EXCLUSIVE: Decency Won in Clark County, Nevada

Voters in Clark County, Nevada stood at a crossroads. They could allow their school board to become a beacon of normalcy or remain a hotbed of child grooming by pro-LGBTQ and race-obsessed leftist idealogues. Voters chose the former. In a revolt against child indoctrination by leftist teachers and school board members, conservatives won three of four school board seats in landslides in the fifth largest school district in the country.

Moms for Liberty (M4L), an organization that gained prominence for opposing gender indoctrination in schools, endorsed candidates in all four election primaries for Clark County School District (CCSD) trustee seats. The CCSD board has seven voting trustees, and three of the four trustees whose seats were up for election chose not to run. Two of the four M4L-endorsed candidates, Lydia Dominguez in District B and Lorena Biassotti in District E, made it to the run-offs in November.

In October, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) claimed M4L faced “waning support” and called it a “disgraced, discredited, and voter-rejected book-banning extremist group”

Dominguez and Biassotti won decisively, outperforming Republican candidates in Clark County, proving GLAAD and other leftists wrong about the alleged waning influence of M4L. This marks the first time M4L-endorsed candidates have won seats on the Clark County School Board.

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Revenge of the Moms

In an interview with Restoration News, Clark County M4L chapter chair Christiane Mersch credited the involvement of moms in winning these seats.

“When people come after kids, moms are going to fight like hell,” she said.

She noted that in Washoe County, home to Reno, there were amazing candidates who ran for school board. But few made it past the primary, and none won the general election even though the Republican Party fully backed them. 

“There were no mobilized moms behind them,” she explained. “But other candidates—on the Democratic side—they had the power of the unions behind them. In Clark County, moms were organized. Parents got involved.”

Mersch said M4L organized early and took the fight to the school board meetings and talked to parents in churches who didn’t realize how bad schools had become. 

She noted conservative candidates had no PACs backing them and very little money, just the dedication and drive of concerned moms who were fed up with the filth and indoctrination.

In the third quarter, Dominguez received $6,325 in campaign contributions, while her opponent Eileen Eady raised $20,519. Biassotti only raised $5,744 in the third quarter, while her opponent Kamilah Bywaters raised $35,962.

Mersch said talking to voters on Election Day at the polls—while maintaining the required legal distance—woke up a lot of undecided voters to what is happening in schools.

“A lot of people didn’t care about down-ballot,” she said. “We showed them the books they’re giving to children to read in schools, and it worked.”

She said schools started on the road to perversion in 2016 when the legislature began debating a gender bill for schools. 

“In 2017, the transgender diversity law was approved by a Republican governor, and right after that, it got worse,” she recalled, referring to SB 225.

Then-Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) signed the bill, which required all public schools—including charter schools—to address “the rights and needs of people with diverse gender identities or expressions.”

“The librarians didn’t want the parents to know about it,” Mersch said, and for a while they succeeded because each CCSD library has different standards for outside discovery.

“It’s school by school,” she said. “You need a password for parents to access the libraries’ materials.” 

This also made it difficult for conservative activists to find out what literature libraries were making available to students.

But it only got worse.

In 2021, Nevada’s Democratic trifecta passed the most leftist education bill in the country, which required schools to teach LGBTQ propaganda beginning in kindergarten. This further emboldened activist teachers, librarians, and officials within the CCSD, who view their mission as destroying traditional society and families. At Kamala Harris’ first presidential campaign rally in Nevada, English teacher Tillie Torres admitted she got into teaching because she saw it as “the greatest instrument of social justice in this country.” 

The Left overstepped, however, and the extended remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic changed the balance of power nationwide between uninformed parents and motivated leftist ideologues, hellbent on indoctrinating kids in all that is evil and perverse. This allowed parents for the first time to sit in on what their children were being taught. 

Concerned parents discovered CCSD schools not only stocked their shelves with pornographic novels and pro-LGBTQ propaganda, but often suggested it or assigned it to students. One student even felt pressured into playing a lesbian in a school play with sexually explicit lines. 

Restorative Justice policies accompanied LGBTQ grooming in Clark County schools. Violence increased as juvenile delinquents felt emboldened to commit crimes, including assaulting teachers. As in other school districts where leftist policies have diminished or destroyed public education, CCSD schools plunged into a consecutive six-year spiral from 2018-2024. 

However, not everyone abandoned ship. Concerned parents and traditionalists like M4L supported school choice, but also fought back at school board meetings and in the trustee races to preserve the public school system from the rot that had set in. Restoration News covered the four CCSD races before the election.

(Read more: Colorado Teachers' Union Prioritizes LBGTQ Agenda Over Education)

CCSD Election Results: Commons Sense 3 – Leftist Status Quo 1

In District A, M4L’s candidate placed last in the primary. But Emily Stevens, the candidate who placed first, came from a conservative background and supported many conservative policies.

Her opponent in the general election, Karl Catarata, is the Nevada state director of the Human Rights Campaign and received endorsements from groups who support LGBTQ grooming in schools, including the A+ “seal of approval” from the group Stop Moms for Liberty. 

Stevens was offered an endorsement from M4L but turned it down, saying in a September interview that she told the group, “I'm not trying to be rude, but I don't want to be aligned with you.” She claimed M4L didn’t have a good reputation, and she didn’t know what they stood for. Dominguez and Biassotti’s equally impressive wins, however, show M4L must have a better reputation than she thought.

Despite turning down M4L’s endorsement, Stevens benefitted from the conservative rage aimed at pro-LGBTQ school policies and won the seat by 16 percentage points. 

In District B, which covers the northern and most rural parts of the county, Dominguez defeated Eady by 14 percentage points. Eady, a decade-long Democratic operative, dismissed parents’ concerns, telling the Nevada Current, “We have a lot more issues than the books [M4L] think are in our school.” 

District C was the only race with an incumbent. There, CCSD Board of Trustees President Evelyn Garcia Morales lost reelection to Tameka Henry in a close rematch of the 2020 race when the Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America recommended Henry. Despite Morales kicking Mersch out of at least one school board meeting and defending the status quo, Henry will likely prove even more radical.

In District E, Biassotti crushed Bywaters by 16 percentage points. Bywaters was by far the most radical of the eight candidates. Biassotti formerly served as vice chair of the Clark County M4L and founded My Children’s Advocate, an organization that opposes gender ideology and Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools.

She told the Nevada Independent part of why she ran was because she didn’t want parents to have to take their children out of public schools to protect them from policies and materials with which they disagree, because that forces parents to pay twice as much for an education.

She has two teenagers in the CCSD and two children in private schools. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she homeschooled because of mask mandates. In one of Biassotti’s more colorful appearances before the school board, she criticized DEI policies and mask mandates while wearing a hazmat suit.

By electing Biassotti, parents in District E dodged a bullet. 

Bywaters—who expressed entitlement to the seat because of her Master’s in education and her working on a PhD in divinity—is a social revolutionary and a fan of failed socialist presidential candidate Cornel West, whose position on Restorative Justice ran to the left of the Nevada Department of Education:

I was offered campaign managers “pro bono”, but my faith was stronger than a PhD in Divinity. Indeed, prayer can move the heaviest of mountains. https://t.co/ybjYcnwKbF

— Trustee-elect Biassotti (@lorena4ccsd) November 22, 2024

In a video call before the election, she asked, “Why wouldn’t I as a black person support the evaluation of how racism is engrained and endemic in our lives? ... Why wouldn’t I support CRT? Hello? Ding dong dong dong.”

She also sought to turn up the pro-LGBTQ policies that made CCSD schools unbearable for so many normal parents. 

Dominguez and Biassotti’s victories shocked many observers, but they will face stiff resistance from some of the other trustees, including Henry. District G trustee Linda Cavazos and Ramona Esparza-Stoffregan—one of the county’s four mayor-appointed non-voting trustees—held a joint press conference in October where they endorsed Dominguez’ and Biassotti’s opponents. Cavazos even called M4L a cancer.

two moms for liberty candidates were elected to the ccsd school board here in nevada and i am so deeply sad i tried so hard to spread the word about them and how devastating their election would be to our schools and youth. this election has just been so consistently disappointing i cant

— Frank (@frankiejulian.net) November 8, 2024 at 3:34 AM

Mersch expressed optimism going forward. 

“We have three good trustees with common sense,” she said, praising Biassotti and Dominguez and adding that Stevens is more moderate and someone M4L can work with.

Cavazos warned her fellow leftists before the election that if Biassotti and Dominguez won their seats they could influence the agenda, despite lacking a majority. The three conservative trustees will have the opportunity in March to influence the board’s most important task—the selection of a new superintendent.  

Although by themselves Dominguez, Biassotti, and Stevens cannot enact school policies, Mersch said her chapter is already talking to potential candidates for 2026 when the other three trustee seats will be up for election. 

She encouraged parents who feel overwhelmed by the perverted gender indoctrination in schools to “keep showing up and keep getting involved.” 

“We need to fight back. We need to push back.”

But for parents who are exhausted and prefer to pull their children out of the public school system, she said her chapter works with homeschool groups and holds a collaborative “microschool” to relieve the burden of parents who wish to homeschool.

M4L’s success in Clark County shows motivated parents can win elections in large urban school districts that are failing academically or morally. As Mersch noted, many voters don’t care about down-ballot races, but can be persuaded to vote for conservative school board members if concerned parents engage them. Conservatives can’t afford not to fight these battles for control of their local school boards.

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