How Two Billionaire Preachers Remade Texas Politics - The New York Times

Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. "It's hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum," says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group...

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