The Trump Administration's Department of Education just released new "guidance" about prayer and religious expression in public schools. Our legal director's view? It's bad. It's ridiculous. It's absurd. And it's exactly what we should expect from the White Christian Nationalist movement.

"No one should have to die or disappear for lawmakers to uphold their oath to the Constitution. All people of conscience — of all religions and none — who believe in the rule of law, in democracy, and in the dignity of all people, must speak out." Contact your Senators NOW. Link in statement.

240 years after Jefferson’s Virginia Statute was enacted, Christian Nationalists want you to think religious freedom is a privilege just for them. We're setting the record straight: It's always been for all of us. In honor of National Religious Freedom Day, support our work at atheists.org/donate

Mike Johnson calls church-state separation a "misnomer." JD Vance claims the U.S. is "a Christian nation." What's the record really show? And what's at stake in 2026 and beyond? Find out tonight, on the eve of National Religious Freedom Day, from speaker, author, and historian Steven K. Green!

Join us this Thursday at 8 PM ET for the first of our "America: Beyond 250" speaker series! This virtual event will feature author, renowned historian, and one of the nation's leading experts on church-state separation, Professor Steven K. Green. Don't miss it. Register at atheists.org/beyond250

For some of us, the holiday season is rife with challenges. We're working to build a future where nonreligious Americans can live freely and authentically without fear. Building inclusive communities is life-saving work. Help us end the stigma today at atheists.org/community

We're proud to support over 230+ affiliate groups. Last year, we gave out thousands of $$$ in grants to local partners like @atheistsunited.bsky.social, which distributes food and other critical supplies to people in need. No religious strings attached 🚫🧵 Give what you can @ atheists.org/community

Memo to Mike Johnson and his White Christian Nationalist ilk: We march not because we hate America but because we hate what they're doing to America.

We're all we've got. And we're all we need. #NoKings

No Gods, No Kings, No Petty Tyrants. Not today, not ever. #NoKings

The reality is that No Kings has partners of all faiths and none. Plus veterans, LGBTQ orgs, environmental advocates, and good government groups. The protests look like the real America — not the homogeneous, ahistorical America Johnson and his ilk want for us (and are desperate to pretend existed).

And Barrasso, the #2 Senate Republican, chose to single out American Atheists in his floor speech Thursday attacking #NoKings as an implicit endorsement of the Christian Nationalist worldview that atheists are inherently un-American.

Great endorsement of #AmericanAtheists @atheists.org Someone should send a thank you note!

Nick Fish of @atheists.org says his group is a #NoKings sponsor but not leading it in any meaningful sense. "The simple presence of atheists, to some of these people, is viewed an un-American. There's nothing more American than protesting our leaders and demanding better."

According to Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY), the "No Kings" rallies are being led by "far-left activists" like #ResistTrump and... American Atheists.

What a trash headline. Employees could ALWAYS pray in the workplace. This memo allows coercive proselytizing, potentially creating hostile work environments for rank-and-file staff when their supervisor starts trying to "persuade [them] of the correctness of their own religious views."

Such a bizarre and short-sighted decision. @recoveringfromreligion.org does incredibly valuable work for folks working to heal from very real trauma. It's baffling why St. John's Pride would go out of its way to stigmatize the 50%+ of LGBTQ+ people who are nonreligious. (via @friendlyatheist.com)

249 years ago, the world's first secular democratic republic was founded by freethinking skeptics, its Declaration drafted by a so-called "howling atheist." Today, we remember our roots, and we fight in the great American tradition against the establishment of religion and "tyranny over the mind."

Sick of politicians praying instead of policymaking? Same. We aren't waiting for miracles. Real change happens when regular people show up, stand up, and demand better. Join us! Head to atheists.org/notachuch, become a member for $5/month, and we'll send you stuff 📫

Be like Wil ♥️ Less doomscrolling 🔥 More doing ✊ Visit atheists.org/notachurch Become a monthly member for just $5! Join Wil and thousands of nonreligious Americans standing up for the separation of church and state in their communities. (look for a group near you at atheists.org/affiliates)

Visit atheists.org/notachurch TODAY to become a monthly member of #AmericanAtheists for just $5/month and stand with thousands of nonreligious Americans fighting for REAL religious freedom, not Christian Nationalist control. PLUS: We'll send you a copy of Citizen Lobbyist and a #NotAChurch sticker!

🚨 STARTING TODAY: Visit atheists.org/notachurch to become a member of American Atheists for just $5/month! 📫 PLUS: We’ll send you a #NotAChurch sticker and a *signed* copy of Amanda Knief’s book, Citizen Lobbyist!

Today's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor is yet another assault on our nation's education system, part of the White Christian Nationalist Movement's decades-long project to destroy secular public schools.

Make no mistake: this is an all out attack on our nation's public schools, allowing an extreme few to veto any lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs. It won't stop at LGBTQ characters in books.

20+ interfaith, civil rights, and community-based organizations who joined us, @americansunited.bsky.social , and @interfaithalliance.org in denouncing @repmarymiller.bsky.social ’s harmful, anti-Sikh statement from earlier this month.

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism. Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

We stand in solidarity with our friends at @atheists.org & humanists across the globe. It's ridiculous and deeply embarrassing that our home - one of the first countries to constitutionally guarantee the right to free speech - is now considered an unsafe place for religious minorities to gather.

An important announcement about the 2026 World Humanist Congress that American Atheists was scheduled to host in Washington, D.C.

Our president @nickfish.me and director of grassroots organizing @samjmcguire.bsky.social are at today's meeting.

Glad to be here representing @atheists.org alongside friends from @americansunited.bsky.social, @americanhumanist.bsky.social, @ffrf.org, @interfaithalliance.org and other advocates who care about actually protecting religious pluralism.

I'm at the Presidential Commission on Religious Freedom and... Yikes. An assemblage of Christian Nationalism, fake history, slander of nonreligious people, and outright Christian Supremacy.

I spoke to @nickfish.me, president of @atheists.org, about the ordinary Americans coming together to fight white Christian nationalism

NEW: After my last report on the National Prayer Breakfast, America’s biggest secular groups tell me they've had it with members of Congress still involved. Bottom line: They’re calling out participants, even Democrats, as unpatriotic…

Today's split decision allowing the OK Supreme Court's ruling to stand is a stark reminder of the knife's edge that religious freedom — contrasted with exclusionary White Christian Nationalism — and public education are balancing on in America.

The court got it right: It's unconstitutional to fund religious schools with taxpayer dollars. But Christian Nationalists won't stop here, and neither will we. We'll keep fighting to defend the First Amendment against revisionists and religious supremacists. www.atheists.org/2025/05/athe...

A hateful thing to say. People whose approach to life is not faith-based have done enormous good, majority non-religious societies have been some of the strongest proponents of human dignity and solidarity. Why is the BBC just printed this unchallenged? If it's "news", it should be balanced.

Proud of the work of secular advocates and partners in WA who took on this issue and fought to make it happen. We have to fight to stop the bad laws while ALSO working to advance good policy.

No, we really shouldn't.

We're so tired.

Okay this is more blasphemous than anything we could possibly say

More photos from #AACon2025. I look forward to this event every year for good reason. Thank you @atheists.org and everyone that made it such a terrific convention! #community #secular #empathy #separationofchurchandstate

I received an award this weekend, a recognition, alongside some other folks whose activism, organizing, mutual care, and policy work I look to in awe and for inspiration. It's taken a little bit to process this, plus, you know, I still had two days of photography to finish! @atheists.org #AACon2025

Thank you @atheists.org for seeing our work in Houston and in Texas. The fight against #ChristianNationalism continues. #AACon2025

Happening right now. Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison having a discussion with American Atheists President, Nick Fish. #AACON2025

Dominating pub trivia at #AACon2025 is team Bertrand Wrastle. (Thanks to Heath for the name.)

AG Keith Ellison at American Atheists Convention in Minneapolis. Love it. 💜✊ #AACon25

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THERE'S A GIANT DOG AT #AACON2025

1) We don't need god. 2) We don't want god. 3) We don't need any supernatural help to make our nation any of those things.

No, you're not seeing double. We just filed YET ANOTHER Supreme Court brief in a second case that threatens our nation's secular public schools. With the Christian Nationalist movement hell-bent on destroying public education, it's up to all of us to save our schools. And we won't stop fighting.

Yesterday, we led a coalition of secular groups urging the Supreme Court to make it crystal clear that a religious charter school cannot be funded with taxpayer money. Grateful to have @americanhumanist.bsky.social, @secularstudents.bsky.social, Center for Inquiry, and Secular Coalition join us.