HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

Markup on HR 7661, the national book ban legislation, is happening right now: edworkforce.house.gov

Tomorrow at 1PM The Marshall Project is offering a free workshop on book censorship in prisons. Learn more and sign up here:

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Library Legislative Updates, Part 1 Part one of a series exploring the good, the bad, and the downright ugly proposed library bills across the US in 2026. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

HR 7661, the national book ban might actually get out of committee today. If you've already contacted your Reps about it, use this time to prepare for the next stage. You can... 1. Write a letter to the editor 2. Identify potential allies in your community & brainstorm ways to activate them...

Thank you! I made my call and passed the word.

Called my rep, please call yours! (Especially if your rep is on the House Committee on Education and Workforce.)

US peeps! This is effectively a nation-wide book banning bill. Make some noise in Congress!

HR 7661 is scheduled for mark-ups on Tuesday (Tomorrow!) which means there's a good chance it has the votes to get out of committee. Let's use today to turn up the pressure. Call your reps & use these resources to spread the word!

It's looking like the national book ban HR 7661 could get out of committee. The next action around it is on Tuesday, so there's still time. If your Rep is listed below, call them today! Then get two members of your community (neighbor, family friend) to call them too!

If you read the actual text of the bill it seems perfectly boilerplate until the very last line, where it bans any mention of "homosexuality or transgenderism". This is a nazi book burning bill, plain and simple.

It's look like there's a chance this gets out of committee. The next action on it is Tuesday, so set aside some time this weekend to act! More info in the thread!

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 URGENT ACTION ON BOOK BAN LEGISLATION FOR IDAHO. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Please read the full thread. Legislators have proposed yet another bill that would undermine the purpose of libraries statewide, and it would not only eschew the Miller Test, it'd create TWO CLASSES of access.

Authors Against Book Bans is doing such important work!

We're going to beat the national book ban. But we can do more than just beat this one bill. We can use this national moment to show that book bans anywhere are losing policies. For every $100 donated, we can reach 10,000 Americans about this bill. Imagine what we can right now & help make it happen!

AABB Member Kit Rosewater on HB7661

Hey Wisconsin! A pretty bad bill passed the House and is now being considered in the Senate. WI-AB961 would require bookselling websites to put warning labels on books whose content is considered to meet certain arbitrary criteria. The American Booksellers Association has created a resource to help

a small & fun update: I was on @thisqueerbook.com with my friend David Levithan about my love for his book Will Grayson, Will Grayson and our collective love for queer books and the @qtlibrary.org and @authorsabb.bsky.social and more; take a listen! thisqueerbook.com/will-grayson

Have you done this yet Massachusetts friends? It takes only a few seconds. #kidlit #writers #booksky #bookbans

The official day of advocacy may be wrapping up, but that doesn't mean it's too late to send an email to your state rep, especially when we've made it so easy!

Massachusetts! Today @massaabb.bsky.social members are at the State House for a day of advocacy. Contact your reps and watch the 1230 press conference here www.instagram.com/nosycrow?igs...

Idaho! After losing in court, book banning legislation is being reworked to try and win the next court case. How about we make sure that case never happens by beating this new legislation before it passes!

GEORGIA: a quick thing you can do to oppose this horrible book banning bill!! h/t @laurelsnyder.bsky.social & @authorsabb.bsky.social www.allianceforgeorgialibraries.org/oppose_sb74

Want to help raise awareness in your community about the national book ban being considered in the House of Representatives? Print out this one sheet and hang it up in your community:

Let's head into the weekend with some good news out of Wyoming! Legislatures around the country are learning that book bans are losing policy

My take away from this story: Not only do the majority of people want open & accessible libraries, many people will also put in the work to make it happen

CALL YOUR REPS & tell them NO banning books. Period. Ever. This bill will remove ALL trans content from public libraries in the name of keeping kids "safe" from every having to know we exist. Another part of this regime's push to kill all trans people by criminalizing our existence.

Script if you need it: I’m calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I don’t think trans people are controversial. (contin)

This past August, court's overturned Florida's disastrous HB1069. Not only is the decision being appealed, but the argument the state is making, that all books in a public library should be considered "government speech" & thus not subject to 1st amendment protections, would make things worse...

On March 10th, AABB, together with the Mass Freedom to Read Coalition, is hosting a Mass Freedom to Read Advocacy Day at the State House and online. That's 1 week from today! We invite you to participate virtually by...

This is truly the crux of it. It’s not about shielding kids or promoting “traditional values” — it’s about straight up removing options, and the ability to imagine, from their worldview

Book banners are trying to create a world in which no one is able to imagine living lives different from their own

New Yorkers! Have you contacted your governor today!?!?!?

Hey Alabama! A bill passed in your Senate would make it easier for city councils to remove library board members. They'll argue about budgets & accountability, but we know where this going...

For booksellers, the ABA created this form to make it easy to contact your Rep about this terrible bill. www.bookweb.org/advocacy-act...

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

To the people who have said this bill has no chance of passing: it is moving to committee! I DO NOT care if you think it’s impossible to pass! I live in a state where a law like this DID PASS! DON’T BE COMPLACENT AND CALL!!!

URGENT call to those in USA. 1) Look if any of these are your reps. 2) Choose from the talking points on the slide below this one, to tell them to vote NO - and you feel very strongly about this - for HR 7661. Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for more. #BookSky

We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

"These bills aren’t about removing books; books are just one of the tools. These bills are about the complete and total erasure and removal of queer people from American life."

Call your reps

House Republicans have just introduced a bill that would result in a NATIONWIDE book ban. Oh, the bill is also specifically transphobic. Contact your House Rep and ask them to publicly oppose this legislation. A few more thoughts in the thread about this action. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Massachusetts! Mass Freedom to Read is organizing a day of advocacy on March 10th. Make sure to sign up for their newsletter for more info!

Read longtime bookseller, Mitchell Kaplan's editorial opposing new book banning in Florida. If you're in Florida, make sure to contact your representatives to oppose the bills. If not, does your state of have right to read laws? Don't you think it should.

A deep dive into the single organization, the Independence Law Center has become entangled in many Pennsylvania school districts and is driving many book bans and other anti-LGBTIQA+ policies

The New Hampshire Right to Read Coalition is urging lawmakers to reject SB434.

A thread about on ongoing suit in Florida that could have massive free speech & censorship implications. Get informed. Tell your friends.

Hey NYC! I'm co-hosting a fundraiser to benefit @authorsabb.bsky.social on April 29th at Book Club Bar. Come read romance with us and meet your favorite authors including @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, @celestinemartin.bsky.social and Sarah MacLean ❤️ Tickets here: bookclubbar.com/events/46127...