Suppress & Punish Free Speech
2022
2022-05-25 Beto O’Rourke was physically removed from Governor Greg Abbott’s Uvalde shooting press conference after criticizing state gun policies.
2022-11-05 A pastor at Stuarts Draft Baptist Church was fired for delivering a sermon in opposition to Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h098Z6g6pCE&list=WL&index=7
2025 June
2025-06-11 Karoline Leavitt claimed that Trump was a champion for the First Amendment at the same time Trump threatened to sue or revoke licenses of networks that didn’t agree with him. She herself revoked press credentials for anyone in the press pool that didn’t refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America”.
https://www.freedomforum.org/trump-white-house-associated-press-first-amendment
https://www.yahoo.com/news/leavitt-storms-press-briefing-over-195442782.html
2025 September
2025-09-11 The dean of Tennessee University was fired over a ‘zero sympathy’ post about Charlie Kirk.
2025-09-13 American Airlines pilots were fired for talking negatively about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1966943501444415920
2025-09-13 An Office Depot employee was fired for refusing to print Charlie Kirk posters, calling them propaganda.
2025-09-15 Republicans mused over censorship on social media to ban any negative commentary about Charlie Kirk. Speaker Mike Johnson said, “social media has been a toxin in politics” while White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson claimed, “President Trump is a champion for free speech”.
2025-09-15 Multiple people were fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk’s death, while Republicans openly celebrated the Pelosi assault, mocked the death of Minnesota senators, celebrated the killing of George Floyd, suggested euthanizing homeless people, and made sexual assault jokes about Kamala Harris. And then kept their jobs.
https://apnews.com/article/dowd-msnbc-kirk-comments-e08f349022c9d69171cd575664141075
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/perkins-coie-fires-lawyer-over-this-charlie-kirk-post/
https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1966626714148368766
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teachers-punishment-social-media-posts-173737509.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
2025-09-15 JD Vance urged listeners of the Charlie Kirk podcast to call out people celebrating or minimizing Kirk’s death and added, “Call their employers”, encouraging viewers to outwardly doxx people and put their safety and well-being at risk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-reviewing-service-members-social-media-posts-on-charlie-kirk/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/jd-vance-doxing-charlie-kirk-critics
2025-09-19 All 9 Supreme Court Justices agreed that the government cannot coerce businesses to suppress views.
2025-09-25 An Austin Peay State University professor was fired over a post about Charlie Kirk the school deemed too insensitive.
2025 October
2025-10-28 A Tennessee man was arrested in Perry County and jailed for over 30 days for posting an online meme of President Trump. He wasn’t released until his arrest made headlines.
2025 November
2025-11-19 Sixteen-year veteran of the FBI David Maltinsky was fired for displaying a Pride flag.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-lawsuit-employee-fired-pride-flag/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/veteran-fbi-employee-sues-fired-pride-flag
2025 December
2025-12-03 A Colorado Springs teacher was indefinitely suspended after she disclosed upcoming revisions to limit teaching about anti-slavery activism or contributions of Frederick Douglass.
https://www.fox21news.com/news/d11-fifth-grade-teacher-could-lose-her-job/
2026 January
2026-01-16 The Justice Department accused Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of fraud and conspiracy related to immigration enforcement
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-opens-criminal-probe-targeting-minnesota/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/06/timeline-of-fraud-investigations-that-shaped-walz-tenure
2026 February
2026-02-03 DHS submitted an administrative subpoena against a 67-year-old man from Pennsylvania after he wrote an email to them asking to “apply principles of common sense and decency” in their treatment of a man seeking asylum from Afghanistan. DHS issued the subpoena to Google just hours after the man sent the email so they could access the man’s computer and Gmail. Two weeks later, they showed up to his front door for questioning. The ACLU had to get involved to challenge the subpoena and the violation of his First Amendment rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
2026-02-14 DHS reportedly requested identifying information on online users critical of ICE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-orders-tech-giants-to-unmask-anti-ice-accounts/
2026 April
2026-04-08 Pentagon official Elbridge Colby threatened Pope Leo XIV, saying, “The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qZkia_-POE&list=WL&index=6&t=27s
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-trump-212552754.html
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house
PAY WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-official-gives-vatican-bitter-lecture-amid-growing-rift/
2026-04-08 Former Fort Bragg employee Courtney Williams was charged under the Espionage Act after allegedly providing information to a journalist about sexual and race-based harassment at Fort Bragg.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/fbi-arrests-ex-military-employee
2026-04-16 Tennessee enacted House Bill 1476 “Charlie Kirk Act,” restricting campus walkouts and certain protest activities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5hlrDtFYk&list=WL&index=3&t=98s
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/charlie-kirk-act-passed/
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-act-tennessee-free-speech-11837604
https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1476&GA=114
2026-04-28 Shortly after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC and Disney for DEI practices.
https://abcnews.com/US/fcc-orders-early-review-abcs-broadcast-licenses/story?id=132466823
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-renewal-jimmy-kimmel-dei/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fcc-threatens-abcs-licenses-as-trumps-call-for-kimmels-firing
2026 May
2026-05-04 The organization Reporters Without Borders released its 2026 Press Freedom index showing the lowest level of free speech in 25 years, with U.S. ranking at number 64.
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low
2026-05-31 The British government banned two political commentators from entering the U.K. “on the grounds that their presence in the UK may not be conducive to the public good”. Both figures are outspoken in their criticism of Israel. Cenk Uygur posted, “I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore?”. Hasan Piker posted, “the uk has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of israel.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2rxyvvl1o
2026 June
2026-06-11 FIFA forced Haiti to change the design of their jersey because it was “too political”.
[https://www.espn.com/soccer/story//id/49029805/fifa-forces-haiti-remove-political-imagery-world-cup-jersey](https://www.espn.com/soccer/story//id/49029805/fifa-forces-haiti-remove-political-imagery-world-cup-jersey)
https://haitiantimes.com/2026/06/13/haiti-world-cup-official-jersey-2/
2026-06-12 Mike Bost accused the VFW of promoting political violence in their Honor the Contract campaign to oppose reducing disability compensation for veterans by $57B.
https://veterans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7938#
https://onoffense.substack.com/p/mike-bost-vfw-political-violence
https://www.veteransfightingfascism.org/
2026-06-26 Two federal officers showed up at a polling office in Syracuse New York to threaten a woman for posting on social media criticizing ICE officers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN7H9Kl-cM&list=WL&index=3
https://apnews.com/article/ice-poll-worker-syracuse-fa082f8ac25d019e93b526fdef37df6c
2026-06-30 Federal agents showed up to a man’s house in Rochester New York with threats and a letter demanding he remain silent after he emailed the ICE director in condemnation of harsh immigration policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL1oh6NbfUo&list=WL&index=4
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/01/nx-s1-5874124/dhs-tracks-ice-critic
2026 July
2026-07-01 Elon Musk threatened to sue anyone who talks about DOGE cuts.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-threatens-sue-ro-khanna-usaid-cuts-sentenced-children-death