Who Is Moms For Liberty?
Moms for Liberty is an extremist right-wing group focused on banning books, targeting transgender kids and their families with political attacks, and trying to block schools from teaching accurate history. They try to hide their extreme agenda behind “parents rights” but they actually want to take away the freedom of the majority of parents to decide what’s best for their kids.
If you want to know who they really are, look no further than the fact that they’ve received money from one of the largest single donors of the January 6 insurrection. They plan on spending millions of dollars on advertising to influence elections up and down the ballot in 2024, but we know that mainstream parents won’t fall for extremists telling us how to raise our kids.
What are they doing?
Moms for Liberty uses harassment and intimidation to silence librarians, teachers, parents, students, and community leaders, including threatening people with gun violence.
- They have accused parents of child abuse and grooming and even tried to have children removed from healthy homes.
- Members have called for LGBTQ kids to be put in separate classrooms “like kids with autism and Down syndrome.”
- They champion campaigns against LGBTQ+ students, like the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida which is now being copied in 30 similar efforts in 16 other states.
- In Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a school board passed 3 policies targeting transgender children after Moms for Liberty members were elected to the board.
- Nationwide, they are suing the Department of Education to stop protections for transgender students.
- In Central Bucks, Pennsylvania, they’ve spent millions of dollars defending their book banning and LGBTQ+ discrimination.
- In Berkley County, South Carolina, 6 Moms for Liberty school board members used their first meeting to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban Critical Race Theory, and set up a committee to ban books.
- In Alabama, they want to withhold funding from public libraries because they don’t like some of the books in their collections.
- In Florida, some Moms for Liberty members are advising schools on which books to pull from their libraries, while others are complaining about basic, nonpartisan civics lessons being taught to students.
- Also in Florida, the Indian River County school board banned a book about banning books because a local Moms for Liberty chapter chair submitted a complaint about it.
- Group leaders in Kentucky associated with Proud Boys and an Indiana chapter quoted Adolf Hitler in their newsletter.
But do they practice what they preach?
While they say they fight to uphold morals and values in their communities, here’s what some Moms for Liberty members are actually doing:
- One of the leading co-founders of Moms for Liberty is refusing calls to resign from her Florida school board seat – from the public and the board itself – after details about her role in a sex scandal involving her husband and another woman came to light.
- A Pennsylvania Moms for Liberty leader has been accused of hijacking a dead woman’s Facebook page to harass people, opening unauthorized credit cards in a foe’s name, calling her enemies the n-word, and saying they should hang from a noose.
- Another Pennsylvania Moms for Liberty leader has been cited for public drunkenness and was charged with giving alcohol to minors at her daughter’s birthday party.
- A chair of a North Carolina Moms for Liberty chapter shares conspiracy theories online, campaigns for school board on a QAnon-affiliated podcast, and has been removed from two school board meetings for disruptive behavior, but she has the full support of her local Proud Boys group.
Moms For Liberty Isn’t Winning
The good news? In 2023, less than a third of the candidates they endorsed for school board seats won, and those rates were even lower than their results in 2022. Membership levels are shrinking, chapters are dissolving, and protesters outnumber their own guests at their events. Mainstream parents simply don’t agree with their tactics or their agenda.
Let’s reject the chaos, get informed, and support each other and our kids.
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