Sticker Shock: Hillsdale’s Constitution (Propaganda) Revealed

In my previous piece, I exposed how Alaska’s AG retweeted the far-right, stochastic terrorist Libs of TikTok account over a “communist disclaimer” slapped on a copy of the Constitution provided to Anchorage School District students by Project 2025-themed Hillsdale Christian College.

But, as with most dribble spewed by Alaska’s far-right blogs, I learned there’s even more to the story after I managed to procure one of Hillsdale College’s actual pocket Constitutions.

The issue here is the false claim that the Anchorage School District placed the stickers on the Constitution provided by the batshit Heritage Foundation-aligned Hillsdale College, whose goal appears to be radicalizing the next generation of insurrectionists. A correction issued by the Anchorage Daily News to its initial reporting confirms what we already suspected: the disclaimers weren’t added by ASD staff at all. They came that way, straight from Hillsdale.

As I pointed out in my initial piece, school districts across the country, including ASD, use disclaimers on materials provided by outside organizations or individuals to make clear that the district is not endorsing the viewpoint or messaging of those materials, which in this case came from a Christian college. The policy basically exists to help maintain clear boundaries between public schools and outside advocacy, religious, or political interests, while still allowing students access to a broad range of educational resources without implying district approval of any particular ideology or viewpoint.

I’ve obtained one of the actual pocket Constitutions distributed by Hillsdale College and discovered something that changes how you should view that “disclaimer” flap altogether.

Inside Hillsdale’s pamphlet, before you even reach the Declaration of Independence's opening line, “When in the course of human events,” there’s a forward written by the college’s president...a tidy little sermon framing America’s founding through Hillsdale’s hard-right, partisan political lens.

You'll also note that Hillsdale's political propaganda comes with a section titled "Course in Politics," which I'm pretty sure isn't in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.

It is unquestionable proof of why disclaimers in schools are necessary in the first place. This wasn't a straight copy of the Constitution, and thus, public schools have a legal and ethical obligation to clearly disclose when outside materials are bundled with someone else’s agenda or editorialized. In this case, the so-called “neutral” Constitution being waved around by Alaska’s rabid far-right movement came pre-loaded with an editorial...one that tries to sell Hillsdale’s brand of Christian Nationalism as patriotism.

So while Facebook’s "finest" were busy foaming at the mouth about a nonexistent act of censorship, the truth is much simpler - the disclaimer wasn’t a warning about the Constitution - it was, however, a necessary boundary against the propaganda printed in the forward.

All of this lunacy over a disclaimer that Hillsdale College put there themselves. Alaska’s top law and education officials jumped headfirst into a fabricated controversy they created. Just more proof that the biggest threat to our public institutions isn’t “wokeness,” but rather absolute willful ignorance, stupidity, and dishonesty.