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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Legislation & threats in TX are leading to over compliance & mass censorship. Librarians are being forced to quietly (often secretly) remove hundreds, sometimes thousands of books or risk losing their jobs.The educational needs of students isn’t even being considered in much of the decision making.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Parents are not driving censorship. Parents don’t want to ban books. Parents have real concerns about their children’s education & well-being and it isn’t non existent“unicorn genitals,” in children’s books.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week & our report is out! They say everything is bigger in Texas & that includes book bans. TX leads the country in removing & restricting books in libraries. Read more about our report, how we gathered the data, & the full report on our website. www.txftrp.org/one_year_of_...

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Texas Senate Bill 13 allows anyone (including Dan Patrick and Bonnie Wallace) to formally challenge books in the school district in which they live. Every district should respond to every request or demand to remove any library book, by following their EFB Local library materials policy.

Still screenshot of Bonnie Wallace and Dan Patrick from August press conference over library books they falsely claim are “illegal”. Dan Patrick is holding the book “Do Animals Fall in Love”

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson. Concern: This book contains assumed alternate sexuality in animals. “Tango was the first penguin in the zoo to have two daddies.” /26

Screenshot of And Tango Makes Three complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Marlon Bundo w/ Jill Twiss. Concern: This book contains alternate sexualities; & controversial political & social commentary. “illustration on this page depicts 2 male rabbits holding paws as a human would hold another person's hand…” /25

Screenshot of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Banned Together, an anthology. Complaint (by Bruce): “All or almost all of the contributing authors have had books challenged by me personally" - BF /24

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the Night Kitchen By Maurice Sendak. Complaint (by bruce): “A boys penis baked into a pie? Nudity of a child ignored "in the night kitchen." /23

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee. Complaint: “it references white privelege often…Chapter 25 promotes protesting on school grounds…the end of the book it shows that the Asians, Mexicans and Blacks unite for BLM but for some reason not one single white person does.”/22

Screenshot of A Good Kind of Trouble Complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy. Complaint: “Mom and dad are getting a divorce because dad is gay: Why is this in our schools?” “Confused children become confused adults. Please tell your librarians to STOP helping!” /21

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Family is A Family is a Family by Sara O’ Leary. Concerns: This book contains alternate sexualities. “Both my moms are terrible singers…One of my dads is tall and one is short.” /20

Screenshot of A Family is a Family complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone. (series of 3, Dear Manny & Martin also listed). Complaint is long & gross. A sample: “We need less Ebonics & slang & more grammar lessons…Quan is not deserving of sympathy from anyone…demonstrates the same victim mentality that CRT embraces.” /19

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Charlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder. Complaint: “Protect Children! Boy wears tutu. Visits house with “two misters.” “Two men share a house.” /18

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook & @ryanestrada.com . Complaint: This book contains moderate violence and references to hate involving political regimes. “The illustration depicts a person kneeling on the ground w/a book in their hand. The person is engulfed in flames.”/17

Screenshot of Banned Book Club complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Complaint: “The main character is not very sympathetic - not just in terms of the debauchery, but he can also be very cruel. The book also includes suicide, murder, drug use...it was even controversial when it was written.”/16

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Chicken Soup for The Preteen Soul. Another Bruce addition to the list. Complaint: Grooming & Propaganda. “Love is chaos. The world needs order…Damn the ALA…Your Librarians should have their tomorrows cancelled. Fire them.” /15

Screenshot of Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soup complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race. Concerns: Controversial racial & social commentary. Examples: “All the time, even right now, people are working for racial justice, by telling the truth and sharing feelings. By treating people the way they want to be treated.” /14

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Somehow Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is too vulgar for Texas schools according to Dan Patrick. The complaint? “Inexplicit sexual activities, self harm, and suicidal ideation.” /13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another book by Rex Ogle, Free Lunch. This book needs to be removed from TX schools because it will “damage souls.” The complaint? The book contains “domestic violence, drunk driving, racism, mental illness, poverty, & misery. And the author is a “repeat offender.”/12

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Four Eyes, by Texas Author, Rex Ogle. This one comes from prolific book banning FL activist Bruce Friedman. It apparently contains “Nihilism, miserable rubbish, alternate sexualities (the “about author” section says “his husband.”)& it “obscures the importance of sovereignty.”/11

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Goodnight Racism, by @ibramxk.bsky.social . Dan Patrick is demanding this “filth” be pulled off library shelves because of “controversial social commentary,” like: “children holding signs that say CLEAN WATER for ALL,” and “Goodnight injustice, Goodnight hate.” /10

Screenshot of Goodnight Racism complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And another book on the list about Nazis & WW2: All the a Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Dan Patrick wants it removed because of -amongst other things- it contains: “excessive death, controversial social commentary, non explicit rape, & war violence.” /9

Screenshot of All the Light We Cannot See complaint

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The first book to stand out on the list is Night, by Elie Wiesel. A book about a teenager’s survival in Nazi Concentration Camps. In June, this book was added to the SBOE mandated reading list for all Texas High Schoolers. 🤔 We don’t think it’s dirty, filthy, or pornographic./8

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We’ve gathered some of the most ridiculous books from the list. But before you go through our thread, listen to language they use in the press conference. The threats are meant to intimidate districts & librarians into removing thousands of stories from our schools./5

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pull up a chair! 2 weeks ago TX Lt. Governor Dan Patrick held a “press conference”(campaign stunt) w/TX book banning activist Bonnie Wallace. They shared a list of 2,198 “filthy, dirty, pornographic,” books Dan falsely claimed “are in all of our schools.” and “violate SB 13.” /1

Still shot of serial TX book challenger, Bonnie Wallace, and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick at Patrick’s recent press conference

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Right?! Blaming God for targeting Night is wild. 🤯 then again we are talking about the same woman who called Freddie the Farting Snowman “pornographic filth” and got it banned from the Llano Public Library. 🫠

Screenshot of the cover of Freddie the Farting Snowman by Jane Bexley

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and pearl-clutching pro-censorship political activist Bonnie Wallace held a press conference at the State Capitol yesterday, delivering an ultimatum to public school districts…

Screenshot of Bonnie Wallace and Dan Patrick from Texas Senate Conference Room Recording on August 19. Dan is holding a copy of the book, “Do Animals Fall in Love” while speaking patronizingly to reporters. Bonnie appears to be staring off into space.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you go to that link, you can search by alphabet… here’s Handmaid’s Tale and Hatchet in H (for example) with the site’s “ratings” which mean basically nothing, but they hope scares districts into banning the books they’re targeting.

Screen shot of H from Recover America’s list of “bad books”

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

‼️Texas- we need your help‼️ Extremists on the State Board of Education are rallying supporters from all over the state to travel to Austin on Monday, to speak in support of their comically bad State Mandated K-12 Reading Lists and ideologically infused (white-washed) Social Studies TEKS revisions.

Image of the TX Capitol that reads: Join us in Austin to share your concerns about the state mandated k-12 reading list and the proposed changes to k-12 social studies TEKS

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The State of Texas is reportedly threatening to take over and disband our elected State Board of Education if members refuse to pass TEA/Morath’s preferred mandatory ELA reading list. The reply that SBOE member, Pam Little, is sending constituents lays it out pretty clearly.

Screenshot of an email from Texas SBOE Member, Pam Little, to a constituent (name redacted) that reads:

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From: Little, Pam
Subject: Re: sboe mandatory reading list

I agree with you and we did cut the list down considerably, however I still feel it is too long. Even though the SBOE is tasked with this list in reality it is the Commissioner who controls it. The SBOE does not have any staff so we had to rely on TEA staff, ie the commissioner to draft the list. Then the commissioner goes to the legislature and tells them to send us a letter that this is what they intended in HB1605 and
encourage us to pass it. Then there are threats that if we don't do as the lege has instructed the lege will disband the SBOE.
The commissioner met with each board member to "sell" the list to them.

That's the reality unfortunately! I suggest you write your house representative and state senator and the House and Senate Pub Ed committees.
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨Deer Park ISD: Show up and speak up for your school libraries and students’ freedom to read on Monday, April 27. Don’t let TX House Rep Briscoe Cain and his entitled “demands” to ban school library books he doesn’t like, be the only voice your board hears.

Screen shot of an X post by Briscoe Cain calling for speakers at Monday’s Deer Park ISD meeting who support the removal of 4 library books

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This data from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social 💯 tracks with our experience in Texas. Poll 100 parents volunteering at their kids’ public school- MAYBE 3 of them will name “inappropriate library content” as a problem, a concern, a worry. www.ala.org/bbooks/book-...

Graphic from the American Library Association: 92% of all book challenges in 2025 were initiated by pressure groups and government officials.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

New Braunfels ISD parents, students, and community members can speak up for the freedom to read and NBISD libraries at the school board meeting on Monday, March 16. The Library Materials policy (EFB Local) is on the agenda. Speaker sign-up instructions here: nbisd.org/about-nbisd/...

Screenshot of NBISD board meeting agenda for Monday, March 16 showing EFB Local report (Item 7.E)

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett by Davy Crockett Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett by Davy Crockett

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Remembering Kobe Bryant by Sean Deveney Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Remembering Kobe Bryant by Sean Deveney

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Phil Robertson Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Phil Robertson

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A Dog’s Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: A Dog’s Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Guinness Book of World Records: 2024 Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: The Guinness Book of World Records: 2024

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Lonesome Dove: a novel by Larry McMurtry Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Lonesome Dove: a novel by Larry McMurtry

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Just Add Water by Katie Ledecky Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Banned: New Braunfels ISD Reason: violates SB 13

Cover: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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