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The Texas Freedom Network advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the religious right.

Texas Freedom Network

Founded in 1995, the Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of more than 28,000 religious and community leaders. Based in Austin, the Texas Freedom Network acts as the state’s watchdog, monitoring far-right issues, organizations, money and leaders. The organization has been instrumental in defeating initiatives backed by the religious right in Texas, including private school vouchers, textbook censorship and faith-based deregulation.

As the resource of record on the religious right in Texas, the Texas Freedom Network has become a trusted source for producers and reporters from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, National Journal, TIME, all major U.S. broadcast and cable news media, the BBC and the American Bar Association Journal. Texas Freedom Network spokespeople have appeared on ABC World News Tonight and Nightline, NBC Nightly News, NBC’s Today Show, Dateline NBC, FOX News and The O’Reilly Factor, 60 Minutes II, MSNBC’s Donahue, National Public Radio, and the BBC.

The Texas Freedom Network is a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation. Contributions to TFN are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes. For more information on donating to the Texas Freedom Network, contact Rachel Glast at Rachel@tfn.org.

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Texas Freedom Network Education Fund

The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, created in 1996, focuses on research, citizen education and leadership training. The TFN Education Fund researches the agenda, activities and funding of the religious right. It also educates mainstream people of faith in how to formulate and to advocate a faith-based response to the religious right’s policy agenda.

The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation. Contributions are deductible for federal income tax purposes. For information on donating to the Education Fund, contact Rachel Glast at Rachel@tfn.org.

Texas Faith Network

Formed in 1996 as a project of the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, the Texas Faith Network is a statewide group of almost 600 mainstream religious leaders who share a faith that produces a politics of community and compassion not represented by the religious right.

Members seek to promote the positive role of religion in public life through advocacy, community education and clergy training. As part of its mission, the Texas Faith Network sponsors events that focus on religion, politics and society.