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Glenn Beck's "Founders Fridays" shows are dedicated to lies not only about the Founders and their beliefs, but about supposed attacks on their legacies by progressives (whom Beck calls a "cancer" on America).

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Activists deliver over 131,000 petition signatures to the offices of McGraw-Hill urging the publisher to keep Texas' right-wing revisions out of its history textbooks.

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Dear Daniel,

The Right has brought new vigor to an old front in their relentless attacks on our core values. Taking place right under our noses and going largely unrecognized as the dangerous threat that it is, the Right is stepping up its attempts to rewrite history.

As we just saw in last month's Texas textbook controversy... or on the airwaves every day on FOX News programs like Glenn Beck's... their revisionist history is based on outright lies. Unchallenged, it will prove a powerful tool for recruiting members of this generation and indoctrinating members of the next.

People For the American Way is fighting back against the hypocrisy of the Right's phony constitutional narrative AND against its dangerous attempts to rewrite history. This means we must change the debate over the courts and the Constitution, debunk the Right's misleading rhetoric and fight, tooth and nail, against attempts to indoctrinate students by injecting political propaganda into textbooks in place of history.

Please support our efforts to block the Right's assault on history with a generous contribution to PFAW today.

For a long time, the Far Right has tried to lay claim to America's Founders and the Constitution with baseless assertions about what the Framers intended. You can see it in their campaign to make people believe the Founders were all Christian fundamentalists and the U.S. was founded as a Christian country -- and the separation of church and state is a myth. And you can see it in the knee-jerk reaction of Tea Partiers and movement conservatives to cry "unconstitutional!" whenever a progressive reform passes into law, clearly with no real understanding of the document.

Now, they are even trying to own the civil rights movement! In the same breath, someone like Glenn Beck will denigrate the concept of "social justice" as mere code for socialism and accuse progressives of being a cancer on this country, and then claim it's conservatives who are carrying the torch of Martin Luther King. Of course, this ignores that Dr. King spoke at length about social justice and that the civil right movement was a definitively progressive movement.

PFAW's in this fight. We are calling out the lies, debating the Right in the media and mobilizing progressive activists to speak out in their communities. But we need your help. Please donate to these efforts today.

We can't just sit back and watch the right-wing movement put up candidates for office like Rand Paul, who said he was against the desegregation called for in the Civil Rights Act, and at the same time pretend they are the champions for civil rights... any more than we can sit back and watch them rewrite the history of our nation's founding to fit their narrow right-wing worldview.

Best wishes,


Michael B. Keegan, President

P.S. Our past, and the story of who we are as a nation, shapes our future. Don't let the Radical Right shape that future by rewriting history with their propaganda war. Stand up to the Right today by supporting PFAW's counter efforts with a much-needed donation.

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