Congressional Freethought Caucus

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So I did it, and the next day on the House floor, Jamie Raskin came up to me, uh, 'cause they broke the story in The Washington Post, and he said, "I think it's great what you did, and I think we should start a coalition to work on church-state separation and fact and reason-based public policy instead of this theocratic stuff." And that was the beginning of what would become the Congressional Freethought Caucus.

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I'm happy to tell you we are now up to thirty-seven members, which is bigger than the Republicans' Freedom Caucus.

Rachel Deitch, our amazing policy and political director, is going to tell you more at her session this afternoon about our strategy that we used to defeat these bills, and specifically how AHA members were involved and how you can be a part of the next wave.

We grew the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which was founded in AHA's conference room with just four members back in 2018, to 37 members.

The Washington Post reported last month it is now larger than the Congressional Freedom Caucus on the far right.

We are building a movement on Capitol Hill together to make sure our voices are heard, our identities are seen, and our values are shared.