15. Olga Khazan, “Here’s Why Hobby Lobby Thinks IUDs Are Like Abortions,” Atlantic, March 12, 2014.
16. Esmé E. Deprez, “Abortion Clinics Are Closing at a Record Pace,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 24, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/abortion-clinics-are-closing-at-a-record-pace.
17. See Students for Life 2019 schedule: https://sflalive.org/schedule.
18. Sarah Kaplan, “Mississippi’s Senate Just Approved a Sweeping ‘Religious Liberty’ Bill That Critics Say Is the Worst Yet for LGBT Rights,” Washington Post, March 31, 2016.
19. James Dobson, Parenting Isn’t for Cowards: The You-Can-Do-It Guide for Hassled Parents (Tyndale House, 2010).
20. James Dobson, The Strong-Willed Child (Tyndale House, 1978), 38.
21. Barbara Falconer Newhall, “James Dobson: Beat Your Dog, Spank Your Kid, Go to Heaven,” Huffington Post, October 10, 2014, updated December 6, 2017.
22. Dr. James Dobson, “The Difference Between Childish Irresponsibility and Willful Defiance,” Dobson Digital Library.
23. Ralph Drollinger, “God’s Word on Spanking,” Capmin.org, May 2, 2016, https://capmin.org/gods-word-spanking.
24. Katherine Stewart, “Why Mississippi’s New Anti-LGBT Law Is the Most Dangerous One to Be Passed Yet,” The Nation, April 8, 2016.
25. “Randy Forbes and Lea Carawan from CPCFoundation on Truth & Liberty Livecast,” streamed live by Andrew Wommack, October 29, 2018, 59:01 min, at 14:40–15:00 mark, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpf3RplEMd4.
26. George Barna, The Day Christians Changed America (Metaformation, 2017), 55.
27. Brandon Showalter, “George Barna Explains How Christians Altered America’s Future by Supporting Trump Last November,” Christian Post, October 13, 2017, https://www.christianpost.com/news/george-barna-explains-how-christians-altered-americas-future-by-supporting-trump-last-november.html.
28. “Randy Forbes & Lea Carawan from CPCFoundation on Truth & Liberty Livecast,” October 29, 2018, 11:55–13:15.
29. Ibid., 9:25–10:40.
CHAPTER 8: CONVERTING THE FLOCK TO DATA
1. Bill Dallas, Lessons from San Quentin: Everything I Needed to Know about Life I Learned in Prison (Tyndale House, 2009).
2. Ibid., 68–69.
3. Ibid., 11.
4. Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, “Silicon Valley Gives Conservative Christians a Boost,” Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2011.
5. George Barna, The Day Christians Changed America (Metaformation, 2017), 147–48.
6. Elizabeth Dias, “Inside Donald Trump’s Private Meeting with Evangelicals,” Time, June 21, 2016.
7. Kyle Mantyla, “Jim Garlow: ‘Under No Condition Do We Have To Follow Laws That Violate The Word Of God,’ ” November 1, 2016, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-garlow-under-no-condition-do-we-have-to-follow-laws-that-violate-the-word-of-god.
8. “The State of the Conservative Movement (Interview with Bob McEwen—Executive Director, Council for National Policy),” Conservative Book Club, podcast, episode 34, https://www.conservativebookclub.com/34261/podcasts/interview-bob-mcewen-cnp.
9. Jane Mayer, “Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Big-Donor Education Secretary,” New Yorker, November 23, 2016.
10. “The State of the Conservative Movement (Interview with Bob McEwen—Executive Director, Council for National Policy),” Conservative Book Club.
11. G. W. Schulz, “Are Christian Conservatives behind Breach of 18 Million Voter Records?” Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting), March 2, 2016, https://www.revealnews.org/article/are-christian-conservatives-behind-breach-of-18-million-voter-records.
12. Author interview with Chris Vickery April 2019.
13. Author interview with Vickery; Thomas Brewster, “Right-Wing Company of Convicted Embezzler Turned Christian Linked to Huge Leak of Voter Records,” Forbes, January 4, 2016.
14. U.S. Federal Election Commission, Disbursements, https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&data_type=processed&recipient_name=i360&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=10%2F14%2F2018.
15. David Brody, “Brody File Exclusive: Evangelical Leader Says It’s ‘Still to Be Determined’ Whether Evangelicals Will Show Up Strongly in November,” CBN News, September 15, 2016, at 00:57 mark, https://www1.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2016/09/15/brody-file-exclusive-evangelical-leader-says-its-still-to-be-determined-whether-evangelicals-will-show-up-strongly-in-november.
16. Brewster, “Right-Wing Company of Convicted Embezzler Turned Christian Linked to Huge Leak of Voter Records.”
17. Calvin Sloan, “Koch Brothers Are Watching You: And New Documents Reveal Just How Much They Know,” Center for Media and Democracy’s PRWatch, November 5, 2018, https://www.prwatch.org/news/2018/11/13413/koch-brothers-are-watching-you-and-new-documents-reveal-just-how-much-they-know.
18. Dan O’Sullivan, “The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak,” UpGuard, December 12, 2018, https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files.
19. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “To Get Out the Vote, Evangelicals Try Data-Mining,” All Tech Considered, NPR, February 27, 2012, https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=147504999.
20. Ibid.
21. Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, “Silicon Valley Gives Conservative Christians a Boost,” Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2011, https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2011-sep-15-la-na-evangelical-outreach-20110916-story.html.
22. www.godisatwork.org/about.html
23. Department of Justice press release, “MPRI Inc. Agrees to Pay $3.2 Million for False Labor Charges on Contract to Support Army in Afghanistan,” February 12, 2014, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mpri-inc-agrees-pay-32-million-false-labor-charges-contract-support-army-afghanistan.
24. See Cypressintl.com: https://www.cypressintl.com/who-we-are.
25. “Joseph Habedank, Bill Dallas, Dr. Ken Eldred, and David Hall,” Marcus & Joni Guests, Daystar TV, March 7, 2016, http://www.daystar.com/guest-guide/marcus-joni-guests/dr-ken-elred.
26. Ibid.
27. See church voter lookup tools: http://churchesimpactingculture.com/voter-tools.
28. See video: “Bill Dallas on THE EVENT, Did Trump Break the Law?” Truth & Liberty, streamed live by Andrew Wommack, August 27, 2018, 1:01:04 hours, at 15:40 mark, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBksMK22J0.
29. United in Purpose Education, a California Nonprofit Corporation; United in Purpose, a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation v. Trendmojo, Inc, a California Corporation; Jay Bartels, an Individual; and Does 1 through 100, case no. 18CIV02388, https://odyportal-ext.sanmateocourt.org/Portal-External/DocumentViewer/Embedded/784bsmjLEDcN414lnR4PIbS5somIrTbjSdkEEO5Wpqy_Zi-f3rzRfzqLWVLUAt7i_Mg1o2jVLdq0ptOv5qI-JQn9mxiYe-NAr5vQvTToeHI1?p=0.
30. Council for National Policy Membership Directory 2014, https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/cnp_redacted_final.pdf.
31. Peter Montgomery, “Ginni Thomas Gives Awards to James O’Keefe, Sean Hannity, Frank Gaffney & Other Right-Wing Activists,” Right Wing Watch, December 7, 2017, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ginni-thomas-gives-awards-to-james-okeefe-sean-hannity-frank-gaffney-other-right-wing-activists.
32. Video: “Mark Levin Receives United In Purpose’s ‘Outstanding Impact Award,’ ” CNSNews.com, December 5, 2018, https://www.cnsnews.com/video/mark-levin-receives-united-purposes-outstanding-impact-award.
32. USATransForm Form 990s: https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/view_990/824819179/3a1796585224e129a0d4f118c55f872b.
34. United in Purpose, https://www.contentofcharacterseries.com/united-in-purpose. Last accessed January 2018 on the United in Purpose website, unitedinpurpose.org.
CHAPTER 9: PROSELYTIZERS AND PRIVATIZERS
1. Billy Hallowell, “Charter School Gets Sued over History Course Some Say Is Too Religious,” Deseret News, September 12, 2016.
2. Holly K. Hacker, “Reading, Writing, and Religion? Dallas-Area Charter Schools Come Under Fire (Again),” Dallas News, Augus
t 2016.
3. Christopher Line, “Getting God Out of Texas Charter Schools: Religious Exploitation Plagues Tax-Funded System,” Patheos, August 9, 2016, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/getting-god-out-of-texas-charter-schools-religious-exploitation-continues-to-plague-the-charter-school-system.
4. See americanheritageacademy.org, “Principles of Liberty”: http://www.americanheritageacademy.org/administration/principles_of_liberty.
5. Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved! (Sword of the Lord, 1979), 52.
6. Peter Daining, “West Michigan’s ‘Dutchness’ Has Evolved to Be Quite Different from the Netherlands,” Holland Sentinel, March 27, 2011.
7. “50-Metre $40-Million Superyacht SeaQuest Owned by Betsy DeVos Damaged,” Yacht Harbour, July 26, 2018, https://yachtharbour.com/news/50-metre-%2440-million-superyacht-seaquest-owned-by-betsy-devos-damaged-2627?src=_pos_1.
8. Beatrice Dupuy, “Very Rich Betsy DeVos Has 10 Boats, Two Helicopters, a Yacht Scheduler and a Lavish Lifestyle You Can’t Afford,” Newsweek, November 10, 2017.
9. Leanna Garfield, “Why Betsy DeVos’s Summer Home Looks Like a ‘Beached Whale,’ According to an Architecture Critic,” Business Insider, August 9, 2018.
10. Jane Lampman, “For Evangelicals, a Bid to ‘Reclaim America,” Christian Science Monitor, March 16, 2005, https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0316/p16s01-lire.html.
11. “Foundation for Traditional Values,” Media Mouse, https://mediamousearchive.wordpress.com/resources/right/orgs/foundation-for-traditional-values.
12. Katherine Stewart, “Betsy DeVos and God’s Plan for Schools.” New York Times, December 13, 2016.
13. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, February 14, 2014.
14. Catherine Brown and Ulrich Boser, “The DeVos Dynasty: A Family of Extremists,” Center for American Progress, January 23, 2017, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/default/news/2017/01/23/296947/the-devos-dynasty-a-family-of-extremists; Anna Massoglia and Jack Noland, “Betsy DeVos and Her Big-Giving Relatives: Family Qualifies as GOP Royalty,” OpenSecrets.org, December 1, 2016.
15. Jeremy Scahill, “Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Advising Trump from the Shadows,” The Intercept, January 17, 2017.
16. Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and David D. Kirpatrick, “Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met with Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Elections,” New York Times, May 19, 2018.
17. Brooke Seipel, “Erik Prince Acknowledges Attending 2016 Trump Tower Meeting ‘to Talk about Iran Policy,’ ” The Hill, March 8, 2019.
18. Andy Kroll, “Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan’s Plan to Defund the Left,” Mother Jones, January–February 2014.
19. Jack Smith IV, “This Is How Much It Cost Betsy DeVos to Become Education Secretary,” Mic, February 8, 2017, https://www.mic.com/articles/167880/betsy-devos-total-campaign-donations-republicans-education-secretary-confirmation.
20. Michael Stratford, “Devos Heads into Confirmation with a Megadonor’s Clear Advantage,” Politico, December 20, 2016.
21. Jane Mayer, “Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Big-Donor Education Secretary,” New Yorker, November 23, 2016.
22. Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell, American Providential History (Providence Foundation, 1989).
23. Ibid., 198.
24. Ibid., 200.
25. Ibid., 112.
26. D. James Kennedy, “A Godly Education” sermon pamphlet (Coral Ridge Ministries, 1986), 4.
27. Dr. D. James Kennedy and Dr. John B. Sorensen, Well Done: A Christian Doctrine of Works (Green Tree Press, 2010), xi–xiii.
28. Rob Schwarzwalder, “To Save Children, Cut Education,” Washington Times, January 21, 2010.
29. Chris Ford, Stephenie Johnson, and Lisette Partelow, “The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers,” Center for American Progress, July 12, 2017, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers.
30. Milton Friedman at a speech delivered at a 2006 meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, http://library.fora.tv/2006/07/21/Milton_Friedman, last accessed September 12, 2017; Jonas Persson, “ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia,” Center for Media and Democracy’s PRWatch, July 22, 2015, https://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/07/12869/alec-school-vouchers-are-kids-suburbia.
31. George A. Clowes, “ ‘Never Give Up!’—An Exclusive Interview with Mae and Martin Duggan,” Heartland Institute, December 1, 2004, https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/never-give-up—an-exclusive-interview-with-mae-and-martin-duggan?source=policybot.
32. Rob Boston, “School Voucher Avalanche,” Americans United for Separation of Church and State, February 2011, https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2011-church-state/featured/school-voucher-avalanche.
33. “LEAD Summer Camp,” https://ssionline.org/lead/what-is-lead.
34. “The Onsite Program,” https://ssionline.org/onsite, minute 3:05 of the video).
35. Adam Weinstein, “Who Paid for This Documentary Calling Public Schools Evil? (Video),” Mother Jones, March 30, 2011, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/indoctrination-christian-anti-public-school-movie-home-school/.
36. Joseph P. Overton, “An Inside Look at the Government-School Mentality,” Mackinac Center for Public Policy, September 23, 2002, https://www.mackinac.org/4674.
37. William B. Allen, “Public Education: An Autopsy,” Religion & Liberty 4, no. 4 (July 20, 2010).
38. Benjamin Wermund, “Trump’s Education Pick Says Reform Can ‘Advance God’s Kingdom,’ ” Politico, December 2, 2016.
39. Agenda for Synod 2003, Christian Reformed Church, June 14–21, 2003, https://www.crcna.org/sites/default/files/2003_agenda.pdf, 315–40.
40. Benjamin Wermund, “Trump’s Education Secretary Pick Led Group That Owes Millions in Election Fines,” Politico, November 29, 2016.
41. Ibid. According to an article in Politico, the state commission said the group “initially asked Ohio if this sort of spending was permissible. When the state said no, DeVos’s group did it anyway.” Tax filings from 2015 list DeVos as an officer of All Children Matter. Donald Brey, the Ohio attorney representing the organization, asserted that DeVos was not directly involved in the case. “Her name never came up in any of the litigation,” he said. “Nobody claimed she was responsible for anything All Children Matter did or didn’t do.”
42. Sam Dillon, “Scholar’s School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate,” New York Times, March 2, 2010.
43. Martin Carnoy, “School Vouchers Are Not a Proven Strategy for Improving Sudent Achievement: Studies of U.S. and International Voucher Programs Show That the Risks to School Systems Outweigh Insignificant Gains in Test Scores and Limited Gains in Graduation Rates,” Economic Policy Institute, February 28, 2017, https://www.epi.org/publication/school-vouchers-are-not-a-proven-strategy-for-improving-student-achievement.
44. “Heritage Foundation, December 3, 2002: DeVos Outlines Strategy in War on Public Education,” uploaded by Bruce Wilson, May 1, 2011, 54:22 minutes, at 20:15 mark, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt9FmMrvJ3A&t=1874s. Last accessed May 14, 2019.
45. Ibid., 30:20 to 30:55 mark.
46. Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok, “The Council for National Policy: Behind the Curtain,” Southern Poverty Law Center, Hatewatch, May 17, 2016, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/05/17/council-national-policy-behind-curtain.
47. Allie Gross, “Betsy DeVos’s Accountability Problem,” Atlantic, January 13, 2017.
48. Addison Wiggin, “Charter School Gravy Train Runs Express to Fat City,” Forbes, September 10, 2013; Peter Greene, “How to Profit from Your Nonprofit Charter School,” Forbes, August 13, 2018.
49. Jennifer Dixon, “Michigan Spends $1B on Charter Schools but Fails to Hold Them Accountable,” Detroit Free Press, June 22, 2014.
50. Laurie Roberts, “Arizona Rep. Eddie Farnsworth Is a Charter School Millionaire—and You Helped Pay for It,” Arizona Republic, September 11, 2018.
51. Allie Gross, “T
he Backdoor Voucher? How a Detroit School Created to Lift Up a ‘Christ-Centered Culture’ Found a Way to Get Public Dollars,” Chalkbeat, May 18, 2017, https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/detroit/2017/05/18/the-backdoor-voucher-how-a-detroit-school-created-to-lift-up-a-christ-centered-culture-found-a-way-to-get-public-dollars.
52. Ibid., published in the Atlantic, May 24, 2017.
53. Christopher Caldwell, “How to Think about Vladimir Putin,” adapted from a speech delivered February 15, 2017 at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona, Imprimis 46, no. 3 (March 2017).
54. Marianne Goodland, “How Charter Schools Are Dodging Colorado Laws,” Colorado Independent, May 1, 2016.
55. Ibid.
56. NAACP Task Force on Quality Education July 2017 Hearing Report, https://www.naacp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Task_ForceReport_final2.pdf.
57. Kate Zernike, “A Sea of Charter Schools in Detroit Leaves Students Adrift,” New York Times, June 28, 2016.
58. Jennifer Chambers, “Michigan Charter School Closures Fire Up Education Debate,” Detroit News, November 14, 2018.
59. Alan Singer, “Trump and the Religious Threat to Public Education,” HuffPost, October 12, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-and-the-religious-threat-to-public-education_b_59df46e4e4b075f45223a416.
60. Jonny Scaramanga, “Rebirth of Our Nation,” Patheos, August 10, 2016, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2016/08/10/rebirth-of-our-nation-review-introduction.
61. Zack Kopplin, “Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism,” Slate, January 16, 2014, https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/creationism-in-texas-public-schools-undermining-the-charter-movement.html; Max Brantley, “Charter School Leader Defends Creationism in Schools’ Curriculum,” Arkansas Times, January 19, 2014.
62. Jeffrey S. Solochek, “Imagine Charter Schools’ Expensive Leases Draw Scrutiny,” Tampa Bay Times, February 17, 2012.
63. Margaret Brennan and Jennifer Janisch, “Are Some U.S. Charter Schools Helping Fund Controversial Turkish Cleric’s Movement?,” CBS This Morning, CBS News, March 29, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-turkish-religious-scholar-fethullah-gulen-funding-movement-abroad-through-us-charter-schools.
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