{"id":1468669,"date":"2022-05-09T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468669"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:44:53","slug":"anti-crt-gender-theory-candidates-sweep-school-board-races-in-key-texas-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-crt-gender-theory-candidates-sweep-school-board-races-in-key-texas-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-CRT, Gender Theory Candidates Sweep School Board Races In Key Texas Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-crt-gender-theory-candidates-sweep-school-board-races-in-key-texas-region%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-459409207.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Candidates running on opposition to woke ideology like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/critical-race-theory\">Critical Race Theory<\/a>, gender fluidity, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/12\/06\/social-emotional-learning-the-insidious-teaching-tool-youve-never-heard-of\/\">social emotional learning<\/a> dominated school board elections in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth races, fueled in part by help from a Christian cellphone carrier.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0Patriot Mobile, a Grapevine, Texas,-based cellphone company that caters to Christian conservatives. Candidates backed by Patriot swept school board races in\u00a0Tarrant County, a populous urban region that includes Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cConservatives won <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">school<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">board<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">elections<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> across <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Texas,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1523403080888647681?s=20&#038;t=eD9Y-lRe1bmKY6Gx2y55RA\">Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">. \u201cParents are more involved and active in <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">school<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">elections<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> and <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">school<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> policies than ever before. No one cares more about children than their parents. The power of parents will continue to expand in <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Texas<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">School board candidates opposed to CRT and mask mandates swept elections across Texas last night.<\/p>\n<p>Wins in Frisco, Clear Creek, Grapevine, Southlake, Keller, Carroll, Spring Branch, Richardson, and even in Dripping Springs (Austin, TX), where conservatives flipped the board. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K2eBLeZEcP\">pic.twitter.com\/K2eBLeZEcP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Election Wizard \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ElectionWiz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectionWiz\/status\/1523294505918631936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials behind the PAC, called Patriot Mobile Action, intend to take the message \u2013 and financial support \u2013 to school board elections beyond the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cPatriot Mobile Action is a new entity created to put Christian conservative values into action,\u201d said a statement from Patriot Mobile spokesperson Leigh Wambsganss. \u201cWe will take action in supporting organizations and candidates that exemplify these values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winning candidates in several races held Saturday also had the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/truetexasproject.com\/about\/\">True Texas Project<\/a>, a conservative organization that grew out of the Tea Party movement.<\/p>\n<p>In Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth and has a population of over 2 million, conservative candidates won at least 10 of the 11 open seats. The county includes the\u00a0Grapevine-Colleyville, Keller, and Mansfield school districts. Tarrant County is about 30% Hispanic and the nation\u2019s 15th-largest county. In the 2020 election, it tipped for President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those parents appear to have rejected the increasingly leftist curriculum that public schools around the country have embraced, say some observers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat parents discovered was that their children were being told that their \u201cgender identity\u201d has nothing to do with biological reality, that White people are inherently racist and inferior, that Blacks are chronic victims of racism and can never rise above that, and that America is an evil country that has exploited racial and sexual minorities across the world for centuries,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/in_fort_worth_a_sign_that_leftist_cultural_dominance_may_have_peaked.html#.Ynj1L0EMmgM.twitter\">Andrea Widburg, of American Thinker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-progressive theme was a clear winner throughout the region. In Colleyville, True Texas-endorsed Tammy Nakamura ousted incumbent Louie Sullins by campaigning on returning power to parents and banishing \u201cliberal Austin lobbyists,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article261190752.html\">according to the Star-Telegram<\/a>. In Keller, Micah Young defeated incumbent Craig Allen with a message of\u00a0keeping \u201cpolitics out of the classroom.\u201d Other upset victories came under similar messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates running on 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}