According to one definition, "Moms for Liberty is an American conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that advocates against school curriculums that mention LGBT rights, race, critical race theory, and discrimination, while multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban from school libraries books that address gender and sexuality issues." The group itself says they're just a group of "concerned parents", ignoring or glossing over that they're bankrolled by far right billionaires with their own agendas, which is typical for these type of "grassroots" organizations on the far right. Moms for Liberty founders Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice responded this way to SPLC's designation: “Name-calling parents who want to be a part of their child’s education as ‘hate groups’ or ‘bigoted’ just further exposes what this battle is all about." Founded by three Florida Republicans, the “social welfare” nonprofit group can engage in political activity without disclosing its financial backers, which is handy when you want to hide what you're doing.

Source: USA Today

The Southern Poverty Law Center is for the first time labeling Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty and 11 other right-wing “parents' rights” groups as extremist groups in its annual report, released Tuesday.

Moms for Liberty and the other organizations are being designated as “anti-government extremist groups,” based on longstanding criteria, explained SPLC Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke. Corke said the grassroots conservative groups are part of a new front in the battle against inclusivity in schools, though they are drawing from ideas rooted in age-old white supremacy.

“[The movement] is primarily aimed at not wanting to include our hard history, topics of racism, and a very strong push against teaching anything having to do with LGBTQ topics in schools,” Corke said. ”We saw this as a very deliberate strategy to go to the local level.”

The new designations are detailed in the SPLC’s annual 2022 Year in Hate and Extremism report.