Politico reported on the rising significance of “Moms for Liberty” among leading Republicans. “Moms” are known for their advocacy of censorship, book banning, and hatred for public schools.
BATTLE OF THE MOMS — Moms for Liberty is having a busy month.
— The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the organization an “anti-government extremist group” at the forefront of a movement to seize control of public schools. One of the group’s chapters in Indiana apologized after featuring a Hitler quote in a newsletter.
— And later this week, one of the country’s fastest-growing conservative political outfits will gather its supporters and Republican presidential candidates at a dayslong rally in Philadelphia. A struggle for the hearts, minds and votes of American mothers ahead of the 2024 election is fully underway.
— Former President Donald Trump is set to be the keynote speaker at Moms for Liberty’s “Joyful Warriors” summit. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also has a speaking slot. So do former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — as well as a Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden: anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
— “This election is, I think, probably the most important election of my lifetime,”Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told your host. “There are a lot of other parents around the country that feel the same way.”
— Moms for Liberty is not the first organization to capitalize on the political moment surrounding schoolchildren and families.
— But the group’s ability to marshal much of the GOP presidential field to its second-ever national conference illustrates the power of a Florida-founded group that has harnessed pandemic-driven rage, social media and culture war politics to skyrocket to conservative stardom. The group now claims 285 chapters in 45 states and a membership that exceeds 115,000 people.
— Its designation as an extremist group has even sparked fierce resistance from conservative politicians, school officials and media outlets while energizing fundraising. “If @Moms4Liberty is a ‘hate group,’ add me to the list,” Haley tweeted this month. Tickets to attend this week’s event are sold out.
— Yet after a June like this one, don’t expect Moms for Liberty to immediately unite around one presidential candidate.
— “American parents and kids are winning if all of these candidates care about the issues that we care about,”Justice said of the organization’s star-studded speaking list. “And we want to make sure we know where they stand.”
What’s needed now is for a group of activists to form a “Moms for Democracy” to stand up for American values of freedom, justice, equality, and the Constitution.
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A Moms for Democracy counter- movement is urgently needed. Who else is in?
Money to support a Moms for Democracy counter-movement is urgently needed. Where is our Koch or DeVos or Musk or Leo?
The group, Dads Against Moms for Liberty, is in existence.
It’s the rebirth of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 🙄
It is!
Same bouffant hair, too!
Moms for Liberty has many ties to Proud Boys. (Vice) Proud Boys co-founder Enrique Tarrio, who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy, called his allies Moms for Liberty “gestapo with vaginas”. (ibid) Wholesome is not an apt description of these people.
Proud Moms.
Is it BYOS? Bring Your Own Swastika
haaaa
Black shirts preferred, brown shirts accepted. Those with hoods can be grandfathered in.
Diane, I hope you read this request. Do you have any knowledge of a group called webelieveineducation.com ? Is this a Trojan horse?
Does anyone have knowledge of webelieveineducation.com. It appears to be a counter to these corporate groups. One red flag popped up, Stand for Children is supporter/partner (Jonah Edelman) Has he changed his tune?
Ben,
Among the groups defending public schools against extremists are:
Defense of Democracy
Dads Agsinst moms for Liberty
Red Whine and Blue
And of course, the Network for Public Education
More here:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/moms-for-liberty-defense-of-democracy-red-wine-and-blue-education-politics.html
Ben,
I never heard of them. I wish they said they believe in public schools.
Note the dearth of actual names on that website. Like none.
Grifters gotta grift. Hope I’m wrong.
Wow, Ben. That org looks great.
It sure does. But I can’t find anywhere that names who is behind it or even in it.
NOT a good sign.
Moms for Hitlery
Koch’s Cato has posted, “Public Schooling Battle Map,” at its site.
The section about “Latest Battles” includes,”Ten Commandments” (Okla. 6-22-2023) and “Books challenged,…Handmaids Tale…Maus” (6-19-2023).
The site is updated by Cato’s head of education issues, conservative Catholic, Neal McCluskey. He wrote an op ed recently for the WSJ. His long history of links to Catholic organizations was omitted in the bio.
That’s a really valuable resource:
https://www.cato.org/public-schooling-battle-map
No libertarians please.
It’s a valuable resource because it shows how widespread these issues are, not because Cato has the proper position with regard to them.
The Cato Institute is a long-time bad actor. Very bad. Especially on the issue of guns.
It has also been an advocate of drug legalization.
The gun stuff is, ofc, bizarre because a Libertarian organization ought to care about everyone else’s right not to live in fear that their kids are going to be blown away at school by some 16-year-old with military-style arms.
How about THAT freedom, CATO freedom fighters?
https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/
Among the book bans listed by PEN America, To Kill a Mockingbird, banned in Pitt Co. Schools in North Carolina and Edmund Public Schools in Oklahoma, both in 2021. And no, I do not want to get into an endless debate about the merits of TKAM.
AAAGGGHHH! I just spent the last twenty five minutes transcribing the comment about the history of American education that begins at 5:12-9:25-ish. I hit the wrong damn key and lost it. 🤬 It’s breathtaking. If you listen, Diane, you need to reconsider editing your body of work. It’s all wrong. And note how he cherry picks the importance of falsely interpreted history. Just breathtaking. One piece of idiocy and lying after another. Cato has zero credibility in anything if this is a higher up.
“Up to the 91830s, there’s really not much idea that the nation should provide public schools.”
“91830s”. . .
I wonder where that zip is? 😉
cx: Cato’s oft-repeated position these days: the problem is not really about censorship of book content; it’s actually a problem of not allowing parents “choice” beforehand regarding what their children read in school by doing away with “government schools” for everyone.
So, in the age of the Trumpanzee, Cato has capitulated. It has given up any pretense of being a champion of free speech and is supporting the book banners like MfL, whom it is insisting are not actually book banners.
Koch dollars.
Bob, where have you been?
Cato has long been in the “guns for everyone” crowd.
They’re libertarians. AKA “Hooray for me, and f— you.”
I know that they have long been in the guns for everyone crowd, jsr. What I was saying is that they used to be opponents of censorship of and banning of books, in keeping with their Libertarian principles. No more. Now they are making excuses for book banning in schools like any other Trumpanzees.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, right?
Or maybe people are just full of…
“. . . to skyrocket to conservative stardom.”
MFL has little to do with being conservative. They are a reactionary xtian theofascist organization that seeks to take America back to a supposed golden age of bliss in America that never has been nor ever will be.
Religious nutjobs (mainly white as it is) is a better description.
The Fascists–Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, Trump–always harken back to a Mythical Golden Age to which the Glorious Leader will return them. It’s a sure sign that the speaker or organization is Fascist.
the socialist party turned communism talking shit lol. Same people who forced vaccines or lose job. Same group that censors only ONE side. Meanwhile you have domestic terrorists in antifa (nazis, pedos and mentally ill people), BLM , which is a democrat scam to launder money, all founders have million dollar homes.
You want to bash this group for going to board meetings calling out vaccines, masks, sexualized books. Wow they sound like terrible parents, many of you are.
A you really won’t get anywhere on this site hot shot. Do your homework and then comment.
He’s a propagandist parrot.
Name one member of antifa.
Haaaa. Exactly! Antifa is almost nonexistent, like the great CRT boogieman. A tiny number of kids (10 nationwide, maybe?) who like to dress in black and break stuff. I suspect that before the Reich-wingers cooked up the CRT hobgoblin, there were perhaps two K-12 teachers in the country who had ever even heard of it. ROFLMAO.
Funny how the Trumpalos blamed January 6 on antifa, yet no antifa members were ever identified. Meanwhile, hundreds of Trumpalos were identified and prosecuted.
I guess the FBI is all antifa.
bogeyman
Antifa: two 20-year-old guys in Portland who like to dress like Neo in the Matrix and go break stuff.
So scary
It’s funny how these tough guy Reich-wingers are so afraid of nonexistent or almost nonexistent entities. But, hey, many of them believe that they have an invisible friend/Big Daddy in the Sky who hates witches, homosexuals, and Hunter Biden, not necessarily in that order.
They have active (fevered) imaginations–you know, as psychotics in general do.
They are superstitious, narrow-minded, uptight fringe weirdos, kinda like what you would get if Cotton Mather and Joseph Goebbels had a cognitively challenged baby that grew up to be a bouffant-haired banshee.
Surely you josh, Josh. You keep calling people “Socialists.” Do you have any idea what a Socialist is? If so, please share.
Josh is echoing Trump, who calls Democrats socialists, Communists, and Marxists. As if.
I can only imagine the Orange Idiot trying to explain what these terms–Socialism, Communism, Marxism–mean. That would be hilarious. Of course, the Orange Idiot has never read a word by Marx, and he has no notion at all what the meanings of these terms are. He just uses them as generalized epithets meaning “bad, really really bad, OK?” ROFLMAO.
I like this socialism concept.
https://www.tiktok.com/@rebecca_paul_in_surrey/video/7184731970050542854
So, your contention is that Socialism means “an economic system in which everyone has exactly the same wealth and income”? That is, in which they are all, economically, “the same”? Or is it “an economic system in which government takes away all rewards?”{ Those are two possibilities based on that video.
And the fact that it is so very wrong is a TELL, a giveaway, that like all such stories told by Reich-wingers, like Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Cadillac Queen or the one about Clinton’s Pizza Parlor, this one is a lie. It isn’t real. This woman just MADE IT UP. She lied. There was no economics class where this happened. And it’s not even a well-constructed lie, for there is, in it, no explanation for the class not deciding that they had better study after they all got Ds on the second test. This is usually the case with Reich-wing lies as well. There are tells in them–utter improbabilies or untruths–that give them away. Examples of these include that undocumented immigrants take citizens’ jobs or that they are net consumers of government services that they haven’t paid for, or that China paid billions in tariffs because of Trump. All completely false. Demonstrably false. All Just So stories regularly repeated by Reich-wingers.
But thanks for proving my point. You have no idea what Socialism is.
Here, Josh, so you can finally learn what the term means:
Alas, Josh, my critique of that hilarious video is in moderation. Hopefully, it will be available soon. This woman has no clue what Socialism means, and she is telling an obviously completely fabricated story as though it were true. There is a name for that. It’s called lying.
Josh, if you would, call up Brad Raffensperger for me. If he could just find me 81,282,917 votes, I could be president!
When you see these crazy ANTIFA morons’ mug shots they have blue, pink, purple hair. Some even sons/daughters of people in Congress. They are scum with a nazi symbol as their logo. BOb your party wants to share the wealth they don’t want capitalism. I am for taxing the very rich more to make it better for the middle class and below.
Antifa is Soros backed, bastards ruined citieds and so worried about the FEDsurrection of cops letting people into the building. Such a crazy insurrection of people walking around being allowed into the building by the FBI and pelosi etc.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/26/who-funds-antifa-protests-we-all-do
AS Bob days yea no big deal, they are fine with me. 🥜
https://rmx.news/article/antifa-and-blm-riots-in-us-caused-between-1-2-billion-in-damage-insurance-companies-report/
Josh uses the GOP playbook borrowed from Putin. ANTIFA is Nazi just like Ukrainians are Nazi’s. Similarly, Koch uses Stalin as the bogeyman. Republicans by definition are either self serving to the detriment of the US or they are stupid.
Wow. That’s it! That’s why, ever sense I had the Covid Vaccine Nanomicrochip inserted, I’ve been wanting to get my beard died purple!
cx: ever since
Linda the azov battalion has thousands of nazis in ukriane who kill their own people, wake up!
Where is your evidence for anything you say?
Pro tip: Allegations from Right Wing Nut Jobs are not evidence.
jsrtheta . . . Your note to Josh . . . “Best in Show.” CBK
Evidence called research be a critical thinker!
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/06/opinion/speedie-ukraine-far-right/index.html
The Azov Battalion is an ultra-nationalist group in Ukraine. So, Ukraine has ultra-nationalists, just as the US does. This does not make Ukraine a Nazi country, any more than the presence of ultra-nationalists in the US makes the US a Nazi country. BTW, the Azov Battalion was almost entirely wiped out, after a long siege upon the factory complex they were holed up in, during the utter wiping of the city of Mariupol off the map by the Russian invaders.
Should we break it to him that Americans and Catholics made sure Nazis made it to South America? Might break him if he were able to comprehend it. So he’ll be fine.
I’m pretty sure it’s a him because we know, the woman is, uh, smarter!
So spoke that Messenger of the Lord, Harry B!
Greg I already know Hitler made it to Argentina, the CIA infiltrated with nazis, mk ultra came from them too. In 1939 in madison square garden 19,000 nazis were having a rally. The third reich has come to the US, however, they are in ukraine as well.