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A Christian cell phone company plans to take over Texas school boards

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A Christian cell phone company plans to take over Texas school boards

Patriot Mobile helped elect the majority of members in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD.

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thirteen hours in the past - NewsA Christian cell cellphone business company plans to take over Texas faculty boards

Michael Mooney

Axios on facebookAxios on twitterAxios on linkedinAxios on e-mailA Patriot Mobile income space at CPAC this 12 months. Photo: Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Patriot Mobile, a North Texas-based totally cell telephone service reseller that markets itself as "America's only Christian conservative wi-fi provider" changed into the using economic force within the lower back of the election of eleven new school board members in four suburban North Texas districts.

Driving the news: Patriot Mobile helped opt for the majority of participants in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, which these days passed a controversial new set of conservative guidelines dubbed "Don't Say Trans."

Why it topics: The guidelines, which encompass prohibitions on instructors discussing whatever related to critical race concept or "gender fluidity," are part of a top notch push from every Patriot Mobile's political arm — Patriot Mobile Action — and the united states GOP.

The massive image: Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has knowledgeable conservatives that to "save the country," they need to aim school boards, over and over spotlighting Patriot Mobile.

Between the lines: School districts are the the front line inside the political battle for Texas. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke has rooted his advertising and marketing campa on faculty investment and safety, whilst Gov. Greg Abbott has made fears of conservative mother and father a cornerstone of his bid for re-election.

What passed off: Earlier this 12 months, Patriot Mobile Action employed national GOP consulting organizations — Vanguard Field Strategies and Axiom Strategies — to help aim college board races inside the suburbs of Tarrant County, the largest conservative county in the america.

What we are looking: Last week the Republican Party of Texas made a fundraising appeal praising GCISD's new policies, pronouncing the birthday celebration is "working to convey this conservative policy" to each school district in the united states of america.

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