Skopje, 30 September 2025 (MIA) -- I want mothers to realize that the most important thing they will ever do, the most significant contribution to society, and the greatest act of patriotism they will ever perform for their country is raising the next generation because that is what our country is going to look like in 10, 20, 30 years, said the influential Moms for America's president Kimberly Fletcher in an interview with MIA.

"Whatever your country is, you're deciding it by what you're teaching your children today. I want them to know that and I want them to realize that their influence in the home is creating the future that they want," Fletcher stressed.

According to her, America was founded on the family and the family will save America.

"That's one of the things I just love about President Trump. He is doing things that are bringing common sense back, but he's also doing things that are specifically focused on elevating the family and making sure that families have quality of life. Taxation is not a burden, that women who want to stay home with their children can. If they want to work outside the home, fine, but it shouldn't be something you have to do to survive," Moms for America's founder said.

Fletcher is an author, op-ed writer and the president and founder of Moms for America®. The media has described her as a "mom who unconditionally loves America." She is also the wife of a retired Air Force officer and the mother of eight children.

She has written several books, including "WOMEN: America’s Last Best Hope" and she has been frequently featured in US media outlets such as Fox News, The Blaze and Breitbart. With over 20 years’ experience in grassroots activism, Fletcher has organized rallies in support of US President Donald Trump and has been recognized by him as a key figure for his success.

Today she spreads her influence across the globe - with the vision to return to a normal way of life in various countries. Her personal mission is to inspire mothers worldwide to recognize their worth and power and apply it in society.

What inspired you to found Moms for America? What was the trigger?

There was a trigger. Everybody has that moment where they wake up and realize that something isn't working right. Mine was 9/11, when the Twin Towers and the Pentagon went down. My husband was stationed at the Pentagon. It was through a series of miracles that he came home safe that day. And it changed me. I started asking a lot of questions. How did we get here? Why did this happen? I went from being just patriotic to being a patriot because for the first time, I understood up close and personal what the cost of freedom meant and I was going to pay the price for my children and my grandchildren.

How did being the wife of a military officer and a mother of eight influence your activism?

That has been a great influence. I was always patriotic, but when I said "I do" to that man, it was a whole life change. Being in the military, it's not just the service member that serves, the whole family serves. He was gone a lot and I was basically running the family, the checkbook, the budget, everything. Then he would come home and we'd have to figure out how to integrate back into a together life again. It was a wild ride. But the sacrifice that I saw, the commitment and the dedication from those who served and the families who served with them, it changes you. 

It's like a whole lifestyle. Everybody is so patriotic on the military bases. When you go and watch a movie, before the film starts, they play this national anthem film. They play the national anthem every morning or every evening and everybody stops. If you're driving a car or you're walking, everybody just stops until it's done, out of respect. There's just an enormous amount of love and respect for America on the bases and that affects you.

What challenges have you faced in growing your organization, financially, or in gaining public acceptance? 

It is all by donations. We don't take any public funds. We don't get any government money. It's really me just going out with my hand out. I hate it. I hate asking people for money. But I read a book by Booker T. Washington years ago. It's "Up From Slavery," his autobiography. He talked about his life being a slave and how he came out of that and started Tuskegee College. Just a great story. In the middle of the book he throws in this chapter about fundraising and he's like, "You're probably wondering why I put this chapter in here. This doesn't fit with the book." But he said so many people had asked him how he raised so much money and how he asks people to get money. He said, "I've never asked anybody for a dime. I just tell them what we do, the impact that it has, and how much it costs to do it. Cause I realized a long time ago, anybody that makes that much money knows better how to spend it than I do." I don't agree with the last part, but the first part, that's how I do it. 

I just go and I meet with people and I say, "This is what we do. This is how we do it." Media interviews. Moms will give money periodically. We do not have dues, but we do have a premium membership that moms can subscribe to for $17.76 a month. So it's really out of the good graces of the American people that we survive. 

In what ways does Moms for America help families become stronger? How do you promote changes in society? 

Multiple different ways. The core signature program of Moms for America is called the Cottage Meeting Project. If you're familiar with Tupperware, it's like Tupperware for liberty where you invite friends and neighbors into your home and women will lead a discussion group with their friends and neighbors. We teach them through stories, through personal examples and experiences about the principles of liberty and the Constitution. It gets them so excited because we have been stripped of our history and heritage in America. People don't go to school and learn it anymore. You have to find it somewhere else. So we teach it in a way that's relatable to moms and it gets them very excited and then it moves them into activism. 

The other things that we do is once they have become activated, then they want to know, "Well, how can I speak at a school board meeting?" Or, "How do I register to vote?" So we give them all of those resources to help them to be able to vote their values with confidence and be effective influences in their communities. 

You and your colleagues constantly emphasize the importance of education. 

Education is the most important thing. Okay, if you're talking about standards, I would say God first, family, then all of it. You change a culture by education, either by not having proper education or by having it. 

In the beginning of our country, there were people who were denied an education and they hungered for it, and there were people who had an education and took advantage of it. But somewhere along the line, in the early 1900s, it started to change and compulsory education, requiring people to go to public school, really changed things. 

So our education system has slowly been really dumbing down the American people and so they don't know the Constitution, they don't know what America's about or why it's worth fighting for, what freedom really means, and that there's responsibility as a citizen. They just don't. They're not taught those things. So if you are not being taught those things, how can you possibly vote for those things? 

So right now, what's happening in our education system is we have had this radical movement move into all of our schools and campuses over the last 50 years. They are teaching our kids to hate their country, hate their neighbors, hate themselves, disconnect from their parents. They're sexualizing our kids. They're pushing this gender ideology down their throats. It's no longer a space of learning. It's not even a place of safety. It's a place of indoctrination. 

Not all the teachers are like that. There are a lot of teachers and school board members who come to us and they're not happy with what's being taught either. One of the things that we do is we connect the parents, the teachers, and the school board members who are opposed to all the radical ideologies, who want quality education and be able to teach and, and be a counter voice to the teachers unions who are pushing all the ideologies. Without education, you cannot maintain a free society. 

Some critics say that Mothers for America has a strong political agenda. Do you agree with that? 

Well, breathing is political these days. We are not a political organization. We are not a religious organization. We are a principle-based organization, and it is those principles that America was founded on. The principle of equality, equal justice, the freedom to try, the freedom to fail, hard work, the American dream, all of those things that, that unite us as a people. Those are the principles that we stand on and we fight for. But most of the policies that are being created go against the principles. They go against the Constitution itself. And so we definitely get involved in the political square, public square, and the political, not bully pulpit. We insert ourselves in statehouses. We meet with members of state legislators. We meet with the president. We meet with members of Congress to let them know what policies we support and don't and why. It always goes back to the principle. If you start with the Constitution, you consider unintended consequences, and then start writing your bill, you're going to have a better bill. 

What has surprised you the most in your activism career? That moment or the special experience that marked a turning point in your career as an activist? 

Back in 2001, I had a friend who invited me to a town hall meeting. They were talking about taxes and representation. And the speaker asked the question, "How many congressmen do you have?" So we have two houses in Washington, DC, federal government, and I raised my hand and I said, "I don't know how many congressman we have, but I know how many senators we have." 

Everybody in the room laughed, and I couldn't figure out why. So I came home and I told my husband what happened, and I said, "What did I miss?" 

He said, "Honey, every state has two senators. They thought you were joking." I was like, "Why don't I know this? Well, I should know this. I should have been taught this." 

So I started studying the Constitution. He invited me to all these civic meetings where I was seeing people talking about policies that were directly affecting my family. I had no idea any of that was going on. Then he started calling me and telling me about things that were happening in the school system and I would be like, "Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible." 

I was homeschooling by that time, and so I was like, "I can't believe they're doing that." He said, "Well, you should run for school board." And I'm like, "No. I'm homeschooling my kids. I'm good. I've got seven kids. I'm good." I have eight now, but I had seven at the time. 

About the fifth time that he called me to tell me about things that were happening in the school system, I was like, "Ugh. That is so ridiculous." And he goes, "You know what? You don't have any right to complain." And I was so shocked that he would speak to me that way. 

I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "I have given you an opportunity five times. I've asked you to run for school board to make a difference. You have an opportunity to make a difference, and if you're not going to do it, then you don't have any right to complain about it." So I ran for school board. 

Which year was that? 

That was 2003. 

Before you started Moms for America?

Yes, it was a year before I started it. Really, it was those three years between 2001 and 2003 where I, without realizing it, became an activist because I started to see what was happening and what was going on. 

When I was running for school board, I did a lot of research. I researched the budget, which was absurd, the amount of money that they were wasting. Then I started to see the curriculum and the things that were being inserted in the books, and the sexuality they were introducing into the classrooms. 

I saw something wicked was coming and it was already there, but it wasn't anywhere near to the level that it is now. But I saw where it was heading and I think that was one of those things that God wanted to put on my heart. Because you can't unsee something like that when you've seen it. When you see a book that's full of pornography that they're encouraging as a classical way to teach sexuality for two 10-year-olds, you can't unsee that. 

So I got very involved in a lot of different organizations during those three years. There was a woman who started an organization called Safe Libraries and she had a list of all the bad books they were promoting and I was calling and talking to her and I said, "Are these in public libraries?" And she goes, "Yeah, but they're also in school libraries and kindergartners have access to them, and teachers are assigning them as, as writing and reading assignments." 

I was just appalled, but nobody would listen to me. When I would tell people that this was happening, they wouldn't listen. So in 2004 when I started the organization, I didn't realize that that was going to be one of my main callings - to expose these things and help parents fight against it, but it became that. 

But really it was seeing so many moms that didn't know what was happening, so many parents that had no idea what their children were being exposed to. When I would tell them, them not believing me, it was hard because I realized their children are going to continuously be exposed and if they're not being an influence or a counter-influence, then they're going to lose their kids. So I started writing articles about it. I wrote a book and I talked about different aspects of our culture, society and policy on a level for moms to understand. All of it really was activism because I wanted other moms to know what I knew so they could protect their own children. 

About your book "America’s Last Best Hope: Women." What is your greatest hope for the future of American families? 

For American women or for America, our country? I guess they're both intertwined. My hope is that the mothers of the country and women in general will recognize their influence in society and that if they try to be men, then they give up their influence. 

We have incredible power. I told my daughters when I was raising them, I said, "You have so much power. You have the ability to build a man up to his greatest heights or crush him down to nothing. Wield the power wisely." 

But all these radical feminists were giving up their power and trying to be men and it's hurting our society and our culture. So I'd really like women who think they're feminists to realize they're not. Women who are die-hard feminists to just go away.  And to realize they're not helping themselves.

I want mothers to realize that the most important thing they will ever do, the most significant contribution to society, and the greatest act of patriotism they will ever perform for their country is raising the next generation because that is what our country is going to look like in 10, 20, 30 years. Whatever your country is, you're deciding it by what you're teaching your children today. I want them to know that and I want them to realize that their influence in the home is creating the future that they want. 

As the keynote speaker at the I Am a Woman conference in Skopje, you announced a project of great importance for the women's movement in the country.

It's Moms For Freedom. The website is momsforfreedom.world and Moms For Freedom is a worldwide network, a sisterhood of mothers, mothers who are, mothers to be. The purpose of it is to elevate motherhood, encourage motherhood and empower mothers. 

The policies that are being passed are going against that. The radical feminists don't want you to be a mother. They're convincing you not to have children, that it's a waste of time, that you should go do something else. You can do something else. I'm not saying don't do something else. But to not have children to do something else because you think that's what makes you important, it's the exact opposite. That little sign on your desk or promotion that you've got is not going to keep you warm and fuzzy in your sunset years. And I really want moms in all the different countries to have a voice that can counter this global movement to destroy families and minimize the value of mothers and women. 

And, and so this is an opportunity for us to unite these moms to have an international voice where we can collectively share our concerns and put out papers, articles, blogs, whatever, where we can speak on different policies. 

At some point in time, I'd like to have a presence at the UN on that nasty conference where they try to destroy women every year. And I want this sisterhood to be an encouraging platform just to connect and realize they're not alone and, and support each other and our role as being a mother and a woman in our countries.

Is there a difference between mothers in Macedonia and mothers in America? 

We are starting a Moms for Macedonia.

Are you familiar with the situation with women and mothers in Macedonia? 

Oh, yes. Macedonia is one of my favorite countries because the women have taken over, and they're putting things right. Now, I have to say, in most circumstances, I would say when the women come in, you need to run. But in Macedonia, it's the good women, the rockstar women, the women and mothers who care about their country, their children, the future, and they are making policies based on principle, the principles of family and quality life and quality education. 

I'm loving the changes and the policies that are being made in the country. I think your president is a rockstar. I think the prime minister is exactly what this country needs, and the two of them are making major strides. 

There are incredible members of parliament that are moving things in the right direction. I just think that Macedonia is a perfect example to show to the world as what you're supposed to do in government to support your country and the people who live there. 

How important is your family's support in what you do?

Extremely so. In creating the USA, we started with families who united together in communities, because they believed in the same values and principles. Then those communities became towns, and then towns became counties, and those counties became states. The federal government came after that. It was the family that started America, and it's the family that's going to save it. 

That's one of the things I just love about President Trump. He is doing things that are bringing common sense back, but he's also doing things that are specifically focused on elevating the family and making sure that families have quality of life. Taxation is not a burden, that women who want to stay home with their children can. If they want to work outside the home, fine, but it shouldn't be something you have to do to survive. He addresses a lot of those issues in his policies and in his statements. And the executive orders that he's passing are completely within his authority in the Constitution. So we're getting a lot of stuff done. 

He's elevating the value of the family. He cherishes family and he loves his mom. She passed away, obviously, but he just has great things to say about his mom, and the wives in his life, his daughter. He has a great respect for women. Ladies, not crazy psycho women. Anyway, family to him is everything. You can see that in the way his family interacts with each other. He wants that for everyone. 

So the fact that it matters to him, he's going to put that forth in policy. And in our organization, it matters deeply, because home is the center of society. Mothers are the center of the home, and if mother is well, if she feels empowered, if she's given the skills and the support that she needs, and encouragement, then she's going to be a much happier mother. That's going to set the tone for the whole family. So if you want to save a nation, you save the family. If you want to save the family, you have to save the mother. 

What will you be your message to Macedonian women and mothers? What do you recommend? What do you want them to hear? 

I want them to hear that they have the ability to create the future that they want by the example that they set, by the children that they raise, by their influence, their circle of influence. 

There are two great quotes that I would tell them. Matthew Vassar, when he started Vassar Women's College, he said he did so because he realized that the mothers of a country mold its citizens, determine its institutions, and shape its destiny. We're on a destiny shaping mission at Moms for America, and I would love to see the women of Macedonia realize that they have a destiny that they can shape and they can turn the world around just by starting in their own home, in their own sphere of influence, and being an example to all those around them. 

Photo: Frosina Naskovikj