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Joseph Ladapo
stated on September 3, 2025 in a press conference:

Every school vaccine mandate “drips” with “slavery.”

By Samantha Putterman • September 4, 2025

Michele Morrow
stated on September 16, 2024 in a social media post:

The plus in LGBTQ+ includes pedophilia.

By Paul Specht • September 17, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on August 30, 2024 in an interview at a Moms for Liberty Conference:

“The transgender thing is incredible... your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child."

By Grace Abels • September 5, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on September 25, 2023 in a video:

A video shows children disappearing from inside a school bus.

By Grace Abels • September 29, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2023 in a video shared on Facebook.:

Video shows a van “‘Queer testing’ kids without parental approval … (that) involves clothing removal.”

By Madison Czopek • July 27, 2023

Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2022 in a gubernatorial debate:

It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."

By Yacob Reyes • November 3, 2022

Monica Crowley
stated on June 12, 2022 in an interview with Fox News:

Soviet and Chinese communists have “grabbed control” of U.S. entertainment, movies, television, music, academia, K-12 education and the news media.

By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on March 19, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Disney CEO Bob Chapek was arrested for human trafficking.

By Gabrielle Settles • April 8, 2022

Troy Nehls
stated on February 9, 2022 in an ad:

"In Joe Biden’s America, your children are more likely to have access to a crack pipe than a mask-free education."

By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2022

Glenn Youngkin
stated on October 6, 2021 in a TV interview.:

“Terry (McAuliffe) calls in his friend Joe Biden to actually put the DOJ on Virginia parents.”

By Warren Fiske • October 12, 2021

Viral image
stated on August 11, 2021 in a Facebook post.:

Image shows Harvard email terminating a student over social media accounts.

By Jason Asenso • August 18, 2021

Rachel Campos-Duffy
stated on August 7, 2021 in Twitter:

Says of UW-Madison, "It cost the university $50k (your tax dollars) to remove" a rock considered by some a symbol of racism.

By Laura Schulte • August 14, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on May 5, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Wearing face masks may cause "pulmonary fibrosis" and other health risks in children.

By Steven Rascón • May 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.

By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says students have to repeat the same grade next year.

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 31, 2020

Jim Justice
stated on December 4, 2019 in a campaign ad:

"Jim Justice is the first West Virginia governor to fight for pay raises for educators."

By Autumn Cecil, Katherine Baile • December 17, 2019

Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on September 5, 2019 in a TV ad.:

Kirk "Cox joined special interests to deny teachers raises."

By Warren Fiske • September 24, 2019

Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2019 in a social media post:

"American middle schools caught forcing students to do Muslim prayers 5 times a day."

By Miriam Valverde • April 2, 2019

Bloggers
stated on August 22, 2018 in a blog post:

"US President D. Trump Approves Scholarship for 50,000 African Student to Study in USA 2018"

By Lucia Geng • August 27, 2018

Nowtrump.com
stated on March 9, 2018 in a story:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school in the United States "will not teach the tenets of Islam or Sharia Law."

By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2018

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