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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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AI

When the Watchmen Are Silenced, the Gates Are Left Open

December 27, 2025 Martin Mawyer via the Patriot Majority Report 0
The Watchman’s role is moral, not political. He is accountable not for outcomes, but for truth. Every society depends on such Watchmen. They are the ones willing to speak uncomfortable truths before the threat is obvious, before it is too late to respond. Today, many of the most important Watchmen are inside the technology systems that increasingly govern our lives.

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Academia

School District Pays $650k to Teachers Fired for Opposing Gender Ideology Policy

December 13, 2025 Decision magazine Staff 2
“Educators are free to express opinions on fundamental issues of public concern—like gender identity education policy—that implicate the freedoms of teachers, parents, and students,” ADF Legal Counsel Matthew Hoffmann said. “The Grants Pass School District is taking the right step by acknowledging that teachers don’t give up their First Amendment rights when they set foot on school property. Public schools can’t retaliate against speech simply because they disagree with what’s said.”

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Censorship

Trump-Era Task Force Exposes Widespread Anti-Christian Bias Under Biden Administration

September 13, 2025 Saah Arnold via Town Hall 4
The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, chaired by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, outlined in its preliminary report a pattern of federal agencies targeting people of faith, especially Christians, through regulatory overreach, selective enforcement, and outright discrimination. The report is based on investigations and case studies collected over the past several months.

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Censorship

The UK Goes Full Orwell

August 30, 2025 Daniel Greenfield via Jihad Watch 1
Recent court hearings revealed that officials had stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into. Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.

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Censorship

First Amendment Triumph: IRS Recognizes Pastors’ Right to Free Speech

July 12, 2025 Zach Smith via the Daily Signal 3
From the beginning, the Johnson Amendment was designed to stifle politically disfavored speech. After all, that may have been one of the motivating factors behind LBJ adding this statutory language. But what should have been clear all along has now been made explicit: Neither statutory language nor the IRS’ interpretation of it can trump the Constitution. Americans have a First Amendment right to freely exercise their faith and a First Amendment right to freely speak their minds, especially on religious and political issues and how the two arenas intersect.

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Academia

A battle over religion and schools in Oklahoma could decide the future of the First Amendment

April 4, 2025 Lawrence Hurley via NBC News 4
Under Walters’ watch, the state approved the first ever religious virtual public charter school, a provocative move that is now before the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the move next month. He has also proposed placing Bibles in schools, a move that was recently blocked by the state Supreme Court, and is seeking to add more Christian-related themes to the curriculum, including information about the Ten Commandments.

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Education

St. Louis Schools Ordered to Pay $90,000 Each to Two Employees in COVID Vaccine Mandate Suit

March 15, 2025 Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. via Children's Health Defense 0
“The District’s alleged Policy put Plaintiffs to a choice: compromise their convictions or lose their livelihoods,” U.S. Chief District Judge Stephen R. Clark wrote. “Restrictions impermissibly infringing on constitutional rights, like the right to freely exercise one’s religion, spread across the country like a virus.” more here…

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