Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts Completes Tim Dunn's Dream of Mainstreaming Antisemitism

Charlie Kirk's assassination opened the door for Nick Fuentes, and Tucker Carlson walked through it.

Shadow Seeker

31 Oct 2025 • 19 min read

On November 15, 2023, we published an article with a headline that seemed hyperbolic even to us: "The Enterprise Has Ben Shapiro Surrounded."

At the time, it looked like standard conservative media infighting. Candace Owens was criticizing Israel's military response in Gaza. Ben Shapiro, her boss at The Daily Wire, wasn't having it. Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA was amplifying the controversy. The usual culture war nonsense.

Except we saw something deeper. We documented a genuine schism within what ProPublica would later call "the most powerful political network in Texas", Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks' $100+ million political machine. We identified the key tension: Would The Enterprise maintain traditional pro-Israel conservatism, or embrace Christian nationalist "America First" politics that creates space for antisemitic narratives?

Today, two years later, that question has been answered decisively.

Charlie Kirk is dead. Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who spent seven hours strategizing with operatives within The Enterprise in October 2023, just received a softball interview on Tucker Carlson's platform with zero pushback. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts publicly defended Carlson, calling him a "close friend" while refusing to condemn platforming a Hitler-praising antisemite.

There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours.

I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts: pic.twitter.com/F8bcxBIqKI
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) October 30, 2025

And the algorithm manipulation infrastructure we've been documenting for years? It just successfully mainstreamed antisemitic conspiracy theories into millions of American social media feeds, while FBI Director Kash Patel's bungled investigation served as the perfect distraction.

We called it. And now we're going to explain exactly how it happened.

The Faction Split: When The Enterprise Divided Against Itself

Let's rewind to October-November 2023. The timeline matters because it shows this wasn't organic ideological drift, it was a deliberate strategic realignment.

October 6, 2023: The Nick Fuentes Meeting

White supremacist Nick Fuentes spent seven hours at Defend Texas Liberty PAC's offices in Fort Worth.

The meeting generated massive backlash. Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan condemned it. Media coverage was brutal. But here's what everyone missed: The Enterprise didn't actually cut ties with Fuentes. They just learned how to manage the scandal.

November 2023: The Owens-Shapiro Rupture

Within weeks of the Fuentes meeting, the fault line became public. Candace Owens, then a Daily Wire host employed by Farris Wilks' media empire, began criticizing Israel's Gaza military operations. Ben Shapiro, Wilks' business partner and co-founder of The Daily Wire, called Owens' commentary "disgraceful" and "faux sophistication."

Owens responded with scripture:

"No one can serve two masters...You cannot serve both God and money" (Matthew 5:11).

Shapiro's reply was ice cold:

"If you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit."

November 15, 2023: We Document "Ben Shapiro Surrounded"

This is when we published our article. We explicitly noted:

Candace Owens worked for Farris Wilks (Daily Wire funding: $4.77 million)
She was attacking Wilks' business partner (Ben Shapiro)
Charlie Kirk was being accused of antisemitic attacks on Shapiro
This connected to Defend Texas Liberty PAC (the same org that just hosted Fuentes)

We were documenting the beginning of a faction war. We just didn't know how it would end.

March 2024: Candace Owens Terminated

By March 2024, the divorce was final. Owens was out at The Daily Wire. But she didn't disappear, she migrated to the Dunn faction, freed from Wilks' corporate constraints to promote increasingly antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The Two Factions: Where Everyone Landed

By mid-2024, The Enterprise had effectively split into two distinct operations:

The Wilks Faction: Traditional Pro-Israel Conservatism

Key Assets:

The Daily Wire - Ben Shapiro's media empire ($4.77M Wilks seed funding)
PragerU - Dennis Prager's educational content ($6.25M+ Wilks funding)
Jeremy Boreing - Daily Wire co-CEO (recently demoted)

Ideological Position:

Reflexive support for Israel
"Judeo-Christian values" rhetoric
Neoconservative foreign policy instincts
Culture war content within mainstream boundaries

Key Figures:

Ben Shapiro (maintained Daily Wire empire)
Ted Cruz (complex relationship but Wilks-aligned)
Chip Roy (Texas congressman, establishment relationships)

The Message:.
You can be hardline conservative on culture war issues, but we’re not putting up with antisemitism.

The Dunn Faction: Christian Nationalist "America First"

Key Assets:

Heritage Foundation - Kevin Roberts' $150M+ policy infrastructure
America First Policy Institute - Trump administration planning
Tucker Carlson's Platform - Independent media for extremist content
Algorithm Manipulation Infrastructure - Brad Parscale's Influenceable LLC, AiAdvertising, HUMN Behavior

Ideological Position:

Christian nationalist dominionism
Conditional support for Israel ("America First" theology)
"Anti-globalist" rhetoric (encoding antisemitic tropes)
Theocratic governance objectives

Key Figures:

Kevin Roberts - Heritage Foundation President, Project 2025 architect
Tucker Carlson - Platform for white nationalist content
Candace Owens - Post-Daily Wire, conspiracy theory amplification
Kash Patel - FBI Director, network connections through girlfriend's PragerU employment
Benny Johnson - Friend of Charlie Kirk's, influencer paid by Dunn/Parscale's Influenceable.

The Message: Christian interests come first. Israel support is conditional. "Globalist" (Jewish) control must be resisted.

The Theological Framework: How Christian Nationalism Enables Antisemitism

Here's what makes the Dunn faction different, and more dangerous.

Tim Dunn operates under a dominionist theology that seeks Christian control over government, education, media, arts, entertainment, business, and religion. This isn't "let's have more Christians in politics." This is "we must establish Christian governance over secular institutions."

Traditional evangelical Christianity, despite its flaws, has been generally philosemitic. Post-Holocaust evangelicals made supporting Israel central to their identity. But Dunn's Christian nationalism flips this by positioning American Christian interests as paramount.

Kevin Roberts made this explicit when he stated Christians have "no obligation" to support Israel if it doesn't serve U.S. interests. This breaks the Reagan-era consensus and creates space for "anti-globalist" narratives that have historically encoded antisemitic conspiracy theories about international Jewish control.

This theological shift enables rhetorical moves that would have been radioactive five years ago:

"Anti-globalism" becomes acceptable code for Jewish elite control conspiracy theories
Criticism of "Zionism" slides into criticism of Jewish political influence generally
"America First" takes on ethnic/religious overtones rather than purely civic nationalism
Christian nationalist governance becomes explicitly exclusionary

September 10, 2025: Charlie Kirk's Assassination

On September 10, 2025, everything changed.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated by Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old who'd adopted leftist views and was particularly hostile to Kirk's transgender commentary. Authorities determined Robinson acted alone.

Kirk's Strategic Position

Kirk occupied a unique position in conservative infrastructure:

Strengths:

Founded Turning Point USA, reaching hundreds of thousands of college students
Maintained establishment Republican relationships despite hardline views
Explicitly condemned white nationalism and Nick Fuentes
Donor-dependent, requiring mainstream conservative funding
Successfully recruited young conservatives through accessible messaging

Vulnerability from The Enterprise Perspective:

Too mainstream, unwilling to platform genuinely extremist views
Active opponent of Fuentes and white nationalist infiltration
Establishment ties limited ideological purity
Policed movement boundaries against extremists

Kirk's death created a vacuum in conservative youth organizing. The question wasn't whether someone would fill it. The question was who.

The Candace Owens Conspiracy Theory Campaign

Within hours of Kirk's assassination, Candace Owens launched a coordinated campaign that made even Alex Jones queasy:

Claims:

Israeli intelligence likely directed the assassination
Kirk lost $2M in donors for refusing to condemn Tucker Carlson (leaked WhatsApp messages)
Egyptian Air Force aircraft involvement indicated "military operation"
"Globalist" (Jewish) forces orchestrated Kirk's murder

Strategic Function:

There's zero evidence for any of this. But Owens' conspiracy theories served multiple objectives of The Enterprise:

Martyrdom Narrative - Positioned Kirk as victim of "globalist" forces
Carlson Defense - Made Carlson's extremist platforming seem reasonable by comparison
Audience Conditioning - Prepared conservative base to accept antisemitic explanations
Fuentes Normalization - Created space for white nationalist "truth-telling"

Most importantly: The conspiracy theories focused attention on Israel/Mossad theories while The Enterprise's algorithm manipulation infrastructure received no scrutiny whatsoever.

Enter Kash Patel: The Perfect Distraction

Here's where it gets genuinely disturbing.

Kash Patel, the FBI Director, bungled the Kirk assassination investigation so spectacularly that it became the story, overshadowing the antisemitic algorithm manipulation that was happening in plain sight.

Patel's Background and Network Connections

Professional:

Confirmed as FBI Director: February 20, 2025
Known Trump loyalist and conspiracy theorist

Personal Connections to Dunn Network:

Girlfriend Alexis Wilkins - Senior producer at PragerU (Farris Wilks' $6.25M funded operation)
Scott Turner (HUD Secretary) - Board member of America First Works (Tim Dunn's organization)
Multiple connections to America First Policy Institute ecosystem

The Investigation Fiasco

Within hours of Kirk's assassination, Patel:

Posted premature conclusions about the shooter's identity
Shared unverified information on social media
Made factual errors about the investigation timeline
Took credit for "catching" the assassin in 33 hours (shooter was already identified)
Created media circus focusing on FBI competence rather than the assassination's implications

FBI experts and even conservative allies criticized Patel's handling as unprecedented incompetence for an FBI Director. The media coverage was relentless: "FBI Director Faces Heat Over Unreal Mistake" (Fox News), "Kash Patel Criticized for Actions During Charlie Kirk Investigation" (NBC), "Patel Defends Leadership at FBI" (NPR).

While Patel Dominated Headlines, Algorithm Manipulation Took Hold

As the media focused on Patel's bungling, something else was happening:

Within hours of Kirk's assassination:

10,000+ antisemitic posts spread across social media platforms
Algorithm amplification made conspiracy theories trend organically
Anti-Israel narratives achieved unprecedented mainstream penetration
Candace Owens' theories received millions of views
Zero media scrutiny of coordinated manipulation infrastructure

The Dunn Network's Algorithm Capabilities

We've documented this infrastructure extensively. The same network that deployed during Ken Paxton's impeachment:

Influenceable LLC (Brad Parscale):

1,200+ Gen Z conservative content creators
"Swarm campaigns" creating false grassroots support
$50-$200 per post payment structure
NDAs concealing paid relationships
Keyhole analytics tracking engagement

AiAdvertising (Tim Dunn investment):

$7.5 million Hexagon Partners investment
AI-powered content generation and targeting
Coordinated deployment across multiple platforms
Sophisticated A/B testing and optimization

HUMN Behavior (Tim Dunn investment):

Behavioral targeting and emotional feedback loops
Adjusts narrative emphasis based on engagement and outrage metrics
Links influencer output directly to AI sentiment tracking

The Strategic Benefit

Whether or not Patel's incompetence was deliberately orchestrated or simply exploited, the effect was identical:

Media attention focused on FBI Director competence
Algorithm manipulation received zero scrutiny
Antisemitic conspiracy theories achieved mainstream penetration
Anti-Israel narratives became acceptable conservative discourse
Strategic objective (mainstreaming antisemitism) advanced significantly

FBI experts confirmed Patel's behavior is consistent with genuine inexperience. But his network connections made informal influence possible without requiring explicit conspiracy. His girlfriend's PragerU employment created a natural communication channel, as did his direct connections to America First Policy Institute. His self-promotional instincts were exploited with minimal encouragement.

The question is: Who benefited?

Patel's reputation was damaged (even conservative allies turned on him)
Kirk's assassination narrative was hijacked by conspiracy theories
The Enterprise's manipulation infrastructure received no scrutiny
Antisemitic content achieved unprecedented algorithmic amplification
Tim Dunn's strategic objective (mainstreaming anti-Israel narratives) advanced dramatically

Answer: The Tim Dunn faction of The Enterprise benefited enormously.

Tucker Carlson: The Image Rehabilitation Platform

Now we need to talk about Tucker Carlson's role in this ecosystem, because it's not what you think.

Tucker didn't just platform Nick Fuentes. He's been serving as the image rehabilitation specialist for operatives within The Enterprise who need to clean up their public profiles since he left Fox News.

The Pattern: Enterprise Cleanup Squad

Look at Tucker's guest selection in his first year post-Fox:

1. Ken Paxton - September 20, 2023 (Episode ~15)

Timing: Four days after Paxton's acquittal in impeachment trial
Context: Paxton's "first public appearance since he was reinstated as attorney general"
Function: Rehabilitate image after impeachment scandal
Duration: 46-minute friendly interview with zero tough questions
Enterprise Connection: Defend Texas Liberty PAC funded Paxton's defense with $3M+ to Dan Patrick

2. Kyle Rittenhouse - December 14, 2023 (Episode 52)

Timing: About 6 months after Tucker's Fox departure
Context: Rittenhouse launching nonprofit with far-right Texans, ramping up political engagement
Function: Maintain conservative celebrity status, promote new ventures
Enterprise Connection: Present at October 6, 2023 Fuentes meeting with DTL operatives
Note: This was Rittenhouse's second major Tucker interview (first was November 2021 on Fox immediately after acquittal)

3. Candace Owens - August 1, 2025 (Episode ~125)

Timing: Shortly after increased antisemitism accusations (again)
Context: Discussing Brigitte Macron lawsuit and "Christ is King" controversy
Function: Provide platform for conspiracy theories without mainstream media constraints
Enterprise Connection: Migrated to Dunn faction after Daily Wire termination

The Tucker Ecosystem Function

Tucker isn't just a media personality, he's infrastructure. Specifically, he serves three critical functions for The Enterprise:

Scandal Cleanup:
When Enterprise operatives face media scrutiny, Tucker provides friendly platform to rehabilitate their image. No tough questions. No challenges to their narrative. Just sympathetic amplification.
Boundary Testing:
Tucker platforms increasingly extreme content to test how much the conservative base will tolerate. If backlash is manageable, the boundaries move. If backlash is severe, plausible deniability ("just asking questions").
Legitimization Pipeline:
By giving white nationalists like Nick Fuentes softball interviews, Tucker moves them from "radioactive extremist" to "controversial but legitimate voice." This is the same process that normalized previously unacceptable positions throughout conservative history.

Why Tucker Works With The Enterprise

Tucker maintains plausible independence while serving network objectives:

No corporate constraints (post-Fox) means no HR department policing content
Massive audience provides reach for message amplification
Intellectual credibility (Tucker plays "thoughtful contrarian") legitimizes extremism
Heritage Foundation defense (Kevin Roberts called him "close friend") provides institutional backing

When Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation President publicly defended Tucker after the Fuentes interview, he wasn't just protecting a friend, he was protecting critical infrastructure that The Enterprise needs to mainstream antisemitism.

October 2025: The Fuentes Interview

Six weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Tucker Carlson gave Nick Fuentes a softball interview on his platform.

During the interview, Fuentes:

Praised Stalin
Promoted white nationalist ideology
Criticized "Christian Zionism" as betraying America
Articulated fully fascistic political positions

Tucker didn't push back on any of it.

This wasn't journalism. This was positioning Fuentes as Kirk's ideological replacement, the "authentic" America First voice willing to articulate positions mainstream conservatives won't touch.

October 30, 2025: Kevin Roberts' Defense

Days later, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts was asked about the controversy. His response:

Tucker Carlson is my "close friend" and "always will be."

Roberts refused to condemn Carlson's platforming of a Hitler-praising antisemite. Heritage Foundation explicitly denied "distancing" from Carlson. Roberts framed criticism as "cancel culture" and an attack on "free speech."

This is the President of the Heritage Foundation,the most influential conservative think tank in America, publicly defending the normalization of a white supremacist.

Roberts isn't some random talking head. He's the architect of Project 2025, the comprehensive blueprint for conservative governance with personnel databases of thousands of pre-vetted loyalists. He moved from running Tim Dunn's Texas Public Policy Foundation to leading Heritage. His compensation jumped 53% when he took the Heritage job.

Roberts is The Enterprise's consigliere, providing strategic advice and intellectual legitimacy. When the network wants to do something that looks bad, Roberts figures out how to make it look respectable.

His defense of Carlson completed Fuentes' mainstreaming. The message: Platforming white nationalists is now acceptable conservative discourse.

The Texas-to-National Pipeline

This isn't just a Texas story. The Enterprise built a comprehensive pipeline from West Texas oil money to national conservative infrastructure:

Financial Flows

MAGA Inc: $5M (Tim Dunn direct Trump funding)
Defend Texas Liberty PAC: $9.7M (Dunn/Wilks)
Texans United For A Conservative Majority PAC: $7M (Dunn, post-scandal continuation)
America First Policy Institute: Tim Dunn board position
Hexagon Partners → AiAdvertising: $7.5M (algorithm manipulation infrastructure)

Personnel Pipeline

Kevin Roberts: Texas Public Policy Foundation CEO → Heritage Foundation President → Project 2025 architect
Brooke Rollins: TPPF President → Trump White House → America First Policy Institute CEO
Coordinated placement throughout Trump-aligned organizations

Think Tank Network

Texas Public Policy Foundation (training ground)
Heritage Foundation (national legitimization)
America First Policy Institute (Trump administration bridge)
Conservative Partnership Institute (coordination hub)

Media Ecosystem

Texas Scorecard (Tim Dunn-controlled, amplifies divisive and hateful narratives and people)
The Daily Wire (Wilks-owned but increasingly independent)
Tucker Carlson (Heritage-defended platform)
PragerU (Wilks-funded, employs Patel's girlfriend)
America First Media (Fuentes-aligned, now legitimized)

Algorithm Infrastructure

Influenceable LLC (Brad Parscale, 1,200+ paid influencers)
AiAdvertising (Tim Dunn $7.5M investment, AI-powered targeting)
Political Communications Advertising ($1.8M+ Enterprise vendor payments)

The Texas laboratory has gone national. Project 2025 represents the culmination, a comprehensive blueprint for conservative governance with personnel ready for immediate implementation.

Antisemitism Was Always The Strategy

Let's return to our November 15, 2023 article. We documented something everyone dismissed as conservative media drama, but we identified the fundamental question: Would The Enterprise maintain pro-Israel conservatism or embrace Christian nationalist politics that creates space for antisemitic narratives?

Two years later, the answer is clear.

The faction split resolved decisively in favor of the Dunn faction:

✅ Candace Owens promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories to millions
✅ Tucker Carlson platforms white nationalists without pushback
✅ Kevin Roberts provides Heritage Foundation legitimization
✅ Nick Fuentes positioned as Kirk's ideological replacement
✅ Algorithm infrastructure deploys antisemitic content at scale
✅ No consequences from Republican establishment

The timeline proves coordination:

October 6, 2023: Fuentes meets with Enterprise operatives (7-hour strategy session)
November 15, 2023: We document faction split in "Ben Shapiro Surrounded" article
March 2024: Candace Owens leaves Daily Wire, joins Dunn faction
September 10, 2025: Charlie Kirk assassinated (vacuum created)
September 2025: Candace Owens conspiracy theories + Patel media circus (distraction achieved)
October 2025: Tucker platforms Fuentes (replacement positioned)
October 30, 2025: Roberts defends Carlson (Heritage legitimization complete)

This is too sequential to be coincidental.

The Enterprise:

Tested Fuentes relationship (October 2023)
Survived scandal through strategic reshuffling
Waited for opportunity (Kirk's death provided it)
Deployed algorithm infrastructure while Patel created distraction
Filled vacuum with Fuentes through Carlson
Used Heritage Foundation to legitimize the move

What Happens Next

The Dunn faction is winning.

Kevin Roberts faces no consequences for defending Tucker's Fuentes interview.

Nick Fuentes is being positioned as a legitimate voice in conservative youth politics, the "real" America First alternative to Kirk's establishment-friendly organizing.

Candace Owens continues promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories with no institutional pushback.

Project 2025's personnel database sits ready to staff a future Republican administration with thousands of pre-vetted loyalists trained through Dunn's Texas Public Policy Foundation pipeline.

The theological framework of Christian nationalism provides respectable intellectual cover for "anti-globalist" narratives that encode traditional antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The algorithm manipulation infrastructure that deployed during Kirk's assassination continues operating with zero regulatory scrutiny.

Tucker Carlson will continue providing image rehabilitation services for Enterprise operatives who need scandal cleanup.

And The Enterprise will continue pushing boundaries, testing how much extremism the conservative base will tolerate, discovering each time that the answer is "quite a lot, actually."

Wake Up!

Charlie Kirk is dead, and Nick Fuentes is being positioned as his replacement.

Antisemitism is being mainstreamed into Republican foundational principles through sophisticated algorithm manipulation, theological justification, institutional legitimization, and strategic exploitation of crises.

The question isn't whether The Enterprise is mainstreaming antisemitism. The evidence is overwhelming.

The question is whether anyone with power will do anything to stop it.

So far, the answer appears to be no.

But we'll keep documenting it. Because somebody has to.

Citations and Sources

Original Scorecard Confessions Coverage

"The Enterprise Has Ben Shapiro Surrounded" - Texas Scorecard, November 15, 2023
https://www.texasscorecard.co/is-the-enterprise-turning-on-ben-shapiro/

"The Enterprise's Ministry of Illusions" - Scorecard Confessions, 2024
https://www.texasscorecard.co/the-enterprises-ministry-of-illusions-a-vertically-integrated-alternate-reality-scheme/

"Manufactured Outrage: The Truth Behind Critical Tweets About Paxton's Impeachment" - Scorecard Confessions
https://www.texasscorecard.co/manufactured-outrage-the-truth-behind-critical-tweets-about-paxtons-impeachment/

"Influenceable Tries To Conceal Connections" - Scorecard Confessions
https://www.texasscorecard.co/influenceable-ties-to-conceal-connections-to-texas-scorecard-amid-mounting-allegations/

Candace Owens-Ben Shapiro Conflict

"Candace Owens out at Daily Wire" - Hollywood Reporter, March 22, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/candace-owens-out-daily-wire-ben-shapiro-1235858177/

"Conservative pundit Candace Owens, Daily Wire split" - NBC News, March 22, 2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/conservative-pundit-candace-owens-right-wing-media-outlet-daily-wire-c-rcna144640

"Candace Owen leaves Daily Wire" - CNN, March 22, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/media/candace-owen-out-ben-shapiro-daily-wire-anti-semitism

Daily Wire Funding

"How Hollywood Invented Ben Shapiro" - Vanity Fair, December 2018
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/how-hollywood-invented-ben-shapiro

"How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Denial Empire" - VICE, September 2021
https://www.vice.com/en/article/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro/

Nick Fuentes-Defend Texas Liberty Meeting

"Influential Texas activist Jonathan Stickland hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes" - Texas Tribune, October 2023
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/10/nick-fuentes-texas-meeting/

"Texas Speaker Dade Phelan condemns PAC leader for hosting Nick Fuentes" - Texas Tribune, October 2023
https://resources.newhouse.syr.edu/awards/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2024/01/Texas-Speaker-Dade-Phelan-condemns-PAC-leader-for-hosting-Nick-Fuentes-_-The-Texas-Tribune.pdf

"Nick Fuentes is just the latest extremist embraced by Defend Texas Liberty" - Texas Tribune, October 2023
https://resources.newhouse.syr.edu/awards/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2024/01/Nick-Fuentes-is-just-the-latest-extremist-embraced-by-Defend-Texas-Liberty-_-The-Texas-Tribune.pdf

"Here's the Texans who get money from Defend Texas Liberty PAC" - Texas Tribune, October 12, 2023
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/12/defend-texas-liberty-pac-nick-fuentes-jonathan-stickland/

Post-Scandal PAC Rebranding

"Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks start new conservative PAC" - Texas Tribune, January 24, 2024
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/24/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-defend-texas-liberty-nick-fuentes/

"Defend Texas Liberty PAC names new president" - ABC Amarillo, October 2023
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/defend-texas-liberty-pac-names-new-president-after-leader-met-with-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes

Charlie Kirk Assassination

"Assassination of Charlie Kirk" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Charlie_Kirk

"A script, texts of alleged Charlie Kirk killer fuel conspiracy theories" - Al Jazeera, September 18, 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/18/a-script-texts-of-alleged-charlie-kirk-killer-fuel-conspiracy-theories

"After Charlie Kirk's Death, a Bumper Crop of Conspiracy Theories" - New York Times, September 29, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-assassination-conspiracy-theories.html

"With Few Facts About Kirk Shooting, Wild Speculation Abounds" - New York Times, September 11, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/charlie-kirk-falsehoods-speculation-conspiracy.html

"Fact check: Debunking the Charlie Kirk murder conspiracy theories" - CNN, September 20, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics/fact-check-charlie-kirk-murder

Candace Owens Conspiracy Theories

"Candace Owens row: Screenshot war begins" - Times of India, September 2025
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/candace-owens-row-screenshot-war-begins-as-josh-hammer-reluctantly-drops-his-last-message-with-charlie-kirk/articleshow/124435157.cms

"Candace Owens screws up time zones in conspiracy theory" - Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/candace-owens-screws-time-zones-122944083.html

"Top Conspiracy Expert Reveals What's REALLY Behind Charlie Kirk Assassination" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoTzevuqLeo

"Iran-linked networks amplify false claims after Charlie Kirk killing" - Iran International, September 18, 2025
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202509180958

"Charlie Kirk killing shows how social media drives the conversation" - AP News
https://apnews.com/article/social-media-charlie-kirk-nepal-algorithm-d0a8baf12a16b2ed870283e64ee24a19

Kash Patel Investigation Controversy

"Senate confirms Kash Patel, fierce critic of FBI, to head the bureau" - NPR, February 20, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g-s1-49696/trump-cabinet-picks-kash-patel

"Kash Patel criticized for his actions and posts during Charlie Kirk investigation" - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/kash-patel-criticized-actions-posts-charlie-kirk-shooting-investigatio-rcna231043

"Kash Patel faces heat over 'unreal' mistake in Charlie Kirk assassination case" - Fox 32 Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/kash-patel-faces-heat-over-unreal-mistake-charlie-kirk-assassination-case

"Kash Patel defends his leadership at FBI, Charlie Kirk probe" - NPR, September 16, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/g-s1-88926/fbi-director-patel-testimony-congress

"Kash Patel 'Takes Credit' For Catching Charlie Kirk Assassin In 33 Hrs" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa70BwUvu2g

"Patel says FBI investigating 'possibility of accomplices' in Kirk shooting" - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/patel-fbi-investigating-possibility-accomplices-kirk-shooting/story?id=125796980

Kash Patel Network Connections

"Kash Patel was very frustrated: Girlfriend Alexis Wilkins reveals FBI director's reaction" - Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/kash-patel-was-very-frustrated-girlfriend-alexis-reveals-fbi-directors-reaction-to-her-being-attacked-over-epstein-case/articleshow/123029902.cms

"Kash Patel's Girlfriend, 26, Confronted With MAGA Spy Accusations" - Yahoo Entertainment
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/kash-patel-girlfriend-26-confronted-101227156.html

"Get to Know Scott Turner, Newly Confirmed HUD Secretary" - Loebsack Brownlee
https://loebsackbrownlee.com/scott-turner-hud-secretary/

"Tim Dunn" - America First Works
https://americafirstworks.com/staff/tim-dunn/

Tucker Carlson Interviews

"Tucker Carlson debuts his Twitter show: No gatekeepers here" - CBS News, June 6, 2023
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-first-twitter-show/

"Ken Paxton Is Finally Free to Talk. Cue the Falsehoods" - Texas Monthly, September 20, 2023
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-tucker-carlson-interview/

"Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton" - YouTube, September 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MoEVcJ9hM

"Tucker on X: The Kyle Rittenhouse Interview" - Twitchy, December 14, 2023
https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2023/12/14/tucker-on-x-kyle-rittenhouse-n2390836

"Kyle Rittenhouse's Surprising Attack on NRA" - Newsweek, December 14, 2023
https://www.newsweek.com/kyle-rittenhouse-nra-tucker-carlson-interview-1852874

"Candace Owens: Macron, Harvey Weinstein, and Why 'Christ Is King'" - YouTube, August 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTz51gPkG4Q

"Candace Owens claims Trump warned her off specious Brigitte Macron theory" - Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/candace-owens-claims-trump-warned-204228904.html

Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes Interview

"Tucker Carlson's lovefest with a white nationalist just blew up the Christian right" - Mother Jones, October 2025
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/tucker-carlsons-lovefest-with-a-white-nationalist-just-blew-up-the-christian-right/

"Dishonest and evil: Social media reacts to Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview" - Yahoo News, October 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dishonest-evil-social-media-reacts-141638953.html

"Nick Fuentes calls MAGA figures 'fake America First' in Tucker Carlson interview" - Economic Times, October 2025
https://economictimes.com/news/international/us/nick-fuentes-calls-maga-figures-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-joe-kent-fake-america-first-in-tucker-carlson-youtube-interview/articleshow/124892127.cms

Kevin Roberts Defense of Tucker Carlson

"Heritage Foundation president stands by Tucker Carlson after host platforms antisemitism" - JTA, October 30, 2025
https://www.jta.org/2025/10/30/united-states/heritage-foundation-president-stands-by-tucker-carlson-after-host-platforms-antisemitism

"Head of US right-wing think tank defends Tucker Carlson after talk show with antisemite" - Times of Israel, October 30, 2025
https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-us-right-wing-think-tank-defends-tucker-carlson-after-talk-show-with-antisemite/

"Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes" - Jewish Insider, October 30, 2025
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/kevin-roberts-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes/

"Heritage Foundation denies distancing itself from Tucker Carlson" - Yahoo News, October 2025
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/heritage-foundation-denies-distancing-itself-215912581.html

"Heritage Foundation's Roberts defends Tucker Carlson amid Fuentes backlash" - Washington Post, October 31, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/heritage-foundation-roberts-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes/aa81f3f4-b629-11f0-88c1-4e2f98984a34_story.html

Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks Network

"A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Network in Texas" - ProPublica, October 2, 2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-texas-christian-nationalism-dominionism-elections-voting

"Three West Texas billionaires are pushing Texas to the far-right" - TPR, February 25, 2024
https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-02-25/three-west-texas-billionaires-are-pushing-texas-to-the-far-right

"How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right politics" - CNN, July 24, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs

"Meet the Christian oil mogul spending big to elect Trump" - E&E News, November 1, 2024
https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-christian-oil-mogul-spending-big-to-elect-trump/

"Sorry, Tim Dunn, you are a Christian nationalist" - Baptist News Global
https://baptistnews.com/article/sorry-tim-dunn-you-are-a-christian-nationalist/

"Meeting Tim Dunn, the Texas oil billionaire donor now backing Trump" - Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tim-dunn-texas-oil-billionaire-trump-donor-1235033143/

"Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025" - DeSmog, October 23, 2024
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-project-2025-tim-dunn-crownquest-convention-states/

Kevin Roberts and Heritage Foundation

"Heritage Foundation raises more than $150 million in record-breaking fundraising year" - Heritage Foundation, January 25, 2024
https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-foundation-raises-more-150-million-record-breaking-fundraising-year

"Executive Compensation at the Heritage Foundation (2023)" - Paddock Post, April 1, 2025
https://paddockpost.com/2025/04/01/executive-compensation-at-the-heritage-foundation-2023/

"Heritage Foundation president forges new Trump legacy" - The Hill, May 6, 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5283841-the-movement-heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts-trump-legacy/

"Meet Kevin Roberts, The Force Behind Heritage Foundation's Far-Right Project 2025" - Accountable.US, July 2, 2024
https://accountable.us/meet-kevin-roberts-the-force-behind-heritage-foundations-far-right-project-2025/

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