Indivisibles,

Over the past two years, MAGA Republicans and far-right organizations have made education a preferred battleground. They’re banning books in school districts and libraries and inserting revisionist history into textbooks. They’re trying to use taxpayer money to fund private and religious schools, and they’re targeting LGBTQ+ students with legislation like Ron DeSantis’ Don’t Say Gay law. 

Behind this surge of hateful bills and policies is a constellation of rightwing think tanks, lobbyists, billionaire donors, PACs, and supposed “grassroots'' organizations like Parents Defending Education and Moms for Liberty. Together, they form a nationwide effort to dismantle public schools, censor Black, brown and LGBTQ+ voices, and install school curricula that indoctrinates students with their extreme worldview. 

The assault on our public schools, teachers, librarians, and students is coordinated and fueled by millions of dollars of dark money, but that isn’t deterring Indivisibles from fighting back. For years, Indivisible groups have been organizing to defend their local schools and libraries. Now, through the Our States, Our Fates program, we’re bringing groups together from red states across the country to strategize, share learnings and resources, and support each other in the fight for the freedom to learn.

The MAGA culture warriors undermining public education have long had their own national network coordinating attacks on our schools and libraries. Now there’s a network for regular people who want their kids to have access to books in their libraries, to learn actual history in their textbooks, and most importantly to be accepted for who they are when they foot in the classroom.

Unlike our opponents, we don't need billionaire donors secretly funding this work. But these activists do need your support. So if you want to chip in to help Indivisible groups on the frontlines of the battle against book bans and efforts to whitewash our history, click here to pitch in.

Across the country, rightwing groups are ramping up their attacks on inclusive education. In state capitols, organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council are pushing through a wave of bills targeting curricula and books that don’t conform to their white-washed version of American history. Meanwhile at the local level, Parents Defending Education is recruiting and training MAGA activists to run for local office and take over PTA’s. These candidates are also supported by organizations like the 1776 PAC which spent $3.5 million on school board races in just the last election cycle.

Perhaps the most infamous group is Moms for Liberty -- a top-down organization that fronts as a grassroots movement and whose leaders have deep connections to the Koch network of PACs, donors, and think tanks. While they hold fundraisers with Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson, their members are flooding school board meetings (in some cases, showing up alongside Proud Boys¹), targeting teachers and librarians², and running for election in hundreds of school board races. 

With a new school year underway, the groups in the Our States, Our Fates program are launching a new Back to School campaign to fight back against these attacks on our schools and libraries. As you’re reading this, Indivisibles are showing up to school and library board meetings to expose the extremism of groups like Moms for Liberty and speak out against book bans. They’re forming coalitions to expose and defeat MAGA candidates running on anti-education platforms up and down the ballot. Some Indivisible activists are going even further -- throwing their hats into the ring to defend public education as candidates for local school boards and even statehouses. 

The far-right has gotten a head start in this fight, and unfortunately they’ve made a lot of headway already in their takeovers of school boards, their hollowing out of our libraries, and their efforts to erase some of the most important lessons of American history out of state curriculums. But as a new school year starts, Indivisible groups are ready to spearhead the resistance to these efforts in their communities and grow a movement capable of fighting back. They need your support to do it. 

So today, we’re asking for your help to get this program off to the best start possible. The more we can raise now, the more resources we can provide to local activists waging this fight on behalf of all of us. So, if you have some cash to spare, click here to pitch in and push back against the MAGA attack on schools and libraries.

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The Indivisible groups organizing on this issue are on the frontlines watching the MAGA education agenda roll out in their communities. They are made up of teachers, librarians, parents, and guardians. They’ve got a lot invested in this fight -- and it’s vital we invest in them.  

Thanks, in advance, for your support. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

P.S. -- If you’re seeing similar crises in your own community and are looking for ways to take action, click here to check out the toolkit we provided to groups, and feel free to reach out to [email protected] to learn more about getting involved in the Our States, Our Fates program.

1. Gilbert, David. 2023. “Inside Moms for Liberty's Close Relationship With the Proud Boys.” VICE. 
2. Pishko, Jessica. 2022. Angry right-wing moms are trying to have librarians arrested by "constitutional sheriffs." Slate.