American Atheists is looking for a National Field Organizer. Fully remote, salary $45-50k, benefits include unlimited paid sick leave; more than 30 days of vacation and holiday leave (including a week-long summer holiday, service and volunteer leave, 3+ weeks of self-directed vacation, and other leave categories); 401(k) with 3% employer match; fully employer-funded comprehensive health and…
Dear Friend, Just when you thought things couldn’t get more surreal, this past week’s headlines proved otherwise. The top stories ranged from the alarming to the absurd. Here’s what happened: President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum on Thursday targeting U.S. nonprofit organizations that his administration has called a “radical left-wing domestic terror network.” It empowers multiple…
Dear Friend, This week we celebrate an anniversary — 238 years since our U.S. Constitution was signed — by sounding an alarm: The First Amendment is under attack. While the White House issued a proclamation about “upholding our constitutional heritage,” the same administration that promised on Day One to “restore free speech” spent Constitution Week doing the opposite: waging…
Dear Friend, On Monday, the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) met for a second time at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., though it was less a meeting and more a monologue by President Trump. Among his most alarming remarks: “We will protect the Judeo-Christian principles of our [nation’s] founding.” “We have to bring back…
Dear Friend, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming hormone therapy for young people can remain on the books. This decision will no doubt embolden politicians in hostile states trying to ban transgender health care, abortion, and more. The ruling doesn’t affect New York’s strong protections for trans people and their right…
Dear Friend, In case you missed it, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the Sunshine State is aiming to become the first in the nation to repeal all vaccine requirements, likening them to “slavery.” Ladapo, who personally manipulated a 2022 scientific study, has called increasing vaccine resistance “reflections of God’s light against the darkness of tyranny…