Tim Dunn
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Tim Dunn is a fracking billionaire from Texas whose $5,000,000 contribution to the Make America Great Again Inc. Super PAC makes Dunn one of Trump’s biggest donors this cycle. In a June 2024 Rolling Stone profile, Dunn was described as “Trump’s new Christian Kingpin” and an “avatar of the extreme oil wealth and Christian nationalism that have hitched in as engines behind the Trump train.”
Over the past decade, Dunn was the largest donor in Texas where he built “a formidable political machine to warp state government to his will” and is “spending his vast fortune to turn his beliefs into law.” Lawmakers supported by Dunn have enacted one of the “nation’s harshest abortion bans, as well as laws to ban supposedly ‘explicit’ books from school libraries; to curb access to pornography; and to replace school counselors with religious chaplains. They’ve also pushed, unsuccessfully, to post the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, and to defund public education with private-school vouchers.”
Dunn has formed an alliance with Trump’s former presidential campaign manager and voter-targeting guru Brad Parscale. In a deal brokered by Parscale, Dunn invested $7.5 million in a firm called AiAdvertising, which “holds the promise to micro-target AI-personalized political ads to voters — in essence turbocharging the online persuasion work that made Parscale famous.”
Dunn is reportedly a significant donor to the Center for Renewing America (CRA), a Project 2025 Advisory Board member founded by Trump OMB Director Russ Vought. CRA aims to provide “ideological ammunition to sustain” the MAGA movement.
Dunn has also served as a board member of America First Policy Institute (AFPI). The AFPI agenda includes dismantling the separation between church and state. In a document titled “Biblical Foundations: Ten Pillars for Restoring a Nation Under God!,” AFPI asserts that “Faith and Politics Do Mix in America,” contending that “the Church is God’s force for good in the world and the United States” and that it “does not end where government begins.”
The CEO of AFPI is Brooke Rollins, who previously served in the White House as Trump’s domestic-policy adviser. Before working with Trump, Rollins was closely associated with Dunn, from her time as CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. TPPF is also a Project 2025 advisory board member, and its former CEO, Kevin Roberts, is the president of Heritage Foundation, which leads Project 2025 and is working to “institutionalize Trumpism.” Dunn is the vice chair of the board of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).