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January 15, 2021

WSJ: Pelosi’s Top Priority: Consolidating Power

"The bill requires some nonprofits to disclose publicly the names of donors who give more than $10,000, even if those groups aren’t taking part in candidate elections. The left’s pressure groups and media will then stigmatize donors." Read More »

January 12, 2021

WSJ: Donor Privacy at the Supreme Court

Privacy is vital to freedom of association, as the Supreme Court recognized in 1958, when it held that the state of Alabama could not demand the NAACP’s membership lists. Read More »

January 11, 2021

Supreme Court Takes Up Case on Protecting Americans from Intimidation

The Supreme Court will hear AFPF v. Becerra, a case about freeing people from intimidation by those in power and defending their right to engage on issues they’re passionate about. Read More »

December 9, 2020

Lawmaker to Shame New Yorkers Who Donate to Anti-SALT Candidates

Unfortunately, here's another example of a politician weaponizing a donor list to shame and intimidate people for their beliefs, instead of engaging in a productive policy debate. Read More »

December 9, 2020 - PUFP Staff

91% of Americans believe they have less privacy compared to a few years ago

The results of our latest poll are not surprising. We must work together to keep putting pressure on our elected officials to protect citizen privacy. Read More »

November 9, 2020

For Senate Democrats, campaign money couldn’t buy happiness

Money did not prove decisive for Democrats in hotly contested Senate races, despite a combined Democratic fundraising advantage over $200 million. Read More »

November 9, 2020

AOC wants to cancel those who worked for Trump. Good luck with that, they say.

“Making a list of your political enemies and promising that they will get payback and people will go after them because they worked for a different political party is literally fascism.” Read More »

November 2, 2020

The Solicitor General Should Tell the Supreme Court to Hear Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra

The Court should hear the case. And the acting solicitor general should not be too timid to urge the Court to do so. Read More »

October 29, 2020

The right to remain silent

One of our greatest freedoms is the right to remain silent — to mind our own business. But today, some activists threaten shaming and even violence against those who don’t take the initiative to endorse what they deem to be politically correct. Read More »

October 21, 2020

Sheldon Whitehouse’s ‘dark money’ screed undercuts democracy

This paranoid assault on political speech needs to be put to rest. The United States’s philanthropic culture is one of the hallmarks of our democracy and has been used to advance policy for the better on both the Left and Right. Read More »