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Moms for Liberty

Parents' rights

https://www.momsforliberty.org · founded 2021

A conservative parents' rights advocacy organization founded in Florida in 2021. Local chapters have filed many of the highest-profile school library book challenges since 2022. Organizes around opposition to books containing sexual content, LGBTQ+ themes, and discussions of race and systemic racism.

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Does not maintain a single centralized list — book challenges come from individual local chapters. To track effectively we'd need to aggregate chapter-level lists. BookLooks is the closest proxy to a Moms-for-Liberty-aligned central source.

Connected Laws

Laws this organization has been connected to based on public records.

Florida H 1069Lobbied for

Education

M4L chapters lobbied for and enforce HB 1069 through mass book challenges.

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Florida H 1467Lobbied for

K-12 Education

M4L supported expansion of FL book review requirements under HB 1467.

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Tennessee HB 0843Lobbied for

Age-Appropriate Materials Act Amendment (HB 843)

M4L Tennessee chapters (Williamson, Knox, Hamilton, Shelby counties) actively supported and used the Age-Appropriate Materials Act to file book challenges. Knox County M4L chapter created a list of books to pull from schools, most with LGBTQ+ themes.

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Texas HB 900Publicly endorsed

Relating to the regulation of library materials sold to or included in public school libraries.

M4L Texas chapters supported HB 900's book rating requirements. M4L's national platform advocates for parental review of library materials, which HB 900 codified.

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Known Funding Sources

Funding data sourced from publicly available IRS 990 filings, news reports, and self-reported disclosures. Amounts are as reported in the cited source.

FunderAmountYearSource

Schwab Charitable (donor-advised fund)

donor advised fund

$12,8252023IRS 990

To M4L Foundation.

Richard Uihlein (via Restoration PAC)

individual

$161,0002023News report

Donated to M4L Action PAC, Oct 2023-May 2024.

Fidelity Charitable (donor-advised fund)

donor advised fund

$30,2002023IRS 990

To M4L Foundation.

Vanguard Charitable (donor-advised fund)

donor advised fund

$6,5002023IRS 990

To M4L Foundation.

Anonymous donor

$1,000,0002022News report

Per AP reporting of 2022 Schedule B filing.

George Jenkins Foundation (Julie Jenkins Fancelli / Publix heiress)

foundation

$100,0002022News report

Donated to M4L Foundation via George Jenkins Foundation.

Anonymous donor

$500,0002022News report

Per AP reporting of 2022 Schedule B filing.

Julie Jenkins Fancelli (Publix heiress)

individual

$50,0002022News report

Donated to M4L PAC.

Heritage Foundation (Salvatori Prize)

foundation

$25,0002022News report

No bans currently attributed by direct FK — flags below show books this group has targeted.

277 books flagged. These are books this group has publicly targeted. A flag is not a ban — books on this list may or may not have been formally challenged or removed from any specific library.