John Norcross 🌹
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As
#MomsforLiberty
's brand dips into free fall, the Midwest is seeing some shape shifting among Moms for Liberty
#Ozaukee
,
#AwakeWI
and
#AwakeIL
into
#AwakeAmericans
. 1/9
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#AwakeAmericans
appears to be a merger of
#AwakeIL
and
#AwakeWI
, with several right wing agitators known to activists in their respective areas.
There is excellent work being done tracking these groups, for example:
2/9
In IL Moms4Liberty and AwakeIL share a common “concerned” parent leader named Shannon. WI has a Moms4Lib leader named Scarlett. Scarlett trained the IL mom’s leader. I know because I followed it on this site.
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So, media ... when you eventually find yourselves covering far right LibsofTikTok's latest (atrocious) anti-LGBTQ bullying of a school district in Wisconsin, I want to offer some additional context. 1/4
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There is
#noroomforhate
in
#Milwaukee
.
Saint Kate's and the Italian Community Center made a stand.
Let's hope the Pfister Hotel will, too.
#MomsforLiberty
#Wisconsin
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Amazing defence of public libraries going on in
#MenomoneeFallsWI
tonight. ✊🏻📚
It's also an amazing communitarian rebuke to
#WISRED
and the Republican Party of
#Waukesha
County's brand of right wing local government.
#SupportOurPublicLibraries
#Wisconsin
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1/15 The headline below omits a few details about one of the two arrests at the Pride in the Park event in
#WatertownWI
. It also misses important context behind the organization the agitator is with.
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@SpeakerVos
This is ridiculous, Robin. The report says no such thing about "efforts to defund the police". Their mention of a perfect storm of pandemic and protests is speculative. They do mention increased gun sales as a factor, though.
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Much credit and recognition to the many eyes and ears in the Midwest (and beyond!) who have been tracking these right wing groups. This thread owes itself to those activists.
#SupportOurPublicSchools
#Wisconsin
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There is certainly an emerging storyline around the links between right wing"parents rights" groups & evangelical-based
#christiannationalism
.
There is also a storyline around
#MomsforLiberty
looking to find a new "host" ... and a new life.
#AwakeAmericans
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The
#WIGOP
can't extricate itself from
#Jan6th
.
They've put up another person in party's Chair (Brian Schimming) who appears to have played a role in the fraudulent elector scheme in
#Wisconsin
.
"No heads up to any Media on electors meetings."
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Case: A school board in
#Sheboygan
County,
#Wisconsin
is conducting a search for a new Superintendent.
As part of establishing the requirements for a successful candidate the board made this assertion about the community (without any sources or references). 1/3
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What is strange is how had a prior history with a group using the same domain address.
This group was led by an evangelist (perhaps showcasing early
#ChristianNationalism
), Chuck Harding.
See also:
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The leader of
#ParentsonPatrol
/
#NoLeftTurninEdWI
/ The
#Republican
Women of
#Waukesha
County just stood up at a
#MertonWI
school board meeting to showcase sex toys at a school board meeting for shock value.
This is what passes for "conservative values" in SE
#Wisconsin
.
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#AwakeAmericans
was secured six months after the domains in Wisconsin and Illinois were launched and it was updated almost a year to the day of the other two.
It coincided with growing pushback to
#MomsforLiberty
.
4/9
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@derrickvanorden
Republicans have nothing to offer the people of
#Wisconsin
except outrage, bigotry, and
#culturewars
.
Stop punching down on vulnerable populations for partisan political gain.
#DoBetter
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@SenChrisLarson
Very interesting development!
This implicates Fitzgerald in two parts of the plan (Objection to Certification + Fraudulent Electors).
What did he know of the 1/5/21 Letter to VP Pence for the trifecta?
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Speaker Robin Vos and the Republican Party of Wisconsin just want to say "screw you!" to everyone who voted for change on the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
Don't let them get away with it:
#Wisconsin
#WaukeshaCounty
#Oconomowoc
#LakeCountryWI
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The board of the
#Oconomowoc
Public Library voted this evening (5-4) to allow conceal carry.
I know many fought the good fight, but shame on the sponsors of that proposal.
More weapons in more public places = Total irresponsibility.
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His former organization continues at .
Same
#Christiannationalism
.
Different websites.
#AwakeAmericans
#rightwingwatch
7/9
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Shout out to the community pushing back against right wing extremists on the Whitnall School Board (
#HalesCornersWI
,
#GreenfieldWI
) who are trying to import policy from right wing
#Wisconsin
Institute for Law & Liberty.
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It is true that there may be spelling errors (singular vs plural) and that has no connection at all with ... but the Wayback machine shows that they shared the same url (just at different times):
8/9
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@RonFilipkowski
We have to admit we have a problem.
We have an NRA problem.
We have a problem with priorities.
We have a problem with our politics.
We have a gun problem.
We need to fix this.
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@SpeakerVos
There is no room for satire with a post like this.
This is genuinely a new low for you and the
#WISGOP
in making this request.
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@NicholsUprising
A courageous effort by the community to keep school boards non-partisan, to reject the manufactured outrage around "CRT" and to stave off dark-money influence of local elections.
They present the best of
#Wisconsin
tonight.
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@RepFitzgerald
The people of
#WaukeshaCounty
deserve better,
#RepScotFitzgerald
.
#DoBetter
#Waukesha
#BrookfieldWI
#HartlandWI
#LakeCountryWI
#WI05
#Wisconsin
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We're seeing a pattern in
#Wisconsin
where right wing judges are happy to associated with Trumpian activists who played a role in the
#Jan6thInsurrection
.
#JanetforJustice
#SCOWIS
#LakeCountryWI
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The Republican Party of
#Waukesha
County and the Republican Party of
#Wisconsin
on the whole continue to treat elections as a game, one where they exhibit the worst behaviour on and off the pitch.
It is not a serious party.
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@amyjay401
That law was used as a template for a school policy introduced to a high school in Wisconsin.
It has had the same chilling effect on how teachers teach and what students are allowed to learn.
All because of rightwing agitators at board meetings + two gubernatorial candidates.
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@repvos
You are in the same bad company as other far right extremist groups in
#Wisconsin
.
Robin, your fascism is showing.
#LakeCountryWI
#rightwingwatch
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We are watching an attempt by far right
#astroturf
group
#Moms4Liberty
distance themselves from Trump and quietly align with
#DeSantis
in real time, aren't we? 👀
This "rebranding" is not going to be convincing - or successful.
#NoDeSantis
#Ozaukee
#TheScarlettEffect
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@OwenJones84
It is a sad synchronicity when I read this news while reading one of his books. RIP.
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1/18 Last night’s school board meeting in
#Oconomowoc
closed the loop for a nexus of right wing groups that have been agitating to take control of the district. It is a damning statement on the state of affairs in
#Waukesha
County as the GOP uses schools for partisan purposes. 🧵
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Rep. Barbara Dittrich (
#Oconomowoc
) will need to reconsider on which side of the barricades she is standing.
At the event in
#WatertownWI
, on one side were anti-LGBTQ hate groups, religious extremists and neo-Nazi's (Blood Tribe).
On the other were people enjoying a Pride event.
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@michelsforgov
Your tweet,
#TimMichels
, shows us why you are not ready to lead.
You aren't prepared for a health crisis like a pandemic.
You aren't experienced in having led
#Wisconsin
through COVID-19.
#Tony4WI
is just better for
#WI
.
#2022WIelection
#LakeCountryWI
#Waukesha
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When you see Gays Against Groomers, Moms for Liberty or LibsofTikTok agitating in school districts, please note that it will reliably be in a Milwaukee suburb (in
#Wisconsin
) because it's part of a wider partisan effort to manufacture outrage in that demographic. 4/4
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The right wing spin defending
#MomsforLiberty
is slowly starting to churn out the defensive framing.
We're not going to lose sight of how
#M4L
has been relentlessly punching down on the LGBTQ+ community (and public schools) for political gain.
#Wisconsin
#Ozaukee
#Kenosha
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@SenRonJohnson
@WDNR
Senator, it's time to pack up, head on home and withdraw from politics. DC's been a hard racket and I am sure your family will appreciate you stepping out of politics now. It's a good time to make that announcement for
#Wisconsin
.
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@repvos
The
#Wisconsin
Republican Party is no friend to public education.
All the
#WIGOP
has to offer is
#manufacturedoutrage
,
#grievancepolitics
and
#culturewars
.
#LakeCountryWI
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@RebeccaforReal
Based on the ghosts of policies past (and present), your solutions would likely include:
🔴Weakening unions
🔴Reducing wages
🔴Increasing child labour
🔴Kicking people off social assistance
🔴Ruining public schools
🔴Punching down on teachers
🔴Reducing healthcare coverage
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Far right agitators in
#Wisconsin
are working hard to make things even worse when it comes to
#bookbans
in
#ElkhornWI
. An early morning post from this Facebook group is promoting links to pre-filled forms that they want submitted to the district. They are bullying the district.
A Wisconsin school district is considering changing its book banning policy after a parent requested 444 titles be removed from the library.
The superintendent believes this is the largest censorship request in the nation.
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#MomsforLiberty
's
#ScarlettJohnson
doesn't understand that the problem most parents have with her brand of right wing agitation is that she thinks SHE knows what's in the "best interest" of OTHER people's children.
I don't co-parent w/ Scarlett Johnson.
#Wisconsin
#VetoAB510
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Be careful out there, folks.
Nearly assaulted by a MAGA school board member for asking him whether he knew he had parked his Humvee in the fire lane in front of the school during the (entire!) school board meeting.
#Wisconsin
#LakeCountryWI
#WisRed
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Following in the footsteps of
#Wisconsin
Institute of Law and Liberty, this targeted harassment campaign by WRN is becoming dangerous. This isn’t freedom of speech … it’s bullying.
#LakeCountryWI
#Oconomowoc
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1/ There is a veritable nest of right-wing and far-right politicians that can be traced to a private social media group called
#Wisconsin
Patriots.
#Kenosha
#BurlingtonWI
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@RonJohnsonWI
Clearly, if this is the line of attack,
#wRongJohnson
doesn't have a platform to run on.
He has nothing to offer the people of
#Wisconsin
.
His problems are not our problems.
#TimeforChange
#Mandela4WI
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Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-
#WI05
) continues to sell legislation that doesn't actually do anything.
His "CRT Transparency Act" contains rights parents already have.
Once again, if nothing is being accomplished it probably has Fitzgerald's name all over it.
#Waukesha
#BrookfieldWI
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@RebeccaforReal
@GovEvers
1/ I’m going to speak for myself, Rebecca, as a member of our community.
There's a problem with how Republicans keep framing “to have a say” in education.
I’m going to make it personal.
This involves MY kids as they prepare for their future.
#Wisconsin
#LakeCountry
#WIAD38
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This bigotry is being pushed by a range of far right agitators, including a failed school board candidate in
#Elmbrook
#Brookfield
backed by the Republican Party of
#Waukesha
County (via an absurdly-named FB group linked with the Recall Vos effort). 2/4
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When you see a group like
#ParentsonPatrol
promoting anti-LGBTQ+ hate, you need to call out the fact that this is: a) One person, not a group, who is; b) tied to No Left Turn in Education, and; c) is the head of the Republican Women of Waukesha County. 5/x
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4/15 He wasn't "arrested" for being a Christian or for reading from the Bible.
Cute narrative ... but wrong.
That said, there is a pattern at play with Mercy Seat Christian Church.
Like a bad penny, they keep showing up.
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I don't know, Scarlett (
#MomsforLiberty
,
#Ozaukee
GOP).
When we hear rhetoric like yours it sounds rather, well, anti-Semitic.
You know, "Soros-backed global conspiracy" and all.
P.S. Guess what costs $12.99 and is available at WalMart?
#Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Conservative Digest is just one example of the ongoing shift to the far right by so-called "conservatives" and Republicans.
#rightwingwatch
#Wisconsin
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@ScottWalker
How about we design our election system to make it easier to vote and strengthen our democracy. You can accomplish that and still enhance the integrity of the system. But it has to be designed to work. Unlike the UI system you designed to deny and delay claims.
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#60Minutes
provided
#MomsforLiberty
with an opportunity to show us who they really are.
Is "bigoted dolts" a thing?
It is now.
#Ozaukee
#Mequon
#Kenosha
#Wisconsin
#SupportOurPublicSchools
"What do you mean by that?” Scott Pelley asks Moms for Liberty founders about claims, posted on the group’s social media, that students are being “groomed” by teachers and librarians.
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This is propaganda and misinformation, not journalism.
See instead:
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@ScottWalker
Once again, thank you for the reminder of the mess created by team Walker•Kleefisch•Vos+Fitzgerald that we have to clean up here in
#Wisconsin
.
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#Uihlein
money was also directly linked to
#MomsforLiberty
's
#ScarlettJohnson
during her recall campaign in
#Mequon
,
#Ozaukee
County in
#Wisconsin
.
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@RonJohnsonWI
@AndrewHittGOP
Whatever,
and whoever,
you think you are fighting for,
it isn't
#Wisconsin
.
#nomorojo
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@SenRonJohnson
What are you doing in the Senate if you aren't solving problems like this?
The Republican Party's priorities are all wrong.
#MomsDemandAction
#Uvalde
#DoBetter
#Wisconsin
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(Thank you, Sen. Chris Murphy)
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Only something as bureaucratically and corporately mundane as an email could capture so concisely the
#gerrymandering
brought to
#Wisconsin
by the
#WIGOP
and
#MichaelBest
.
-------
#LeahVukmir
#wipolitics
#fairmaps
Here’s how state Republicans gerrymandered the state in 2011 when Walker was governor.
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2/15 The person arrested (Mr. Schroeder) is with a far right extremist group, Mercy Seat Christian Church. One will struggle to see the "Christianity" in their activism, which centres on being anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ, pro-traditionalism, and pro-insurrection, with militia links.
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Nine people showed up to a demonstration led by right wing group
#AmericansforProsperity
in
#Milwaukee
.
Nine. (1/3 of whom were easily identifiable AFP or GOP operatives).
This group is paid to think that anything that isn't neoliberal economics is bad.
#Astroturf
We talked to a woman from a group called Americans for Prosperity, who doesn't think the Biden plan is working.
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In
#Waukesha
County,
#Wisconsin
, two non-partisan pro-public-school community organizations have launched to counter a partisan effort to take over schools and local government.
#LakeCountryWI
#KettleMoraineWI
#HartlandWI
#MertonWI
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#Arrowhead
and
#Waukesha
school districts feature in this student-centred story from
@BostonGlobe
.
This is why students, parents, teachers, and community members are working so hard to push back against right wing extremism & intolerance on school boards.
#Wisconsin
#HartlandWI
How politics changed education in the Milwaukee suburbs: ‘Now school is about the politics and the fear’
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The Bradley Foundation funds many of the actors causing so many of our problems in
#Wisconsin
.
One can trace it to a family dynasty rooted in beer.
NEW: The Bradley Foundation and its “aligned” donor advised fund funneled a total of $86.4 mil to right-wing litigation outlets, national & state policy groups, media outlets, youth groups, & higher ed in 2022, according to new IRS filings obtained by CMD.
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What is the backstory that explains Robin Vos?
How did he become the person he is?
Who made him into this sort of legislator?
There is a profound unlike-ability about him.
#Wisconsin
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@reidepstein
This is, unfortunately, what gerrymandered one-party rule over
#LakeCountryWI
looks like. No listening sessions or town halls. Community ignored. Constituents selectively heard (when it aligns with donor agenda). Private events only. Lake Country Patriots tied to GOP alderperson.
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1/ As The focus is sharpening on the fake electors put in place in key states as part of the "Jan 6th challenge",
#Wisconsin
needs to ask leaders of the state- and county-level Republican Parties what they knew of the plan and when they knew it. 🧵
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@RepBryanSteil
@SecretaryPete
With vision, commitment and funding you could instead advocate for support for building world class public transportation in
#Wisconsin
.
Madison and Milwaukee could have nice things.
So, too, could Kenosha, Racine and GreenBay.
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Good call, St. Kate's! ✊🏻
#SupportOurPublicSchools
#NoRoomforHate
#MomsforLiberty
#Wisconsin
#Milwaukee
We're happy to announce that Saint Kate Hotel has reached out to MTEA to inform us they WILL NOT host the Moms for Liberty hate group training. Groups like Moms for Liberty are not welcome in Milwaukee. Any venue that decides to host Moms for Liberty will hear from MTEA.
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@RebeccaforReal
This was what YOUR party, the
#WIGOP
, thought was good policy.
This is what they thought was a priority.
It's GUNS > PEOPLE for the Republican Party in
#Wisconsin
.
#DoBetter
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This very real conflict of interest is showing up in counties where the local GOP has taken over local law enforcement.
#Waukesha
County is an egregious example:
• Asst DA is part of WISRED vetting board
• Outgoing DA is a member of the GOP
• Sheriff & Incoming DA are, too
County Prosecutors Won’t Pursue Charges in Case Involving Trump PAC
Citing conflicts of interest, they referred cases to other county prosecutors.
#wiunion
#wipolitics
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#ScottWalker
,
#MichaelBest
and
#BradSchimel
's fingers are all sticky from the redistricting they enabled in
#Wisconsin
.
Putting Brad Schimel on the State Supreme Court would only take us backwards.
#SCOWIS
#FairMaps
#LakeCountryWI
#JoshKaul
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Here is where right wing MAGA discourse is now:
Performative patriotism that is a literal insult to the memory and legacy of US soldiers in WWII.
What are
#MomsforLiberty
and
#WRN
celebrating with this image?
This isn't the look they think it is.
At all.
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@RickEsenberg
@RepDittrich
I was there. The groups on the other side of the barricades were united by their bigotry. It may have been a matter of degree, but it was the common theme.
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The silence from
#MomsforLiberty
#Kenosha
, Washington and
#Ozaukee
counties (
#Wisconsin
) on the serious allegations involving an
#M4L
co-founder and her husband is deafening.
#AmberInfusino
#AmandaNedweski
#ScarlettJohnson
#BillBrewer
Northumberland County (PA) chapter of Moms for Liberty splits from national organization, “citing allegations of rape against Christian Ziegler, Florida's GOP chairman & husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler.” 12/4/23
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Excellent article from
#WIExaminer
.
#Wisconsin
's Republican Legislators continue to look like the tools and implements of right wing,
#darkmoney
-funded lobbyists and think tanks.
This is how it happens in
#MadisonWI
(see article below). 1/4
Conservative law group involved in drafting of GOP parental bill of rights legislation.
@baylorspears
reports
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#Wisconsin
Assembly Rep. Robin Vos (R) is certainly retaining his fidelity to Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty's talking points (or vice versa).
Public schools are not the playthings of Republicans and their dark money lobbyists.
#LakeCountryWI
#SupportOurPublicSchools
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1/17 A
#Wisconsin
school district in
#Waukesha
County voted last night to approve a policy restricting name changes and pronoun usage by LGBTQ students. 🧵
#Arrowhead
#HartlandWI
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#MomsforLiberty
shifts their focus to post-secondary education. Not content to spoil K-12 public education, they want to extend their anti-Midas touch to colleges and universities.
There is a new level of desperation unlocked in the appeal to
#Wisconsin
's
#ScottWalker
.
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"I know they're idiots but let's use their $"
- Speaker Robin Vos (R-
#RochesterWI
)
#wipolitics
#Wisconsin
#IRG
#InstituteforReformingGovernment
In one text, Vos suggested asking the outside activist group Institute for Reforming Government to conduct a poll on whether Justice Protasiewicz should recuse herself from a redistricting-related case.
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Nope.
I wouldn't brag about using school districts for partisan political gain,
#1776ProjectPAC
.
Get lost.
#SupportOurPublicSchools
#NonPartisanLocalGovernment
#Wisconsin
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The Republican Party of
#Waukesha
County directly supports candidates for school boards across the county, with those candidates making contributions as a condition of support.
This is what those school board members and candidates have aligned themselves with.
#LakeCountryWI
Waukesha GOP paid anti-LGBTQ+ preacher for canvassing, campaign finance records show
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@RepDittrich
Your donors (lobbyists) are talking.
Act 10 was an unmitigated disaster.
#ScottWalker
’s “reforms” need undoing and rolling back.
The Tea Party is over.
#Oconomowoc
#LakeCountryWI
#Wisconsin
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Sometimes, amongst the fascist propaganda, a group like
#Moms4Liberty
#Ozaukee
will post something that makes you re-read their statement because it seems to capture a deeper truth - one they didn't intend to reveal.
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@RepDittrich
You aren't trying to save women's sports, Representative. You are punching down on LGBTQ athletes for partisan political purposes.
If you really cared about women's sports, you'd focus on things like:
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7/15 The links to the Republican Party of Wisconsin are closer than one might think.
One of Mercy Seat's ministers,Timothy Bachleitner, who led a protest against a drag show in Fond du Lac, is also Chair of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County.
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@RonJohnsonWI
“Our campaign transcends party lines. We appeal to BOTH the extreme right AND the far right wings of the Republican Party!”
#Wisconsin
#Mandela4WI
#2022WIelections
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