David Barton 
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SOURCE: Religion News Service
7/18/2022
Influence of David Barton Resurfaces in New Attacks on Church-State Separation
Since the early 1990s ascendancy of the Christian Right, the movement has drawn on David Barton's assertion that the separation of church and state is bogus. A new generation of conservatives is embracing this line on the campaign trail today.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/10/2022
The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie
by Katherine Stewart
A historian of the religious right argues that the movement has recently integrated the Trumpist myth of stolen elections into its political mobilization of evangelical pastors.
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SOURCE: Right Wing Watch
5-10-18
David Barton Says Trump May Go Down as One of the Top Five Presidents In History
That’s what rightwing websites are touting.
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SOURCE: Vox
1-25-18
Understanding the fake historian behind America’s religious right
Sam Brownback, new ambassador for religious freedom, is an admirer of controversial “scholar” David Barton.
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
2-2-17
John Fea warns evangelicals to be wary of David Barton
by John Fea
Barton claims the Declaration of Independence is based on Bible verses.
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SOURCE: Daily Kos
8-18-16
Speaker Ryan loves pseudo-historian David Barton
Speaker Paul Ryan apparently has a penchant for the work of the notorious “historian” and Christian nationalist David Barton. Once again illustrating just how rotten Ryan’s judgment can be.
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SOURCE: Patheos
11-2-15
World Net Daily to Publish David Barton's Discredited Book of Jefferson
by Warren Throckmorton
It had been pulled from publication by HarperCollins.
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SOURCE: Raw Story
9-9-15
Anti-gay ‘historian’ leading pro-Ted Cruz PAC says Bible forbids finding an AIDS vaccine
“The Bible says if you engage in homosexuality, your body will do things that penalize you. So if you can have a vaccine for AIDS, then you’re keeping your body from penalizing you. I don’t think they’ll ever find a vaccine for AIDS.”
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SOURCE: Patheos
6-3-15
David Barton’s Unreal Appearance on Family Research Council’s Washington Watch
The discredited writer is still being taken seriously on Christian media.
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SOURCE: Patheos
3-18-15
Discredited David Barton hailed as America's foremost Christian historian
by Warren Throckmorton
He's been caught making up history, but evangelicals are sticking by him, including Wallbuilders.
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SOURCE: The Blaze
12-22-14
The Unsuspecting Thing Conservative Historian David Barton Did With $1 Million Awarded to Him in Defamation Lawsuit
Conservative historian David Barton has given away the money he won as the result of a $1 million judgement issued earlier this year.
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SOURCE: patheos.com
12-1-14
David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians
by Warren Throckmorton
"The awareness of Barton’s systematic distortion of the nation’s founding is well known at the highest levels of the Christian political right."
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SOURCE: Right Wing Watch
7-21-14
Ukrainian Leaders Are Using David Barton's Theocratic Pseudo-History To Build Their Nation
"They were absolutely shocked to find out how practical the Bible was," Barton said.
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SOURCE: Salon
6-26-14
"Faux-historian David Barton’s shocking new influence"
He was invited to participate in Tea Party events all over the country and even held a constitutional seminar for the 2010 incoming freshman class at the invitation of congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
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SOURCE: Raw Story
5-1-14
David Barton: Allowing women to vote ‘hurts the entire culture and society’
Barton argued that in the time since the women’s suffrage movement succeeded in the United States, “we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing.”
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SOURCE: Opposing Views
10-31-13
Debunked Christian Historian David Barton Denies Global Warming, Claims Weather Is God's Judgment
by Michael Allen
"And today we're saying 'oh no, it's global warming.' No, we opened a door that lost God's protection over our environment and that's our choice."
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SOURCE: Politico
11-3-13
Texas tea party seeks Ted Cruz 2.0: David Barton
Activists seek Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.
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Where's that Simon and Schuster Edition of "The Jefferson Lies" David Barton's Been Promising?
by Chris Rodda
Exactly one year ago today, on August 9, 2012, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson took the virtually unprecedented action of pulling one of its books from publication due to the book's many inaccuracies. That book, of course, was David Barton's The Jefferson Lies.
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SOURCE: http://wthrockmorton.com
8-5-13
Warren Throckmorton: A Year Ago Thomas Nelson Lost Confidence in "The Jefferson Lies"
Warren Throckmorton is Professor of Psychology at Grove City College and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at the Center for Vision and Values which is a part of Grove City College.
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7-25-13
David Barton: Only Four Professors Criticized "The Jefferson Lies"
by David Austin Walsh
David Barton just can't seem to get his facts straight.
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