They’ve been defunded, but not defeated.

Select public broadcasting stations have been thrown a life preserver by their patron saint, the late public TV star Bob Ross.

On Tuesday, Bob Ross Inc. kicked off its first of multiple auctions in Los Angeles, selling three of the artist’s distinctive paintings and raising over half a million dollars for stations that lost a portion of their funding thanks to President Donald Trump’s “anti-woke” agenda.

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"We're thrilled that these paintings raised $662,000, which will directly benefit public television stations facing critical funding challenges,” Joan Kowalski, President of Bob Ross Inc., said in a statement to Daily Kos.

“These stations have been the gateway for generations of viewers to discove

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