Leave Our Kids Alone (LOKA) is a reactionary group of anti-LGBTQ+ extremists. Often identified by their matching shirts, LOKA comprises various local groups, each known for disruptive appearances at school board and city council meetings as well as targeted harassment, bullying, and in some cases criminal assault. 

LOKA appeared on the scene on June 2, 2023 when the eponymous shirts were distributed to a mob gathered to protest a planned Pride-related assembly at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood, CA. The protest was promoted by an at the time new Instagram account @saticoyelementaryparents and amplified by local reactionary group GUSD Parents Voices. Two early members of the Saticoy group, Lusine Kirakosyan and Manuk Grigoryan have become spokepeople for the group. Kirakosyan is now a member of the LA County chapter of Moms for Liberty.

Multiple right wing media accounts and streamers including Anthony Cabassa and 180.Shift documented the Saticoy protest, which eventually became violent, and have continued to amplify the group and their rhetoric. Also present was LOKA-affiliated anti-trans, anti-vax attorney Jennifer Kennedy who live-streamed from the crowd and Nazi-sympathizer Narek Palyan who was heard saying, "We won't let you turn our kids our gay." One person present, who wrote about her experience, reported numerous instances of hate speech and one person was beaten unconscious. 

Just 4 days after the Saticoy violence many of the same individuals wearing the same LOKA shirts, and alongside people connected with Proud Boys and other violent groups, descended on GUSD's Board of Education meeting, with rioting in the parking lot leading to multiple arrests. The same mob again appeared at the June 20th meeting. 

Later in June the group sponsored a screening of the right wing propaganda film Sound of Freedom. Political candidates Alex Balekian, James Clarke, and Patrick Lee Gipson appeared in a group photo. Throughout the summer of 2023 the LOKA network continued to network with other reactionary extremist groups across the region. They participated in numerous political trainings with the Leadership Institute, Freedom Angels, and California Policy Center, traveled to school board meetings in Chino Valley, Temecula, and others, and made media appearances on obscure news channels and propaganda outlets like Epoch Times's CA Insider imprint.

The 2023 summer of networked organizing culminated in a march in downtown Los Angeles and a rally in Simi Valley, CA. At both these events it became clear that the LOKA brand had become an umbrella for reactionary groups from across the region, including Proud Boy affiliates alongside anti-LGBTQ+ individuals, members of megachurch congregations, and political operatives, legal strategists and lobbyists, primarily from the California Policy Center and California Family Council.

While locally, LOKA-affiliated candidates have lost their electoral bids, concerns remain as Alex Balekian, Patrick Lee Gipson, Elizabeth Wong-Ahlers, and J6 participant Denise Aguilar continue to campaign, and other LOKA-sympathizers Elizabeth Barcohana, Nune Gipson, and Lisa Cusack hold key positions on the Republican central committee. 

However, in a significant loss in late May 2024, the LOKA-backed "Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth" ballot initiative failed to gather the minimum required signatures despite 6 months of heavy promotion and organizing work by LOKA members.