Leftists viciously attacking CA school board member for advancing pro-family policies.

Well-funded and organized radicals want obscenity and LGBT ideology pushed on city’s schoolchildren.

Local citizens asked MassResistance to come in and help them fight back!

September 3, 2025

The local leftists conducted a vile campaign to force a bold conservative school committee member out of office. But MassResistance helped local citizens stop them!

Most people don’t realize how fiercely obsessed leftists are with pushing sexuality and LGBT ideology on other peoples’ children - especially using the public schools – and how it must be confronted directly.

Redlands, CA: A new conservative majority on the city’s school board takes action

Redlands, California is a city of 73,000 located 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Although it is largely conservative (Trump won over Harris), the five-member school board has been controlled by liberals. But in last November’s election, Candy Olson, a mother of five and a nurse, won a seat – giving conservatives a 3-2 majority.

Families have been leaving the Redlands school system, largely because of the radicalism. So Candy didn’t just quietly take her seat on the board. She first led the charge to keep “transgender” boys out of girls’ sports, which the new school board passed 3-2 in April.  

Next, Candy pushed for a sane school flag policy – only US and California flags allowed – that essentially banned the toxic “pride” flags from Redlands schools. That policy was passed in July.

The Redlands school board during citizen testimony. Candy Olson is third from left.

Her next effort was for a policy to stop the obscene and pornographic sexual and LGBT books in the schools. That vote was coming up when MassResistance got involved.

These policies have all had general support throughout the city. Most parents just want their kids to be left alone. But the hardcore Left (and their allies in the liberal media) were infuriated.

A frantic call to MassResistance

In early August, we got a frantic call from a friend of MassResistance who lives in Redlands.

For months, he told us, an organized group of deranged local leftists (including the one that Candy defeated in the election) have been coming to school board meetings to curse, disrupt, and rant about how “terrible” and “hurtful” these policies are. And they harass and intimidate the handful of pro-family parents who come to defend the policies.

For example, at the meeting where the flag policy was passed, the Left brought in hundreds of angry, raucous people, so the room had to be cleared by police. The board also received nearly 1,000 emails against the policy from leftists around the country.

Astro-turf: While the leftists gathered outside the building before the school committee meeting, they had a van pull up with pizzas and drinks. It certainly appeared that some of them were paid agitators.

The Left's hostile and belligerent behavior in Redlands has gotten to a point where the police require people to go through a metal detector just to go into the school board meeting!

This woman ranted at the board against the proposed policy of not allowing children to read the obscene and pornographic books.

This man wearing a dress wanted all the city's schoolchildren to be able to read books about transgenderism (and other LGBT issues).

But worse, our contact described how the leftists have been brutally and viciously attacking Candy personally. This includes:

• Doxxing her personal information.
• Repeatedly calling Candy’s employer and attempting to get her fired.
• Filing complaints with the state Nursing Board to have her lose her nursing license.
• Creating phony social media accounts purportedly made by her, with obscene messages.
• Harassing her as she enters and leaves the meetings – so she needs a police escort to get to her car.
• Campaign to demand her resignation for “liking” a post. At one point Candy “liked” an Instagram message that was linked – eighteen levels away –to a somewhat offensive message which Candy had no idea about. They are absurdly using that to demand her resignation from the school board.

One of many dishonest and misleading social media posts the leftists created to attack Candy Olson.

Other local citizens who vocally support the pro-family policies at meetings get similar treatment. They are hunted down on social media. Their employment gets targeted. Lies are spread about them. One father was publicly called a “pedophile” repeatedly by the leftist mob to shut him up.

Not surprisingly, the local media partnered with the leftists against Candy – attempting to give legitimacy to the attacks.

This article was published by the national NBC news and was reprinted by NBC affiliates as far away as Philadelphia.

As a result, our friend told us, though some supporters are still coming to school board meetings, a lot of people are afraid. Candy Olson herself is standing tall, as are the other two conservatives on the school board. But who knows how long that will last under this constant barrage?

MassResistance, please come to Redlands!

Our friend pleaded with us: Will MassResistance come and help organize and inspire people to fight back? Would we show them how to do it? This is really needed, he said.

His call came just a few days before the school board’s Aug. 5 meeting when they were scheduled to take the first of two votes on the book policy. The leftists were going to be there in force to intimidate everyone and try to stop it.

Keep in mind: Bold, aggressive leftists are often just bullies and cowards. When fearlessly confronted (especially with the truth!), they tend to melt down. We’ve seen it over and over.

We decided that the best approach on such short notice was to have our National Field Director, Arthur Schaper, go there personally and lead the charge. (Arthur lives in Torrance, just down the highway from Redlands.) We would get as many Redlands pro-family people as we could to also show up.

That plan worked brilliantly. At the August 5 school board meeting, Arthur gave a “clinic” on how to deal with angry, deranged leftists.

We will report on that in our next post!

Final thoughts

In these local school battles, our side is up against huge forces but usually doesn’t realize it.

Unlike local conservative pro-family groups, the leftist groups are well-funded and well-organized. It’s mostly astro-turf activism, not organic. You can tell by their slick printed signs, shirts, and hats, their canned talking points, and food and transportation provided. It’s often clear that many of them are paid agitators and are not from the locale.

These people are not like us. They have no problem lying, breaking the law, engaging in violence, destroying people’s lives, and instilling fear to get their way. They have no conscience or moral compass. In particular, they are obsessed with pushing an agenda on other people’s children. They can’t be reasoned with. They must be stopped.

Unfortunately, the conservative movement doesn’t fund direct activism like the Left does. That’s why our people need an aggressive counter-force like MassResistance.