Moms for Liberty is in the White House, but that doesn’t mean it’s winning
Moms for Liberty, an anti-LGBTQ+ group, has connections to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and has grown to 115,000 members across 45 states, but its increasingly toxic extremism is causing it to lose school board races nationwide. Experts say state and local opposition groups can help weaken its influence.
Moms for Liberty (M4L), an anti-LGBTQ+ group, emerged in January 2021 with three co-founders who were school board members in conservative Florida districts. The group aligned itself with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential ambitions and opposed LGBTQ+-inclusive educational policies. DeSantis appointed M4L co-founder Tina Descovich to his state's ethics commission and installed other M4L members to key positions. By July 2022, M4L boasted 100,000 members in 200 chapters across 38 states and celebrated the election of 340 of its 723 endorsed school board candidates. However, by 2023, the group's win rate dropped to 33% as its extremism became more apparent. Experts from the Southern Poverty Law Center and Equality Florida say M4L's toxic extremism is causing it to lose influence, and state and local opposition groups can help weaken it further.
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