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Hi  John,
 
The Freethought Equality Fund, the political action committee of the Center for Freethought Equality, has 11 outstanding endorsed candidates[[link removed]] in Texas on the general election ballot.
 
However, the only member of the Texas legislature who identifies with our community, Jon Rosenthal (TX-135), is in a very tight re-election campaign. Please help him return to the Texas State House with a generous donation[[link removed]].
 
We also have three members of our community, Alec Johnson, Andrew Rose, and Michael Robert Walsh, who are seeking to join Jon by replacing Republican incumbents in the Texas State House. All these candidates deserve our support for their efforts in promoting evidence-based public policy and diminishing the bias against our community. Please support these candidates -- their campaign websites and donation links are below as are their bios. You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
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Jon Rosenthal - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Alec Johnson - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]] Andrew Rose - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]]
Michael Walsh - campaign website[[link removed]] - donation page[[link removed]]
 
Jon Rosenthal[[link removed]] is running for re-election to the Texas State House in District 135. Rosenthal is an engineer by training so he is “driven to find reasonable, data-driven solutions to the challenges our communities face.” Jon was named Freshman of the Year by the Legislative Study Group, a nonpartisan policy analysis caucus of the Texas House. He is a progressive public official focusing on policies to benefit all of Texas such as making public schools a state priority by increasing education funding, valuing and supporting teachers, and revising public school testing and evaluation systems. Rosenthal argues that it “has become clear that we have not come as far as we thought, and the fight for equality for ALL must be renewed.” He strongly advocates for communities that have been underserved in the state legislature by fighting against bigotry and discrimination and by promoting equity justice. Raised in a multi-religious family with a Christian mother and Jewish father, Rosenthal is agnostic.
 
Alec Johnson[[link removed]] is running for the Texas State House in District 11. With a varied career in community mental health, software engineering, small business management, and grassroots organizing, Johnson has experience in solving complex problems. He is running because the “big problems we face demand big solutions.” Johnson’s agenda includes establishing a living wage that provides a path out of poverty and revives the middle class, ensuring local control of environmental policy to defend our communities from toxic industrial threats, implementing the Green New Deal statewide to create clean energy jobs and address climate change, ending the phony war on drugs and attacks against immigrants and the LGBT community, and actively countering the ugly and unacceptable rise in racism fueled by the Trump Administration. Johnson identifies as a deist in the tradition of Thomas Paine.
 
Andrew Rose[[link removed]] is running for the Texas State House in District 33. He is an Air Force veteran and works in telecommunication management. Rose is passionate about public service is committed to altruism. He has volunteered with multiple nonprofit organizations and demonstrated his altruism by donating a piece of his liver to save the life of a co-worker. In addition, Rose successfully ended, with the assistance of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, proclamations from a local mayor promoting Christianity during the holidays. His policy goals include improving public education, advancing LGBTQ civil rights, protecting reproductive rights, and addressing climate change. Rose is agnostic.
 
Michael Robert Walsh[[link removed]] is running for the Texas State House in District 150. He is a first-time candidate and a college student seeking to bring “new ideas and fresh perspectives that our political system desperately needs and to restore faith in our government institutions.” His policy goals include ending gerrymandering and voter suppression, protecting women’s reproductive rights, addressing climate change and creating jobs with investments in the wind and solar industries, establishing a living wage, and fulfilling the Texas Constitutional guarantee of providing a quality public education. Walsh is not religious.
 
You can see all our 2020 endorsed candidates here[[link removed]]. 
 
Thank you for your membership and support. 
 
Sincerely,

Ron Millar
PAC Coordinator
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This message is for the sole use of members of the Center for Freethought Equality. The mission of the Freethought Equality Fund (FEF) is to achieve equality for the nontheist community by increasing the number of open humanists and atheists, and allies, in public office at all levels of government. The FEF is affiliated with the Center for Freethought Equality, which is the advocacy and political arm of the American Humanist Association. Donations to the Center for Freethought Equality[[link removed]], Freethought Equality Fund[[link removed]] and our endorsed candidates are voluntary and are not tax deductible. 
 

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