Hill Dinner,” Washington Post, December 5, 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/12/05/daubuisson-honored-by-conservatives-at-capitol-hill-dinner/f14ae112-2599-420d-aa9c-233aafac103c/?utm_term=.24c9bab9e424.

  51. David Johnston, “Judge in Iran-Contra Trial Drops Case Against North After Prosecutor Gives Up,” New York Times, September 17, 1991, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/us/judge-in-iran-contra-trial-drops-case-against-north-after-prosecutor-gives-up.html.

  52. Baton Rouge State-Times, “North Was Member of Private group Once Based in BR,” People for the American Way, January 8, 1978, http://media.pfaw.org/Right/CNP-IRAN.txt.

  53. Clymer, “Conservatives Gather in Umbrella Council.”

  54. Robert M. Penna, “The Johnson Amendment: Fact-Checking the Narrative,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, August 24, 2018, https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_johnson_amendment_fact_checking_the_narrative#.

  55. Internal Revenue Code. See also Penna, “The Johnson Amendment.”

  56. C. Eugene Emery Jr., “Donald Trump Correct—Lyndon Johnson Passed Legislation Limiting Political Activity of Churches,” PolitiFact, July 22, 2016, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/22/donald-trump/donald-trump-correct-lyndon-johnson-passed-legisla.

  57. I have been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1994.

  58. Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein, “For IRS, a Junket Takes on New Meaning,” Washington Post, May 21, 1992, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1992/05/21/for-irs-a-junket-takes-on-new-meaning/1578edeb-b804-480e-a3ce-21d5befa1bc3.

CHAPTER 3: LORDS OF THE AIR

    1. Viguerie, Takeover, 21.

    2. People Staff, “Richard Viguerie.”

    3. “VVS 2017: Honoring Stu Eperson,” YouTube video, 1:57:27, “FRC Action,” October 18, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuMQjdAAYBs. (See 5:55)

    4. “Johnson’s Radio Visitor,” KMMJ Clay Center, September, 1929, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/KMMJ-Clay-Center-1929.pdf.

    5. FRC Action, “VVS 2017.” See 1:00:00, 36:15.

    6. Time Staff, “Influential Evangelicals: Stuart Epperson,” Time, February 7, 2005, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993268,00.html. See also Eddie Huffman, “Radio Station WPAQ Celebrates 70 Years of Regional Americana,” Winston-Salem Journal, January 24, 2018, https://www.journalnow.com/entertainment/music/radio-station-wpaq-celebrates-years-of-regional-americana/article_85c3b2f0-7432-58bd-9430-53f877a1cbbd.html.

    7. FRC Action, “VVS 2017.” See 1:11:30.

    8. “Humble Beginnings to National Radio Network—Stu Epperson,” Wise Counsel, accessed July 16, 2019, http://askwisecounsel.com/stu-epperson.

    9. Michael Freedman, “Articles of Faith,” Forbes, December 27, 1999, https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1227/6415281a.html#2969a9452ac5.

  10. Adam Piore, “A Higher Frequency,” Mother Jones, December 2005, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/12/higher-frequency.

  11. FRC Action, “VVS 2017.”

  12. Alan Greenblatt and Tracie Powell, “Rise of Megachurches,” CQ Researcher, September 21, 2007, https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2007092100.

  13. Sarah Burns, “25 Largest Churches in America,” 24/7 Wall St., October 11, 2017, https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/10/11/25-largest-churches-in-america/6.

  14. Greenblatt and Powell, “Rise of Megachurches.” James Twitchell quoted.

  15. Viguerie, Takeover, 22.

  16. Freedman, “Articles of Faith.”

  17. James Dobson, “The New Hide and Seek: What’s the Cause of Homosexuality?” Dobson Digital Library, accessed July 16, 2019, https://www.dobsonlibrary.com/resource/article/0f184113-ff27-42d0-824c-4792ae56931a.

  18. James Dobson, “The Woman’s Role in Marriage,” OnePlace, August 12, 2013, https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/family-talk/listen/the-womans-role-in-marriage-357741.html. See 15:16.

  19. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 24.

  20. “Letter from Jerry Falwell on Keeping Old Time Gospel Hour on Air,” Portal to Texas History, accessed July 16, 2019, https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177440/m1/1.

  21. “Network Evening News Ratings,” Pew Research Center, March 13, 2006, https://www.journalism.org/numbers/network-evening-news-ratings.

  22. Viguerie, Takeover, 68.

  23. Richard M. Harley, “The Evangelical Vote and the Presidency,” Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 1980, https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0625/062555.html.

  24. Jason. C. Bivins, “Tracing the Rise of Christian Media in American Political Discourse,” Pacific Standard, May 30, 2018, https://psmag.com/news/the-rise-of-the-christian-media.

  25. Joel Achenbach, “Did the News Media, Led by Walter Cronkite, Lose the War in Vietnam?” Washington Post, May 25, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/did-the-news-media-led-by-walter-cronkite-lose-the-war-in-vietnam/2018/05/25/a5b3e098-495e-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html.

  26. Piore, “A Higher Frequency.”

  27. Kent Demaret, “Methodist Pastor Don Wildmon Leads a Holy War Against Sex, Violence and Booze on TV,” People, November 27, 1978, https://people.com/archive/methodist-pastor-don-wildmon-leads-a-holy-war-against-sex-violence-and-booze-on-tv-vol-10-no-22.

  28. As of 2018, American Family Radio’s stars include Wildmon’s son Tim, who inherited his father’s mission; Bryan Fischer; Abraham Hamilton III; Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas; David Barton, the fundamentalist historical revisionist; Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow; and fundamentalist financial advisor Dan Celia.

  29. David Craig, “The Rev. Jerry Falwell, Returning to Heritage USA to …,” United Press International Archives, October 9, 1987, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/09/The-Rev-Jerry-Falwell-returning-to-Heritage-USA-to/8017560750400.

CHAPTER 4: THE NEWS HOLE IN THE HEART OF AMERICA

    1. This assessment would have surprised many leftists, who regarded “legacy media” as conservative.

    2. Alabama Public Radio, “How the Media Covered the Civil Rights Movement: the Children’s March,” Alabama Public Radio, April 25, 2013, https://www.apr.org/post/how-media-covered-civil-rights-movement-childrens-march#stream/0.

    3. James D. Squires, Read All About It: The Corporate Takeover of America’s Newspapers (New York: Times Books, 1994), 223–24.

    4. Blackwell, “The Real Nature of Politics.”

    5. Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker, from the Crimea to Iraq (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 21–25.

    6. Squires, Read All About It, 10.

    7. Matthew Baum, “Soft News and Foreign Policy: How Expanding the Audience Changes the Policies,” Research Gate, April 2007, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231980745_Soft_News_and_Foreign_Policy_How_Expanding_the_Audience_Changes_the_Policies.

    8. “Number of U.S. Daily Newspapers, 5-Year Increments,” Pew Research Center, March 12, 2007, https://www.journalism.org/numbers/number-of-u-s-daily-newspapers-5-year-increments. See also Squires, Read All About It, 208.

    9. “Newspapers Fact Sheet,” Pew Research Center, July 9, 2019, https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/newspapers. See also Erin Duffin, “Number of Households in the U.S. from 1960 to 2018,” Statista, last edited April 29, 2019, https://www-statista-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us. See also “U.S. Daily Newspaper Circulation Versus Number of Households,” Pew Research Center, March 13, 2006, https://www.journalism.org/numbers/u-s-daily-newspaper-circulation-versus-number-of-households.

  10. Marc Gunther, “The Transformation of Network News,” Nieman Reports, June 15, 1999, https://niemanreports.org/articles/the-transformation-of-network-news.

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  12. Squires, Read All About It, 208.

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CHAPTER 5: MONEY PEOPLE

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    3. Baton Rouge State-Times, “Powerful Conservative Organization Formed to Influence Congress, Impact Foreign Policy.”

    4. “Nomination Process,” Public Eye Archives.

    5. Jim Dwyer, “Remembering a City Where the Smog Could Kill,” New York Times, February 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/nyregion/new-york-city-smog.html.

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    9. Rebecca Hersher, “After Decades of Air Pollution, A Louisiana Town Rebels Against a Chemical Giant,” National Public Radio, March 6, 2018, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/06/583973428/after-decades-of-air-pollution-a-louisiana-town-rebels-against-a-chemical-giant.

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  15. Andrew Graham, “Friess Gives, Forgives, and Gets Returns from Faith, Donations,” WyoFile, August 10, 2018, https://www.wyofile.com/friess-gives-forgives-and-gets-returns-from-faith-donations. See also “Lynn & Foster Friess Family Foundation,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/lynn-foster-friess-family-foundation.

  16. Adam Berstein, “Joseph Coors Sr., 85, Dies,” Washington Post, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/03/18/joseph-coors-sr-85-dies/fc026a48-3ae3-479d-8e4c-d5ecdbe7c808.

  17. “Evangelist James Robinson and Millionaire T. Cullen Davis Last …,” United Press International Archives, January 11, 1983, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/01/11/Evangelist-James-Robison-and-millionaire-T-Cullen-Davis-last/1963411109200.

  18. Gary Cartwright, “How Cullen Davis Beat the Rap,” Texas Monthly, May 1979, https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/how-cullen-davis-beat-the-rap-2. See also Maureen Maher, “Did a Texas Millionaire get Away with a Brutal Double Murder?,” CBS News, January 23, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-cullen-davis-case-mansion-murders-did-a-texas-millionaire-get-away-with-brutal-double-killing.

  19. Matt Schudel, “Nelson Bunker Hunt, Texas Oil Baron who Lost Much of his Fortune, Dies at 88,” Washington Post, October 22, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/nelson-bunker-hunt-texas-oil-baron-who-lost-much-of-his-fortune-dies-at-88/2014/10/22/81739876-5a02-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html.

  20. “1998 Membership by State,” Public Eye.

  21. Mark Ellis, “One of the Richest Men in the World Ensured Bankruptcy, but One Investment Brought Eternal Rewards,” GodReports, November 13, 2014, https://blog.godreports.com/2014/11/one-of-the-richest-men-in-the-world-forced-into-bankruptcy-but-one-investment-brought-eternal-rewards.

  22. Richard DeVos, Simply Rich (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 11. Richard DeVos Sr. wrote in his autobiography that he grew up in the even more severe Protestant Reformed Church, which splintered from the Christian Reformed Church.

  23. Kristina Rizga, “Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America’s Schools to Build ‘God’s Kingdom,’ ” Mother Jones, March/April 2017, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary.

  24. “History,” Christian Reformed Church, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.crcna.org/welcome/history.

  25. Ibid.

  26. “Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA),” Christ Community Church, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.christcommunitysheboygan.org/about/christian-reformed-church-in-north-america-crcna.

  27. Greg Chandler, “Holland Leaders Tighten Rules Against Loud Noises, Put Curfew on Yelling, Whistling,” MLive, February 2, 2012, https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/02/holland_leaders_tighten_rules.html.

  28. “LGBT+ Students and Homosexuality FAQ,” Calvin University, accessed July 17, 2019, https://calvin.edu/events/sexuality-series/lgbt-homosexuality-faq.html.

  29. Rizga, “Betsy DeVos.”

  30. Debra A. Valentine, “International Monetary Funds Seminar on Current Legal Issues Affecting Central Banks,” Federal Trade Commission, May 13, 1998, https://www.ftc.gov/public-statements/1998/05/pyramid-schemes.

  31. L. Lee, email to author, January 30, 2019.

  32. Charles Stanley, Success God’s Way: Achieving True Contentment and Purpose (Nashville: Thomas Stanley, 2000).

  33. “Amway,” Consumer Affairs, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/amway.htm. See also Stephen Butterfield, Amway: The Cult of Free Enterprise (Boston: South End Press, 1985). See also Eric Scheibeler, Merchants of Deception (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace, 2009).

  34. Rizga, “Betsy DeVos.”

  35. Ibid.

  36. DeVos, Simply Rich, 198–99.

  37. Gary L. Bauer, “Letter,” Internet Christian Library, April 13, 1995, https://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/frc/frc-msn.9504.txt.

  38. David Johnston and John M. Broder, “F.B.I. Says Guards Killed 14 Iraqis Without Cause,” New York Times, November 14, 2007, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/world/middleeast/14blackwater.html. See also Eileen Sullivan, “Blackwater Security Contractor Found Guilty, Again, in Deadly 2007 Iraq Shooting,” New York Times, December 19, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/politics/blackwater-security-contractor-iraq-shooting.html.

  39. Blackwater was sold and renamed several times, most recently as Academi.

  40. Stephanie Henderson, “Betsy DeVos and the Twilight of Public Education,” Detroit Free Press, December 3, 2016, https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/12/03/betsy-devos-education-donald-trump/94728574. See also Kate Wells, “Three Detroit Charter Schools Closing this Year,” Michigan Radio, June 28, 2016, https://www.michiganradio.org/post/three-detroit-charter-schools-closing-year. See also Valerie Strauss, “A Sobering Look at What Betsy DeVos Did to Education in Michigan and What she Might do as Secretary of Education,” Washington Post, December 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/08/a-sobering-look-at-what-betsy-devos-did-to-education-in-michigan-and-what-she-might-do-as-secretary-of-education.

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  42. “2019 Venue: Dallas at Las Colinas,” Gathering, accessed July 19, 2019, https://thegathering.com/event/venue. As of 2019.

  43. Betsy DeVos and Dick DeVos, “Betsy and Dick DeVos Talk About Reforming Education at a Gathering of Wealthy Christians in 2001,” Politico video, 54:55, December 2, 2016, https://www.politico.com/video/2016/12/betsy-and-dick-devos-talk-about-reforming-education-at-a-gathering-of-wealthy-christians-in-2001-061697. See 38:00.

  44. Ibid., from 38:00 to 50:00.

  45. Andy Kroll, “Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan’s Plan to Defund the Left,” Mother Jones, January/February 2014, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop/2.

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  48. James Feigenbaum, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Vanessa Williamson, “From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws,” National Bureau of Economic Research, January 20, 2018, https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/research/pdf/fhw_rtw_jan2018.pdf.

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CHAPTER 6: FISHERS OF MEN

    1. Joan Boudreau, “A Civil War Press Pass for William Conant Church,” American Printing History Association, January 26, 2015, https://printinghistory.org/civil-war-press-pass-william-conant-church. See also “William Conant Church,” Century Association Archives, accessed July 17, 2018, http://centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=272. See also “A Brief History of the NRA,” National Rifle Association, accessed July 17, 2018, https://home.nra.org/about-the-nra. See also Joe Sommerlad, “How was the NRA Founded and How did a Gun Lobby Become so Influential in American Politics?,” Independent, April 26, 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nra-national-rifle-association-history-gun-control-second-amendment-oliver-north-a8887286.html.

    2. Author, “Meeting of the National Rifle Association Election of Officers,” New York Times Archive, November 25, 1871, https://www.nytimes.com/1871/11/25/archives/meeting-of-the-national-rifle-association-election-of-officers. See also E.B. Solomont, “ASB to pay Thor $90M for Dolce & Gabbana’s Soho Home,” Real Deal, June 24, 2016, https://therealdeal.com/2016/06/24/asb-to-pay-thor-90m-for-dolce-gabbanas-soho-home. See also Christopher Gray, “New Bells and Whistles at the Old Firehouse,” New York Times, May 11, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/realestate/new-bells-and-whistles-for-an-old-firehouse.html.

    3. “A Brief History of the NRA,” National Rifle Association.

    4. Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Oliver Roeder, “America’s Faulty Perception of Crime Rates,” Brennan Center for Justice, March 16, 2015, https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/americans-faulty-perception-crime-rates.

    5. Arica L. Coleman, “When the NRA Supported Gun Control,” Time, July 29, 2016, https://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history.

    6. Ibid.

    7. Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham, and Sari Horwitz, “How NRA’s True Believers Converted a Marksmanship Group into a Mighty Gun Lobby,” Washington Post, January 12, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-nras-true-believers-converted-a-marksmanship-group-into-a-mighty-gun-lobby/2013/01/12/51c62288-59b9-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html.

    8. Jeff Suess, “NRA: ‘Revolt at Cincinnati’ Molded National Rifle Association,” Cincinnati Enquirer, March 8, 2018, https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/08/revolt-cincinnati-molded-nra-did-you-know-jeff-suess-schism-within-national-rifle-association-led/404628002.

    9. John M. Crewdson, “Hard-Line Opponent of Gun Laws Wins New Term at Helm of Rifle,” New York Times Archive, May 4, 1981, https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/04/us/hard-line-opponent-of-gun-laws-wins-new-term-at-helm-of-rifle.html.

  10. Laura Smith, “The Man Responsible for the Modern NRA Killed a Hispanic Teenager, Before Becoming a Border Agent,” Timeline, July 6, 2017, https://timeline.com/harlon-carter-nra-murder-2f8227f2434f.

  11. Jeffery A. Sierpien, “Frontline Strategies of the National Rifle Association,” Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006, https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/2949/06Mar_Sierpien.pdf, 4.

  12. “Neal Knox,” NRA On the Record, accessed July 17, 2019, http://nraontherecord.org/neal-knox.

  13. Howard Kohn, “Inside the Gun Lobby,” Rolling Stone, May 14, 1981, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-gun-lobby-112530.

  14. Sierpien, “Frontline Strategies,” 7.

  15. Kelly Phillips Erb, “Ask the Taxgirl: is the NRA a Charity?,” Forbes, March 8, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/03/08/ask-the-taxgirl-is-the-nra-a-charity/#783c688d17df.

  16. Sierpien, “Frontline Strategies.”

  17. “California Proposition 15, Handgun Registration Initiative (1982),” Ballotpedia, accessed July 17, 2019, https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Handgun_Registration_Initiative_(1982).

  18. Sierpien, “Frontline Strategies.”

  19. Robert Lindsey, “Bradley Loses Close Contest on Coast,” New York Times Archive, November 4, 1982, https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/04/us/bradley-loses-close-contest-on-coast.html.

  20. Josh Kovensky, “History Repeats Itself: How Corruption Nearly Killed the NRA Twice,” Talking Points Memo, April 26, 2019, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nra-lawsuit-new-financial-troubles-wayne-lapierre. See also Brad Tuttle, “Wayne LaPierre Has Made a Fortune as CEO of the NRA. Here’s What We Know About His Money,” Money, February 28, 2018, http://money.com/money/5178193/wayne-lapierre-net-worth-nra-money-salary.

  21. Katherine Q. Seelye, “Staying on Sidelines in Presidential Race, N.R.A. Snubs Dole,” New York Times Archive, September 18, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/18/us/staying-on-sidelines-in-presidential-race-nra-snubs-dole.html.

  22. Kovensky, “History Repeats Itself.” See also “2000.07.26 NRA Convention—Charlton Heston—From My Cold, Dead Hands!,” YouTube video, 1:25, Jared Law, May 12, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYVCML8xeE.

  23. Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham, and Sari Horwitz, “How NRA’s True Believers Converted a Marksmanship Group into a Mighty Gun Lobby.”

  24. Judy Sarasohn, “Fortune: NRA Lobby is No. 1 on Capitol Hill,” Washington Post, May 17, 2001, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/17/fortune-nra-lobby-is-no-1-on-capitol-hill/8019e21d-766e-47ab-acaf-d43fcfe2adcd.

  25. Andy Kiersz and Brett LoGiurato, “Here’s Where You’re Most Likely to Own a Gun,” Business Insider, July 3, 2015, https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-ownership-by-state-2015-7. See also Charlie Mahtesian, “What are the Swing States in 2016?,” Politico, June 15, 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/swing-states-2016-election/2016/06/what-are-the-swing-states-in-2016-list-224327.

  26. Josh Harkinson, “Does the NRA Really Have 4 Million Members?,” Mother Jones, January 14, 2013, https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2013/01/nra-membership-numbers.

  27. Kim Parker et al., “The Demographics of Gun Ownership,” Pew Research Center, June 22, 2017, https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership.

  28. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Quantified,” Christianity Today, July 24, 2017, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/july/praise-lord-pass-ammunition-who-loves-god-guns-pew.html.

  29. Mark Silk, “When George H. W. Bush Played the Religion Card,” Religion News Service, December 2, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/12/02/when-george-h-w-bush-played-the-religion-card.

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  31. “Interview: Doug Wead,” Frontline, November 18, 2003, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/interviews/wead.html.

  32. See also Bradley Wright, “How Many Americans are Evangelical Christians? Born-Again Christians?,” Patheos, March 28, 2013, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2013/03/how-many-americans-are-evangelical-christians-born-again-christians. See also Daniel Schlozman, “How the Christian Right Ended Up Transforming American Politics,” Talking Points Memo, August 25, 2015, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/brief-history-of-the-christian-right.

  33. Eric Levitz, “Democrats Paid a Huge Price for Letting Unions Die,” Intelligencer, January 26, 2018, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/democrats-paid-a-huge-price-for-letting-unions-die.html.

  34. “Interview: Doug Wead,” Frontline.

  35. Viguerie, Takeover, 247–48.

  36. Blackwell, “Real Nature of Politics.”

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  49. Ibid. See also Marc J. Ambinder, “Inside the Council for National Policy,” ABC News via Bishop Accountability, March 20, 2007, http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2007/03_04/2007_03_20_Ambinder_InsideThe.htm.

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  51. Ibid., at 43:00-44:50.

  52. Julie Rovner, “ ‘Partial-Birth Abortion:’ Separating Fact from Spin,” National Public Radio, February 21, 2006, https://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin.

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  54. Oklahoma City, October 3, 2017.

  55. “Leadership Institute Grassroots Training,” YouTube video, 3:16, Robert Arnakis, February 8, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j__JIlGSUgw; at 2:26.

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  62. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 126–27.

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  67. Beirich and Potok, “The Council for National Policy: Behind the Curtain.”

  68. Richard L. Berke, “Lawsuit Says Christian Coalition Gave Illegal Help to Candidates,” New York Times Archive, July 31, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/31/us/lawsuit-says-christian-coalition-gave-illegal-help-to-candidates.html.

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CHAPTER 7: IDEOLOGY 101

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    2. “Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich Dead at 66,” NBC News, December 18, 2008, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28299805/ns/politics/t/conservative-activist-paul-weyrich-dead.

    3. Heubeck, “The Integration of Theory and Practice.”

    4. Ibid.

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    6. “Top Colleges Doing the Most for the American Dream,” New York Times Sunday Review, May 25, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/25/sunday-review/opinion-pell-table.html.

    7. Gary Bauer, “Who Counts the Most Important Things of All?,” Imprimis 23, no. 7 (July 1994), https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Who-Counts-the-Most-Important-Things-of-All-July-1994.pdf. See also Roy Moore, “Putting God Back in the Public Square,” Imprimis 28, no. 8 (August 1999), accessed through https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Imprimis-Putting-God-Back-in-the-Public-Square-Aug-1999.pdf.

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  10. Prigmore, “Erik Prince.” See also Tanenhaus, “The Strange Ascent.”

  11. Robyn Meredith, “Scandal Rocks a Conservative Campus,” New York Times Archive, November 15, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html. See also “Reconciled Father and Son Heal a Wound at Hillsdale,” Washington Times, April 4, 2005, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/apr/4/20050404-124035-3518r.

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  16. William L. Walton et al., “Letter to President Donald Trump,” Politico, April 6, 2018, https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000162-9c7a-d2e5-ade3-dd7e92e60000. CNP Action sent a letter of support of Scott Pruitt when he was under fire at the EPA. See also “Council for National Policy,” SourceWatch, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#People_Who_Have_Addressed_CNP. John Bolton addressed the CNP’s 2006 meeting.

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  27. “Boyle Radio Studio Dedication,” Hillsdale College. See 7:35.

  28. Hillsdale College, “Implications of the Kavanaugh SCOTUS Confirmation and Originalism,” Hillsdale Dialogues (blog), July 13, 2018, http://blog.hillsdale.edu/online-courses/implications-kavanaugh-scotus-confirmation-originalism.

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  62. Jane Mayer, “A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity,” New Yorker, December 21, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conservative-nonprofit-that-seeks-to-transform-college-campuses-faces-allegations-of-racial-bias-and-illegal-campaign-activity. See also “Charlie Kirk: 19 Years Old and Already Making a Difference,” Illinois Review, April 29, 2013, https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2013/04/charlie-kirk-19-years-old-and-already-making-a-difference-.html.

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  65. “Request an Activism Grant,” Turning Point USA, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.tpusa.com/resources/activismgrants.

  66. Joseph Guinto, “Trump’s Man on Campus,” Politico Magazine, April 6, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/06/trump-young-conservatives-college-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-217829.

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  69. “Balance in the Media Grant Form,” Leadership Institute, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/balanceinmedia.

  70. Mayer, “A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses.”

  71. Guinto, “Trump’s Man on Campus.”

  72. “Generation Next: A White House Forum Charlie Kirk interviews President Donald Trump,” YouTube video, 20:02, Turning Point News, March 22, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCOjvUmNq24&t=15s.

  73. “Charlie Kirk,” Daily Caller, accessed July 19, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/buzz/charlie-kirk.

  74. “CNP Action, Inc.,” Council for National Policy, accessed July 17, 2019, https://cfnp.org/cnp-action-inc. See also “Policy Council: May 2019 Policy Council Speeches,” Council for National Policy, accessed July 17, 2019, https://cfnp.org/policy-counsel/may-2019.

  75. Joel Shannon, “After Backlash, Conservative Pundit Candace Owens Clarifies Viral Hitler Comment,” USA Today, February 8, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/08/candace-owens-clarifies-hitler-nationalism-remark-after-backlash/2818679002.

  76. John Bonazzo, “Trump Surrogate Regrets Nazis Didn’t ‘Keep F***ing Going’ in Snapchat Clip,” Observer, May 11, 2018, https://observer.com/2018/05/juan-pablo-andrade-nazis-turning-point-usa.

  77. Jill Jacobs, “Your Tax Dollars Are Propping Up the Intellectual Heirs to an Israeli Terrorist,” Washington Post, January 11, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/your-tax-dollars-are-propping-up-the-intellectual-heirs-to-an-israeli-terrorist/2019/01/10/3683c6e0-0efa-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html.

  78. “Hoboken GOP and Hudson County Young Republicans Celebrate Successful Training,” Insider NJ, April 2, 2019, https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/hoboken-gop-hudson-county-young-republicans-celebrate-successful-training.

  79. Emily Shugerman, “Turning Point USA: How One Student in a Diaper Caused an Eruption in the Conservative Youth Organization,” Independent, February 26, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/diaper-turning-point-usa-kent-state-student-conservative-youth-repulican-kaitlin-bennett-a8230021.html.

  80. Armonie Mendez, “Student Disrupts Free Speech Demonstration by Stabbing Giant Beach Ball, Is Questioned by Police,” Guardian, October 9, 2017, http://ucsdguardian.org/2017/10/09/student-disrupts-free-speech-demonstration-by-stabbing-giant-beach-ball-is-questioned-by-police.

  81. Deidre Olsen, “How a ‘Diaper Protest’ Imploded a Conservative Student Group,” Salon, March 25, 2018, https://www.salon.com/2018/03/25/how-a-diaper-protest-led-to-the-implosion-of-a-conservative-student-group. See also Robby Soave, “U. of Delaware Students Drew a Penis on a Free Speech Ball. Cops Made Them Censor It,” Reason, April 15, 2016, https://reason.com/2016/04/15/u-of-delaware-students-drew-a-penis-on-a.

  82. “Turning Point USA NFP,” Pro Publica, accessed July 17, 2019, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/800835023. See also Mayer, “A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses.”

  83. Guinto, “Trump’s Man on Campus.”

  84. “Students for Life of America,” Charity Navigator, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16015. Charity Navigator gives the organization a dismal two-star rating, noting that in 2016 41 percent of its budget was spent on fund-raising activities.

  85. “Homepage: Students for Life,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://studentsforlife.org.

  86. “Training,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019,, https://studentsforlife.org/college/training. See also “2020 Schedule,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://sflalive.org/schedule. See also “Save the Date: 2017-2018 Leadership Workshops,” Students for Life, September 20, 2017, https://studentsforlife.org/2017/09/20/save-the-date-2017-2018-leadership-workshops. See also “Students for Life Leadership Summits,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://studentsforlife.org/high-school/students-for-life-regional-conferences.

  87. “FAQs about Students for Life,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://studentsforlife.org/about/donorfaq.

  88. “The Planned Parenthood Project,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://studentsforlife.org/plannedparenthood.

  89. “Cemetery of the Innocents,” Students for Life, accessed July 17, 2019, https://studentsforlife.org/cemetery-of-the-innocents.

  90. Council for National Policy, “Letter to Donald Trump,” Amazon Web Services, March 1, 2017, https://s3.amazonaws.com/lifesite/CNP_Letter_to_Pres_Trump_3-1-17.pdf

  91. Dana Ford, “Josh Duggar after Ashley Madison Hack: ‘I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever,’ ” CNN, August 21, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/us/josh-duggar-ashley-madison/index.html.

  92. Samuel Smith, “FRC President Tony Perkins Says Josh Duggar’s Conduct ‘Harms the Cause He Has Publicly Espoused,’ ” Christian Post, August 20, 2015, https://www.christianpost.com/news/frc-president-tony-perkins-says-josh-duggars-conduct-harms-the-cause-he-has-publicly-espoused.html.

  93. “Wes Goodman’s Campaign Finances,” Vote Smart, accessed July 17, 2019, https://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/166898/wes-goodman#.xHHBYy2ZNo4.

  94. Kimberly Kindy and Elise Viebeck, “How a Conservative Group Dealt with a Fondling Charge against a Rising GOP Star,” Washington Post, November 17, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-conservative-group-dealt-with-a-fondling-charge-against-a-rising-gop-star/2017/11/17/b3b4b8da-c956-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html.

  95. Ibid.

  96. Rod Dreher, “More Wes Goodman Fallout,” American Conservative, November 20, 2017, https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/wes-goodman-fallout-tony-perkins.

  97. Caleb Hull, “EXCLUSIVE: 30 Sources Expose Sexually Explicit Evidence of Harassment by Ohio GOP Rep. Wes Goodman,” Independent Journal Review, November 20, 2017, https://ijr.com/exclusive-30-sources-expose-sexually-explicit-evidence-harassment-ohio-gop-rep-wes-goodman.

CHAPTER 8: KOCH, DEVOS, SOROS

    1. Sara Fischer, “David Koch is Pro-Choice, Supports Gay Rights; Just Not Democrats,” CNN Politics, December 15, 2014, https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/politics/david-koch-gay-rights-abortion-democrats/index.html.

    2. Ibid.

    3. Matt Schudel, “Richard DeVos, Billionaire Co-Founder of Amway and GOP Financial Supporter, Dies at 92,” Washington Post, September 6, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-devos-billionaire-co-founder-of-amway-and-gop-financial-supporter-dies-at-92/2018/09/06/3fdefb24-b1e9-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html. See also Tim Dickinson, “Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire,” Rolling Stone, September 24, 2014, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403.

    4. Nicholas Confessore, “Quixotic ‘80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs’ Powerful Network,” New York Times, May 17, 2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/quixotic-80-campaign-gave-birth-to-kochs-powerful-network.html.

    5. Ibid.

    6. Te-Ping Chen, “Behind the Climate Skepticism Curtain: the Koch Family and the Cato Institute,” Center for Public Integrity, last updated May 19, 2014, https://publicintegrity.org/environment/behind-the-climate-skepticism-curtain-the-koch-family-and-the-cato-institute.

    7. Confessore, “Quixotic ‘80 Campaign.”

    8. “National Platform 1980,” LPedia, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.lpedia.org/1980_National_Platform#3._Victimless_Crimes.

    9. Confessore, “Quixotic ‘80 Campaign.”

  10. Daniel Schulman, Sons of Wichita (New York: Grand Central, 2014), 7.

  11. “Spindletop launches Modern Petroleum Industry,” American Oil and Gas History Society, accessed July 17, 2019, https://aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/spindletop-launches-modern-oil-industry.

  12. “ ‘Hidden History’ of Koch Brothers Traces Their Childhood and Political Rise,” National Public Radio audio segment, 38:57, January 19, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-koch-brothers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise.

  13. Thomas C. Frohlich and Bill Friedricks, “The 10 Largest Privately Held Companies in America,” Microsoft Network, May 8, 2015, https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-10-largest-privately-held-companies-in-america/ss-BBiKtaL.

  14. Daniel Schulman, “Koch vs. Koch: The Brutal Battle That Tore Apart America’s Most Powerful Family,” Mother Jones, May 20, 2014, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/koch-brothers-family-history-sons-of-wichita.

  15. Carl Hulse, “In Wichita, Koch Influence Is Revered and Reviled,” New York Times, June 17, 2014, https://www.google.com/search?q=koch+brothers+donate+heavily+in+kansas&oq=koch+brothers+donate+heavily+in+kansas&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.7156j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.

  16. Dan Voorhis, “What It’s Like to Grow up a Koch,” Wichita Eagle, November 7, 2016, https://www.kansas.com/news/business/article113168633.html.

  17. Luisa Kroll and Kerry A. Dolan, “The Definitive Ranking of the Wealthiest Americans,” Forbes, October 3, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#692d8d0d7e2f.

  18. Elizabeth Bumiller, “Woman Ascending a Marble Staircase,” New York Times Magazine Archive, January 11, 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/11/magazine/woman-ascending-a-marble-staircase.html.

  19. Mike Janssen, “Activists Turn Up Heat on WGBH over Role of David Koch,” Current, April 8, 2014, https://current.org/2014/04/activists-turn-up-heat-on-wgbh-over-role-of-david-koch.

  20. Frank Holmes, “6 Reasons Why Texas Trumps All Other U.S. Economies,” Forbes, October 23, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/10/23/6-reasons-why-texas-trumps-all-other-u-s-economies/#710d5bd58be8.

  21. Matt Phillips, “It’s Texas versus New York. And Texas Is Winning,” Quartz, June 10, 2015, https://qz.com/424775/its-texas-versus-new-york-and-texas-is-winning.

  22. Deena Zaidi, “Here Are the 5 Industries Spending the Most on Political Donations,” Street, August 15, 2016, https://www.thestreet.com/story/13667209/1/here-are-the-5-industries-spending-the-most-on-political-donations.html. See also “Oil and Gas: Top Contributors,” Open Secrets, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E01.

  23. “Leadership Institute,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/leadership-institute.

  24. Rich Fink, “The Structure Of Social Change Liberty Guide,” Liberty Guide Archive, October 18, 2012, https://archive.org/stream/TheStructureOfSocialChangeLibertyGuideRichardFinkKoch; see page 4. See also George Monbiot, “How US Billionaires Are Fuelling the Hard-Right Cause in Britain,” Guardian, December 7, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation.

  25. United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Koch Industries to Pay Record Fine for Oil Spills in Six States,” Department of Justice, January 13, 2000, https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2000/January/019enrd.htm.

  26. Kevin Bogardus, “Koch’s Low Profile Belies Political Power,” Center for Public Integrity, updated May 19, 2014, https://publicintegrity.org/environment/kochs-low-profile-belies-political-power.

  27. Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right (New York: Anchor, 2016), 180.

  28. “Philanthropy Roundtable,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/org/philanthropy-roundtable/?order_by=year%20DESC.

  29. “Overview,” Donors Capital Fund, accessed July 17, 2019, http://donorscapitalfund.org/AboutUs/Overview.aspx.

  30. Lee Fang, The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right (New York: New Press, 2013), 120.

  31. Jessica Reaves, “Counting the Lost Votes of Election 2000,” Time, July 17, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,167906,00.html.

  32. Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Theda Skocpol, and Jason Sclar, “When Political Mega-Donors Join Forces: How the Koch Network and the Democracy Alliance Influence Organized U.S. Politics on the Right and Left,” Studies in American Political Development 32, no. 2 (October 2018): 11, https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ahertel/files/when_political_megadonors_join_forces_how_the_koch_network_and_the_democracy_alliance_influence_organized_us_politics_on_the_right_and_left.pdf.

  33. Bill Wilson and Roy Wenzl, “The Kochs’ Quest to Save America,” Wichita Eagle, October 13, 2012. See also Roy Wenzl, “How to Change a Company and a Country,” Wichita Eagle, October 31, 2015. Quoted in Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors,” 6.

  34. Gavin Aronsen, “Exclusive: The Koch Brothers’ Million-Dollar Donor Club,” Mother Jones, September 6, 2011, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/koch-brothers-million-dollar-donor-club.

  35. “Astroturf,” Urban Dictionary, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=astroturf.

  36. Gavin Aronsen, “How Dark-Money Groups Sneak By the Taxman,” Mother Jones, June 13, 2012, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/dark-money-501c4-irs-social-welfare.

  37. “FreedomWorks Foundation,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/freedomworks-foundation/page/3/?order_by=year%20DESC.

  38. Fang, The Machine, 23.

  39. Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors,” 11.

  40. “1998 Membership by State,” Public Eye, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/cnp/state98.html. See also Felicia Sonmez, “Who is ‘Americans for Prosperity’?,” Public Eye, August 26, 2010, http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/cnp/state98.html.

  41. Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors,” 11.

  42. “Americans for Prosperity,” Americans for Prosperity, accessed March 4, 2019, https://americansforprosperity.org.

  43. “Top Beneficiaries of DonorsTrust,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/top/?donor=3184&yr=&yr1=&yr2=&submit=.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Eli Clifton, “Who Else Is in the Koch Brothers Billionaire Donor Club?” Nation, November 3, 2014, https://www.thenation.com/article/who-else-koch-brothers-billionaire-donor-club. See also Kroll, “Exposed.”

  46. “Top Supporters of Leadership Institute,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 17, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/top/?recipient=29140&yr=&yr1=&yr2%20=&submit=.

  47. “Careers,” Americans for Prosperity, accessed July 17, 2019, https://americansforprosperity.org/careers.

  48. Philip Rojc, “Path to Power: Who Funds the Religious Right?,” Inside Philanthropy, January 17, 2017, https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/1/17/giving-to-glorify-god-who-funds-the-religious-right. See also Philip Rojc, “Big Money, Quiet Power: A Look at the National Christian Foundation,” Inside Philanthropy, October 3, 2015, https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/economic-policy-research/2016/10/3/big-money-quiet-power-a-look-at-the-national-christian-found.html.

  49. “Fidelity Charitable Tops List of Largest Charities in 2016,” Philanthropy News Digest, November 2, 2017, https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/fidelity-charitable-tops-list-of-largest-charities-in-2016.

  50. Lauren Debter, “How George Soros Became One Of America’s Biggest Philanthropists And A Right-Wing Target,” Forbes, October 23, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2018/10/23/how-george-soros-became-one-of-americas-biggest-philanthropists-and-a-right-wing-target/#1d04aa7b39ba.

  51. Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors,” 13.

  52. “#1175 Peter Lewis,” Forbes, last updated March 26, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-lewis/#533828e2178a.

  53. Andrew Prokop, “The Democracy Alliance: How a secretive group of donors helps set the progressive agenda,” Vox, November 24, 2014, https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7274819/democracy-alliance.

  54. Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors,” 18.

  55. Ibid., 20.

  56. Ibid., 38.

  57. Ibid., 3.

  58. Rachel Chason, “A Short History of Roy Moore’s Controversial Interpretations of the Bible,” Washington Post, September 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/27/a-short-history-of-roy-moores-controversial-interpretations-of-the-bible.

  59. “Home,” Family Research Council, accessed March 10, 2019, https://www.frc.org/wotwwebsite/north-carolina-pastors-briefing.

  60. “FREE Tools for your Sanctity of Human Life Sunday,” Family Research Council, January 14, 2014, https://www.frc.org/watchmenonthewall/free-tools-for-your-sanctity-of-human-life-sunday.

  61. “Watchmen on the Wall Regional Events,” Watchmen on the Wall, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.watchmenpastors.org/events.

  62. “Stay on Your Knees and Roll up Your Sleeves!,” Tony Perkins’s Washington Update Archive, March 10, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170610172622/https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20170310/stay-knees-roll-sleeves.

  63. “Watchmen on the Wall National Briefing FAQs,” Watchmen on the Wall, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.watchmenpastors.org/national-event-faq.

  64. “Watchmen on the Wall 2015,” Family Research Council, accessed July 17, 2019, https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF15E106.pdf.

  65. Ibid.

  66. “Kenyn Cureton,” Family Research Council, accessed July 17, 2019, https://www.frc.org/content/kenyn-cureton-vice-president-for-church-ministries.

  67. “Pushing the Envelope? The Political Activities of Religious Organizations in Campaign 2004,” Pew Research Center transcript, September 28, 2004, https://www.pewforum.org/2004/09/28/pushing-the-envelope-the-political-activities-of-religious-organizations-in-campaign-2004.

  68. “2016 Values Voter Presidential Voter Guide,” Family Research Council, accessed July 17, 2019, https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF16J17.pdf.

  69. “Kenyn Cureton,” Family Research Council.

  70. “Pastors Network,” Watchmen on the Wall map, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.watchmenpastors.org/pastors-network-map.

  71. “VVS19: About VVS,” Values Voter Summit, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/about.

  72. Ibid.

  73. “VVS18: Breakout Sessions,” Values Voter Summit, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/breakout-2015. See also “VVS19: Schedule,” Values Voter Summit, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/schedule.

  74. Author attended, September 21–22, 2018.

  75. “Graduated Persecution against America’s VP,” Tony Perkins’s Washington Update via Family Research Council, May 14, 2019, https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20190514/graduated-persecution.

CHAPTER 9: THE OBAMA CHALLENGE

    1. Lisa Cannon Green, “ACP: Worship Attendance Rises, Baptisms Decline,” Baptist Press, June 1, 2018, http://www.bpnews.net/51000/acp-worship-attendance-rises-baptisms-decline.

    2. Daniel Cox and Robert P. Jones, “America’s Changing Religious Identity,” Public Religion Research Institute, September 6, 2017, https://www.prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated.

    3. Thom File, “Voting in America: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Election,” United States Census Bureau, May 10, 2017, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/05/voting_in_america.html.

    4. “Our Leadership Team,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.adflegal.org/about-us/leadership.

    5. “Who We Are,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/who-we-are. See also “No One Should Be Forced to Pay for Another Person’s Abortion,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.adflegal.org/issues/sanctity-of-life/defending-those-who-defend-life/key-issues/obamacare/hhs-obamacare.

    6. Erik Eckholm, “Legal Alliance Gains Host of Court Victories for Conservative Christian Movement,” New York Times, May 11, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/us/legal-alliance-gains-host-of-court-victories-for-conservative-christian-movement.html. See also “990 Form,” Alliance Defending Freedom, July 1, 2015, https://adflegal.blob.core.windows.net/web-content-dev/docs/default-source/documents/resources/about-us-resources/financials/990-public-adf-june-2016.pdf.

    7. “Who We Are,” Alliance Defending Freedom.

    8. “Family Research Council,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/allies/family-research-council. See also “Donate Now,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.adflegal.org/donate.

    9. “Blackstone Legal Fellowship,” Blackstone, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.blackstonelegalfellowship.org.

  10. “History,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.adflegal.org/about-us/who-we-are/history.

  11. “Alliance Defending Freedom,” Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/alliance-defending-freedom.

  12. “Alliance Defending Freedom,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 18, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/alliance-defending-freedom.

  13. Rojc, “Path to Power: Who Funds the Religious Right?”

  14. “Marriage is the Future,” Alliance Defending Freedom, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.adflegal.org/issues/marriage/redefining-marriage/key-issues/other-relationships-v-marriage.

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  16. Carpenter, “A ‘Reality Check.’ ” See also Tom Bartlett, “U. of Texas Finds No Scientific Misconduct by Author of Gay-Parenting Study,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 29, 2012, https://www-chronicle-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/blogs/percolator/university-of-texas-finds-no-scientific-misconduct-by-gay-parenting-study-author/30594. Following the critiques of his method, the University of Texas launched an inquiry on Regnerus’s scholarship. It found “no evidence of scientific misconduct,” but specified that this did not mean the study wasn’t “seriously flawed.” See Glenn Stanton, “Key Findings of Mark Regnerus’ New Family Structure Study,” Focus on the Family, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.focusonthefamily.com/about/focus-findings/family-formation-trends/regnerus-family-structures-study. The Alliance Defending Freedom removed most citations of his work from its websites, but citations of his “New Family Structures Study” remained on the sites of organizations headed by CNP members, including the Heritage Foundation and Focus on the Family.

  17. Ben Leubsorf, “City Wins Church Tax Fight,” Concord Monitor, May 23, 2012, https://www.concordmonitor.com/Archive/2012/05/999668595-999668596-1205-CM.

  18. “Lawyer Accused of Being Sexual Predator of 14-Year-Old Girl,” WMUR, January 9, 2013, https://www.wmur.com/article/lawyer-accused-of-being-sexual-predator-of-14-year-old-girl/5178804.

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  22. In actuality, many judges choose to step down for higher-paying pursuits.

  23. “About Federal Judges,” United States Courts, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/about-federal-judges.

  24. John Gramlich, “Federal Judicial Picks Have Become More Contentious, and Trump’s Are No Exception,” Fact Tank, March 7, 2018, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/07/federal-judicial-picks-have-become-more-contentious-and-trumps-are-no-exception.

  25. Lee Rawls, “Its Ratings System Under Fire, ABA Stresses Importance of Federal Judicial Candidate Evaluations,” American Bar Association, January 1, 2018, http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/federal_judicial_candidate_evaluations.

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  32. Phone interview by author, May 25, 2019.

  33. Jay Sekulow, “Jay Sekulow: How a Jewish Lawyer from Brooklyn Came to Believe in Jesus,” Jews for Jesus, January 1, 2005, https://jewsforjesus.org/our-stories/jay-sekulow-how-a-jewish-lawyer-from-brooklyn-came-to-believe-in-jesus.

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  48. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 6–7.

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  57. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 174.

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  59. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 179.

  60. Ibid., 181.

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  62. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 182.

  63. Rob Boston, “The Religious Right And Election 2004,” Americans United, December 2004, https://www.au.org/church-state/december-2004-church-state/featured/the-religious-right-and-election-2004.

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  69. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 174.

  70. Ibid., 190.

  71. Ibid., 190–91.

  72. Piore, “A Higher Frequency.”

  73. Gilgoff, Jesus Machine, 125.

  74. Carl Hulse, “On Wave of Voter Unrest, Democrats Take Control of House,” New York Times, November 8, 2006, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/us/politics/08house.html. See also “Democrats win majority of governorships,” CNN, November 8, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.governors/index.html.

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  76. Michael McNutt, “Amid Controversy, Kern Gets Support,” Oklahoman, April 3, 2008, https://oklahoman.com/article/3224704/amid-controversy-kern-gets-support.

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  79. Max Blumenthal, “The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin,” Talk to Action, September 1, 2008, http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141/Front_Page/The_Council_For_National_Policy_Meets_In_Minn_Vets_Palin. See also Morgan Gstalter, “McCain says he regrets picking Palin as running mate,” Hill, May 5, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/news/386392-mccain-i-regret-picking-palin-as-my-vice-presidential-nominee.

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  87. Bruce Weber, “Paul Weyrich, 66, a Conservative Strategist, Dies,” New York Times, December 18, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/us/politics/19weyrich.html.

  88. Fang, The Machine, 51–53.

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  93. Reihan Salam, “The Santelli Conspiracy?*,” Atlantic, March 2, 2009, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/03/the-santelli-conspiracy/1099.

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  96. Martha Shanahan, “5 Memorable Moments When Town Hall Meetings Turned To Rage,” National Public Radio, August 7, 2013, https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/08/07/209919206/5-memorable-moments-when-town-hall-meetings-turned-to-rage.

  97. Katie Connolly, “What exactly is the Tea Party?,” British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2010, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11317202.

  98. Sarah Posner, “Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?,” Religion Dispatches, March 13, 2010, http://religiondispatches.org/will-ralph-reeds-new-venture-wed-religious-right-to-tea-partiers.

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100. Posner, “Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?.”

101. Stephanie Mencimer, “Tea Party Courts GOP’s Evangelical Wing,” Mother Jones, October 6, 2010, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/tea-party-patriots-tim-lahaye-evangelicals.

102. Fang, The Machine, 11.

103. Mencimer, “Tea Party Courts GOP’s Evangelical Wing.”

104. Fang, The Machine, 60.

105. “990 Form,” Faith and Freedom Coalition, accessed July 18, 2019, https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2015/270/182/2015-270182697-0d4d2b24-9O.pdf.

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107. Viguerie, Takeover, xix–xx.

108. “Americans for Prosperity Foundation,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 18, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/americans-for-prosperity-foundation/page/2/?order_by=year%20DESC.

109. Matea Gold, “Tea Party PACs reap money for midterms, but spend little on candidates,” Washington Post, April 26, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tea-party-pacs-reap-money-for-midterms-but-spend-little-on-candidates/2014/04/26/0e52919a-cbd6-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html

110. “Americans for Prosperity Foundation,” Conservative Transparency.

111. “Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 18, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/org/claude-r-lambe-charitable-foundation.

112. “Mercer Family Foundation,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 18, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/mercer-family-foundation.

113. Brian Kaylor, “Conservative Christian Group Seeks New Reagan,” Ethics Daily, June 23, 2011, https://ethicsdaily.com/conservative-christian-group-seeks-new-reagan-cms-18098.

114. Francesca Jones, “Broadcasting the Bible: Life.Church Broadcasts High-Tech Worship in Rogers,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, September 8, 2018, https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/sep/08/broadcasting-the-bible-20180908. See also “2020 CoMo Christian Men’s Conference,” Brown Paper Tickets, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4231662.

115. Brian Kaylor, “Conservative Christian Leaders Plot to Replace Obama,” Ethics Daily, November 15, 2010, https://ethicsdaily.com/conservative-christian-leaders-plot-to-replace-obama-cms-17004.

116. Kaylor, “Conservative Christian Group Seeks New Reagan.”

117. Ibid.

118. “A Chesterfield Advertisement with Ronald Reagan,” Getty image, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chesterfield-advertisement-with-ronald-reagan-news-photo/595717876.

119. Jim Romenesko, “Associated Press profit and revenue slide in 2009,” Poynter, April 29, 2010, https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2010/associated-press-profit-and-revenue-slide-in-2009.

120. Rick Edmonds, “Curley: Newspapers Now Provide Only 20 Percent of AP Revenue,” Poynter, October 26, 2010, https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2010/curley-newspapers-now-provide-only-20-percent-of-ap-revenue.

121. Gillian Reagan, “Chart of the Day: How Fox Conquered Cable News,” Business Insider, January 11, 2010, https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-fox-cnn-msnbc-ratings-2010-1. See also Paul Farri, Jack Gillum and Chris Alcantara, “In this Town, you can Flip all the Channels you want—TV News is Often the Same,” Washington Post, May 15, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/sinclair-broadcasting.

122. Daniel C. Vock, “How Political Donors Are Changing Statehouse News Reporting,” Governing, November 2014, https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-political-donors-statehouse-news.html.

123. Paul Abowd, “Donors Use Charity to Push Free-Market Policies in States,” Center for Public Integrity, last updated January 10, 2015, https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donors-use-charity-to-push-free-market-policies-in-states.

124. “Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity,” Conservative Transparency, accessed July 18, 2019, http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/franklin-center-for-government-public-integrity.

125. Vock, “How Political Donors Are Changing Statehouse News Reporting.” See also “Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity,” Conservative Transparency.

126. “Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity,” Instant Car Donation, accessed July 18, 2019, https://instantcardonation.org/charity-information/franklin-center-for-government-and-public-integrity.

127. Lachlan Markay, “Heritage to Co-Host ‘Breitbart Awards’ at Future of Journalism Summit,” Daily Signal, June 6, 2012, https://www.dailysignal.com/2012/06/06/heritage-to-co-host-breitbart-awards-at-future-of-journalism-summit.

128. Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, and Monica Anderson, “Nonprofit Journalism: A Growing but Fragile Part of the U.S. News System,” Pew Research Center, June 10, 2013, http://www.journalism.org/2013/06/10/nonprofit-journalism.

129. “Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity,” SourceWatch, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity.

130. Patrick B. McGuigan, “Neither Weiners nor whiners here—AFP-OK and A. G. Pruitt rebuff EPA’s shaft job,” Capitol Beat OK, July 29, 2013, https://capitolbeatok.worldsecuresystems.com/reports/neither-weiners-nor-whiners-here-afp-ok-and-a-g-pruitt-rebuff-epa-s-shaft-job.

CHAPTER 10: DATA WARS

    1. Miles Benson, “Here Come Demzilla and Voter Vault/Democrats and the GOP are snooping on you,” SF Gate, August 3, 2003, https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/PRIVACY-Here-Come-Demzilla-and-Voter-Vault-2575339.php.

    2. Ibid.

    3. “GOP Data Center (formerly Voter Vault),” FILPAC, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.filpac.com/votervault.htm.

    4. Brian Reich, “Please Standby … the DNC is Still Experiencing Technical Difficulties,” Personal Democracy Media, April 18, 2004, https://personaldemocracy.com/blogs/brian-reich.

    5. Fredreka Schouten, “Liberal Donors Gear Up to Fund New State-Level Agenda,” USA Today, April 12, 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2015/04/12/democracy-alliance-to-direct-millions-to-30-liberal-groups/25672531.

    6. The Economist, “Politics by the Numbers,” Catalist, March 23, 2016, https://www.catalist.us/news-innovation/2016-news/politics-the-numbers-the-economist.

    7. Sue Halpern, “How Campaigns Are Using Marketing, Manipulation, and ‘Psychographic Targeting’ to Win Elections—and Weaken Democracy,” New Republic, October 18, 2018, https://newrepublic.com/article/151548/political-campaigns-big-data-manipulate-elections-weaken-democracy.

    8. Leslie Wayne, “Clinton Aide’s Databank Venture Breaks Ground in Politicking,” New York Times, April 12, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/us/politics/12vote.html.

    9. Ibid.

  10. Scott Walter, “The State of the Left: Technological Revolutions,” Capital Research Center, April 12, 2019, https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-state-of-the-left-part-4.

  11. Wayne, “Clinton Aide’s Databank Venture.” For MoveOn and the tech industry, see Chris Carr, “Internet Anti-Impeachment Drive Yields Big Pledges of Money, Time,” Washington Post, February 7, 1999, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/moveon020799.htm.

  12. Leslie Wayne, “Democrats Take Page From Their Rival’s Playbook,” New York Times, October 31, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01target.html.

  13. “Voter Activation Network and NGP Software to Merge,” NGP Van (blog), January 1, 2011, https://blog.ngpvan.com/news/voter-activation-network-and-ngp-software-merge.

  14. Wayne, “Clinton Aide’s Databank Venture.”

  15. Sasha Isenberg, “Obama Does it Better,” Slate, October 29, 2012, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/10/obamas-secret-weapon-democrats-have-a-massive-advantage-in-targeting-and-persuading-voters.html. See also Marc Ambinder, “Exclusive: How Democrats Won The Data War In 2008,” Atlantic, October 5, 2009, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/exclusive-how-democrats-won-the-data-war-in-2008/27647.

  16. “Data Integrations,” Catalist, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.catalist.us/products/data-integrations.

  17. Toby Harnden, “John McCain ‘Technology Illiterate’ Doesn’t Email or Use Internet,” Telegraph, July 13, 2008, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2403704/John-McCain-technology-illiterate-doesnt-email-or-use-internet.html.

  18. David Carr, “How Obama Tapped into Social Networks’ Power,” New York Times, November 9, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html.

  19. Ambinder, “Exclusive: How Democrats Won the Data War in 2008.”

  20. Robert Draper, “A Post-Obama Democratic Party in Search of Itself,” New York Times Magazine, November 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/magazine/a-post-obama-democratic-party-in-search-of-itself.html.

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  44. Interviews by author: Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma.

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  52. Ibid., 54.

  53. Ibid., 54–55.

  54. Ibid., 60–61.

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  95. Ibid., 7.

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  97. Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Sclar, “Political Mega-Donors.” See also Jason Sclar, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Theda Skocpol, and Vanessa Williamson, “Donor Consortia on the Left and Right: Comparing the Membership, Activities, and Impact of the Democracy Alliance and the Koch Seminars,” Scholar, prepared for April 8, 2016, accessed July 18, 2019, https://scholars.org/sites/scholars/files/mpsa_donor_consortia.pdf.

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100. Fang, The Machine, 54–55.

101. Jeff Muskus, “Gay GOP Group To Republican Homophobes: ‘Who’s The Pansy?,’ ” HuffPost, May 25, 2011, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gay-gop-group-to-republic_n_469410.

102. Fang, The Machine, 57.

103. Kevin Robillard, “FRC’s Perkins: Stop Giving to GOP,” Politico, April 12, 2013, https://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/frc-tony-perkins-gop-gay-marriage-089989.

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106. Matt Bai, “Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal?,” New York Times, March 28, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/obama-vs-boehner-who-killed-the-debt-deal.html.

107. Paul Kane, “House GOP leader Steve Scalise Fires Top Aide, Paul Teller, citing breach of trust,” Washington Post, December 11, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-leader-steve-scalise-fires-top-aide-paul-teller-citing-breach-of-trust/2013/12/11/5bee749e-62a1-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html.

108. Rob Bluey, “Conservative Leaders Voice Outrage at Firing of RSC Executive Director,” Daily Signal, December 12, 2013, https://www.dailysignal.com/2013/12/12/conservative-leaders-voice-outrage-firing-rsc-executive-director.

109. Anna Giartelli, “Trump Hires Former Cruz Chief of Staff for White House Role,” Washington Examiner, January 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-hires-former-cruz-chief-of-staff-for-white-house-role.

110. John Fea, “Ted Cruz’s Campaign Is Fueled by a Dominionist Vision for America,” Washington Post, February 4, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/ted-cruzs-campaign-is-fueled-by-a-dominionist-vision-for-america-commentary/2016/02/04/86373158-cb6a-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html.

111. “United in Purpose,” Political Research Associates, September 25, 2014, http://www.politicalresearch.org/tag/united-in-purpose/#sthash.RNlvO8Cy.dpbs.

112. Elizabeth Dias, “Ted Cruz Courts Conservative Pastors at Private Gathering,” Time, May 21, 2015, http://time.com/3892493/ted-cruz-watchmen-wall.

113. Elizabeth Dias, “Watchmen on the Wall: Pastors Prepare to Take Back America,” Time, May 30, 2014, https://time.com/138134/watchmen-on-the-wall-pastors-prepare-to-take-back-america.

114. Ibid.

115. Tim Alberta, “Inside the Secret Meeting Where Ted Cruz Trounced His Rivals,” National Journal, June 5, 2015, https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/26227.

116. Noah Rayman, “Ted Cruz Dominates Republican Straw Poll,” Time, October 13, 2013, http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/13/ted-cruz-dominates-republican-straw-poll.

117. Eli Yokley, “Ted Cruz Wins Values Voter Summit Straw Poll Again,” Roll Call, September 26, 2015, https://www.rollcall.com/news/ted-cruz-wins-values-voter-summit-straw-poll.

118. Elizabeth Dias, “Tony Perkins Endorses Ted Cruz for President,” Time, January 27, 2016, https://time.com/4195258/tony-perkins-ted-cruz-endorsement.

119. Rachel Weiner, “Who Is Ted Cruz?,” Washington Post, August 1, 2012, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/who-is-ted-cruz/2012/08/01/gJQAqql8OX_blog.html.

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121. Jesse Witt, “Ted Cruz Is Still Using a Blacklisted Cambridge Analytica App Developer,” Fast Company, November 6, 2018, https://www.fastcompany.com/90262252/ted-cruz-still-using-blacklisted-cambridge-analytica-app-developer-aggregateiq.

122. Ibid.

123. Andy Kroll, “Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall,” Mother Jones, May/June 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer.

124. Jane Mayer, “The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency,” New Yorker, March 27, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency.

125. Jose A. DelReal, “Hedge Fund Magnate Donates $11 Million to Cruz Super PAC,” Washington Post, July 31, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/31/hedge-fund-magnate-donates-11-million-to-cruz-super-pac/.

126. Tom Hamburger, “Cruz Campaign Credits Psychological Data and Analytics for Its Rising Success,” Washington Post, December 13, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-campaign-credits-psychological-data-and-analytics-for-its-rising-success/2015/12/13/4cb0baf8-9dc5-11e5-bce4-708fe33e3288_story.html.

127. Mike Allen and Kenneth P. Vogel, “Inside the Koch Data Mine,” Politico, December 8, 2014, https://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/koch-brothers-rnc-113359.html.

128. Ibid.

129. Thomas Peters, “We Are the Stealth Startup that Helped Ted Cruz Win Iowa,” Medium, February 4, 2016, https://medium.com/@uCampaignCEO/meet-the-stealth-startup-that-helped-ted-cruz-win-iowa-fea6745b8a6d.

130. “Thomas Peters,” CatholicVote, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.catholicvote.org/author/thomas-peters.

131. Joshua Green, “The NRA Has a Secret Weapon to Fight Gun Control,” Bloomberg News, March 1, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/the-nra-has-a-secret-weapon-to-fight-gun-control-a-powerful-app.

132. Hillary Mast, “Do You Stand with Thomas Peters?,” Catholic News Agency (blog), November 14, 2013, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/do-you-stand-with-thomas-peters. See also Tim Stanley, “Thomas Peters: ‘The Course of My Life has Changed Forever,’ ” Catholic Herald, December 11, 2014, https://catholicherald.co.uk/issues/december-12th-2014/thomas-peters-its-amazing-what-i-can-still-do.

133. Natasha Singer and Nicholas Confessore, “Republicans Find a Facebook Workaround: Their Own Apps,” New York Times, October 20, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/technology/politics-apps-conservative-republican.html.

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136. Chris Vickery, Twitter post, December 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1069473792106221568. White-hat hacker Chris Vickery also tweeted that some of the code for the Cruz Crew app was written by a Russian named Yaroslav Leontenko, giving him live access to the RNC Data Trust database. See also Chris Vickery, Twitter post, December 10, 2018, https://twitter.com/vickerysec/status/1072181769716215808.

137. Witt, “Ted Cruz is still using a blacklisted Cambridge Analytica app developer.”

138. Peters, “We Are the Stealth Startup.”

139. Ibid.

140. “Ted Cruz’s Official “Cruz Crew” Campaign App Tops 2016 Field,” Press 2016, October 14, 2015, http://www.p2016.org/cruz/cruz101415prapp.html.

141. Peters, “We Are the Stealth Startup.”

142. Ibid.

143. Ibid.

144. Matea Gold, “Koch Network Strikes New Deal to Share Voter Data with RNC-Aligned Firm,” Washington Post, July 29, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/29/koch-network-strikes-new-deal-to-share-voter-data-with-rnc-aligned-firm.

145. American Bridge 21st Century, “With Nowhere to Go on Voter Data, RNC Folds, Returning to the Kochs’ Warm Embrace,” Press 2016, July 29, 2015, http://www.p2016.org/parties/datatrust0715.html.

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148. Mike Weiss, “How Many Members Does The NRA Really Have?,” HuffPost, July 11, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-many-members-does-the-nra-really-have_b_59651114e4b005b0fdc8fe90.

149. Daniel Terrill, “NRA Releases Financial Statement Showing Revenue, Expenses for 2016,” Guns, May 5, 2017, https://www.guns.com/news/2017/05/05/nra-revenue-expenses-in-2016.

150. Peter Stone, “Inside the NRA’s Koch-Funded Dark-Money Campaign,” Mother Jones, April 2, 2013, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/nra-koch-brothers-karl-rove.

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153. Steve Friess, “How The NRA Built a Massive Secret Database of Gun Owners,” Buzzfeed News, August 20, 2013, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevefriess/how-the-nra-built-a-massive-secret-database-of-gun-owners.

154. Mayer, “The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency.”

155. Peter Stone, “NRA to Spend $15m on Ads to Defeat Hillary Clinton in Key States,” Guardian, September 16, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/nra-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-gun-control.

156. Ibid.

157. “National Rifle Association Disbursements,” Federal Election Commission, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00053553&recipient_name=i360&min_date=01%2F01%2F2015&max_date=12%2F31%2F2016.

158. Ibid.

159. Ibid.

160. Andrew Dolkart and Matthew A. Postal, Guide to New York City Landmarks (New York: Wiley, 2009), 85. In 2007 Trinity sounded a note of historical irony by acquiring New York studios operating out of the old Century Association building on East Fifteenth Street, which had served as William Conant Church’s clubhouse when he co-founded the National Rifle Association.

161. Peters, “We Are the Stealth Startup.”

162. Ibid.

163. “Elections 2016: Iowa,” CNN, accessed July 18, 2019, https://edition.cnn.com/election/2016/primaries/states/ia.

164. “New Mobile App: Keep Tabs on Washington on the Go,” Family Research Council, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.frc.org/alert/new-mobile-app-keep-tabs-on-washington-on-the-go.

165. Chris Cillizza, “Winners and Losers from the Iowa Caucuses,” Washington Post, February 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/02/winners-and-losers-from-the-iowa-caucuses.

166. Kenneth P. Vogel and Cate Martel, “The Kochs Freeze Out Trump,” Politico, July 29, 2015, https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/kochs-freeze-out-trump-120752.

167. “Vendor/Recipient: i360,” OpenSecrets, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.opensecrets.org/expends/vendor.php?year=2016&vendor=i360.

168. “2015 Values Voter Summit, Donald Trump,” C-SPAN video, 27:54, September 25, 2015, https://www.c-span.org/video/?328352-13/2015-values-voter-summit-donald-trump. Bible at 5:09, “nice person” at 18:45. Text included on site.

169. Leada Gore, “Southern Baptist Leader: Donald Trump Is not Our Friend,” AL, September 27, 2015, https://www.al.com/news/2015/09/southern_baptist_leader_donald.html.

170. CP Editors, “Donald Trump Is a Scam. Evangelical Voters Should Back Away (CP Editorial),” Christian Post, February 29, 2016, https://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-scam-evangelical-voters-back-away-cp-editorial-158813.

171. “Ted Cruz: Donald Trump is a ‘Pathological liar,’ ” YouTube video, 4:28, CNN, May 3, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz44wKKQJh0.

172. Issie Laowsky, “Trump’s Big Win is a Giant Setback for Data Crunchers,” Wired, May 4, 2016, https://www.wired.com/2016/05/one-step-trump-one-giant-setback-data-crunchers.

CHAPTER 11: THE ART OF THE DEAL

    1. See chapter 10.

    2. “Pro-Life Women Sound the Alarm: Donald Trump is Unacceptable,” Susan B. Anthony List, January 16, 2016, https://www.sba-list.org/home/pro-life-women-sound-the-alarmdonald-trump-is-unacceptable.

    3. Matt Wilstein, “Donald Trump ‘Fine’ With Same-Sex Marriage,” Daily Beast, last updated April 13, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-fine-with-same-sex-marriage. See also Philip Bump, “Donald Trump Took 5 Different Positions on Abortion in 3 Days,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/03/donald-trumps-ever-shifting-positions-on-abortion.

    4. Daniel Burke, “The Guilt-Free Gospel of Donald Trump,” CNN, October 24, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/politics/trump-religion-gospel/index.html.

    5. I was there. See also Adele M. Stan, “White Nationalism and Christian Right Unite at Values Voter Summit,” Moyers, October 17, 2017, https://billmoyers.com/story/white-nationalism-values-voter-summit.

    6. Author was present at Values Voter Summit, Washington, September 2018.

    7. Stephen Collins, “Republicans Seize Senate, Gaining Full Control of Congress,” CNN, November 5, 2014, https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/politics/election-day-story/index.html.

    8. Tim Reid, “Democrats Face ‘Almost Impossible Map’ to Retake U.S. Senate,” Reuters, August 24, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-explainer/democrats-face-almost-impossible-map-to-retake-u-s-senate-idUSKCN1L920M. See also Manas Sharma et al., “Here’s What the 2020 Senate Map Looks Like,” Washington Post, November 21, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/2020-senate.

    9. Scott Clement, “Another Bad Night for Political Polls? Not Really, Despite Criticism on Cable TV,” Washington Post, November 7, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/another-bad-night-for-political-polls-not-really-despite-criticism-on-cable-tv/2018/11/07/20eea090-e252-11e8-b759-3d88a5ce9e19_story.html.

  10. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “The Season of Adventists: Can Ben Carson’s Church Stay Separatist amid Booming Growth?,” Christianity Today, January 22, 2015, https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/januaryfebruary/season-of-adventists-can-ben-carson-church-stay-separatist.html. See also Adele M. Banks, “5 Faith Facts about Mike Huckabee, Southern Baptist Pastor-Turned-Politician,” Washington Post, May 5, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/5-faith-facts-about-mike-huckabee-southern-baptist-pastor-turned-politician/2015/05/05/fe2fb192-f34a-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.html. See also Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Here’s What We Know about the Faith of Sen. Cruz, Who’s Set to Announce his 2016 bid at Liberty University,” Washington Post, March 22, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/03/22/heres-what-we-know-about-the-faith-of-sen-ted-cruz-whos-set-to-announce-his-2016-bid-at-liberty-university. See also Michael Kruse, “Marco Rubio’s Crisis of Faith,” Politico Magazine, January 22, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/marco-rubios-crisis-of-faith-213553.

  11. Gabriel Sherman, “Inside Operation Trump, the Most Unorthodox Campaign in Political History,” Intelligencer, April 3, 2016, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/inside-the-donald-trump-presidential-campaign.html.

  12. Martha Gajanan, “Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by 14 Points Nationally in New Poll,” Time, October 26, 2016, http://time.com/4546942/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lead-poll.

  13. Elizabeth Dias, “Exclusive: Evangelical Leaders Plan Meeting to Test Donald Trump’s Values,” Time, May 20, 2016, http://time.com/4343321/donald-trump-evangelical-social-conservative-meeting.

  14. Jessica Taylor, “Citing ‘Two Corinthians,’ Trump Struggles to Make the Sale to Evangelicals,” National Public Radio, January 18, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Eric Bradner, “Trump Blames Tony Perkins for ‘2 Corinthians,’ ” CNN, January 21, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/20/politics/donald-trump-tony-perkins-sarah-palin.

  17. Eugene Scott, “In Addition to a Rare Church Visit, Trump Spent Most of His Sunday Blasting Critics on Twitter,” Washington Post, March 18, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/18/addition-rare-church-visit-trump-spent-most-his-sunday-blasting-critics-twitter. See also Neelesh Moorthy, “What Do We Know about Hillary Clinton’s Religion? A Lot, Actually,” PolitiFact, June 24, 2016, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/24/donald-trump/what-do-we-know-about-hillary-clintons-religion-lo.

  18. Nolan D. McCaskill, “Trump’s Favorite Bible Verse: ‘Eye for an Eye,’ ” Politico, April 14, 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/trump-favorite-bible-verse-221954.

  19. Jason Russell, “Michigan Mega-Donor: Trump Doesn’t Represent GOP,” Washington Examiner, March 7, 2016, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/michigan-mega-donor-trump-doesnt-represent-gop.

  20. Melissa Chan, “Charles Koch Says It’s ‘Possible’ Hillary Clinton Is Better Choice Than Republicans,” Time, April 24, 2016, https://time.com/4305927/charles-koch-hillary-clinton-republicans.

  21. Theodore Schleifer, “Clinton burying Trump: $42 million to $1.3 million,” CNN, June 21, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/republicans-cash-crunch-donald-trump/index.html.

  22. Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, “Trump Entered June with Just $1.3 million in the Bank, while Clinton Sat on $42 Million War Chest,” Washington Post, June 20, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/20/trump-entered-june-with-just-1-3-million-in-the-bank-while-clinton-sat-on-42-million-war-chest.

  23. Matea Gold, “Here’s Why the RNC Needs Donald Trump to Step Up His Fundraising Game,” Washington Post, June 20, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/20/heres-why-the-rnc-needs-donald-trump-to-step-up-his-fundraising-game.

  24. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 73.

  25. Ibid., 76. See also Elizabeth Dias, “How Evangelicals Helped Donald Trump Win,” Time, November 9, 2016, http://time.com/4565010/donald-trump-evangelicals-win.

  26. Dias, “Exclusive: Evangelical Leaders Plan Meeting.”

  27. “Donald Trump Remarks at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference,” C-SPAN video, 29:30, June 10, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?410912-4/donald-trump-addresses-faith-freedom-coalition-conference. See 00:24–01:10.

  28. “Richard Lee,” There’s Hope America, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.thereshope.org/about-dr-lee. See also Ken Stone, “Jim Garlow Quitting Skyline Megachurch, Moving to Washington Ministry,” Times of San Diego, September 12, 2018, https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2018/09/12/jim-garlow-quitting-skyline-megachurch-moving-to-washington-ministry. See also “Fr. Frank A. Pavone,” Priests for Life, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.priestsforlife.org/frpavonebio.aspx.

  29. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 78.

  30. Ibid., 87. See also Kelsey Snell, “Clinton: We are going to win back the House and the Senate,” Washington Post, June 22, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/22/hillary-clinton-to-meet-wednesday-with-house-democrats.

  31. “Join the Movement,” MyFaithVotes, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.myfaithvotes.org. See also “United in Purpose & My Faith Votes Organize A Conversation with Donald Trump and Ben Carson,” PR Newswire, May 25, 2016, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-in-purpose—my-faith-votes-organize-a-conversation-with-donald-trump-and-ben-carson-300274757.html.

  32. “My Faith Votes: Mission,” GuideStar, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.guidestar.org/profile/48-6393123. See also “990 Form,” Vision Charitable Trust via GuideStar, accessed July 18, 2019, https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2016/486/393/2016-486393123-0e552255-9.pdf.

  33. Todd Starnes, “Conservatives Call on Trump to Protect Religious Liberty,” Todd Starnes, March 1, 2017, https://www.toddstarnes.com/uncategorized/conservatives-call-on-trump-to-protect-religious-liberty.

  34. Todd Starnes, “Mega-Christian Leaders Having Private Meeting With Donald Trump,” American Dispatch, May 23, 2016, https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/american-dispatch/57341-mega-christian-leaders-having-private-merting-with-donald-trump. See also Kindly and Viebeck, “How a Conservative Group Dealt with a Fondling Charge.”

  35. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 79.

  36. Tony Perkins and Huckabee are Southern Baptist pastors. Ben Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist, and James Dobson is Nazarene.

  37. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 79. For the Marriott ballroom, see “New York Marquis Meetings,” Mariott Marquis New York, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.meetings.nymarriottmarquis.com/new-york-city-meetings-group-events-hotel-nycmq/Photo-Galleries-43.html.

  38. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 81.

  39. “Samaritan’s Purse,” Charity Navigator, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4423.

  40. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 83.

  41. Maggie Haberman, Alexander Burns, and Ashley Parker, “Donald Trump Fires Corey Lewandowski, His Campaign Manager,” New York Times, June 20, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/corey-lewandowski-donald-trump.html.

  42. Sarah McCammon, “Inside Trump’s Closed-Door Meeting, Held To Reassure ‘the Evangelicals,’ ” National Public Radio, June 21, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/483018976/inside-trumps-closed-door-meeting-held-to-reassures-the-evangelicals.

  43. Shane Goldmacher, Eliana Johnson, and Josh Gerstein, “How Trump Got to Yes on Gorsuch,” Politico, January 31, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-supreme-court-gorsuch-234474.

  44. Bob Woodward, Robert Costa, “In a Revealing Interview, Trump Predicts a ‘Massive Recession’ but Intends to Eliminate the National Debt in 8 Years,” Washington Post, April 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-turmoil-or-triumph-donald-trump-stands-alone/2016/04/02/8c0619b6-f8d6-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html.

  45. Billye Brim, “A Conversation with Donald Trump,” Eagle Mountain International Church (blog), June 23, 2016, https://www.emic.org/blog/conversation-donald-trump.

  46. Tim Alberta, “Trump Struggles to Close the Deal with Evangelicals,” National Review, June 22, 2016, https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/06/donald-trump-evangelical-leaders-new-york-meeting-recap.

  47. Jon Ward, “Transcript: Donald Trump’s closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders,” Yahoo News, June 22, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/news/transcript-donald-trumps-closed-door-meeting-with-evangelical-leaders-195810824.html.

  48. Barna, Day Christians changed America, 89–90.

  49. Alberta, “Trump Struggles to Close the Deal with Evangelicals.”

  50. Tom Gjelten, “As Trump Defies Expectations of Faith, Might We Be Entering a New Era?,” National Public Radio, June 26, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/06/26/483506379/as-trump-defies-expectations-of-faith-might-we-be-entering-a-new-era.

  51. Jill Colvin, Katherine Creag, and Adam Warner, “Protests in Times Square as Donald Trump Meets With Hundreds of Christian Leaders,” NBC New York, last updated June 22, 2016, https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Trump-Carson-Meet-Christian-Leaders-Midtown-Hotel-Protests-Vigils-383745171.html.

  52. Jonathan Merritt, “How Todd Starnes Is Compromising Fox News’s Credibility,” Atlantic, September 14, 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/how-todd-starnes-is-compromising-fox-news-credibility/405118.

  53. Todd Starnes, Twitter post, June 21, 2016, https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/745296092246347776.

  54. “Heard around the Hill,” CNP Action, Inc., July 2016, https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Heard-Around-the-Hill.html?soid=1103333458754&aid=Sa7-DDBPzcU.

  55. Nick Gass, “Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board Features Bachmann, Falwell,” Politico, June 21, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-evangelical-advisory-board-224612.

  56. “President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships,” Pew Research Center, last updated September 9, 2009, https://www.pewforum.org/2009/08/18/president-obamas-advisory-council-on-faith-based-and-neighborhood-partnerships.

  57. Gass, “Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board.”

  58. Ruth Graham, “Church of The Donald,” Politico, May/June 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/22/trump-christian-evangelical-conservatives-television-tbn-cbn-218008. See also “Protesters Rally Outside Times Square Hotel as Trump Seeks Support from Evangelical Leaders,” CBS New York, June 21, 2016, https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/06/21/protest-trump-evangelicals.

  59. “Mike Salisbury Joins Industry Leading Literary Agency Yates & Yates,” FrontGate, April 21, 2014, https://www.frontgatemedia.com/mike-salisbury-joins-industry-leading-literary-agency-yates-yates.

  60. “My Faith Votes Chairman Sealy Yates Releases Statement after Praying for President Trump in the Oval Office,” MyFaithVotes, July 13, 2017, https://www.myfaithvotes.org/statements/my-faith-votes-chairman-sealy-yates-releases-statement-after-praying-for-president-trump-in-the-oval-office.

  61. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 103–4.

  62. Jacqueline Alemany, “Donald Trump Offered Chris Christie vice President Role before Mike Pence, sources say,” CBS News, October 30, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-offered-chris-christie-vice-president-role-before-mike-pence. See also Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, “Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure in Trump Campaign,” New York Times, June 30, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump.html.

  63. Kimberly Winston, “5 Faith Facts about Chris Christie: Cradle Catholic and Member of the Church of Bruce,” Washington Post, June 30, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/5-faith-facts-about-chris-christie-cradle-catholic-and-member-of-the-church-of-bruce/2015/06/30/c244e872-1f42-11e5-a135-935065bc30d0_story.html.

  64. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 104–5.

  65. Ibid.

  66. Liam Stack, “Trump Victory Alarms Gay and Transgender Groups,” New York Times, November 10, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/trump-victory-alarms-gay-and-transgender-groups.html. See also Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump’s More Accepting Views on Gay Issues Set Him Apart in G.O.P.,” New York Times, April 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/politics/donald-trump-gay-rights.html.

  67. Katie Shepherd and Alan Rappeport, “How Mike Pence and Donald Trump Compare on the Issues,” New York Times, July 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/politics/mike-pence-issues.html.

  68. Alemany, “Donald Trump offered Chris Christie Vice President Role.”

  69. Ibid.

  70. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 121–22.

  71. “Mike Mears,” LinkedIn profile.

  72. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 107.

  73. Matthew Yglesias, “Draft Republican Platform Calls for Auditing the Fed, Bathroom Bills, and Action on EMPs,” Vox, July 11, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12148806/draft-republican-platform-gop.

  74. Zeke J. Miller, “GOP Platform Contemplates Anti-Porn Provision, Embrace of ‘Conversion Therapy,’ ” Time, July 11, 2016, https://time.com/4401600/gop-platform-contemplates-anti-porn-provision-embrace-of-conversion-therapy.

  75. “Republican Platform 2016,” Republican Party, accessed July 18, 2019, http://files.ctctcdn.com/2438cc3e001/5de6ec65-ba1f-4142-8d67-81e977047304.pdf.

  76. Jeremy W. Peters, “Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right,” New York Times, July 12, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/republican-convention-issues.html.

  77. Theodore Schleifer and Stephen Collinson, “Defiant Ted Cruz Stands by Refusal to Endorse Trump after Being booed During Convention Speech,” CNN, July 22, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/ted-cruz-republican-convention-moment/index.html.

  78. “Full Speech: Tony Perkins – Republican National Convention,” YouTube video, 3:19, ABC15 Arizona, July 21, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN74taRE5hc.

  79. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 80.

  80. Ibid., 85.

  81. Theodore Schleifer, “Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton Is not ‘Qualified’ to Be President,” CNN, April 7, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-qualified/index.html.

  82. Hannah Fingerhut, “About Seven-in-Ten Americans Oppose Overturning Roe v. Wade,” Pew Research Center, January 3, 2017, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/03/about-seven-in-ten-americans-oppose-overturning-roe-v-wade.

  83. Justin McCarthy, “Americans’ Support for Gay Marriage Remains High, at 61%,” Gallup, May 19, 2016, https://news.gallup.com/poll/191645/americans-support-gay-marriage-remains-high.aspx. See also Jennifer Agiesta and Tom LoBianco, “Poll: Gun control support spikes after shooting,” CNN, June 20, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/cnn-gun-poll/index.html.

  84. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 183.

  85. Ibid., 128, 135.

CHAPTER 12: “THE MIRACLE”

    1. Christopher Ingraham, “Somebody Just Put a Price Tag on the 2016 Election. It’s a Doozy,” Washington Post, April 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy.

    2. Hamburger, “Cruz Campaign Credits Psychological Data and Analytics.”

    3. Ibid.

    4. Daniel White, “Database Leak Exposes 191 Million Voters on Internet,” Time, December 28, 2015, http://time.com/4162696/database-leak-exposes-191-million-voters. See also G.W. Schulz, “Are Christian Conservatives behind Breach of 18 Million Voter Records?,” Reveal News, March 2, 2016, https://www.revealnews.org/article/are-christian-conservatives-behind-breach-of-18-million-voter-records.

    5. Ibid.

    6. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 152–53.

    7. Ibid., 147.

    8. Ibid., 150.

    9. Ibid., 157.

  10. Ibid., 119–20.

  11. “Todd Starnes, Tony Perkins,” American Family Radio, accessed August 22, 2016, https://afr.net/podcasts/washington-watch/2016/august/todd-starnes-tony-perkins; at 00:18.

  12. “About,” Dana Loesch Radio, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.danaloeschradio.com/page/about.

  13. “E. W. Jackson’s New Video Urges Black Voters to Abandon Democrat Party, Vote for Trump,” Urban Family video, 4:03, October 25, 2016, https://urbanfamilytalk.com/articles/politics/2016/october/25/ew-jacksons-new-video-urges-black-voters-to-abandon-democrat-party-vote-for-trump. See 2:05.

  14. Bob Eschliman, “Tony Perkins: FRC to Encourage Evangelical Voters in 20 States,” Charisma Caucus, September 12, 2016, https://www.charismanews.com/politics/press-releases/59834-tony-perkins-frc-to-encourage-evangelical-voters-in-20-states.

  15. Washington Watch, “Roger Severino, Tony Perkins, Gary McCaleb, Joe Digenova,” American Family Radio podcast, 54:03, November 2, 2016, https://afr.net/podcasts/washington-watch/2016/november/roger-severino-tony-perkins-gary-mccaleb-joe-digenova/?p=25.

  16. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 160.

  17. Ibid., 157.

  18. “NPR Ratings at All-Time High,” National Public Radio, March 15, 2017, https://www.npr.org/about-npr/520273005/npr-ratings-at-all-time-high.

  19. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 158.

  20. “CWA Values Bus Tour,” Concerned Women for America,” Concerned Women for America, accessed July 18, 2019, https://concernedwomen.org/cwa-values-bus-tour. See also “FRC Action’s Values Bus Tour comes to OKWU,” Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, last updated September 20, 2016, https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/news/20160920/frc-action8217s-values-bus-tour-comes-to-okwu.

  21. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 161.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Eric Levitz, “Donald Trump’s Great White Hope Is Fading Fast,” Intelligencer, August 23, 2016, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/donald-trumps-great-white-hope-is-fading-fast.html.

  24. “Trump endorses ‘Protect Life and Marriage Marriage Oklahoma’ Drive,” Capitol Beat OK, January 13, 2016, https://capitolbeatok.worldsecuresystems.com/reports/trump-endorses-protect-life-and-marriage-marriage-oklahoma-drive.

  25. Fairview Baptist Church service, February 11, 2018. See also Emma Green, “The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare,” Atlantic, May 15, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/alabama-georgia-abortion-bills/589504. In 2019 other fundamentalists raised the estimate to fifty million babies.

  26. “Abortion Procedures,” LiveAction, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.liveaction.org.

  27. “Susan B. Anthony List TV Ad: Micah,” YouTube video, 1:00, Susan B. Anthony List, August 2, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw7bMhkguGM.

  28. Ibid., 00:47.

  29. “Induced Abortions in the United States,” Guttmacher Institute, January 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states. See also Ariana Eunjung Chen, “What Are Late-Term Abortions and Who Gets Them?,” Washington Post, February 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them.

  30. Linda Qiu, “Marco Rubio says Hillary Clinton Supports Abortions ‘Even on the Due Date,’ ” PolitiFact, February 10, 2016, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/10/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-hillary-clinton-supports-abortion.

  31. “One on One with Ted Cruz,” YouTube video, 59:23, Texas Tribune, September 25, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCxVfKkFNg. See 52:00.

  32. Qiu, “Marco Rubio says Hillary Clinton Supports Abortions ‘Even on the Due Date.’ ”

  33. Olga Khazan, “Why Christians Overwhelmingly Backed Trump,” Atlantic, November 9, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/why-women-and-christians-backed-trump/507176.

  34. Christopher Heine, “Trump’s Campaign Just Quietly Launched a Mobile App Called ‘America First,’ ” AdWeek, August 18, 2016, https://www.adweek.com/digital/trumps-campaign-just-quietly-launched-mobile-app-called-america-first-173044. See also “Download the Official NRA-ILA App!,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, July 8, 2016, https://www.nraila.org/articles/20160708/download-the-official-nra-ila-app.

  35. Thomas Peters, “Brexit? There Was an App for That,” Medium, June 24, 2016, https://medium.com/@uCampaignCEO/brexit-there-was-an-app-for-that-57d1d658b4f1.

  36. Daniel Dunford and Ashley Kirk, “How Right or Wrong Were the Polls about the EU Referendum?,” Telegraph, June 27, 2016, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-how-right-or-wrong-were-the-polls. See also Sascha O. Becker, Thiemo Fetzer, Dennis Novy, “Who voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis,” Economic Policy 32, no. 92 (October 2017), https://academic-oup-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/economicpolicy/article/32/92/601/4459491. See also Atif Shafique, “Brexit Was Driven by Places ‘Left Behind,’ ” RSA, August 30, 2016, https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2016/08/brexit-was-driven-by-places-left-behind.

  37. Thomas Peters, “Trump and Brexit used a new digital organizing tool to help achieve their surprise victories,” Medium, December 20, 2016, https://medium.com/@uCampaignCEO/how-trump-and-brexit-used-a-new-digital-organizing-tool-to-win-their-surprise-victories-ceca7c720b3.

  38. Becker, Fetzer, and Novy, “Who Voted for Brexit?,” 601–50.

  39. “Vote Leave Fined and Referred to the Police for Breaking Electoral Law,” Electoral Commission, July 17, 2018, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/party-and-election-finance-to-keep/vote-leave-fined-and-referred-to-the-police-for-breaking-electoral-law. See also “Media Statement: Vote Leave,” Electoral Commission, March 29, 2019, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/referendums-to-keep/media-statement-vote-leave. See also Natasha Lomas, “It’s Official: Brexit Campaign Broke the Law—with Social Media’s Help,” Tech Crunch, July 17, 2018, https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/its-official-brexit-campaign-broke-the-law-with-social-medias-help.

  40. Stephen Castle, “Having Won, Some ‘Brexit’ Campaigners Begin Backpedaling,” New York Times, June 26, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/europe/having-won-some-brexit-campaigners-begin-backpedaling.html.

  41. Lomas, “It’s official: Brexit Campaign Broke the Law.”

  42. “Robust Mobile Apps Changing Political and Advocacy Campaigns with Thomas Peters uCampaign,” Karen Jagoda interview, 16:56, November 12, 2017, http://digitalpoliticsradio.com/robust-mobile-apps-changing-political-and-advocacy-campaigns-with-thomas-peters-ucampaign.

  43. Ibid., at 6:50 and 8:40.

  44. Issie Lapowsky, “Clinton’s App Is Trouncing Trump’s in Pretty Much Every Way,” Wired, September 21, 2016, https://www.wired.com/2016/09/clintons-app-trouncing-trumps-pretty-much-every-way.

  45. “Robust Mobile Apps Changing Political and Advocacy Campaigns,” Karen Jagoda interview.

  46. Nicole Karlis, “How the NRA Uses an App to Organize Opposition to Gun Control,” Salon, February 25, 2018, https://www.salon.com/2018/02/25/how-the-nra-uses-an-app-to-organize-opposition-to-gun-control.

  47. “2018 TED-Style Talks,” YouTube video, 1:22:37, TheAAPC1969, April 27, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoaitWArGU&feature=youtu.be+&t=29m5s.

  48. Peters, “Trump and Brexit Used a New Digital Organizing Tool to Help Achieve Their Surprise Victories.”

  49. Allen and Vogel, “Inside the Koch Data Mine.”

  50. Ibid.

  51. John Frank, “The Koch Brothers Plot a Conservative Resistance Movement in Colorado Springs Strategy Session,” Denver Post,” June 25, 2017, https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/25/koch-brothers-colorado-springs-conservative-resistance-movement-2018-election.

  52. Kyle Cheney and Matthew Nussbaum, “Donald Trump’s Man on the Hill,” Politico, January 18, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/who-is-marc-short-trump-legislative-liaison-233710.

  53. “Freedom Partners Shared Services Recruiting—Guest Speaker at the Leadership Institute,” Leadership Institute, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/training/contact.cfm?FacultyID=718481.

  54. Allen and Vogel, “Inside the Koch Data Mine.”

  55. Matea Gold, “Koch Network Seeks to Defuse Donor Frustration over Trump Rebuff,” Washington Post, August 1, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-network-seeks-to-defuse-donor-frustration-over-trump-rebuff/2016/08/01/7247b8c2-579a-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html.

  56. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 63.

  57. Ibid., 128.

  58. Ibid., 182.

  59. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (New York: Crown, 2017), 25.

  60. Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Caroline Tervo, and Theda Skocpol, “How the Koch Brothers Built the Most Powerful Rightwing Group You’ve Never Heard of,” September 26, 2018, Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group.

  61. Allen and Parnes, Shattered, 368.

  62. “About Us,” Libre Initiative, accessed July 18, 2019, http://thelibreinitiative.com/about-us.

  63. Allen and Parnes, Shattered, 229.

  64. Harry Enten, “Registered Voters Who Stayed Home Probably Cost Clinton the Election,” FiveThirtyEight, January 5, 2018, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/registered-voters-who-stayed-home-probably-cost-clinton-the-election.

  65. Khazan, “Why Christians Overwhelmingly Backed Trump.”

  66. Tony Perkins, Twitter post, November 8, 2016, https://twitter.com/tperkins/status/796225023304486912.

  67. File, “Voting in America: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Election.”

  68. Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “White Evangelicals Voted Overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, Exit Polls show,” Washington Post, November 9, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/09/exit-polls-show-white-evangelicals-voted-overwhelmingly-for-donald-trump. See also Tara Isabella Burton, “Poll: White Evangelical Support for Trump Is at an All-Time High,” Vox, April 20, 2018, https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/20/17261726/poll-prri-white-evangelical-support-for-trump-is-at-an-all-time-high.

  69. Barna, Day Christians Changed America, 135.

  70. Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Julie Zauzmer, “Trump to the National Prayer Breakfast: ‘I Will Never Let You Down. I Can Say That. Never,” Washington Post, February 7, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/02/06/national-prayer-breakfast-trump-is-likely-play-white-evangelicals-fears.

  71. “Marc Short,” Ballotpedia, accessed July 19, 2019, https://ballotpedia.org/Marc_Short. See also “Marc Short to Serve as Vice President Pence’s Chief of Staff as White House Gears Up for 2020 Campaign,” Washington Post, February 19, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marc-short-to-return-to-white-house-and-serve-as-vice-president-pences-chief-of-staff/2019/02/19/d4f928a4-345e-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html.

  72. “CNP: William F. Buckley Jr. Council – November 2016,” Soundcloud audio file, November 2016, https://soundcloud.com/cnp-786867471/william-f-buckley-jr-council-november-2016.

  73. Ben White, “Meet Bill Walton,” Politico, November 23, 2016, https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-money/2016/11/meet-bill-walton-217544. See also Max Abelson, “After Fraud Case with SEC, Former Allied Capital Head Bill Walton Makes a Comeback with Trump Role,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 29, 2016, https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/after-fraud-case-with-sec-former-allied-capital-head-bill/article_563286bc-ebcc-5770-b37e-ed6a3279b6e4.html.

  74. Adelle M. Banks, “The Key Evangelical Players on Trump’s Advisory Board,” National Catholic Reporter, September 5, 2017, https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/key-evangelical-players-trumps-advisory-board.

  75. Ana Santos, “What Donald Trump Said during Atlanta’s NRA Convention: ‘No Longer Will Federal Agencies Be Coming After Law-Abiding Gun Owners,’ ” AJC, October 2, 2017, https://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt—politics/what-donald-trump-said-during-atlanta-nra-convention-longer-will-federal-agencies-coming-after-law-abiding-gun-owners/4jYnq5j1WacCVjBcUVJi2N.

  76. Jessica Taylor, “Trump to Values Voters: In America ‘We Don’t Worship Government, We Worship God,’ ” National Public Radio, October 13, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557459193/trump-set-to-address-values-voter-summit-for-first-time-as-president.

  77. Jeremy W. Peters, “Trump Keeps His Conservative Movement Allies Closest,” New York Times, August 2, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/trump-conservative-republicans.html.

  78. “CNP: William F. Buckley Jr. Council – November 2016,” Soundcloud audio file. See HAH file 3.

  79. “Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with SCOTUS Groups,” WhiteHouse.gov transcript, February 1, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-scotus-groups.

  80. Ibid.

  81. Heather Sells, “Faith Leaders Pray for Trump in Oval Office, Enjoy ‘Open Door’ at White House,” Christian Broadcasting Network, July 12, 2017, http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2017/july/faith-leaders-enjoy-open-door-at-white-house.

  82. Mark Joseph Stern, “Trump’s Trans Troops Ban Will Never Take Effect,” Slate, March 24, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/trumps-new-trans-troops-ban-is-still-unconstitutional.html.

  83. Graham, “Church of The Donald.”

  84. “The 115th Congress Is among the Oldest in History,” Quorum, accessed July 19, 2019, https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/the-115th-congress-is-among-the-oldest-in-history/175.

  85. Philip Rucker and Robert Barnes, “Trump to Inherit More than 100 Court Vacancies, Plans to Reshape Judiciary,” Washington Post, December 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-inherit-more-than-100-court-vacancies-plans-to-reshape-judiciary/2016/12/25/d190dd18-c928-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html.

  86. Lee Fang, “Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration,” Intercept, February 25, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/02/25/koch-brothers-trump-administration. See also “Network by the Numbers,” Document Cloud, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4364735-Koch-by-the-Numbers.html.

  87. “Corporate Tax Cuts Mainly Benefit Shareholders and CEOs, Not Workers,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, last updated October 11, 2017, https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/corporate-tax-cuts-mainly-benefit-shareholders-and-ceos-not-workers.

  88. Josh Israel, “Trump’s Tax Cuts for Betsy DeVos and the Very Rich Are being Paid for by Education Cuts,” Think Progress, April 10, 2019, https://thinkprogress.org/betsy-devos-benefits-from-trump-tax-bill-pay-for-education-cuts-260654117eb2.

  89. Kayla Kitson, “The Koch Brothers’ Best Investment,” American Prospect, June 28, 2018, https://prospect.org/article/koch-brothers-best-investment.

  90. Ian Salisbury, “President Trump’s New Budget Would Slash These 10 Federal Programs. Here’s What They Cost (and Actually Do),” Money, February 12, 2018, http://money.com/money/5153676/trump-budget-targets.

  91. Teresa Ghilarducci, “Senate Republicans Set Sights On Cutting Social Security,” Forbes, October 16, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/10/16/senate-republicans-set-sights-on-cutting-social-security/#39b6b2045da1.

CHAPTER 13: MIDTERMS

    1. Matthew Haag, “Robert Jeffress, Pastor Who Said Jews Are Going to Hell, Led Prayer at Jerusalem Embassy,” New York Times, May 14, 2018.

    2. “Executive Order on the Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 3, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-establishment-white-house-faith-opportunity-initiative.

    3. “President Trump Hosts Faith Leaders at the White House,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 4, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-hosts-faith-leaders-white-house.

    4. Elizabeth Dias, “Inside Evangelical Leaders’ Private White House Dinner,” Time, May 4, 2017.

    5. Mike Pence, Twitter post, May 19, 2017, https://twitter.com/vp/status/865670477460656130

    6. Elizabeth Dias, “President Trump Lost a Fight to Allow Churches to Get More Involved in Politics,” Time, December 15, 2017.

    7. Paul Kane, “Democrats Say GOP Tax Perk Aimed at Helping One Influential Conservative College,” Washington Post, December 1, 2017.

    8. Alice Lloyd, “The College That Wants to Take Over Washington,” Politico, May 12, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/12/hillsdale-college-trump-pence-218362. See also “Remarks by Vice President Pence at the Hillsdale College 166th Commencement Ceremony, WhiteHouse.gov, May 12, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-hillsdale-college-166th-commencement-ceremony.

    9. Washington Watch, September 21, 2015.

  10. “Watchmen on the Wall 2015: Championing Pastors to Transform America” WatchmenPastors.org, accessed July 18, 2019, https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF15E106.pdf.

  11. “Watchmen on the Wall 2017 Video Archive,” Watchmen on the Wall, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.watchmenpastors.org/archive-2017.

  12. Ibid., Craig at 8:15, French at 15:25, and Church closing remarks at 16:25.

  13. Ibid.

  14. “James Robison Honored at Watchmen on the Wall,” Facebook Live, Family Research Council, May 25, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/familyresearchcouncil/videos/10155302623262442.

  15. Ibid., at 18:00.

  16. Jess Witt, “Ted Cruz Is Still Using a Blacklisted Cambridge Analytica App Developer,” Fast Company, November 6, 2018, https://www.fastcompany.com/90262252/ted-cruz-still-using-blacklisted-cambridge-analytica-app-developer-aggregateiq. See also Christopher Heine, “Trump’s Campaign Just Launched a Mobile App.”

  17. Patrick O’Keefe, “How P2P Texting is Revolutionizing Politics,” August 26, 2018, Medium, https://medium.com/political-moneyball/how-p2p-texting-is-revolutionizing-politics-bfe697c2abb8.

  18. “2018 TED-Style Talks,” YouTube video, 1:22:37, TheAAPC1969, April 27, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoaitWArGU&feature=youtu.be&t=29m5s.

  19. “While It Is Day … Engage” session, chaired by Todd Starnes, Watchmen on the Wall 2018 Video Archive, http://watchmenpastors.org/archive-2018. See 3:14.

  20. Associated Press, “Hobby Lobby Fined $3 Million for Smuggling Iraqi Religious Artifacts,” Fortune, July 6, 2017, https://fortune.com/2017/07/06/hobby-lobby-bible-museum-smuggling-artifacts-iraq

  21. Museum of the Bible, “Museum of the Bible Releases Research Findings on Fragments in Its Dead Sea Scrolls Collection,” Museum of the Bible press release, October 22, 2018, https://www.museumofthebible.org/press/press-releases/museum-of-the-bible-releases-research-findings-on-fragments-in-its-dead-sea-scrolls-collection.

  22. Philip Rojc, “Path to Power: Who Funds the Religious Right?,” Inside Philanthropy, January 17, 2017, https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/1/17/giving-to-glorify-god-who-funds-the-religious-right.

  23. Photo of wall.

  24. Adam Cancryn, “Back Home, Freedom Caucus’ Meadows Hailed as Anti-Obamacare Hero,” Politico, March 27, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mark-meadows-obamacare-carolina-236525.

  25. “Watchmen on the Wall 2018 Video Archive,” Watchmen on the Wall, accessed July 19, 2019, http://www.watchmenpastors.org/archive-2018?videoId=5786063310001. See “big brother” comment at 1:00.

  26. Alliance Defense Fund, “FRC Honors ADF Attorney Mike Johnson with ‘Family, Faith and Freedom Award,” Alliance Defense Fund press release, March 17, 2005, https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/frc-honors-adf-attorney-mike-johnson-with—family—faith—and-freedom-award-.

  27. Marc J. Franklin, “Inside Broadway’s Mark Hellinger Theatre,” Playbill, February 6, 2019, http://www.playbill.com/article/step-inside-broadways-mark-hellinger-theatre.

  28. “WOTW 2018 Pastor Carter Conlon,” Carter Conlon video, June 21, 2018, http://carterconlon.com/watchmen-conference-2018.

  29. “Watchmen: Standing on the Wall and in the Gap,” Tony Perkins’s Washington Update, May 25, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20180914173423/https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20180525/standing-wall-gap. Accessed Wayback Machine for September 14, 2018.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Katherine Stewart, “The Christian Right Adopts a 50-State Strategy,” New York Times, June 20, 2018.

  32. Susie Hawkins, “Becoming Winsome in Ministry,” Susie Hawkins Blog, April 24, 2018, https://www.namb.net/resource-blog/becoming-winsome-in-ministry.

  33. Ann E. Marimow, “Two Years In, Trump’s Appeals Court Confirmations at a Historic High Point,” Washington Post, February 4, 2019.

  34. See “McConnell’s Laser Focus on Transforming the Judiciary,” Politico, October 17, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/17/senate-gop-judges-911935.

  35. Liz Moyer, “As Funds Invoke Bible Values, Others See Intolerance,” New York Times, February 28, 2017.

  36. Edward Wong, “The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy,” New York Times, March 30, 2019. See also “Summit Church [Kansas] God and Country Rally with U.S. Congressman Mike Pompeo,” YouTube video, 42:37, Summit Church Kansas, June 28, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0opXYM52w.

  37. Values Voter Summit, Washington, September 21–23, 2018. “Values Bus Tour Stops,” Values Bus Tour, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.valuesbustour.com/tour. “Values Bus Media,” Values Bus Tour, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.valuesbustour.com/media. See also FRC Action, “Family Research Action’s Values Bus Tour Heads to Indiana,” FRCAction press release, October 17, 2018, https://www.frcaction.org/get.cfm?i=PR18J13.

  38. Michelle Moons, “Mike Pence to Rally for Hawley, Koback, Other Republicans in Kansas City,” Breitbart, October 30, 2018, https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/10/30/mike-pence-rally-hawley-kobach-republicans-kansas-city.

  39. “Values Bus Tour Stops,” Values Bus Tour.

  40. WPA Intelligence, “Our Team: Chris Wilson,” WPA Intelligence, accessed July 18, 2019, http://wpaintel.com/team/chris-wilson.

  41. “Glen Caroline, “Volunteer Faculty at the Leadership Institute,” Leadership Institute, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/training/contact.cfm?FacultyID=14734.

  42. Author screenshots.

  43. John McCormick, “Koch Network Plans to Spend $400 Million in U.S. Midterm Cycle,” Bloomberg, January 27, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/koch-network-plans-to-spend-400-million-in-u-s-midterm-cycle.

  44. James Hohmann, “Daily 202: Koch Network Laying Groundwork to Fundamentally Transform America’s Education System,” Washington Post, January 30, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/koch-network-plans-to-spend-400-million-in-u-s-midterm-cycle.

  45. James Hohmann, “Koch Network Identifies Top 2018 Targets and Outlines Plans for Heavy Early Spending,” Washington Post, January 29, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/29/koch-network-identifies-top-2018-targets-and-outlines-plans-for-heavy-early-spending/?utm_term=.e4adf4319a27.

  46. “Join Our Team to Change America,” Americans for Prosperity, accessed July 18, 2019, https://americansforprosperity.org/careers.

  47. Hiroko Tabuchi, “How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country,” New York Times, June 19, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html.

  48. “SBA List 2018 Election Report,” Susan B. Anthony List, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.sba-list.org/2018-election-report. See also “Mobilizing the Pro-Life Vote to Win a Pro-Life Senate Majority,” Susan B. Anthony List, accessed July 18, 2019, https://s27319.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/12.07.18-2018-Election-SBA-List-By-the-Numbers.pdf.

  49. Christopher Hooks and Mike Spies, “Documents Show NRA and Republican Candidates Coordinated Ads in Key Senate Races,” Mother Jones, January 11, 2019, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/nra-republicans-campaign-ads-senate-josh-hawley.

  50. “Disbursements for i360, 2017-2018,” Federal Election Commission, July 18, 2019, https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=i360&two_year_transaction_period=2018&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=10%2F14%2F2018.

  51. Calvin Sloan, “Koch Brothers Are Watching You: And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know,” Salon, November 5, 2018, https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=i360&two_year_transaction_period=2018&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=10%2F14%2F2018.

  52. “The Event,” Truth and Liberty, accessed July 18, 2019, https://truthandliberty.net/episode/the-event-2018.

  53. Jordan Misra, “Behind the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election Turnout,” United States Census Bureau, April 23, 2019, https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/04/behind-2018-united-states-midterm-election-turnout.html.

  54. “Our Team, Chris Wilson,” WPA Intelligence, accessed June 18, 2019, http://wpaintel.com/team/chris-wilson/

CHAPTER 14: “DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA”

    1. Family Research Council, “A Look Back on 2018,” Facebook Live, posted December 19, 2018, https://www.facebook.com/FRCAction/videos/215127782739315.

    2. Debbie Elliot, “Alabama Lawmakers Move to Outlaw Abortion in Challenge to Roe v. Wade,” National Public Radio, May 1, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/719096129/alabama-lawmakers-move-to-outlaw-abortion-in-challenge-to-roe-v-wade.

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    3. Robert Downen, “Lawsuit Against Ex-Judge, Southern Baptist Churches, Drawing to a Close,” Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2019, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Lawsuit-against-ex-judge-Southern-Baptist-13596126.php.

    4. Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco, “Abuse of Faith: 20 Years, 700 Victims, Southern Baptist Abuse Spreads as Leaders Resist Reforms,” Houston Chronicle, February 10, 2019, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php.

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    7. Carrie Brown McWhorter, “Southwestern Seminary Removes Stained Glass Windows Depicting Patterson, Other SBC Leaders,” Alabama Baptist, April 11, 2019, https://www.thealabamabaptist.org/southwestern-seminary-removes-stained-glass-windows-depicting-patterson-other-sbc-leaders.