Right Wing homeschooling groups working with Russians now

[NewJeffCT]

The group and its origins sound innocuous enough. But the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) — a right-wing group founded 36 years ago — has deepened connections between America’s religious right and Russians even as the latter have been sanctioned by the United States, according to a ThinkProgress investigation.

By networking with Russians, the HSLDA — now America’s largest right-wing homeschooling association — has provided the Kremlin with a new avenue of influence over some of the most conservative organizations in the United States.

And while investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence organizations, and congressional committees have focused on Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. elections, Russian ties to groups like the HSLDA demonstrate the Kremlin’s broader attempts to hold sway over American policies.

https://thinkprogress.org/americas-biggest-right-wing-homeschooling-group-has-been-networking-with-sanctioned-russians-1f2b5b5ad031/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[underpants]

1. Wow the Russians read them like a book

Not to mention illustrating how easily manipulated the American populace is.

Guns
God
Homeschoolers
It’s like they just updated Lee Atwater’s pillars, slightly.

[Initech]

2. And yet there's no collusion, he tells us!

Collusion is happening all around us!

[ancianita]

3. Perpetuating believers across generations, finding common ground with Russia in god, guns and white-

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whiteness.

"... Founded in 1983, the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has become America’s most prominent homeschooling organization. ...by networking with Russians, the HSLDA — now America’s largest right-wing homeschooling association — has provided the Kremlin with a new avenue of influence over some of the most conservative organizations in the United States.

...at the same time that details ... of links between Russia and American right-wing groups were emerging, the HSLDA co-sponsored a formal homeschooling conference in Moscow and St. Petersburg, ThinkProgress found. One of the conference’s other sponsors was a foundation run by sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. The event featured some of the most outspoken anti-LGBTQ officials in Russia ...

Michael Donnelly, the HSLDA’s director of global outreach ... met with senior leaders of the [Russian] Orthodox Church.”

This is some scary shit. And WAY too important to ignore.

[NewJeffCT]

5. agreed

amazing how far into Reich Wing America the Russians have infiltrated.

[2naSalit]

4. After looking at the RWNJ

home schooler league out in the Rockies, this makes a lot of sense.

[Achilleaze]

6. repube "christians" crawling into bed with the evil empire* is a betrayal of USA

* per ronald freaking reagan (R)

[FiveGoodMen]

7. They've got this 'saviour' guy that they keep betraying, too

They love his name and those not-at-all-realistic pictures.

But they hate every word he's supposed to have spoken.