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The Meaning Of Juneteenth

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Kyle Mantyla
  • Tim Barton says that the Juneteenth holiday celebrates "the end of a Democrat policy position—slavery—when it was overthrown by a Republican policy position and a Republican president."
  • Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is promoting the work of Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton and his WallBuilders organization: "Share WallBuilders with your pastor, your school board, and every freedom-loving neighbor."
  • Bradlee Dean asserts that there is no such thing as LGBTQ rights because "criminals do not have rights; they have forfeited their rights when they committed the crime ."
  • Todd Starnes is dusting off some of the same talking points from the run-up to the Iraq war over 20 years ago.
  • Finally, Shane Vaughn is bizarrely celebrating the result of a defamation lawsuit in which Mike Lindell was ordered to pay millions of dollars as a win for Lindell.
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Tim Barton

The son of Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, Tim Barton has followed in his father’s footsteps, taking over as president of the WallBuilders organization, serving as co-host of the daily “WallBuilders Live” radio program, and traveling the nation delivering presentations filled with Christian nationalist disinformation.
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Micah Beckwith
David Barton

David Barton

Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, David Barton now routinely bills himself as “America’s premier historian” and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.
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Bradlee Dean

Shane Vaughn
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Todd Starnes
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