Today news
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in Queens, a borough of New York City, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan. The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He bought the Miss Universe brand of beauty pageants in 1996, and sold it in 2015. He produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television series, from 2003 to 2015. As of 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $2.1 billion.[
The same in other media
state Texas county Dallas county Worth county Tarrant city Fort Worth model pandemic Transgender Company state Texas county Dallas county Worth county Tarrant city Fort Worth

How a Christian Cellphone Company Became a Rising Force in Texas Politics

Reading now: 827
nytimes.com

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Ahead of what would usually be a sleepy spring school board election, a mass of fliers appeared on doorsteps in the Fort Worth suburbs, warning of rampant “wokeness” and “sexually explicit books” in schools, and urging changes in leadership.

The fliers were part of a broad effort to shift the ideological direction of school boards in a politically crucial corner of Texas, made possible by a campaign infusion of more than $420,000 from an unlikely source: a local cellphone provider whose mission, it says, is communicating conservative Christian values.

All 11 candidates backed by the company, Patriot Mobile, won their races across four school districts, including the one in Grapevine, Texas, a conservative town where the company is based and where highly rated schools are the main draw for families.

In August, the board approved new policies limiting support for transgender students, clamping down on books deemed inappropriate and putting in place new rules that made it possible to be elected to the school board even without a majority of votes.

Read more on nytimes.com
The website meaws.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

05.11 / 05:55
instagram Covid-19 hospital HER Gemma Collins reveals secret battle with PTSD after nearly losing Essex home while her father ‘was dying’
GEMMA Collins revealed her secret PTSD battle after nearly losing her Essex home while her father was in hospital with Covid. The reality star, 41, said her HSBC bank account with all her savings was suddenly frozen and she was put through "hell" by the bank - just as she was about to exchange on her dream home. The Essex favourite said the shock of being left cashless while making the biggest financial move of her life left her traumatised and "embarrassed".
DMCA