Free Speech For People has generated significant coverage of our work. This coverage has included op-ed placements in the following publications: Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time Magazine, 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, The Young Turks, The Bill Press Show, and MSNBC, among others.
The following are links to our 2015-2017 print media coverage:
Challenging Foreign Corporate Money in Elections
- Tampa Bay Times: Is the Sunshine City headed to the U.S. Supreme Court? St. Pete passes historic campaign finance limits, faces likely legal challenge
- Boston Globe: How Massachusetts can fight foreign influence in our elections
- Tampa Bay Times: Defend Our Democracy ordinance means limiting big money and foreign influence in elections can start right in St. Petersburg
- 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
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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Anti-Corruption Initiatives and Impeachment Campaign
- Washington Post: The public has a right to hear Stormy Daniels, Mr. President
- The Hill: Trump’s ‘treason’ talk is unprecedented, un-American
- Truthout: Trump Officials are Exploring Mass Arrests of U.S. Mayors
- Common Dreams: Legal Advocacy Group Calls for Urgent Release of Pentagon Information on Trump’s Proposed Military Parade in Washington, D.C.
- US News and World Report: There’s No Such Thing as Collusion
- Yes! Magazine: The Man Leading the Charge for Trump’s Impeachment
- Washington Post: Legal challenge to Arpaio pardon begins
- The Progressive: The Case for Impeachment
- Politico: Fake news could prove vexing in Mueller probe
- Reuters: Campaign urges U.S. public pension funds to divest from owner of Trump hotel
- Politico: Cities join call for impeachment
- Common Dreams: Harvard Professor Tribe Joins the Call for an Impeachment Investigation
- US News and World Report: Lining Trump’s Pockets
- Huffington Post: Watchdog Calls on New York Attorney General to Probe Foreign Funds in Trump Organization
- Washington Post: Group urges New York AG to put Trump out of business by revoking charter
- The Independent: Donald Trump has violated the US Constitution and should be impeached by Congress, two legal experts say
- Time Magazine: Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump
- Newsweek: Will Trump be Allowed to Defy the Constitution
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28th Amendment & Overturning Citizens United
- The American Prospect: Net Neutrality and the Danger of a Corporatized Democracy
- Common Dreams: The Fight for Democracy
- Slate: This Lawsuit in Alaska Could Upend the Campaign Finance Landscape
- Austin American Statesman: Texas Should Help Overturn Citizens United
- The Hill: Trump’s link to private prisons proves why Citizens United must go
- Greenfield Recorder: McGovern introduces bill seeking to remove big money influence in elections
- 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
- Berkshire Edge: News Briefs: Legislature to consider ‘An Act to Strengthen Civil Rights’; Lenox Dems to caucus
- 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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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 Hill: Facebook’s Shareholders Deserve Answers
- Wired: Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty
- Boston Globe: Massachusetts bill would bar companies from citing religious exemptions
- US News and World Report: Bill seeks to bar companies from seeking religious exemptions
- Berkshire Edge: Massachusetts Legislature to Consider ‘An Act to Strengthen Civil 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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