Moms for Liberty has been infiltrated by hardcore right-wing groups: report

The conservative group Moms for Liberty was founded as a "parental rights" group that focuses on protecting students from content that deals in race or gender and electing conservative candidates to school boards. But according to Vice News, the group is forging ties with extremist groups such as the Proud Boys.

The connection follows a pattern of conservative MAGA-aligned groups being infiltrated by more extreme right-wing movements, Vice reported.

"There's an ongoing campaign by these neo-Nazi groups to radicalize some of these more benign patriot MAGA groups—and it's working because I've seen more Nazi content creeping into posts from Moms for Liberty people recently,” a researcher who goes by the name Trash City told Vice.

The online magazine wrote, "A VICE News investigation has uncovered links between numerous Moms for Liberty chapters and extremist groups like the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, sovereign citizen groups, QAnon conspiracist, Christian nationalists, and in one case, with the founder of the AK-47-worshiping Rod of Iron Ministries church in Pennsylvania.

"Around the country, Moms for Liberty has formed links with extremist groups and militias, which are joining forces with the 'parental rights' group at protests and school board meetings, and in turn pushing the already far-right organization toward even more extreme ideology."

As Vice points out, Moms for Liberty was recently categorized as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center (a watchdog group that has had its own scandals and controversies), and a former member detailed the connection with the Proud Boys.

“The Proud Boys are heavily involved in the Miami chapter of Moms for Liberty,” Alexandra Caballero said. "Moms for Liberty want to push their agenda with fear, harassment, and intimidation, and they have the Vice City Proud Boys as their foot soldiers.”

“They’ll create a Telegram chat group and they'll invite people and they'll do a call to action, and the call to action is usually attacking where the person works, making phone calls, leaving bad reviews,” Caballero said, describing the process of harassment of school board members.

Eulalia María Jiménez-Hincapie, a leader of the group's Miami chapter, denied any links to the Proud Boys and told Vice that “right leaning organizations congregate in common core events for the common mission.”

Read the full report over at Vice News.