Dissident Project

Connecting those with firsthand insight into authoritarianism with student audiences. Contact: [email protected] ✉️

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

You survived authoritarianism. You made it to America. You have a story the next generation needs to hear. 🗽✊

The Dissident Project is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 cohort. We'll help you turn your story into a platform. 🎙️

📅 Apply by June 28 at 11:59 PM EDT.

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[Gaby Blanco @_gabyblanco]

Always a pleasure to share with American students the reality of growing up with government-subsidized everything.

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

Our speaker @_gabyblanco shared her story of growing up in socialist Cuba at the SHIFT College Summer Conference hosted by @Daniels_Fund in Denver.

[Sam Raus @SamRaus1]

El-Sayed's proposal reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how pharmaceutical markets work.

My latest on prescription drug prices in @townhallcom with @JoinYoungVoices
https://t.co/YdcCYJ8RnT

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

ONLY 6 days left. ⏳‼️

Last year, our fellows reached over 9 million Americans and spoke directly to 7,500 students nationwide.

If you've lived under authoritarian rule and now call America home, your story is a powerful counter to censorship and state control.

Make your voice heard.

🗓️ Applications close June 28 at 11:59 PM EDT.
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[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

We will never forget.🕯️

Proud to stand with @frances_hui at the 2026 Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil.

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

Applications for our 2026–2027 speaker cohort close soon. ⏳‼️

Don’t wait.

Last year, our fellows reached over 9 million Americans and spoke directly to 7,500 students nationwide.

If you’ve lived under authoritarian rule and now call America home, your story can help students understand censorship, state control, and the real cost of losing freedom.

Turn your experience into real impact.

🗓️ Applications close June 28 at 11:59 PM EDT
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[Gaby Blanco @_gabyblanco]

Cubans have lived through this before.

Desperate attempts to keep a failed system afloat and to trick investors into believing Cuba is a safe investment haven.

Then everything is rolled back. Licenses revoked, businesses shut down, people fined or imprisoned on some bogus charges.

Once they get what they want from you (which is enough money to keep them going until they find their next subsidy provider), they’ll discard you like the disposable asset that you are.

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

Dissident Project traveled to Colorado this week to talk to students at the SHIFTCollege Summer Conference hosted by @Daniels_Fund — where @_gabyblanco and @frances_hui shared firsthand what it means to have lived under authoritarian rule, and what it means to be free. 🗽

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North Korea is up to no good — and thriving because of it. Our speakers are here to set the record straight.

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[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

What an incredible honor to be invited by the @ReaganInstitute to speak with the young minds who will shape this nation’s future — sharing my personal story of Hong Kong and the challenges facing the free world. Thank you @DissidentProj for making this possible.

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is in choosing the responsibility even when fear is present.”

On June 4, @frances_hui accepted the 2026 Dissident Human Rights Award from @VoCommunism.

She dedicated the award to the students of Tiananmen, to the millions of Hong Kongers who marched for freedom, and to her friends still sitting in Hong Kong’s prison cells.

Frances lives under a HK$1 million bounty placed on her by Hong Kong regime.

She spoke up for Chow Hang-tung, Jimmy Lai, Joshua Wong, and every other prisoner whose courage the world must not forget.

#FreeJimmyLai
#HongKong
#June4

[Peiqing Ni 倪沛晴 @AppleNi1127]

Today, The Guardian published a report on how I was targeted with AI-generated sexual abuse after speaking out around Tiananmen commemoration.

This is not only about me. It is about transnational repression, gendered harassment, and how X failed to respond when such abuse is reported.

https://t.co/HBO7LSIRmy

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

1/ 🚨 BREAKING: #HongKong authorities are moving to further expand the national security legal apparatus.

Under the new proposed rule, the Chief Executive can certify that a ordinary criminal case “involves national security” and turn it into a national security case.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

"F*%*,# Manhattan Institute d**khead from Venezuela"

Hasan Piker about me 😂

[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

Applications for our 2026–2027 speaker cohort close soon‼️

Don't miss your chance to apply.

Last year, our fellows reached more than 9 million Americans and spoke directly to 7,500 students nationwide.

If you’ve lived under authoritarian rule and now call America home, your story can help students understand the realities of censorship, state control, and the true cost of losing freedom.

Turn your experience into real impact.

🗓️ Applications close June 28 at 11:59 PM EDT.
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[Dissident Project @DissidentProj]

When dissidents speak, governments take notice.

Proud of @frances_hui for continuing to share her experience and advocate for Hong Kong’s freedoms — and for inspiring students across the U.S. through the Dissident Project.

[Financial Times @FT]

How China is dismantling Uyghur society

FT analysis suggests that the Chinese state’s campaign of oppression against Uyghurs and their culture and identity has entered a new phase.

Read the full visual investigation here: https://t.co/dEmxEoxxk9

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

So... here is what I have been up to in the past few days, doing what was supposed to be the job of local investigative journalists, which is made impossible by the national security apparatus. 👇🏽

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

1/4 Last weekend, #HongKong was rocked by the kind of scandal the city’s once-free tabloid press — namely the now-defunct Apple Daily — would've aggressively exposed: the misuse of public funds by one of Hong Kong’s top public prosecutors.

From Washington, D.C., our policy and advocacy manager @frances_hui publicly lodged serious allegations against Hong Kong’s newly appointed Director of Public Prosecutions Anthony Chau, a lead prosecutor in the Hong Kong 47 and #FreeJimmyLai national security cases.

Drawing on insider information, Hui alleged that Chau misused public funds to book luxury hotel stays with a female subordinate prosecutor under the guise of “national security casework” while granting her professional privileges — conduct raising serious conflict-of-interest concerns.

Chau’s predecessor, Maggie Yang, is also widely believed to have covered up the misconduct.

The government responded by claiming the matter had already been investigated, accusing Frances of “malicious smearing,” and reportedly attempting to identify whistleblowers...

https://t.co/UXX3OHYILA