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Jerry Falwell

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/

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2007/05/20/a-sad-legacy-left-behind/31202665007/#:~:text=In%201979%2C%20after%20eschewing%20politics,to%20integration%20of%20public%20schools.

https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/03/01/unfortunate-goal-school-choice-movement/98462276/#:~:text=David%20Currie,you%20are%20being%20an%20alarmist.

https://www.lcabulldogs.com/

PragerU

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

2025-08-08 PragerU announced plans to totally replace PBS with conservative programming for children. Some example material includes:

  1. Who’s behind the anti-ICE riots

  2. How Foreign aid keeps Africa poor

  3. Laughter on Lockdown featuring Roseanne Barr

  4. Their Lives Mattered - a spin off the Black Lives Matter movement

  5. MIA: Masculinity in America

  6. Why do you hate conservatives

  7. And an artificially generated AI version of John Adams who tells children, “Facts do not care about your feelings”.

  8. 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/

2025-08-25 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.”

https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/pragerus-christian-nationalist-agenda-threatens-to-reshape-public-education/

Bibles

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://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-bibles-lee-greenwood/#

https://godblesstheusabible.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoo2dBPos02UA83oeq1_LR-ZyXLEnyXFNEErRaffpa73DkOB-whY

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/jimmy-kimmel-details-shocking-flaw-in-donald-trumps-tariffs-plan-will-american-wallets-suffer-101732725533700.html

https://oklahomawatch.org/2024/10/03/state-education-department-seeks-bids-for-55000-classroom-bibles/

https://baptistnews.com/article/only-one-bible-fits-the-3-million-bid-for-oklahoma-classrooms/

2025-09-27 Teachers in Oklahoma pointed out that Trump bibles include the Constitution but leaves out Amendments 11 through 27. Those Amendments include protections for states from being sued in federal court, MULTIPLE voting rights, two term limits, presidential succession, citizenship laws, equal right laws, abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHGkBxvVnk

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.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2026/06/26/555733/bible-texas-public-school-curriculum-houston-isd-state-board-of-education/

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/social-studies-overhaul-bible-christianity-22320559.php

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-board-approves-bible-stories-required-reading-public-schools-rcna352002

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-votes-bible-history-lessons-public-schools/

Private Schools

2024-06-03 Billions of taxpayer dollars now fund private religious schools, leaving out religious minorities while digging into public school funding.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/03/tax-dollars-religious-schools/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-now-go-to-religious-schools/2024/06/03/094449c2-9e9b-44d9-83b2-4eb5a6354465_video.html

2025-04-29 Religious charter schools in Oklahoma requested taxpayer money grants to fund their schools, draining funds that should go to public education.

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/will-supreme-court-force-states-fund-religious-charter-schools

Ten Commandments

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”.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-instructs-texas-schools-display-ten-commandments-accordance-texas-law#:~:text=built%20this%20country.%E2%80%9D-,S.B.,meet%20the%20requirements%20of%20S.B.

https://theconversation.com/3-states-push-to-put-the-ten-commandments-back-in-school-banking-on-new-guidance-at-the-supreme-court-264423#:~:text=As%20disputes%20rage%20on%20over,:%20Louisiana%2C%20Arkansas%20and%20Texas.

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

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/judge-strikes-down-ark-law-mandating-schools-display-the-ten-commandments-heres-what-to-know/

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/03/23/arkansas-courts-controversy-with-its-ten-commandments-law

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/03/23/arkansas-courts-controversy-with-its-ten-commandments-law

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-permanently-blocks-arkansas-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-every-public-school-classroom-and-library

TPUSA Indoctrination

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://arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/11/sanders-encouraging-all-arkansas-high-schools-to-start-turning-point-usa-youth-club-chapters/

https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/governor-sanders-awards-the-arkansas-medal-of-freedom-2/

https://katv.com/news/local/young-democrats-of-arkansas-call-out-gov-sanders-erika-kirk-claim-abuse-of-power

https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/four-protestors-arrested-after-fight-outside-the-governors-mansion-following-announcement-from-gov-sanders-erica-kirk/

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/03/12/videos-show-turning-point-usa-supporters-shoving-hitting-protestors-after-erika-kirk-event-why-were-protestors-arrested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCBpSzdTb4&list=WL&index=3&t=210s

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 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

https://www.ksnt.com/news/national/church-faces-pushback-over-skit-depicting-devil-executed-by-firing-squad-at-youth-event/