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Luke Wachob retweeted
Jun 12
“Free speech is outdated” usually means “I trust today’s censors more than yesterday’s.”
But the old problem remains: If you give someone the power to decide which ideas are too dangerous to hear, don’t be shocked when that power gets used against you.
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Does your state protect donors at home?
No one should have to risk their family's safety to support a campaign.
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Jun 11
A new scheme to strip First Amendment rights from nonprofits, trade associations, businesses, and labor unions has spread to 15 states in less than a year, with one such proposal already passing into law. @UniteForPrivacy is fighting back.
Civic participation isn't a privilege, it's a right. That's why we're launching the Right to Participate Project to fight a new generation of threats to your ability to support the causes you believe in through the organizations of your choosing. unitedforprivacy.com/pufpfs-…
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Jun 10
“[the ADA’s] rationale echoes a mistake FIRE has seen universities make for years: erroneously claiming that their tax-exempt status requires suppressing the independent political advocacy of students or student organizations.”
Great piece by: @aaronterr1
open.substack.com/pub/thefir…
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Jun 9
An underrated point re: "dark money" from Bob Bauer here: "In a world of weaponized politics, when losing can lead to retribution, including criminal prosecution, there are powerful incentives to hide identities and funding sources." nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opini…
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Corporations are the go-to boogeyman for politicians, including the justification for laws that restrict speech.
BUT Hawaii's Act 11 will silence churches, nonprofits, and small businesses from supporting/opposing candidates and ballot measures that affect their missions.
And if your response is "Corporations aren't people," you've paved the way for the other political boogeyman —"millionaires"—to be the only individuals who can afford to be heard. libertyjusticecenter.substac…
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Jun 8
Why do we shut down when we hear ideas we hate?
Our brains sort threats, defend identity, and resist information that feels dangerous, even when the “danger” is just disagreement.
Free speech can be a cognitive challenge. (And I’ll be writing much more about that soon. 😉)
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Jun 9
I believe--humbly of course!--that the seminal article on this point is "Separation of Campaign and State," gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/…
Jun 8
Elections and campaigns are different things. The government can fund and administer the election, but it can’t stop people from speaking about the election. That’s censorship.
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Luke Wachob retweeted
ICYMI, @NTUF and @UniteForPrivacy filed an important amici curiae brief in the Supreme Court recently. Link to People United For Privacy Foundation's analysis in next tweet, and my thread quoted here:
It's pretty rare that we at @NTUF write amicus briefs at the petition stage before SCOTUS. But we teamed up with @UniteForPrivacy to highlight that the Court needs to resolve a tension in the law that's been worsening over the last 10-15 years. A thread and the link is below:
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Protecting nonprofits and their donors from retaliation should not require years of costly litigation and Supreme Court intervention. It's time for legislatures to act.
@RickSantorum in @WashTimes: washingtontimes.com/news/202…
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Jun 8
Elections and campaigns are different things. The government can fund and administer the election, but it can’t stop people from speaking about the election. That’s censorship.
Jun 8
Graham Platner: “If I had my way, elections would last two months, they would be publicly funded, and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way we’d put ‘em in jail.”
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Luke Wachob retweeted
It's pretty rare that we at @NTUF write amicus briefs at the petition stage before SCOTUS. But we teamed up with @UniteForPrivacy to highlight that the Court needs to resolve a tension in the law that's been worsening over the last 10-15 years. A thread and the link is below:
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Luke Wachob retweeted
To that end - $$ in elections has always been an overrated concern. $ can't overcome a crappy candidate that voters don't like. And on the other hand, effective grassroots fundraising too often relies on slopulism. Any method has its pros and cons and I think most laws to address them would create other bad incentives
Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.
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Luke Wachob retweeted
Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.
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Jun 2
Setting aside the harms to free speech, donor privacy, and civic engagement, campaign finance laws don’t even succeed on their own terms. You could hardly name a tougher regulatory environment for this stuff than California, yet here we are.
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May 29
A swatting call on a Supreme Court justice is practically an assassination attempt. We can’t tolerate it.
May 28
Police responded to a call for the sound of gunshots at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett last night, but quickly realized it was a swatting call and cleared after meeting with her security detail. This is partial police audio, redacted pursuant to media reporting guidelines on coverage of swatting incidents.
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May 28
States are turning to privacy reforms to combat political violence. Story in @thecentersquare: thecentersquare.com/minnesot…
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May 27
"The Roberts court has issued major pro-speech rulings in campaign finance and political spending cases... It has also protected donor privacy in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta" scotusblog.com/2026/05/the-r…
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May 26
Utah and Minnesota - two states that know the pain of political violence - are leading the way in making civic engagement safe again.
Privacy win in Minnesota! A bipartisan reform to protect the home addresses of candidates, campaign staff, and donors will make political participation safer for all. unitedforprivacy.com/minneso…
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