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RECAP: Actions Across the Country Coincides With Letters to Secretaries of State Urging Them to Uphold Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and Bar Trump from the Ballot.
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Challenging Corruption

Last month, Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota launched a series of actions to mark the 155th anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and to urge election officials across the country to enforce Section 3 of that constitutional amendment, also known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, and bar Donald Trump from the
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Advocates Win Security, Transparency Improvements in Pennsylvania Elections, Settlement reached with Secretary of State Schmidt in voting machine lawsuit
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Election Protection

HARRISBURG, PA – Election security advocates from the National Election Defense Coalition and the Pennsylvania-based Citizens for Better Elections have entered into a binding legal settlement with Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt. The settlement resolves a legal challenge to the ES&S ExpressVote XL voting machines used for in-person voting in Philadelphia, Northampton, and Cumberland
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FSFP President John Bonifaz Featured in The Nation Magazine: “The Biggest Threat to Donald Trump Could Be the Constitution Itself”
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Challenging Corruption

The Nation recently published a new article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and the question of whether or not former president Trump can be disqualified from the ballot. The piece features FSFP President John Bonifaz discussing the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause and the ongoing campaign to pressure chief election officials to abide by the
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Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund’s Statement on the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Indictment of Donald Trump
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Challenging Corruption

Free Speech For People (a national nonpartisan public interest legal advocacy organization that, in 2022, filed the first challenges, and conducted the first trial under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause in 150 years) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (a national civic engagement non-profit organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promote
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Free Speech For People, Common Cause NY and Public Citizen oppose the certification of the ExpressVote XL from Election Systems & Software (ES&S) in New York State
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Election Protection

On July 28, 2023, Free Speech For People, Common Cause NY and Public Citizen submitted a letter to the New York State Board of Elections urging it to reject the ExpressVote XL, an all-in-one ballot marking device and tabulator.  The organizations cite New York State’s Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 (ERMA 2005), §
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New FSFP Video: President Biden Must Instruct the National Archivist to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment
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Democracy Amendments

Check out our new video featuring FSFP Legal Counsel Courtney Hostetler, Kate Kelly Esq. of Equal Rights Action, and Claudia Nachega of Generation Ratify, on why President Biden must instruct the National Archivist to certify the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Sign our petition and demand action here.
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Public Interest Groups Renew Call for US Commission on Civil Rights to Revoke Appointment of Election Denier to Election Assistance Commission Board of Advisors
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Election Protection

The letter contends that the views and actions of Cleta Mitchell, who was deeply enmeshed in former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 federal election, are incompatible with the missions of both commissions. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 19, 2023) – Free Speech For People and Generation Vote issued a letter today to the U.S. Commission
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“Election Officials Must Carry Out Their Duty,” Letters to Secretaries of State Make the Case for Why Trump is Constitutionally Barred from the Ballot
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Challenging Corruption

Under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection bars him from holding public office. BOSTON, MA (July 12, 2023) – Free Speech For People (FSFP) and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) issued letters today to Secretaries of State and chief election officials in nine states, urging them to
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“A tool of discrimination”: FSFP Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues SCOTUS ruling on LGBTQ+ discrimination could undo decades of progress for historically marginalized groups.
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Supreme Court

In a recent op-ed published in The Hill, Free Speech For People Chairman and Senior Legal Advisor Ben Clements argues that the Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis not only greenlights discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community, but it opens the door to legalizing discrimination against historically marginalized groups: “The court’s
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“Trump is Disqualified,” Week of Action Marks 155th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
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Challenging Corruption

Actions across the country from July 9th to July 15th highlight Trump’s ineligibility under the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 10, 2023) – Free Speech For People and MiFamilia Vota on Sunday launched a week of action to urge election officials across the country to bar Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3
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