Dear Friend, This week, American Atheists released the seventh annual edition of our State of the Secular States report. We found that religious equality is under threat in half of the states. If you haven’t checked this publication out before, now’s the perfect time to do so. Are lawmakers in your state protecting your constitutional…
Hi folks! Today we launched the 2025 State of the Secular States Report! You have probably already gotten an email about it but here is the press release if you missed it! I could use your help getting the word out to your members and connections, The easiest way for most of you to do…
Dear Friend, Together, we are hitting the ground running in 2025. Thanks to the financial support of our members, we are launching the 2025 State of the Secular States report today. With this easy-to-use tool, activists like you and lawmakers in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and DC can quickly assess which issues are…
Dear Friend, Our human brains are wired to love a temporal milestone. Millions of us use the occasion of a new year as a reset button, resolving to improve x, y, or z. And yet, studies show most of us will have abandoned even our best-intentioned goals as early as February. So, over the past…
Dear Friend, Maybe you’re like me, and you have to think twice to figure out what day of the week it is today. (Spoiler: it’s Wednesday.) (I think.) January 1st. If you’re concerned that you’ve missed the year-end donation deadline, I have good news for you. Only about ten percent of taxpayers itemize, and the…
Dear Friend, At the end of the year, many of us step back and take stock of the last twelve months. Were there challenges, and how did we face them? Are there things to celebrate, and things to avoid in the future? How well did the year align with our view of the world and…
Dear Friend, The holiday season can be a difficult time for many. It’s all too common for members of our secular community to face alienation, estrangement, or other difficulties with their families. When we conducted the largest scientific survey of secular Americans, we found nearly one in three of us mostly or always conceal our…
Dear Friend, Maybe today is just a Thursday for you, maybe it is Boxing Day where you live. Could be that you celebrated a holiday with friends and family, or maybe you sat it out and did something entirely you this week. Either way, we hope you had a wonderful time. Here at American Atheists,…
Dear Friend, In case you’ve already begun Dead Week, that year-end period where nothing counts and time loses all meaning, allow me to remind you that today is the Winter Solstice! The sun is low, and the night is long. Now, there’s a couple ways to interpret this. By far the cheerier tradition is to…
Dear Friend, It’s our favorite time of year: the War on Christmas™©®. Are your muskets loaded, your feet nice and dry? Excellent, Soldier, as you were. While the religious right continues to promote a narrative over some imagined war on a pagan holiday, we here at American Atheists know how to walk and chew gum…