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Around 50% of Michiganders are white Christians, 25% are religiously unaffiliated, less than two in ten are Christians of color, and 7% are non-Christian, including 2% who are Muslim. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed held an interfaith roundtable ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic Primary in Michigan.

As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factorMichigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says his Muslim faith shapes his progressive views.apnews.com

PRRI data shows that in 2021, about four in ten Americans (39%) agreed that the virus was developed intentionally by scientists in a lab. In a Senate committee hearing on his handling of COVID-19, Republicans accused Dr. Fauci of helping produce the pandemic by funding research on virus mutations.

Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearingDr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.apnews.com

In a new Spotlight Analysis, PRRI Public Fellow @profince.bsky.social examines Americans' attitudes toward protest, from views on speaking out against unfair government treatment to reactions to President Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 defendants. Read more:

Views of Protesting the Government During President Trump’s TenureDr. Jelani Ince is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on racial justice and white supremacy. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Protest has long been…prri.org

PRRI President and Founder @robertpjones.bsky.social and @joyannreid.bsky.social discuss the implications of speeches given by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House advisor Stephen Miller at a recent counter-terrorism conference. Watch now:

Steven Miller's Chilling Nazi Speech | Countering White Christian Nationalism with Joy Reid [Ep 8]The echoes are getting louder.www.redeemingdemocracy.net

On @aljazeera.com, PRRI CEO @melissadeckman.bsky.social explains that as Texas moves to make Bible study part of every public school's curriculum, PRRI data show that "over the past two decades, the number of Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated has doubled." Watch the conversation:

Faith at the ballot box | This is AmericaYouTube video by Al Jazeera Englishyoutu.be

65% of Americans support granting asylum to Haitian families, revealing a significant disconnect between the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows the removal of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants and general public sentiment. Read more in a new Spotlight Analysis:

Americans’ Humanitarian Views on Haitian MigrantsDrs. Will McCorkle, Lina-Maria Murillo, and E. Kyle Romero are 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows studying the intersection of politics, religion, and immigration and migration. This Spotlight Analysis is…prri.org

In a new Spotlight Analysis, @drlmmurillo.bsky.social writes about the anti-immigrant rhetoric that the Trump administration is using to frame its argument for more restrictive voting laws, noting that these negative views are not shared by most Americans. Read more:

The SAVE Act, Birthright Citizenship, and Replacement Theory: The Gap Between Rhetoric and RealityDr. Lina-Maria Murillo is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow and an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s the author of Fighting for…prri.org

The 2026 PRRI American Identity Survey finds that two-thirds of Americans hold unfavorable views of Trump’s handling of the war in Iran (66%), compared with 29% of Americans who hold favorable views. Today, the United States conducted a sixth straight day of military strikes on Iran.

Iran targets military bases as US launches wave of strikesExplosions were heard across Iran overnight, shortly after neighbouring Gulf states began to report attacks.www.bbc.com

The majority of Americans (57%) agree that the surge of ICE officers in places like Minnesota is making communities less safe. Trump is pushing back against a DHS decision to temporarily pause vehicle stops made by ICE, following two ICE-involved shootings this month.

Trump blasts DHS decision to pause immigration traffic stopsThe president's broadside comes just a day after the Homeland Security Department decided to pause the practice, following two immigration-related shooting deaths.www.politico.com

Today's Morning Buzz Newsletter digs into the cyclosporiasis outbreak, Lindsey Graham's foreign policy stance, CAIR's fight for trust after Texas's terrorist designation, and @robertpjones.bsky.social's sneak preview of his forthcoming book "Backslide." More ➡️ prri.substack.com/p/cases-rise...

Cases Rise as Parasite Outbreak Hits More Than Half of U.S. StatesThe Morning Buzz: July 13, 2026prri.substack.com

@melissadeckman.bsky.social suggests that some churches’ continued emphasis on “patriarchal religious traditions” and “more traditional gender roles” helps explain Gen Z trends, noting, “I think that kind of perception of American religion has really been off-putting to a lot of young women today.”

Religion’s Longstanding Gender Gap Is Narrowing Among Gen ZBut which gender is narrowing it—and why?time.com

Congratulations to PRRI Board Chair @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social on this achievement!

Important piece from PRRI Public Fellow @mccraryc.bsky.social "Religious liberty is a banner under which the administration and its allies will continue to undermine other civil rights, dismantle public goods, and insulate certain favored citizens from public accountability."

PRRI Senior Democracy Fellow @katherinestewart.bsky.social writes that a video produced by the Trump administration and Hillsdale College uses debunked myths & deliberate decontextualizations to twist the Founders’ ideals into pro-religious nationalist messaging newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop HistoryAmid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding.newrepublic.com

House Speaker Mike Johnson has called for Congress to curtail birthright citizenship in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Trump’s executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Congress should restrict birthright citizenship, House speaker saysSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson said that Congress should consider a bill to limit birthright citizenship and that it would advance "immediately."www.usatoday.com

A slight majority of Americans (57%) say believing in God is important to being truly American, and 43% say being Christian is important to being truly American. A new curriculum has been proposed for Texas public schools to include biblical references, passages, and stories.

As some praise Texas’ proposed ‘Judeo-Christian’ curriculum, rabbis say it dismisses JudaismAUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — The phrase ‘Judeo-Christian’ was frequently heard this week in support of Texas’ revised public school curriculum, even as many Jewish testifiers distanced themselves from the te...religionnews.com

71% of Americans agree that “transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.” The Supreme Court has allowed states to keep their bans on transgender female athletes from competing in women's and girls’ sports. Read more from PRRI Public Fellow Shatavia Wynn:

Transgender Athletes and the State of Legal ChallengesDr. Shatavia Wynn is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on LGBTQ rights and gender and an Assistant Professor of Africana and Religious Studies at Rhodes College. The year 2027 will mark the 55th...prri.org

“Many people within the MAGA movement, within the GOP, envision… that the U.S. should be identified more as a Christian nation with conservative Christian goals,” explains PRRI CEO @melissadeckman.bsky.social. Read more:

In Trump’s America, two very different views of Christianity in politics emerge | CNN PoliticsAdherence to organized religion is falling in the United States, but defenders of the religious right are ascendant in positions of power in the Trump administration.www.cnn.com

Today is the 11th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. PRRI finds that support for same-sex marriage remains higher today (65%) than in 2015 (53%). Today, Republicans (49%) are notably less likely than Democrats (83%) and independents (69%) to support same-sex marriage. Read more about LGBTQ rights:

Mapping Support for LGBTQ Rights Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values AtlasTo view a replay of PRRI’s March 19, 2026, webinar on this topic or the slides presented during the webinar, please click here.prri.org

@melissadeckman.bsky.social is on Axis Live to discuss the state of religion and democracy in the United States, drawing on findings from the 2025 PRRI Census of American Religion and PRRI’s latest report, Competing Visions of America at 250. Watch now:

JD Vance's Christendom, Christian Terror at UFC, and PRRI Data on Religion in the USAYouTube video by Axis Mundi Network | SWAJwww.youtube.com