Thanks to you, the Texas Freedom Network this week was once again named the best activist organization in the Austin Chronicle‘s “Best of Austin” readers poll! This was our ninth “Best of” award. We’d like to think that even the far right secretly votes for us. Here’s some of what the Chronicle had to say […]
Recent Blogs
Exposing David Barton’s Bad History
David Barton might be a popular speaker in conservative circles and considered a “historian” and “constitutional expert” by politico-entertainers like Glenn Beck and politicians like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But a scholar’s new review of Barton’s American history textbook (yes, he has one) exposes the Texan’s simplistic, selective […]
Gov. Perry’s Pro-Censorship Endorser
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. An extremist pastor walks into a library to destroy public property and when the stunt royally backfires on him, he recruits a member of his congregation to craft an unconstitutional city ordinance that essentially made his church members the morality police and the arbiters of what you […]
Public Schools a ‘Criminal Enterprise’!
Remember when Cynthia Dunbar, then a member of the Texas State Board of Education, wrote that public schools are unconstitutional, “tyrannical” and “a subtly deceptive tool of perversion”? In the three years since then, the religious right’s campaign to undermine public education in America has become only louder. The newest tool in the right’s war […]
Gov. Perry’s History Lesson FAIL
Sounds like Texas Gov. Rick Perry might be taking history lessons from the State Board of Education — you know, the panel that adopted heavily politicized and distorted social studies curriculum standards two years ago. During a post-debate gathering at a Dartmouth frat party (seriously) last night, someone asked Gov. Perry about states’ rights. His […]
