The ACA is making an impact on the world through our various ancillary efforts. The Internet is certainly helping to make that possible. Let's take a look at some of the things we've done in recent years and we are continuing to do.

Notable ACA Efforts

Besides our flagship activities, we have done a number of things that deserve special mention.

Looking back to 2004, one of the ACA's more notable accomplishments was our participation in a "friend of the court" brief for the Supreme Court in the Michael Newdow pledge case. While his case was thrown out on a frustrating technicality, he will likely be back before the Supreme Court on the pledge issue in the next few years. Perhaps we can re-file the brief for that case when it happens. ACA member Jeff Dee was a major contributor to the brief on the ACA's behalf.

A number of our members have also testified before the Texas State Board of Education to try to improve the textbooks used in schools throughout Texas. We like to think our testimony in 2003 helped keep Intelligent Design out of the biology textbooks under review that year. Unfortunately, in 2005 the health textbooks were already censored of much of the contraceptive information before the state reviewed them. They've gone to press as "damaged goods", as far as we're concerned.

In 2004, the ACA hosted the Texas Atheists and Agnostics Conference for atheists and agnostics from across the state. Our keynote speaker was Michael Newdow.

For more about the history of our organization, take a look at our history page and our scrapbooks pages.

ACA on the Internet

ACA has a number of secondary homes on the Internet, including:

• ACA's MySpace page maintained by Leon.
• ACA's FaceBook group maintained by Don Rhoades and Susan Brown.

ACA Members' Efforts

ACA members have created web sites and other Internet resources:

• The Atheist Experience blog maintained by Martin Wagner.
• The Iron Chrariots counter-apologetics wiki run by Matt Dillahunty and other ACA members.
• Kazim's Korner, Russell Glasser's blog.
• What Worries Jeff Dee (WWJD), Jeff Dee's blog.
• Christianity Meme, Don Baker's mind virus site.

ACA's Connection to Other Organizations

Besides our formal affiliations we have a more intimiate association with a number of other organizations:

• ACA member Jeff Jones was instrumental in the creation of the Center for Inquiry Austin Community.
• ACA member Joe Zamecki is now currently Texas State director of American Atheists.
• ACA member Sandra Sythe helped to create the Atheist Longhorns a student group at the University of Texas, Austin.