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Can Moms for Liberty Swing an Election?

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Moms for Liberty call themselves a “parent’s rights group,” but the Southern Poverty Law Center calls them an “anti-government extremist” group. Even if they don’t all have kids, these “moms” do have goals for the future of education in America—and quite a bit of clout.


Guest: Kiera Butler, senior editor at Mother Jones reporting on how purveyors of disinformation target online communities of women. 


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther.


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I asked Kira Butler to begin by walking me through the front doors of the mom's

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for Liberty Convention.

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A meetup that took place a little earlier this month in Philadelphia.

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So the first thing that I saw and that everybody saw really when they walked into the

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hotel, it was at the Marriott in Philadelphia was protesters.

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This was the scene in Philadelphia this afternoon.

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A swarm of protesters gathering in opposition to a controversial group descending on the city.

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There are, you know, rotating cast of hundreds of protesters about, you know,

1:13.0

probably a hundred of them there at any given time.

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It has, at times, been what they call a dance party protest.

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And at other times, very impassioned speeches from people who are against mom's

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for Liberty.

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A number of groups speaking out against them, which they say this amounts to a hate group.

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