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Religious Right’s Fracking Sugar Daddies Are Part of Billionaire Land Grab in U.S. West

Sunday’s New York Times featured an in-depth story about the impact of super-wealthy people buying up vast swaths of land in the American west, sometimes shutting roads, trails, and access to public lands long used by locals, hikers and hunters.

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Religious Right Billionaire Wilks Brothers Give Millions To Ted Cruz Super PAC

Dan and Farris Wilks, Texas billionaires who made a fortune from the fracking boom and have showered millions of dollars on right-wing organizations, have given $15 million to Keep the Promise, a super PAC supporting Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, according to a CNN story by Theodore Schleifer wh