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550: Adam Donaghey

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Adam Donaghey was a producer for Cinestate, a film studio founded to create populist movies for the rightwing crowd. For example, “Dragged Across Concrete” with Mel Gibson is a film where the racists are the heroes. Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire partnered with him on Run Hide Fight. Cinestate knew what they were getting when they…

548: Texas Board of Education

Rape Culture

The Texas Board of Education produced a revision of their Sex Education curriculum in 2020. They made Sex Ed an elective that was opt-in, not opt-out. Now students must get their parents signatures to learn about sexually transmitted diseases and sexual hygiene. It is no longer abstinence-only, allowing for teaching contraception methods. However, they are not allowed to teach about LGBTIQA students, gender identity, and, inexplicably, consent.

545: Dan Crenshaw

Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture

Dan Crenshaw is a Congressman from Texas and a former Navy SEAL where he lost an eye to an IED. He is more cosmopolitan than most of his fellow representatives having lived in Scotland, Ecuador, and Colombia and graduating from Tufts and Harvard universities. He is publicly critical of the House Freedom Caucus. But when a woman alleged she had been assaulted at the VA, he assisted Robert Wilkie in a campaign to discredit and disparage her, alleging she had a history of false complaints. Then he refused to cooperate with the investigation, refusing to be interviewed by the Inspector General.

531: Tony Yocham

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Tony Yocham was the Chief of Police for Hamilton, Texas. He also ran for Sheriff of Somervell County but lost the Republican primary. That was a good thing for Somevell County as he was arrested for sexually abusing a child since she was 8 years old until 2020 when she was 15.

498: Michael Tonne

Child Molestation

Michael Tonne was the associate children’s minister at The Village Church and staff at the Children’s Bible Camp. While at the camp, he allegedly raped an eleven-year-old girl. The Village Church was more concerned about protecting its reputation than the little girl. In the end, the prosecution declined to move forward with only the child’s…

497: Anthony Moore

Nonconsensual Recording, Organizational Cover-Up

Anthony Moore worked as a pastor at the Texas megachurch The Village Church in Fort Worth, Texas until 2017 when he was caught filming a youth pastor while showering. The man had noticed a phone wrapped in a towel on a window ledge by the shower. He looked at it and found several videos of himself showering. He reported it to the church and the church fired Moore. But they believed he could be restored.

490: Jamie Berryhill

Rape Culture

Jamie Berryhill was a Republican primary candidate in Texas’ 11th Congressional district, an open seat with the retirement of Rep. Mike Conaway. With the endorsement of Texas Right to Life and the House Freedom Fund which is affiliated with the House Freedom Caucus, he was one of the more serious candidates. Until he wrote that immigrants entering America is like rape and that rape leaves a woman without value.

450: Jodie Laubenberg

Rape Culture

Jodie Laubenberg is a Texas state representative who retired in 2018. In 2013, during debate on an anti-abortion bill she sponsored, she opposed an amendment carving out an exception for rape and incest. She claimed that rape kits cleaned women out and were the equivalent of a D&C. She later claimed her statement was a bit muddled. This was the bill Wendy Davis filibustered.