This book is a very clever and very subtly written,
attempting to promote an agenda that is sexual in nature.
>> When you look up this book on Destiny discover on the schools and
county website.
The book says, this book is about two male penguins fall in love.
What could the intent of this book be?
You got two male penguins that are fall in love and in our society.
I'm sure that's not getting at anything.
God says homosexuality is a sin.
So perverting the graces saying loved anyways and
Jesus did not say to the adulteress who was gonna be stoned people go and
keep sinning and committing adultery.
He said, go and sin no more.
>> I wanna ask you who gave us the institution of marriage?
Is the Almighty God who made the heavens and earth, who made each and
every one of us in his image, male and female for his glory and his glory alone.
Mr Chairman, I would like to ask you believe that
sodomy is a sin against the Almighty God.
>> This is this is not the time to ask questions.
>> I'll be glad to talk to you afterwards.
What is going on?
And why does it feel as though all of a sudden there are all sorts of people
showing up at school board meetings,
panicking over the kinds of books that are offered in school libraries.
Is it an organic effort?
Or is there something else happening here?
And some pretty excellent reporting by Walker Bragman kind
of unloads on the shadowy billionaires behind the scenes.
Who have funded this effort by a group,
a conservative group known as Moms for Liberty.
Now they claim to be a grassroots effort.
They're just trying to take over the public school system to root out the woke
agenda.
But this reporting shows that it's anything but organic or
grassroots and there's quite a bit of dark money behind it.
So let's get to the details, shall we?
According to bradman's reporting, Moms for Liberty,
MFL has emerged as a national force boasting more than 200,000 members or
so called Joyful Warriors and 200 chapters in 44 states.
The 501(C)(4) social welfare nonprofit has a connected
501(C)(3) charity and several political action committees.
Now the the group was founded at the height of the pandemic.
The founders of the group were salty about the fact that schools had shut down,
that students who would return to the classroom had to wear masks and
they wanted to do something about it.
So they decided to form Moms for Liberty and
then all of a sudden they're featured on conservative media.
They're getting all this funding.
What's going on here now?
MFL has been rallying parents against transgender accommodations in schools.
The teaching of honestly any race based curriculum.
So they call it critical race theory.
But that's really just a catch all for
anything that touches on the history of racism in this country and
also they wanna root out anything having to do with LGBTQ+ rights.
Now, I'm gonna get to their funding in just a moment.
But before I do Jake, I mean the right wing any cause they have,
it's a well oiled machine.
They've got this infrastructure set up that, I'm gonna be honest.
It's enviable, right.
>> 100%.
So look,
I love this piece by walking one because it exposes this group as fake grassroots.
And it's an interesting story in and of itself, but two, because it's a great
story of how the imbalance is created between the right wing and the left wing.
Whenever a group pops up, even if it started as a grassroots in the beginning,
like to Rando started to decide to form a group.
Well, what happens?
Two things happen in the right wing side.
One is money flows in right, instantly billionaires that have a vested
interest in X, Y or Z hating gay people hating black people.
But mainly it's usually for other propaganda reasons.
But they will come in and fund groups like this and
you see this group instantly start getting secret donors and huge amounts, right.
And then the second thing that happens is right wing media is very well organized.
So they start appearing on all the shows and
get extra publicity that then fills their coffers with small donors.
Which then allows them to pretend they were grassroots all along when
that's actually a very small percentage of the funding that they're getting behind
the scenes, right.
And then that takes random groups that started as nothing and
boom elevates them with money and media.
>> In fact, in 2021,
all of a sudden they received this massive contribution from a mystery donor.
And I should note part of the problem is that dark money is allowed, right.
So they do not have to disclose who their donors are.
But through Bradman's reporting,
we learned quite a bit in regard to like who's behind funding this effort.
And then in terms of the right wing media, I mean, all you have to do is google Moms
for Liberty and you'll see them on Tucker Carlson show,
you'll see them on daily wire, you'll see them all over the place.
Because that's the one thing, this is a side note and
it's mostly directed toward the left.
That's the difference between the right wing and the left wing media, the right
wing, because they're so well funded and there's plenty of money to go around.
They don't have to, I guess fight for limited or scarce resources.
They're very friendly with each other and they work together to amplify whatever
cause they're working on or whatever cause they care about.
Whereas on the left, there's so much infighting that it's nearly impossible to
amplify the message that we wanna amplify because we're too busy fighting each
other, you get what I'm saying?
>> I do, and there's two reasons for that too.
So, look, but the third benefit that these right wing groups get is once right wing
media has legitimized them and the amount of money that they have raised,
quote unquote, legitimized them.
Then mainstream media covers them nonstop.
So then they get into this virtuous circle of nonstop coverage.
Now let's go to the left wingers and is talking about what happens there.
Well, there's some corporate democratic groups that pretend to care about cause or
to write and they go through a similar process.
They're funded by democratic billionaires, etc, but they never ever push for
progressive proposals because that would defeat the whole point.
So if you're a genuine progressive group, well, no legislators come to help you.
That's even the most progressive legislators are very loath to
help progressive groups.
I don't know if they think it's beneath them.
I don't know what it is.
Okay, but they won't help you, money.
There's no money for progressives, there's even the democratic donors want tax cuts,
the regulation, etc.
They don't wanna help progressives who would raise their taxes and
give people health care and get them higher wages.
So there's just no money.
So there's no promotion.
And then in terms of progressive media, I've been interviewing folks like this for
years on tyt, I don't see almost anyone else doing it, right.
So there isn't any cavalry outside of us to help folks.
And then that gets leads to the second phenomenon, which Ana was referring to,
which is okay, number one, you didn't have any help to begin with.
None of the infrastructure the right wing has.
And then second of all, we have a problem on the left,
which is we love to tear each other apart, okay.
So if a group is doing well, you name the category, right?
But if a group is doing well, most other progressives will or left this instead or
whatever.
So portions of the left wing will attack that.
God Forbid any of their leaders or did something wrong?
Like when they were 13, they're okay, that's it.
We don't even need the right wing, we don't even need the corporate guys,
we're gonna tear you down.
So then that creates a system where the right wing is constantly being lifted up
and the progressive left wing is constantly being ripped down.
And then those groups don't get extra press from the mainstream media.
So then our message never gets out.
And the right wing message gets out nonstop.
>> Now, let's talk about the money behind this organization, Moms for Liberty.
So business aligned right wing groups had long been fighting to restore
economic normalcy amid the pandemic waging a war on public health measures and
schools quickly emerged as a battlefront.
In April 2020 school reopening guide from consultancy, McKinsey and
Company estimated that 27 million Americans needed childcare to work.
And companies, corporations rely on the public school
system as childcare for the employees.
When public schools are shut down, parents can't afford the astronomical
prices associated with private childcare companies.
And so they have no choice but to stay home and provide the childcare.
Because what's the point of working if your entire paycheck is gonna go toward
child care for your kids so you can work now.
So that is what made the company's so
obsessed with the issue of schools reopening, right.
And so they were lobbying hard to get the schools to reopen as quickly as possible
because they wanted their workers back in the office.
So, after campaign finance records showed that Moms for Liberty had paid for
okay, so the people behind, let me backtrack for a second.
So the original, like founders of Moms for Liberty,
three women, woman named Tina, Desko Wick, Tiffany justice and
Bridget Ziegler and her husband, by the way, is cChristian.
Her husband christian is a Sarasota county commissioner, so
he's involved in politics in Florida.
Now after campaign finance records showed that Moms for
Liberty had paid Ziegler's husband's company, $21,000.
She distanced herself from the group, but she's still involved.
She's just not in the group, right.
With that said in 2021, of Moms for Liberty's total
$370,000 in revenue came from contributions and grants of that,
40% came from a single anonymous $100,000 donation.
Nearly 60% of its contributions and grants total 40% of
its overall revenue came from just five anonymous donations.
Okay.
Only about $28,000 or less than 8% of the group's total revenue
came from other revenue, which includes sales of merchandise.
Okay, so the big donations are coming from dark money donors and
they're not disclosing who they are.
And so they have connections to the Council for National Policy, CNP and
they've been described by the New York times as a little known club
of a few 100 of the most powerful conservatives in the country.
Okay, the Betsy DeVos family, they're part of this organization.
And Betsy DeVos, Lo and Behold ended up being a keynote speaker for
the Council for national policies like annual event and
also the Moms for Liberty event as well.
Then there's morton Blackwell, he's a member of the Council for
National Policy and the President of the Leadership Institute.
Which is a Virginia based dark money outfit dedicated to training conservatives
to get involved in politics.
The Leadership Institute was the largest sponsor of Moms for
Liberty's 2022 annual conference, NFL Co-founder Ziegler.
Who has since left the group is the current director of school board
programs there.
So that's why she's still involved, although she's not still in the group.
And NFL's website directs parents to the institute and
other CNP connected sponsors of its 2022 conference,
the coke funded Heritage Foundation.
Of course, the DC based conservative think tank that we talk about quite often.
And so it's the Koch brothers, they're behind it, clearly, the same players
that we are all familiar with on the right, the big funders on the right,
they're the ones behind this effort with Moms for Liberty.
>> So you get a Progressive reporter and
all of a sudden they're exposing what's actually happening behind the scenes now.
Have you ever read any mainstream media articles about
this group that explained to you that no, they're just funded by billionaires.
They make it, the mainstream media helps them with their propaganda by making it
appear that it's a grassroots group that is worried about a war on parents.
That's the propaganda that they use.
Now in reality, it's actually funded by guys who are doing a war on teachers.
Because teachers give to the Democratic Party, the Teachers Union does and
they wanna privatize education so they can make a profit off of it.
And and the way to do that is to destroy public education.
Did you ever get that sense from any of the mainstream media
coverage of this story.
No, you get the sense that, these are actually aggrieved parents that are so
worried and they all got together and
they're just worried about how the democrats are are going after parents.
No, total nonsense.
You guys, you can tell how much they lie with that fun little t-shirt fact, right.
So the leaders of the group are like,
we're making money mainly from the t-shirts.
We sell so many t-shirts.
That's how Yyah, but they know their own books.
They know that that's 8% of their revenue.
Why are they saying that 8% of revenue is the major way
that they make money because they don't want you to find out.
They're actually funded by these right wing organizations with
a completely different agenda that they're not telling you at all.