Know your extremists. Attorney Michael Farris is a religious zealot who tried to overthrow the 2020 election, endorsed Mark Meadows (who burned documents) for the position of chief of staff, & mentored Jenna Ellis who was recently censured 4 spreading BS about election fraud. 1/
3/ Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows was “endorsed by [evangelical extremist lawyer] Michael Farris, a member of the CNP’s Board of Governors and the President & current CEO of the Alliance Defending Freedom.” By @anelsona , April 2020 #Christofascism 3/ thedailybeast.com/what-is-trump-…
Michael Farris founded the Christian extremist nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which led the successful effort to overturn Roe v Wade. Erin Hawley (Josh Hawley’s wife) works 4 them as a lawyer. She was part of the team that did the deed. 4/ realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/…
Michael Farris is a Christian homeschooling (& private Christian school) proponent who also founded the Parental Rights Foundation to successfully oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. His group works w/ Moms 4 Liberty, which uses “parental rights” as a slogan. 5/
7/ The Parental Rights Foundation (founded by religious zealot Michael Farris) collaborates w/ Moms4Liberty.
8/ Extremist Michael Farris w/ extremist Jenna Ellis.
9/ More of Farris w/ Ellis
10/ This describes extremist Jenna Ellis and extremist Michael Farris as co-authors of a book. scribd.com/book/524036244
11/ Michael Farris also has a Christian College, Patrick Henry, which has hosted the militant Black Robe Regiment of Virginia. @TheJusticeDeptarchive.ph/2023.03.22-155…
13/ From my article. The head of the Black Robe Regiment of Virginia (the group hosted by Farris) wore an Oath Keepers shirt when he spoke on stage during the Jericho March on Dec 12, 2020 in DC.
14/ Also from my article: The Black Robe Regiment of Virginia (“America’s Black Robe Regiment”) wrote in April 2021 that, “We are all Oath Keepers now.” (There are multiple “black robe regiment” groups, but William Cook’s VA-based group is the one tied to Farris’s college.)
17/ Farris, Farris, Farris. He’s all over this mess.
18/ And I didn’t even mention that Farris’s college (Patrick Henry) has hosted Alexey Komov, the right hand man of indicted Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. Komov and thus Malofeev have infiltrated the Christian Right via the Christian homeschooling movement.
19/ The World Congress of Families is the top group linking the Kremlin to the Christian Right. Komov is the WCF’s official Russian emissary. Multiple Christian Right operatives involved w/ WCF were also involved w/ efforts to overturn the 2020 election. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
20/ Examples include John Eastman, Jim Garlow, Steve Turley, Charles Bausman, Ed Martin, Stephen Brown, and (of course) Michael Farris & his associates at the Home School Legal Defense Association (another group founded by Farris). homeschoolersanonymous.net/tag/world-cong…
25/ Whoa. I had known (but forgot) about Farris’s involvement with the 1776 commission. I had not known that “patriotic education” was the goal. (In MAGA talk, “patriot” often equates w/ extreme Christianity. See “Patriot Mobil.”) via @capitolhunters
Remember when Trump:
* Posted a photo of himself wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Alvin Bragg?
* Mocked MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting hit with a rubber bullet?
* Praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter?
* Joked about the assault on Paul Pelosi? 1/
The Daily Signal—launched by Heritage—gushes that JD Vance & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok”
They omit that, as of June, prospective buyers include Oracle founder Larry Ellison (who helped Heritage w/ a Project 2025 database) & Thiel ally Marc Andreessen’s a16z. 1/
2/ Link to the Daily Signal article, which says nothing about Ellison, Oracle, Andreessen, or a16z. dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/how…
3/ “A consortium of companies, including Oracle [founded by Larry Ellison] … & a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), is back in the running to acquire TikTok. As reported by Bloomberg [in June]
…, the group is allegedly the buyer revealed by…Trump last weekend.” 7/3/25 datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle…
The Daily Signal gushes that JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s protégée) & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok,” adding that the US-backed buyer has yet to be named.
They omit that, as of June, one of the prospective buyers is a16z—founded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. 1/
👀The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has published an article by A3P attorney Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to states & requires church-state separation. 1/
While we were distracted, Trump appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail abortion pill distribution—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the DOJ’s OLC. Don’t worry. He probly won’t do much until *after* the midterms… 1/
2/ Josh Craddock announced his appointment on 7/2/25.
Houraney “recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in Jan 1993” & says “Trump asked him to organise a party” w/ “some of his pageant’s finalists…[A]fter an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein.” 3/14/20 1/