Trump Ed. Dept. Launches “EndDEI” Snitch Portal with Moms for Liberty
Donald Trump’s Department of Education has launched a new portal for Americans to rat out the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at their local public schools.
The portal, called EndDEI.ed.gov, debuted with a press release that featured no government authorities, but rather a quote from a co-founder of the reactionary group Moms for Liberty, which is infamous for its anti-LGBTQ+ activism and links to right-wing militant groups like the Proud Boys.
Tiffany Justice, of Moms for Liberty, touted the launch of the portal, highlighting it as an opportunity for parents to push back against “critical [race] theory, rogue sex education, and divisive ideologies.” She added: “Now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools.”
Justice is a controversial figure in her own right, and no stranger to divisive ideologies. She responded to a 2023 controversy in which a Moms For Liberty parent quoted Hitler in a newsletter by proclaiming, “I stand with that mom!”
Apart from its web address, the federal portal uses bland language. “Schools should be focused on learning,” the website says, and insists that the Department of Education is committed to supporting education “free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination.” It calls the portal an outlet to “report illegal discriminatory practices at institutions of learning,” and says the feds will use the submissions “to identify potential areas for investigation.” The portal permits 450 words of explanation and allows users to submit up to 10 megabytes of digital files.
The EndDEI portal represents the latest salvo in the Trump administration anti-diversity crusade — which has included executive orders that seek to define trans Americans out of existence, an effort to kick trans soldiers out of the military, the ouster of top women and Black military leaders, and the revocation of a Civil Rights Era executive order that desegregated the ranks of federal contractors.
The launch of the federal portal comes in the wake of a flawed, state-level snitch site set up in Indiana called “Eyes on Education.” That portal was launched in 2024 by the state’s Republican attorney general Todd Rokita, who sought to expose “examples of socialist indoctrination” and “destructive” lessons that “divide kids from their parents” and from what Rokita termed “normal society.” (Far from being a useful investigative tool, Eyes on Education proved a farce, with educators facing state-enabled harassment, including for policies that were no longer in effect.)
The federal Department of Education did not respond immediately to questions including why it had turned the Moms For Liberty cofounder into a de facto federal spokesperson.
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