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05.31.2017

New Mexico Is Trying to Stifle Free Speech—Again!

Veterans and other residents of New Mexico are seeing their rights to free speech and free association threatened once again. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is trying to use her position to implement free-speech-killing rules without going through the …

05.16.2017

“Whistleblowers Are Getting Crushed”—VA Staffers Speak Out About Retaliation

Whistleblowers who call attention to the culture of corruption at the Department of Veterans Affairs deserve thanks for standing up for veterans. It was VA employees who exposed the secret wait list scandal at the VA Health Center in Phoenix …

05.12.2017

New protections may be on the way for VA whistleblowers

Employees who shed light on the culture of corruption at the Department of Veterans Affairs may soon get new protection from retaliation. For years now, employees at medical centers and administrative offices around the country have exposed mismanagement, mistreatment, fraud, …

03.20.2017

Free speech threatened in New Mexico

Free speech is under threat in New Mexico. A new bill, S.B. 96, would allow the state government to access its citizens’ private information, including the causes they support. This move, much like a similar bill in South Carolina (S.255), …

03.14.2017

South Carolina bill attacks free speech

As seen in PJ Media On Tuesday, South Carolina’s Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing about S.255, a measure to change state campaign finance law which would crack down on individuals’ free speech to criticize politicians. The law would allow the …

02.20.2017

Op-ed: This President’s Day, defend the First Amendment

As seen in The Hill By Mark Lucas In many ways, free speech is the right that protects all others, reinforcing every freedom that we hold dear and that so many have fought and died for. This Presidents’ Day, we …

02.15.2017

Anti-free speech bill introduced in South Carolina

Free speech is in danger in South Carolina. State Senator Hugh Leatherman (R-SC) recently introduced S.255, a bill that would allow the government to access the private information of South Carolina residents in an attempt to learn what causes they …

02.14.2017

Op-ed: Disclosure bill would chill free speech

As seen in The State By Steven Diaz As a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, I sacrificed to defend American freedoms and democratic values across the world. I never thought I’d have to defend those same freedoms against my …

01.03.2017

Why I Spoke Up

Brandon Coleman | Phoenix VA Whistleblower All Americans have freedom of speech, but I learned the hard way that government agencies sometimes prefer we don’t exercise that freedom. I spoke up about problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital …

12.15.2016

VA Employees Uneasy About Speaking Against the VA

A telling sign of the toxic culture at the Department of Veterans Affairs is that when something wrong or just inappropriate is happening, few feel they can speak up and put an end to it. Several whistleblowers in Louisville say …

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