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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

There's delusion behind Moms for Liberty

Last week in Philadelphia Moms for Liberty held a cattle call for presidential candidates at their "Joyful Warriors" conference and they got all the big names to show up. This was quite a get for a group that only started in 2021 by Sarasota Florida school board members Tiffany Justice, Tina Descovich and Bridget Ziegler to protest masking and vaccine mandates in public schools during COVID-19. They are big players now in Republican politics with big donors and major politicians competing for their favor.

And like so many others in the GOP they also have ties with the Proud Boys, a far-right hate group and have been designated antigovernment extremists by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a designation that they are wearing with pride, as right-wing groups tend to do:

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