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Most Americans believe the country is in danger of losing important democratic rights and freedoms; Republicans remain evenly divided on the issue. (@prri.org) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260618

Check out my latest CEO Corner piece that takes a closer look at what @prri.org 's latest survey reveals about Gen Z as we are gearing up to celebrate the nation's 250th Anniversary. The data reveal that Gen Z is losing faith in America. prri.substack.com/p/americas-2...

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Happy to talk with with Newsweek about our latest finding that Pope Leo is far more popular than President Trump. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump....

Check out my latest CEO Corner piece that takes a closer look at what @prri.org 's latest survey reveals about Gen Z as we are gearing up to celebrate the nation's 250th Anniversary. The data reveal that Gen Z is losing faith in America. prri.substack.com/p/americas-2...

A sobering 250th: Almost 60% of Americans think Trump is a "dangerous dictator".

@prri.org just released a new survey report that considers Americans' views on patriotism and American identity, among other things. Here are 5 top takeaways from the report. prri.org/research/com...

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

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Happy to be featured in this @newsweek.com article by @bysamstevenson.bsky.social, which unpacks our findings from our latest survey report. www.newsweek.com/americans-le...

As America turns 250, seven in ten Americans (68%) say we're in real danger of losing important democratic rights and freedoms—more than double the 29% who feel those freedoms are secure. Majorities across every religious tradition share this concern. #PRRI

This is interesting because white Catholics had been getting close to being a core Trump constituency.

Once again, white evangelical Protestants, Trump’s base, are on an island by themselves.

Can’t wait to look at this report later today from one of my favorite polling organizations.

@prri.org just released a new survey report that considers Americans' views on patriotism and American identity, among other things. Here are 5 top takeaways from the report. prri.org/research/com...

It was only a matter of time before evangelicals gave us a De-Suffrage Movement. "I Would Give Up My Right To Vote" open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Was it a strategic failure? Yes But was it a tactical failure? Yes But was it also wildly illegal under domestic law & blatantly unconstitutional? Also yes But did it violate international law & the UN Charter? Alas, also yes The Kakistocrats!

This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

In case you missed it, @prri.org 's held its first Substack Live! Here, I discuss PRRI's most recent data with respect to Trump's favorability among Americans, with @robertpjones.bsky.social and @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social . substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention moved toward passing a ban on women teaching scripture or preaching to congregations--raising the stakes on a contentious issue that had prompted the exit of multiple congregations from the nation’s largest Protestant group. apnews.com/article/sout...

Tragic

ICE detained people at my kid's school today, shaking him so much that he begged me to bring him home, but to bring his passport so he could prove he's an American. They are coming for us all. And now my kid knows. I hate this. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

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This entire, miserable political party is so hyper-fixated on attacking trans people that even when they face a straight, white male like James Talarico, they don't know how to do anything except to pretend he's transgender

To kick off PRRI’s Day of Giving, Senior Democracy Fellow @jemartisby.bsky.social shares how PRRI makes public opinion data accessible to scholars and thought leaders. Help us keep the data behind the headlines free, rigorous, and independent. Support our work: prri.org/data-democra...

BREAKING NEW RESEARCH: There is now only a single major religious group (guess which!) with a majority still holding a favorable view of President Donald Trump. @melissadeckman.bsky.social , @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social and I unpack the new @prri.org data. www.redeemingdemocracy.net/p/trumps-fav...

"For nearly two decades, PRRI has been guided by a core conviction: any understanding of American public opinion is incomplete without a religious lens." - @melissadeckman.bsky.social Read more: open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/w...

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Today, I'm thinking about the fact that 50% of mainline Protestants polled by PRRI were OK with undocumented people being sent to internment camps until they can be deported. What a failure of discipleship. It's a shocking number. So much work to do in churches. prri.org/research/the...

This is a powerful and thoughtful piece from @gerardomarti.bsky.social making use of some important @prri.org This moment with Platner is in many ways a moral reckoning, as Gerardo reminds us. gerardomarti.substack.com/p/the-democr...

JUST POSTED We're all thinking on this, while Platner contests allegations. For secular progressives, excusing him does not simply mean overlooking personal failings. It means deciding whether the principles they regard as most important should yield when political stakes become sufficiently high.

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Our new report finds that two-thirds of the transgender parents we surveyed reported that their children were more anxious or fearful as a result of the Trump administration. Read the full report at tinyurl.com/Trans-Parent-Challenges

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

One in three Americans (33%) hold favorable views of ICE officers, down 6 percentage points from 39% in September 2025. Read more in today's Morning Buzz:

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

This reminds me a lot of Obama 2006. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Check out this great conversation from @janellewong.bsky.social and @brownphdgirl.bsky.social on the state of Asian American politics today. goodauthority.substack.com/p/how-asian-...

Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism. There's not been a public theological contest like this since the Scopes Monkey trail.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

RIP the Late Show 📺 Is the era of late-night tv dying, too? Chatted about some of the most notable political moments in late-night comedy with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social yesterday, and added some thoughts in a post here. open.substack.com/pub/meredith...

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*Open Call for Fellows* Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 PRRI Public Fellows program! Learn more and apply by Friday, June 19, 2026: prri.org/open-call/

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.