Unmasking Moms for Liberty’s Extremism, with Media Matters’s Olivia Little and Bucks County Teacher and Writer Diana Leygerman

I spoke with Olivia about her undercover reporting at the Moms for Liberty summit in Philly, then Diana explains why she and so many others in Bucks County refuse to co-parent with these extremists.

“Lots of normal people, it’s great.” That's a direct quote from Bucks County Moms for Liberty member and Northampton Township GOP committee member Megan Brock celebrating the so-called normalcy of the right-wing culture warrior moms at the summit in Philadelphia.

So what is this "new normal" for Brock and the Moms for Liberty Qlan that she is part of? Today we welcome two guests to the show to dig into the Moms for Liberty summit and their continued impact on our school boards and communities.

On the first half of the show we'll talk to Olivia Little, a writer and researcher with Media Matters who was undercover inside the group’s summit in Philadelphia. On the second half we are joined by Diana Leygerman, a writer, teacher, and Central Bucks School District Mom who refuses to co-parent with Moms for Liberty.

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My 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on Moms for Liberty’s Extremism

1. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, by Katherine Stewart

2. Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism, by Seyward Darby

3. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, by Jeff Sharlet

4. Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization, by Maurice Cunningham

5. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School, by Jennifer Berkshire

ORGANIZATIONS

• Advocates for Inclusive Education (Bucks County)

• Central Bucks Neighbors United

• The Network for Public Education

ALSO LISTEN TO: 

• EPISODE 2 - The Merchants of Deception: The Dark Money and Front Groups Behind School Privatization, with Maurice Cunningham

• EPISODE 6 - The Right’s Long War On Public Education, With Jennifer Berkshire

• EPISODE 7 - Understanding Backlash Politics And Religious Conservatives Inciting School Board Wars, With PRRI’s Melissa Deckman

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ARTICLES

• Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories, by Olivia Little

• Astroturfing in Central Bucks School District: Moms for Liberty and Book Bans, by Diana Leygerman

• At The Moms For Liberty Summit, Comprehensive Sexual Education Is CRT And Sexualization Of Children, by Pat LaMarche

• As Moms For Liberty Meets In Philadelphia, Don’t Underestimate Their Extremism And The Threat They Pose, by Peter Greene

• At Moms for Liberty Summit ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’, by Annika Brockschmidt

• “On brand and dangerous”: Moms for Liberty platforming extremists shows "just how radical” group is, by Areeba Shah

• Moms For Liberty Bucks County Leaders Think Public Schools Are Trying To Bring Pedophilia Into The Classrooms, by Cyril Mychaleko

• It Takes A Village: Expelling Right-Wing Extremism From Bucks County School Districts, by Cyril Mychalejko

• Pulling Back The Curtain On The Leadership Institute’s Dominion Over Moms For Liberty, by Maurice Cunningham 

• To Understand Groups Like Moms For Liberty And The Republican Party’s MAGA Base, Look To The John Birch Society, by Dr. Michael Gambone

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