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Friend,
This Sunday, Trump is turning the National Mall into a church.
They've branded it "Rededicate 250," but let's call it what it is: a government-sponsored worship service.
The Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House, and the Secretary of War are preparing to stand on a federal stage — with a lineup of extremist preachers who have spent years attacking the separation of church and state — to "rededicate" our secular republic to their god.
They are weaponizing your tax dollars, your military bands, and your public land to tell the millions of non-religious Americans and those of other faiths that we don't count.
The speaker list tells you exactly what this is: Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, Jonathan Falwell, Paula White, and more, standing alongside cabinet secretaries lending the full weight of the federal government to a Christian Nationalist rebranding of America.
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It is a government-sponsored revival meeting dressed up as patriotism.
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Imagine the outrage from these same people if another administration used federal resources to host a Muslim, atheist, or Hindu rededication of America. They would call it tyranny.
But when Christian Nationalists do it, we are supposed to accept it as patriotism.
America does not belong to any one religion.
Trump has made his agenda clear. He posted an AI image of himself as Jesus. He declared at the National Prayer Breakfast that you "can't be happy without religion." His Religious Liberty Commission spent five hours at a federal hearing calling the separation of church and state "the biggest lie ever told in America." His Secretary of War called secular humanism an "infection."
This Sunday is not a one-off. It is the latest move in a coordinated campaign already underway:
| Prayer mandated in public schools. |
| Taxpayer dollars funneled to religious institutions. |
| Mental health professionals replaced by religious chaplains. |
| Courts rewritten by theocratic legal movements. |
| Federal agencies reframing basic equality as "anti-Christian bias." |
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The First Amendment exists for exactly this. The Establishment Clause is not a technicality. It is a promise that no American will be made to feel like a stranger in their own country because of what they believe, or don't believe.
The American Humanist Association was built to fight exactly this kind of moment. And right now, we need every person who believes in secular democracy to stand with us.
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Because when we work together, we win.
Since January, AHA advocates have contacted their lawmakers over 1,000 times to defeat Christian Nationalist bills.
Our advocacy trainings have helped humanists deliver 10 pieces of written testimony and one oral against Christian Nationalist legislation.
Six of the Christian Nationalist bills we fought in Maryland, Kansas, and Nebraska have now been defeated.
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These wins happen because people like you fund this fight.
Your donation today fuels our immediate response:
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$15 helps us monitor public meetings, legislative hearings, and government policy changes where officials quietly push religion into public life. |
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$35 helps fund a legal demand letter — like the one we just sent to a Texas school district that posted religious materials in every hallway until we made them take it down. |
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$75 funds one hour of frontline organizing and testimony prep for humanists fighting theocratic legislation in battleground states. |
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$100 helps fund attorney review of school board policies, public meeting records, and administrative directives when public officials blur the line between church and state. |
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Sunday is only three days away.
Trump and his billionaires and bishops are organized, relentless, and backed by enormous political power and endless funding.
But they are not entitled to this country.
America belongs to all of us — including the millions of Americans who do not subscribe to their theology and do not want it imposed through government power.
The AHA has been fighting this alongside our supporters for 85 years. We know what's at stake and we are only going to fight harder for our country.
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But we need you with us right now.
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For humanity,
 
Fish Stark
Executive Director, AHA
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