Dunn and Wilks brothers finance PACs with ties to antisemites

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Three Texas billionaires finance a web of political action committees and candidates with antisemitic connections.

Texas oilman H.L. Hunt may have been the first to spend millions to promote right-wing media and extremist ideas, but he was far from the last. Most Texans, let alone Americans, had never heard of Farris and Dan Wilks or Tim Dunn before this year. But journalists have revealed them as key supporters of some of the most controversial figures in Texas politics and bankrollers of political action committees staffed by Christian nationalists and antisemites.

This is a sentiment he’d previously expressed in a 2016 Christian radio interview. Republicans have long struggled with antisemitism. In 2010, State Republican Executive Chairman John Cooke wrote an email proclaiming, “We elected a house with Christian, conservative values. We now want a true Christian, conservative running it,” the Texas Observer reported. Dunn and the Wilkses also finance special interest PACs.

 

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