The national GOP introduced H.R.5, calling it the “Parents Bill of Rights Act”, it purported to allow for greater transparency into curriculum, spending and public reporting of violence in schools. A poorly disguised continuation of the culture war currently plaguing schools. It was obvious that parent voices were deliberately excluded from the conversation. So the National Parents Union (NPU) showed up. With only three days’ notice, NPU mobilized almost 100 parents from across the country to advocate at the federal level against H.R.5, visiting all 435 House Member offices and to the House Chambers for discussion of the bill. NPU’s policy paper outlining H.R.5’s lack of parent voice representation was entered into the Congressional Record and was submitted into the library of congress as official record. As expected, the bill survived the House vote, but NPU continued the fight, attending on-going meetings and working with Senators to ensure that the bill died in the Senate. The campaign to defeat the bill was successful, opening doors to additional difficult conversations and allowing parents to continue to speak truth to power and hold lawmakers accountable. This action effectively opened the door for parent voice to be heard on the national level.