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Right-Wing Religious, Political Groups Expand Hostile School Board Takeover Efforts

“I’m worried about a new type of school board candidate that we’ve seen in the last couple of elections. These aren’t our traditional candidates who come to board elections with experience of civic engagement, participation. … Lately, we see kind of an angry parent.

What Moms for Liberty’s Summit Revealed About the MAGA Movement’s 2024 Strategy

A parade of MAGA-minded presidential candidates drew cheers at the recent Moms for Liberty national summit with conspiracy theories, anti-LGBTQ smears, and calls for authoritarian policies to purge “wokeness” from American schools, businesses, and government agencies.

Supreme Court in Hand, Far Right Wing Prepares to ‘Take the Reins of Government’

On the same day that the Trump-enhanced far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

The Dishonest and Harmful Right-Wing Attack on American School Boards

Commentary You’ve probably seen videos of angry parents and activists accosting school board members and turning school board meetings into culture-war battlegrounds.