Texas Freedom to Read Project
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
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It feels good to have a voice! Proposed reading list for Texas students draws concern over religious themes, lack of diversity www.texastribune.org/2026/01/28/t... @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @frankstrong.bsky.social
Texas Board of Education delays vote on reading list
Faced with a proposed list of almost 300 readings for K-12 students, the State Board of Education delayed a vote until its meetings in April.
www.texastribune.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM
It feels good to have a voice! Proposed reading list for Texas students draws concern over religious themes, lack of diversity www.texastribune.org/2026/01/28/t... @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @frankstrong.bsky.social
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BIG UPDATE: The State Board of Education decided NOT to vote on this awful reading list until April, pending feedback from teachers and community members. This is a temporary, partial, but very real victory! They listened to us!
Urgent call to action, Texans: we need to write to our State Board of Education members and tell them NOT to adopt the proposed required reading list they’re considering at the the end of the month. It is BAD. I wrote about why here: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/call-to-ac...
Call to Action: The State Board of Education is considering a list of required readings. It's bad.
We need your help to stop it.
franklinstrong.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 AM
BIG UPDATE: The State Board of Education decided NOT to vote on this awful reading list until April, pending feedback from teachers and community members. This is a temporary, partial, but very real victory! They listened to us!
Y’all- have you contacted the SBOE yet?
Email [email protected] and tell them what you think about the state’s plan to mandate Bible stories written by “The State of Texas.”
Email [email protected] and tell them what you think about the state’s plan to mandate Bible stories written by “The State of Texas.”
Officials cite the need for a ‘common literary canon’ for mandating lessons such as the parable of the Prodigal Son.
@lrj417.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/most...
@lrj417.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/most...
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Y’all- have you contacted the SBOE yet?
Email [email protected] and tell them what you think about the state’s plan to mandate Bible stories written by “The State of Texas.”
Email [email protected] and tell them what you think about the state’s plan to mandate Bible stories written by “The State of Texas.”
Meanwhile they’ve banned Kipling’s The Jungle Book and The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer to “comply with HB 900.” 🤔
At a board meeting Monday night, the North East ISD board weighed updating their cellphone ban policy but ultimately punted on a decision until a future meeting.
North East ISD could fight state in court over student cellphone ban
At a board meeting Monday night, the North East ISD board weighed updating their cellphone ban policy but ultimately punted on a decision until a future meeting.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Meanwhile they’ve banned Kipling’s The Jungle Book and The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer to “comply with HB 900.” 🤔
🚨Call to Action, Texans we need your voices! 🚨TEA & The SBOE want to mandate what all TX school children MUST read, and the book list is out of touch with TX students & families. It was clearly created to stifle certain ideas & voices & funnel students toward a narrow tightly controlled worldview.
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
🚨Call to Action, Texans we need your voices! 🚨TEA & The SBOE want to mandate what all TX school children MUST read, and the book list is out of touch with TX students & families. It was clearly created to stifle certain ideas & voices & funnel students toward a narrow tightly controlled worldview.
Timely considering the Conroe ISD (TX) school board will consider a formal challenge to Brad Meltzer’s “I am Billie Jean King” Tuesday night.
“Use the word frozen. Use whatever word you want. But I promise you this, that if you're cheering when books are being pulled off the shelf, you will eventually be revealed as the bad guy in the story every single time.”
www.wusf.org/the-florida-...
www.wusf.org/the-florida-...
Author and children's show producer Brad Meltzer on 'book bans,' empathy and 'cruel culture'
Florida resident Brad Meltzer joined "The Florida Roundup" to talk about affordability, "frozen" books, kindness and more. He is a top-selling author and an executive producer of a PBS Kids show.
www.wusf.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Timely considering the Conroe ISD (TX) school board will consider a formal challenge to Brad Meltzer’s “I am Billie Jean King” Tuesday night.
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From a book challenge in Conroe ISD:
Q: For what age group would you recommend this resource?
A: MAYBE a mature high school age
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Q: For what age group would you recommend this resource?
A: MAYBE a mature high school age
🤦♂️
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
From a book challenge in Conroe ISD:
Q: For what age group would you recommend this resource?
A: MAYBE a mature high school age
🤦♂️
Q: For what age group would you recommend this resource?
A: MAYBE a mature high school age
🤦♂️
On today’s episode of pRoTeCt tHe ChiLdReN:
Check out this Conroe ISD formal book challenge to “I am Billie Jean King” by @bradmeltzer.com
Complaint: May result in “Aggressive gender equality and heterosexuality.”
🤔🤨🧐
Check out this Conroe ISD formal book challenge to “I am Billie Jean King” by @bradmeltzer.com
Complaint: May result in “Aggressive gender equality and heterosexuality.”
🤔🤨🧐
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
On today’s episode of pRoTeCt tHe ChiLdReN:
Check out this Conroe ISD formal book challenge to “I am Billie Jean King” by @bradmeltzer.com
Complaint: May result in “Aggressive gender equality and heterosexuality.”
🤔🤨🧐
Check out this Conroe ISD formal book challenge to “I am Billie Jean King” by @bradmeltzer.com
Complaint: May result in “Aggressive gender equality and heterosexuality.”
🤔🤨🧐
142 books. Gone. Like that. 🫰💔
This week Katy ISD posted a list of 142 books (100 or so previously flagged for “gender fluidity” review) now banned from classroom and campus libraries, to “remain in compliance with Senate Bill 12 and Senate Bill 13.”
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
January 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
142 books. Gone. Like that. 🫰💔
This week Katy ISD posted a list of 142 books (100 or so previously flagged for “gender fluidity” review) now banned from classroom and campus libraries, to “remain in compliance with Senate Bill 12 and Senate Bill 13.”
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
This week Katy ISD posted a list of 142 books (100 or so previously flagged for “gender fluidity” review) now banned from classroom and campus libraries, to “remain in compliance with Senate Bill 12 and Senate Bill 13.”
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
Source: www.katyisd.org/instructiona...
Remember when they told us they were only interested in removing (ie censoring) books that are “obscene” and “harmful” to children?
They lied. 😑
They lied. 😑
PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Remember when they told us they were only interested in removing (ie censoring) books that are “obscene” and “harmful” to children?
They lied. 😑
They lied. 😑
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Texas worked hard to take the lead in book bans in 2025. I'm grateful @frankstrong.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social work so hard to make these quiet bans public.
And, even with all their work, this reckoning is a vast under-count.
Primaries are in March. Are you registered to vote?
And, even with all their work, this reckoning is a vast under-count.
Primaries are in March. Are you registered to vote?
I made an interactive map! This is a look at the effects Tx book-banning laws have had just *since the end of last school year*. I made it because it's easy to hear a shocking story about a book ban and then forget it and lose the larger picture.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26 - Google My Maps
Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26
www.google.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Texas worked hard to take the lead in book bans in 2025. I'm grateful @frankstrong.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social work so hard to make these quiet bans public.
And, even with all their work, this reckoning is a vast under-count.
Primaries are in March. Are you registered to vote?
And, even with all their work, this reckoning is a vast under-count.
Primaries are in March. Are you registered to vote?
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I love this story of real parents pushing back against out-of-town book banners in San Marcos, Texas. It also has a message on the power of persistence to bring into 2026.
substack.com/@franklinstr...
substack.com/@franklinstr...
Frank Strong (@franklinstrong)
substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I love this story of real parents pushing back against out-of-town book banners in San Marcos, Texas. It also has a message on the power of persistence to bring into 2026.
substack.com/@franklinstr...
substack.com/@franklinstr...
Learn how one teeny, tiny, very specific line in SB 13 is helping SLACs vote to KEEP books in Texas schools. Despite the book banners best efforts.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Learn how one teeny, tiny, very specific line in SB 13 is helping SLACs vote to KEEP books in Texas schools. Despite the book banners best efforts.
Required reading for today. This whole thread. 👇🏻
You may remember that in August, the Middle District Court of Florida ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit over book bans in the state. He said none of the books were obscene: bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Required reading for today. This whole thread. 👇🏻
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, & Successes Over The Year.
Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social
bookriot.com/book-censors...
Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social
bookriot.com/book-censors...
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
bookriot.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, & Successes Over The Year.
Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social
bookriot.com/book-censors...
Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social
bookriot.com/book-censors...
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🎬 I recently attended a screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social organized by @txnsdd.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social
📣 Everyone needs to watch this & challenge themselves to think critically about WHY this is happening!
📣 Everyone needs to watch this & challenge themselves to think critically about WHY this is happening!
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🎬 I recently attended a screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social organized by @txnsdd.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social
📣 Everyone needs to watch this & challenge themselves to think critically about WHY this is happening!
📣 Everyone needs to watch this & challenge themselves to think critically about WHY this is happening!
2 steps you can take to support the fight for the freedom to read in Victoria, TX.
1) Show up & speak out to defend the freedom to read at the Victoria, TX City Council Meeting. Tuesday, December 16. 5PM.
2) Sign & share this this petition.
www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/th...
1) Show up & speak out to defend the freedom to read at the Victoria, TX City Council Meeting. Tuesday, December 16. 5PM.
2) Sign & share this this petition.
www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/th...
Stop book bans in Victoria, Texas: They don’t speak for us
Removing and banning books of any topic is censorship; plain and simple. We cannot allow books to be removed because it creates a slippery slope. This is a PUBLIC library paid for by taxpayers, and th...
www.fightforthefirst.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
2 steps you can take to support the fight for the freedom to read in Victoria, TX.
1) Show up & speak out to defend the freedom to read at the Victoria, TX City Council Meeting. Tuesday, December 16. 5PM.
2) Sign & share this this petition.
www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/th...
1) Show up & speak out to defend the freedom to read at the Victoria, TX City Council Meeting. Tuesday, December 16. 5PM.
2) Sign & share this this petition.
www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/th...
Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
A Children’s Book, a Packed Library, and a Community Standing for the Right to Read
An eyewitness account on the recent Salado, Texas library board meeting.
www.txftrp.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
Censorship strikes at the heart of who we want to be. YES. 💯💯💯
Censorship isn't a niche issue to be grappled with by a few librarians, parents & children's authors. It strikes at the heart of who we want to be as a people and threatens our human inclination to explore & inquire, to engage with science, history, the arts and the truth and, ultimately,
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Censorship strikes at the heart of who we want to be. YES. 💯💯💯
Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to take up Little v. Llano County, allowing the en-banc decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stand.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
SCOTUS Denies Petition to Hear Texas Book Banning Case
After the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County last May, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to hear the case, in which a Texas library removed bo...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to take up Little v. Llano County, allowing the en-banc decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stand.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Props to everyone who organized and showed up in Salado to defend the freedom to read on Monday. We heard attendees were kind & respectful (on both “sides”) & that the library board seemed genuinely responsive to the community. Well done!
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@kylelukoff.bsky.social 🫶
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@kylelukoff.bsky.social 🫶
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Salado Public Library board keeps book about transgender child on shelves following crowded meeting
SALADO — Salado Public Library District Board of Trustees members again voted to retain a challenged book in the library collection just months after keeping a dark romance novel on
kdhnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Props to everyone who organized and showed up in Salado to defend the freedom to read on Monday. We heard attendees were kind & respectful (on both “sides”) & that the library board seemed genuinely responsive to the community. Well done!
💙📚
@kylelukoff.bsky.social 🫶
kdhnews.com/news/region/...
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@kylelukoff.bsky.social 🫶
kdhnews.com/news/region/...
The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.
“iT’s nOt a BoOk BaN bEcaUse YoU cAn GeT iT fRoM thE pUbLiC LiBraRy!”
So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔
victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...
So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔
victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...
Request Sparks Book Removals at Victoria Public Library - The Victoria Advocate
The Victoria Public Library removed a large number of books from a list provided by the VPBC following the organization’s request.
victoriaadvocate.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.