Stand Up for Science!

Evolution is under fire as the State Board of Education revises curriculum standards for all public school science classes in Texas. Creationists on the state board have already made it clear that weakening instruction on evolution is a priority. Support a sound education for Texas students by joining the Stand Up for Science campaign.

Learn more about the Stand Up for Science campaign.
Learn more about the state board's creationist chairman, Don McLeroy.
Watch McLeroy's recent interview on Texas Monthly Talks.

SAVE THE DATE!

Don’t miss the Texas Freedom Network’s 13th Annual Celebration in Austin on Saturday, October 4. This incredible event features live music, one the best silent auctions in town, a special award ceremony, delicious catering by local restaurants and much, much more.

 Click here for more information about the event.

Texas GOP Platform: An Exercise in Extremism

The religious right is reeling from electoral and other setbacks across the nation over the past two years. Yet you wouldn’t know that by reading the 2008 platform of the Republican Party of Texas. Religious extremists at the party’s convention this year demonstrated that they still have a stranglehold on the state GOP.

Learn more.

The State of the Religious Right:
Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars

In the early 1990s, the religious right began a long process of turning a sleepy corner of Texas government -- the State Board of Education -- into a major battleground in the nation’s culture wars. The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund's third annual report on the religious right in Texas focuses on the state board and public education.

Read the 2008 State of the Religious Right report.
Read other annual reports about the religious right in Texas politics.

Pulling the Curtain Back on the Texas Restoration Project

The Texas Freedom Network has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a private foundation improperly funded the Texas Restoration Project’s efforts to drag churches into Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign in 2006. Groups modeled on the Texas Restoration Project have now cropped up in other presidential battleground states as well. Events hosted by these groups prominently featured former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

 Read TFN's press release.
 Read more.

TFN Newsletter

Read about TFN's efforts to promote a quality public education for all Texas schoolchildren and to expose secretive political groups pushing the limits in tax and election laws. The Winter 2008 newsletter also includes a special pull-out Stand Up for Science Activist Toolkit.

 Winter 2008 newsletter
 Stand Up for Science Activist Toolkit pull-out section
 TFN newsletter archive