Tag Archives: Moms For Liberty

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms for Liberty chapter. He’s also a registered sex offender, due to a 2012 felony conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy when Fisher was 25. Fisher insists that he did nothing wrong, despite pleading guilty to one …

Fox News reports: Country music’s biggest stage was dressed in red, white and blue and the seats were filled with some of the nation’s top patriots for FOX Nation’s 2023 Patriot Awards. The fifth annual award show was held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday night, and the event brimmed with pride and patriotism. As more parents …

“You are never going to find a right way to do the wrong thing and Governor Youngkin’s policies are wrong. Never in history have the good guys been the segregationist group pushing to legislate identity. “Never in history have the good guys been closely connected with and supported by hate groups like the Proud Boys. And the good guys don’t …

The Associated Press reports: Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates in local school board elections who want to ban books and restrict classroom conversations on race and gender. The American Federation of Teachers said candidates publicly endorsed by conservative groups such as Moms for Liberty and the 1776 Project lost about …

The Daily Beast reports: Moms for Liberty, the right-wing “parental rights” group advocating a hardline anti-woke agenda in America’s schools, had a rough night in Tuesday’s elections for school board seats around the country. A key battleground for MfL was Pennsylvania, where the group endorsed over 50 candidates in some 28 districts. All five of the Republican candidates in Central …

Cedar Rapids’ CBS affiliate reports: The highly contested Linn-Mar school board race had eight candidates vying for four open spots. All the candidates supported by Moms for Liberty failed to get in the top four. Incumbents Barry Buchholz and Brittania Morey won reelection. Buchholz received 15 percent support and Morey got 14% support. Katie Lowe Lancaster and Justin Foss all …

Popular Information reports: Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing “pornography” to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics deployed by members of Moms for Liberty against school librarians. …

Charlotte’s NPR affiliate reports: The American Library Association celebrates Banned Book Week next week — but it’s been banned in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and could face challenges across North Carolina. The library association uses the week to celebrate freedom to read and to talk about attempts to censor books. But at a time when parents’ rights groups across the country are …

The Daily Beast reports: Amanda Litman [photo], the co-founder of Run For Something, announced this week that the group would pump $10 million into local school board races that are being hijacked by the conservative Moms for Liberty group. Litman tells The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie she is determined to see progressive voices on school boards, adding that there …

Cincinnati’s NPR affiliate reports: The debate over whether discussions about race, inclusion, and LGBTQ+ issues belong in Forest Hills Schools was reignited after Superintendent Larry Hook made the decision to paint over a student-created mural at the start of the school year. The mural depicted the hands of people of different races signaling love and solidarity surrounded by symbols of …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Following a prolonged debate, the Miami-Dade County Public School Board has voted against officially recognizing October as LGBTQ History Month within the district. The contentious decision, passed by a 5-3 vote, comes in the wake of the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law that was signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last year. The debate over Initiative …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is appointing Tina Descovich, a leader of one of the nation’s leading parental rights groups, to the Florida Ethics Commission. The Governor’s Office notes that Descovich, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, “was previously elected to the School Board of Brevard County in 2016 and served as the President of the Florida Coalition of …

The Sacramento Bee reports: A Sacramento-area library was evacuated Monday morning and a nearby elementary school and high school sheltered in place after law enforcement was notified of a bomb threat containing anti-LGBTQ hate speech, authorities said. It was the third threat against the library in the past week, police and deputies said. Much like the first reported bomb threat …

The Christian Post reports: An Alabama library is being accused of religious discrimination for abruptly canceling a book reading event featuring Christian actor and author Kirk Cameron. Officials with the Huntsville-Madison County Library announced Thursday that the event featuring Cameron and another Brave Books author, Riley Gaines, and organized by Moms For Liberty was initially set to take place on …

ABC News reports: President Joe Biden’s administration plans to try to force private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical health services, improving upon a well-known hole in America’s health care system, according to the White House. The new policy is part of a broader push by Biden to improve mental …

Sportskeeda reports: An elderly woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Roberta Pfanstiel, is facing the ire of netizens after a video of her assaulting a veteran went viral. 2023. The incident took place on Saturday, July 2021, at a press conference for Tulsa Public Schools where a Roberta from “Moms for Liberty,” spit on and assaulted two veterans. The original clip was …

Florida Politics reports: DeSantis spoke in Tega Cay, South Carolina and led off his remarks with a denunciation of Biden when people in the front of the crowd began to unfurl Pride flags. “Have you heard Biden? He will say when it comes to children, they’re not your children. They’re all of our children,” DeSantis said, as Moms for Liberty …

The New Republic reports: North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson thinks that dictators such as Hitler and Mao are being taken out of context, and their work is worth reconsidering. Robinson was one of the speakers at the second annual summit for Moms for Liberty. “And here’s the thing,” Robinson said during his speech on Sunday. “Whether you’re talking about …

NBC News reports: Last week, a local Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty attracted attention for quoting Adolf Hitler in its newsletter. After the local paper reported the story, the group added additional “context” but kept the quote. Eventually, after facing even more scrutiny, the organization removed the quote and apologized in a statement posted to its Facebook group. That, …

The Associated Press reports: Trump accused the “radical left” of “slandering Moms for Liberty as a so-called hate group. “But Moms for Liberty is no hate group,” he said. “You are joyful warriors, you are fierce, fierce patriots. You’re not a threat to America.” Trump told them he would sign an executive order to cut federal funding for any school …