Restore The First

The First Amendment coalition. Preserve the records. Hold hearings. Protect every American from federal-pressured censorship. Join us ↓

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

🔥One senator said no to KOSA.

At 5:07 p.m. on Sept. 30, hours before the Senate left town until after the election, a unanimous-consent request would have passed the Kids Online Safety Act with no debate and no recorded vote. @RandPaul @SenRandPaul objected and put the First Amendment case on the record:

“Imposing a duty of care will inevitably lead to one outcome: the stifling of First Amendment protected speech.”

He is our first Restore the 1st Hero. Why, what the sponsors said in reply, and what to ask your own senators in the next 30 days:
https://t.co/eBcL2N9o2x

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨NO ON KOSA.

A law does not need to explicitly ban your speech to create pressure to silence it. Make controversial expression a liability risk, and platforms have an incentive to delete first and ask questions later.

That is the danger I warned about on December 7, 2024, when I examined KOSA’s backing by the Center for Countering Digital Hate—and X’s endorsement.

The stakes: lawful speech removed, legitimate information blocked, and people discouraged from speaking.

“Child safety” cannot end the scrutiny. It must withstand it.

Congress should reject KOSA. Protect children with legislation that also protects their freedom to learn, question, and speak.

Read my earlier warning:
https://t.co/sL9sLvqTZ4

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

NO ONE RESTORES THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALONE. 🇺🇸

Restore the First is bringing together organizations and independent media working across free speech, informed consent, parental rights, religious liberty & constitutional protections.

Different missions. Independent organizations. A shared First Amendment concern.

https://t.co/DhqaYHoUN5

Join us: https://t.co/KR9UneIMog

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

This is a must watch!

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨Prince Harry called the First Amendment “bonkers.”

John Kerry called it a “major block” — and said the path forward is winning power so you can “implement change.”

Hillary: if platforms don’t moderate, “we lose total control.”

Forty-five words. Still the law.

They’re treating free speech like the obstacle.

Watch — then take action in three ways:
https://t.co/EHrP7B3ynG @restorethe1st

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

We are so proud to have @theHFDF as part of the Restore the First coalition!

[Health Freedom Defense Fund @theHFDF]

BREAKING:

We just co-launched a massive campaign demanding justice for Covid-era censorship.

Bookmark this.

If we stay silent, we’re effectively giving up our free speech rights to Big Tech and Big Pharma censorship.

We have three demands:

1. Preserve the records.

Congress must preserve email and file on Covid-era censorship.

2. Hold public hearings.

Call the officials, platform employees, whistleblowers, and citizens who were censored to speak on the record and under oath.

3. Create enforceable protections.

Congress must establish an express private right of action when federal pressure suppresses protected speech.

The Restore the First Coalition was convened by Sayer Ji, Erin Elizabeth Finn, Rizza Islam, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Ben Tapper, and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

18 organizations and 7 independent outlets have joined.

But we need your help to make our demands heard.

Join us with the link below.

@sayerjigmi

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

🗽 The Fourth Estate holds power accountable.
The Fifth Estate holds power—and the press—accountable.

YOU are the media.

Introducing a new pillar of Restore the First: protecting our freedom to investigate, publish, and challenge power.

Meet the voices. Take the pledge:
https://t.co/63MgsEfQXk

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

Restoring this great Constitutional republic takes the action of each and every citizen. You can do so here now: https://t.co/ScAdytLO4b

It only takes a few clicks! Thanks to @standforhealth1

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🇺🇸 On Constitution Day, we officially launched Restore the First in Washington, D.C.

A constitutional right must come with a meaningful way to defend it.

Join our growing national coalition to demand accountability for government censorship and enforceable protections for every American—whatever your politics.

Take three concrete actions:

1️⃣ Email your lawmakers.
2️⃣ Sign the petition.
3️⃣ Share your censorship story.
Watch the launch below. Then take a few minutes to make your voice part of the record.
👉 https://t.co/tUi8jj8vhI

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨In 2021, a British nonprofit put twelve Americans on a list. The White House cited it. Platforms acted on it. Six of us sued the U.S. government — and in July a federal judge dismissed the case on a pleading technicality, before a single email was produced or a witness heard.

🇺🇸So on Constitution Day, in Washington, we launched Restore the First: 25 organizations, six programs, 50+ bills tracked, every claim tied to a primary document — and three things Congress can do this year. @restorethe1st

The founding dispatch: https://t.co/fECCP83WAW

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

The Fourth Estate was meant to check power.

The Fifth Estate checks the Fourth.

In 2024, Julian Assange told the Council of Europe: “Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society.”

Today, millions of people can investigate, document, publish, and correct the record without waiting for institutional permission.

We’ve built a new section of Restore the First around that idea: The Fifth Estate — You Are the Media.

https://t.co/RrSEzgi4lV

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

The Crown controlled the press by controlling who could operate it.

Today’s AI debate revives the question: who controls the tools of expression?

Know the history. Read the evidence. Take action.

Free speech means little without the power to exercise it. 👇 @sayerjigmi

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨The next free-speech fight begins before you write a word.

It begins with who can build—and access—the tools you use to investigate, think and publish.

The AI debate is reopening a struggle that once centered on the printing press.

Follow the record. 🧵👇

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

@prestonjbyrne @RepMichaelRulli Your work is incredible Preston! Everyone should support it and make sure GRANITE ACT becomes the law of the land!

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Thank you to @restorethe1st for endorsing @RepMichaelRulli’s GRANITE Act.

If anyone else feels like telling Congress to move forward with this vital legislation, now’s the time - there’s not much legislative time left in this Congress.

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

🚨 OFFICIAL: RESTORE THE FIRST ENDORSES THE FEDERAL GRANITE ACT

Today, as coalition leader, I’m announcing Restore the First’s formal endorsement of H.R. 10174, introduced by @RepMichaelRulli. The bill would prevent U.S. courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign censorship judgments, fines, orders, or demands that conflict with the First Amendment, while giving targeted Americans a path to seek declaratory relief in federal court.

This breakthrough rests on the extraordinary work of @prestonjbyrne. After confronting foreign censorship demands firsthand as an attorney, Preston first published the GRANITE framework and then co-developed the Wyoming legislation with Colin Crossman and Representative Daniel Singh. Congressman Rulli has now carried that legal architecture into Congress.

Preston deserves enormous credit for identifying a dangerous gap in American law—and building a practical remedy to close it.

American courts must never become the enforcement arm of foreign speech codes.

Read Restore the First’s endorsement and learn what the GRANITE Act would do:
https://t.co/2MTK0UpLLj

📣 Make your voice heard: Use Restore the First’s action center to email your lawmakers, add your name to the petition, and tell your censorship story:
https://t.co/fajBtjqSA4

@sayerjigmi @standforhealth1

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

They said 12 of us were responsible for 65% of all “vaccine misinformation” online. Biden called us killers. The report was off by 1,300 fold.

@ChildrensHD in DC · Constitution Day · Sept 17, 2026 🇺🇸

Those guilty as charged for spreading "missing information":

@SecKennedy
@mercola
@sayerjigmi
@kellybroganmd
@BusyDrT
@RizzaIslam
@DrChrisNorthrup
@DrBenTapper1
@TyCharleneB
@DrButtar
@Kevdjenkins1963
@unhealthytruth

And you are probably one of the millions who were censored as well. Take action at https://t.co/u2HLLnSXlf, and put your censorship story on record! @restorethe1st

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

🚨 INSTITUTIONAL ENDORSEMENT 🇺🇸

Restore the First endorses S. 4749, the bipartisan JAWBONE Act, introduced by @SenTedCruz and @RonWyden.

No federal agency or official should be able to evade the First Amendment by pressuring private platforms, broadcasters, or AI systems to suppress protected speech.

The JAWBONE Act would create a federal cause of action for people harmed by government coercion—or attempted coercion—while providing meaningful relief, transparency, and accountability.

JAWBONE is the operational bill for government pressure exerted through platforms and other speech intermediaries.

Restore the First’s proposed First Amendment Remedies Act goes further: it would establish a broader federal remedy for First Amendment violations beyond JAWBONE’s intermediary-focused protections.

We support both as complementary safeguards—not competing proposals.

Our principle is viewpoint-neutral and administration-neutral:

Your rights should outlast whoever holds office.

— Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi

Coalition Leader, Restore the First

🚨 ACT NOW: S. 4749 is on tomorrow’s Senate Commerce Committee markup agenda. This is the critical stage at which legislation can advance, be amended, or stall—so lawmakers need to hear from the public now. ⚖️🗽

👉 Support the JAWBONE Act: https://t.co/2dEfq9ppQb

See how the Remedies Act goes further: https://t.co/uaNObctvvA

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🔥Restore the First launches Thursday, September 17, in Washington — at CHD’s To Form a More Perfect Future, with keynotes from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Rand Paul, and Rep. Thomas Massie.

Fifteen organizations. Seven independent outlets. One First Amendment.

A viewpoint-neutral citizens’ coalition asking Congress to preserve the records, hold public hearings, and pass enforceable protections — for every American, of any viewpoint.

Join the effort. Submit your stories. Contact your elected officials. https://t.co/EHrP7B3ynG
@restorethe1st

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

If Britain’s online speech controls evoke seditious libel, the danger in Sanders’s AI proposal is a death sentence for the modern printing press.

His own proposal calls for destroying prohibited AI systems, a “corporate death penalty,” and up to 20 years in prison for violations.

Compute is the printing press of the twenty-first century.

Destroy the press, and you silence words that haven’t even been written.

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

8/ The English Crown tried exactly this in 1662.

Section IX of the Licensing of the Press Act: “no Joyner Carpenter or other person shall make any Printing Presse … no Founder shall cast any Letters.” https://t.co/xJZQwDZSW3

The Framers wrote “or of the press” in 1791 to prevent Congress from re-enacting it.

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

🚨 BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is joining us in Washington, D.C., as a keynote speaker this September 17 — Constitution Day.

On that day in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. This Thursday, we gather with its promise still demanding to be fulfilled.

Our founder @sayerjigmi will be speaking at CHD in DC alongside a lineup that includes Kennedy, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, and Ron Johnson.

Sayer will be launching Restore the First — our coalition working to secure meaningful remedies when First Amendment rights are violated.

Because without the freedom to question, investigate, and share information, informed choice is impossible.

🔥 May the constitutional Republic rise again.

📍 Washington, D.C. | September 17, 2026
🎟 Event details + livestream: https://t.co/umTo4a1HFb
🇺🇸 Join the coalition: https://t.co/aGBI958xfI

#ConstitutionDay #RFKJr #RestoreTheFirst #CHDinDC

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨🇬🇧 The Sanders–Casar AI ban was drafted in London. It’s a First Amendment fight — and every civil libertarian, left AND right, should be alarmed.

The bill doesn’t regulate what AI does. It licenses who’s allowed to build it.

Compute is the printing press of the 21st century. 🗞️🖨️

Speech infrastructure is the sixth pillar of the First Amendment. 🧵👇

[Restore The First @restorethe1st]

This! 🔥

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨🇬🇧 The Sanders–Casar AI ban was drafted in London. It’s a First Amendment fight — and every civil libertarian, left AND right, should be alarmed.

The bill doesn’t regulate what AI does. It licenses who’s allowed to build it.

Compute is the printing press of the 21st century. 🗞️🖨️

Speech infrastructure is the sixth pillar of the First Amendment. 🧵👇