Constitutional Lawyers Call for Criminal Investigations into Paramount and Skydance’s Multi-Million Dollar Payments to Trump Posted on July 31, 2025 Challenging Corruption Free Speech For People (FSFP) has formally requested that the Attorneys General of California and New York and the District Attorneys of Manhattan and Los Angeles initiate criminal investigations into Donald Trump’s scheme to obtain millions of dollars from Paramount Global and Skydance Media and to force changes to the news and entertainment content ofRead More
US House Leadership Receives Nearly 1 Million Signatures Calling for Impeachment Proceedings Against President Trump Posted on July 23, 2025 (July 29, 2025) Impeachment Free Speech For People, Women’s March delivered signatures gathered by the Impeach Trump Again Campaign. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2025) – Today, Free Speech For People and Women’s March, following a press conference with Rep. Al Green (TX-09), delivered nearly one million petition signatures to the leadership of the House Judiciary Committee, urging Congress to beginRead More
Background Briefing: Latest Effort By Trump Operatives to Access Voting Machines Appears Connected to 2020-2022 Multi-state Scheme by Trump Allies to Obtain Voting Software Posted on July 21, 2025 Election Protection New bombshell reporting from the Washington Post revealed that an operative sought access to voting equipment in Colorado on behalf of the Trump administration. This effort to access voting systems by Trump allies appears to be a continuation of the multi-state scheme by operatives hired by Trump attorneys that occurred in 2020-2022, and resulted inRead More
The Election Integrity Foundation (EIF) and Free Speech For People (FSFP) to Co-host “Symposium on Election Security; Separating Fact from Fiction” at the annual DEF CON Computer Security Conference Posted on July 16, 2025 Election Protection Presentations will focus on providing impartial facts and ground truth about election technology security strengths and weaknesses, uninfluenced by politics or posturing. Following the 2020 election, unfounded claims of election rigging were frequently repeated, often improperly conflating actual (or sometimes fictitious) voting system vulnerabilities with evidence of actual fraud. Similar patterns have emerged since theRead More
A Federal Judge in Maine Has Blocked Maine Voters’ Decision to End Super PACs. This Decision Should Be Reversed on Appeal Posted on July 16, 2025 (August 4, 2025) Challenging Super PACs On July 15, 2025, a magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court of Maine granted a permanent injunction to block a Maine state law that would end independent expenditure political action committees that can receive unlimited contributions (super PACs) in Maine. The law—arising out of a 2024 ballot measure that passed with overwhelming support ofRead More
“Attack on the Rule of Law,” Public Interest Group Calls for Criminal Investigations into Trump’s Extortion of Law Firms in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts Posted on July 15, 2025 (July 29, 2025) Challenging Corruption New Letters Follow Similar Letters Free Speech For People Issued to State and Local Prosecutors in New York and Pennsylvania (BOSTON, MA) – Free Speech For People, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization, submitted letters today to the Attorneys General of California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, and the relevant district attorneys in each jurisdiction, to launchRead More
Free Speech For People’s Statement on First Circuit’s Decision to Temporarily Block Maine’s Ban on Foreign Government-Influenced Corporate Political Spending Posted on July 14, 2025 (July 14, 2025) Challenging Super PACs On July 11, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a federal district court ruling that temporarily blocked a state law to prohibit corporations significantly owned or influenced by foreign governments from spending in Maine local and state elections. As a result, foreign-government-influenced corporations remain temporarily able to spend freely inRead More
Free Speech For People Seeking to Hire Public Interest Attorney Posted on July 9, 2025 FSFP Updates Free Speech For People is seeking a public interest attorney, preferably with constitutional law, social justice, and/or election law experience, to join a cutting-edge non-profit fighting for democracy. Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was founded on the day of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision in January 2010. We’ve been workingRead More
Free Speech For People’s Tribute to Bill Moyers Posted on June 27, 2025 (June 27, 2025) All of us at Free Speech For People are deeply saddened by the news of Bill Moyers’s passing. Bill was an extraordinary human being. His legendary work as a journalist for more than four decades, as a close advisor and press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, and as a courageous champion for our democracy allRead More
Free Speech For People Remarks on House Impeachment Vote Posted on June 24, 2025 (July 7, 2025) Impeachment Free Speech For People released a statement following today’s House impeachment vote, the first of Trump’s second term: We commend Congressman Al Green for his courage and his leadership in forcing a House floor vote on his article of impeachment against Donald Trump for directly violating the War Powers Clause of the US Constitution inRead More