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Inside the Maine Trust’s collaborative investigation of Christian nationalist influences on school boards

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February 10, 2026 · 4:45 PM

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Over the past two years, Central Maine reporter Emily Duggan started noticing routine school board meetings weren’t so routine. Parents who organized against the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from growing conservative parents’ organizations stand outside school administration offices in Gardiner, Maine. Candidates with Christian nationalist agendas were elected to the boards, and the rhetoric changed from budgets and field trips to cultural issues such as LGBTQ+ youth and putting Bibles back in school....