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We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.

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Government officials can’t legally censor protected speech, but they can strong-arm private parties into doing it for them. That’s called jawboning, and it violates your First Amendment rights.

We’re supporting the JAWBONE Act to stop that coercion.

[Carolyn Iodice @CarolynIodice]

Today, Sens. Cruz & Wyden introduced a great anti-jawboning bill. It:

▶️ creates a statutory ban on jawboning involving social media, AI, and broadcasters

▶️ lets victims sue the government, and

▶️ requires transparency so we can catch government jawboning when it happens

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No one should lose the freedom to speak their mind.

Stand with America's largest free speech movement. Stand with FIRE.

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“If there should be disloyalty,” Woodrow Wilson wrote in a letter to Congress, “it will be dealt with a firm hand of repression.”

Wilson didn’t just wage war overseas. At home, his administration waged a war on civil liberties.

https://t.co/ayIzSOtgJ2

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How do you weaponize fear?

Ask Woodrow Wilson, America’s worst free speech president.

During WWI, the Espionage Act and Sedition Act were used to prosecute thousands for anti-war speech, jail critics, and restrict dissent, reshaping what Americans could say.

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What holds 340 million Americans together? Justice Breyer joins Jeff on this episode of "The Blessings of Liberty" podcast to discuss the First Amendment, the rule of law, and America’s great experiment.

Listen and subscribe today! ⬇️ https://t.co/FbIM2ZMSLm

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When we read the First Amendment, the Five Freedoms are ordered this way:

1️⃣ Religion
2️⃣ Speech
3️⃣ Press
4️⃣ Assembly
5️⃣ Petition

But what’s the reason why? Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer tells FIRE Senior Fellow @RosenJeffrey his thoughts.

🎧: @JeffreyRosenPod

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4/ Under current law, victims often don’t know the government jawboned their speech, and they have few avenues to get justice. The JAWBONE Act would fix that.

We thank Sens. Cruz and Wyden for their leadership and urge Congress to pass this bill.

https://t.co/keyKfQcLJT

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Government officials can’t legally censor protected speech, but they can strong-arm private parties into doing it for them. That’s called jawboning, and it violates your First Amendment rights.

We’re supporting the JAWBONE Act to stop that coercion.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

3/ Jawboning isn’t only attempted by one party or the other.

For example, under Biden, documents showed officials pressuring platforms to delete or limit views on elections and COVID-19. Under Trump, ABC faced regulatory threats tied to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension after a joke.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I knew Wilson was terrible BEFORE it was cool!

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John will join us to explore what it takes to keep universities intellectually open in an increasingly polarized era.

Secure your ticket now!

📅 November 4–6, 2026
📍 Philadelphia, PA
https://t.co/kOOidHCUFa

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John Tomasi is the inaugural president of @HdxAcademy and will be joining us at Soapbox, our free speech conference.

Under his leadership, HxA has become one of the most visible voices pushing for academic freedom and pluralism amid growing pressure on universities.

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Free speech has been one of America’s most revolutionary ideas. Now, we invite you to a celebration 250 years in the making.

This is Soapbox, FIRE’s free speech conference.

Tickets are now on sale.

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Think the First Amendment has always worked the way it does today? Not even close.

But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t free speech in the early Republic — and the First Amendment's origin story proves it.

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🔗: https://t.co/bPZBtXoMJ8

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Students benefit from real intellectual tension. But on too many campuses, serious disagreement is becoming harder to find.

The question now is whether universities will rebuild the conditions that make open inquiry possible.

🖊️ @jcfarber
📰 @thedispatch

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A new study finds that donations from faculty at top universities have become increasingly one-sided, with the range of opinion concentrated on the left.

In fact, the average faculty donor is only slightly less left-leaning than Senator Bernie Sanders.

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🔗: https://t.co/ZpIFU6SbIz

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We’re one bad deal away from the era of online government censorship. The White House and Congress are negotiating away your rights as we speak.

FIRE urges lawmakers to reject any deal that includes the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and age verification requirements.

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4/ A legal education that avoids opposing viewpoints risks producing lawyers unprepared for real-world conflict. Their training depends on an open exchange of ideas in class.

Our new report examines the climate for free expression in law schools.👇

https://t.co/yERwaBgzUR

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Eight in ten law professors say a liberal would be a good fit at their law school… but fewer than half say the same about a conservative.

New data from our survey of law school faculty raises a broader question: How do different viewpoints fit within legal education?

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3/ Liberals outnumber conservatives roughly three to one in this sample, yet the majority say DEI statements are never or rarely justified in hiring decisions, while only a quarter say they are often or always justified, suggesting resistance to ideological screening.