The Family Research Council (FRC) has been recruiting & mobilizing far right pastors & their flocks to take over public schools & local government via “Community Impact Teams.” A few months ago, FRC president Tony Perkins said they have about 8,000 CITs across the country. 1/
FRC used to call them “Culture Impact Teams,” but they rebranded. Lance Wallnau sits on the board of Truth & Liberty which collaborates w/ FRC. In 2022, he said they had duped TX voters by calling their efforts a “community” initiative, not a “church” initiative. 2/
Here, Rafael Cruz (Ted Cruz’s dad) reveals that he teamed up w/ Leigh Wambsganns of Patriot Mobile (a Christian cell phone company) & Tim O’Hare (a judge) to take over a school board in South Lake, Texas, so that it is now led by “committed Christians.” via @cjtackett 1/
Here is pastor Rafael Cruz at a Family Research Council event. 2/
Rafael Cruz (Ted Cruz’s dad) told a Family Research Council gathering that the separation between church & state is one-way: government can’t control Christians, but Christians can & shld influence all 7 spheres of society, including govt (aka the “7 Mountains” mandate). 1/
Here’s the link where I got the clip. It appears that it was originally posted by @RightWingWatch. 2/
Tony Perkins of the FRC, which trains far right pastors & their flocks to take over public school boards, says the Left wants those who share their biblical worldview to feel “out of step w/ the rest of America” before admitting that only 9% of Americans share their worldview. 1/
Christian Right activist Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), told pastor Andrew Wommack (founder of Truth & Liberty Coalition) in 2022 that FRC has an “action arm” that includes School Board Boot Camps in which “thousands” of people have participated. 1/
In the same interview, Wommack tells FRC’s Tony Perkins that “I’m nearly to the place of telling people that if you’re sending your kids to public school you are … helping indoctrinate them. It is nearly across the board ungodly.” Perkins replies, “Well, I’m there.” 2/
Tony Perkins of FRC, which conducts School Board Boot Camps, says Christians shld treat public schools as “mission fields” & infiltrate them as teachers & on school boards bc some kids will continue going there, but he says it “shouldn’t be our kids” who go to public schools. 3/
Whoa. “The Temecula [CA] school board's conservative majority is no more, at least for now. Temecula school board member Danny Gonzalez resigned Friday, Dec. 15…” (Gonzalez was backed by MAGA Pastor Tim Thompson, who worked to take over the district.) 1/ pressenterprise.com/2023/12/15/dan…
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3/ No reason has been given for the resignation. But this is a huge deal.
😳 “A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of…Trump’s presidency…” In the years since Trump left office, “the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.”12/15/23 1/ cnn.com/interactive/20…
2/ “The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election…”
3/ “The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.”