Founding Fathers, Inc.
”David Barton also wrote the laws themselves. The Project Blitz operation he works through runs like a bill mill, churning out Christian nationalist model legislation that friendly state lawmakers carry home and file as their own. The researcher Frederick Clarkson uncovered [politicalresearch.org] its playbook in 2018, a manual shared across a coalition of Christian-right groups that sorted model bills into escalating tiers, beginning with symbolic “In God We Trust” displays. Lately that has meant the drive to put the Ten Commandments on the wall of every public school classroom. An investigation by the education outlet The 74 traced 28 nearly identical bills across 18 states back to a single source, down to the dimensions of the required poster, and Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas wrote the template into law, with Alabama following in 2026. A federal appeals court has since upheld the Louisiana and Texas laws, defying a 1980 Supreme Court ruling against an almost identical statute, and the question looks bound for the justices. What starts as a WallBuilders talking point ends up as state law.”