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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
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Jun 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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As you see posts for a Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) alternative called Texans For Excellence In Eduction (TEE) being pushed by two State House members, the Tarrant County Judge, and a State Board of Education member... (1 of 5) #txed #txlege ImageImageImageImage
And you look at Texans for Excellence in Education website, which calls out not being "driven by political agendas", and also their Facebook ads currently running, focusing on "students' well being", "the beginning of a new era of representation", and "myths vs facts"... (2) ImageImageImageImage
Keep in mind this organization, Texans for Excellence In Education, that is supposedly not driven by political agendas and is non-partisan, it has released all of these ads, dripping with Christian nationalist talking points to make people fear public schools (3)
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This is all Texans for Excellence In Education too. Christian nationalism, anti-LGBTQ, anti-diversity, purity culture nonsense. All to make people fear public schools.
So when people talk about the TASB alternative, know it's just another dog-whistle. (4)
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When trying to research Texans for Excellence in Education, there is one organization by that name currently pending review. They are a "Foreign Nonprofit Corporation", where foreign just means not from Texas.

Texans for Excellence aren't even really Texans (FIN)
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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Sep 8
Mapping the 💰 flowing from billionaires & millionaires into PAC and to candidates, all in the name of kneecapping Texas public education (and getting those public tax dollars, allowing them to segregate, indoctrinate, and line pockets) is illuminating.
#txlege #txed (1/10) Image
Billionaire Jeff Yass dropped $16,700,000, with $10.25 million going to Gov Greg Abbott, $5.7 mil to AFC Victory Fund, and $750k to Lt Gov Dan Patrick. All to drive vouchers. (2/10) Image
Gov Greg Abbott took the money from Yass and other "we want vouchers" donor money and dropped a ton of it into a whole series of pro-voucher candidates in the Republican Primaries. (3/10) Image
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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Jun 3
TX Pres Election Outcomes
2000 - 38.0% Dem v 59.3% Rep (George Bush)
2004 - 38.2% D v 61.1% R (Bush)
2008 - 43.7% D v 55.5% R (John McCain)
2012 - 41.4% D v 57.2% R (Mitt Romney)
2016 - 43.2% D v 52.2% R (Donald Trump)
2020 - 46.5% D v 52.1% R (Trump)
There is a trend
There is a trend that shows Texas moving closer to blue. But Texas is a big state. It isn’t getting blue everywhere. I’m going to show you some trends on votes for Republicans and the diversity of the population.
I think you will see the same thing I do.
#txlege
We will start with 2000 and plot all 254 counties, their voting outcomes and their % of population identifying as White Alone, Not Hispanic or Latino (as collected by the US Census Bureau). By and large, as a county has a population that is more “white”, they vote more Republican Image
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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Mar 30
Texas Federation for Children
AFC Victory Fund
Family Empowerment Coalition
Texans for Educational Freedom
TUCM
Texas Public Policy Foundation
School Freedom Fund
Club for Growth Action

👆Thats who is pushing vouchers in Texas. But who’s funding it all?
open.substack.com/pub/christacke…
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If you want to understand the push for vouchers in Texas, where it has been tried over and over but has never gotten across a finish line, you need only follow the money to figure out this has been a multi-year (heck, multi-decade) push to erode trust in public education.
They have purposely seeded propaganda in certain faith communities, and waited for a party to be fully overtaken and run by a version of faith that intertwines politics, racism, patriarchy, and a disdain for critical thinking.
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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Mar 30
Yes, the Trump hawked “God Bless The USA” bible is a new thing, but blatantly #ChristianNationalism bibles have been out there for 15+ years.
Two examples:
American Patriot’s Bible
The Founder’s Bible (yes, David Barton)

These intermingle “history” next to verses.
#SINIFI


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Here are sample pages from “American Patriot’s Bible”, published in 2009.
Interspersed throughout are elements to connect America and Christianity

“a cultural framework that blurs distinctions between Christian and American identity, seeking to enhance and preserve their union”


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The Founder’s Bible is loaded with Christian nationalism. Tucked into the text you’ll have full essays on creationism and yes, “What is the separation of church and state”.

Pure David Barton / WallBuilders / Christian nationalism

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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Nov 26, 2023
Christian nationalism has been building for decades. @mentack and I became aware of it living in Granbury, as it took over our hometown. This 🧵 is my attempt to tie together where we've been, what's happening, and what's next.
1st video is Lance Wallnau in 2009. 7 Mountains.
David Barton (and his WallBuilders org) is a false, debunked historian, but he has the ear of many leaders in the Republican Party, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Here is Barton in 2011 discussing 7 Mountains dominionism on his WallBuilders Live broadcast. #SINIFI
The push to take over levers of power, to impose religion on all, isn't just a Texas thing (although many of the CN drivers and oligarchs are based in Texas). In 2013, CBN did a story on Pastors & Pews in Iowa. You will see Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Farris & Dan Wilks. #txlege #SINIFI
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Christopher Tackett (cjtackett on 🧵) Profile picture
Oct 2, 2023
The fight over vouchers in Texas is coming to a head. @RANewsTX and @HoustonChron collaborated to illustrate the narrative.

It is more than just Wilks and Dunn. Other billionaires are playing too.

Vouchers aren't about kids. It's about money, religion, & race.
#txed #txlege
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Vouchers aren't about kids. They are about money, religion, & race. Have been since 1954.

Here are the individual panels from the @RANewsTX and @HoustonChron collaboration to call out what is happening in Texas. (1/4) #txed #txlege #NoVouchers


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Vouchers aren't about kids. They are about money, religion, & race. Have been since 1954.

Here are the individual panels from the @RANewsTX and @HoustonChron collaboration to call out what is happening in Texas. (2/4) #txed #txlege #NoVouchers

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