The launch of a new grassroots-style movement called “We the Parents” was covered (begrudgingly) by the progressive opinion shop known as Colorado Times Recorder. Of course, CTR covered it so they could trash the effort and “paint it as extreme.” I didn’t read their whole piece – sometimes I just can’t handle the gaslighting and spin – it makes me queasy. While I hate even giving them the click, you should read their article just so you can see the propaganda they try to call “journalism.”
The coalition was started by hardline conservatives Rep. Brandi Bradley, Rep. Ken DeGraaf, and Rep. Stephanie Luck, folks who likely think I’m a RINO just because they read about it on another website and see the subhead “Uncommon Common Sense” on this website. These three Reps and I may not agree on all the things, but we do agree on this thing: Parental Rights shall not be infringed.
CTR’s article attempts to sound alarm bells over this “extremist” group organizing to flip state legislative seats in favor of parental rights and family-first values. Wow. Believing in parental rights. So extreme, huh?
The Bullet Point Brief
- Three Colorado GOP legislators formed “We the Parents” to defend parental rights and flip Dem seats.
- CTR tries really hard to paint the group as “far-right” – translation: they disagree with government indoctrination. (I guess that makes me “far right,” too.)
- The group is targeting educational transparency, school board elections, and parents’ say in curriculum decisions.
- Predictably, CTR frames these efforts as threats to inclusivity and democracy, as if parents voting is now dangerous.
- Bonus eye-roll: they had to sneak in claims about “Christian nationalism,” because fear-mongering earns clicks.
My Bottom Line
Well, color me surprised, I had to find out that there’s a new pro-parental-rights org in my own backyard from Colorado Times Recorder, the New York Times of Boulder-based blue-haired progressivism. These guys are a 501(c)(3), raking in donor dollars while pretending to be journalists – all while clutching their pearls when conservative parents organize like grown-ups for once. Bless their hearts.
CTR does what these rags always do – trash the people and not the principle. They throw mud at the people offering ideas and fail to discuss the idea itself.
“We the Parents” sounds an awful lot like something I’ve been hammering on right here in Weld County: I want to pass a Parental Bill of Rights anchored into our charter. So far, my fellow commissioners have responded to that idea with, um, hesitancy. But I still think we do it because somebody has to gum up the gears of an arrogant state legislature hellbent on controlling every corner of your kid’s life from diapers through woke diplomas.
Let me clear something up before the media interns misquote me again: if supporting parental rights makes me an extremist, hell yes, count me in. The left can throw around buzzwords like “Christian nationalist” or “right-wing operative” all they want. Translation? They’re scared parents are finally paying attention, and not just showing up with coffee at PTA meetings anymore. No, we’re showing up with clipboards and campaigns.
And let’s remember why we got here. This is what happens when you shove radical gender ideology into classrooms behind locked doors, wrap pornography in book covers labeled “education,” and blacklist moms from knowing what their kids are being told about race and sex during second-period homeroom. You push long enough, and parents start pushing back harder.
So We the Parents: good luck flipping those seats. And frankly, don’t stop there, flip some tables while you’re at it. And count me in – my contact info is splattered all over this website.
