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The Texas Tribune reports: For nearly four decades, Texas activist David Barton has barnstormed statehouses and pulpits across the nation, arguing that the separation between church and state is a myth and that America should be run as a Christian nation. Now, he’s closer to power than perhaps ever before. One day after little-known Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of …

NBC News reports: Two years before going from a relatively unknown congressman to speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana spoke at a national gathering of Christian lawmakers in North Texas and shared his deep admiration for the man behind the conference: the evangelical activist and self-styled historian David Barton. Johnson told the audience at the December 2021 …

“It [the First Amendment] gave me more protection because I get my speech but if it’s religious, I get it twice, and if it is religious with others, I get it three times. In addition to free speech, there is also free exercise of religion, which often involves free speech. For me to exercise my faith means I will speak …

“The same spirit that drove slavery in America is driving the pro-abortion side in America and the same disrespect for human life. It’s the same spirit behind both of them. I think it’s more likely we’ll have a civil war today over the abortion issue than over the race issue. “If the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, states like …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing “comedian” Steven Crowder interviewed Religious Right pseudo-historian David Barton for a “masterclass” on the meaning of the Second Amendment, during which Barton insisted that the Second Amendment grants average citizens the right to own tanks or any other weapon of war. Barton has repeatedly insisted that the Founding Fathers intended for there …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Last night, Religious Right pseudo-historian David Barton and his son, Tim, appeared on the Truth & Liberty Coalition’s livestream program, where they warned that unethical Democrats are using ballot harvesting to steal elections, which is something they insisted that Christians would never even dream of doing. The Barton duo asserted that Democrats have …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program yesterday to promote the new book he has co-written with right-wing pastor Jim Garlow: “This Precarious Moment: 6 urgent steps that will save you, your family, and your country.” During the broadcast, Beck managed to rope Barton into making an ad for Goldline, …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Tim Barton, who serves as the president of WallBuilders and co-host of the daily “WallBuilders Live” radio broadcast along with his father, Religious Right pseudo-historian David Barton, and former Texas state legislator Rick Green, insisted today that the Second Amendment guarantees to every American the right to own “the same level of weapons” …

Debunked “historian” David Barton, whose 2012 book The Jefferson Lies was pulled by his own publisher after Christian theologists pointed out its many lies, recently toured Nazi sites in Poland, prompting him to compare the Holocaust to what LGBT activists are now doing to Christians. Or something. Kyle Mantyla has the quote at Right Wing Watch: “It does not change …

“Every item in the Bill of Rights is given to every individual, it’s not given to groups. But today, the Supreme Court says the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the minority from the majority. Now how stupid is that? Because I’m in the majority as a white guy, do I not get the right to a …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Last weekend, Religious Right activist and pseudo-historian David Barton spoke at Harvest New Beginnings church in Illinois, where he absurdly claimed that for the first 200 years of the United States’ existence, the country regularly had 100 percent voter turnout. Barton was making his standard case that Christians have a responsibility to vote …

The Family Research Council’s annual Values Voter Summit begins this morning with a cavalcade of crackpot anti-LGBT activists and extremist politicians. Watch their live stream below. Among the first speakers are debunked “historian” David Barton, loony Louie Gohmert, FRC president Tony Perkins, former FRC president Gary Bauer, Fox News host Todd Starnes, and wackadoodle “filmmaker” Kirk Cameron. Later today self-proclaimed …

Via press release: “Instead of honoring the memory of those we lost at Pulse two months ago, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have come to Orlando to headline a gathering of some of the nation’s most incendiary anti-gay bigots. We at the DNC join all people of good conscience in expressing our solidarity with the Orlando LGBT community as they …

According to infamous liar and debunked author David Barton, White Jesus will totally throw you into the pits of hell if you don’t vote for Trump. Right Wing Watch has the transcript: “We will stand before God one day and answer for everything we’ve said and thought and done,” he continued. “[God will say,] ‘I gave you your country, what …

Next week Sen. Marco Rubio will keynote an Orlando event hosted by the extremist anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel. The event falls two months to the day after the Pulse Massacre, about which Rubio cried crocodile tears of faux solidarity before declaring that the attack convinced him to run for reelection after all. The Tampa Bay Times asked Rubio how he reconciles …

Last night Samantha Bee totally educated her audience about Ted Cruz, his batshit father, and his buddies David Barton and Pastor Kevin “Kill The Gays” Swanson. Watch this. Raw Story recaps: Samantha Bee examined Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) faith on Monday’s episode of Full Frontal, saying that it was significant that it was allies or his relatives claiming to receive …

Rick Green, the co-host of debunked “historian” David Barton’s Wallbuilders show on Christian radio, is running for the Texas Supreme Court. Green has chosen to run for the seat of an incumbent justice who shares his last name, with the obvious hope that voters won’t realize which Green they are voting for. The Texas Observer reports: In any other state, …

“Get a brain and figure it out. Don’t you want to live better? Don’t you want to be more prosperous? Don’t you want to be happier? Don’t you want to be free? Don’t you want poor people to do well? Don’t you want to love your neighbor? If you want all those things, David, you would embrace competition with both …

“It’s political correctness that rules the day. So when you’re part of a favored group, then you get special benefits that nobody else gets. That’s the very form of tyranny because when government supposedly gives something — government has nothing to give, they have to take it away from other people. So when they give it to that certain group, …

It totally makes sense that proven compulsive lying liar David Barton has been chosen to head a Ted Cruz super-PAC. Bloomberg reports: The super-PAC, Keep the Promise PAC, is the umbrella for a group of related pro-Cruz political committees that raised $38 million in the first half of the year, more than the super-PACs supporting any other candidate with the …