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Why Georgia's Latest Assault on Free Speech Is So Chilling
The over-criminalization of opposition to the "Cop City" police training facility is the natural consequence of years of anti-democracy and government lies
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Texas Anti-Porn Law Blocked in Crucial Win for Free Speech Advocates
The tide has begun to turn against states with GOP-backed legislation restricting access to adult websites
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Trump Keeps Musing About Journalists Being Raped in Prison — He's Not Joking
A knowledgeable source tells Rolling Stone that the former president has wondered how he might be able to jail reporters if he retakes the White House
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A Sin City Murder, an Arrest, and Now a First Amendment Showdown
A politician stands accused of killing investigative journalist Jeff German, and it's opened up a scary question: What's more important, a murder investigation or the freedom of the press?
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Trumpists Call on Supreme Court to Let States 'Establish Religion Within Their Borders'
America First Legal, whose team includes several Trump administration officials, wants the court's conservative majority to "eventually disincorporate" the First Amendment's establishment clause
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A Florida Free Speech Professor Discusses Ron DeSantis' Assault on the First Amendment
The MAGA-friendly governor just signed a bill mandating students and faculty at Florida's public universities be surveyed on their beliefs. What does it mean for the future of free speech?
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Conservatives Only Have Themselves to Blame for Trump's Facebook Ban
Republicans have long fought for corporate power — and it's exactly that power that gives Facebook the freedom to kick him off
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Flashback: Hustler Magazine Scores First Amendment Victory Against Jerry Falwell
When a porn-mag editor took on a leader of the Religious Right, it went all the way to the Supreme Court – and still has a lasting impact on satire
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Larry Flynt, 'Hustler' Founder and First Amendment Activist, Dead at 78
His famed legal battles — which he took to the Supreme Court — are memorialized in the 1996 film 'The People Versus Larry Flynt'
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