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The Colorado Moms for Liberty organization has complained about liberal activists "infiltrating" its private group, and has reportedly said it learned about the clandestine activities via its own moles.

Claims of spies infiltrating political groups are bubbling to the surface for the Moms for Liberty group, which launched to focus on fighting mask mandates in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic before growing to oppose LGBTQ-inclusive policies in schools and other diversity initiatives. In Colorado, opponents are starting to take actions to fight the group's influence, according to CNN.

“'I just got back from forcibly re-closeting myself for 90 minutes to infiltrate a Moms for Liberty meeting. … I got so much juice!' a TikTok user who goes by Morgan Howls said in a video," the news network reported. "The video is one of many on social media made by parents who say they’ve 'infiltrated' the group and give details of its strategy to others who do not support its politics."
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The GOP has abandoned any semblance of being a party of personal liberties, and now only embraces the freedom to hate people, argued Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude on MSNBC Friday.

The debate came during a discussion of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech — in which he laid out the importance of the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.

"The Republican Party's move away from anything resembling autonomy and freedom is the most underreported and potentially politically dramatic story of the last five years, right?" said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "To become a party that says out loud they want to be right there in the OBGYN office with you. That was Republican Senatorial candidate Dr. Oz. DeSantis. They want to be right there in the pediatrician's office with you as you grapple with whatever medical decisions your trans son or daughter is making. They want to be inside the gynecologist's office, inside the pediatrician's office, they want to be inside the school while children are under their desk because they are in their third active shooter drill of the semester. They are done approximating anything resembling freedom."
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Rev. Jerry Falwell may have founded Liberty University, but students there seemed more interested in firearms than Christ during a Wednesday event featuring Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who is flirting with a presidential bid, has issued a "call to prayer" for a nation in "historic crisis" due to what he claims is a lack of humility before the Christian deity.

Republican presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson said that a pledge created by The Family Leader, a conservative, Iowa-based Christian group was "offensive to the principles of liberty and freedom on which this country was founded."

Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who are both libertarian-leaning Republicans, defended drug legalization during the Fox News presidential debate on Thursday night.