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Baitball Blogger

(51,807 posts)
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 09:55 PM 9 hrs ago

Florida Moms for Liberty chapter that started national movement ends

(It's just the original chapter that disbanded. The national organization continues and the founder is starting up a new organization)

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The Moms for Liberty chapter that started a national movement helping ban books and eliminate school mask mandates has temporarily gone dark.

Jennifer Pippin, who was active in the organization since the Indian River County chapter's inception in 2021, resigned from the position earlier this month, saying she disagreed with the national organization's increased emphasis on federal issues.

"We wanted to be more grassroots and local," Pippin said in a text message. "It was getting to be too much at the White House."

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Since leaving Moms for Liberty, Pippin has launched a new group, "Family First — Indian River County," with other former Moms for Liberty members, and is the group's chair.

"I was advocating for parents and children long before Moms for Liberty existed, and I will continue to do so moving forward," Pippin said in her resignation letter. "The work does not stop because you no longer check a box for one organization."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-moms-liberty-chapter-started-100538257.html

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Florida Moms for Liberty chapter that started national movement ends (Original Post) Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago OP
Continue the scam with a different name. OAITW r.2.0 9 hrs ago #1
Exactly. But I will never understand why we don't have a solid organization of parents pushing back. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #2
My school board went 5 for 5 for MFL candidates in 2020. Initech 8 hrs ago #4
Fuck all these religious fascist scam artists! Initech 9 hrs ago #3
Two moms and a hubby for liberty want to control the morals of other peoples' children, Norrrm 8 hrs ago #5

Baitball Blogger

(51,807 posts)
2. Exactly. But I will never understand why we don't have a solid organization of parents pushing back.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:01 PM
9 hrs ago

I know the Stop the Moms for Liberty group has had success tracking them and outing them when they tried to run. But it seems like we could use the same arguments to return the ban books to the school's bookshelves.

Initech

(107,713 posts)
4. My school board went 5 for 5 for MFL candidates in 2020.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:23 PM
8 hrs ago

None of them had any experience in education prior to running. They all had the backing of local megachurches. They proceeded to wreak all kinds of havoc. They took my school district from being one of the best in the state to being of the worst. So fuck all these clowns.

Norrrm

(4,169 posts)
5. Two moms and a hubby for liberty want to control the morals of other peoples' children,
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:49 PM
8 hrs ago

and use the power of big gov't to force their religious practices on the children rather than allow the parents to raise their own children according to their own religious beliefs.

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