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Ninth Circuit Issues Landmark Religious Liberty Decision

January 10, 2026 John Stonestreet 0
The court’s decision also reminds us of a critical truth: Faith is personal, but it is not private. Religious liberty doesn’t just protect our rights to believe in the privacy of our heads, our hearts, our homes, or our houses of worship. The First Amendment protects religious exercise, the active, practical living out of one’s deepest-held conviction, including the building and running of organizations designed to apply those convictions to the challenges and struggles of life.

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Censorship

Worst Censorship of 2025: Big Tech Targeted Right-Leaning Media, Trump, Faith and Life

January 6, 2026 Catherine Salgado via mrcFreeSpeech America 1
While the Big Four digital news gatekeepers aggressively pushed elitist media, artificial intelligence chatbots tried to undermine President Donald Trump and his AI agenda. Meanwhile, platforms like Bluesky and YouTube suppressed posts from Vice President JD Vance and an interview of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, respectively. Other social media platforms censored faith and the pro-life message, with Instagram covering up the truth about abortion, and X suppressing Bible verses and anti-terrorism messages from the Israeli government.

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The UK Is Coming For Free Speech In America: Can They?

January 3, 2026 Max Thompson via Free Speech Union 2
Earlier this year, VP J.D. Vance carped at UK’s Starmer that free speech violations in the UK are a threat to “American technology companies”; there was no mention of American citizens. The only concern is that the UK wants to levy huge fines against US-based tech giants like X, Google, and Facebook. Tech giants fight against any form of regulation by national governments, especially when it affects their bottom line.

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Censorship

U.S. Sanctions Starmer-Linked ‘Radical Activist’ NGO Boss at Centre of Censorship Scandal Against Breitbart

January 2, 2026 Oliver JJ Lane via Breitbart News 2
Imran Ahmed, a British citizen and the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the notorious censorship and deplatforming outfit which defined its central mission as “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and is closely linked to the inner circle of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, has been sanctioned by the United States government.

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Europe Declares War On Free Speech In The US

December 29, 2025 Jonathan Turley via The Hill 1
Is Europe gone mad? The cesspool of anti-free speech is declaring itself to be the “free world” and the US as its enemy? When I wrote just yesterday that 2026 could be the year when Free Speech dies in America, this is what I meant. Remember Nina Jankowicz who ran the Disinformation Governance Board for Biden? She’s back and she hates America all the more. Now is the time to speak up or forever hold your peace. 

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Academia

Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues

December 23, 2025 Michael Tennant via The New American 1
In other words, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Education … require school board members across New York to self-censor and shut down parent speech that advocates for their core values and for children’s privacy, safety, and opportunity. If school board members and parents disagree with Defendants’ viewpoint, they cannot speak. If they do speak, school board members risk being removed from their elected offices, and school board members and parents alike risk being publicly and falsely branded a bully and harasser of children.

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AI

We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime

December 14, 2025 Tyler Durden via Zero Hedge 0
Further, citizens in countries outside of the E.U., like the United States, are at risk of facing new levels of censorship, because the DSA applies to large online digital platforms and search engines accessed within the E.U. but that have a global presence. It explicitly states its extraterritorial applicability as it covers platforms used by people “that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services [the platforms] have their place of establishment.”

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