Richard Viguerie

Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network

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The Council for National Policy (CNP) is founded by Tim LaHaye, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, Morton Blackwell, Phyllis Schlafly, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Joseph Coors, and approximately 50 other conservatives who begin meeting every Wednesday morning at Viguerie’s Virginia home. The CNP is …

Phyllis Schlafly Council for National Policy Tim LaHaye Paul Weyrich Richard Viguerie +4 more conservative-movement dark-money institutional-capture elite-networks religious-right
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Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare

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In June 1979, Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority during a meeting at a Holiday Inn in Lynchburg, Virginia, with Weyrich coining the term “moral majority.” The organization represented a strategic alliance between corporate interests and religious conservatives, …

Paul Weyrich Jerry Falwell Richard Viguerie Howard Phillips Ed McAteer +2 more religious-right cultural-warfare corporate-funding grassroots-mobilization new-right +1 more
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IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization

| Importance: 9/10

In August 1978, the IRS proposes new rules tightening tax-exempt status requirements for private elementary and secondary schools under IRC 501(c)(3) and begins holding hearings to determine whether segregated Christian academies should be eligible for tax exemption. The announcement triggers the …

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Paul Weyrich Richard Viguerie Bob Jones University Christian academies irs-policy religious-right-founding paul-weyrich segregation-academies conservative-mobilization
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Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure

| Importance: 7/10

By the mid-1970s, Richard Viguerie had revolutionized conservative political fundraising through direct mail campaigns, building a massive donor network that would finance the New Right movement and create the infrastructure for corporate-funded “grassroots” activism. Dubbed the …

Richard Viguerie Paul Weyrich Howard Phillips Morton Blackwell Terry Dolan +1 more fundraising-infrastructure direct-mail grassroots-mobilization new-right conservative-movement +1 more
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