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Moms for Liberty is a far-right organization that
engages in anti-student
inclusion activities and self-identifies as part of
the modern parental
rights movement. The group grew out of opposition to
public health
regulations for COVID-19, opposes LGBTQ+ and racially
inclusive school
curriculum, and has advocated books bans.

Moms for Liberty
Extremist Group Info:
Date Founded
2021
Location
Brevard County, Florida with chapters across the U.S.
Ideology
Antigovernment General

Moms for Liberty is an antigovernment organization
founded in 2021 by
former Florida school board members, Tiffany Justice
and Tina Descovich.
Current Sarasota County, Florida school board member,
Bridget Ziegler, was
also a co-founder. She has since left the group,
leaving Justice and
Descovich at the helm.

Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat
what they consider the
�woke indoctrination� of children by advocating for
book bans in school
libraries and endorsing candidates for public office
that align with the
group's views. They also use their multiple social
media platforms to
target teachers and school officials, advocate for
the abolition of the
Department of Education, advance a conspiracy
propaganda, and spread
hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ
community. In Their Own
Words

�The K-12 Cartel - also known as the National
Teachers Union (NEA) - met
and drafted a proposal to replace the word �Mother�
with �Birthing
Person.� This is insane and insulting to every mom in
America. But don�t
worry, relief is coming ... Because as the Teachers
Union pushes an agenda
focused on everything BUT educating our children,
American Parents are
rising up, taking back our school districts and
putting the focus back on
educating our children. To be clear - You will not be
seeing �Moms for
Liberty� rebranded as �Birthing Persons for Liberty�
anytime soon.� �
Tiffany Justice, Moms for Liberty on Fox News on July
7, 2022

�Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is
being normalized by
predators across the USA. California kids are at
extreme risk from
predatory adults. Now they want to �liberate�
children all over the
country. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound
like progress?� �
Tweet from Moms for Liberty on July 25, 2022, tweet
regarding California
SB 107 gender transition bill that got their account
suspended.

�If I had any mental issues, they would have been
plowed down with a gun
by now.&rdqduo; � Melissa �Missy� Bosch (Lonoke
County, AR Chapter) was
indicted for terroristic threatening towards the
faculty and staff of
Cabot School district. She was recorded musing about
gunning down a school
librarian.

�The children are confused ... because of these
insane agendas that are
being shoved down their throats � Even the shooter �
what, an 18-year-old
transgender boy trying to be a girl?� � Eulalia
Jimenez (chair of Moms for
Liberty, Miami Chapter) spreading disinformation
about the Uvalde, Texas,
shooter

�We�ve got $500 for the person that first
successfully catches a public
school teacher breaking this law. Student, parents,
teachers, school staff
� We want to know! We pledge anonymity if you want.�
� Tweeted by Moms for
Liberty NH on November 12, 2021, regarding the law
banning the teaching of
CRT and retweeted by national Moms for Liberty.

�Is this an example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy?�
� Comment and retweet by main Moms for Liberty
account; Tiffany Justice
Tweet (Moms for Liberty Cofounder) re: a mother
discussing her 4-year-old
�exploring his gender.�

�My line in the sand is calling a singular human
�they/them.� Go ahead and
call me mean names. I can take it.� � Retweeted by
main Moms for Liberty
account; Tweet by Tina Descovich (Moms for Liberty
Cofounder) regarding
pronouns in the workplace.

�I raise my children. The government does not. We do
not co-parent with
the government. And there are certain sensitive
subjects that we would
like to be directing the conversation around for our
children � Parents
are very concerned about this idea about gender
identity that was never
discussed in our public schools, and it is now taking
a front row seat in
our children�s education. And it is affecting
everything they do,
including for many of our girls, how safe they feel
in the bathrooms at
their school.� � Tiffany Justice in C-SPAN2 About
Books interview

�Due to threats from the left, we made the decision
to move all future
Moms for Liberty meetings to DCF Guns East upstairs
conf room. It is safe,
impenetrable by protestors or otherwise. Now WE have
a #safespace as the
libs call it. Thank you to DCF. See you this Tues @
DCF 5:30P.� � Tweet
from Darcy Schoening, Chair of Moms for Liberty � El
Paso County, CO
commenting on moving Mom of Liberty meeting to the
gun range is co-owned
by Joe Oltmann.

�The kids that do have their, you know, they�re
confused, or they are gay
or whatnot that the way they�re trying to go about it
is to make it an
open conversation and an open thing in classrooms �
But like for example
children with autism, Down Syndrome, they have to
have special IP meetings
with a counselor, they have to be put into separate
classrooms. I
understand, because it�s a different type of
education for children with
those disabilities, but I think that for children
that identify
differently, there should also be like a specialized
� something for them,
so that they feel that they�re important enough that
they�re being
counseled�I think for the same reason why teachers
wouldn�t just bring a
child with autism in front of the class and be like,
hey, he�s got autism.
Embarrassment �� � Crystal Alonso (member of Moms for
Liberty, Miami-Dade
County, FL) discussing the need for special classes
for LGBTQ students
Background

Moms for Liberty is an anti-student inclusion group
that presents itself
as a modern parents� rights organization that seeks
to �unify, educate,
and empower parents to defend and protect their
parental rights at every
level of government.� The group�s website appears to
align with this
mission, featuring general information about the
organization and its
chapters, resources for parents, and links to press
skewed in the group�s
favor. The social media accounts and real-world
activity of the national
organization and its chapters reflect views and
actions that are
antigovernment and conspiracy propagandist, anti-
LGBTQ and anti-gender
identity, and anti-inclusive curriculum.

According to Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany
Justice, when COVID-19
swept the nation and public-school children were
homeschooled for an
extensive period of time, �the country got to see
behind the education
curtain and were not pleased.� However, when parents
went to their school
boards to voice concerns, they were �shut down and
silenced.�

Moms for Liberty was originally established to combat
what it considered
controversial COVID-19 safety measures in schools,
mostly centered around
masking. From there, it quickly expanded its focus to
include an extreme
stance on what it considers the indoctrination and
sexualization of
children through gender identity, the acknowledgement
and acceptance of
the LGBTQ community, as well as inclusive school
pedagogy and curricula,
including critical race theory, social emotional
learning, and books that
the organization deems inappropriate. Spreading Like
Hellfire

In January 2021, Moms for Liberty made its national
debut on the Rush
Limbaugh show. By the end of the next month, the
organization had five
chapters in Florida and had garnered attention from
Breitbart and Tucker
Carlson Tonight.

According to Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina
Descovich, the organization
was established with the intention to remain within
Florida. However, two
weeks after launching the initial chapters, a mother
from Nassau County,
New York reached out interested in starting a chapter
where she lived.
Descovich recalls co-founder Tiffany Justice saying
to her, �Tina, this
movement doesn�t belong to us. We can�t control it.
We can�t contain it.
All we can do is help.�

The chapters, which are structured by county, have
since grown rapidly
nationwide. Within two years of the organization's
founding, it
self-reports a membership of approximately 110,000 in
over 250 chapters in
42 states.

Between June 2021 and January 2022, Moms for Liberty
hosted high-priced
fundraisers that featured former FOX News anchor
Megyn Kelly and musicians
Larry Gatlin and John Rich.

In July 2022, Moms for Liberty held its first
national summit in Tampa,
Florida. Speakers included Dr. Ben Carson, Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis and
his wife and Betsy DeVos, former US Secretary of
Education.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Dr. James Lindsay ,
and KrisAnne Hall,
among many others. Marriott International, which
openly supports the LGBTQ
community and its causes, received criticism for
hosting the summit
because of Moms for Liberty�s openly anti-LGBTQ
stance, as well as those
of the speakers included on the program, including
Ron DeSantis, who had
recently signed Florida�s �Don�t Say Gay� bill into
law, which the group
publicly lobbied in favor of.

Although ticket prices for the fundraisers ranged
from $50 to $20,000 and
the highest sponsorship package of the sold-out
summit was $50,000, when
asked about how the organization is funded, the group
claimed that t-shirt
sales were its "biggest source of funding."

Since its inception, the group has encouraged its
chapters and members to
become watchdogs and gain positions in local school
districts, usually by
seeking open school board seats, in order to stop
what it describes as
school districts disregarding the opinions of parents
and �abdicating
their authority to bureaucrats, to medical
committees, to Departments of
Health to other people where the decision making
really did lie with the
school board local control.�

To aid in this goal, the group has hosted online and
in-person school
board trainings in partnership with the Leadership
Institute.
Additionally, during the national summit in 2022, a
special session was
offered on how to build and run a school board
campaign.

In December 2021, Moms for Liberty created a
political action committee,
which received a contribution of $50,000 from Julie
Fancelli, heiress to
the Publix grocery stores. This donation contributed
significantly to the
organization's ability to help fund 2022 school board
campaigns, according
to a co-founder who spoke to Politico.

In 2022, Moms for Liberty endorsed over 500 school
board candidates across
the country. Of this, 76% were first-time candidates.
This activity was
part was the organization�s stated goal to have a
foothold in all 13,000
school districts in the United States. Fighting
Indoctrination with
Indoctrination

In its efforts to combat anything that it considers
�woke ideology,� Moms
for Liberty commonly propagates conspiracy theories
about public schools
attempting to indoctrinate and sexualize children
with a progressive
Marxist curriculum.

As self-anointed �joyful warriors,� Moms for Liberty
has adopted the
slogan, �we do not co-parent with the government,�
which adorns their lawn
signs and merchandise sold on the website.

Despite the background of its founding members
serving on various boards
of education, Moms for Liberty has taken a stance
that is firmly
anti-public school.

Tiffany Justice explained in an interview that
because public schools are
funded by the government, they are government
schools. �So, if you don't
go to private school, you�re going to a government
school. And then you
have these employees who have to have a state
certificate working at these
government schools or government employees.�

Throughout its existence, Moms for Liberty has also
waged war on teachers�
unions, referring to them as a terrorist organization
and criticizing
their stances and influence in public schools. In the
past, a number of
Moms for Liberty chapters saw their Facebook pages
flagged for �community
violation,� which prohibit accounts from �posting
basic information about
local government operations such as school board
meetings, or questions
about student textbooks.� The group subsequently
appealed with an open
letter to Facebook�s founder, Mark Zuckerburg, asking
him not to side with
the National Education Association who were seeking
to label concerned
parents as �domestic terrorists.�

Perhaps most importantly of note in their war against
public schools and
those who support them is Moms for Liberty�s fight to
have the Department
of Education eliminated. Advocacy for abolishing the
Department of
Education has been a common cause of antigovernment
organizations, from
the John Birch Society to the Constitution Party.
Former U.S. Department
of Education Secretary Betsey DeVos was a featured
speaker at the first
Moms for Liberty Summit, where she stated, �I
personally think that the
Department of Education should not exist.� A still of
this was posted to
the organization�s website as a teaser to invite
followers to view further
content from the Summit.

Speaking at the Family Research Council�s 2021 Pray
Vote Stand Summit,
Moms for Liberty spokesperson, Quisha King, called
for a "mass exodus�
from public schools. The sentiments came during a
panel discussion
entitled "Fighting Indoctrination on a National
Scale." Attacks on the
LGBTQ Community

Moms for Liberty�s attack on the LGBTQ community and
their rights has been
particularly focused on gender identity and the use
of pronouns in
schools, the transgender community and gender
affirming care, and the
proposed changes to Title IX, which would expand
rights to the LGBTQ
community.

As close followers and promoters of speaker Dr. James
Lindsay, the group
also elevates the term �groomer,� referring to a
person who builds a
relationship with a child to sexualize them. A
critical race theory-critic
and favorite of the organization, Lindsay has
appeared at events and is
often shared by the group�s members and officials.
Lindsay also pushes
theories regarding the ways that Marxists
indoctrinate children. Lindsay,
an admitted Christian nationalist, was made famous
for coining the term
�ok groomer,� which subsequently led to a lifetime
Twitter ban in August
2022. Moms for Liberty adopted the term �groomer,�
employing it in Twitter
posts. However, once the social media platform
outlawed the use of term in
July 2022, the group expressed its displeasure,
posting a video of
�Relatable� with Allie Beth Stuckey on the group�s
national website. In
the video, entitled �The Left�s �Don�t Say Groomer�
Policy,� the host
says, �Twitter and Reddit are censoring the word
groomer to describe
adults who talk to children about gender switching
and sexuality. What
else are we supposed to call them?�

Moms for Liberty Miami-Dade County member, Crystal
Alonso also suggested
moving LGBTQ students to separate classrooms,
comparing them to students
with special needs, saying, �for example children
with autism, Down
Syndrome, they have to have special IP meetings with
a counselor, they
have to be put into separate classrooms. I
understand, because it�s a
different type of education for children with those
disabilities, but I
think that for children that identify differently,
there should also be
like a specialized� something for them, so that they
feel that they�re
important enough that they�re being counseled.�

Moms for Liberty�s stance against gender identity and
LGBTQ rights has
continuously increased and begun to expand outside of
its original
public-school focus. The organization has posted
resources and done
numerous interviews discussing its extreme aversion
to gender identity.
Its social media pages feature an increasing number
of posts surrounding
this topic. In July 2022, the organization�s Twitter
account was
temporarily suspended for violating the social media
platform�s rule
against hateful conduct. The post about California�s
gender transition
bill read:

�Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is
being normalized by
predators across the USA. California kids are at
extreme risk from
predatory adults. Now they want to �liberate�
children all over the
country. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound
like progress?�

The organization has openly expressed opposition to
the current
administration's proposed changes to Title IX, which
would provide more
rights and accessibilities to the LGBTQ community.
Specific grievances
include biological males being allowed to play in
girls� sports, restrooms
not being based on biological sex, and students and
teachers being
punished for sexual harassment if they use the
incorrect pronoun. Moms for
Liberty has encouraged members and social media
followers to submit public
comments to the government page.

Moms for Liberty has also set its sights on the
community at large, waging
war on companies that are LGBTQ-friendly and
supporting anti-LGBTQ
legislation. In Florida, for instance, where Disney
spoke out publicly
against the governor�s �Don't Say Gay� bill, Moms for
Liberty co-founder,
Tiffany Justice said that stated that she would
boycott the company,
saying, �it seems Disney is OK with sexualizing our
children.�

Moms for Liberty Yellowstone County chapter, along
with MassResistance and
other anti-LGBTQ groups, supported Montana House Bill
359, also known as
�Prohibit minors from attending drag shows�.

In July 2022, Moms for Liberty was temporarily banned
from Twitter for
speaking out against California SB107, focusing on
gender-affirming health
care. The group expressed that gender dysphoria was a
mental health
disorder and gender transition was being normalized
by predators. Moms for
Liberty went on to join groups such as in writing to
California governor,
Gavin Newsome, indicating their concerns with the
bill, stating that it
violated parental rights and made �California akin to
the Pied Piper,
enticing minor children nationwide to leave their
families and run away in
pursuit of harmful drugs and sterilizing surgeries.�
Anti-Inclusive
Curriculum

In addition to fighting mask and COVID mandates,
opposition to inclusive
curriculum is at the core of Moms for Liberty's
infrastructure. Their
attack on critical race theory and social emotion
learning has put them in
the spotlight at school board meetings across the
country.

Moms for Liberty has been a strong proponent in the
push to keep new
equity and inclusion from entering public schools and
remove any existing
opportunities. The group has also been strong
supporters of the wave of
anti-CRT bills sweeping the country and key actors in
the sharp increase
in book bans occurring in schools and libraries.

Moms for Liberty leaders and members often share and
quote some of the
most controversial figures in the fight against
critical race theory,
including the Manhattan Institute's Chris Rufo, who
is often credited with
inciting the right's panic over CRT.

Moms for Liberty's firm stance on what it deems
critical race theory in
school curriculum, has led many of its chapters to
file complaints against
anti-CRT bills and also ban books that they believe
sexualize children and
contain CRT material.

In 2021, a Tennessee chapter of Moms for Liberty was
the first to file a
complaint under the state�s new anti-CRT bill. The
chapter took issue with
a book by Ruby Bridges on her experiences integrating
a school and also
one on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which they
called, �Anti-American,
Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican.� In their opinion,
these books focused too
much on the negatives of history and would prefer
that their children�s
schools have books that focus on heroes like Clarence
Thomas, Morgan
Freeman, and Condoleezza Rice. The chapter
specifically took issue with
Bridges recollections of a White mob yelling at her
on her way to school
and pictures of firemen hosing Black children in the
MLK March on
Washington.

Instead, Moms for Liberty recommended using The
Making of America to teach
history. This 1985 book by conspiracy theorist and
John Birch Society
supporter W. Cleon Skousen portrays slave owners as
the "worst victims of
slavery" and claims that although the Founders wanted
to free slaves, most
slaves were unprepared for lives of freedom.

When an anti-CRT bill went into place in New
Hampshire, the Moms for
Liberty chapter there announced a reward of $500 if
someone could catch a
teacher breaking the law. The Tweet announcing this
was retweeted by the
national organization.

Moms for Liberty has been at the forefront of the
battle for book bans,
which often includes labeling teachers and librarians
who have books
deemed inappropriate as groomers and also reading
excerpts of books aloud
without context at school board meetings to raise
alarm in other parents.

In an extreme case, a Lonoke County, an AR chapter
Moms for Liberty member
was recorded during a meeting saying about a local
school library, �I�m
telling you, if I had any mental issues, they would
all be plowed down by
a freaking gun right now.� She was subsequently
banned from school
grounds. Dangerous Liaisons

In addition to falling in line with James Lindsay�s
groomer rhetoric and
Chris Rufo's CRT attacks, Moms for Liberty has not
only developed but
leveraged its close political alliances and ties to
extremist groups to
broaden its reach and spread its messages of anti-
inclusion and hate.

This has been done in tandem with an effort to
publicly rebrand the
organization and appeal to a less radical audience.
Although the group got
its start on some of the most right-wing media
outlets, it has since
removed these press releases and appearances from its
website, including
the Glenn Beck Program, Breitbart, and the Rush
Limbaugh Show.

Within Moms for Liberty's web of political allies are
a number of
connections to antigovernment groups, White
nationalists, election
deniers, and participants in January 6th events.

Moms for Liberty has been publicly supported by
several conservative
groups and politicians, including FL Gov. Ron
DeSantis, who officially
endorsed several of the organization�s members
running for school board
positions in Florida � unprecedented in the state's
non-partisan school
board elections. He also publicly commented on the
group�s suspension from
PayPal, stating that he planned to crack down on
�woke banking.�

The political action committee that allowed Moms for
Liberty to support so
many candidates during the 2022 midterm election
cycle was mostly funded
by a $50,000 gift from Publix grocery store heiress,
Julie Fancelli, who
also financed one of the rallies leading up to the
January 6th storming of
the Capitol Complex.

Alexis Speigelman, Moms for Liberty�s legislative
chair and chair of the
Sarasota County chapter, was among �Stop the Steal�
organizer, Roger
Stone's allies who planned a caravan to Florida U.S.
Sen. Rick Scott�s
house with the goal of demanding that he challenge
President Biden�s
presidential victory.

An even deeper connection is Bridget Ziegler and her
husband, Christian,
vice-chair of the Florida Republican party. Christian
was at January 6th
events but claimed that he was so far away that he
only saw people waving
flags. He never saw �anyone entering the Capitol or
breaking stuff.�

In 2021, Christian told the Washington Post that he
felt an alliance with
Moms for Liberty would be crucial to Gov. DeSantis�
re-election campaign,
saying, �I have been trying for a dozen years to get
20- and 30-year-old
females involved with the Republican Party, and it
was a heavy lift to get
that demographic. But now Moms for Liberty has done
it for me.� Although
Bridget Ziegler has officially left Moms for Liberty,
she also still has
ties to the group, having been a featured speaker at
their national
summit. She also helped develop DeSantis� �Don�t Say
Gay� bill that Moms
for Liberty publicly advocated in favor of.

The national organization and individual chapters
have ties with groups
that SPLC has designated as hate or extremist.

One of the most notable connections is the
association with several
chapters with the Proud Boys, a White nationalist
group. Pictures have
circulated across social media of Moms for Liberty
leaders and members
posing with Proud Boys in their full regalia.

Bridget Ziegler was recently elected to the Sarasota
County school board �
a victory due in part to local Proud Boys, who she
was pictured
celebrating with afterwards. She later attempted to
downplay the
connection.

Moms for Liberty also teamed up with the
controversial group, Gays Against
Groomers, to host an anti-LGBTQ �Protect the
Children� rally in Florida,
which also included Proud Boys flashing White power
signs.

Some areas of Illinois have exhibited an
intersectionality with hate
groups. Shannon Adcock, chair of Moms for Liberty
DuPage County also leads
Awake Illinois, a group that shares many of Moms for
Liberty�s views on
anti-LGBTQ. Under her guidance, the two groups have
collaborated on a
number of efforts, including a �Pro-Child Stand Up�
rally against gender
ideology and gender affirming care that featured
James Lindsay, U.S. Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Moms for Liberty co-
founder Tiffany
Justice. The two groups have also teamed up with
local Proud Boys to host
anti- LGBTQ programs.

Some Moms for Liberty members have turned to law
enforcement for support,
specifically members of the Constitutional Sheriffs
and Peace Officers
Association (CSPOA). Some Moms for Liberty member
have called on the
sheriffs, claiming �sex crimes,� further feeding
their narrative of
children being sexualized and also pushing into the
area of QAnon
conspiracies of children being groomed by
progressives.

When Jennifer Pippin, chair of the Indian River
County, Florida chapter of
Moms for Liberty, discovered that books flagged as
inappropriate their
group members were still in the local school�s
library, she filed a
criminal complaint with the local sheriff, who began
an investigation.
Sheriffs in other Florida counties have started
similar investigations as
well, with Gov. DeSantis' blessing.

As members of CSPOA and Moms for Liberty find
themselves aligning on
issues such as mask and vaccine mandates and election
fraud conspiracies,
they further develop alliances to help one another.
As sheriffs begin to
launch criminal investigations on behalf of Moms for
Liberty, many
sheriffs running for office are asking Moms for
Liberty chapters to
campaign for them.

Moms for Liberty witnessed virtual overnight success
due in part to its
affiliations with right-wing media, politicians, and
extremist groups
alike. Now pegged as the sweethearts of the parental
rights movement, the
group's dangerous reach into education and politics
can be seen across the
country in its 250+ chapters. According to co-
founder, Tiffany Justice,
�there are a little over 3,000 counties in the United
States and we hope
to have a chapter in every county.�

The Indian River County chapter furthered its
antigovernment interests,
supporting county officials� decision to make it a
�second amendment
sanctuary,� citing the Constitution as justification.
By adopting this
designation, Indian River County prohibits gun
control measures, mostly on
the rationale that they would infringe on second
amendment rights


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