Candidates running in opposition to woke ideology like Critical Race Theory, gender fluidity, and social-emotional learning dominated school board elections in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth races, fueled in part by help from Patriot Mobile Action. The usually quiet, non-partisan races were animated this year by anger at progressive curricula and COVID-19 masking policies, as well as $500,000 in donations to a pro-parent PAC by Patriot Mobile, a Grapevine, Texas,-based cellphone company that caters to Christian conservatives.
