Come help us celebrate at the Texas Freedom Network’s 15th anniversary gala tonight at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. We’ll have music, silent and live auctions, appetizers and a cash bar. The event is 7-10 p.m. at 1800 Congress, a few blocks north of the state Capitol. (Directions to the museum […]
Recent Blogs
New SBOE Campaign Finance Reports
According to new campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, two Democratic candidates are ahead of their Republican opponents in the money race in two key Texas State Board of Education elections on Nov. 2. Candidates have filed reports for campaign donations and expenditures for the period from July 1 to September 23. […]
Group: ‘Textbook Approval Is Power’
We told you yesterday how the old warhorse of the right-wing censorship movement in Texas, Educational Research Analysts, works to intimidate publishers and promote a divisive ideological agenda in public school textbooks. As we reported, the group’s July newsletter called for the Texas State Board of Education to reject textbooks that are allegedly anti-Christian and […]
Do Republicans Hate Christianity?
That seems to be a fair question. After all, a number of Republicans continue to praise the Texas State Board of Education‘s passage last month of a resolution criticizing social textbooks for — allegedly — being anti-Christian and pro-Islamic. In fact, here is Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van, echoing the claims made by Republican […]
Behind the Textbook ‘Culture Wars’
More than a few people have wondered who really authored the inflammatory anti-Muslim resolution the Texas State Board of Education passed in September. Randy Rives, a failed state board candidate from Odessa, asked the board in July to pass the resolution. Rives has told reporters that he and his wife wrote the resolution and combed […]
