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We talked a lot today about critical race theory.
We had a couple of guests on Ryan Gerduski.
He's actually the guy who broke that story about John Weaver's sexual harassment with little boys.
He was the co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
So Ryan Ryan is the guy who broke that story, but he is getting involved now because
he can't believe what's being taught with critical race theory all over the country.
If you think it's not in your school, it is.
He started something to help people run for school board, 1776projectpac.com.
We talked to him.
We also talked to a woman in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is
Alice in Wonderland world.
It is completely upside down,
where the teachers and the school board look at parents as if they're an annoyance that just need to be shut down.
The campaign to shut down these parents in the school is un-American.
Luckily, there is somebody standing by her, and we talk to the woman who is under attack and is suing the county and the school board.
We have a conversation with that.
Bill O'Reilly, of course, is always great.
And Richard Grinnell, if I could spend a day with anyone and just pick his brain, it would be Richard Grinnell, the former director of national intelligence, oversaw all of the intelligence.
I talked to him a little bit about the hacking that is going on in our food supply, in our gas lines.
But also, I wanted to know if he had ever seen anything that said white supremacy and Donald Trump supporters are the most dangerous to our republic over anything else.
You don't want to miss that interview.
All on today's podcast.
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the best of the Blenbeck program.
Yesterday we told you about the guy who
just said, you know, that Jews have an insatiable appetite for for war and killing.
And he said, I don't know how I'd reconcile that identity if I were a Jew with the behavior of fundamentalist Jewish extremists or Israel as a nation.
The details would confuse me.
I wouldn't understand those who suggest that bombing Lebanon, slaughtering Lebanese people, and largely destroying Beirut in retaliation for the capture of a few soldiers is justified.
He was the head of diversity at Google.
Hmm.
Wonder if he's a Marxist.
But he's no longer with Google.
They fired him.
I guess if you just say Jews have an appetite for blood,
I guess that's enough to get you fired today.
Holy cow.
So that's good news.
I want to talk to you about something else.
We have a woman who is being targeted in
Virginia because she's standing up against critical race theory in this very famous county, Loudoun County,
where
the people are
just coming after you, and they don't seem to care, including the county attorney.
Ryan Gurduski, he is a journalist.
He's actually the guy who broke the story recently on the Lincoln Project, the co-founder, John Weaver, who was sexually harassing
young boys, which
is always a plus, I guess, if you're running
the Lincoln project.
Nobody seemed to have a problem with it until he broke the story.
He is also the author of They're Not Listening and the founder of the 1776 Project PAC.
Now, this has something to do with critical race theory, and I'm going to let him explain it.
Hi, Ryan.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you for having me on, Glenn.
You bet.
So, let's first talk about the let's first talk
about the PAC and tell me what it does and why you started it.
Yeah, so the 1776 Project PAC, PAC PAC, by the way, it's on 1776projectpact.com.
It's the nation's very first super PAC intended solely for school board candidates.
So because critical race theory has been moving through our public institutions, especially through grammar schools, elementary schools, and high schools,
the only way that we can counter that on democratic means is is by taking over the school boards with conservatives who want to promote, you know, a
patriotic version of American history.
The point of the PAC was to sit there and try to campaign on behalf of school board candidates, especially in counties and districts that were promoting critical race theory already and trying to reach out to candidates who are in districts that are not promoting critical race theory, but reach out to them about how to be proactive with maybe different types of history books, different types of civics education,
and how to,
what school board members can do to counter what's going on with principals and with educators in these school systems.
So when you say I want to promote a patriotic
history or curriculum, I don't want a patriotic history.
I think I just want a true history of the United States.
I think that's patriotic enough in itself.
Who are you?
How do you judge who to help and who not to help?
What are the requirements for somebody who's running for school board to get your assistance?
Well, they have to oppose critical race theory.
That's the most important thing.
We've had,
yeah, I mean, that's you have to oppose critical race theory.
That is the most important position you have to have.
You know, every school district is different.
Every state is different.
So, different, people are worried about mask mandates in some schools and not worried about it in other schools.
My main point is critical race theory because I think it's truly a cancer in society right now.
The thing is, the PAC started about a week ago.
So we've raised about $32,000 over 450 donors in a week, which is great.
We'll see how much I can raise by November.
There's no corporate money.
This is not, I literally started this on my bed with my dog,
found a treasure, started a PAC.
I've been working working on campaigns for 15 years, so
I know how to do this.
I know how to campaign on behalf of somebody, but there's no major organization.
So I'm going to see, come roll around September, see how much money we've raised.
And then, and by the way, I have a full-time job.
This is not, you know, my, it's not a grift I'm creating to sit there and raise money.
This is something I'm doing on the side just I think because I have to help.
And it's the only way I know how to help.
So we'll see how much money we raise, and then we'll see which elections are being held this year.
It's rolling elections and school boards.
So it's not every November, it's not every
other year.
They're constantly rolling.
There'll be a lot come November.
And I'll see how much money I have and which candidates I can help in which states.
I know Bucks County, Pennsylvania have reached out to me a lot.
People from there, people from Kansas have reached out to me a lot.
People think critical race theory is only a blue state issue or a blue city issue.
It's in over 3,500 classrooms.
It is, and you, like you said, it is
crippling.
It is the
kryptonite to America.
If we teach this to our kids, we are surely, surely done.
And
I've seen it
in Texas in some of the most conservative counties.
And what I'm really concerned about is, you know, when you get these school board members on, they really, really have to pay attention to this and make sure they root it out all the way to the roots.
Because I'm seeing all over the country teachers saying, well, we'll just teach it anyway.
I mean, we'll just teach it in our own way.
We'll just
find alternative words for it, alternative terms for it.
But the thing that school board members have the control of is the budget.
So things like
where speakers come in from
out of the school system.
If they're bringing Robin D'Angelo, that's a major red flag.
They control the superintendent position in many places.
They control what textbooks are taught.
So when I said, you know, we should create, we should teach something like a patriotic version of history.
I don't mean to whitewash history.
I don't mean to downplay certain bad things that happen and highlight certain good things.
What I'm sitting there and saying, though, is that we need to
have a proactive version that sits there and addresses a lot of these concerns head-on with the problematic portions of history, but creates the narrative overall that our nation is great and that great men of history, as colorful as they were or as problematic as they were by today's standards, the overarching narrative of their life and of their time is that they moved the human race forward.
And I think that that is really, really important.
And so, trying to find textbooks that promote those kinds of thoughts in children
is another key portion of it.
We're talking to Ryan Gerduski.
He has just started 1776 Project PAC, P-A-C.com, which is supporting those people that want to get into politics and run for school board if you have a spine of steel against critical race theory.
What brought you to this?
I mean, you're a journalist, generally speaking, aren't you not?
Are you not?
I am.
I am.
Well, what happened was
I don't have children, but I have a very large family, 36 first cousins.
I'm the second oldest of all of them.
And
my godson was in school, and his teacher, because everyone was doing basically online classes over the last year,
one of his teachers said to my nine-year-old cousin, my nine-year-old godson, that police cars only follow white cars.
They don't follow, oh, sorry, only follow black cars.
They don't follow white cars.
Now, she's teaching about racial
profiling to a nine-year-old in the most innocuous terms possible in order to sit there and kind of create this idea that the police are biased and the police are are racist.
Now, we have a lot of police in my family, and he called me with a lot of questions, and it was infuriating, and there was no kind of check on it.
I mean, the parents started calling, the PTA got involved, the principal ended up having to get involved.
But had he not been doing classes at home, we would have never really probably ever learned about it.
We only learned about it because his parents overheard.
So, I thought that this was, there has to be some kind of check.
There has to be something we can do.
Something I can do.
I mean, I don't have the means to create a new school.
I don't have the, you know, credentials to create a new textbook, but I can run a campaign because I've done them in the past, and I can run a super PAC, and I've done that in the past.
So let me just do that.
And I created this PAC.
And,
you know, if you want to run for school board, I would go to 1776projectpack.com, P-A-C.com.
Let me know
where you're running and when the election is.
If you want to donate, we definitely need donations because, like I said, I'm doing this all,
without a corporate sponsor, without a major billionaire behind it, just people sitting there wanting to donate to make this better.
And if you want to just get involved and tell me about a school district that is promoting critical race theory, I'd love to hear it because there's no database.
I'm trying to still get all that information going so we know where is this being promoted and when.
I find it astonishing how deeply entrenched it already is in almost every area of the the country.
I mean, people just don't, you know, they'll hear things like, ah, you got to be anti-racist.
And they don't, you know, they're like, you know, I'm against racism, so I guess that's right.
This has nothing to do with Martin Luther King.
This anti-racism means racism.
Yeah, yeah, and we should stop calling it critical race theory and call it what it is, which is state-sponsored racism.
It tells white children you are, it has all the punitive parts of religion.
It It tells white children you are born a racist, you have this original sin,
you need to redeem yourself from it, but you can never actually receive redemption.
It tells non-white children that you are born a victim, you will live a victim, you will die a victim, and you will, every, every area of life of an inequity for you is because of your skin color.
And it was purposely created as an inequity because of your skin color.
It's horrendous.
It's a lie.
And the fact that
we have this 1619 project being taught in school, which is completely, I mean, it's not historically correct at all.
It says the American Revolution was fought over slavery.
I mean, that's just not a fact, and that's taught in classrooms now.
Ryan, I thank you very much for what you're doing.
And I urge you, if you're listening right now, to run for school board.
Get involved.
It's not going to be enough just to show up.
You do have to show up at school board meetings now.
We have to be involved unlike we've ever been involved before, but you have to run.
If you have it within you, you have to run.
And it's not that hard to get elected because very few people actually vote in the school board races.
And so it's, go ahead.
You were going to say?
No, no, I laugh because it's true.
And listen, I know most people are nervous, but most school board elections, 90% of our country, are nonpartisan.
Very few people come out and vote for it.
And I think the PAC, the 1776 Project PAC, is there to assist people and campaign on behalf of candidates who, you know, they can't raise even $5,000 to go run a campaign to make a, to make a mailer or something like that.
So I'm hopeful that this PAC, if we raise enough money especially, we'll be able to compete in every possible state that there is and many, many school districts.
And I hope the threat of the PAC to people who are not activists, who are kind of school board members that go along to get along, and are going along with critical race theory, wakes them up and says, oh, I don't really want a mailer come to my neighborhood to say to people that this is what I'm promoting.
Ryan, first of all, thank you for the story that you broke on the Lincoln Project co-founder.
John Weaver has apparently been getting away with this for a very long time, and I'm glad somebody had the balls to actually stand up and
do the research on it and expose it.
So thank you for that.
And also this.
And I urge you, if you are listening and
you understand,
even basic understanding of
critical race theory and the poison that it is to our society, it will be our undoing if we don't stop it, and we must stop it now.
Please make a donation to 1776ProjectPAC, P-A-C,
dot com.
1776projectpack.com.
Ryan, thank you very much.
God bless.
Thank you, Glenn.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
I don't want to waste any time
because he is on a busy schedule.
Former U.S.
Ambassador to Germany, former acting director of national intelligence, and the founder now of fixcalifornia.com, which I really want to get into.
Welcome, Richard Grinnell.
How are you, sir?
Glenn, thanks for having me.
You bet.
Someday I really just want to spend the day with you.
I mean, I'll go follow you around if that's what it takes, but I just have so many things.
Okay,
so let me get because we have such limited time.
Let me get to some things that are on my mind.
Let's start with the hacking.
I've never seen an administration say, well, this is a private company that is being hacked.
A, they should pay the ransom, but that's up to them.
And
it looks like they're coming from China in some of these, the transportation one in New York City, but the rest of them are coming from Russia.
Any chance that Putin doesn't know that this is going on?
Look, let's be very clear.
All of the world leaders right now are testing the Biden administration.
These increased hacks are because they're trying to see how Biden is going to react.
They're trying to test the limits.
How far can they go before
we react, we the United States of America.
And they knew those lines going very clearly under the Trump administration.
They knew exactly
if they did something that impacted America, that there would be an immediate and bigger reaction.
And the bigger reaction is the key here, because what the message is sent when you put America first is: we will protect our people first, and we will have overwhelming force that will come at you, whether it's sanctions, tariffs, airstrikes.
Donald Trump used every single tool that the United States government had to protect us.
Well, Joe Biden is going to go over and talk to Putin.
I can't imagine how badly that's going to go.
But
what message are we sending back to them?
And how bad does this have to become before it's an act of war?
Well, I talked before the campaign.
I talked a lot about Joe Biden's global philosophy.
And he believed in consensus with
the rest of the world and certainly the importance of consensus with Western governments.
Now that sounds amazing, right?
It sounds like can't we all just hug it out and get along?
But the practical reality is that we have a difference of opinion even when it comes to Western allies like Germany.
If you are going to put as the priority that the German government has to
agree and complement our positions, then you've just watered it down.
And let me give you the perfect example.
Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a pipeline that goes too far with gas and energy into Europe.
We, the United States, believe that Nord Stream 1
is okay.
It's part of the equation of having a diversified energy source.
So we don't mind Europe and Germany getting some Russian gas, but Nord Stream II goes too far.
By the way, the European Parliament actually agrees with us, agrees with the United States.
The French agree with us.
A whole bunch of countries in Europe agree with us.
Joe Biden looked at the Germans,
and I can tell you unequivocally that in their call between Chancellor Merkel and Joe Biden, the Chancellor brought up Nord Stream II.
And Joe Biden wants to please Angela Merkel.
He wants the German government to like him.
So when they ask, hey, will you let us have Nord Stream 2,
he prioritizes the compliments of Germany over the position of the United States.
And so while he's shutting down pipelines in the United States, he's allowing them to go forward because the Germans asked for it, and he prioritizes having the Germans like him.
This is a very dangerous and slippery slope when you go to the UN, say, and you want to be liked and you want the crowd to cheer you.
This means that you water down our policy in order to please others.
As a director of national intelligence, you oversee all of the arms of intelligence, right?
Correct.
Okay.
President Biden and his allies are saying the biggest threat, according to the intelligence that he's receiving, the biggest threat to the United States of America is white supremacy and
Donald Trump supporters.
Did you ever see any intelligence that would back any of that up?
Absolutely not.
It's outrageous.
It's politicizing the intelligence community.
It's also making us less safe because if you want to pull resources and articulate a position that this is where we need to concentrate, this is the priority, then the reality is that the counterterrorism center that is run by the intelligence community will shift its resources to trying to find,
seek out information surrounding that phony
argument.
Now, let's be very clear.
Of course, it's a problem, but it's not the top problem.
It's just like, you know, Russia is a problem for us, but China is a crisis.
And when you constantly say, look over there at Russia, look at all of these problems, you're literally giving the Beijing line.
The Chinese applaud us when we say, go concentrate on the Russia
crisis because it's not a crisis and therefore we take our eye off the ball.
This is exactly what's happening when we say white supremacy in America is the problem.
And don't be surprised that over the last four years, how the Democrats have told us that our system, you know, when they say that it's called systemic racism, what they mean is that the system of the United States government, local, state, and federal government, the system
supports racism.
When they say systemic
racism, what they mean is that our system promotes racist policies.
That is not only wrong, it's dangerous because now what we're finding is that the Russians and the Chinese are calling us
racists and a systemic race.
problem.
So the racism, sexism, homophobia mantra from the Democrats, I don't know why people are now surprised that the Chinese come to Alaska and negotiate with us and then lecture us on being a racist society.
Now we've seen Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, deliver the same line.
The Russians are now telling us, be prepared that we are now on the active
plane of being on the offense, pointing out all of your problems in America.
This undercuts our moral authority.
And lastly, let me finish, Glenn, it's outrageous that our U.S.
ambassador to the UN
would go to the United Nations
and
from the podium where there's 193 plus
countries and entities in that room
and say
that we are systemically racist.
That is
damaging our moral authority, and it's now being thrown in our face.
And I don't think the Biden administration is going to be able to ever have the moral upper hand to
tell countries like Iran
or
the epidemic in the Arab world of throwing gay people off buildings or denying women basic rights
or denying Christians the ability to just, you know, gather and worship.
I am so offended today that the Biden administration is saying that they're going to fly gay pride flags for the first time at embassies and all around the world, except for
Indonesia, except for the Middle East, anywhere where it counts.
It matters.
They're not that, I mean, yeah, it matters there.
They're killing homosexuals there, and
they're not going to say anything.
What moral authority do we have at all?
Yeah, by the way, this whole
rainbow flag thing is ridiculous.
Let's be honest.
It doesn't do anything.
It's like wearing a red ribbon at the Hollywood Awards and pretending like you've done something for AIDS research.
It's phony.
It's typical.
You know, what we did in the Trump administration was go to countries that criminalize homosexuality and ask them to change their policies.
This is the substantive work that has to be done.
The whole idea of a rainbow flag and all of that is ridiculous.
It's pandering.
Look, there's a meme going around right now, which I think you should post.
It's incredibly powerful.
It's all of the corporate America, all the CEOs in America, corporations, that have changed their logo for the month of June into colorful pride logos like BMW or Cisco, right?
They don't
Mercedes, yeah.
Right.
They don't do it outside of the United States.
So while they're pounding their chest in Weho and Chelsea, they're not doing it in Ramallah and Riyadh.
It's really outrageous that where it matters to take a stand,
they're not taking a stand, but they're trying to pretend like they are in America, and Americans keep falling for it.
We've got to be able to decipher between phony and real.
And we're not doing a very good job right now because we don't have the help of the media.
So we only have a couple of minutes left.
And I want to ask you, first of all, the intelligence arm of the post office, when did that happen?
Did you know?
Did you know about it?
I mean,
Biden is big.
It's mail fraud.
Go ahead.
And it's mail fraud.
A lot of people have been using the postal service to push
fake and phony and even terrorist type support mechanisms.
So that's real.
But, you know, to be honest, it should not be, and if I had more time at DNI, I would have changed this.
It should not be
based within the Postal Service.
And technically,
it's not.
They'll tell you that the intelligence gathering is an arm that just works with the Post Office.
But the reality is that after 9-11,
we realized that our intelligence agencies were getting the pieces of problems, but not communicating and linking those together.
And so
I think it's a huge mistake to actually create another bureaucracy because the bureaucracies aren't talking to each other.
And that's what we did with the DNI.
When we created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in theory, it was a coordinating body, and it was to be 100 or 200 people coordinating.
Now it's ballooned to 1,800 people plus.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
It's a competing body.
It competes with the other agencies and there's overlap.
I tried, I went in and removed 350 people
and of course Politico and all of the Washington DC media attacked non-stop that I was dismissive of counterterrorism.
But the reality is that we have intelligence agencies and I think this is what you're getting at that overlap and do things that already others are doing.
And so it's not smart because because our tax dollars are being wasted and we're not able to do as much because we're spending
double money on the same problem and sometimes it's a waste, a total waste.
Well,
I bring it up, Richard, because that's the one that is saying that white supremacy is the biggest, you know, they're the ones issuing the warnings
that Biden in Homeland Security are using.
Some information from the post office, which I find is amazing.
Richard, honestly, I wish you were running for governor of California, but I guess that's out of the picture.
Here is the reality, Glenn.
I keep saying
that
I care about the long-term future of California, and that is the truth.
And so
I want to do the things that we can do in California that fix the problem.
am not convinced that the current state of California politics of having a recall
and getting somebody in,
I would say, in November is when the Democrats are thinking of having an election,
is going to fix the problem.
And I think we've got an electorate right now that is incredibly frustrated.
And to tell them that the only thing that we have to do is just send a temporary governor to Sacramento who would go up to Sacramento and face a supermajority in the Senate against him or her and a supermajority in the Assembly against him or her.
You could veto every single bill and the next day get overridden.
And so what I am watching before I make any decision is what are the Democrats going to do with this frustrated electorate?
What they have said they're going to do is they are pushing a decision out to about September on when and if to do the recall.
Now, we have enough signatures on the recall, but the if part is
the Democrats control the state, they control the Secretary of State, the governor's office, every single statewide office.
Christine Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's daughter, a couple of months ago, did an interview with a reporter and said,
basically, she said, don't be stupid about this recall.
The Democrats know exactly what's at stake.
And if Gavin is underwater, he will be forced to resign.
We're not going to go through this.
We're not going to have a recall.
It's too risky.
Now, Gavin Newsome people, the very next day,
started leaking to reporters that Dianne Feinstein was getting old and
she
said that she would leave in 2022, but she may resign early
and therefore if she resigns, Gavin would appoint himself and then.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Richard Grinnell.
I'm sorry we're out of time.
We'll have you on again.
It is always a pleasure to talk to Richard Grinnell.
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I don't know if you've been following what's happening in Loudoun County, the school board there.
Loudoun County is in Virginia.
It's northern part of Virginia, part of the Washington, D.C.
metro.
I mean, it played an essential role in the founding of our nation.
George Washington called it the breadbasket of the revolution because because of the farmers.
At the time, it was the largest county.
Now it's the third largest county.
But it has gone crazy with critical race theory.
So much so that
they have a Facebook group, the people who are on the side of critical race theory.
There is a Facebook page that is trying to dox
first the parents.
Now they're starting to dox the kids
that are part of families that are against critical race theory.
And the last I read, one of the county attorneys, I think the top county attorney for Loudoun County,
was on that Facebook website saying, keep doing this, you're doing exactly the right thing.
It is, it's crazy what's happening.
One of the people, one of the families that are suing the county now
is a mom,
Patty Hildago Menders, is on the phone with us now.
Patty, welcome to the program.
Hi, Glenn.
Thank you for having me.
It is, the world is upside down in Loudoun County, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
I've lived here for almost 23 years, and two of my sons have gone through the Loudoun County school system with no problems.
Math, science, English was taught kind of the way we expected.
You know, I moved to this area specifically for the school system 23 years ago.
And now with my last son, who's a sophomore in high school, we are just finding so much upside down
indoctrination.
What have you found?
So I'll be honest, I'm the president of the Loudoun County Republican Women's Club.
And many of my club members feel trust that they can trust me, whether it's teachers or parents.
They send me screenshots of what the teachers some teachers are teaching and one in particular was a high school English senior class and the teacher had a screen with a white girl and a black girl and kept bullying this student to say what do you see what do you see and the kid is like I only see two people chilling yes so that was uncovered because my club member sent that to me and that opened my eyes to what's happening.
Then in the next couple of days, I get my club members sending me screenshots that my name was blacklisted in that anti-racist Facebook page.
And that opened my eyes to how
crazy they're thinking that we as parents are the opposition.
I mean, there were six school board members in that anti-racist Facebook page.
Yes, the Commonwealth Attorney Buddha Buberich was in that group as well.
Even the principal of my son's high school.
Now, whether they knew or not, they let this mob blacklist us.
And they listed my first and last name.
They listed the name of my husband, where my son goes to high school, and three pictures of me.
Glenn, they called me a racist.
And the irony in that is my parents escaped from communist Cuba.
I know darn well what socialism looks like because they taught me and they taught me to appreciate the freedoms that we've been given here in the U.S.
So when they called me a racist, I got mad.
And I went to the school board meeting.
We only allowed two public comment sessions a month.
And I told them to their face how disappointed, school board, that you let this mob go after your constituents, the parents of the students that you're supposed to represent and take care of our children.
Your county attorney, it didn't stop.
I think it got worse
if I'm reading things right
because now they were saying on that Facebook page, we've got to find out more about these kids
and send us anything you have on any of the kids.
So they're doxing the kids, and then your county attorney joined in and said, this is the right thing to do.
This is insane that it's happening in America.
They we were able to FOIA and find out that this these school board members and
wanted to silence the opposition.
They want it's a war against the parents that do not believe in this indoctrination.
They say it's not critical race theory, they say they're not teaching that, but you know what?
They use other words, they use equity, culturally responsive training, and yes,
they are doxing our children.
You know, it also goes to the kids that
go.
So, we have an opportunity to either do in-person or distance learning, and majority of the conservative families did send their children to in-person.
So, I feel like that's another avenue where they're able to see who these families are that oppose critical race theory in our school.
Now, it's my understanding that if your son or daughter,
you either agree or you be quiet, and if you're not quiet, you can be excluded from school leadership programs, reported for disciplinary action.
Is that true?
Yes.
They implemented two,
they're calling it student equity ambassadors, and then there's a bias reporting.
And the bias reporting allows students anonymously to list eight different reasons why they're reporting this individual and it could be racial slurs or whatever and you can anonymously say that this kid did this on this day
then it goes to the equity committee and they have to investigate and then the student equity ambassadors can only be a part of the program if they're allies to this
CRT training.
So it's it's very scary for you know this is an awkward age to begin with, you know, K through 12.
Kids are still learning.
They're still trying to figure out who they are.
But for them to push this political indoctrination on our children to be social justice warriors, that's when you're getting a lot of parents that are coming to the school board meetings and saying, be honest with us.
What are you doing to our children?
And I don't think, I think a lot of
cities, school boards, teachers, schools are not not being honest.
We've seen this around the country where they pull it out and the teachers just continue to say, we'll do it anyway.
We'll just rename it.
You are working with friends of ours, LibertyJusticeCenter.org,
and
they're working with you on this lawsuit.
What are you suing for?
So my friend Scott Minio, who runs Parents Against Critical Theory, was looking for other Loudoun parents, and he introduced me to Liberty Justice Center.
And we are suing them for
our children's and our right to freedom of speech based on this equity ambassador program and the bias reporting.
And Liberty Justice Center thinks it's a pretty good case.
I mean, if they take your case,
that's a pretty good sign that they think they can win it.
What does it mean if you win?
That's a good question.
I think we could fundamentally end the equity ambassador program.
You know, they want to, this lawsuit to restore our free speech and show that it violates it and that it violates equality.
You know, they don't use the word equality.
They use the word equity.
Night and day difference.
Patty,
when you are out and about,
do you find people are against you or for you, or do you find a lot of people coming up and whispering, I'm with you, I just keep going?
What do you find?
A lot of whispers.
Yeah.
So
cowards.
Yes.
I'll be honest.
I've had to really educate and empower a lot of people to move forward.
And I ran a gala, and Sebastian Gorka was there, and he said, we've got to get more people like Patty, who is brave, to come out.
You know, we can't do this alone.
And I've been, since I've been filing this lawsuit, a lot of anonymous people, not anonymous, but strangers have come to me and saying, You're doing a great job.
And to be honest, I just need them on board with me.
I need them to come to the school board meetings with me.
I need them to write letters to the editor.
I need them to
write letters to the superintendent to say, this is unacceptable you know I need more people in the battle with me
I think people are afraid that if you lose they are going to be outed and they'll be next on the chopping block which if they don't stand they will be I mean I've I've said this for years one courage is contagious but two
If you don't fight now, this is the easy part of this fight.
It is only going to get harder from here if if we don't stand up.
If you don't stand up now, you're not going to stand up.
You will be ending up on the wrong side.
Well, one thing we're doing that a lot of parents and residents are participating is we're recalling six of the school board members that were in that anti-racist Facebook page.
So we do have recall efforts that are happening and people are coming out of the woodwork to find those.
As club president, I've got a lot of events and people are going.
My club is actually the largest Republican women's club in the state of Virginia because of all this liberalness in the last two years that we've been uncovering.
So I think people are slowly coming up.
They're tired of this cancel culture.
They're tired of this wokeness.
You know, it really surprised us, but the school board canceled Dr.
Seuss.
They didn't want his racist books to be a part of the Read Across America program that they had been doing for years.
So it's just,
you know, we found out that the school board wants a war with the parents, and I just don't understand it, you know?
Yeah,
I've watched it around the country several times, and
many of the teachers and the school boards are, they do look at your children like it's their right and their children, and that you are a nuisance in all of this.
They know what's right.
The arrogance is off the charts.
Hopefully, that will be their undoing.
Patty, thank you so much.
Is there anything that you need or that the audience can do?
I guess contact Liberty Justice Center if they want to get involved.
Contact Fight for Schools, which is an organization that's doing the recall.
And then Parents Against Critical Theory is a big educational website.
So I'm working really closely with those three organizations.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate it.
And we'll follow the case, Patty, and hope to have you on again.
I hope to actually shake your hand one day.
I think you're an amazing woman.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
LibertyJusticeCenter.org.
LibertyJusticeCenter.org.
These are the people, they are funding all of the
litigation for the right cases, the ones that will actually set precedents and we can build to knock the legs out from underneath this.
And they are really, really a good group of people.
If you would like to support her in this, go to LibertyJusticeCenter.org.