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The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America-from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast.

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I had listened to two podcasts by Mike Hixenbaugh and his journalistic partner Antonia Hylton about the events that Hixenbaugh relates in this book. By connecting the larger political picture to stories of students, parents, and educators, the author brought home the stakes in the nation's battles over the soul of our public schools.

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