if we can't care about their physical fitness and their mental well-being, then maybe we don't deserve them at all. >> okay. >> all right. let's see that. >> man. i hope i didn't piss off tom brady by calling him human there. >> you go. >> yeah, yeah! all right, all right. maybe a bridge too far. >> next lesson. >> next lesson. the following is a cnn special report. wealthy people spend a lot of money to get policy made the way they want it and they get it. >> now to sign the law. >> the average voter doesn't know what's happening behind the scenes. >> a texas bill targeting lgbtq+ children. >> they want to keep it secret.

>> a texas law banning abortions. >> they really believe they've been given a mandate by god. >> he has set us free from the law. >> they want to destroy the public school system. >> we are not contending against flesh and blood. >> the money is all tied back to the same people. >> follow the money. >> i am not comfortable with the transgenders. >> more than 90% of your financing came from billionaires. >> i don't think he -- >> is it about control. >> senator ted cruz. >> power? >> it is a russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple. ♪

>> it's election day. we're in the city of sherman, texas, which is right on the texas/oklahoma border. this is a ruby red area of texas. and the republican primary is essentially the election that matters here. come november in the general election, whoever the republican is that comes out of the primaries will very likely win whatever seat they're running for here in sherman. >> i thought i need to run because the people that are running here claim to be conservative but aren't as conservative as they should be. >> i am not comfortable with the transgenders, the kids that they brought in my classroom when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different

sex, that i couldn't have kids laugh at them. >> people outside of texas who look and say texas is one of the most conservative states in the country. you're trying to make it even more conservative. >> we still have kids that, you know, can have gender mutilation. we just want to make sure that we keep our conservative values. >> welcome to another exciting night of texas high school football. >> your experience as a school board member seems to have opened up your eyes to the world of texas politics. >> it did. i felt like i could do more for the community. and school board felt like a good place to try and do that. while i was serving -- >> i'm running for state representative in district 60. >> we had a new member join the texas house.

he voted against the interests of the public schools multiple times. >> christian values, they're under attack in the schools with lgbtq. >> that is what really got me thinking why. >> i think you find in a lot of texas towns, the school district is kind of the heart of the community, right. so it was kind of strange. >> so what did you start doing? >> well, i started polling the money. i'm going in and i'm polling mike wang. it was outrageous when you started looking at the pie chart, seeing how big a section was coming from the same donor or just a handful of donors. they'll write massive checks to individual candidates and then write massive checks to all these pacs which write massive checks to individual candidates. >> and a lot of people don't have any idea. they don't know.

>> i'm shelley luther. this is what i think about chinese communist drones flying over my property. >> you ran for texas state senate. >> yes. >> in 2020. >> i did. >> you lost that election. >> i did. >> when we look through the campaign finance report back in 2020, more than 90% of your financing came from two west texas billionaires. >> yes. >> ferris wilkes and tim dunn. >> yes. >> in this election, it's over 80%. what do those men mean to your campaign? >> without them i couldn't have even run. they're great men. they're great people. >> you've been a columnist in fort worth for how long? >> oh, my gosh, i tell people since the last century. i've followed 18 sessions of the texas legislature. >> sb 8 has virtually shut down all abortions in texas.

people can now carry handguns in public without any kind of license or training. >> you think texas can get more conservative than it is right now? >> texas can very much get more conservative. but i don't think regular texans are as conservative as their elected officials. i don't think people realize that there are only a handful of millionaires who really control a large number of the members of the texas house. >> who are the people that you think have the biggest sway and control of the republican party in texas? >> tim dunn in midland. >> i'm going to talk a little about my background. i grew up in big spring. i worked in the refinery in the summer, going to skill. >> for 20 years, tim dunn in midland has been the leader of this oil team. >> conquest has now drilled about 800 wells. i've ended up making more money than i ever thought possible.

>> then you have the wilks brothers in cisco. >> this is where i lived for the first six years of my life. >> you've come a long way? >> yeah, we have. >> they used to be in the fracking business. they've made billions. >> we didn't expect a lot of the good things that did happen. >> i can hear the critics already saying you can't expect me to believe that there is a handful of billionaires that can have this kind of influence on an entire state of nearly 30 million people. >> i don't think anybody can identify any other reason that that money is what's pushing texas to the far right. these texas districts are so big and sprawling, it's impossible to find somebody that everybody knows. so you have the west texas money that comes in, handpicks a candidate that nobody's ever heard of. and they put $2 million into a campaign and they beat all the local candidates. there is a difference between these millionaires.

they've got a faith and values component to them too. >> there are forces in america today that are trying to shame marriage. marriage was an honorable thing, and it's trying to shame marriage, trying to shame men, trying to shame all kinds of things. >> male on male or female on female is against nature. so this lifestyle is a predatorial lifestyle in that they need your children. and straight people having kids to fulfill their sexual habits. they want your children. >> for people who don't know farris wilks and tim dunn, what are they like? >> mr. dunn is super down to

earth, jeans and like a button up flannel shirt kind of guy. i did go to west texas and talk to them because they wanted to see what i was all about. >> did you get put through the gauntlet of questions? >> absolutely. they want to make sure i am who i say i am and i do have those christian values. they asked about my childhood and what my morals are and what i believe in. >> all right, your mark, get set -- >> go! >> i like to do swimming, k karate, and i used to play soccer. >> what do you want people who are passing these bills to know about transgender kids? >> we're just normal kids that want and need normal lives. >> with the last bill in texas that passed, hb 25, she is unable to play sports at her school. >> a texas bill targeting lgbtq+ children. >> the bill will ban transgender

youth from participating on the sports team of the gender to which they identify. >> at this age, is this a time where kids are trying to figure out what sports do i really enjoy playing and what sports am i really good at. it promotes a healthy lifestyle. and she doesn't have that ability. >> you've heard of these texas billionaires, tim dunn, farris wilks. >> yes. >> the bill's author and primary sponsor representative valerie rhode island swanson received campaign funding from wilks, dunn and organizations they fund in their 2016 campaign. how involved do you think they are? ? these issues? >> money always talks. and if these legislators are getting their funding from them, and their funding could potentially stop if they're not doing what these donors are asking them to do, then i think that speaks for itself. >> your senator here in the dallas area. >> senator bob hall is ranked as the top conservative in the texas senate.

>> received nearly half of his 2018 campaign funding from the wilks and dunn network . >> when we return -- >> a friend of mine called me. please don't do that interview. >> former employee to tim dunn. >> you were kept under lock and key. >> and conservative texas lawmakers. >> you can take an unqualified person and make them look like a legitimate office holder. >> speak out for the first time on camera. >> is this about being conservative or is it about control? >> it's about control. being conservative is not good enough. they dance to whatever tune tim

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texas isn't the only state in the country where we've seen really conservative legislation take hold, but what makes texas different is that it's usually on the forefront of pushing that legislation, and even conservative republicans here in texas will tell you that this isn't all just about political ideology, that there's something else happening here. >> no matter what rules you grew up, none of them are enforceable in god's kingdom. >> this is the private school that tim dunn founded back in 1998. this is midland bible church. tim dunn has preached here many times. >> he has set us free from the law. there's no condemnation for those who walk according to the spirit.

>> we're here in midland, texas, it's part of your own district. it's also home to tim dunn. ♪ >> your voting record is just as conservative as many of the people who might be supported by these west texas billionaires and you voted for the abortion bill. you voted for the no permit gun carry bill. >> mm-hmm. >> and the bill that limits the discussion of race and gender in classrooms, you voted for that as well. >> mm-hmm. >> so why haven't the tim dunns and ferris wilks supported you? it seems like you're doing things that they agree with. >> my voting record is conservative. is it 100% conservative? no. there's 100%ers and you're either owned or not owned.

>> in 2006 dunn actually donated $500 to your senate campaign, and since then dunn has donated to texas politicians and political action committees across the state. none of that money has gone to you. >> i met him in my first campaign, and we talked, and i told him that i would be open-minded towards what was his sole issue in 2004 which was taking public money and giving it to private schools. once i looked at the legislation there i couldn't support it, and so i guess that was alienating. >> we went back and looked at some of your campaign donation numbers and what stood out is that if you look at over your entire political career as a state senator, your largest donor accounted for about 4% of your total campaign funding. does that make you a different kind of public servant? >> i would like to think so. you want to make sure that people know that it's about

them, not about money. >> so the way you describe this is it almost sounds like, you know, senator joe smith to make up a name, if they have got a ton of money that's coming from these west texas billionaires, those billionaires are really the elected official. >> it is a russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple. really, really wealthy people who are willing to spend a lot of money to get policy made the way they want it, and they get it. >> the cornerstones of our government are crumbling and starting to come apart, and it's because of the lack of morality, the lack of the belief in our heavenly father. ♪ >> for more than a decade, you were winning elections out here in east texas. >> mm-hmm. ♪

>> i look at myself more as a reagan conservative, someone that was interested in good government and policy. >> in all of your time in the texas senate, you never received any money from tim dunn, ferris wilks. >> oh, no. >> any of the pacs that they represent? >> no. >> and someone who says, look, i have a hard time believing that a couple of guys who were donating to candidates across the state can really have this much influence. i just don't buy it. >> i had one senator literally open a book and say i think i could vote for that because i haven't vote against them yet so far. what kind of public policy -- i'm not going to name them but someone still there. >> but that's what governing has become in texas? >> scorecard voters. that's what we call them, scorecard voting. they don't look at the issues. >> what is a scorecard issue? >> it's the dunns and the wilks. they're going to put up a big

money challenger against anybody who doesn't vote the way they want. the republicans in texas are watching their scorecard. am i conservative enough? oh, my gosh. are the wilks brothers going to send an opponent up against me? they let everybody know before a vote saying this will be a scorecard vote. records are going to be kept, yawn, how you voted on this. they hand pick those bills, but they publish the list and who is the most conservative based on the score hard. >> and that scorecard still exists. >> they do it every election, every cycle. >> we're driving through downtown cisco. >> i call it the heart texas. austin is three and a half hours southwest of us of.

this is the texans for fiscal responsibility website where the scorecard, if you will, is published. this is my former bob, tom lane. 2017 session he got an a-plus. 2017 he got an a-minus. >> this is a scorecard that's going to show up in primary voter mailboxes come primary season? >> right. right. this is senate, whenever i was still in the house. jonathan sticklund, there you go. top 98. >> he's no longer a lawmaker? >> he's the head of the pac that dunn and wilks funded. >> defend texas liberty pac? >> yes, defend texas liberty pac. there is no coincidence he has one of the highest ratings on this website for the entire year. now he works for them. former representative mike lang, he got campaign money from ferris wilks and his pacs. you were his former campaign manager? >> yes.

>> and then his chief of staff? >> correct. >> before you went to work for mike lang, you used to work for empower texans, tim dunn's organization. >> i have to be very careful with what i say because i'm underneath a non-disclosure agreement myself. >> the wilks family is from cisco. did you know about them when you were growing up here? >> yeah. we go way back to one of my really close friends, actually dan's daughter, farris' brother. farris and his side of the family, and that's more the political side of the family. and then you have dan and his wife stacey. you know, they're more philanthropic. a little less on the politics side. i think they got into politics a little bit and they are like i don't think that's for us. >> how well do tim dunn and farris wilks know each other? >> they have a relationship for sure, and i think that it has grown. i mean, if you will be at some

of their public expenditures, it's pretty obvious that they share a lot of the same beliefs and they share a lot of the same organizations that they fund. >> coming up -- >> they really believe that they have been given a mandate by god to take dominion over society. >> you heard farris wilks talk like that? >> yes. they really believe that. and find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose.

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lang, do you think he could have won without the money that he got from farris wilks? >> absolutely not there. is no way. it takes money to run a campaign. and as you can see from mike's donor list, it's not going to get you very far. >> what kind of influence did farris wilks have over mike lang? >> whenever he calls, he answered. there is a lot of control. >> farris wilks and his people expected mike lang to vote the way they wanted every time. you're his chief of staff. dhoyd that work? >> a lot of times the reps are controlled through other arms. so for example, texas right to life. they put out these vote recommendations. of course, they tell you they are just recommendations. they are just how we feel. i'm not telling you have to vote this way, but if you don't.

>> so the tentacles of this political operation are long. >> yes. >> and can squeeze very tightly. >> yes. ♪ >> we're coming up on the assembly of yahweh, farris' church. >> we're not protesting against fleshed a blood, but the world rulers of this present darkness. >> you've got to be you. you start changing one time for people, and it's over. >> i went to seminary after being on city council for my fourth term. it's almost like hallowed ground here. after i graduated in 2013 and founded an organization christians in public service to help train public servant leaders who are christians how

to serve god's way. had nothing to do with government. i'm just speaking around the country, training, teaching. >> from a conservative theological viewpoint. >> exactly. i don't know anything else. >> do you get invited to speak at the christian values summit? >> right. i became one of the speakers. i was on the circuit from 2015 through 2016. the pastor who was sponsoring this, he says my brother-in-law supports it. i didn't know who his brother-in-law was, and it turns out his brother-in-law was farris wilks. they speak and they speak on liberty and freedom and christianity and government and all those things. i was doing it because we were all christians, and we were all wanting america to be better. we wouldn't be the country we are today if it had not been for the involvement of the church. we went to d.c. to cpac. farris was always there. very quiet man. very nice man. you would look at him, and you would never think that he was a

billionaire. >> what made you want to break away from the christian values summit? >> when i began to put it all together. being theologically trained and having been in politics for so long, in texas, i'm going to say this because i don't know how else to say it. we know shit from sugar in texas. they really believe that they have been given a mandate by god to take dominion over society and run all these areas, and they call it the seven mountains or the seven pillars. government, religion, education, the family, business, media, and arts and entertainment. they believe that they have been given that mandate by god in genesis 128 when god says i give

you dominion over the earth to have dominion over the fish and the sea and the birds and the air. >> by dominion you mean -- >> take control. >> establish the rules by which we live and work and play. >> yes, that's dominionism. >> have you heard farris wilks talk like that? >> yes, yes. they really believe that. if i had not known theology better, i would have believed it, too. but that's not what god meant. that's not what god said. dominion is not domination. he said take dominion which means actually caretaker, manager, not overtake and dominate. it's a theological era, but it's one that they operate from and one that they really, really believe. >> our families are under attack. in our place it's men as

leaders, and the home is under attack. >> dominionism is so much more a broader agenda than christian nationalism. >> what is christian nationalism? >> christian nationalism is a religious and political ideology that believes that america's founders intended for the united states to be an explicitly christian nation governed and guided by biblical christian principles. that the nation has departed from those principles and that it should become a christian nation again. >> america chose god as king over a tyrant. today the choice is still before us. >> tim dunn. >> farris wilks, is it fair to say they're christian

nationalists? >> those sermons suggest that they hold certain christian nationalist beliefs, and they are putting their money to support christian nationalism. >> we're seeing a trend in our nation that will force us and the christian community to be sure of what our values are going forward. because i think that we will be persecuted. and so it's time that we stand up. >> when you say christian nation, i take that to mean you don't believe in separation of church and state. >> some christian nationalists say church-state separation is a myth. raphael cruz -- >> separation of church and state is not in the constitution. it's not in the declaration. >> the pastor and father of u.s. senator tet cruz, talk about separation of church and state as being a one-way wall of separation, that is, it's meant to keep the government out of religion but not to keep religion out of government. the word of god tells us we should be having an influence

upon government, every area of life. it's about time that we draw a line in the sand and we say no more! we will take it no more! >> that's not church day celebration. separation. that's is christian domination. ♪ coming up -- >> they want to destroy the public school system as we know it. >> have you ever been targeted like that in your education? >> never, never. >> and later, do you think that their vision it to take their political agenda beyond texas? >> god isn't done with america yet. >> absolutely.

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how do you protect your children and educate them at the same time? the people that are supposed to be the shepherds are not teaching the truth. >> every school i've been a principal, i've been the first black principal. those kids are amazing. this is at heritage, huh. this is the ptsa, had an ice cream social, like meet the new principal. >> you were the first black principal of colleyville heritage high school. do you think about what that means? >> i didn't really think about it. while i knew there was so much to the job. it was just hike hit the ground running. >> when did it all turn? >> over the course of the last

school year, that's when things changed. in the summer a former board candidate accused whitfield of advocating for critical race theory as principal. whitfield was placed on leave after the accusations. >> the school board voted not to renew whitfield's contract meaning he's officially out as principal at colleyville heritage. >> whitfield says this all start back in the summer of 2020 when he penned a heartfelt note to the school community after george floyd's murder. >> can you read some of the letter for us? >> dear family, i trust this message finds you nice and well. as i type these words it's 4:30 in the morning, and i cannot sleep. i encourage us all not to grow weary in the battle against systemic racism, commit to being anti-racist. while there are great obstacles to face, please know that i am with you on this journey towards conciliation of our nation. sincerely, james.

>> had you ever been targeted like that in your education? >> never. never had any issues, any concerns. my time in the district was great up until that july 26th school board meeting. >> i was first made aware of mr. whitfield's views on race when a friend of mine shared the letter. >> stetson clark's was the first person for you called to be fired. >> right, right. >> because of his extreme views i asked that a full review of mr. whitfield's tenure in our district be examined and that his contract be canceled immediately. >> he described systemic racism as a conspiracy theory. >> to encourage by becoming

revolutionaries to become antiracist. he's encouraging the disruption of our history. >> do you want that kind of person who lacks that level of understanding to be responsible for making decisions that are in the best interest of kids and educators on a daily basis? >> i wanted to read this other letter. there's this group called the texas policy foundation and they wrote a left on november 8th of 2021. and the vice-chairman has been tim dunn. it's a right wing think tank, and i wanted to read part of it to you. it says education freedom, setting the captives free would break the woke stranglehold of critical race theory, queer theory, sexual anarchy and hate america curricula. that education will lose funding, and that means that the indoctrination will not survive. when you hear that kind of language about texas public schools, what's your reaction? >> it really has nothing to do

with critical race theory. it has nothing to do with a lot of things they are destroying. spewing. they want to disrupt and destroy public schools because they would much rather have schools that are faith-based. >> the bible is a book mainly about politics, but the most important thing to do is don't surrender. it doesn't matter what they tell us if we stand and we are vigilant. we will win. >> before our children we must be sure that they know how to follow toward teaching rather than social conscience. when the bible clearly teach us us one thing and our parents teach us another, what do our children need to know what to do. >> good afternoon. i'm mike lang, house representative from hd-60. oil and gas is great for school districts. >> did farris wilks ever direct mike lang on how to vote on any

specific legislation regarding public schools, for example? >> farris would make sure that mike's towing the line, that he is supporting specific legislation. anything that is in any sort of way propping up the current system, a public school was not an okay stance to have. >> what did you do in school? >> the goal is to knock the legs out that it. 100%. >> he's gotten threat phone calls saying hey, just want to snake sure you're on the right path, from farris. >> when we return, do you think the average voter in this state understands the magnitude of what this political movement is pushing? >> no, they don't. >> clearly you knew then you were a target? >> that's the law of the jungle now in texas.

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♪ lunchables! built to be eaten. ♪ there are more than 17 million registered voters in texas, but less than 2 million voted in the 2022 primary. do you vote in primaries? >> i voted early voting. >> have you ever heard of tim dunn and farris wilks? >> no. >> and if i told you they are

west texas billionaires who donate millions of dollars to candidates all over the state, would that surprise you? >> no. >> does it bother you in any way? >> yes. >> how so? can you help the little people? >> can you talk about the influence that those two men have on the state's republican politics? >> i think what you're getting at is what do they want for this money? yeah, nothing. he wants me to do what i say that i represent. >> did you vote for shelly luther? >> i did. >> wilks and dunn have donated the lion's share of the campaign financing for shelly luther's campaign, so i'm wondering if that bothers you in any way, or does it influence how you vote? >> if i knew more about them possibly if it was bad, but, no, i think all of them get money from somewhere. >> do you just kind of get inundated with the flyers in the mail? >> i've got i don't know how many flyers in the mail and emails on my phone.

>> the texas scorecard scores conservatives up to 100% and they kind of go down the line. did you know it was a west texas billionaire that was behind that scorecard? >> no, i did not. >> does that make you question it at all, make you weary or embrace it a little bit? >> now that i know, yeah, it probably would affect me more. i should have found that out i guess. >> i don't mean to make you feel bad. >> i don't, because, like i said, i did all the information-gathering that i could. >> this is the texas house of representatives. 150 members from all over the state come in to make the laws we all live under, the 30 million people. >> how long have you covered texas politics? >> about 20 years. they don't have to win the

election to have moved the needle in texas. >> let's say you're a republican representative in the texas house and you get a well-funned challenger and that challenger is funded by somebody's west texas billionaires, and therefore you have a tough race. >> the force republicans to the right, whether they win or lose. >> that's right. >> when bob hall runs against him in 2014, did you know much about him? >> we did our research. basically, money from outside the district, all this west texas money made him into a viable candidate. >> bob dole turned his back on disabled patients, proud to be

paid for by texas right to life. >> they've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for mailers, advertisements for bob hall who be due in 2014. >> the pro-life issue is important to republicans. all of a sudden, one of the older, you know, established pro-life groups is saying i am not pro-life. which is ridiculous. >> just to be clear about how conservative of a senator you were, you co-authored an abortion bill in 2013 that was considered among the strictest in the country. the bill became law. it closed 22 of 41 abortion clinics in texas at the time. in 2016, the supreme court said or provision, in particular, was so restrictive that was actually unconstitutional. i'm not bringing that up. >> that's fine, that's fair. if i did it, i did. >> not bringing it up to debate the merits of the bill or any policy but why would a group called texas right to life turn

around and try to knock you out as a legislator? >> because i didn't do what they wanted me to do on the end of life issue. >> what was it about your end- of-life bill that caused some problems ? >> they wanted no matter what the patient's condition is, if the family said to them, treat them, even though it might be very cruel to the patient to do so. >> that was to his extreme ? >> i am pro-life but one or two issues and they turn on you. >> that 2014 election, you end up losing by 300 votes. >> 300, yes. >> the year after your loss, farris wilks gave texas right to life 80% of their money. you had to close elections and vote against michael cannon. the second was in 2018 and canon received more than half of his money from farris wilks and tim dunn and you won that by about 15,000 votes to almost push you into a primary runoff. >> right. >> clearly you knew you were a target. >> there was no mystery and no surprise. that is the law of the jungle

now in texas. that is why a lot of republican house members, the majority of republican senate members just dance to whatever tune tim dunn wants to play. >> when ted cruz ran for president in 2016, farris wilks and his brother, dan, gave $15 million. ted cruz only had $23 million in his super pac at that time. do you think their vision is to take their political agenda beyond texas? >> absolutely. i think they are starting to push more local and trying to build up. >> school board races, city council races, county commissioner races. they are not as as statewide senate race or presidential campaign. but those are the offices that have far more influence on

people's lives. >> do you want your own cards are you going to be on my team? don't look at my cards. i have no idea why people don't understand i am just a girl, an 11-year-old girl living in texas with amazing hair. >> in december of 2021, on a website called texas scorecard, this is an organization tim dunn launched several years ago, he remains on the board of directors, there is this article titled "cowards in the pulpit." in the last section, the author writes, "this is a time that requires physical boldness, not spiritualized cowardice. we need strong pastors. we need shepherds in the pulpit willing to kill the wolves." it was one of tim dunn's top

political advisors that wrote that. what do you think killed the walls literally means ? >> i am scared to even hypothesize. >> it makes me think of the crusades. and, the dark ages. >> i imagine from where you sit maybe someone views you as the walls. >> sounds like it. >> it is strange to think that. it really is. >> do you worry it is just an escalation of the rhetoric, it is an escalation of the anger in our politics and ultimately that could mean something very bad for you guys? >> when you use inflammatory speech like that, it riles the base. having an enemy is a strong way to unite people. and, it seems like that is what they are trying to do. >> we have been trying to reach

farris wilks and tim dunn for weeks. we are calling farris wilks's office in cisco, texas. >> i don't think he would have any call yet anyway but thank you for reaching out. >> this is crownquest operating, tim dunn's business. we are going to go inside and see if we can track him down to talk to us. they took my name and number down. they are going to get the message to the assistant.

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