John,

Book banners and school board extremists are losing their local races from Ohio to Missouri to Arizona – and it's because people like you are showing up to send them running for the door.

For the past couple of years, Moms for Liberty and other extremist groups have succeeded in infiltrating school boards, boards of education, and public library districts to impose ridiculous and unconstitutional bans on free speech in order to promote their conservative ideas.

They are self-proclaimed soldiers in the culture war, and their mission is to ban classics like The Catcher in the Rye and 1984. But they don't stop there. They want to teach that enslaved Americans learned "marketable skills" and that books featuring LGBTQ+ characters are "pornographic."

But their fame faded fast when regular folks stood up to say "no more" and organized for change in their neighborhoods, schools, and libraries.

For some, that meant making sure they never missed those little elections that pop up in March or April. Others found power in running for those same offices on a platform of being a sensible person who cares about funding and strengthening schools and libraries, not abandoning them.

And it's been great news for progressives and everyone who believes in free speech.

This is the kind of transformative action we can have on the ground. When extremists come for our books, our libraries, and our schools, we can strike back and win. It only takes one good candidate to change an entire neighborhood, school district, or city.

Your support means we can recruit and coach these candidates to victory so we never have to deal with another Moms for Liberty contender screaming about critical race theory again.

Sarah

Sarah Long
Director of Development
Movement Labs