A New Member of Tennessee’s Textbook Commission is an Anti-Muslim Activist and a Participant in the January 6th Insurrection

Andy Spears
2 min readFeb 23, 2021

House Speaker Cameron Sexton appointed an anti-Muslim activist who promoted and participated in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to the State Textbook Commission. Now, Laurie Cardoza-Moore has taken to the Tennessean to defend her reputation and advocate for what she terms “wholesome” values in Tennessee schools.

Here’s some of what Moore has to say:

I pray for a day, when parents in the Volunteer State can send their children to school with the knowledge that they are receiving a wholesome, accurate and unbiased American education.

Surely, some of that unbiased education will include a condemnation of those who promoted and participated in an uprising against our national government on January 6th, 2021? What will an accurate, unbiased textbook say about this?

Moore also pats herself on the back for her work with a nonprofit she founded and runs called Proclaiming Justice to the Nations.

Here’s more on that:

Moore’s group — Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) raised just over $1 million (in 2017).

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .