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Posted on 11/22/2025 10:53:07 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
In Cypress, Texas, a Houston-area suburb that lures families with its high-quality education, Republicans used their two years of control on the school board to ban textbook chapters on climate change, diversity and vaccines.
This month, Democrats took over the majority, picking up three seats on the school board and ending the conservative reign.
From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds. They emphasized test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries. The result was a set of election results at the local level that accentuated the punishment meted out against Republicans by swing voters earlier this month. Those results were accentuated by Democrats’ strong showing across the nation, as Americans issued a stinging repudiation of the party in power.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats flipped at least two dozen school board seats, per an ongoing tally from progressive recruitment group Pipeline Fund. The under-the-radar trend was enabled by voters’ increasing weariness with the culture wars that helped the MAGA movement engineer school board takeovers and generate hyper-local interest in politics as the Covid-19 pandemic raged.
In addition to Texas, Republicans lost seats in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, and the national battleground of Pennsylvania — the result of well-funded campaigns orchestrated by local leaders. School board races are typically nonpartisan, but candidates receive endorsements and financial backing from partisan groups.
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This is the real problem, these elections matter more than Presidential elections.
The Democrats lied
Did they have any real opposition? Our side chooses not to get involved in these things.
Republican involvement in off-year elections is the pits. We need everyone to give up 1/5th of the time they spend on sporty ball and spend it on politics, including most especially SHOWING UP to vote EVERY TIME something comes up, even if it is just a vote for 2nd Assistant Dog Catcher.
But more important, we need quality candidates to run.
No.
Perhaps an organization like Turning Point USA needs to field candidates for school boards.
“This is the real problem, these elections matter more than Presidential elections.”
Very true. And you would think being a local election that directly impacts local policies, the locals would be more engaged and choose better.
” the result of well-funded campaigns orchestrated by local leaders”
What ‘leaders’ and where did the money come from? What the hell is wrong with the loser Republicans? What are the Republicans doing to win the mid terms?
Politico, so adjust accordingly.
That said, school board elections historically have tended to be dominated by the teachers unions. It is extremely hard for groups of concerned parents to get traction.
If the story is anywhere close to accurate, the dems ran on ... TEST SCORES, among other things. The party that has been waging all out war on educational standards is getting traction on academic commitment? That is surrealistic if true. It would also demonstrate (again) that most parents don’t have a clue about what is going on in the schools. That’s why big lie campaigns work.
Conservatives continue to have a real problem staying on message. A consistent and unrelenting commitment to school choice is our throughline. Everything should link back to that, because what ails the schools is fundamentally a governance issue.
“In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards”
In culture war backlash, DEMONCRATS sweep school boards
There, fixed it
Our side chooses not to vote in off-year elections. The Dems get their unions out in force and it drowns everything out
Not good, but not unexpected; entropy at work. Despite some positive advances, this old world is going south.
We better crawl over broken glass from now on. We got fat and happy in 25.
And there's no guarantee that we'll show up in 2028 now that Trump's no longer on the ballot. We didn't show up in '08 and '12 for McCain and Romney.
McCain and Romney did not want to be associated with those “crazy right wing extremists”.
They got what they asked for...
Vance is NOT them
I saw that NC registration has turned more red. Now they must vote.
It only means that NC is likely going to remain red in 2028.
FWIW, Biden won in 2020 without NC.
“In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards”
The headline is 100% backward. It was the conservatives who were the culture-war backlash.
These new democrats are just going to go back to the weirdness of the previous school board members, the ones who needed correcting. Politico wants to play around like it’s the conservatives who are bringing the weird.
The media are the real reason why the conservatives lost. I have little doubt that an analysis of the local Houston-based media would reveal an overwhelmingly slanted and propaganda-oriented news cycle that presented the Democrats as normal, natural, and healthy.
Meanwhile (local liberal media reporting about:) these FASCISTS who think “men” are “men”. “What’s wrong with these people?” “Can’t we get some good democrats in there?”
It’s a good thing Bari Weiss has a real chance of turning the tide at CBS. Those local CBS affiliates would do wonders for helping out getting real people into the school boards. The rare individuals willing to give it a shot anyways.
We live in the information age and we are starving for information.
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