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Texas lawmakers shelve SLAPP bills that would have allowed the rich and powerful to sue critics into silence
A free speech coalition, which included FIRE, successfully lobbied to kill three bills that would have protected censorship in the Lone Star State.

Supreme Court rejects case over ‘Two genders’ shirt ban, threatening student speech across New England
The Supreme Court just walked away from student speech. Its refusal to hear the “Two Genders” shirt case leaves a dangerous ruling in place — one that guts First Amendment protections for millions of students across the Northeast.

Once, international students feared Beijing’s wrath. Now Trump is the threat.
As Trump adopts Chinese Communist tactics against Harvard, will fear of government backlash silence our campuses?

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