{"id":997411,"date":"2021-11-11T05:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=997411"},"modified":"2021-11-11T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:14:18","slug":"incredible-advocates-nevada-dem-praises-group-that-called-to-defund-police-teach-crt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incredible-advocates-nevada-dem-praises-group-that-called-to-defund-police-teach-crt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Incredible Advocates\u2019: Nevada Dem Praises Group That Called To Defund Police, Teach CRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fincredible-advocates-nevada-dem-praises-group-that-called-to-defund-police-teach-crt%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=997411&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 readability=\"30.642857142857\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Senator Cortez Masto has close relationship with nonprofit that says &#8216;young people need to know&#8217; critical race theory<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-scaled-e1636578170718.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-887044194-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tNevada Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto  \/  Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 November 11, 2021 4:58 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"107.92933947773\">\n<p><span>Nevada Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto praised a liberal nonprofit that has called to defund police and teach critical race theory in public schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Nov. 3, Cortez Masto <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BattleBornProgress\/videos\/606784014003749\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> she was &#8220;so glad&#8221; to speak at Battle Born Progress&#8217;s annual fundraising event, lauding the liberal group as &#8220;incredible advocates for our state.&#8221; The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlv.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/page_files\/27\/Battle-Born.pdf\"><span>self-described<\/span><\/a><span> &#8220;public relations firm of the progressive community in Nevada,&#8221; Battle Born Progress has taken a number of radical positions on hot-button issues, including the movements to defund police and teach critical race theory in K-12 classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In July 2020, Battle Born Progress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1281355205368479745\">called<\/a> to &#8220;save money by defunding&#8221; the state&#8217;s police presence in schools<\/span><span>, adding that &#8220;police officers in schools help foster the school-to-prison pipeline.&#8221; Roughly one year later, executive director Annette Magnus argued during a Battle Born Progress <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uKlCzrjyZbc?t=2619\"><span>virtual event<\/span><\/a><span> that Nevada &#8220;should be teaching&#8221; critical race theory in public schools because &#8220;young people need to know this information.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cortez Masto&#8217;s close relationship with Battle Born Progress\u2014less than one week after her fundraising appearance, the Democrat held a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1457837881158995971\"><span>tele-townhall<\/span><\/a><span> with the group\u2014could become a political liability as she enters a difficult reelection battle in 2022. According to a 2020 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/politics-and-government\/nevada\/poll-nearly-two-thirds-of-nevadans-oppose-defunding-police-2150438\/\"><i><span>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/span><\/i><span> poll<\/span><\/a><span>, nearly two-thirds of Nevadans oppose cuts to police department funding. In June, meanwhile, a Reno-based school district <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/news\/2021\/06\/07\/wcsd-discuss-first-time-its-social-justice-curriculum\/7577503002\/\"><span>ditched<\/span><\/a><span> its plan to enact a &#8220;social justice curriculum&#8221; for elementary school students amid backlash from local parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Neither Cortez Masto nor Battle Born Progress returned requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Battle Born Progress advocated critical race theory during an August virtual conversation with No Racism in Schools cofounders Akiko Cooks and Jshauntae Marshall. After Cooks noted she &#8220;absolutely&#8221; supports critical race theory but is not &#8220;yet&#8221; focused on including the framework in public school curricula, Magnus said she &#8220;like[s] the \u2018yet&#8217; part, because that&#8217;s exactly right.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I mean, eventually, yes, we should be teaching that,&#8221; Magnus said. &#8220;Young people need to know this information. I would love to have known that information.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cooks, whom Magnus said she is &#8220;very close&#8221; with, is also tied to the defund police movement. According to her LinkedIn, she works as an organizer for Mass Liberation Project NV, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslibproject.org\/about\"><span>aims<\/span><\/a><span> to &#8220;abolish the criminal legal system as we know it.&#8221; The group in 2020 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/massliberationprojectnv\/posts\/734227794009256\"><span>disseminated<\/span><\/a><span> petitions to defund the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and has likened policing to &#8220;terrorism.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to Battle Born Progress&#8217;s call to teach critical race theory in public schools, the group has attacked Nevada parents who oppose the controversial curriculum. In August, the group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1425237403875241985\"><span>tweeted a photo<\/span><\/a><span> of a mother who spoke against critical race theory at her local school board meeting, calling the woman &#8220;another \u2018Karen'&#8221; who holds &#8220;conspiracy-laden beliefs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Battle Born Progress has received tens of thousands of dollars in funding from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a George Soros-funded group that funnels millions of dollars to liberal causes but does not disclose its donors. According to the Sixteen Thirty Fund&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/264486735\"><span>IRS filings<\/span><\/a><span>, the group gave nearly $6,000 to Battle Born Progress in 2017 and an additional $90,000 to the Nevada nonprofit in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cortez Masto has condemned so-called dark money groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund. In a September <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortezmasto.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cortez-masto-joins-push-for-constitutional-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united-get-big-money-out-of-politics-\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span>, she stressed the need to &#8220;put power back in the hands of the public&#8221; by &#8220;getting dark money out of politics.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cortez Masto joined the Senate in 2017 after she defeated Republican challenger Joe Heck by less than 3 points. A slew of Republicans have entered the race to unseat her in 2022, including former state attorney general Adam Laxalt and Army veteran Sam Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Senator Cortez Masto has close relationship with nonprofit that says &#8216;young people need to know&#8217; critical race theory  Nevada Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto \/ &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997411","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\/997411","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}