Gov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site.

An independent committee of prominent advocates has issued a scathing report documenting extensive due process...

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

Seven FIU students scored a major free speech victory over their university, days before the start of the Fall Semester.

DHS sent undercover agents to meetings, infiltrated chats and obtained financial records in vast operation into groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

It is the mechanism by which movements survive

Congress and state and local governments must create new safeguards around the collection, integration, and misuse of people’s data to protect privacy and First Amendment rights.

In this talk, Laura Prather shares how her belief in free speech sparked by a high school teacher was tested when she witnessed the legal system used to silence truth. As a human rights lawyer, she saw firsthand how Lance Armstrong weaponized lawsuits to intimidate critics, revealing a growing threat known as SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Laura explains how these cases financially and emotionally punish people simply for speaking out, from students to caregivers. She argues that free speech depends on strong Anti-SLAPP laws, which stop abusive lawsuits early and protect ordinary citizens. Her message is a call to defend democracy by standing up to legal bullies and safeguarding everyone’s right to speak. Laura is a preeminent human rights attorney whose three decades of landmark free-speech victories are an urgent call to action. As partner and head of Haynes Boone’s media law group, she has forged protections that matter—leading coalitions to enact anti-SL

U.S. targets "anti-tech," "pro-Iranian" & "antisemitic networks" with new three-letter designation

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, ...

Under Trump, eight Prairieland defendants were sentenced to a combined four and a half centuries in prison.

This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little

Julian Balsley

Between August 2016 and February 2017, tens of thousands of people came to North Dakota to protest a crude oil pipeline that a Texas-based fossil fuel corporation called Energy Transfer was building n...

Between August 2016 and February 2017, tens of thousands of people came to North Dakota to protest a crude oil pipeline that a Texas-based fossil fuel corporation called Energy Transfer was building n...

Updated October 2025 Order KYR Booklet Written below is an online version of our latest KYR booklet. What Rights Do I Have? Whether or not you're a U.S. citizen, you have legal rights under the United...

National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Director of Mass Defense Xavier T. de Janon spoke with Protect the Protest about the NLG network of lawyers, law students, and legal workers’ work to protect social moveme...

In a news conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine, Trump touted the rescue of two U.S. airmen whose jet was shot down over Iran.

Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s statement about Iran on Truth Social on 7 April 2026, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International said: “President Trump’s very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a […]

A final judgment has officially been entered in Big Oil company Energy Transfer’s massive lawsuit against us.

Steers, 73, was one of the founders of Friends of Big Bear Valley, which has operated a bald eagle webcam since 2015.

“We cannot take lightly the federal government's expansive repression and persecution of anti-ICE and anti-fascist activism. On July 4, 2025, community members gathered at the Prairieland ICE Detentio...

Second year student Guy Christensen and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sued Ohio State last year, alleging the university violated his 1st and 14th amendment rights.

Ron Bloomingkemper Jr. is a graphic designer based in Texas who founded the XA Lion’s Den forum and Wrestling Lions, a media and nonprofit organization equipping young adults, parents, and campus lead...

The Protect The Protest Coalition grieves the killings of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, the shootings in Portland, and the ongoing deaths of people in ICE custody. These are not isolated...

On Jan. 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant ruling about when certain state statutes may apply in diversity actions in federal court. In Berk v. Choy (24-440)…

Co-chairs of LNG firm, who bought stock worth almost $12m each after meeting with Trump officials, deny wrongdoing

Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis