Moms for Liberty, a national conservative grassroots parental rights coalition, has been designated a “hate group” in a Massachusetts police training program, appearing alongside extremist organizations such as Antifa and neo-Nazis.
The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, responsible for training more than 20,000 law enforcement officers across the state, included this label in training materials presented to police recruits.
According to the slides used in training, Moms for Liberty is an “anti-government extremist” group that actively opposes books addressing race and “gender identity” topics in public schools.
The materials accuse the group of leveraging “parents’ rights as a vehicle to attack public education and make schools less welcoming for minority and LGBTQ students,” The Western Journal reports.
Moms for Liberty, founded in 2021 by former Florida school board members Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, is a conservative parent coalition active across the U.S.
The group challenges school programs it finds objectionable, focusing heavily on books with explicit themes or content it associates with progressive ideology.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that monitors extremist groups, classifies Moms for Liberty as an “anti-government extremist” entity—a label that appears to have influenced its inclusion in Massachusetts police training materials.
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