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 American Action News: A congressional committee investigating the Biden administration’s misuse of the FBI believes there is more evidence the White House was part of a plan to use federal agents to intimidate parents critical of their local school board. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients turn over additional documents detailing the Biden Administration’s alleged “use of counterterrorism and criminal tools against parents exercising their First Amendment rights at school board meetings.” “The letter renews the Committee’s outstanding requests for documents and communications from Mary C. Wall, a Senior Advisor to the President who served as the liaison between the White House and Executive Branch officials across multiple agencies, as well as the conduit between the White House and the National School Boards Association (NSBA),” the Committee reports. “Although evidence shows the White House was heavily involve...

 National Review: ... Democrats, by their universal opposition to this bill in the House, in the Senate, and from the White House, are the ones sending a message. They are the party that wants to treat normal parental oversight and curiosity as a conspiracy against the state, as presumptively seditious, and as dangerous for children. It is the most noxious Marxist conviction that the American Left cannot shake: that normal family life itself ideologically deforms children, and that only the strong checking and supervisory role of the state can save them from the baleful influence of Mommy and Daddy. ... The Democrats' opposition to the Parents Bill of Rights tells you more about their agenda and they intend for parents to know. 

 Olivia Murray: For decades, political combatants under the hypnosis of leftist ideology have had a stranglehold on academia and the American education system.  The largest teacher's union in the country advertises itself as non-partisan, but almost exclusively backs  Democrat causes and candidates , and the culture of progressive thought so prevalent at the top trickled down, permeating all levels and spheres of education. We've seen schools devolve from institutions of traditional learning into dens of fallacy and pedophilia.   City governments paying adult men  for sexual performances in front of children, revisionist history to promote a Marxist agenda, and school libraries housing books with themes  like  "underage drinking, fondling, masturbation, orgasms, oral sex, sexual intercourse, sexual abuse, statutory rape, incest, and rape" are commonplace.  And parents have had  enough . Despite the claim that school board posit...

 Emerald Robinson: Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson co-signed a letter to AG Merrick Garland informing him that whistleblowers had confirmed the FBI was actually investigating concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” using a so-called “threat tag” created by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. ... This is exactly what AG Merrick Garland testified (under oath before Congress!) was not happening at the FBI. Garland told the House Judiciary Committee last year that even suggesting that the FBI would bother will angry parents at school board meetings was absurd. He said: “I do not believe that parents who testify, speak, argue with, complain about school boards and schools should be classified as domestic terrorists or any kind of criminals…I do not think that parents getting angry at school boards, for whatever reason, constitute domestic terrorism. It’s not even a close question.” Remember my rule of thumb for the Biden regime: when they tell you something is not happening then i...

 Fox News: Early demands from the National School Boards Association to the White House included calling for the deployment of the Army National Guard and the military police to monitor school board meetings, according to an early draft letter the organization's independent review released Friday. In contrast to the final version, the draft of the NSBA letter said, "We ask that the Army National Guard and its Military Police be deployed to certain school districts and related events where students and school personnel have been subjected to acts and threats of violence." The NSBA had originally sent a letter to President Biden in September 2021 that asked for parents protesting at school board meetings to be federally looked into , saying school officials were facing threats and violence at meetings. Most significantly the NSBA requested in its original letter that parents' actions should be examined under the Patriot Act as "domestic terrorists." Then, o...

 Townhall: Despite Attorney General Merrick Garland assuring members of Congress under sworn testimony that the Department of Justice was not using its resources to target concerned parents, according to whistleblowers, the FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents concerned over mask mandates as well as state officials opposing vaccine mandates with a threat tag. The investigations came as a result of Garland’s Oct. 4, 2021, memo directing the FBI to address the threat from concerned parents, following a request from the National School Boards Association. “By October 20, the FBI had operationalized your directive,” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote in a letter. “In an FBI-wide email, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division and Criminal Division announced the creation of a new threat tag—EDUOFFICIALS—and directed all FBI personnel to apply it to school board-related threats.” According to the whistleblowers, the Republicans said that investigations unde...

 Streiff: Saturday, school board elections were held for four suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school districts. Candidates backed by a  conservative parents’  organization  won all 10 seats they contested  and unseated at least three incumbents. Usually, school board elections are low-key affairs that draw scant interest. But ever since COVID, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and mainstreaming of sexual grooming in our classrooms brought the stupidity and cruelty of many school board members to public view, they have become a battleground. Once sane people saw the horror show and bullsh** that was the Loudoun County, Virginia, school board, they started paying attention (ordinarily, I link to articles by colleagues, but in this case, there was so much excellent RedState coverage of the Loudoun County fascism that I’m giving a  single link for all the coverage ). Yesterday’s elections were just a  continuation of the revolt over CRT   that started last year...

 Adam B. Coleman: At the peak of the Critical Race Theory controversy in June of 2021, I was invited to Waukesha, Wisconsin to give a speech in front of a crowd of what was supposed to be a few hundred people about my thoughts on race and CRT in schools. 600 people showed up—double the number the organizers had expected. This wasn't a Trump rally filled with politically active people; on the contrary, it was a crowd of concerned parents who wanted to learn. They were your middle of the road, working-class Americans who had been witnessing their public-school systems actively work against them, and they wanted to understand why, and what to do about it. While the event was centered around CRT and the hyper-racialization happening in the surrounding school districts, I quickly found out that their concerns were much bigger than race; they were worried about things they believed their children were being taught about gender and sexual orientation, too. And they were not wrong: Since t...

Disney is in danger of losing its "family-friendly" business model with its attack on the parents' bill of rights.  After all, it is the parents who decide to take their kids to Disney parks.

 John Nolte: Democrat extremism and the ongoing implosion of America’s government-run school system have given Republicans a seven-point advantage on who can better handle the issue of education. Rasmussen asked 1,000 likely voters, “Who do you trust more to deal with education issues. Democrats or Republicans?” Only 36 percent said Democrats, while 43 percent said Republicans. Eighteen percent said the two parties are “about the same.” What should worry Democrats most of all is that only 34 percent of women chose Democrats, while 42 percent chose the GOP. That’s an eight-point gap. A plurality of 45 percent of black voters chose Democrats, while a whopping 31 percent chose Republicans. Normally, those numbers would be something like 80 percent for Democrats and 11 percent for Republicans. Even 12 percent of Democrats chose the GOP on education, as did a plurality of 42 percent of Independents. Only 25 percent of Independents chose Democrats. Historically, education has been a top...

  Democrats are not supporting the attacks on the Florida Parents Right bill which blocks the discussion of sex with preschoolers through 3rd-grade students.  DeSantis appears to have won this fight with the left and Disney.

 Glenn Reynolds: The parents’ revolution has notched another win. This week, three members of San Francisco’s Board of Education — Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga — suffered overwhelming defeat in a recall election brought by angry parents who felt they were more concerned with lefty politics than with children’s welfare. The parents’ case was strengthened by the fact that they were, well, right. Siva Raj, one of the recall organizers, said, “The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable, to put our kids last.” As COVID raged, the school board paid more attention to renaming schools — it wanted to rename Abraham Lincoln HS because its namesake didn’t show “that black lives ever mattered” to him — than educating kids. Again and again, the board placed woke politics before its actual job. (Collins had even accused Asians of using “white supremacist thinking” to get ahead.) When parents objected, they were ignored, called racists or worse. ...

 Bethany Mandel: Tracy Compton, a mother of two in Fairfax,  Virginia , had voted for Democrats for as long as she can remember, until the COVID-related school closures. 'I tried and went to apply to work with the  Democratic Party . I was told I was not allowed to become a member of the Democratic Party [in Fairfax].' A recording of a reorganization meeting showed fellow Democrats deeming Compton too 'anti-school' to be part of their political efforts. What made Compton anti-school?  She wanted the public schools to fully reopen. When Compton worked to collect signatures for a recall petition for the local school board, she was welcomed out of the rain by a Republican party tent, even after telling them she was a Biden voter. In contrast, when Compton offered the petition to those inside the Democrat party tent, she was yelled at. Now? Given a hypothetical matchup between Kamala Harris or President Joe Biden vs. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, she said she'd vote fo...

 PJ Media: The fallout from the letter sent by the president of the National School Board Association to President Biden, asking the Justice Department to investigate parents who threaten school board members, is still swirling more than two months after the letter became public. Over half of state school board organizations have either protested the letter or withdrawn their support from the national organization. According  to NRO , “27 state school-board groups have openly dissented from the NSBA’s letter and 17 of those have discontinued membership with the headquarters.” Incredibly, Attorney General Merrick Garland concurred with the NSBA letter and sicced the FBI on parents in his memo dated Oct. 4.... ... It also backfired on the Biden administration which was in on the allegations.  We have already seen the results of the parent rebellion in the Virginia races and I think we will see around the country. 

  Fox News: Seven Republicans are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, stating that previous testimony appeared to be "deeply misleading" in describing the department's attempts to counter purported school board intimidation. "The FBI should be going after mobsters, not soccer moms. Attorney General Garland has told one story but the actions of some in the Department of Justice tell another," said Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., in an exclusive statement to Fox News. "He needs to return to the Judiciary Committee and give clear answers to the American people." In a letter Monday, Sasse and others requested Garland clarify his remarks and suggested they conflicted with information from an FBI whistleblower and U.S. attorney's office. ... "We remain deeply concerned that your October 4 Memorandum is being used by the DOJ and the FBI as a basis to pursue investigations against American parents for Fi...

 Silvio Cantu, Jr.: ... Do you want to understand Virginia?  Don't mess with mothers, especially when the household is paying property taxes to fund public education.  It's a beautiful uprising of mothers defending their kids and not taking any crap from anybody. The Democrats are in full panic mode.  It does not matter who wins anymore because these mothers are alive and well from coast to coast. This is from  the AP : McAuliffe, who served as governor from 2014 to 2018, and Democrats are scrambling to stave off disaster after public polling has shifted in Youngkin’s direction in recent weeks. Republicans are optimistic about their chances in the commonwealth, where they haven’t won a statewide race since 2009. Yes, disaster like low black turnout.  This is from  Politico : More than a dozen top Democrats involved in the Virginia gubernatorial race expressed concern about Democrats' standing with Black voters. According to the arti...