The Texas Senate is moving quickly to ram through a private school voucher scheme in the special legislative session. We have to act now in support of public education and our neighborhood public schools. […]
Recent Actions
URGENT: It’s Anti-LGBT Discrimination Day at the Capitol
Things have moved incredibly fast at the Texas Legislature in the last 24 hours, with both the House and the Senate meeting today and likely taking up anti-LGBT measures. Your action is needed ASAP. We ask you to please make calls to your state representatives and state senators on these issues: Call Your State Representative […]
Work for TFN: Regional Field Organizer (Houston)
The Texas Freedom Network, a statewide, nonprofit organization seeks a full-time Regional Field Organizer. The Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of religious and community leaders that advances a mainstream agenda supporting public education, religious freedom and civil liberties. […]
Power was taken away from the SBOE in 1995. Let’s keep it that way.
Far-right Texas State Board of Education members have been carrying a grudge since 1995. That’s the year legislators said “enough!” and passed a law to limit the board’s ability to censor textbook content, like the science of evolution. Activists on and off the board have been mad at that change ever since. This year, they’re […]
TAKE ACTION: Stop Cruel Fetal Burial Bill
SB 8, a cruel and unnecessary anti-abortion bill, which has already passed in the Texas Senate, could be voted on by the Texas House as soon as this Friday, May 19. According to our friends at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, this bill would “ban the donation of fetal tissue from abortion clinics for research purposes and […]
