You're going to be. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dushinsky,

culture editor here at the Federalist as always. You can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com.

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Today we are joined by Ali Maray.

She is the executive director of the American Parents Coalition.

Ali, thank you for joining the show.

Thank you for having me.

Of course.

Before we start, could you tell us just a little bit about the American Parents Coalition,

what you guys do, and how you got involved with a group.

Sure, so we are a pretty new organization.

It was burst out of, I guess, kind of a labor of love.

So in 2021, I started the K-12 advocacy group called Free to Learn.

And after working through endless challenges there in the education specific world related to transparency,

curricula, meritocracy, it became really clear that a lot of the issues that we as parents were facing

reached far beyond the classroom walls and that's what kind of led to the

establishment of this organization so that we could really

zoom out and look more broadly at the challenges specific to parental rights and

influence. So as someone who's now worked in this space for a while and also as a mother of three, I've noticed that the landscape of threats is constantly evolving and growing and it's more challenging every day.

And the risks aren't just to our kids physical safety. and the

risk aren't just to our kids physical safety, but also their

mental well-being and that kind of relates to this broader

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