Attorney General Todd Blanche released a report Monday concluding that the Justice Department was aimed at parents who spoke up at school board meetings, and that the push came from the White House.

It runs 273 pages. The title is “The 2026 Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools.”

The document at the center of it is five years old. In 2021, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum on threats against school officials.

The report says that memo directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech.

It also says who wanted it. The National School Boards Association and White House officials pressured the department to produce it.

“The Garland DOJ worked hand in hand with WH officials and the National School Boards Association to chill free speech,” Blanche said.

What followed the memo is the part with names attached to it. The FBI opened 25 Guardian assessments on parents.

A Guardian assessment is not a casual inquiry. It is an entry in the Bureau’s threat tracking system, and it means a file exists.

One mother was assessed after a tip noted two things about her. She owned a gun and she belonged to what the tip called a right-wing mom’s group.

A separate joint release from the Justice and Education Departments identified that group as Moms for Liberty.

Another case in the report involves a father whose special-needs daughter was assaulted in a school restroom. He was arrested after confronting the district and was labeled a domestic terrorist.

The Daily Caller and The Federalist reported the findings.

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich said the group felt vindicated. She described members getting phone calls after attending school board meetings, asking whether they had mental health problems or weapons in their homes.

That detail is worth reading twice. The question was not what did you say at the meeting.

It was do you own a gun and are you mentally ill, asked by a federal agent, of a parent who had just spoken in public about her child’s school.

No charges came out of those 25 assessments. That is often held up as proof the whole thing was harmless, and it proves the opposite.

A prosecution would have produced a defendant, a lawyer, a judge and a record. An assessment that goes nowhere produces only a phone call and a parent who thinks twice about the next meeting.

Fox News reported on the mother investigated over her gun ownership and group membership.

The report recommends accountability measures. It does not have the power to impose any, and most of the officials it describes have left government.