MOMS FOR LIBERTY - Alert

[Norbert]

Please be careful on voting for members of your school board. This is not a decision you make when you are in the voting booth.

Research, research research every candidate. No public office
is insignificant any more.

Mom's for Liberty is fielding a candidate in our school district if this candidate wins, the results WILL be disastrous.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Excellent advice, my dear Norbert. K&R. nt

[CoopersDad]

26. They are EVERYWHERE!

Even in little old Santa Cruz County where one might think there's no possibility of this.

[Lonestarblue]

2. And always try to find out who is funding candidates, who may be saying one thing but planning

to do something else once elected.

[niyad]

4. Exactly.

[JudyM]

47. And who is endorsing them. Might be as easy as 2 I spotted today who were endorsed

by a local republicon committee. Hopefully some day soon a republican committee endorsement will be the kiss of death more broadly.

[niyad]

3. KNR

[2naSalit]

5. Already...

An ongoing battle in my area, since 2019 actually.

[Puppyjive]

6. Our school board just got stipends

$500 a month. This seems wrong to me.

[mopinko]

7. hope your local political org has palm cards.

in these way down ballot races, it rly does help to give voters info on the way into the booth.
sometimes they dont even know that these races r on that ballot.

when i was working w my ward org, we put a ton of effort into our judicial ratings and candidate forums for these down ticket races.

[pioche4]

8. True! We had 3 candidates supported by "Virginia Thomas"

In Walnut Creek - Acalanes School district's last school board vote, there were 3 candidates who 'ran as a slate', and some digging revealed they had each received donations from Virginia Thomas --"Ginny Thomas", Supreme Court Thomas's wife...they didn't win, but it was a lesson--->they are targeting hard local elections

[ok_cpu]

9. Thank you for posting this

Don't want to give them clicks, but they are sending pledges to candidates and promoting those who sign. Makes it easy to know how to not vote, I suppose. We have two who have pledged for three seats in our district. Luckily, we have enough options to make sure neither are elected.

[IronLionZion]

10. Good point. Many local county Dem offices will have a sample ballot online

Here's the one for my county, Arlington https://arlingtondemocrats.org/sample-ballot/

Some of these local races are nonpartisan, so it's not obvious who is a Dem or a Mom for Liberty. Some states have actual Nazis running for office with armed storm troopers to intimidate voters.

Sometimes Nazis look like this

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

19. Most Nazi women looked like that

In some form.

They didn't look like brown people or artsy people or other nonconformists, that's for sure.

[IronLionZion]

20. It can be easy to overlook since they won't have an "N" next to their name on the ballot

[JoseBalow]

33. "R" is the new "N"

[sarchasm]

27. Yep...

That’s Gabriel Hanson, a Franklin, Williamson Co., TN mayoral candidate who came to a local debate recently with some bonafide PB stormtroopers posing as “bodyguards.” Why on earth she felt the need to have her so-called ‘bodyguards’ at a local mayoral debate is beyond me.

A real nut job …

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/im-tired-of-being-a-lackey-white-supremacist-says-mayor-candidate-wanted-show-of-force-at-forum

[COL Mustard]

36. I wonder how her constituents and her backers feel about prostitution?

Is that you, Julie Newhouse, or Neuhaus? Or however you spell it? People are asking questions. Voters need to know.

Have a nice day.

[IronLionZion]

40. They're fine with Trump doing it so they probably would give her a pass

[COL Mustard]

44. Probably.

You're probably right. God I hate what they've done to society.

[RandySF]

11. Keep an eye on

Bucks Co., Pa.
Albermele Co., Va.
Prince William Co., Va.
Loudoun Co., Va.

[Wounded Bear]

12. All politics is local...nt

[chouchou]

13. They should..

..be required to change the name to "Mom's for anything but Liberty"

[appalachiablue]

16. +1

[treestar]

14. +1

always vote in those. That is where the Repubs started in the 1980s.

[CaptainTruth]

15. Yes, pay attention! And volunteer to put out signs.

Last year I put about 30 signs around town for the school board candidate endorsed by our local Democratic party. They were extremely grateful for the help.

We had two extremist candidates, one Moms Against Liberty candidate & one who had links to the Federalist Society on their campaign website. Both got trounced, only got single digits (7%-8%) in the vote, in the "cesspool" of Florida.

[blm]

17. Female wing of Proud Boys domestic terrorist group.

[Blue Owl]

18. K&R

[oldmanlynn]

21. Do Dems also have a candidate running were these crazy maga moms are?

We definitely should. Cant have them be more active than us.

[Captain Zero]

38. Seems like we need: Citizens for Academic Freedom

Or some such.

[pandr32]

22. Excellent advice.

It is not just our right to vote, but our duty. We need to do it with absolute care.

[meow2u3]

23. Tip: Don't write in any school board candidates

Chances are, those "ghost" candidates are terrorist members of Moms for Liberty.

[Peacetrain]

24. Very good advice... what gets me is that some are running for school boards

and they home school their children.. so why in the heck are they running for school board.. the answer to that is.. because they plan to raise hell

[Initech]

25. I think I've talked about the MAGA school board candidate where I live.

This woman is an absolute menace. She ran courting the religious vote and had absolutely no experience in any educational fiel whatsoever. She sued her own district over mask mandates. She went to the insurrection. She held highly illegal back doors after hours meetings to get books banned. And lately there was an attempt to privatize the local high school that would have benefitted her corporation (that failed spectacularly). And after all of this, does she get punished or disciplined? Nope. And we're probably stuck with her for the long haul. She also walks and talks like she's from a Trump clone factory or something.

My point is these MAGA religious lunatics are everywhere. We've got to stop them at every level.

[Takket]

28. "Moms" and "liberty"

Only three words in their name and two of them are a lie.

[Sessuch]

37. Mom's For Liberty or MFL

Mothers F***ing Librarians

[Ligyron]

50. Like the "Freedom Caucus" their actions are anything but. nt

[Mister Ed]

29. If possible, check to see who your local teacher's union has endorsed.

They're not going to be endorsing the MAGA candidates.

[SouthernDem4ever]

30. assholes with casseroles

sorry, had to say it.

[chia]

31. K&R

[Qutzupalotl]

32. Also, consider running yourself if you are able.

(All DUers, not specifically the OP.)

We need progressive representation on these boards to counter the crazy.

https://runforsomething.net/

[Pacifist Patriot]

34. Yes it will be. My former school board rep from my district is one of the co-founders.

I served on a community service committee with her for a couple of years. I cannot emphasize how freaking insane these people are. And they are relentless. Do not take school board races for granted. Research the candidates and vote in every single one you are eligible to vote in if you ca.

[Oopsie Daisy]

35. We do! And it's EXCELLENT advice for anyone who doesn't.

The (so-called) non-partisan elections are indeed just as partisan as anything else these days. Voter beware.

[duhneece]

39. Same here in Alamogordo NM

They’re well-funded and trying to take over

[progressoid]

41. And they come in other names as well. Keep an eye out for them too.

Local yokels here started a PAC with a different name but the same agenda.

Luckily our side found out aboout them and have been watching them closely.

[NowISeetheLight]

42. Mom's for Fascism

They need to expose these people.

[calimary]

43. Thank you, Norbert!

A VERY good reminder.

As Mad-Eye Moody warned Harry Potter: “CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!! You’ve got to KNOW!”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

45. Found my sample ballot by duckduckgo 2023 sample ballot [County State]

[Snackshack]

46. They are doing.

This all over and how know how many other groups are doing this as well. There is nothing “grassroots” about these groups most are corp funded thru these dark money slush funds SCOTUS called “free speech”.

[C Moon]

48. Why does the right wing always use "moms" or "mothers" for groups? It's so annoyingly obvious.

Obvious that their intentions are not what they appear.

[no_hypocrisy]

49. Keep vigilant even in Blue States.

There's a "Mom" who's a man running for BOE in a northern NJ suburb. Makes no bones about his politics and his mission.

And unfortunately, BOE elections are poorly attended. This guy may get in.