PragerU also provides multimedia content for the Freedom Truck Mobile Museum. The Freedom Truck Mobile Museum is a traveling exhibition of touchscreen displays, Revolutionary War relics, and AI slops that will tour the country in tractor-trailer throughout 2026 in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It appears that the battle over who defines good and evil, or at least who defines American history, will be fought, in part, from the helm of an 18-wheeler.
Prager, 77, is an observant Jew who sees evangelical Christians as natural allies in achieving his goal of, as he once wrote, “transforming America into a faith-based nation.” (He also lamented what he called Jewish “prejudice” against evangelical Christians, and said Christians’ “support, and often even love, for Jews and Israel is the most unrequited love I’ve ever seen on a large scale.”) In 2009, after decades of success in conservative talk radio, he co-founded PragerU to provide what he called “a free alternative to the dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media, and education.” PragerU is heavily funded by far-right backers, including Betsy DeVos’ family foundation and billionaire brothers Dan and Farris Wilkes. According to its latest tax filing, PragerU’s purpose is to “market and produce educational content for all ages from 4 to 104 years old, with an emphasis on a pro-American, Judeo-Christian message.” , received over $66 million in donations in 2024. (In November of that year, PragerU suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a fall that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. PragerU has since resumed producing video content.) I created the PragerU website and portions of “If There Is No God” by dictation. )
Prager’s nonprofit is just one of dozens of conservative organizations, many of them Christian, named as “partners” in the America 250 Civic Education Coalition, overseen by Education Secretary Linda McMahon. The coalition has a secular mission to develop programming for America’s birthday, including PragerU’s Founders Museum and Freedom Track, the latter of which received a $14 million grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. (In March, President Trump signed an executive order dismantling both IMLS and the DOE, which remain in existence, albeit in smaller, more ideologically morphed forms of their former selves.) Other America 250 partners include two major pro-Trump think tanks (the America First Policy Institute and the Heritage Foundation), a Christian liberal arts school (Hillsdale College), and the Supreme Court’s favorite conservative Christian law advocacy group (Alliance). Defending Freedom), the Christian Right Church of Charlie Kirk (Turning Point USA), and something called Priests for Life.
According to a DOE press release, the America 250 Coalition is “dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and promoting a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the United States.” Of course, one of America’s founding principles taught in every civics class is the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which may raise some eyebrows at the combination of so many religious groups and public funds aimed at promoting civics education.
“True patriotic education means that just as the Founding Fathers loved and respected America, we respect them by deeply learning and passionately debating their ideas,” McMahon said at the opening of the Founders Museum last year. One way McMahon approaches this challenge is to study deeply what James Madison wrote in 1785, after a bill was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly that created a taxpayer provision for “teachers of the Christian religion.” In a petition to his colleagues in Congress, Madison asked, “Can anyone not see that the same authority that can establish Christianity to the exclusion of all other religions can just as easily establish a particular sect of Christianity to the exclusion of all other sects?” He disliked this proposal as a “depressing symptom” of “sudden decadence”. “Rather than offering asylum to persecuted people, that itself signals persecution,” he wrote. Governing bodies that allow such violations of the free exercise of religion “could wipe out all of our fundamental rights,” Madison warned. The bill is dead.
Although PragerU has a following at the highest levels of federal and state government, his educational content and short videos have been criticized by many segments of the internet, and Prager’s name has become synonymous with videos with titles like “DEI Must Die,” “Preferred Pronouns or Prison,” “Multiculturalism: A Bad Idea,” and “Is Fascism Right or Left?” Maga-Brand disinformation. (PragerU claims that its videos are viewed tens of millions of times each quarter, but these metrics have not been independently verified.) A PragerU kids video called “How to Think Objectively,” which was reportedly shown in a Houston public school, offers the thinnest of veneers as a lesson in climate change denial. Democratic socialism, and immigration in particular, is the scourge of Prager’s poetry, seeking to undermine the Constitution’s clause of birthright citizenship and provoke endless protests.ice The video has been released since the Department of Homeland Security began its violent occupation of Minneapolis and other major U.S. cities.
