# Wilks Brothers **Farris and Dan Wilks** are West Texas brothers from near Cisco who built the fracking-services company Frac Tech and sold it in 2011 for about **$3.5 billion** (to a buyer group led by Singapore's state investment arm). Forbes put each brother's worth at roughly $1.4 billion in 2017. This page treats them as a funding unit, because that is how they usually give; their individual profiles are [[Farris Wilks]] and [[Dan Wilks]]. **What the money backs:** - **Presidential politics:** a **$15 million** gift to the pro-[[Ted Cruz]] Keep the Promise super PACs in July 2015, the largest single donation of the 2016 race at that point. - **Right-wing media:** early capital for [[The Daily Wire]] and major support for [[PragerU]]. Farris's Thirteen Foundation gave PragerU $1 million in 2015. - **Texas politics:** Farris, alongside [[Tim Dunn]], is a principal funder of the [[Empower Texans]] / [[Defend Texas Liberty PAC]] machine. - **Religion and land:** Farris pastors the Assembly of Yahweh 7th Day church his parents founded in 1947, and the Thirteen Foundation is a major anti-abortion funder. The brothers are among Montana's largest landowners and also hold large tracts in Idaho. In the [[Manosphere Ecosystem]], the Wilks money matters because the Daily Wire is the paymaster for much of the anti-feminist commentariat. ## See Also - [[Farris Wilks]] · [[Dan Wilks]] - [[The Daily Wire]] · [[PragerU]] - [[Tim Dunn]] · [[Defend Texas Liberty PAC]] - [[Christian Nationalism]]