FUNDING EXTREMISM
Billionaire, evangelical GOP megadonors like Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks, and Dan Wilks have channeled tens of millions of dollars into far-right campaigns — quietly pulling Texas further and further to the extreme right.
LEGISLATING HATE
Far-right extremists use their religious views as a tool to discriminate against and attack LGBTQIA+ Texans, restrict access to abortion and other essential reproductive healthcare, and target other communities.
TARGETING STUDENTS
The religious right continually imposes a narrow-minded belief system in our classrooms, most recently by sneaking Bible stories into curricula, allowing religious chaplains in schools, and censoring books and lessons.
TFN’s Religious Freedom Advocacy
TFN’s Reports and Research
As a respected thought leader and watchdog of the religious right, TFN keeps a growing library of original research on a wide range of church-state issues — especially on the intersection of religious freedom and public education.
- Turning Texas Public Schools into Sunday Schools? A Review of the State’s Proposed K-5 Reading Curriculum (2024 report)
- Can This Class Be Saved? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Public School Bible Curriculum (2014 report)
- Reading, Writing & Religion II (2013 report)
- Reading, Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (2006 report)