By just two votes, the bill to stop Trump’s war on Iran fails in the Senate 52-48, as lawmakers decline to assert their constitutional authority and allow Trump’s reckless attacks to continue.
S.T.O.P. joined @cdt.org, the @brennancenter.org, and @rightsdissent.bsky.social in signing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject an overbroad geofence warrant.
cdt.org/insights/cdt...
www.law360.com/articles/244...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit should prevent the FTC from conducting retaliatory investigations like the one targeting @mmfa.bsky.social.
Read more about the brief we joined urging the courts to intervene in @theintercept.com.
Trump continues to beat the drums for war with Iran. Only Congress can stop him, by invoking the War Powers Act and reasserting their authority.
Will they act in time? Urge your lawmakers to take a stand NOW.
NO WAR ON IRAN!
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The Gaza First Amendment Alert:
🔹Wisconsin Steps Closer to Codifying IHRA Antisemitism Definition
🔹3 Stanford Students Take Plea Deals Over 2024 Campus Gaza Protest
🔹UK Court Finds Terrorism Designation of Palestine Action Illegal
Read more & sign up here:
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INTERVIEW: Our policy director @chipgibbons.bsky.social spoke with @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social's @davidgriscom.bsky.social about press reedom, Seth Harp, and CIA blowback
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We're proud to join NABJ and dozens of fellow press freedom and rights groups in condemning the disturbing arrests this morning of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and other journalists for their coverage of anti-ICE protest activity in St. Paul MN earlier this month
Read our statement on the disturbing arrests of journalists Don Lemon, @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social, and other journalists this morning for their reporting on protests in Minnesota: www.rightsanddissent.org/news/don-lem...
The FBI's raid of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's home threatens press and violates federal law.
Congress must launch an oversight investigation into it.
Read the letter we signed with 15 other press freedom and civil liberties orgs: demandprogress.org/advocates-as...
Attacks on Journalist Seth Harp Are Attacks on Free Speech
The Congressional subpoena -- for Harp's reporting about the U.S. attack on Venezuela -- is a threat to the First Amendment
New from our Policy Director @chipgibbons.bsky.social in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
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Trump has carried out a major assault on our Constitution and international law by invading Venezuela and ousting its president.
Congress must act now and invoke the War Powers Act, uphold the Constitution, and stop this war.
secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/stop-trump...
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When human rights attorney @sdonziger.bsky.social faced merciless retaliation for taking on Chevron, he saw first-hand how Defending Rights & Dissent mobilizes support for those who speak out for our rights.
Here's what Steven said about our work:
As 2025 comes to a close, and as we prepare to organize, speak out, and defend our rights in 2026, please consider a donation to Defending Rights & Dissent today: secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/donate
Few people inside the beltway speak truth to the power the way @codepink.bsky.social cofounder @medeabenjamin.bsky.social does.
We've been honored to work alongside Medea for years, and here's what she says about the importance of supporting what we do at Defending Rights & Dissent:
War Powers Bills Fail in House but Narrow Margins Deny Trump Mandate for War
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Trump's declaration of a naval blockade on Venezuela is an act of war -- and an illegal one, with no congressional approval.
TODAY the House is voting to invoke the War Powers Act, stop the march to war, and hold Trump accountable.
Write your rep NOW: secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/support-bi...
Hegseth’s Illegal Orders
Thursday: Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School professor emerita & former NLG president, will speak with @chipgibbons.bsky.social about the drone strikes in the Caribbean and whether Sec. Hegseth should be impeached & tried www.rightsanddissent.org/news/hegseth...
The three reporters -- @dropsitenews.com's @recolston.bsky.social, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social's Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall -- described facing assaults, threats from Israeli soldiers — and said the U.S. government did little to help.
Panel co-hosted with @rightsdissent.bsky.social:
"Here are a bunch of unarmed people with baby formula on a ship, and then there’s this elite navy who are just armed to the fucking teeth ... there to intercept us."
I wrote in @jacobinmag.bsky.social about @freedom.press' recent panel with 3 U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas.
Free speech is under attack. And nowhere is the crackdown more aggressive, both in the courts and in the streets, than on speech in support of Palestine.
Here's how Defending Rights & Dissent has responded in 2025.
Join the fight to defend your rights: secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/giving-tue...
2025 saw Trump escalate the 'Palestine exception to the First Amendment' into a full-blown crackdown on free speech echoing the Red Scare and McCarthy eras.
Here's how we responded, fighting for your right to know and freedom to act:
Defending Rights & Dissent is a small team making a big impact: turning FOIA investigations into groundbreaking journalism, breaking down the latest threats to your rights, & leading coalitions to defend them.
We can't do this work without your support: secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/giving-tue...
Trump is killing people in the Caribbean with no charges, no due process, & no credible rationale for these reckless acts of aggression.
Congress must put a halt to these unilateral strikes. Write your Rep, urge support for Rep. Meeks' War Powers bill!
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Gaza First Amendment Alert!
🔹UK journalist @salhachimi.bsky.social finally released
🔹Yaa’kub Ira Vijandre detained for Instagram posts & likes
🔹New @aaup.org report on free speech repression
🔹Texas targets Muslim civil rights group
& much more: www.rightsanddissent.org/news/gaza-fi...
"The president declaring a domestic ideology or movement ‘terrorists’ is going to encourage both federal and local law enforcement to treat them as such"
Thanks @npquarterly.bsky.social for speaking with us about Trump's war on 'antifa' nonprofitquarterly.org/lessons-of-r...
We’re deeply disturbed by Trump’s comment that “things happen” regarding the Saudi killing of Wash. Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Trump also posthumously smears.
Khashoggi’s assassination remains a horrific crime for which the crown prince must be held to account. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hear from the U.S. Journalists Abducted from Gaza Aid Flotillas
ICYMI: Listen to first-hand accounts from journalists Alex Colston (of @dropsitenews.com), Emily Wilder (Jewish Currents), & Noa Avishag Schnall
Panel event co-hosted with @freedom.press
www.rightsanddissent.org/news/hear-fr...
Join us live now for this important conversation with US journalists abducted from international waters and detained by Israel while covering Gaza aid flotillas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=waqn...
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