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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Justice Ginsburg and the Value of Anonymity
For people who challenge the powerful in the name of individual rights, anonymity and privacy are essential safeguards. Read More »
Donor Disclosure is Code for Donor-Based Discrimination
Government by condescension is not what our Declaration of Independence created. But that is where we may end up if we are not vigilant. Read More »
94% of Americans support protecting citizen privacy
The results of a recent poll send a clear message to our elected officials: Protect Citizen Privacy. Read More »
New ad disclaimers silence activists
Laws like these silence speech, create confusion, and discourage individuals from contributing for groups they would otherwise support. Read More »
Cancel culture and speech regulation make a toxic mix
When we discourage citizens from supporting the causes they believe in, we make our country weaker. Democracy doesn’t work without deliberation. Read More »