Walters has since made such a name for himself trying to push what he considers America’s Judeo-Christian origins into the country’s schools that, despite characterizing Donald Trump as a “charlatan” on social media in 2016, he was floated this fall as a candidate to head the Department of Education in the second Trump administration. In the past year, he has added high-profile, out-of-state conservative figures to Oklahoma’s social-studies-standards executive committee, including Dennis Prager, the founder of PragerU, an advocacy group that makes videos to advance “Judeo-Christian values”; and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and a principal architect of Project 2025. Walters also lobbied the State Legislature to fund the purchase of Bibles — favoring the Trump-endorsed “God Bless the U.S.A.” and “We the People” Bibles — for public-school classrooms.