One common thread in the ideologies of well-known militia, libertarians, Koch's, Tea Party and other noecons is an appreciation and following of the works of W. Cleon Skousen.
Both Skousen and Fred Koch were early Birchers.
Let's find us some Koch out in the wild🐯🌴, shall we? 😆
Do an advanced search for "Skousen", and you'll see a steady stream of people (maybe some bots 2) promoting the works of Skousen.
Citizens for Responsible Education has been attacking public education in MA. Speaking at one of their forums were representatives from Massachusetts Family Institute and American Enterprise Institute.
The president of Massachusetts Family Institute came from Alliance Defending Freedom. He is also director of Renew Massachusetts Coalition.
The executive director...
They also run a program called Catholic Citizenship.
Not exactly non-partisan, but wutchagonna do?
Massachusetts Family Institute has been working with
First Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom on cases that do & could end up in front of SCOTUS.
Getting back to Skousen for a second, there are other Skousens in the arena - Mark and Joel Skousen.
Is that Tea Party comrade Mike Lee?
The real danger of libertarian/Tea Partiers, is that they readily reference disinformation agents and conspiracy theorists. 🙄
And look who provides a quote for Skousen's book. 🧐
Yeah.
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The groups behind Issue 1 ( to increase the threshold to 60% for putting an amendment on the ballot), are the same groups diverting public school $ to private, Christian schools and removing LGBTQ rights. https://t.co/rewXNMrGWP
They've been busy plastering Ohio with misleading political mailers disguised as "news." They warn of "radical outside interests" trying to change their Constitution, but fail to disclose their own radical outside interests.
Worth mentioning the law office of David Langdon, who has been at the center of right-wing causes in OH (and elsewhere) for many years. FEC and IRS have taken notice...
Where was I? Oh yes, the failed Venezuela coup-thingy by Silvercorp.
Goudreau (while pitching his Gideon plan) apparently contacted Nestor Sainz/Global Governments Center , who put G in touch with Keith Schiller's former attorney.
It should be pointed out that Global Governments Center shares/shared an address with law firm Shaerr Jaffe LLC, who lists attorneys with....notable...backgrounds, like Ken Klukowski, Mark Paoletta and James Heilpern. Many are also graduates of Brigham Young.
Heilpern started an org called Judicial Education Institute with Diarmuid O'Scannlain (former conservative justice) and Lorraine Updike Toler.
Lorraine is an accomplished constitutional scholar whose mother is a long time officer of Eagle Forum in Utah.
The Harris County election suppression bills - one submitted by Rep Paul Bettencourt - are all part of 🦇💩😜 Steven Hotze (repub donor) and his three ring circus.🎪
Below is just one pre-election suppression effort. There were several pre & post-election suits.🙄
But the bill to eliminate the Election Administrator in Harris County was submitted by Bittencourt - who is part of the same circus (right wing religious/voter supression) as Hotze.
The direction to look in is Bittencourt's previous association with David Welch and Norman Adams.
Bittencourt, Welch and Adams were partnered for Coalition for a Greater Houston.
David Welch is a long-term board member of U.S. Pastor's Council and (former) Faithful Citizenship Ministries.
Kast is popular with our right wing. Not surprising.
Pinochet received a huge boost (unfortunately) from the U.S. - with deep roots from the Nixon administration. Nixon-era-born Roger Stone groomed the PB's, who are proud Pinochet fans.