Tag Archives: Moms For Liberty

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (HOST): “The left-wing media strikes again. This time, Vanity Fair accuses Donald Trump’s administration of being as anti-woman as Nazi Germany. Imagine being called anti-woman by the same people who want to call mothers inseminated persons. “And that’s not all: why do they consider Trump a Nazi? Because he wants to protect women and because he has a …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott said he demanded that the state’s education agency investigate a Houston high school whose teachers were accused by a local conservative activist of “transitioning” a student they were calling by the student’s chosen name and pronouns. Denise Bell, who leads the Moms for Liberty chapter in Harris County, spoke at a school board …

Florida Politics reports: Rep. Monique Miller, a Palm Bay Republican, said she has a bill in drafting that would allow anyone in Florida to openly carry firearms. She said the issue is especially important in the state for women who own guns. “Sometimes women have to choose between protecting themselves and what they want to wear that day,” Miller said. …

Save Jersey reports: New Jersey Republican U.S. Senate nominee Curtis Bashaw has signed the ‘Moms for Liberty’ Parent Pledge ahead of next week’s Election 2024 finale. “While I understand that some conservatives have questioned the stance of Mr. Bashaw on certain issues, my focus today was hearing his stance on the teaching of gender ideology in schools, the inclusion of …

Education Week reports: Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, is interested in serving as former President Donald Trump’s education secretary—or in another key position—should he win a second term. “I would be honored to serve,” Justice said in an interview with Education Week. “I’m open to serving in whatever capacity the president wants me to serve, whether that’s …

Raw Story reports: The vice president of a North Carolina county chapter of Moms for Liberty has been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. According to court documents, Justina Guardino was arrested in Wilmington, North Carolina, on charges including entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and unlawful picketing in a Capitol building. A PACER …

Relentless Trump fact-checker Daniel Dale writes: Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, regularly ad-libs false claims that his campaign is unable to substantiate. When CNN asked the campaign on Monday for any evidence of a school deciding to send a child into gender-affirming surgery without parental consent, the campaign could not provide any. Instead, spokesperson Karoline Leavitt pivoted away from Trump’s …

Mediaite reports: “I’d love to know why you choose and continue to choose to work with your children in business and politics,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice asked. “And do you have any advice for people about working with your kids?” “Well, I’ve always liked it,” the ex-president replied. “Like, Ivanka was great. She could’ve done anything. Great student. …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s fireside chat at Moms for Liberty’s national summit Friday in Washington, DC, comes as women voters remain one of the presidential candidate’s most slippery and vital blocs of potential supporters. Moms for Liberty — co-founded in 2021 by Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich — has championed the parental rights movement and policy changes seen in …

The Florida Phoenix reports: A Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed member of the Broward County School Board who was rejected this week for election to the board will become a member of the Florida Board of Education instead. The governor’s press office announced the new appointment of Daniel Foganholi, director of legislative affairs for New Generations Children’s Ministry, on Friday. His campaign …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Incumbent school board members in one of Florida’s largest swing counties appear to have held off a challenge from candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to preliminary results. Activists had hoped that three challengers endorsed by the local chapter of Moms for Liberty would win a conservative majority in Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg …

From Glenn Beck’s personal website: Glenn Beck’s newest book and first novel for young adults, Chasing Embers, is an epic story of two teenagers faced with a life-altering decision: do you comply with a tyrannical regime, or do you choose freedom and liberty? Chasing Embers teaches crucial lessons for teens and young adults in our present time. What do you …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: After a rough year of scandal, electoral defeats, and effective counter-organizing, the anti-LGBTQ, book-banning Moms for Liberty put on a show of force at the Republican National Convention. A Moms for Liberty town hall Tuesday afternoon drew two governors, three members of Congress, and three state attorneys general. The event started with a …

The Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis published a statement Tuesday about “offensive comments” made by employee Beth Bourne while she was on a family vacation in Hawaii. Bourne, the local chapter president for parents rights group Moms for Liberty, posted a video of herself confronting a group of drag queens who were filming a video at the hotel Bourne was …

The Guardian reports: A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district. Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last month. Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader Amy Anne …

The Daily Beast reports: A Moms for Liberty activist who caught heat last summer after her Indiana chapter quoted Adolf Hitler in a newsletter is back—and now she’s running for governor. Paige Miller, who leads Moms for Liberty (M4L)’s Hamilton County branch, has entered the race as an independent alongside her scripture-quoting running mate, Jamie Reitenour. On May 23, the …

The Associated Press reports: The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November, following through on a pledge it made last year to become more politically active across the country in 2024. Yet the considerable investment comes with a twist …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: The Colorado Republican Party is issuing a call to its members to pull their children from public school, saying Democrats are using schools to “turn more kids trans.” The message was delivered in an email blast to Republicans statewide Tuesday. “All Colorado parents should be aiming to remove their kids from public education,” read the directive …

The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports: A newly surfaced memo from a Sarasota Police investigator described numerous text messages between Christian and Bridget Ziegler where the two were “on the prowl” for a female sexual encounter at different bars, according to records obtained by the Herald-Tribune. In the memo, SPD investigator Angela Cox described seeing messages where Bridget would direct Christian …

Florida Politics reports: Ousted Republican Party of Florida Chair Christian Ziegler acknowledged in court that he kept numerous videos of sexual partners besides his wife. Sarasota Police have copies of much of that, and some 30,000 videos downloaded from Ziegler’s iPhone last year. Ziegler testified on the topic in a May 16 hearing in Sarasota as he and wife Bridget, …