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Think Tank Says Washington Using NGOs to Launch Probes Into Parents Group

The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking documents from federal agencies accused of targeting Moms for Liberty.
Think Tank Says Washington Using NGOs to Launch Probes Into Parents Group
Loudoun County mother Meggan Jenkins, a member of the parental rights group Moms for Liberty, at a rally outside the Loudoun County Public Schools administration building in Ashburn, Va., on Sept. 13, 2022. Terri Wu/The Epoch Times
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
10/5/2023|Updated: 10/5/2023

When parents learned that federal agencies had coordinated with a national education group to target them as “domestic terrorists” for speaking out against gender and race ideologies at school board meetings, it galvanized a growing national parental rights movement.

Parents were outraged to learn that the National School Boards Association urged the White House and federal law enforcement to investigate parents, using counterterrorism tools such as the Patriot Act against them, according to a report from the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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