NEW: Our 2025 State of the Secular States report finds that half of all states fail to protect religious equality. Last year, we saw the spread of draconian abortion restrictions, discriminatory anti-trans policies, and a troublingly successful effort to privatize and Christianize public schools.

The bulk of the dangerous legislation from white Christian nationalists targets schools and youth. We've seen released time laws, school vouchers, religious displays and curriculum, and attempts to replace counselors with chaplains.

But it's not all bad news. Ballot measures and initiatives have, thankfully, allowed advocates to advance reproductive rights and oppose school privatization in multiple states. We expect that this success will continue to result in a backlash against those methods of direct democracy.