Moms For Liberty in Las Vegas
Moms for Liberty ran three candidates for elected positions in the Las Vegas area. Two of them, Lorena Biasoti and Lydia Dominguez, won their races for Clark County School District Trustee. One, Tim Underwood, lost his bid to join the State Board of Education.
We talked to Teddy Wilson, who tracks extremist groups, about who Moms for Liberty is and what we can expect from them.
We also talked to teacher Alexis Salt, who ran for school board in 2020, and who has had run-ins with Moms for Liberty.
And we talked to Cristiane Mersch, the president of Moms for Liberty in Las Vegas.
We talked to Teddy Wilson, who tracks extremist groups, about who Moms for Liberty is and what we can expect from them.
We also talked to teacher Alexis Salt, who ran for school board in 2020, and who has had run-ins with Moms for Liberty.
And we talked to Cristiane Mersch, the president of Moms for Liberty in Las Vegas.
Creators and Guests
Producer
Carrie Kaufman
Carrie Kaufman is the director and driving force behind the Civics Radio Network, which came about when her then-teen daughter exhorted her to do a better job teaching young people about the city we live in. She is veteran print and radio journalist who has always been more interested in what people are avoiding than what they are talking about. She founded and published PerformInk, a Chicago theatre and film industry trade paper, which covered economics, jobs, politics, racism, sexism, power, real estate - all through the lens of the artist. She then moved on to public radio, where she hosted talk shows in Vegas and Wisconsin, which is when she realized she was too old to do bad journalism. So now she is helping students understand that good civics makes good journalism and good journalism makes good civics. She also writes a Substack, "You're Overthinking It," that looks at the rules we live by and explores who benefits.
