Weaponizing the Aggrieved: Extremism & Schools, Kids and Edu

JoinUS! ~ for a pair of events on Friday evening, May 15, 2026 and Saturday morning, May 16, 2026 as CADEM's Children's Caucus focuses on extremism in our schools, school boards and their elections... and how this impacts our kids.

1)  On Friday evening we kick off with a free screening of the investigatory documentary "Moms Club" at 6:30pm.  The 90 minute film is followed online by a discussion with the movie's producers, authors, directors, investigators and featured activists, some of whom are fellow CademCC members!

2)  Then continue the discussion bright and early the following Saturday morning, from 9am - 10am (leaving plenty of time to hit the streets canvassing for GOTV afterward)! We will hear from academic researchers about MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+ opportunistic focus around our school boards and their electoral politics. As well as about advocacy around the establishment clause, first amendment constitutionality and the separation of church and state.    

Preview of Moms Club on youtube:

Summary of Evidence & Policy "Mama Bears" article (Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Huriya Jabbar, Kiah Combs, Mira McDavitt, Tamra J. Malone and Teresa Leyva)

Full reprint of "Mama Bears" article (Koon, D.S., Jabbar, H., Combs, K., McDavitt, M., Malone, T. and Leyva, T. (2025) Mama bears in the belly of the beast: Moms for Liberty disinformation campaigns in California, Evidence & Policy, Early View, DOI: 10.1332/17442648Y2025D000000071)

Examining the political and legal links between education and religion.

Chiles v. Salazar threatens harm to a generation of LGBTQ+ students