WallBuilders

WallBuilders was founded by David Barton in Aledo, Texas in 1988. Its name derives from Nehemiah 2:17 — 'Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem' — framing Barton's revisionist project as a spiritual restoration mission. The organization's stated purpose is to present 'America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious, and constitutional heritage,' with the operative assumption that that heritage is Christian and that modern secular governance represents a departure from original intent. WallBuilders operates across several interconnected channels: 1. Book and video distribution: Barton's books, DVDs, and documentary series are distributed through WallBuilders directly and through Christian bookstore chains. His 'America's Godly Heritage' video series was widely used in churches and homeschool co-ops through the 1990s and 2000s. 2. Radio: The 'WallBuilders Live!' radio program has aired on hundreds of Christian radio stations, placing Barton's historical and constitutional revisionism in the same broadcast infrastructure as Focus on the Family and other Religious Right media. 3. ProFamily Legislators Conference: An annual training conference for state legislators, primarily Republican, in Barton's reading of American constitutional and founding history. Barton has briefed sitting members of Congress and state legislators for decades. 4. Curriculum materials: WallBuilders produces and endorses homeschool curriculum materials presenting its revisionist founding-era narrative. These are widely used in the Christian homeschool movement. 5. Texas SBOE influence: Barton served as a curriculum consultant during the 2010 Texas State Board of Education standards revision, inserting revisionist historical content that affected textbooks used by millions of students nationally. WallBuilders is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Its annual revenues are not publicly reported in detail due to its filing status, but its political influence is disproportionate to its institutional size. The Council for National Policy includes Barton as a member, connecting WallBuilders to the broader coordination network.

Documented themes

• Christian Nationalism
• historical-revisionism
• education
• Anti-Democratic

Connections from WallBuilders

• influenced → Project Blitz (2016) — David Barton's WallBuilders was one of the three organizations that developed the Project Blitz legislative playbook, alongside the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation and the National Legal Foundation. WallBuilders provided the historical revisionist framework — the claim that Christian displays and references in government are constitutional and historically grounded — that undergirded the Tier 1 and Tier 2 bills in the playbook.
• influenced → The Christian Home School Movement (2010) — David Barton, through WallBuilders, served as a curriculum consultant during the 2010 Texas State Board of Education standards revision process, successfully inserting Christian nationalist historical content into standards that affect approximately 4.8 million Texas schoolchildren and, through textbook publisher economies of scale, curricula used nationally.

Connections to WallBuilders

• David Barton founded (1988) — David Barton founded WallBuilders in Aledo, Texas in 1988 and has led it continuously since, using it as the primary vehicle for distributing his revisionist Christian nationalist founding-era history through books, radio, curricula, and legislative training conferences.

Sources

• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism — Katherine Stewart (2020), pp. 71–95
• David Barton and the Wallbuilders: Christian Nationalism's Favorite Pseudohistorian — Political Research Associates (2014)