The first episode of the new season of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s TV show, “Freethought Matters,” features a prominent member of Congress dissecting a right-wing presidential takeover plan.
U.S. Representative Jared Huffman, a humanist and agnostic who is the only openly nonreligious member of Congress, represents California’s 2nd District and is co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Huffman has announced the formation of a task force to halt Project 2025, an extremist undemocratic presidential playbook. Huffman will be unpeeling the layers of this very important subject on this episode of “Freethought Matters.” (Note: Project 2025 is intended to be implemented by the next Republican president; FFRF, which produces this show, is a nonpartisan nonprofit that takes no position on candidates.)
“It’s true that it’s 920 pages of crazy, but it’s deadly serious at the same time,” Huffman tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “And that’s why we are spending a lot of time right now breaking it down. We’re having deep dive subject matter briefings for members of Congress and staff because we need to make sure that Americans know what is in this thing so that they can decide for themselves whether they want to be part of a dystopic right-wing future that ends our democracy, or they want to maybe join us in trying to stop it while we still can.”
“Freethought Matters” now airs in:
- Chicago, WPWR-CW (Ch. 50), Sundays at 9 a.m.
- Los Angeles, KCOP-MY (Ch. 13), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
- Madison, Wis., WISC-TV (Ch. 3), Sundays at 11 p.m.
- New York City, WPIX-IND (Ch. 11), Sundays at 10 a.m.
- San Francisco, KTVU/KICU-IND (on broadcast Ch. 36 and Cable 6), Sundays at 10 a.m.
- Washington, D.C., WDCW-CW (Ch. 50 or Ch. 23 or Ch. 3), Sundays at 8 a.m.
(To view details on channel variations depending on your provider, click here.)
If you don’t live in any of the marquee towns where the show broadcasts on Sunday, you can already catch the interview on FFRF’s YouTube channel. New shows go up every Thursday.
You can catch interviews from previous seasons here, including with Gloria Steinem, Ron Reagan, author John Irving, actor John “Q” de Lancie and award-winning columnist Katha Pollitt. Upcoming guests include an expert on the Comstock Act, an author of a new book on the Scopes Trial and another author writing on the dangers of vouchers to aid religious schools.
Please tune in to “Freethought Matters” . . . because freethought matters.
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