Moms for Liberty co-founder insists ‘we’re no hate group’

Moms for Liberty has been accused of having ties to "neo-Nazi" organizations like the Proud Boys, but its founder has hit back. 

A CO-FOUNDER of the controversial political organization Moms for Liberty has hit back at claims it is a hate group and called on those frightened of its aims to join them instead.

Tina Descovich, a Florida mother who helped create the conservative group three years ago, explained to The U.S. Sun why she believes a Trump presidency will make life better for American women and girls.

The 50-year-old also expressed her support for Trump's running mate pick, JD Vance, in the wake of controversial comments he has made about women.

Tina described herself as just a regular mom, who was radicalized by her time serving on Florida school boards between 2016 and 2020.

Along with her fellow Moms for Liberty cofounders Tiffany Justice and Bridget Ziegler, she says she was exposed to "what was happening behind the public education curtain," and, in particular, "how parental rights were being stripped."

She talked proudly of her group's meteoric rise since its launch on New Year's Day, 2021, with just "$500 and a box of t-shirts."

A mere three years later, Moms for Liberty boasts more than 300 chapters in all but two states, along with what Tina likes to call "130,000 moms on the ground."

What does she put the staggering success of her group down to?

"Our growth has been by the grace of god," she told The U.S. Sun, talking about the "real need" in the United States to help parents "feeling alone and frustrated" at the state of public education.

"The national conversation needs to focus on the failure of public education and what teachers' unions have done," she explained.

She accused the Democrats of presiding over "the lowest reading scores in our country since the 1980s, and the lowest math scores in the history of the United States."

For mathematics, the drop is not quite as stark, although they do show the lowest figures since 1990.

Both the math and reading levels dropped sharply since 2020, with female and black students showing the most drastic decline since then.

Tina and Tiffany have taken Moms for Liberty from the activist fringe of the Republican Party to a major pressure group, with Donald Trump even speaking at a recent summit.

Although not officially a partisan group, Tina says that she is "grateful" for Trump's support and that he "cares about our country."

She explains why she believes mothers are an important - if under-utilized - demographic in US elections.

"Historically, a lot of moms aren't active politically," she said, adding that they didn't tend to "care" about Washington shenanigans.