Embracing viewpoint diversity and learning to engage with different opinions is a key defense against the ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality that divides communities.

Do you know someone hard-working, principled, and passionate about free speech?

FIRE is hiring! Check out our open positions in our bio and apply to join our growing team of free speech advocates 🔥

FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative hotline has been busy with calls from student journalists facing pushback over their campus protest coverage.

Here’s how student journalists can safely exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms.
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Whether you want to protest in opposition to something or you’d like to demonstrate your support for a person or cause, the First Amendment has you covered. 🔥

I am eternally grateful to all our supporters over the years & to everybody who responded so positively to this post. It can sometimes feel like principled people are few & far between, but there are enough of us to sustain our rights for generations to come if we work together.…

Defending free speech never looked so good! 😉

Get your FIRE Membership Card today and help defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and thought.

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NEW POLL: A new FIRE poll reveals only 34% of Americans expressed high confidence that either Joe Biden or Donald Trump would protect First Amendment rights in office.

Americans fear the future of free speech no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election.

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Defending civil liberties is not for everyone.

Some days you defend the rights of people you admire.

Other days you defend the rights of people you find repugnant.

Writer H.L. Mencken said it best when he observed that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one…

A recent AP poll found that only 3 in 10 Americans think our democracy is functioning well.

We found similar trends.

FIRE's National Speech Index found that two-thirds of Americans are concerned about how freedom of speech is heading in this country. thefire.org/news/survey-sh…

Qualified immunity shields government officials from accountability for violating people’s rights.

It was meant to help officials work more efficiently, but it has mostly made it easier for the government to get away with constitutional violations.
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VICTORY! After FIRE wrote Sterling about its unconstitutional censorship of “disparaging” comments at town meetings, the moderator did not announce or enforce any such ban at this week's meeting. And FIRE's public records request confirmed no such ban exists in written policy.

'The greatest problems of the last century have arrived from certainty, particularly moral certainty.'

FIRE's President and CEO Greg Lukianoff brought the 🔥 this morning in his commencement address at USF Health Medicine, reminding graduates that curiosity is good for our society.

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