Conservative Moms Org Called A ‘Hate Group’ In Massachusetts Police Trainings: Report
Massachusetts police officers were trained to view Moms for Liberty as a “hate group” — right alongside Antifa and neo-Nazis — according to internal materials uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The training, created by the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, was obtained and shared exclusively with The Daily Wire. The committee is responsible for training more than 20,000 officers across the commonwealth.
Moms for Liberty, a grassroots parental rights group, was stunned to find itself listed among extremist organizations in materials citing the Southern Poverty Law Center — a controversial far-left group known for branding mainstream conservatives as extremists.
The SPLC claims Moms for Liberty is an “anti-government extremist” group, a label repeated in the police training. The materials say the group targets “books that reference race and gender identity” and uses “parents’ rights as a vehicle to attack public education and make schools less welcoming for minority and LGBTQ students.”
But Moms for Liberty cofounder Tina Descovich called the comparison outrageous.
“Moms for Liberty is here to show up at school board meetings, speak out against curriculum, failing schools, inappropriate books, maybe in your public school library,” Descovich told The Daily Wire. “Antifa is burning down whole cities and parts of cities and rioting in the streets. These two are not equivalent.”
The group was founded in 2021 during the COVID school shutdowns, as parents across the country pushed to reopen schools and protect children from radical content being pushed in classrooms.
“We want parents to have the ability to opt out of sexualized books or curriculum, things that don’t align with their religious beliefs as the Supreme Court just affirmed in their most recent ruling in the Montgomery County, Maryland case,” Descovich said.
The same training materials that labeled Moms for Liberty as a threat also linked to a PBS article calling them “a well-connected extremist group that attacks inclusion in schools,” based on interviews with so-called “anti-hate researchers.”
“PBS is anything but fair and balanced,” Descovich said. “And now the state of Massachusetts is using those PBS articles to target us, to put a target on our back and tell police in that state that we are a threat. All we are is moms and dads that are concerned about our children, that are speaking up in a public forum, which we have the constitutional right to do.”
She said local police officers don’t see the group as a threat at all — quite the opposite.
“We have to ask what is going on here in Massachusetts with these trainings to police officers,” she said.
“We are not conducting ourselves in a way that police ever need to be concerned about the way we act.”
“As a matter of fact, our chapter chair there in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, who is the one that brought all this to my attention, said she has local members of their police force come up to her all the time and say, ‘Please keep going. We can’t talk about it publicly, but I have kids. I appreciate you guys speaking out. So thank you for your courage and your bravery.’”
Meanwhile, Antifa — a far-left group known for using threats, violence, and property destruction to intimidate political opponents — was listed directly before Moms for Liberty in the same “hate group” section.
Despite its violent track record, the training described Antifa as “a relatively small” threat.
The materials also noted that Moms for Liberty supports right-leaning school board candidates — a point apparently treated as cause for concern in the training.