In June 2023, you likely saw the news of a heated protest taking place outside a school board meeting in Glendale, California. It drew national attention on the heels of a conservative movement seeking to take over school boards under the guise of “protecting children” by banning books and vilifying the LGBTQ+ community.
What made the Glendale protest shocking was the presence of protestors who didn’t even live in the area, who neither had kids attending the school at the center of the story. It was the first indication on a wider level that these protests were anything but grassroots, and that there was a much deeper and more sinister agenda at play.
Three years later, this information is coming to light through an explosive, can’t-look-away feature documentary called ‘Moms Club’, co-directed by Miranda Winters and Rocky Romano from Winters Rock Entertainment, profiling a group of progressive suburban California moms who formed a network that are exposing this highly-funded and coordinated right wing attack on the school boards that support and protect LGBTQ+ youth by refusing to out them to their parents and instead create a welcoming, inclusive space for all students.
When a surge of extremist candidates takes over their local school boards, a group of suburban moms — fierce, funny, and fed up — launches a covert resistance to defend their LGBTQ+ kids and protect public education. Armed with open-source intelligence, “sock puppet” accounts, and a Signal chat that turns into a digital command center, these unlikely activists uncover a chilling conspiracy: their communities are battlegrounds in a decades-long war led by a secretive network of religious extremists and billionaires bent on dismantling the public school system.
In 2026, a the country is reeling from a presidential administration that is becoming increasingly violent, divisive and shunning the rule of law, this film is urgent and necessary as we head into the November mid-term elections. While many school board seats across California and other states are holding elections, ‘Mom’s Club’ will motivate audiences to get in the fight.
Told with the urgency of a true crime thriller and the heart of a grassroots uprising, Moms Club is a defiant, deeply personal story of resistance. It’s also a reminder not to dismiss the collective power of suburban moms who decide to take action against systemic oppression! This is not just a film about school board drama – it’s a battle cry for democracy, inclusion, and the future of our children.
The film is currently raising its final production funds through a GoFundMe page which we highly recommend checking out and donating to if you want to see this message spread far and wide. Below is a statement from co-director Miranda Winters, who candidly shares her perspective on the making of this film, and why we can’t look away from what is happening today.
When we began working on ‘Mom’s Club’ 5 years ago, we weren’t sure exactly what we were filming. We were actively documenting the George Floyd uprising and we recognized undeniable patterns in the far-right reaction to the movement. We kept filming, attending rallies on both sides of the issues, whether they were lockdowns, masking, vaccines, abortion, or trans rights.
Eventually, we turned our eyes to local school board meetings, and the controversy surrounding what used to be mundane – but nonetheless important – institutions. What we found wasn’t surprising; it followed the same patterns we had already seen, but it did show us a crystal clear story of a decades-old, top-down effort bent on the rise of the right-wing Christian nationalist movement. It showed us that our most vulnerable individuals, our children, were being used to stir up fear and anger – inciting literal riots followed by an avalanche of policies that discriminate and harm.
We are facing an administration that won’t stop at stripping away civil rights – it is kidnapping people, tearing families apart, illegally detaining people, and performing extrajudicial killings. ‘Mom’s Club’ shows us that in the face of this active harm, we must connect with each other and build communities that protect our most vulnerable. It demonstrates that each step we take in the defense of vulnerable people is worth taking, even if those victories seem small in the face of the massive apparatus that threatens us.
For some people, it is easy to feel like our rights and our freedoms were there all along, especially if they’ve been enjoying a life where the constant struggle for equity has remained under their radar. But these rights will slip away if we do not hold them close. My grandparents’ interracial marriage was illegal.
If I was born 50 years earlier, my family and I would have been interned by Executive Order 9066. When I was in high school, my neighbors had signs opposing gay marriage, convincing me that my queer identity was unacceptable.
We must remember that our hard-won civil rights were the result of generations of struggle, immense effort, and a variety of coalitions and strategies. We can’t afford to watch passively as these attacks on our rights continue to escalate. Our present actions will determine our collective future.
-Miranda Winters
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