• August 2, 2017 9:00 am

    POTUS Shield: Trump’s Dominionist Prayer Warriors and the ‘Prophetic Order of the United States’

    …and David Barton’s National Black Robe Regiment project, made the group’s Christian-nation goal explicit: You’re gathering us here, in this place, as your leaders, God, to declare your words and…

  • September 1, 2006 11:31 am

    David Barton: Propaganda Masquerading as History

    …Introduction In 1987, God reportedly told David Barton, a one-time science teacher at a fundamentalist Christian school that grew out of a church started by his own parents,…

  • April 18, 2011 5:56 pm

    Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America

    …“wisdom” with them. Glenn Beck calls him “the most important man in America.” Who is this guy? This guy is David Barton, a Republican Party activist and a fast-talking, self-promoting,…

  • May 2, 2011 1:41 pm

    GOP Leaders’ Favorite ‘Historian’ David Barton on The Daily Show: Dishonest History & Frightening Constitutional Theory

    David Barton, a Religious Right activist, Republican partisan, and self-declared historian, appeared on “The Daily Show” with John Stewart on May 4. (Video embedded at end of this memo.)…

  • September 28, 2015 1:19 pm

    Operation Rescue’s Big Break: How an Organization Rooted in the Radical Fringes of the Anti-Choice Movement Is Threatening to Shut Down the Government

    …Three years ago, a young activist named David Daleiden walked into the offices of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in Wichita, Kansas, with a plan to take down legal…

  • November 4, 2010 5:16 pm

    The Tea Party and Religious Right Movements: Frenemies with Benefits

    …next session of Congress, and some believe he will challenge Sen. Mitch McConnell for the Republican leadership. In April, the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody asked DeMint if he was…

  • December 15, 2010 9:47 am

    Meet the Leadership: Corporate America and the Religious Right’s New Team in the House

    David Williams of Citizens Against Government Waste said the congressman’s actions “reeks of nepotism” and are “the kind of thing that gets taxpayers so frustrated with Congress.” Perhaps no episode…

  • September 1, 1996 11:21 am

    Dobson’s Choice: Religious Right Leader Becomes Political Power Broker

    …recordings of an interview with another serial killer, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. Son of Sam) on its web site for a $7 suggested donation. Dobson and the GOP: When Is Far-Right…

  • June 13, 2014 10:25 am

    The Persecution Complex: The Religious Right’s Deceptive Rallying Cry

    …“nothing that Phil Robertson said is hateful.” David Barton praised Robertson for making homosexuality seem “repugnant, which is what it should be.” One Republican congressional candidate called Robertson “the Rosa…

  • May 10, 2009 1:01 pm

    Right Wing Follows Deceptive Script On Supreme Court

    …it to people like Seventh Circuit judicial nominee David Hamilton. The President of the Indianapolis chapter of the Federalist Society has called Hamilton “an excellent jurist” whose “judicial philosophy is…

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