Indoctrination
1966
1966-01-01 Jerry Falwell founded the whites-only Lynchburg Christian Academy to circumvent the 1954 ruling to ban segregation. He wrote in his book ‘America Can Be Saved’, “I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them”. In 1977 courts ruled that segregated private religious schools could not qualify as charitable organizations or retain tax exempt status.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/falwell-jerry-1933-2007/
2022
2022-01-01 PragerU announced they would “go toe-to-toe” with PBS Kids and Disney to promote conservative-only content. https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/5sXDznmT78abPArUAlPCqE/1fedef81bdb19e99a78ab3228b5393ac/2022_AnnualReport_Final_Optimized.pdf
2023
2023-10-16 The Daily Wire launched Bentkey, a children’s streaming service offering explicitly conservative indoctrination to children.
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/daily-wire-streaming-kids-bentkey-disney
2024
2024-03-26 Trump rebranded the Lee Greenwood Bible as his own, produced them China for $3, sold them for a 2000% and up profit, and forced a mandate requiring public schools to carry only those versions of the bible.
https://godblesstheusabible.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoo2dBPos02UA83oeq1_LR-ZyXLEnyXFNEErRaffpa73DkOB-whY
https://baptistnews.com/article/only-one-bible-fits-the-3-million-bid-for-oklahoma-classrooms/
2025 March
2025-03-20 Trump appointed Charlie Kirk to the Air Force Academy Board.
https://pfluger.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2485
2025 May
2025-05-21 Senate Bill SB10 was introduced to require display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Representative James Talarico argued against the measure, “forcing religion down throats is not love”.
2025 August
2025-08-08 PragerU announced plans to totally replace PBS with conservative programming for children. Some example material includes:
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Who’s behind the anti-ICE riots
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How Foreign aid keeps Africa poor
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Laughter on Lockdown featuring Roseanne Barr
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Their Lives Mattered - a spin off the Black Lives Matter movement
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MIA: Masculinity in America
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Why do you hate conservatives
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And an artificially generated AI version of John Adams who tells children, “Facts do not care about your feelings”.
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The quote “Facts do not care about your feelings” comes from right-wing influencer and propagandist Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro, who accuses public schools of being “almost designed to be anti-Catholic indoctrination centers”.
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/422812/prageru-education-pbs-npr-cpb-defunding
https://prospect.org/2025/08/15/2025-08-15-prageru-wants-to-capitalize-on-pbs-defunding
https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU/videos
https://www.pbs.org/video/prageru-1757971049/
https://x.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/422812/prageru-education-pbs-npr-cpb-defunding
https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU/videos
https://www.pbs.org/video/prageru-1757971049/
2025-08-18 Teachers in California, Oklahoma, and New York are now required to pass a PragerU-developed “America First” assessment which promotes partisan ideology and includes questions that push 2020 false electoral claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/oklahoma-teachers-america-first-test
2025-08-25 Americans United wrote, “PragerU is no longer a fringe media company. It’s institutionalized and government sanctioned. Right now, PragerU is offered in eight states, including Florida, Louisiana and Texas - all states whose legislatures have been eager to impose religion on public schools.”
2025 September
2025-09-03 PragerU installed an AI-generated John Adams exhibit for children featuring the phrase “Facts do not care about your feelings.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5521261/white-house-ai-founders-museum
https://x.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136
2025-09-28 Trump reposted TPUSA propaganda calling for action to incorporate Turning Point USA content into school curricula.
https://x.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/1972282140667904372
2026 January
2026-01-24 The Texas Education Freedom Accounts allegedly excluded Muslim private schools from the State voucher program.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/texas-school-vouchers-opinion-terrorists-ken-paxton/
2026 February
2026-02-10 Nebraska became one of the first states to incorporate extreme-right Turning Point USA indoctrination clubs into schools. The governor stated, “I see it as right and wrong, God and Satan”.
https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-governor-launches-turning-point-usa-initiative/70306328
2026 March
2026-03-11 The Arkansas Governor and TPUSA announced TPUSA indoctrination in their schools.
https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/governor-sanders-awards-the-arkansas-medal-of-freedom-2/
2026-03-12 During a rally in Arkansas to integrate “Club America” in schools, Erika Kirk pushed white victimhood and white nationalist views onto students, “…just like you and other governors who have been bold enough to stand alongside us to make sure that Charlie’s dream of having a club America on every single high school campus….someone throws all of your resources on the ground, count it all joy. You are being persecuted because you believe in Jesus Christ. Count it all joy….Don’t let anyone disenfranchise you because you’re a young man, especially a young white male man. Don’t ever let anyone talk down to you. We need strong men out there. ….God has created you for a purpose and a reason far greater than you and I will ever know on this side of heaven. But just know that as long as you’re a part of Turning Point USA, you have us by your side, and we will be there for you every step of the way. And just like this governor and many others that are out there, we got your back, always”.
https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/governor-sanders-awards-the-arkansas-medal-of-freedom-2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCBpSzdTb4&list=WL&index=3&t=210s
2026-03-16 Federal Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that Arkansas’s Ten Commandments classroom law violated the Constitution’s Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses and wrote, “Act 573’s purpose is only to display a sacred religious text in a prominent place in every public-school classroom, and the only reason to display a sacred religious text in every classroom is to proselytize to children”.
https://www.interfaithalliance.org/post/interfaith-alliance-welcomes-permanent-injunction-prohibiting-ten-commandments-display-in-arkansas-schools
2026 June
2026-06-22 The Texas Board of Education voted to force biblical curriculum in schools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6puVHJgjEuc&list=WL&index=1
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/us/texas-schools-bible-curriculum-vote
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-votes-bible-history-lessons-public-schools/
2026 July
2026-07-01 During a bible school session for Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington Kentucky students watched as the pastors put on an “Antifa execution” skit in front of little kids and mocked an execution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g9xdwfoGk8&list=WL&index=3&t=9s
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fact-check-video-mock-execution-230000202.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwQj-uwRiM
2026-07-12 West Virginia spent $3M to establish an “anti-woke” university program.
https://people.com/west-virginia-anti-woke-university-program-12016314