THE MARCH CONTINUES – OVERNIGHT:  As readers know, we are keeping a very close watch on the attempts by the "progressive" left to take over every institution in American society.  I am waiting for an assault on pizza.

I can report that what I like to think of as the mothers' crusade is gaining momentum throughout the country, and is starting to impact both political parties.  There are stories every day of mothers taking on school boards and everyone else in defense of their children.  But a word of caution:  A bunch of news stories, no matter how exciting, is not a guarantee of success.  This is a nation of 330 million people, and moving that nation will take national-level power and the involvement of the Republican Party.  It will also take some brave journalists who are willing to break from the leftist pack and reveal the truth about some progressive "causes."  And it will take defectors from those causes to give truth and character to the mothers' crusade.

Here's a good sign because it has national scope.  From Fox:   

Critical Race Theory is a controversial philosophy – a progressive idea that proponents say can increase racial equity and which critics describe as a Marxist, anti-American and neo-racist.

It’s either "a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against White people," according to a recent article in Education Week.

"CRT seeks to diminish the reality that we are all unique and precious in God’s eyes," Melody Clarke of Heritage Action for America told Fox News Friday. "Our individual destiny is up to our God-given talent, drive and ambition, not what someone else thinks about us."

Nearly half of all states in the U.S. are taking measures to ban it from their public schools.

The following states have already approved bans on forcing teachers to give lessons on Critical Race Theory, in alphabetical order:

Arkansas
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 627 on May 3. The bill is titled, An Act to Prohibit the Propagation of Divisive Concepts: To Review State Entity Training Materials; And for Other Purposes. The bill’s definition of divisive concepts includes the idea that Arkansas or the U.S. are "fundamentally racist or sexist" and that individuals are inherently racist or oppressive, "whether consciously or unconsciously."

Florida
In early June, the Sunshine State's Board of Education banned CRT from public school classrooms in a unanimous vote and grouped it in with the New York Times' controversial 1619 Project and Holocaust denialism.

Iowa
A Hawkeye State bill passed the state Legislature and was signed into law by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. The bill declared CRT "discriminatory indoctrination."
Idaho

Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed House Bill 377 on April 28. Under the new law, an amendment to the state’s existing statutes on education, public schools that teach CRT can lose their funding.

COMMENT:  Read the rest of the list.  This is what I like to see, action all over the country.  But some of the legislation discussed will not pass, especially in Democrat-controlled legislatures.  Everything I read convinces me that the 2022 midterms will be the most important midterms in modern history.  Republicans must win, and win decisively, to stop the progressive left from taking a wrecking ball to all we have built up as Americans.

June 12,  2022