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June 7, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Parents vs. the Perverts Party with Tina Descovich
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Government Weaponization Against Families 00:14:42
Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show. Moms for Liberty is targeted by the federal government.
We talk about that and the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, HRC combined, and then we have Tina Descovich to respond exclusively in this episode all about the weaponization of government, all about the weaponization of nonprofits against conservative groups.
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It's quite a news day.
Mike Pence is running for the presidency.
Chris Christie announced yesterday.
We will talk about that.
But first, where does all this pride stuff come from?
It feels like, I mean, it's so forced.
It is centralized.
You turn around, another corporation has changed their logo to a rainbow equivalent.
Is this coming from the grassroots?
And the answer is no.
There are a series of very well-funded 501c3 foundation-funded groups on the left that push all of this.
Some of them you might recognize, like the Anti-Defamation League or the Human Rights Campaign, or the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Now, let's focus on the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They are one of the best-funded organizations in the country.
They're unbelievably well-funded.
They're sitting on $700 million cash, almost a billion-dollar endowment.
Now, they were formed about 50 years ago to try to sue KKK groups.
But of course, as the trend has shown itself in other ways, there's a supply and demand problem with racism.
There's a supply and demand problem with hate.
This country is actually not that hateful.
We're a decent country.
Our people are largely virtuous and noble and don't go around on pickup trucks with Confederate flags and shotguns looking for black people to kill.
This doesn't really happen at all, actually.
The country has become racially decent over the last 20 or 30 years, largely in our behavior.
Now, of course, there's an outward war on white people, a war on Asians.
But as far as relations through our laws and our customs towards blacks, the country is in a far better place than it was 20 or 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 years ago.
That is a fact.
But the Southern Poverty Law Center has a business model.
They are incentivized to peddle a lie.
In fact, they get more donations.
They get their salaries, their benefits, all the stuff that supports their lifestyle is based on this idea of rising extremism and rising hate.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, when you go to their website, they make it seem as if the same way the climate change alarmists, that there is an impending apocalypse of white nationalism and white extremism.
Now, I got to be careful without saying any names here, but five or six years ago, I was at a friend of mine's home.
And the friend I grew up with, still very close with him, and his parents are very, very liberal and very wealthy.
And on the kitchen table was a mailer from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a thick booklet, thick booklet of all the hate groups.
And I just asked one question.
I said, you know, what do you think of this?
They said, oh, hate is on the rise.
White supremacy is growing like wild.
I was just perplexed.
This stuff makes a real impact with upper middle class liberals, especially white liberals.
They buy into this stuff big time.
So the Southern Poverty Law Center needs to continue this falsehood that somehow there are militia, white nationalist groups coming out of the hinterlands to come lynch black people again.
But of course, they've expanded their scope.
They call it hate and extremism.
They've expanded that to LGBTQ issues because one of the ways the left works is through intersectional politics.
They need to find coalitional partners to work in symmetry and in harmony with one another because as America has become more racially decent, what is the Southern Poverty Law Center supposed to do with $700 million in cash?
By the way, the SPLC has come really hard about against a dear friend of ours, Jack Poseobic, trying to smear and slander him.
He's stronger than ever, but they really tried to take Jack Poseobic off the chessboard.
You can go to this website.
They lie about him.
It's all this nonsense.
The SPLC finds their targets with Alinskyite tactics to make it seem to an otherwise uninformed audience that there is this mass white supremacist movement bubbling up in the country.
So the SPLC puts out these documents.
Now you might say, oh, Charlie, these are just lists.
Who cares?
Why take them seriously?
Why mention it?
Because Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America, major institutions use the Southern Poverty Law Center list as justification to not do business with these groups, to debank them.
These lists are not insignificant.
Marxists love lists and they hate it when they get put on lists.
That's why they hated McCarthy.
They hate when they get exposed, but they use lists all the time.
Stalin used lists.
Mao used lists.
Paul Pott used lists.
Lenin used lists.
Lists of opponents.
It's that famous Seinfeld episode, though, when all of a sudden you start listing Marxists, they lose their mind.
It's a great one where Elaine tries to order, she tries to order Chinese food and she gets put on some sort of blacklist and she's dating a Trotskyite.
It's very, very well done.
Marxists love to use lists.
They hate when they're on lists.
But this list right here is one of the most just grotesque, disgusting, and dangerous things that I've seen.
Of all the groups they could mention, this proves the point.
This country is so decent.
This country really is not nearly as hateful as they would hope it to be that they have to find hate where it doesn't exist.
And what group have they now listed on their hate list?
No, it's not the Oath Keepers or the Aryan Brotherhood of Tuscaloosa or the Whites Will Rise Again of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
No, no, no, no.
It's Moms for Liberty.
That's right.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which sits on $700 million and raises $100 million a year, has now listed Moms for Liberty as an extremist hate group on their hate watch.
They say, quote, Moms for Liberty is a far-right organization that self-identifies as part of the modern parental rights movement.
They oppose LGBTQ and racially inclusive school curriculum and advocated book bans.
Now, I have to lay down the law here.
I am losing patience big time with even some Republican donors rushing to the media.
Oh, I don't like book bans.
Listen, pal, it's called pornography.
This is not a book ban, okay?
You know who wants to ban books?
The Marxists want to ban books.
They don't want the Bible.
They don't want the Ten Commandments.
They don't want to kill a mockingbird.
They don't want the actual books that could teach virtue, goodness, and courage.
But the second that we take a stand and say, yeah, you know, a nine-year-old shouldn't learn about the intimate details of anal sex, they say that we all of a sudden want book bans.
I want you to listen to some of the examples.
And they try to say, oh, they want book bans.
They don't want pornography in front of eight-year-olds.
Somehow, this is wildly controversial to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is now listing them so that other groups can marginalize them, smear them, slander them, spy on them.
Do not be surprised when the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, uses these lists to then go spy on moms and dads.
By the way, who has ever held accountable for the fact that Merrick Garland sent out a memo to say to spy on moms and dads that show up at school board meetings?
This right here is a Soviet-style tactic to basically acknowledge and admit the Parents Party is one of the greatest, most robust threats to these perverts running our country.
And this is a tie-in, by the way.
I'll talk about what's happened with the great Armenians.
I love Armenians, by the way.
They're terrific people.
In Glendale, California, where these groomers, pedophile perverts were pushing forward LGBTQIA pup play pride in the shape of a Christian cross that incensed Armenian American families in LA and caused them to mobilize against the school boards.
This eventually led to a second violent clash against Antifa.
I just want to encourage everyone, please remain peaceful.
They would love nothing more than a drag Floyd or a Drag J6.
Ironically, yesterday was the 6th of June.
And so it was kind of a J6 of their own.
Stay peaceful.
Any sort of violent confrontation interaction, even done in self-defense, will be used by the federal government to be able to use unconstitutional FISA powers that the FBI should not have to go after moms and dads.
But this SPLC deserves further examination, and they're not alone.
There is a network of hundreds of millions of dollars of nonprofit money that is used to smear you, slander you, spy, not spy, but monitor everything that Turning Point USA does, that Moms Her Liberty does.
This is not some grassroots movement.
This is well-funded.
It's centralized.
It's synthetic.
This is the great reset globalist agenda to go after moms that want to make sure their kids aren't learning anal sex at age seven.
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So it's not just the Southern Poverty Law Center that's now targeting moms for liberty.
And boy, does that show that the family is a threat?
And the Ten Commandments, honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
Only Ten Commandment with a promise and involves your nation.
They have to disrupt the bond between a parent and a child.
This is what Marxism seeks to do.
Have your kid stare at a screen.
Have your kid take substances they should.
Oh, your parents not as enlightened as we are, the academic, the influencer.
In fact, there are outright influencer campaigns to try to get parents turn, I mean, kids turning against their parents.
It's been happening for quite some time.
They need this.
It is the missing ingredient in the Marxist takeover of the country.
Strong families are a threat to woke tyrants.
They have to try to sexualize children, which makes them vulnerable, makes them easier to be controlled.
The more sexually innocent a 9, 10, or 11-year-old is, the less likely they are to be preyed on by these pedophiles or these groomers.
And the human rights campaign, which also raises tens of millions of dollars, is trying to convince you that the LGBTQ mafia, the rainbow-haired jihadis, are the ones that are actually under attack.
The human rights campaign, which is quite a name for an organization, right? Has come out and they say that there's a state of emergency for gays and lesbians and trans people in America.
Are you starting to realize a pattern?
COVID, emergency.
Climate change, emergency.
Gun deaths, emergency.
You pass a book ban against child pornography or pornography for kids, emergency.
What is not an emergency?
The more you study the left, the more you realize they must create panic.
Oh, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, emergency.
Of course, the actual emergencies are ignored, like our southern border, the fact that kids are killing themselves at record rates or 110,000 drug overdoses, but they want you to panic.
Panic makes tyrants more powerful.
People that are calm, collected, and focused on real things tend to actually be harder citizens to control by an illegitimate dictatorial government.
So the human rights campaign has now come out and they say that the gays in America are under a state of emergency, even though they control everything.
You control Hollywood, you control professional sports, you control the banking industry, you control basically every federal agency.
You control the schools, you control curriculum, you control the social media companies.
You have not, there's never been a time where there is where the alphabet group has had more occupation of power, and yet they're trying to convince you they're the victim because the only currency that has worked for the gay lobby is to convince you they are a victim.
They must convince you of that.
Remember, they do not believe in truth.
They do not believe in goodness.
They do not believe in beauty.
They only believe in power dynamics.
Us versus them.
Instagram's Deliberate Campaign On Kids 00:03:57
So when we talk about the stuff we do not want to have in schools, what are we talking about?
Cut 71, teacher to kids going through great detail of how to perform anal sex.
Play Cut 71.
So you don't have to go inside the booty hole.
You can actually just push on the scene and that stimulates the prostate gland as well.
And that they apparently really like that.
But yeah, so that's why for male and male, anal sex is still very pleasurable because of the fact that it hits the prostate and there's a lot of nerve endings in your booty as well.
Now, some of you are going to get fired up.
You're going to email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
I don't want to hear that.
I don't want to hear that.
Oh, really?
That's what's happening in your local school.
Are you doing anything about it?
Are you showing up to school board meetings?
Are you demanding your local state legislator defunds these schools?
If that offended you enough to email me that you don't want to hear graphically about anal sex, then do something about it to remove the schools before complaining about it.
We always air these clips.
You say, Charlie, it's terrible.
It's this.
I don't like it.
It's terrible.
Oh, I agree.
But this is not some sort of just HBO, paywall protected, weird thing that is being, you know, on the fringe of the internet.
This is in our schools.
This is curriculum.
And that is what the Southern Poverty Law Center says is education.
The SPLC and the Human Rights Campaign is going to the wall.
They are saying, hey, if you oppose the graphic teaching of those behaviors and those actions for nine-year-olds, you're a book banner.
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Oh, there is a, there is a deliberate campaign to go after your children.
Do you have a grandkid that uses Instagram?
Wall Street Journal, Instagram connects vast pedophile network.
The meta-unit systems for fostering communities have guided users to child sex content.
Company says it's improving its internal controls.
Very incriminating piece here in the Wall Street Journal.
Talking about how Instagram is not really doing their part.
You know what Instagram is doing their part, though?
Instagram has a whole unit that is worried that Charlie Kirk might be saying something that is not regime approved, fact-checked.
Instagram has a whole department that within minutes comes into an Instagram post of ours.
For example, when we posted the story about Jamie Foxx last week and we even blacked out part of the headline, Instagram came in with a missing context fact check.
So Instagram has a whole, they have shock troops to make sure that pages like mine, and we have a very popular Instagram page, 2.2 million followers, I think one of the biggest in the conservative movement, praise God.
Corporate Oligarchy And The HRC 00:05:33
They have shock troops to make sure that I am not saying anything that is not approved by the regime.
But Instagram seems rather indifferent towards pedophiles creating a network.
Again, this is not some sort of fringe Reddit post.
This is the Wall Street Journal that is talking about how pedophiles love Instagram.
There are three types of people.
There are infants, there are predators, and the protectors of infants.
Predators right now are being allowed to go after our kids in an unprecedented way.
And if you dare try to interrupt the predatory behavior, they say that you're anti-LGBT or that you are insensitive.
One of the groups that is pushing this is the Human Rights Campaign.
Again, a very well-funded 501c3 organization.
Very well-funded.
They have also C4.
Human Rights Campaign is now issued a state of emergency.
Yeah, this is not a joke.
Acting as if there's a hurricane or that there's some sort of impending tornado or that we're being invaded by the Cubans or something.
This is the threshold.
By the way, remember, the NAACP has done the exact same thing two weeks ago: state of emergency to trial to Florida.
Why?
Because you can't teach critical race theory.
Black people aren't safe, even though the head of the NAACP lives in Tampa, Florida.
So the human rights campaign has put out this article: state of emergency declared for LGBTQ people.
This is what they say.
They say that this is the worst year on record for LGBTQ.
They say that the legislative session included more than 525 bills introduced, 220 of them targeted transgender people.
Hold on a second, targeting transgender people.
Some of these bills are super vanilla.
For example, that men should not be able to compete in female sports.
Pretty simple.
Or that we shouldn't have graphic sexual teaching in front of elementary school kids.
Pretty simple.
But they need to have an emergency.
Emergencies create the preconditions for otherwise irrelevant organizations or low-talent hacks or tyrants to be able to gain more power.
The human rights campaign would never come out and say, you know what?
The country's pretty decent.
This trans thing is out of control.
No, they need to have you in a state of panic.
And so, and the media is happy to do this.
But guess what?
The HRC says that they're in a state of emergency.
Look at all these corporate partners.
Are LGBTQ people really under attack when you have this list of corporate partners, the most powerful $100 billion corporations that are pumping you money?
Lyft, Amazon, UPS, Disney, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer, Neiman Marcus, Alaska Airlines, Nike, which I'll get to in a second.
PayPal, Nordstrom, Capital One, Goldman Sachs.
Is this how are oppressed and marginalized groups able to get wire transfers from a corporate oligarchy?
And make no mistake, this is exactly why the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party has been muted the last three to four years.
Bernie Sanders was talking about a corporate oligarchy.
We don't like billionaires.
Do you notice there's not a lot of chatter about that anymore on the Democrat side?
Because remember, all they care about is power dynamics.
And so Bernie Sanders and AOC, they're enjoying the corporate flow of money as long as it keeps them in power.
And these corporations, because they're secular and soulless, they're willing to do a deal with the Democrats as long as they get their corporate favors, their crony handouts, their special cutouts.
And the thing that they can agree on is LGBTQ and race and then immigration.
But LGBTQ and race.
So you go through this list, Amazon, American Airlines, Google, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft.
They all want to be able to post record profits, something that should, by the way, be at odds with the base of the Democrat Party, the base of the Democrat Party that yammers on about, oh, people are too rich.
You don't really hear that.
They've turned down the volume and basically pressed the mute button on all clamoring, all sort of complaints about rich people running society.
You remember when Bernie Sanders, we've got to get rid of the billionaires?
They don't hear that anymore.
It's all race and LGBT.
Race, LGBT.
Because there's this been very private but obvious alliance between the Democrat Party and corporate America to just focus on the social smokescreen, not the actual stuff.
That's why RFK's candidacy is such a danger.
It's because RFK is actually talking about the destruction of the middle class, purchasing power being eroded, stuff that I resonate with, that all people should resonate with.
So let's focus on Nike.
So Nike is hosting Dr. Blair Peters.
Again, Nike is a Chinese Communist Party apparel company founded in Eugene, Oregon, that has become so wildly activistically liberal and left-wing, it's hard to even actually process it.
RFK Danger To Middle Class 00:15:09
So Nike is hosting Dr. Plair Peters, who in a video openly admits to doing irreversible sex changes on minor girls.
Something that is so grotesque and awful that to his great credit, Elon Musk is now coming out and saying that we should ban child sex surgeries.
And Elon Musk, thank you for your moral courage on this.
We need more elites to speak out against the medieval practice that one day will be looked at like we once did lobotomies.
Play cut 63 of who Nike is platforming and hosting for Pride Month.
I'm Blair Peters.
I use he, they pronouns.
I'm a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at OHSU, and I specialize in gender affirming and peripheral nerve surgery.
I describe gender affirming surgery as using surgery to help someone physically actualize their internal sense of self.
So I view surgery as changing something that makes someone feel dysphoric, to make them feel euphoric and better and more comfortable in their own body.
You know, when someone sees their vulva for the first time and you can see that you've just lifted this huge burden off of them completely.
And to be able to sort of bond with my patients in that way and share that space is really amazing.
I couldn't imagine feeling more fulfilled.
What is the company that's doing that?
What is that logo?
Well, I didn't catch the logo.
It's probably Merck or Pfizer or AstraZeneca.
That's who Nike is platforming.
That pink-haired medieval witch doctor.
What is, I can't see that.
I don't know what that is.
What is that?
I don't even know.
Is that, someone can tell me about OHSU.
This medieval witch doctor who is experimenting on children.
Oh, I want people.
It's the Oregon Health Science University.
Ah, okay.
It's a public university in Portland.
Nike is platforming this freak who goes after children.
It's hard to put into words to somebody that is unwilling to embrace the truth how cruel and punishing it is to tell a 12-year-old that you can feel better about yourself if I forcibly remove your breasts and put you on benzodiazepines, Zoloft, Prozac, and SSRIs.
Nike not only is neutral on it, they are wildly embracing it.
Pride Month, I always never was a fan of.
It's always been awful.
But this has now morphed into a nightmare hellscape.
I remember when gay marriage was made the law of the land, never should have happened, by the way, and that Supreme Court decision should be overturned.
It's a terrible, terrible decision.
It's unconstitutional.
It's Anthony Kennedy at his worst.
Obergefell, that's right.
We were told by, and by the way, I bought into this lie.
I fully acknowledge the error.
You can go back and find video after video of my error, but people that don't grow, I think, are intellectual cowards.
So I acknowledge I didn't see it at the time.
I bought into it, but I wasn't as seasoned in this.
I bought into the lie that this would become a non-issue.
I bought into the false premise that, okay, gay marriage, law of the land, we can just stop talking about it.
That they're not going to go after children.
This is not going to be like flags everywhere.
Live and let live, man.
It's not for me.
And that was one of the great career missteps that I've made in my public commentary.
And I've done plenty to explain how it came from.
And boy, I think you have to correct it when it's there.
But the point is, how many of the intellectual leaders, and I think people in the audience, you probably felt the same way.
Like, okay, Oberga fell, law of the land.
I don't like the fact that Obama lit the entire White House up in a rainbow.
That's kind of disgusting and awful.
But now we can move on to talk about tax policy.
And in fact, it's been the opposite.
It's only been an accelerant of this talk, of this now going after children.
It's about tolerance, acceptance, celebration, and then participation, the Matt Walsh sequence of events.
And I'll say this again for media matters.
Oberga fell needs to be repealed.
Not even about the gay marriage part of it, which obviously I have strong opinions on.
It might be the worst Supreme Court decision in the last 100 years in terms of just making up total garbage that's not in the Constitution at all.
It is absolute, just fictitious.
It takes an artistic license to the Constitution that simply doesn't exist.
Because of how powerful the gay lobby was, we got to get this done.
We got to this done.
Well, you got it.
And then you act as if you're more oppressed than ever before.
Isn't that interesting how that works?
Because there's no appeasing a group of people that have made their identity as a victim.
If they ever became a victor, they might actually have to take responsibility for their life.
The permanent identity as a victim is more fundamental to them than ever actually having lives rooted in flourishing or prosperity.
Joining us now, someone who's making a lot of headlines, the head of Moms for Liberty.
And let me just say before we get started, Moms for Liberty does amazing work.
The parents movement in America is extremely important.
And you have this Southern Poverty Law Center that is going after moms.
Tina Deskovich joins us.
Tina, welcome to the program.
What is your response to the Southern Poverty Law Center putting you and your organization on the hate watch list?
Honestly, Charlie, it is a bunch of nonsense for them to take moms across the country that have just been getting involved in school board elections and getting involved in school board meetings and trying to impact school board policy for the first time in decades and to put us on a list with true terrorists and true people that the first picture when you go to their website on the list of these people is some person with Nazi flags doing a high Hitler sign.
And they want to place my picture right next to this gentleman for the work that our moms are doing across the country.
It's utter nonsense.
Yeah, so let's dive into this.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, let me ask you, did they contact you before they put together this list?
No, they've never contacted me or Tiffany, my co-founder.
So you've had no communication with them whatsoever, never an opportunity to explain yourself.
So that's important.
So here you are on this list that will then be used to try to lobby you against Visa and MasterCard debanking.
Many financial institutions use this list as a way to blacklist certain organizations.
They say this about Moms for Liberty.
They say that you're a far-right organization that self-identifies as part of the modern parental rights movement.
The group grew out of opposition to public health regulations for COVID-19, which lockdowns, okay, opposing LGBTQ plus and racially inclusive school curriculum and has advocated book bans.
Tina, your response.
We'd reject those claims.
Some of the things they said, I love some of your tweets today because some of the things they said are factual about us.
And we will argue with them about if it's hateful to want to make sure that parents are involved in their child's education or in the decisions being made if a child wants to change their name or their gender or use the restroom of the opposite sex or sleep in an overnight field trip with the opposite sex.
If you want to call me hateful as a mom because I want to make that decision for my child, not some principal or vice principal or counselor, then we can have that discussion.
But some of the things on that list are just untrue.
Some of the things they have said about us are factually inaccurate.
What we have found over the last two and a half years is someone in the media, sometimes some radical far-left media like Vice or Media Matters, will literally make stuff up about us, publish it, and then mainstream media picks it up like it's fact.
No one asks us.
No one checks with us.
No one looks for facts whatsoever.
You know, Charlie, we can even look at the PEN America.
I don't know if you followed that story.
PEN America came out and said that more books were banned in America last year than ever in the history of America.
And they used the term banning and they attributed like 90% of them they said was Moms for Liberty's fault.
Heritage Foundation went behind them and took every book that they said was banned and where it was banned and they proved them wrong.
They said, this book that you said is banned is sitting on the shelves in this school right now.
There's six copies.
What are you saying?
Mainstream media picked up that PEN America study.
Everyone, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, they all ran stories on it and said that that was fact, slandering us, slashing us, and it was all untrue.
And so are you considering any legal action here?
Is there anything you could consider smear or slander?
I mean, for example, they say that you are an extremist group because you believe in, quote, I raise my children, the government does not.
We do not co-parent with the government.
That is what considered to be hate speech and extremist talk.
Charlie, did you just hear what you said?
I raise my children, not the government.
Since when is that extremism in America or anywhere in the world for that matter?
These are fundamental rights that God has given us.
He has blessed us with our children.
It is our right, our natural right from God to raise these children, to direct their education, their medical care, their religious upbringing, their moral upbringing.
The government of the United States of America has been interjecting itself for decades.
And I will say some of that is because parents have been negligent.
Parents have abdicated some of their responsibilities to public schools.
But we, as an organization, decided two and a half years ago that we were going to stand up to that and try to solve this problem.
And look at the pushback, the slander from the Biden administration, from the DOJ, from the NSBA, and now the Southern Poverty Legal Center, if I got their name right.
Yeah, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The other one they say here is you look at the National Teachers Union met and drafted a proposal to replace the word mother with birthing person.
This is insane and insulting to every mom in America.
That puts you on the hate list.
Is that not insulting to every mom in America?
I think what we've been speaking is truth.
And these are the things I was talking to you about when I said that some of the statements that they quoted that are hateful.
When in the history of time has a statement like that been hateful?
We are losing our minds as a country if this is the direction we want to go.
It really is.
So tell us about the upcoming events you have and the things that you are doing that one of the reasons why they're pushing back so hard against you.
Yeah, so we have a national summit every year.
We do one big event a year.
Last year it was in Tampa.
This year it's in Philadelphia.
There have been some questions of why Philadelphia.
I specifically chose Philadelphia because that's where Liberty was born in the United States.
You know, the Declaration was drafted there.
There's Independence Hall is there, the Liberty Bell.
So we are going to go and really absorb, appreciate the history and the rich culture that's there.
And we're not seeding any ground in America.
We're not going to stay in the safe place in the safe cities.
We are going.
to Philadelphia.
And it turns out presidential candidates agree with us.
We invited them all, including President Biden, who we have not heard from, by the way.
But President Trump is going to be a keynote speaker.
Governor Ron DeSantis is coming.
Ambassador Nikki Haley is coming.
Vivek Ramaswamy is coming.
It's still out on Tim Scott if he's going to join us.
RFK Jr., we'd love to have.
He has not responded yet.
So we are building a four-day event that is packed full of training how to run for school board, training how to support a candidate for school board, training how to be a school board activist.
There's lots of in-depth history.
The Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts is going to do a full hour on George Washington in a breakout session.
There's going to be so much goodness and richness.
We are very excited.
So are you seeing an increase of support and attention since the Southern Poverty Law Center is comparing you to Timothy McVeigh?
That is a great question, Charlie.
We've had a donor reach out and offer $300,000.
They will match up to $300,000 for every donation that comes in so that we can fight back against the Southern Poverty Law Center because they do not like that they are trying to silence parents.
They see the work our organization is doing.
We are joyful warriors at Moms for Liberty.
We will fight like heck, but we do it with a smile on our face.
So we encourage everyone to go to our website, momsforliberty.org.
If our website is down, it's because for the last two weeks, we have been under global attack, like government-level attacks on our website.
We're struggling to keep it up, but we are working diligently to keep it up.
So we've also set up a text 53445, the word donate, if you can't get through on the website.
You know, the left finds the parents movement to be a special threat to the perverts party and to the grooming that they are doing.
And moms rising up and building these coalitions, this is a huge, this is a huge deal.
You know, Tina, tell us more about your story here.
You know, this all started out of necessity and love of your kids.
And now, how many chapters do you have?
Tell us more about the genesis of this and why SPLC considers you to be such a threat.
I love to talk about our organization.
So we started January 1st, 2021.
We were about two and a half years old.
Tiffany Justice, my co-founder and I are both former school board members here in Florida.
We served from 2016 to 2020.
We're both moms.
Our kids are in public schools.
As we were coming off the school boards, we like to say when we were serving that we saw behind the education curtain, we saw the problems with public education where it was failing students, but we also saw how they were, as a district, at school districts, they really were starting to step on parental rights left and right.
2020 happened.
All of America by the end of 2020 saw what school districts were doing.
They were shutting off microphones, locking doors, shutting down meetings, canceling meetings so parents couldn't speak.
And then, you know, parents were seeing what was being streamed into their living rooms and dining rooms as their kids were doing work.
And so we kind of looked at what was going on around the country and we watched these parents just struggling to attempt to connect with their school districts and impact change.
And so we launched Moms for Liberty.
We organize into chapters by county.
Our goal is to have 3,000 chapters by the end of this and a Moms for Liberty member at every school board meeting from now to the end of time.
We're laser focused on parental rights and public education.
And just so you know, two and a half years in, we are now at almost 300 chapters.
So that's 300 counties in the country that have a Moms for Liberty chapter.
We're in 45 states and we're approaching 120,000.
These are active members.
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These are not just someone on our email list.
These are members that are showing up to monthly meetings and doing book reviews, textbook reviews.
They're doing the work.
Doing the work.
I want to read some of the quote-unquote books that have been banned.
Quote, this book is gay.
Tricks.
Lawnboy, The Hate You Give, Flamer, All Boys Aren't Blue, or Gender Queer, a Memoir.
This stuff is pornographic LGBT garbage that is being really put on kids.
And I see the parents movement as ascendant and growing and multiplying.
Just remind our audience one more time, Tina, how people can support you, your website, and your national conference.
Momsforliberty.org is our website.
They can text if they want to donate.
The word donate to 53445.
Very good.
Tina, thank you so much.
And come again soon.
We really appreciate it.
Thanks, Charlie.
I appreciate the time.
Thanks so much for listening.
Everybody, email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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