Moms for Liberty endorsed 13 candidates in Iowa. 12 lost.

[progressoid]

Saw this on FBook.

Moms for Liberty chapters across lowa endorsed 13 candidates in the 2023 school board races. Out of the 13, a single candidate won in the 135 school district; a rural district with fewer than 1000 students.

In my neck of the woods, the candidates that were pushing a Moms for Liberty agenda, although they weren't officially part of the Nazi Moms, failed miserably. In fact all of our school board winners were Dems and one left leaning indy. It was a good night.

Here are a few stories:
Moms for Liberty-backed candidates fail in Linn-Mar school board race results
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/moms-for-liberty-backed-candidates-fail-in-linn-mar-school-board-race-results

Johnston School Board gains progressive edge as Moms For Liberty candidates flop
https://iowastartingline.com/2023/11/07/johnston-school-board-gains-progressive-edge-as-moms-for-liberty-candidates-flop/

Moms for Liberty candidates lose in Dallas Center-Grimes school board race
https://iowastartingline.com/2023/11/07/moms-for-liberty-candidates-lose-in-dallas-center-grimes-school-board-race/

[IA8IT]

1. ++++++++++++ Fantastic

[underpants]

2. Hell Yes!

[JT45242]

3. Iowa City had a couple candidates with MFL type statements on their campaign, lost too

There were three people running for Iowa City community school board who had "stop indoctrination" and claims about books sexualizing children on their campaign website without having planned karenhood actual endorsement.

In a choose 4 of 7, they were the bottom three with well under 10 percent each.

[badhair77]

4. Excellent news.

Maybe sanity will prevail.

[Zambero]

5. Iowa needs to put MAGA in the rear view mirror

It wasn't that long ago that Obama-Biden carried the state twice. Perhaps sanity is gradually returning in select locations?

[ancianita]

6. I hate how these women misuse and abuse the spirit and name of motherhood.

[Lonestarblue]

8. It's what white supremacist women have been doing for many decades.

Read the book Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae. It’s truly eye-opening. Here’s part of the description on Amazon.

“Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.

Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has.“

[ancianita]

10. I'm aware. I still hate that they do it. Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll check it out. Though "blaming

mom" has been a favorite soft tool of patriarchally adjacent 'experts' for decades, as well.

As a globally oppressed group, I've often considered patriarchally groomed women to be the inertia of women's advancement. The rest of us women shouldn't put up with that moms for liberty bullshit.

[Peacetrain]

7. Made my night!!!

[SharonClark]

9. Great news!

Thanks for posting your sources.