The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took a crucial step forward to increase transparency and accountability by hiring someone who has first-hand experience of the systemic toxic culture at the VA. Brandon Coleman, a Marine veteran who worked at the …
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver recently issued an op-ed pledging to protect voters’ privacy. The hypocrisy of Secretary Oliver ensuring New Mexicans right to privacy is almost comical. As the saying goes, actions speak louder than words. …
This week two hearings will take place in Albuquerque and Las Cruces on a measure to stifle free speech in the state of New Mexico. Governor Susana Martinez vetoed legislation earlier this year that would have forced organizations into exposing …
Fifty-eight years ago last week, the Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment and the right of groups to protect their members’ identities. NAACP v. Alabama is a reminder that threats against free speech take many forms. To quell the civil …
As seen in the Albuquerque Journal. When citizens can’t speak out or have a say in how their country is run, government power grows. In the worst cases, it grows until it is absolute, held through force and fear. In …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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), …
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 …