Free Speech For People has generated significant coverage of our work. This coverage has included op-ed placements in the following publications: Washington Post, Fox News, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, US News & World Report, Huffington Post, The Blaze, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Albany Times Union, Raleigh News & Observer, San Jose Mercury News, Honolulu Star Advertiser, The Billings-Gazette, The Wichita Eagle, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Roll Call, Daily Caller, Grist, and Truthout. In addition, Free Speech For People has served as expert commentators on Democracy NOW!, The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, and MSNBC, among others.
The following are links to our 2015 to 2016 print media coverage:
Ending Super PACs
- Washington Post: Legal team seeking to undo super PACs files suit to push FEC to act
- Washington Post: Can super PACs be put back in the box?
- Newsweek: Who Blew the Lid Off Campaign Contributions
- Boston Globe: The Birth of the Super PAC
- US News and World Report: The Beginning of the End of the Super PAC?
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28th Amendment & Overturning Citizens United
- American Constitution Society Blog: The Top Five Myths About the Democracy For All Amendment
- American Constitution Society Blog: After ‘Citizens United’: From Law Reviews to Litigation
- The Daily Caller: Why GOP state leaders should support a constitutional amendment
- The Hill: Clinton’s shift on campaign finance and why we need a 28th amendment
- Sojourners: People of God v. Citizens United
- The Blaze: Don’t Let the Koch Brothers be Kingmakers
- The Blaze: Cracking Down on Corrupt Campaign Cash
- Roll Call: A Bold Step Forward in Challenging Citizens United
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: For Real Democracy
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The Supreme Court & A New Jurisprudence
- The Hill: A democracy agenda for a post-Scalia Supreme Court
- American Constitution Society Blog: After ‘Citizens United’: From Law Reviews to Litigation
- Reuters: When the Supreme Court is this wrong, it’s time to overrule them
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Political Equality & The Wealth Primary
- Common Dreams: Citizens United, the First Amendment, and the Ballot
- Common Dreams: Abolishing the Wealth Primary – The New Poll Tax in America
- Truthout: Big Money in Politics Threatens Political and Racial Equality
- American Constitution Society Blog: Putting Political Equality Before the Courts in Campaign Finance Cases
- The Nation: How the Money Primary is Undermining Voting Rights
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Our St. Petersburg Campaign
- YES! Magazine: Florida Town Proposes a Ban on Super PACs – What Could Happen?
- American Prospect: Plotting the End of Super PACs
- Tampa Bay Times: Keep super PAC cash out of St. Petersburg Elections
- Boston Globe: Get foreign political money out of US elections
Fair Courts & Judicial Elections
- US News and World Report: Your Right to a Fair Trial, On Trial
- The Daily Caller: When Judges Pass the Collection Plate, Justice Suffers
- Salon: Retired judge unloads on hypocritical Supreme Court
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Corporate Constitutional Rights
- The Daily Caller: Apple, The FBI, And The Real Meaning Of The First Amendment
- Truthout: Apple’s Fight With the FBI is the Corporate Personhood Case of 2016
- Truthout: There’s Never Been a Better Time To Be a Corporation
- US News and World Report: How Apple Could Best the FBI
- Boston Globe: Apple vs. FBI is not a free speech matter
- The Hill: Marriage Equality and Corporate Litigation
- Newsweek: Corporations are Perverting the Notion of Free Speech
- Truthout: Why Personhood Matters
- Los Angeles Daily News: Why Judges Should Stay Out of the Minimum Wage Debate
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Millennials & Money in Politics
- The Hill: We the millennials, in order to form a more perfect democracy
- Common Dreams: The real cost of higher education
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