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.