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Can Moms for Liberty Swing an Election?

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 24 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.4

for Liberty Convention.

0:12.1

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

0:15.9

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

0:20.8

was at the Marriott in Philadelphia was protesters.

0:30.9

This was the scene in Philadelphia this afternoon, a swarm of protesters gathering in opposition

0:35.4

to a controversial group descending on the city.

0:38.4

There are rotating cast of hundreds of protesters about probably a hundred of them there at any

0:44.5

given time.

0:46.7

It has, at times, been what they call a dance party protest and at other times very impassioned

0:52.2

speeches from people who are against mom's for Liberty.

0:55.1

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

1:00.1

Take a look at the video for earlier this morning.

1:02.5

Protests are cute, moms for Liberty.

1:05.0

And then you walked into the hotel and you know, it was ladies in their business casual.

1:11.8

Many of them were wearing moms for Liberty merch, t-shirts that said things like, I don't

1:16.5

cope here with the government.

1:18.5

There was an exhibition hall where you know, you could pick up comic books about American

1:24.2

history from a biblical perspective, visit the Trump merch table where you would see,

1:30.8

you know, action figures of Trump.

1:36.3

This conference called itself the Joyful Warriors National Summit.

1:41.6

Yes.

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