Melissa Goshorn, Joseph Marchio, and Paul Harrison are right-wing partisans who are endorsed by the shadowy, far-right, billionaire-funded 1776 Project PAC which focuses on stoking division around race, gender, and other culture war issues rather than on the issues that really matter to students.

The 1776 Project PAC previously endorsed a board of education slate dubbed “The Hate Slate” and has the dubious distinction of being charged with one of the largest campaign finance fines in Maryland history for failing to communicate appropriately with Maryland voters.

Goshorn describes herself as Q-anon and used her podcast to promote outrageous falsehoods about child organ harvesting from Holocaust denier Robert David Steele. She calls Covid-19 “a planned experiment” and says she doesn’t watch the news because “the media is the devil.”

She claims that “parents as a whole have become lazy,” and that schools are part of a conspiracy to indoctrinate children. On her podcast, she shared that she told her children not to have any one-on-one conversations with any teacher that has a “Safe Space” sticker in their classroom, a symbol that the teacher is accepting of LGBTQ students.

She even sued Calvert County Public Schools for allegedly promoting “radical ideology.” A judge dismissed the case, calling it “fundamentally flawed,” and scolded Goshorn and her co-plaintiffs for “clogging the docket” with “near baseless motions.”

Until recently, Goshorn was the Maryland Director of Power2Parent, a Nevada-based group that promotes school voucher programs that divert public schools funds to unaccountable private schools. Marchio and Harrison have aligned themselves with Goshorn’s campaign.