It's marketed as the nation's 'only Christian conservative wireless provider.' Now it's taking over school boards.

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A Christian cellphone company called Patriot Mobile is on a mission to take over Texas school boards. The company backed 11 candidates in four school districts this year. They won every race.

Karl Meek came to a Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board of trustees meeting Monday wearing a T-shirt with the district’s name, GCISD, crossed out and replaced with the words “Patriot Mobile Action ISD,” to protest the political action committee’s influence over the school system.

It was a moment of celebration for an upstart company whose leaders say they are on a mission from God to restore conservative Christian values at all levels of government — especially in public schools. To carry out that calling, the Grapevine-based company this year created a political action committee, Patriot Mobile Action, and gave it more than $600,000 to spend on nonpartisan school board races in the Fort Worth suburbs.

In the neighboring city of Southlake, Patriot Mobile donated framed posters that read “In God We Trust” to the Carroll Independent School District during a special presentation before the school board. Under a new Texas law, the district is now required to display the posters prominently in each of its school buildings.

In recent interviews with conservative media outlets, Wambsganss has said that Patriot Mobile’s goal is to install school board members who will oppose the teaching of “LGBTQ ideologies,” fight to remove “pornographic books,” and stand against school anti-racism initiatives, which she and her supporters have argued indoctrinate children with anti-white and anti-American views.

Initially, Patriot Mobile’s founders said their goal was to support groups and politicians who promised to oppose abortion, defend religious freedom, protect gun rights and support the military.

 

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Mike_Hixenbaugh They picked the right towns, spent a lot of money, and told lies the residents wanted to hear. Trump’s election freed the inner bigot in a lot of people in NE Tarrant County.

F yeah. How you woke lovin Soros blowing bitches like this one.

There is something terribly wrong in Texas. Hope Beto is prepared for what he is up against.

If you drop your phone in water do you just nail it to a cross to fix it?

Aren’t these the same people who were complaining about cancel culture a couple of years ago?

It's these guys:

Can Texas be its own country now please? At this point it's like an annoying and painful skin tag in the U.S.'s ass crack.

Fascists Cult

Religion ain’t no good

Fake news. They aren't trying to take over school boards. They are promoting and supporting candidates who are for the children and not for pushing leftist lunacy on the children.

These 'Christian conservatives' sure fall prey to this grifts easily.

DrJasonJohnson These are public schools. They are changing it into a Christian nationalist school. How is this legal? Take away the public funds

This figures folks we got to start watching closer so let's do all we can to stop them

Imagine this if a Muslim company tried this. Hell imagine if someone even tried to start a ‘Muslim cellphone company’.

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I don't trust them any further than I can throw them

If patriot mobile has their way kids will learn to love the gender they were born with. This is what fascism looks like.

Why don’t all the “Christian, conservative, patriots” just all move to Texas & become their own country? They don’t have to interact with anyone who looks, acts, believes, or loves differently than they do & everyone else can just live normally. (1)

Chrinos - Christian in the name only.

A commercialized theocracy ..... coming your way

Texas Taliban

Good luck to your children😬

As a Christian conservative I’ve never heard of Patriot Mobile. Did it dawn on you that maybe they won their races because people are tired of a “woke” school system.

Let’s just let Texas fend for themselves.

Good

America needs the Southern Wall at the top of Texas, not at the Rio Grand. Texas is an embarrassment to be called a United States state.

FFS people! Separation of church and state is still a thing right

Jfc

Because when God stands with you who can stand against you?

Time to switch my carrier!

Now we’re going to have liberal and conservative phones? This is out of hand.

This is forking epic.

So it's ok if Media Matters or The Clinton Cartel does it?

Love to see it

Horrible how fake Christian people market themselves as pious and righteous.

How does it feel?

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Good. Tired of leftist woke crap spewed by you and your state run media.

Nice. I’m about to switch carriers.

We need to get them to Omaha and Lincoln, STAT!

If it's Christian, it MUST be far right to NBC

Where were you when Marxists and socialists were taking over schools? (crickets)

Boy, this story drips of anti-American, anti-conservatism!!!

Good.

Yassss!!

I didn't know they existed. Thanks for letting me know. I'll check them out!

And?

Good for them and us. The nut case far left groups did that and now parents our WOKE to the far left agenda

That's fantastic news.

Ha, ha, ha.

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When people wake up and realize there’s no god 💀 in the sky casting judgement on people.

If you think that group is 'Christian'.... I got a bridge in New York City's East River to sell you.

nycsouthpaw Selling overpriced Chinese phones to fund white christian nationalist agenda. Makes sense.

What the fuck does a Christian Conservative Wireless Service even mean? YOU JUST PROVIDE WIRELESS SERVICE

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nycsouthpaw Christofascists are on the rise.

Merica! Home of the Christian Taliban!

If school boards in the free states tried this crap the teachers would go on strike. If teachers in Texas won't fight back then they are the problem.

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