John,

The Texas Freedom Network has been a progressive champion in the state for 30 years. Since its founding, TFN has fought efforts to censor textbooks, opposed private school vouchers and other schemes to dismantle public education, and defended religious freedom from constant attack.

Thanks to your support over the years, our work has expanded to include the battle for LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive freedom, and more, and TFN has become a political home for thousands of activists across the state. 

1995 - Cecile Richards founds TFN. 

1996 - TFN launches the Texas Faith Network to elevate the voices of progressive faith leaders to counter the religious right’s hateful and divisive agenda.

2003 - TFN successfully defends teaching about evolution in a major battle with the religious right at the State Board of Education. 

2005 - TFN and a broad coalition of public education advocates help defeat a massive private school voucher bill in a dramatic showdown in the Texas House of Representatives. The same year, TFN expands its work in support of equality for LGBTQIA+ Texans.

2006 - TFN Education Fund (TFNEF) releases a major report detailing how classes about the Bible in Texas public schools are riddled with factual errors and constitutional problems that undermine the religious freedom of students and their families.

2007 - TFN establishes its first student chapter, the beginning of the organization’s Texas Rising program for Texans ages 18-29. 

2009 - TFNEF releases a first-of-its-kind report on how Texas is failing students and their families in sex education classes in public schools.

2016 - TFN pioneers the Reproductive Freedom Congregations initiative to recognize religious congregations that publicly affirm the right to reproductive freedom, including access to abortion.

2017 - TFN brings its work with progressive Texans of faith in support of reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, and social justice under the banner of Just Texas.

2020 - TFNEF and the National Center for Science Education release a landmark report that grades Texas and every other state across the country on how their public school science standards address teaching about climate change. Texas Rising pushes back against the far right’s efforts to suppress the vote in Texas.

2025 - TFN moves into its fourth decade by reaffirming a commitment to building a Texas that is open and welcoming to all, values public education, and defends church-state separation and true religious freedom.

What comes next is up to you, John.

TFN has never backed down over the last 30 years, and we won’t stop protecting Texans now – no matter what.

Felicia Martin (she/her)
TFN Executive Director and President

TFN is a statewide non-partisan, grassroots organization that is building an informed and effective movement working toward equality and social justice.

Texas Freedom Network
P.O. Box 1624
Austin, TX 78767
United States 
Phone: (512) 322-0545

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