Sanity and Safety in Our Schools

Sanity and Safety in Our Schools

August 26, 2025

Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell

Guest: Charlie Misseijer

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 8/26/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, we’re so glad that you have decided to carve out another hour to be with us and allow us to encourage and enlighten you on the subjects that should matter to followers of Christ. I’m Jamie Mitchell, director of church culture at the American Pastors Network, and I’ll be your host for today. I have a confession. I love to watch YouTube videos. They don’t have to be long, especially the ones that capture events that take place in real time and the ones that hold authorities to accountability and especially the ones that are doing bad things. I love the police ones, but sometimes they cross the line when they’re caught on video. I can’t get enough of those hidden videos. Unsuspecting government workers when they spill the beans on corruption that’s happening in state or federal government, but the videos I particularly like watching are those of city council and even better school board meetings.

You see, what we have witnessed over the past few years is everyday citizens are becoming prepared to reveal truth and confront those in power. We’ve seen a rise of parents gravely concerned of what’s happening in their kids’ classrooms, starting to turn the light on education and some of the craziness that’s being taught and the policies that are being thrusted on our kids and their families. This concern gave rise to groups of moms who have organized that are now mobilizing other moms to stand up for their children and start holding education and political leaders accountable. They’re called Moms for Liberty. And today I’m thrilled to have , Charlie Misseijer, who is the director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for Moms for Liberty as our guest to learn more about Moms for Liberty and what’s happening in our schools and the legislative bodies across America and get you ready for your kids going back to school. Charlie, welcome to Stand in the Gap Today.

Charlie Misseijer:

Thank you so much for the intro, Jamie. It’s a pleasure to be on the air with you today representing all of our phenomenal moms and dads and grandparents across the nation and their work within Moms for Liberty’s mission.

Jamie Mitchell:

Hey Charlie, take a moment and help us understand Moms for Liberty. How did it start? What do you guys do and what do you attempt to accomplish and how big it has grown in a fairly short period of time?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, all great questions. Moms for Liberty started back in January of 20 21, 4 and a half years ago, and two former school board members named Tina Kovich and Tiffany Justice united to establish Moms for Liberty, an organization dedicated to empowering parents to advocate effectively for their children at school board meetings and across all levels of government. It was born out of government overstep during the COVID era mandates, and they drew from their firsthand experience recognizing that the fundamental right of parents was to guide their children’s upbringing and that that was under threat, so they witnessed policies and curricula that hindered their children’s mastery of the essential skills and jeopardize their overall development and education. We’ve grown pretty large, Jamie with 500 bucks. They started out designed a logo, started a website, bought some t-shirts to sell, but today we’ve grown into over 300 chapters from the initial two and 100,000 over a hundred thousand members in 48 states.

It’s been quite the meteoric rise. I often say to people that today you’d be hard pressed to find one elected official in all of America that has not heard of Moms for Liberty. You had asked what we attempt to accomplish and ultimately we’re attempting to accomplish precisely what our mission states that we are dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. As you know, Jamie, we have a lot of folks out there who attempt to redefine what and who we are about, but at the end of the day, we desire that all Americans find themselves thriving in a culture of liberty, and we do this really in three ways and you mentioned one at the outset standing for truth, so that’s one big way. A second big way is by building relationships, and a third is by empowering others.

In fact, I understand our next line of merch here at Moms for Liberty may be called the We Stand for Truth Line because that’s exactly what we do. And as far as what I do specifically, I serve as the National Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs. Now, that’s a bit of a mouthful, which basically says that I have way too much to do and much too little time to do it, but in all seriousness, one of my main responsibilities is to make sure that we’re functioning efficiently and effectively as we advocate for legislation within our mission, and then Lord willing seeing it over the finish line and onto the Governor’s desk for his or her signature or opposing, and then ultimately stopping bad legislation that will jeopardize the liberty of our families.

Jamie Mitchell:

Charlie, I’m not the outdoor type, but I am fully aware that one of the things I’ve learned is you never get between a mama bear and her cub, and I think that best describes what Moms for Liberty is about, and I hear your role in regarding policy and legislative and those kinds of things in the last few minutes that we have in this first segment, how has Moms for Liberty been at pressuring those laws either being written or bad laws being stopped?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, well, Jamie, I actually do live in the middle of the woods and have several videos of bears on my property, one with a mama bear standing in the bed of my truck, and I can confirm that you do not want to get between Mama Bear and her, in that case, her three cubs. The amazing phenomena about Moms Show Liberty is that from the beginning we were able to enlist and activate a segment of the population, a demographic, the 25 to 45-year-old mom that hadn’t been all that engaged on the issues, and now they are. As far as what I do, I help ensure that we’re officially and effectively advocating for legislation within our mission by setting up what we call Moms for Liberty legislative committees in our states. And so far we’ve set up 23 over the past three years, as you’re aware, we started out organizing our chapters at the county level, endorsing candidates and school board races.

We still do that, but we found that we could be that much more effective if we also advocated at the state level by forming relationships in our state houses and building coalitions with like-minded organizations and allies to support our mission related goals and objectives. As we persistently scale and increase our number of legislative committees, we’ve increased our number of wins year over year, some of which I’ll discuss a little later in the program. So I work with these committees to set their priorities for the upcoming legislative sessions, make any adjustments to those along the way, and provide resources like model bills that have worked in other states. All that to say our work has been extremely effective in protecting parental rights at all levels of government.

Jamie Mitchell:

Later in the program, we are going to give you information how you can find out about Moms for Liberty, join a local chapter, maybe start one, but I want Charlie in our next segment to outline some of the threats that our children and parents are seeing throughout the country. You may be a mama bear listening today. You may be a papa bear. We don’t care, but we believe that parents need to take an interest in their kids’ education, and so that’s what today’s program is about here. Stand in the Gap today. Well, welcome back. Today’s program is entitled Sanity and Safety in Our Schools, and to help us look at this topic, Charlie Misseijer from Moms for Liberty. Charlie, just so our audience is fully aware of the clear and present danger of our kids that are facing in schools today, can you outline the three or four, what you might consider top threats that moms for are contending with and they’re seeing as we look across the landscape of schools in America?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, Jamie, first I’d like to frame this part of the discussion by stating I don’t have to hunt down or invent issues, what you call clear and present dangers to our kids. These issues that we face are as much spiritual battles as anything else. Whatever subtlety we use to blame on Satan regarding threats to a person’s wellbeing, well, that subtlety is no more the curtain’s been ripped back for all to see what the obvious threats to our kids are. If we ever get off focus, we need to base ourselves by remembering why we got into this fight in the first place. Our kids, Jeanie, I’ve got eight children of my own and I always say that my wife and I, we’ve got one shot to do this right, to raise up our kids and the nurture and admonition of the Lord and his word while protecting them from all of the outside interference and distractions and dangers that Satan lays in their way.

They’re only kids one time through. So as parents, we need to take that responsibility that what I call one shot very seriously, to inoculate against any of these threats that the world, the flesh and the devil throws at our kids. And even then, it’s like they say at some point you got to let go and let God. So when drilling down on the most challenging issues that we’re facing as an entity that is organized from the bottom up here at Mom’s For Liberty, I’ll give you four. And the first one is the challenge of social emotional learning or what we call SEL where there’s a general focus on a child’s feelings in the classroom rather than learning facts that other knowledge can be built upon. SEL programs and curriculum are often used to promote progressive ideas like diversity, equity, and inclusion that seeks to divide us based upon our race and gender distinctions, and they can become a tool for indoctrination, teaching specific political or social beliefs rather than actual social emotional skills.

There’s also data privacy and lack of transparency issues that can arise through surveys that students take in relation to their SEL progress and not least on the subject, the fact that SEL takes so much time away from the core academic subjects that we’re already lagging so far behind in a second major danger zone deals with tech related issues. There’s a major battle going on for a child’s attention at school. Teachers are competing with cell phones and all that. Those imply when we’re kids, you and I, we just wanted more time at recess, but today with cell phones, the rise of ai, another area that we’re starting to just scrape the surface of what happens after school, for example, with the entire world at the kids’ fingertips on this little screen, the dangers are rampant. Anxiety and depression among kids is an all time high disrupted sleep patterns, reduced attention spans, poor academic performance, health issues, behavioral issues, altered cognitive development, impaired social skills, and appropriate content.

We’ve got cyber bullying, sextortion and coming from that, even death. And of course I can’t leave out the word addiction because that’s exactly what this phone use does, these what I call tiny micro macro computers and what they do to a child, they addict. Look, most parents don’t want to hear my solution. My solution is just don’t give your kids a phone, at least not one that does anything beyond a basic call or text. My own kids call those burner phones. So maybe give your kid a burner phone if you must. A third threat is a general lack of competency and what we used to call the three Rs, the reading, writing, and arithmetic. A lot of this is due to the first two dangers that I already discussed, SEL and tech, according to our nation’s report card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 33% Jamie, a fourth graders are proficient in reading and 39% in math.

That is a big fat fail. We’ve got to get back to the basics. And then the last danger that I’ll discuss for now harbors a panoply of dangers, sub dangers, let’s call ’em that come under what is called the WSCC or WSC model, the whole school, whole community, whole child school-based health clinic. If you’ve not heard of these listeners or don’t really know what they are, then I implore you to do an internet search on the CDC framework that includes 10 components. Buried in there is the health services component, which basically brings a Planned Parenthood to a school campus near you. Jamie, I understand you’ve hung out in North Carolina a good bit. Let me ask you, what is North Carolina’s age of consent for reportable diseases like vene ones or pregnancy or emotional disturbances where they will call a licensed counselor or psychologist into play?

Would you say that the age of consent is 18? Is it 16? Is it 14? Maybe 12. If you said there is not one, Jamie, then you would be correct. As crazy as that sounds. So for example, little Susie finds out she’s pregnant at 13. What can the school-based health center do? If you answer prescribed chemical abortion drugs without parental consent, you would be correct. Or little Tommy experiences an emotional disturbance at age 12 and wants to be known as Katie with the pronouns she her. What can the school-based health center do? They can start the transition process and depending on age of consent laws in your state, they may be able to do it without parental consent. I’m proud to say in 2024, my home state of South Carolina has the Help Not Harm Bill, which outlaws gender reassignment surgeries for minors in our state. Our moms helped stop the gross physical mutilation of our children. That should be a no-brainer, but that is the type of evil that we are fighting today. I might add that these school-based health clinics, Jamie, these school-based health centers are popping up all over the map, almost 4,000 in the United States and county.

Jamie Mitchell:

Wow. Charlie, that is so good. It’s bad in some respects, but being able to focus and drill down on those four issues. But Charlie, one of the major issues that I see in the news and probably a lot of people see is men and women’s sports issues. I thought we would start to see this curtail and stop, but it’s ramping up. We see the craziness in Loudoun County recently. Can you speak to this issue and can you also help people understand what Title IX means and how it’s being affected?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, the Loudoun example is crazy if you’ve been watching the news, but what should be obvious to us is just not today in a world turned upside down. I would never claim that every male is stronger and a better athlete than every female. That would be folly. But generally speaking, Jamie, when men and women participate in organized sport, males possess inherent physical advantage like greater strength, which is predicated on their greater muscle mass bone density due to higher testosterone levels post puberty. This inherent advantage creates an unlevel playing field, which can cause female athletes physical harm when competing against male athletes and rob them of their opportunities and achievements. And if these males claim to be the opposite gender and allowed to use the locker room that they identify with, then this poses a litany of issues that can arise in this type of setting.

So you mentioned Title IX and ask how this debate relates to it and how Title IX is being effective. Let’s take a moment to understand Title ix. In 1972, Congressman enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments to ensure equal educational and athletic opportunities for all students regardless of their sex. This law represented years of hard fought legal battles to ensure every American is treated equally as enshrined in our constitution and Declaration of Independence. Prior to Title ix, only 15% of college athletes were and only one in 27 girls played sports. Today, over 40% of college athletes are women and two in five girls play sports. We found that high school girls who participate in sports are also less likely to drop out of school, less likely to smoke and drink and become pregnant, and they become more competitive and achieve higher in school business and in life.

So about 15 months ago, Moms for Liberty took the lead in providing an online resource kit to help inform our constituent parents on not only the history of Title IX and how it operates, but also combat the attacks of the Biden administration under a Biden executive order. The US Department of Ed fundamentally redefined the entire framework of Title IX without congressional authorization by expanding the definition of sex to not include just biological sex, but also gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy or related conditions, which includes abortion and any sex or gender expression. Their radical redefinition of sex was a step backward for women’s rights and it jeopardized student safety and privacy and destroyed fairness in women’s sports. So these new Title IX regulations await erased women and girls, ignored the Constitution, eliminated due process, compelled speech and strip parents of their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their child, including decisions regarding their education, medical care, morality, and religion. So we’ve provided a resolution for parents to bring their school board to resist implementing these changes, and we also had a huge victory when brave parents of ours were willing to be listed as named plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that successfully challenged Biden’s changes through a preliminary injunction blocking the new rules from being enforced at schools with Mons to liberty members. And so this became part of a broader legal effort that culminated a federal court decision that vacated those rules.

Jamie Mitchell:

Charlie, outstanding. We now understand how serious the threat is, but when we come back, what strategies can we use to bring about change and turn the light on the darkness. Stay with us here at Stand In the Gap. Well, thanks for staying with us. We’re talking to Charlie Misseijer who is with Moms for Liberty, a parent driven educational advocacy group and who have state chapters organized to confront and bring change in our schools. We’ve learned some of the threats that our kids are now facing. Charlie, the way in which Moms for Liberty is attempting to bring change is, I understand multidimensional, it’s not that they are picketing or protesting schools or school boards, but you are doing a number of things to counteract the assault on our kids within the school systems. Can you explain the ways that you’re trying to bring about change and then later in this segment I want to talk specifically about school boards, but what ways are Moms for Liberty trying to bring change within the schools and address these threats that you just outlined?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, you’re right, Jamie. Typically it’s the other side ticketing and protesting us or perhaps actions more sinister and destructive. Case in point, our moms for Liberty, Alabama, just through their annual fundraiser a few months ago, their headliner was Marjorie Taylor Green and a few days before he arrived, the opposition spray painted the venue walls with profanity and death threats and then they continued those threats once we arrived. I don’t know when they’re going to learn that. That kind of thing just fuels our fire and desire to better protect our kids against those who are not of right mind. I fashion myself soon the left. I was the student in the Bob Jones University Library pulling out copies of Dos Capital and the Communist Manifesto my sophomore year, not because I aspired to become a Karl Marx disciple, but I wanted to understand why and how his message resonated so well with the masses.

Spoiler alert, it’s because he told them what they wanted to hear and provided a roadmap. Progressives call it community organizing, right? As in Obama was a community organizer before he became a US Senator and then a president. But imagine friends what can happen when you organize people like parents around real achievable goals that are purely altruistic. I mean, what is more altruistic? What relationship involves more acts of selflessness potentially than that of a parent for a child? So for the last 115 ish years, progressives has played this long patient game with society and culture using their tools to exert pressure and change on our institutions where knowledge streamed from government, academia, and media. And so for decades and decades, we conservatives sat on our hands and reacted, but no more we’re going to take these institutions back through elections, education and policy change. We can’t afford to sit on our hands.

Why? Because our kids are at stake. So we bring change through a plethora of options depending on the situation. One way, Jamie is to be loud. I don’t mean scream at the top of your lungs loud. I don’t even mean scream at all. I simply mean amplify the issue to a quote decibel level that people can understand. Maybe it’s writing an op-ed on an issue or a white paper or an amicus brief. Perhaps it’s holding a Mom’s for Liberty legislative day rally on the steps of the capitol for a bill or quietly sending a memo to your house and Senate members perhaps hosting a breakfast for legislators where they sit and listen to your husbands and wives for 20 minutes. Maybe it’s in the form of a town hall or debate, but Mom’s for Liberty organizing at the county and state levels. With that, we can elevate and amplify our voice as one on a matter.

But like the old adage goes, no one cares how much you have to say until they know how much you care. So central to fulfilling our mission is relationship building. Our elected officials may be good people, but the best of men are just men at best. They’ve got lots on their plate. They’re not subject matter experts on everything. So we need to sometimes educate our elected officials on some of the bills coming down the pipe. So be loud, be organized, build relationships, educate and Jamie when needed litigate. I often say that litigation is the left’s love language while it’s time that we show them the love because they’ve been trouncing judicial precedent for decades this way and it’s high time that we gain background. And these are some of the ways that we’re doing it. In my specific role as director of Policy and legislative affairs, I have the distinct privilege of helping resource and prepare our parents to face the opposition, even though most of them enter into this arena for their kids as political and policy novices, it can be challenging but also extremely rewarding. My assistance can be in the form of model legislation, working on their testimonies to the legislative bodies, helping distill down their legislative priorities, communicating with state leaders on kinks in particular bills. A lot of times I help improve bill language and sometimes it takes me being the bad guy to say when I say no to a bill that’s not within our mission or in the best interest of our parents and their children.

Jamie Mitchell:

Charlie, one of the things that I think that’s important that Moms for Liberty has done, it’s raised this awareness that we need to be knowing what our school boards are doing and attending school board meetings and those kinds of things. Can you address that in a very practical sense? I mean, I live in a community now. I’m older, I don’t have any kids in the home, but should I be concerned what’s happening at their school boards and also address the Christian school parent and the homeschool parent. They don’t have kids in the public school and they might throw their hands up and say, well, it doesn’t really matter to me. I’ve got my kids somewhere else. Why should we be concerned what’s happening at the school board level?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah. Since the inception of Mom’s For Liberty, we’ve focused on the school board slash county slash district level change. If you remember Old House speaker Tip O’Neill said, all politics is local for far too long. This was ignored by conservatives. So this is a massive area. We also seek to gain background. And now four years into this grand experiment of Mom’s for Liberty, over 500 of our endorsed candidates have won school board seats with some school boards even flipping. This is important because school boards enact policies. I don’t care if your kid is homeschooled or a private school to Christian school. This is important because our local school boards enact policies that cover a broad range of what children experience in school every day in your communities like adopting curriculum, they set student conduct expectations and disciplinary actions. They hire personnel and set tech policy and develop student health and safety policies, which all rank very high for our parents.

And if you ask, have we been effective in this way? Well unequivocally, yes, it’s brought a microscope to all these aforementioned policy areas that our local school board set. It lends transparency, it lends accountability in an area that had been long forgotten. And I know that my local chapter, our Moms for Liberty chapter board, makes sure that we have representation there at every school board meeting to ask any questions or make any comments that will shed a little more light on the process. So parents, even if you don’t have your kids in public schools, you should attend your local school board meetings because we should all be interested in good stewardship of the resources that we’re putting into the system as taxpayers and members of the community at large. It also allows you to stay informed about crucial decisions while ensuring your voice is heard.

Jamie Mitchell:

Charlie, I was just reading an article today about the Winston-Salem North Carolina school system. They are in hot water because there are literally millions of dollars that are missing. And so this issue becomes one of stewardship of where our tax payer money goes. And really there is at some level corruption because when there’s money involved, the corruption follows. And so as citizens, as voters, as Christians, we should be concerned at this level. I mean, the world has been concerned about it. They’ve gotten a headstart on us when it comes to knowing where the money is and being able to manipulate it. Isn’t that the case?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, that’s right. I mean, I always say you got to follow the money. And that’s something I’ve encouraged our parents, our parents to do is follow those funds, know where they’re coming from and where they’re going. We’ve seen these budgets bloat during COVID and not come back down. But yeah, we need to hold our elected officials and those that control those budgets feed to the fire. Even though my main focus is state policy, there’s inevitably federal bills that also reflect what’s going on here at the state level. And so one may ask, why not just get stuff passed at the federal level so all the states should have to comply like in this area we’re talking about. But that may sound like a great plan until you consider the division and the gridlock that exists in our US Congress, the votes that are needed to get through what have become partisan bills, even though they should not be when it comes to protecting our kids and parental rights to raise them as we see fit, that the votes just aren’t there.

So this state versus federal issue can be a consequence of federalism is designed by our founders, but first and foremost, moms for Liberty is a parental rights organization. Thus, we believe that parents have the fundamental right to direct and decide the upbringing, education, and care of our kids. Fundamental right means that those rights are bestowed upon parents by God, not government. Over half our states still don’t protect the fundamental rights. So parents are at a major disadvantage when government t trample on their rights. And in the case of parental rights bills or PBRs, we’re presenting them at both the state and federal level. And in 2024, we saw a great one passed in the state of Tennessee. This year, PBRs are signed in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and the federal version sponsored.

Jamie Mitchell:

Hey, hey Charlie. Charlie, don’t get ahead. We’re going to talk about victories in our last segment. Friends, we need to be vigilant. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. I believe over time we make enough noise, we can make enough change. Stay with us as we finish up. Well, I hope you’ve been both encouraged and motivated as we’ve been discussing the need for parents to step up and get involved with your kids’ education and hold those in power, the school board’s, administrators, teachers, even the legislation accountable. Listen, these are our kids. We have the ultimate responsibility before Almighty God to raise them and decide what they should hear, see, and learn. Charlie, thank you for being with us. But before time slips away, how can our listeners get involved with Moms for Liberty and what opportunities are there for them?

Charlie Misseijer:

Well, Jamie, there are ample opportunities for folks to get involved with Moms for Liberty. It was Greek philosopher Aristotle who opined that all who have meditated on the art of governing mankind has been convinced that the state of empires depends on the education of the youth. So whether you are a parent, a grandparent on both of those, or an American, I’m that too, who’s concerned with the direction of this country, you can and you should get involved. You can help by joining your local chapter. If you don’t have a local chapter, you can become an at large number through our website@momsliberty.org. Or you can start a chapter in your own county. You can follow us on social media, Facebook, Instagram, X, all the ways. And then another way is you can always donate through our website. Mom’s For Liberty is primarily a 5 0 1 C four organization, so charitable donations are not tax deductible, but I operate on the 5 0 1 C3 side of things where they can be. So I would say give time, effort, finances, anything that you have that can help in this quest to protect our parental rights, to raise our children as we see fit from government overstep.

Jamie Mitchell:

That’s great, and we want to encourage people to step up and to get involved in that way. Charlie, we closed. I noticed that you on your website that you I think celebrated the hundredth anniversary of a significant event marking a hundred years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Pierce verse, the Society of Sisters in 1925, which affirmed the child is not a mere creature of the state. That ruling confirmed what we’ve already known, that parents, not the government, have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing education of a child. And in honor of that, you’ve been highlighting the hundred victories that you have witnessed at Moms for Liberty, and you started to touch on them in our last segment. Can you encourage our listeners and share some of the significant victories that you’ve seen recently from your work, but more importantly just for the benefit of parents and children?

Charlie Misseijer:

Yeah, Jamie, we’re a doer organization, and I’d love to take a few minutes to highlight all of the hard work our parents have been doing on the front lines of this battle for what is good and right when it comes to raising their children. I want to read as many of these victories that we have time left for. I mentioned before that we’ve seen some big frontal rights bills pass, which is very important to us as an organization. This year we saw some signed in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia. But we’ve seen so many different types of victories that represent what we’ve discussed today all around the country. One of our moms or chapter chair in Montgomery County, Maryland was asked to testify, for example, in front of Congress regarding age inappropriate and sexually explicit content in their public schools in Berkeley County, South Carolina. A local chapter helped expand the conservative super majority now to a seven two school victory, solidifying control over the curriculum safety and parental transparency to better serve families.

In Leon County, Florida, a chapter led review of library materials resulted in the removal of books, promoting gender ideology from elementary schools, ensuring age appropriate content for young learners. You mentioned Loudoun County, Virginia in a different case, a locker room case recently. But through persistent advocacy, the Loudoun County chapter’s efforts help drive updates to curriculum review policies. Following significant media exposure and community involvement in Hayes County, Texas, we helped secure a hard fought conservative victory in a highly contested Texas election with the strategic endorsements and grassroots efforts door to door outreach, which proved instrumental York County Pennsylvania chapter mobilized the community to challenge a harmful Title IX rewrite that we talked about earlier, successfully pressuring the school board to delay policy implementation to comply with Moms Liberty’s preliminary injunction out in California Yellow County, we celebrated a significant legal victory for free speech with a $70,000 settlement awarded for legal fees, which reinforced the importance of parental rights.

My chapter chair and state legislative chair in Madison County, Alabama hosted a highly successful book reading with Kurt Cameron and Riley Gaines. Over 300 people attended promoting parental engagement, education and Victory and Victory. We celebrated a hundred of these up in Anchorage, Alaska, partnering with a nonprofit just to serve, or it’s called just serve to deliver 93 coats to school children in need, demonstrating a commitment to both educational and community support in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Our chapter chair there, Anna Elizabeth Funder, became a fierce advocate for raising awareness about the fentanyl crisis here in America. She lost her son this way, and she tirelessly works to protect families and children from the devastating effects of that epidemic. We worked very hard this past session in Texas with Governor Abbott who signed our parent pledge and eventually signed later in the session, a major expansion of school choice via educational savings accounts there in Florida, an anti-communism bill 15 curriculum toward anti-communist education, reinforcing patriotic principles and civic responsibilities.

South Carolina, big H House Bill 34 24, the Child Online Safety Act, which safeguards children from harmful online content by requiring strict age verifications. And so we see in state, after state, after state legislative victories, local victories. I’ll read a few more here. Wisconsin. They had a 76% school board win rate, which was a major electoral victory demonstrating the power of our grassroots, informing and activating parents in Kentucky, a parental opt out for sex ed bill task, giving parents the power to opt their children out of sex education, which reinforces family values in Utah. SB 1 22 gave parents the power to observe instruction, so transparency there and opt their kids out of controversial content. In Maryland, deep blue state, we had HV 0 5 5 8, which dangerous curriculum overhaul was successfully blocked thanks to engaged parents. So that’s an example of where we stopped a bad deal.

Jamie Mitchell:

Charlie. Charlie, I got to ask you the fruit that is coming from parents now, uniting has been an amazing, amazing thing in a very short period of time, especially seeing that Moms for Liberty was just started just a few years ago. And if anything, this program has shown us that no voice is a small voice if it unites, and what an encouragement. I got to have you back because I want to talk about teachers unions and other things, but Charlie Misseijer  and Moms for Liberty, thank you. You see, friends, even though we’re in dark days, there is a whole lot of discouragement out there. When God’s people unite, things can happen. And that’s one thing for sure that these moms and others who care about our kids, they need courage. It is the virtue of the day that we need. So as I say, at the end of every program, live and lead with courage. Your kids need that type of parent today. So until tomorrow, thank you for listening to Stand In the Gap Today.