Through public school, homeschooling during the pandemic, and now online school, 14-year-old Austinite Abdurahman has had at least one constant in his education: parents who taught him to be an inquisitive and deep thinker. They are raising him to critically analyze information rather than accept it at face value. When he heard about the proposed […]
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Mom Advocates to Preserve History
When Kiyomi Beach decided to dive into advocacy, she asked herself how she could contribute in a way that allowed her to speak from her own lived and personal experience. She knew someone who was serving as a work group member providing feedback on a new social studies curriculum to content advisors appointed by members […]
Governor, We Need to Talk About Discrimination
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he’s protecting Texans from religious discrimination. Then, in the same breath, he told Fox News which religions don’t matter. Abbott recently threatened to pull grant funding from the DFW International Airport after it revealed plans to add Islamic ablution stations for pre-prayer washing. He made the same threat against Houston’s […]
Far Right Watch: Tim Dunn
West Texas billionaire oilman and lay minister Timothy (Tim) Dunn is a West Texas billionaire oilman and lay minister. Fellow Republicans have called him one of the “most powerful men in Texas politics” and likened him to a Russian oligarch. He has helped push Texas politics to the far right through sizable donations to right-wing […]
What is Christian Nationalism?
While first coined in the 1940s, over the past decade, Christian Nationalism has become increasingly more common in American discourse. You might have recently heard it used by a politician during a rally or a pundit on the news. Perhaps even at your church by a pastor or friend. So, what is Christian Nationalism? Christian […]
