Trump questions acceptance of transgender people during Moms for Liberty gathering
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump questions acceptance of transgender people during Moms for Liberty gathering

LA Times  

Donald Trump speaks with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during an event at the group’s convention in Washington. “It’s crazy.” Trump said school boards have become “like dictatorships” hostile to the desires of parents, as he sought to shore up enthusiasm among a major part of his base. Moms for Liberty serves on the advisory board for Project 2025, and the author of the document’s education chapter taught a “strategy session” at the group’s Friday gathering. He also has called for terminating the Department of Education — as does Project 2025 — as well as barring transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports and cutting funding from schools with vaccination mandates or with “inappropriate racial, sexual or political content.” He offered no new education proposals Friday.

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Trump appears to side with first trans congress member over MAGA ally in Time interview
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump appears to side with first trans congress member over MAGA ally in Time interview

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump appeared to break with a fellow Republican's crusade on Thursday, instead siding with an incoming Democrat who stands to become Congress' first trans member. She has turned to inflammatory language in the public spat, including labeling transgender people as "mentally ill" and saying: "I'm not going to stand for a man, you know, someone with a penis, …

GOP Rep seeks to ban trans women from Capitol's female bathrooms after trans woman elected
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

GOP Rep seeks to ban trans women from Capitol's female bathrooms after trans woman elected

Raw Story  

Rep. Nancy Mace plans to introduce a resolution that would ban transgender individuals from the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity at the Capitol, Fox News reported Monday — and it comes just before Congress swears in its first-ever transgender congresswoman. "The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in …

For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying
2 months ago

For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying

LA Times  

Avery Poznanski was excited for a new chapter. In one of his first campaign videos — part of his “Agenda 47” policy platform — he said “left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children” and amounted to “child abuse.” He said he would sign an executive order upon taking office “instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote …

Column: Trump’s remarks about school transgender policies are his most deranged and despicable yet
4 months, 1 week ago

Column: Trump’s remarks about school transgender policies are his most deranged and despicable yet

LA Times  

One of the problems with news coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is that reporters and editors are so numbed by his fire hose of lies that they’re ignoring the depths he’s reaching. Case in point: Trump’s remarks about transgender students and schools, delivered Friday at an event put on by Moms for Liberty, the far-right gang of book-banners that …

Donald Trump speech at Moms for Liberty: Why the group sounds so different now.
4 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump speech at Moms for Liberty: Why the group sounds so different now.

Slate  

This story about Moms for Liberty was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The conservative parent group Moms for Liberty made a point of attacking the Democrats’ use of the phrase during its four-day annual summit over Labor Day weekend in Washington, D.C. “I want to remind people who …

Donald Trump shakes a leg at Moms for Liberty event, netizens say 'it will never get old’: Watch
4 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump shakes a leg at Moms for Liberty event, netizens say 'it will never get old’: Watch

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump’s dance moves at the annual Moms for Liberty event have taken the internet by storm. ‘It will never get old’ The video of Trump dancing is viral on X. X user Bo Loudon shared the video with the caption, “Trump just ended his Moms For Liberty event with his impressive dance moves! Trump supporters praised the former president …

Donald Trump shakes a leg at Moms for Liberty event, netizens say 'it will never get old’: Watch
4 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump shakes a leg at Moms for Liberty event, netizens say 'it will never get old’: Watch

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump’s dance moves at the annual Moms for Liberty event have taken the internet by storm. ‘It will never get old’ The video of Trump dancing is viral on X. X user Bo Loudon shared the video with the caption, “Trump just ended his Moms For Liberty event with his impressive dance moves! Trump supporters praised the former president …

'Really tacky': Even far-right Moms for Liberty members want Trump to stop sexist comments
4 months, 1 week ago

'Really tacky': Even far-right Moms for Liberty members want Trump to stop sexist comments

Raw Story  

Donald Trump recently attempted to woo the far-right Moms for Liberty group, but some of its members are worried about the former president's sexist remarks, according to a new report. Reporter Shawn McCreesh highlights conversations with group members who were asked about Trump's recent sexist attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, including one in which the former president included a …

Moms for Liberty fully embraces Trump and widens role in national politics as election nears
4 months, 1 week ago

Moms for Liberty fully embraces Trump and widens role in national politics as election nears

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In her welcoming remarks at Moms for Liberty’s annual gathering in the nation’s capital on Friday, the group’s co-founder, Tiffany Justice, urged members to “fight like a mother” against the Democratic presidential ticket. Tim Walz, a former high school social studies teacher, would be “the most anti-parent, extremist government America has ever known.” The group spent its first …

Trump taps into culture war issues, seeks to energize base at Moms for Liberty event
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump taps into culture war issues, seeks to energize base at Moms for Liberty event

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump late Friday rarely touched on education issues during the third conference of Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group that has ties to Project 2025, the far-right playbookTrump has tried to distance himself from. “And your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms … they don’t even …

Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia
4 months, 1 week ago

Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Hundreds of mostly white women gathered at a swanky downtown hotel to hear prominent conservative speakers and strategize with other moms about how to spread their message across the country. “I think the federal government pushing child abuse really concerns American parents,” Justice said when asked why there was so much focus on trans issues …

Moms for Liberty tries to abandon 'extremist' image with RNC rebrand
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Moms for Liberty tries to abandon 'extremist' image with RNC rebrand

Raw Story  

MILWAUKEE — Gone was Moms for Liberty’s bashing of critical race theory. We’ve received multiple death threats,” said co-founder Tiffany Justice, vowing like many of the featured speakers to “fight” for a suite of causes that bolster “parental rights” in education. “Social media is a net negative.” Detractors of Moms for Liberty have accused certain group members of harboring ties …

Curtains for Moms for Liberty: The fallout of a rape charge shows the far-right group is floundering
1 year, 1 month ago

Curtains for Moms for Liberty: The fallout of a rape charge shows the far-right group is floundering

Salon  

This story has been updated to reflect details from affidavits recently made public. Just as predictable were the details dug up by local reporters for the Florida Trident that "both the woman and Bridget Ziegler independently told police they had engaged with Christian Ziegler in a three-way sexual encounter more than a year before the incident, according to a search …

Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back
1 year, 3 months ago

Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back

Salon  

"Monster Liberty": That's how the otherwise excellent closed-captioning service in the auditorium at Pennridge High School interpreted "Moms for Liberty," while one of several dozen citizens who had waited in line to lambast the group spoke at the podium. Yes, the Pennridge school board was dominated by far-right members, one of whom had been present in Washington for Donald Trump's …

Trump, DeSantis court Moms for Liberty as group's influence rise over the GOP
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump, DeSantis court Moms for Liberty as group's influence rise over the GOP

India Today  

The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination courted conservative women at the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadelphia on Friday, elevating a group that has gained substantial influence within the GOP with its fierce opposition to instruction related to race and gender identity in the nation’s classrooms. You’re not a threat to America.” Trump told them that if …

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions
1 year, 6 months ago

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions

LA Times  

Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, is looking to expand those efforts across the country and to other education posts in 2024 and beyond. The group’s co-founder, Tiffany Justice, said during its annual summit over the weekend in Philadelphia that Moms for Liberty will use its political action …

Moms for Liberty blasted as 'Klanned Karenhood' by protesters in Philadelphia
1 year, 6 months ago

Moms for Liberty blasted as 'Klanned Karenhood' by protesters in Philadelphia

Raw Story  

Moms for Liberty, the far-right group seeking to control school boards and school curricula across the country, gathered in Philadelphia on Friday for a convention featuring former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. LaTarndra Strong, Olivia Strong, and Heather Redding drove seven hours from North Carolina — getting up at 3:30 in the morning — and showed up outside the Philadelphia …

Trump, DeSantis among 2024 GOP hopefuls set to appear at Moms for Liberty gathering
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump, DeSantis among 2024 GOP hopefuls set to appear at Moms for Liberty gathering

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Beyond remarks from the candidates and other speakers, the summit will feature …

Trump and DeSantis court Moms for Liberty in a sign of the group’s rising influence over the GOP
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump and DeSantis court Moms for Liberty in a sign of the group’s rising influence over the GOP

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — The two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination courted conservative women at the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadelphia on Friday, elevating a group that has gained substantial influence within the GOP with its fierce opposition to instruction related to race and gender identity in the nation’s classrooms. You’re not a threat to America.” Trump told them …

Top Dems ignorant of ‘extremist’ Moms for Liberty — despite warnings the group is dangerous
1 year, 6 months ago

Top Dems ignorant of ‘extremist’ Moms for Liberty — despite warnings the group is dangerous

Raw Story  

There’s a new face of the far-right: moms. Ron DeSantis speaks during the inaugural Moms For Liberty Summit at the Tampa Marriott Water Street on July 15, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. Octavio Jones/Getty Images “The left isn't even in tune to some of these groups that are getting very powerful at the grassroots level,” former Rep. Denver Riggleman tells Raw …

US Republican candidates woo controversial Moms for Liberty group
1 year, 6 months ago

US Republican candidates woo controversial Moms for Liberty group

Al Jazeera  

The high-profile lineup at the group’s national conference shows it has become a power player in the Republican Party. At least one hate group monitor, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has labelled Moms for Liberty an “extremist” group that opposes racial inclusivity and spreads “hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ community”. Moms for Liberty built early momentum with support …

Moms for Liberty has been infiltrated by hardcore right-wing groups: report
1 year, 6 months ago

Moms for Liberty has been infiltrated by hardcore right-wing groups: report

Raw Story  

The conservative group Moms for Liberty was founded as a "parental rights" group that focuses on protecting students from content that deals in race or gender and electing conservative candidates to school boards. "There's an ongoing campaign by these neo-Nazi groups to radicalize some of these more benign patriot MAGA groups—and it's working because I've seen more Nazi content creeping …

Trump once approved of allowing transgender contestants into Miss Universe: report
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump once approved of allowing transgender contestants into Miss Universe: report

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump vowed in a speech at a rally in Conroe, Texas on Saturday, January 28th, 2023 that he will prohibit transgender women from competing in female sports if he is reelected in 2024. "We will ban men from participating in women's sports," Trump said, as quoted in a January 31st NBC News analysis. But as CNN revealed …

Moms for Liberty rises as power player in GOP politics after attacking schools over gender, race
1 year, 6 months ago

Moms for Liberty rises as power player in GOP politics after attacking schools over gender, race

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — To its members, it’s a grassroots army of “joyful warriors” who “don’t co-parent with the government.” To anti-hate researchers, it’s a well-connected extremist group that attacks inclusion in schools. Moms for Liberty pitches itself as a nonpartisan, grassroots effort started by passionate parents who call themselves “joyful warriors.” Yet the group’s close ties to Republican organizations, donors …

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog
1 year, 7 months ago

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog

NPR  

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog Enlarge this image toggle caption Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg via Getty Images More than two years into a conservative push against teaching about Black history, literature and gender identity in public schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center has concluded that a dozen so-called "parental rights" groups behind …

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