My interest in Dr. Lozansky’s activities rose after meeting Patrick Simpson.

He’s a citizen journalist, who took a membership directory from the Council for National Policy — the conservative organization of other organizations — and mapped it out coherently to illustrate how the CNP linked every Republican political movement and was funded by the major donors of the party.

He also wrote a hit story named “140 Paths to Putin.”

Patrick researched the group structure and determined that Paul Weyrich was the key player behind formation of an uncanny number of Conservative and Republican groups from the 70s and 80s, many of which are influential in national politics today.

Patrick’s dogged research uncovered a Washington insider — Lozansky — who I’d never heard of, but who was a close associate of Paul Weyrich.

He wrote this story about Edward Lozansky and submitted it to this website for inclusion.

Some of the groups Weyrich created form the backbone of national Republican political strategies today — such as the secretive Council for National Policy, Heritage Foundation. Weyrich also founded A.L.E.C. to formulate and lobby to pass model laws for conservative causes in the 50 state houses — such as voter ID laws intended to suppress the vote.

As I began fact checking and fleshing out the background of the story, it dawned upon me how this one man, a Russian emigre, a Professor of Physics and Mathematics had profoundly impacted the Republican Party — not just on Russia issues — by bringing together many groups, who bonded over their experiences in Moscow.

Some Republicans have been extremely compromised by their intimate foreign relations with Russia.

Others have been moving in this direction for years.

“Billy Graham made a conscious decision early in his career,” Dartmouth Professor Randall Balmer told me, explaining the broader arc of the scion of an Evangelical christian legend, “to forsake the narrow sectarian fundamentalism in favor of a broader, more inclusive Evangelicalism. His son Franklin did the opposite.”

So did the Republican Party in its conversion from limited government conservatism to repressive government cheerleaders, led by Trump’s praise for murderous regimes like his friend Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.

Edward Lozansky’s long term propaganda efforts have contributed to an environment where the GOP is strangely accepting of overt Russian influence over the head of their party, and over numerous party leaders, ignoring decades of US foreign policy and their party’s institutional bias against authoritarian regimes.

Lozansky’s story is the story of how the Grand Old Putin Party was born.

Paul Weyrich explains why he does NOT want everyone to vote: