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FIRE filed a petition on June 17 calling on President Joe Biden to posthumously pardon D.M. Bennett, one of the Comstock Act’s most prominent victims.

H.R. 6090 threatens free expression on campus by pressuring schools to police speech under a vague and overbroad definition of anti-Semitism.

Demand state police develop and implement policies that ensure our First Amendment rights.

Imagine being silenced and escorted out of a public meeting for holding your local government officials accountable. That’s exactly what happened in Salt Lake City.

Texas lawmakers are censoring first and asking questions later. This doesn’t make anyone safer; it just silences essential conversations.

Stand with Rebekah and tell the Surprise City Council to rescind its unconstitutional rule. Together, let’s ensure our voices are heard and our rights are upheld.

After students painted different slogans about the Israel-Hamas war on the rocks, UT Dallas announced that the rocks would be removed because, the school claimed, political messages were inconsistent with the rocks’ original purpose. But since UT Dallas has continuously allowed the rocks to be used for political expression, it cannot now limit that speech or cut it off entirely because it does not like the views expressed. 

Join FIREand remind American University’s leadership that the expressive and associational rights of its students must remain protected. 

Tell Columbia to cultivate a better climate for free expression by realigning itself with its own promises to protect free speech. Only then can Columbia bounce back from this year’s ranking.