Have you ever seen the birth of a supervillain? I have. This is Kimberly Fletcher in 2010 at a Tea Party Convention. As a part of her speech, she gives her villain origin story. Her husband was working at the Pentagon on 9/11. He made it out OK. And from that day she has devoted her life to politics. There were so many choices she could have made in her life since that day. Think of all the good she could have done in the world with all the passion and drive she has. Instead, she chose to do this. Today is all about Kimberly Fletcher and the group she founded Moms for America. Best known as the group that pulled the permit for the “Stop the Steal” event that became the Jan 6th riot.
Today I will give a brief history of the conservative women’s movement in America, Kimberly Fletcher’s story, what Moms for America does, and finally, I bought some merch from Moms for America to see if is good quality and if you can wear it someplace other than the next insurrection.
Charity Navigator page, no rating
ProPublica page
Moms For America Action 501(c)4 ProPublica page
SourceWatch Page
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Mailpiece used in this blog Moms For America October 2022 Important National Survey of 1,000,000 Moms and Grandmoms on the “Critical Race Theory” Curriculum in America’s Schools. (all junk mail photos are “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike” Please credit “Drowning in Junk Mail” if you use them in any project, news story, whatever.)
This next section is taken from Empire of Direct Mail by Takahito Moriyama
In the early spring of 1954, leaders of Republican women’s clubs came to Washington from all over the country for a “Centennial Conference,” in which the women attended workshops on how to organize other women back home into an army of volunteers. Each of the Republican women went back to her local club with a neat fourteen-pound leatherette case containing a 35 mm film projector, which the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee provided for free. Then female volunteers were able to hold political meetings in their living rooms over coffee for an intimate group by showing campaign films. Besides organizing the “coffee hours,” women brought the projectors and films into service clubs, women’s clubs, civic organization meetings, libraries, and churches. One Republican marveled at the grassroots campaign during the 1954 elections, saying that the volunteers toted campaign materials into “places we never thought we could reach with a political message.”
Takahito Moriyama, Empire of Direct Mail pg 24
Images used in this section of the video:
Pixels: Republican Centennial 1954 Poster (trust me I tried to find a better source than this)
Getty Images: Women Republicans Decorate GOP Bus
Getty Images: California Federation of Republican Women, 1954
Getty Images: JAN 2 1963 Mrs. Ruth Richardson (Right) And Mrs R.J. Reese
I think I found the projector. It was a WW II Holmes NAVY Portable 35mm Sound Projector. It was used by the Navy to take from base to base to show training films. If it wasn’t this one it was something very similar.
Holms Projector Project Shows the projector on a portable stand. The ladies would have had to lug around a similar stand to their meetings.
Although the 1950s advertising industry was a male-dominated arena, Republican women took a part in advertising operations as well as grassroots activities. The Republican Women in Industry and the Professions (RWIP), whose leadership included female advertising executives and public relations managers, sent a letter to RNC Chairman Leonard W. Hall in June 1954. President of the RWIP and a public relations promotion consultant herself, Kay Martin stressed contributions that ad women could make, claiming that the “Republican Party needed an organized group of the top (mostly public relations) editors and advertising women, who have offered to volunteer their time and best efforts to supplement and work for the Party, it is this very minute.” Martin went on to make her case that the Eisenhower administration and its programs “needs to be interpreted at grass-roots level to women.”
Takahito Moriyama, Empire of Direct Mail pg 24
Photos used in this section:
Partners in Productive Advertising, Austin Briggs: The Advertising Manager
Getty Images: Businesswoman and her secretary – stock photo
Powerful women in the advertising industry had to beg the Eisenhower campaign to pay attention to the women’s vote.
In response to these voices, Republican public relations professionals mapped out a nationwide television rally of grassroots party workers with a special emphasis on women. Produced by the RNC in conjunction with members of the Women’s National Press Club and the Top Women Press Representatives of the Nation, “Women Want to Know” was a TV program “designed for the special tastes of the housewife.” As a fifteen-minute, three-times-a-week series, the program showed the interactions of questions and answers among informed guests, an inquisitive panel of experts, and a studio audience. The purpose of this series was to inform women of vital concerns to them, ranging from foremost researchers in breast cancer, how their sons would be drafted, and to Geneviève de Galard, a French nurse known as the “Angel of Dien Bien Phu.” Reaching out to housewives and female voters, “Women Want to Know” exemplified the fusion of political advertising strategy and grassroots efforts.
Takahito Moriyama, Empire of Direct Mail pg 24
I looked for clips of “Women Want to Know” but couldn’t find anything. This show sounds like The View or The Talk but is sponsored by the GOP.
IMDB page For Women Want to Know
Faye Emerson also briefly hosted a New York program in 1956 called Women Want to Know, and generated a great deal of controversy with the premiere episode’s topic, sex education. Charles S. Aaronson authored an editorial in Motion Picture Daily blasting Emerson and the show for the topic, ‘‘which has no conceivable place in such a mass medium of wide dissemination as television,’’ and cynically noted that having the ‘‘glamorous Faye Emerson’’ moderate the discussion was ‘‘little less than the height of folly.’’
‘‘Glamor Girl Classed as TV Show Brain’’: The Body and Mind of Faye Emerson Christine Becker
The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2004
https://www3.nd.edu/~cbecker1/emersonarticle.PDF page 12 of PDF or page 253 of original publication
The Faye Emerson Show. October 19, 1950 interview with theater director Paton Price, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and playwright Tennessee Williams
As historian Catherine Rymph has argued, “clubwomen” engaged in partisan politics by the 1950s. The National Federation of Republican Women promoted women’s auxiliary role, and more women than ever before became an integral part in the Republican Party during the Eisenhower period. A 1950s survey demonstrated that women composed 56 percent of core GOP activists, while female activists were only 41 percent in the Democratic Party. The fifties also witnessed the decline of the American labor movement’s influence at the local level. As trade unions shifted from radicalism of the 1930s toward moderation and practicality in the midcentury, American intellectuals such as C. Wright Mills and Seymour Martin Lipset were pessimistic about the political leadership of unions. Whereas the unions were integrated into a liberal coalition within the Democratic Party, they failed to mobilize white-collar workers in the years prior to the 1960s. At the same time, political consultants in the RNC successfully enlarged grassroots Republican forces by bringing women into political life.
Takahito Moriyama, Empire of Direct Mail pg 24
Wiki page for the women’s club movement in the United States. The impact of the Woman’s Club movement on the Eisenhower campaign can not be understated. Those projectors were hauled into every church basement, country club meeting room, living room, and any place with a punch bowl and little finger sandwiches.
Images used in this section:
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection: Arrange Decor May 1959 Laurel Oaks Republican Women’s Club
Role Reversal: LIFE Goes to a Men’s-Style Party Night for Republican Women, June 16, 1941 LIFE
At the same time, political consultants and personalized direct mail started ramping up. The political consultants did their best to direct a political campaign, and a part of that plan was to raise money lots and lots of money in a short time. That is when people like Harold Oram, Marvin Liebman, and Richard Viguerie began to hone their craft of creating targeted direct mail. Fundraising became decentralized. Instead of donating directly to a political party, people were donating to groups created by fundraisers.
Phyllis Schlafly the Mother of the Modern Conservative Women’s Movement
Eagle Forum run by Anne Cori Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly Eagles run by Ed Martin and John Schlafly, Andy Schafly
Ballotpedia page
Equal Rights Amendment wiki page
That was the 1950’s we are going to jump up to the 1970s and the Stop ERA Campaign.
Phyllis Schlafly had been politically active since the 1940s. She ran for office a few times and lost. She wanted so badly “To be in the room where it happens“, but it wasn’t meant to be for Mrs. Schlafly. In one of her many tries to get attention in hopes of being elected for office, any office she latched onto the ERA amendment that was being voted on at the time. The ERA didn’t pass in part to the work of Phyllis and her “Eagles”.
When you are running a lobbying campaign like Mrs. Schlafly was you need volunteers and money. She started the Eagle Forum and a network of smaller clubs in every state. She tapped into the same network of women’s clubs that the Eisenhower campaign had used all those years ago.
Phyllis Schlafly taught her eagles “how to fly” She taught them how to organize groups to lobby Congress, and how to manipulate the system to bend to their favor.
The Most Powerful Office In The World IS NOT The President of the United States!
Eagle Forum teaches people how to weasel into local politics by getting elected to “Precinct Committee person”. The Precinct Committee person determines who gets to be on primary the ballot to be elected to office at every level of government.
This directly parallels the tactic of getting into local politics by being elected to small potions that people don’t scrutinize like water board or school board then working your way up the political food chain.
Phyllis Schlafly needed money to finance her movement. She teamed up with Richard Viguerie to run her direct mail program. The two of them together were truly a match made in hell. Viguerie’s company American Target Advertising ran her direct mail campaign almost until the day she died.
Images used in this section:
Wikipedia: A Choice Not an Echo
Wikipedia: Schlafly with President Ronald Reagan in 1983
Getty Images: Gloria Steinem Speaks At Rally 1978
Getty Images: Stop ERA national Chairman Phyllis Schafly leads members opposed to the equal rights amendment in a song about the pro ERA forces plan for a national demonstration in the capital city.
After Mrs. Schlafly passed there was a hole in the portfolio of American Target Advertising. They have a Catholic group, a seniors group, a Veteran dog group, a pro-life group, a fake civil rights group, and a pro-cop group. But without Eagle Forum they are missing a Women’s group.
That is where Kimberly Fletcher and Homemakers for America step in.
Homemakers for America
That brings us back to that empty banquet hall in Tennessee in 2010. This is all conjecture. I have no idea what happened. But Phyllis Schlafly died in 2016. Her kids are fighting amongst themselves. About the same time, Kimberly Fletcher gives Homemakers for America a complete makeover. A new logo and a new name. The new name appeals to a wider demographic rather than the very niche topic of homemakers. Moms for America. I am sure that the silver-tongued devils at American Target Advertising were slick with their pitch to her. They will cover all the costs of a direct mail campaign. Moms for America will get a cut of the money that American Target Advertising pulls in.
This is the old Homemakers of America website. I glanced at this and immediately wondered if Kimberly Fletcher was a member of the LDS church. She is Mormon Wiki. Her husband served in the military. They have 8 kids that she homeschooled when they were little. At least 2 of the kids went to high school. They seem to be all adults now living their best lives. Cassie Fletcher’s podcast on her story. Her story is also the Moms for America story.
Along with Cassie Fletcher, two daughters-in-law also work for the charity. This is always a red flag. Is this a charity or a family business?
Charity Watch has a couple of articles about family-run charities and why they can be a problem.
All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F’s
“It’s more like a family business than a public charity … You would have to have a lot of trust in this family in order to want to give them your money.”
Donor Alert: ‘ACLJ’ Is Two Charities Dominated by One Family
Moms for America
As a reaction to the Women’s March in January 2017, Mrs. Fletcher organized the Moms March for America in September 2017. This was the start of Mrs. Fletcher gathering up people to start a new movement.
From the name change in 2018 until the Stop the Steal movement Moms for America was a basic right-wing group following all the culture war topics, border wall/illegal immigrants, getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court (28:30 for Mrs. Fletcher to start). She even drags out all the old lies about the ERA, now with transgender people tossed into the mix. Then the COVID-19 lockdown in March of 2020 and she rallied moms to keep kids in school, not wear masks and not get vaccinated, or pull their kids from school and homeschool them.
This network of women would be the core of her new following. She would lead them to protest schools over mask mandates and vaccinations, the D.C. Capitol, and then get them elected to school boards across the nation. “And a lot of these moms who are now active in the school board races … they were election-integrity activists first. “
Jan 6th, 2021 “Stop the Steal Rally”/Insurrection
Most people know about the events of Jan 6th at the Capitol Building. Many people don’t know that there was a series of rallies in November and December leading up to the big “Stop the Steal” event in January. Mrs. Fletcher was instrumental in connecting people across the country and organizing those events. All the people who organized those smaller local events teamed up to put on, the big event in D.C. She was the one who pulled a permit for a fake group called “One Nation Under God”. That event eventually became the “Stop the Steal” rally that President Trump spoke at.
Kimberly Fletcher was instrumental. There really would not be a Stop the Steal movement to the degree that we were effective without Kimberly Fletcher. We got connected through an activist down South. She said, ‘You need to talk to her.’
We were on the phone, and five minutes later, she said, ‘I’m gonna roll my organization into yours,’ and that allowed us, on that first Saturday after the elections, to be present in all 50 state capitals. … Without Kimberly Fletcher and Moms for America (which has since moved its headquarters to Missouri), that would not have been possible. And a lot of these moms who are now active in the school board races … they were election-integrity activists first.
Q&A with Ali Alexander, organizer of ‘Stop the Steal’ protests before Jan. 6
Law enforcement anticipated between 50 and 500 people at the gathering, assigning it the lowest possible threat score and predicting a 1% to 5% chance of arrests. The police gave much higher threat scores to two small anti-Trump demonstrations planned elsewhere in the city.
However, One Nation Under God was a fake name used to trick the Capitol Police into giving Stop the Steal a permit, according to Stop the Steal organizer Kimberly Fletcher. Fletcher is president of Moms for America, a grassroots organization founded to combat “radical feminism.”
“Everybody was using different names because they didn’t want us to be there,” Fletcher said, adding that Alexander and his allies experimented with a variety of aliases to secure permits for the east front of the Capitol. Laughing, Fletcher recalled how the police repeatedly called her “trying to find out who was who.”
New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic
This article was quoted in Mrs. Fletcher’s deposition for the January 6th Committee
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Fletcher rejected the suggestion that the group’s permit application was in any way deceptive. “A ‘fake name’ was not provided for the permit to gather on January 6. Stop the Steal pulled the permit for a group of organizations under ‘One Nation Under God.’ The false information from Antifa and Biden supporters, and from the left media who do not want to perform necessary and thorough research, is slothful and simply ignorant at best. The truth will prevail.”
The Capitol Police Granted Permits For Jan. 6 Protests Despite Signs That Organizers Weren’t Who They Said They Were
This article was quoted in Mrs. Fletcher’s deposition for the January 6th Committee
Kimberly Fletcher, the Moms for America president, said she wasn’t aware the Trump campaign had a role in the rally at the Ellipse until around New Year’s Day. While she didn’t work directly with the campaign, Fletcher did notice a shift in who was involved in the rally and who would be speaking.
“When I got there and I saw the size of the stage and everything, I’m like, ‘Wow, we couldn’t possibly have afforded that,’” she said. “It was a big stage. It was a very professional stage. I don’t know who was in the background or who put it together or anything.”
In addition to the large stage, the rally on the Ellipse featured a sophisticated sound system and at least three Jumbotron-style screens projecting the president’s image to the crowd. Videos posted online show Trump and his family in a nearby private tent watching the rally on several monitors as music blared in the background.
Moms for America held a more modest “Save the Republic” rally on Jan. 5 near the U.S. Capitol, an event that drew about 500 people and cost between $13,000 to $14,000, according to Fletcher.
Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot
This article was quoted in Mrs. Fletcher’s deposition for the January 6th Committee
Images Used in this section:
Getty Images: Trump Supporters Hold “Stop The Steal” Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election
AP Photo: Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington
Wayback Machine grab of Kimberly Fetcher’s speech at the “Save the Republic” rally on January 5th
Post Jan 6th riot
All throughout 2021 she spread lies about COVID-19, was against mask mandates and of course, her solution to all of this was to homeschool your kids her real agenda.
Parent’s Strike “Force these vaccines down our throats.”
Moms Have Had Enough of Masking Flip-Flops
In January 2022 Mrs. Fletcher pled the 5th for every question asked of her by the Jan. 6th Committee.
Her version of what happened at the deposition: J6, Mar-a-Lago, and the WAR on the American People
Her reward for not ratting out her friends was Moms for America was propelled to the top of the right’s Mom sphere in 2022. Suddenly Moms For America is a main sponsor at CPAC. The main hub of networking and fundraising for conservatives.
Kimberly Fletcher on a CPAC panel Feb 2022 Start at 11:09
Kimberly Fletcher giving an undercard speech CPAC Aug 2022 Start at 27:56
One of the consequences of trying to overthrow the government is people putting you under a microscope.
Moms for America is now listed as a “parents’ rights” hate group by the SLPC under “anti-government extremist groups,” and “reactionary anti-student inclusion group”.
They have been de-platformed by multiple social media companies. July 2021 Big Tech Exit protest, Most recently by Vimeo.
Everyone has gone through their publicly filed finance records. The donation that stuck out to everyone was the one made by Julia “Julie” Jenkins Fancelli, daughter of late Publix Super Markets founder George Jenkins and an heir to his roughly $9 billion fortune. She essentially financed the “Stop the Steal” rally. As a part of that she donated 1.3 million to Moms For America.
For more information on the women behind the Jan 6th event: The Rich Mothers of the Insurrection
For more information about Mom for America’s donors: A Jan. 6 “Moms” Group Funded by Big Lie Donors Is Stoking Voter Suppression
2023 and Beyond
If you look past the chatter about the daily culture war skirmishes going on, the main objective of Moms for America is to get people elected to school boards. Each person may have a different personal agenda but the overall goal is disruption. They want to break the school system down so that people either beg for a voucher system or you guessed it homeschool their kids.
Moms for Junk Mail
I received this mailpiece from Moms for America because of the Christian Action Network project I did. I took one look at this mailpiece and knew it was made by American Target Advertising. I can trace the DNA of this mailpiece back to the 1940s. Richard Viguerie was trained by Marvin Liebman who was trained by Harold Oram a couple of pioneers in the direct mail world. They loved to feature opinion leaders in mailpieces. The theory goes that if you love the opinion leaders featured in the mailpiece then you will love the group that sent the mailpiece.
“[W]henever I [Marvin Liebman] organized a ‘conservative’ or ‘anti-communist’ group, I followed Oram’s example and tried to include as many ‘liberals’ as I could on the letterhead to create the broadest possible base of support.” The signature of an anti-communist organization with which Oram and Liebman were involved clearly demonstrated diverse supporters. It included poets Conrad Aiken and Siegfried Sassoon, cellist Pablo Casals, novelist John Dos Passos, psychologist Carl Jung, architect Walter Gropius, physicist Robert Oppenheimer, philosopher Bertrand Russell, historian Arthur Schlesinger, and the American Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas, to name only the most notable.
Takahito Moriyama, Empire of Direct Mail pg 45
This mailpiece features:
Candy Carson wife of Ben Carson
Sam Sorbo wife of Kevin Sorbo
Brad Dacus president of the Pacific Justice Institute
This mailpiece is not trying to “create the broadest possible base of support” it is trying to appeal to hardcore conservatives. They are not trying to convert people. The only people who care about Richard Viguerie, is Richard Viguerie and American Target Advertising. You have to be a political direct mail nerd to know who he is.
If you want to get off the mailing list for Moms for America I will link to the opt-out page for ATA. Normally I tell people to contact the organization directly, not today you can skip that step and go directly to the fundraiser. If you are on one of their mailing lists you are on all of their mailing lists.
Moms for Merch
Moms For America’s Merch Store
Let’s talk merch and I why I bought what I did. I wanted to get on to Moms for America and, American Target Advertising’s mailing lists. My hope was that if I bought about $100 of merch they would put me on the super fan list and I would get put on all the mailing lists for the American Target Advertising extended universe. That didn’t happen. On the one hand, I am glad. But on the other, it means that their donor journey of being sucked into all of the funnels that ATA has to offer is being neglected. They need better integration of their systems to maximize the amount of money they can drain out of a person. While the junk mail content I was hoping for didn’t happen, I still have the merch in all of its glory.
Overall, I like the line they have created. You can tell one person picked all of it. I love that Mrs. Fletcher wears all the key pieces in the line. She picked out things she liked and wanted to wear. Which is great. All of the clothing comes in women’s plus-size. I wear a 2X. This is another reason I picked them first. I wanted a woman’s shirt in my size.
The core product is the purple shirts with the Moms for America logo on them. I got the V-neck version. The nice thing about clothing is that on the tags it tells you where it came from. The blank is from Port & Company. They make blanks, that is they make clothing that is intended to be silkscreened, embroidered, or customized in some other way. It is a cheap tee that is made to be worn a few times and tossed out. It is a good protest tee. It is cheap enough that you can bundle it with other protest products like a hat and a sign to make your group look good for the day. A person walks up, pays about $40 gets a protest bundle and the group still makes a nice profit.
The hat I got was the beanie. Sadly the trucker hat was out of stock at the time or I would have picked that one up instead. The beanie is from S&S Activewear. This hat is wonderful it is thick and soft. Mrs. Fletcher knows how to pick out a nice hat for those cold days in DC. My only complaint is that the branding is an iron-on patch. I would have preferred the embroidered one that Mrs. Fletcher wore on January 6th, 2021. But when you are making products to a price point that is how you cut costs.
This next product is why we are here a rhinestone incrusted vest. I can not overstate how much I love this piece. It is in the fine tradition of over-the-top clothing found at political conventions. If you wear this on the floor of a GOP or CPAC convention you will blend right in. Mrs. Fletcher wears the one in denim all the time and I love it. It is the Curvy Bottom Crystal Button Vest from Distinct Apparel. They make both blank clothing and rhinestone kits to embellish any piece of clothing you want. I’m assuming that the rhinestone kits come on big iron-on sheets. I love that Moms for America paid to have a custom pattern of their logo made. There is also a bling tee. I was really hoping for a bling hat with the Moms for America logo on it. My only complaint about it is they sent me the wrong size a 1X. But judging from how badly it fits I would have needed to order a 3X to get the fit I like. I am terrified to wash it. It came with washing instructions, but I think I would wash it by hand to make sure that the rhinestones don’t get knocked off.
Images used in this section:
Getty Images CPAC Feb. 18, 2010 Flordia woman, listens to Senate Candidate Marco Rubio
Getty Images: An unidentified delegate sports a crazy hat during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Getty Images: Women wearing ‘IKE’ dresses and holding ‘IKE’ parasols at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, USA, 22 August 1956
Getty Images: Three female Democratic Party members wearing distinct hats, two wear different styles of straw hat and the third wears hat in the shape of a donkey, at the 1972 Democratic National Convention
Getty Images: MIAMI, FL – AUGUST 5: Republican Convention on August 5, 1968 in Miami, Florida.
Getty Images: Hart Glasses Delegate wears red, white and blue during day two of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina
Getty Images: Man in Uncle Sam Suit Leading Conservatives Gather For Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland
Getty Images: Trump Shirts American Conservative Union Holds Annual CPAC Conference In Orlando
Things I would improve about the merch line
I would change the trucker hat. It has too much on it. Hats for sports teams don’t have the name of the team on them. They just have the logo. Moms For America paid a lot for that logo. And quite frankly it is one of the best logos for any charity. I would make it large and proud on a hat.
I think they should stay away from novelty tees like the Target tee, tees with one word, and seasonal tees like the “ugly” Christmas sweater. All for the same reason. Those only work if you are using a “print on demand” service. This means the shirt only gets made when someone orders it. That ugly sweater has been hanging around since last year. It should have been put on clearance long ago. Don’t waste resources on items other than your core products unless you use a “print on demand” vendor.
I would also add long-sleeve tees in pink and teal to layer with the purple tees. A purple raglan tee would also be nice. I would switch the denim vest from stone wash to navy. The darker color contrasts better with the rhinestones. Finally, I would add a bling trucker hat to complete the ensemble.
Should you donate to Moms for America?
Should you an elderly person on a fixed income who just got a mailpiece in the mail donate to Moms for America? No. They are an astroturf organization that will do fine without your $20. There is so much dark money pouring into this group they don’t need your help.
A few of their Major Donors:
- George Jenkins Foundation controlled by Julie Fencelli, Influence Watch page, ProPublica page
- USA Transform, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐, ProPublica page
- Dunn Foundation, ProPublica page
- America First Works, SourceWatch page, ProPublica page
- FreedomWorks Foundation, SourceWatch page, Charity Navigator page ⭐⭐⭐⭐, ProPublica page
- Robert and Carole Julian Foundation, ProPublica page
Dark Money is when you can’t trace the origin of the money. Donors will hide behind “Donor Advised Funds” and “Political Action Committees” to hide from the general public that they are donating to unsavory causes.
In this case, these are “Donor Advised Funds”. The donor puts their money in a big pool of cash and can direct it to any charity they want. The money comes out with the name of the “Donor Advised Fund” instead of the original donor’s name. How dare you call this money laundering, it is completely different.
The “Donor Advised Funds” that have donated to Moms for America over the past few years are:
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
- Donors Trust Inc
- Bradley Impact Fund Inc
- National Christian Charitable Foundation
Forbes article about “Donor Advised Funds” and their appeal to the ultra-wealthy.
If you care about the topics that Moms for America talks about, mostly helping kids learn, read to your grandkids. Volunteer at your local library. They always need help with programs. Help spark curiosity and a love of reading in the next generation of kids.
If you find that right-wing extremists are trying to infiltrate your school board Alyssa Bowen has put together a list of tools and strategies to fight back. Mostly it is researching the people running for school board and go to school board meetings to follow what they are doing.
What was the fake women’s group I made up?
The fake group was “Patriotic Women for Freedom”.
Put the name of your fake women’s group in the comments.
Further reading on women being radicalized to fascism:
The Feminine Art of Radicalization podcast
Julie V. Gottlieb: Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement, 1923-45
Seyward Darby: Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism
Eviane Leidig: The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
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