Inside the Machine: How the Right Weaponized California-BONUS Material

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #349

This is more than a reaction. It’s a strategy — and now, it’s laid bare.

Conservative think tanks…dark-money groups…and PACs have spent years crafting a coordinated assault on California’s public policies. Why? Because if they can distort… dismantle…or discredit California’s progressive successes…they can scare the rest of the country into compliance.

In this exclusive investigation…we trace the strategy in action across three battlegrounds:

Education: The Classroom as a Culture War Weapon

California’s adoption of ethnic studies in public high schools became a flashpoint — not because of widespread public dissent within the state, but because of what it symbolized.

In 2021, internal memos from the Claremont Institute and Heritage Action circulated widely among conservative PACs…suggesting that California’s curriculum could be the “wedge issue” to reignite national culture war momentum.

These documents recommended “rebranding” equity-based teaching as “racial indoctrination” and “Marxist grooming.”