Book Banners Lost Big Across Texas This Week
Source: crooksandliars.com
It was a major setback for the Moms for Liberty crowd. It's bad news for Republicans, too.
By News Hound Ellen — May 8, 2025
Voters in Texas resoundingly rejected book bans last weekend. Houston’s Chron described it as a “statement election” and as a “clear protest against titles flying off school library and classroom shelves.”
The Texas Tribune explains just how big a reversal the weekend schoolboard elections were:
Conservative school board candidates across Texas suffered an array of defeats in Saturday’s local elections, marking a clear setback for the Republican-aligned movement to shape how grade school curriculums and library books confront issues of race, sex and gender.
The sweeping losses for conservative school board hopefuls also served as an early sign of potential backlash to the nascent administration of President Donald Trump, ahead of a 2026 midterm in which a number of statewide offices will be on the ballot. Midterm elections historically have spelled trouble for the incumbent president’s party in down-ballot races.
Saturday’s elections saw the defeat of numerous conservative school board trustees in the Tarrant County suburbs surrounding Fort Worth, the epicenter of the state’s recent culture war fights over how students should learn about race and gender. All seven school board candidates in contested races who were endorsed by the Tarrant County Republican Party lost their elections........................................
Read more: https://crooksandcrliars.com/2025/05/book-banners-lost-big-across-texas-week
Texas folks are starting to wake up--
Any day the Moms of Liberty folks get stepped on it a grand day for all.
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No books should be banned in the USA for any reason whatsoever. And MAGA doesn't give a fuck about kids. 