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The Texas Tribune: With piles of campaign cash, Christian activists make North Texas school board races a state battleground
In Tarrant County, conservative PACs animated about the teaching of race and sexuality are flooding school board races with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Patriot Mobile: Patriot Mobile Action Holds the Tarrant County Line Against Out of State Dark Money
Liberal organizations pushing massive amounts of money into local school board races is also nothing new. New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg has funded Leadership for Educational Equity-Texas (LEE-based in New York) and Democrats for Educational Equity (DEE-based in DC) to the tune of $680,000 in recent years. Both are extreme liberal Democrat machines funneling
Candidates backed by conservative political action committees won their races in Forth Worth area suburban school board races. Patriot Mobile, a Grapevine cellphone company that calls itself “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider,” poured
The Texan: Patriot Mobile PAC Spends over $400,000, Finds Success in Tarrant County School Board Races
Patriot Mobile Action spends over $400,000 advocating on behalf of 11 candidates during the course of school board elections in four school districts this spring and had a perfect record of victory. This includes direct mailers and “get-out-the vote” efforts. “These victories speak loudly to parents’ desire for exemplary education
Just the News: Parents fight critical race theory as teacher’s union commits over $127k to advance it
The National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor and teachers’ union in the U.S., has voted to spread critical race theory as parents across the nation are fighting against it. The union is preparing to commit $127,600 to advance critical race theory, according to the Epoch Times.
World News Group: Woke school systems face pushback from PACs
Tim Rosenau, 50, is running for the school board in Bentonville, Ark., where his daughter teaches. If elected, Rosenau wants to work toward raising the percentage of students who can read at grade level and ensure that teacher wages reflect the higher cost of living in the area. He also has concerns about critical race theory. “We don’t have a full-fledged problem here by any means, and you have a lot of people that would debate right now on whether or not we see CRT in our curriculum,” Rosenau said. “But I think I’ve got enough evidence to suggest there is some level of that making its way in. These things never come in as a tidal wave on you—they kind of creep in.”
Real America's Voice: Leigh Wambsganss, Patriot Mobile Action Blasts Texas GOP General Assembly Sell-Out
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The Dallas Morning News: Meet the leader behind Patriot Mobile Action and North Texas’ conservative revolution
She is one of the most important political players on the North Texas scene, but she doesn’t hold public office. She is helping to lead a conservative revolution quite significant in its scope. Leigh Wambsganss of Southlake is chief communications officer with Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is a Grapevine-based cellphone company
The Dallas Morning News: Big-money Texas school board races the ‘new norm’ as conservative spending ramps up?
New political action committees targeting North Texas school board seats are spending big money on conservative rallying cries ahead of Saturday’s elections. Some Richardson voters, for example, received mailers decorated with baby blocks with the letters CRT. “RISD schools
The Texas Tribune: Candidates backed by conservative PAC sweep Tarrant County school board elections
All but one of the 11 Tarrant County conservative school board candidates, who were backed this year by several high-profile donors and big-money PACs, defeated their opponents during Saturday’s local elections, according to unofficial results.
The Texas Tribune: Conservatives’ school board victories could give Texas GOP momentum for November elections
Voters across Texas on Saturday elected a bevy of conservative Texas school board candidates, emboldening state Republicans who are increasingly getting involved in nonpartisan local elections.
The Mark Davis Show: Revealing School Board Winning Strategy
Patriot Mobile Action Executive Director Leigh Wambsganss shares with Mark Davis how she parlayed her winning strategy with the Southlake Families PAC into Patriot Mobile Action which endorsed 11 winning school board candidates.
The New York Times: How a Christian Cellphone Company Became a Rising Force in Texas Politics
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Ahead of what would usually be a sleepy spring school board election, a mass of fliers appeared on doorsteps in the Fort Worth suburbs, warning of rampant “wokeness” and “sexually explicit books” in schools, and urging
The Daily Caller: How A Conservative Company Kept Tarrant County Red
A new non-profit Texas PAC started by a conservative mobile company was formed in January 2022 with the purpose of keeping Republicans in control of Tarrant County, and after less than a year, they are claiming victory.
The Daily Caller: TX School District Votes To Leave ‘Divisive, Political’ State School Board Association After Legislative Pressure
A Texas school district has voted to leave the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) amid mounting pressure from state legislators, becoming the first district in the state to do so.