Weekly Update 6/9/24-The one with AB-1955, Mom Army hate groups, and SoCal Active Clubs getting banned.
Weekly Update 6/9/24-The one with AB-1955, Mom Army hate groups, and SoCal Active Clubs getting banned.
🚨WEEKLY👉🏼SoCal👈🏼UPDATE🚨6
This week, we dissect a Sacramento hearing, introduce a lesser known “Moms for Fascism” group, and visit some fading yet determined white nationalist clubs striving for a resurgence in the SoCal scene.
Jump in, Let’s go! /1
Late this May, the Ca Senate Education Committee held a hearing on AB 1955 “The SAFETY Act” that protects transgender students from forced outing policies. The hearing drew large crowds, but the opposition was a collection of the worst of the worst. /2
Words cannot express how grateful I am for everyone who showed up today in support of #AB1955 in Senate Education Committee. Emotions were high, but I know we all want the best for our children. The SAFETY Act ensures that students and teachers can focus on a safe and supportive… pic.twitter.com/bvUWlERalr
— Assemblymember Chris Ward (@AsmChrisWard) May 29, 2024
Opposers Included Chino Valley Unified SD forced outing policy author Erin Friday, Cal Policy Center groupies and several SPLC designated extremist groups. /3
Erin Friday held a performative press conference on the capitol steps before the hearing, staged solely for the cameras with not a single audience member in sight. /4
Erin Friday, a retired lawyer who works full time to restrict the rights of transgender youth, was the major financial sponsor of a recent failed ballot initiative./5
Just thinking about how this rich Bay Area terf quit her job to do anti-trans activism full time- appearing 36x in Sacramento in the last year to weigh in on legislation & providing significant financial support for a losing initiative- and how she’s not had a single victory🥹 https://t.co/CgPQhlYnN0
— GUSD Parents for Public Schools (@GUSDforAll) June 8, 2024
Now that her alienating and dangerous forced outing policy is on track to being completely decimated by AB 1955, you can imagine she is pissed. /6
Last week we learned the Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth initiative was over 100k votes short of the min. required signatures to appear on the Nov ballot. Read 🧵 for a look @ the wealthy ideologues who funded the project & will likely push the same unwanted policy in 2026. https://t.co/ScR6OzHBGa
— GUSD Parents for Public Schools (@GUSDforAll) June 8, 2024
A picture is worth a thousand words, and if you need a clearer idea of who else opposes AB 1955, look no further. Not one, not two, but THREE SPLC recognized extremist groups posing outside of the hearing. /7
Present was Moms for Liberty, Gays Against Groomers, and a lesser known but growing arm of Moms for Fascism, The Mom Army. /8
The Mom Army is part of the TPUSA Moms Coalition, includes the Dad Army (think disgraced Navy Seal Bryce Henson and TERF poster child Adam Vena) and anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist bigot Jessica Enos of AV Patents Advocates. /9
For more info on Jessica Enos and Bryce Henson visit our website—link in image alt.
We have more intel on Mom Army, w/our researchers digging up info on them and their affiliates daily. For now, let’s segue into the flailing Active club scene, where you’ll find actual Nazis. /10
With several neo-Nazi and white nationalist accounts returning to Elon’s Twitter (X), SoCal’s Nazi recruitment fitness club has decided to test the waters and ramp up their online recruitment efforts./11
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Emerging from the shadowy corners of Telegram to recruit young, impressionable men hasn’t been successful on X so far, and we doubt the SoCal Active clubs’ efforts will bear much fruit given the recent failures of past white supremacy X accounts. /12
As always, we’d like to thank all researchers who contributed to our weekly thread, and THIS WEEK ONLY we will send a special cookie 🍪 to anyone or group that reposts our thread this week! Get your cookie! /13
The prevalence of characters like Palyan with radical antisemitic, homophobic,and nationalist tendencies is alarming in the LOKA movement given that they are trying to shape public education policy and culture while forming coalitions with so many arms of the radical religious right-wing political conservative groups in the state of California, like the California Policy Center. Palayan has attended numerous school board meetings, and is even embraced by far-right school board trustees like Sonja Shaw of Chino Valley Unified School District.
The failure of far-right public leaders and political groups like Sonja Shaw and LOKA to call out blatent and dangerous bigotry among their most staunch supporters is an obvious indication that this kind of behavior and rhetoric is welcomed and supported in their movement.