According to a 2023 study, more than one in four Americans (27%) are religiously unaffiliated. Of that group, 5% identify as atheist, 5% as agnostic and 17% as “nothing in particular.” While an overwhelming majority (72%) of atheists, agnostics and…
Stephen Miller must be confused about gender identity
In case you haven’t already figured out what a despicable person Stephen Miller is, hear this: The adviser to President Donald Trump posted on X an attack on Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico that says, “The Democrats made history in…
Here’s what I hear when you say you’re a ‘purple’ church
A fair number of churches these days are proud of being called “purple” churches, meaning they welcome and celebrate both Republicans and Democrats among their members. That may have been fine in 1990 but means something entirely different today. Now,…
Trump strikes back against redistricting opponents in Indiana
Last year, seven of Indiana’s GOP state senators refused Donald Trump’s demand that they re-do state voting districts to help their party. This week, five of them paid the price: Losing to Trump-backed opponents in closely watched primary races. (One…
Ministry leaders win spots in GOP Colorado governor primary
Two ministry leaders from Colorado Springs qualified Saturday for the top two spots in June’s primary to determine the Republican candidate for Colorado governor in November’s election. Democrat Jared Polis, who has served as governor since 2019 and was the…
10 takeaways from CPAC 2026
Last week, the annual conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference was held in my back yard in Texas. So of course I attended. This isn’t my first time venturing into MAGA territory. I attended the National Rifle Association’s annual…
Support for LGBTQ rights steady for most Americans
For more than a decade, PRRI has been tracking American attitudes about nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals, religiously based service refusals, and same-sex marriage. In our latest report, we find that while solid majorities of Americans continue to support nondiscrimination protections and…
Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — They’re Just a Little Less Red
Almost three years ago, in one of my first posts on Graphs about Religion, I ran an article with the headline: Young Mormons Are Abandoning the GOP. The most important piece of data analysis in that post came from the Nationscape survey — a…
No Enemies to the Right? Inside the GOP’s new civil war
A new fault line is quickly dividing American conservatism: A political strategy called “No Enemies to the Right.” This philosophy, sometimes abbreviated NETR, operates on a simple logic: All political “punching” must be directed toward the Left, which is seen…
House Republicans will pray to solve the problem they created
The House Freedom Caucus has announced a prayer meeting to seek God’s help solving a problem they created themselves. How ironic. Today’s prayer meeting was called, in part, to ask for divine intervention on the government shutdown, now in its…
The children are starving; God is screaming
James Talarico, a Democratic state representative in Texas, recently was interviewed on MSNBC and asked by hosts what his views are on the war in Gaza. He responded, “There’s a theologian who said, ‘I screamed at God for the starving…
Two myths that must be discarded
In this moment in American history, two dominant myths must be discarded. This is especially true in light of the shocking revelations about leadership of some Young Republican groups and their “private” text messages. First, the myth that private speech…