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NCAC Joins Freedom of the Press Foundation in Demanding House Drop BreakThrough News Investigation

By |2026-10-20T12:52:02-04:00October 20th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation and several other civil liberties and press freedom organizations in demanding that the House Committee on Ways and Means immediately drop its unconstitutional inquiry into BreakThrough News.  In October, the Committee threatened to issue additional subpoenas to BreakThrough News, a nonprofit news organization–following a series of [...]

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Rep. Andy Harris Threatens Journalist Cat Murphy for Recording

By |2026-10-15T16:29:59-04:00October 15th, 2026|News, Statement|

(Photo By: Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltamore Banner) This week, U.S. Representative for Maryland Andy Harris participated in a public political debate; after the forum, he invited reporters to speak with him. A scrum of reporters surrounded Harris with visible recording devices, including University of Maryland student reporter Cat Murphy. Murphy encouraged Harris to answer another reporter’s [...]

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Constitutional Praise for… Disney?

By |2026-10-13T14:26:40-04:00October 13th, 2026|News|

Like it or not, private companies have become the gatekeepers to so many of our rights. They deserve recognition on those rare occasions when they stand up for free speech.  Take Disney, owner of ABC, for example. When ABC began to draw the ire of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year, the company could have easily rolled over [...]

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NCAC Urges Department of Education to Scrap Proposed Rule Change for Grants

By |2026-09-25T09:24:53-04:00September 24th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship calls on the federal Department of Education (USED) to abandon its attempt to amend the Education Department General Administrative Regulations to create an ideological chokepoint for all grant money distributed. These grants are a vital part of the ecosystem of research and inquiry in educational institutions, and the threat to screen grantee output for [...]

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NCAC Joins Amicus Brief in ABC v. FCC First Amendment Case

By |2026-10-14T13:49:21-04:00September 22nd, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and eleven other organizations and individuals in filing an amicus brief in the case of ABC v. FCC. The broadcasting company ABC has brought a First Amendment challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) early license renewal of eight stations owned by the company, [...]

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NCAC Decries Blacklisting of Macklemore for Political Speech

By |2026-09-16T17:08:13-04:00September 16th, 2026|News|

Photo: Macklemore/Facebook As an organization defending freedom of speech, thought, and inquiry, the National Coalition Against Censorship condemns the decision to blacklist Macklemore from certain large music venues because of his political expression. Large venues have immense cultural power to determine the limits of speech and opinion in public spaces. While private stadium venues and their owners have [...]

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National Coalition Against Censorship’s Don’t Delete Art Issues New Advisory Resource Warning Artists of Age Verification Laws

By |2026-09-01T12:03:26-04:00September 1st, 2026|News|

Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) announced a new resource as part of Don’t Delete Art (DDA), its initiative supporting artistic freedom online. The resource, titled Online Age Verification: An Advisory for Artists with Websites, provides a primer on the swath of new age verification laws in the United States, and their potential impact on artists who host [...]

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Speech, Not Citizenship: NCAC Backs First Amendment Rights of Noncitizens in Two Federal Appeals

By |2026-08-26T11:22:07-04:00August 26th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

Photo: SWinxy / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Last week, the National Coalition Against Censorship, joined by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the Cato Institute, PEN America, the First Amendment Lawyers Association, and the Rutherford Institute, filed an amicus brief in front of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in American Association of University [...]

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NCAC Condemns Trump Administration’s Legal Attack on Center for American Progress

By |2026-09-01T09:28:34-04:00August 25th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship condemns President Trump’s latest attack on the protected expression of a civil society group, this time in the form of a legal threat against the Center for American Progress (CAP) for its publication of a report disputing the President's claims about the correlation between National Guard deployment and decreased crime rates. Last week, the [...]

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Missouri Officials Threaten Library Funding Over LGBTQ+ Story Time

By |2026-08-11T11:17:26-04:00August 6th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship is deeply concerned that Missouri state officials are retaliating against a Missouri Public Library for hosting a 'Rainbow Story Time' for families with young children. This free, voluntary, community event featured readings of two picture books for preschoolers: Rainbowsaurus, which depicts two dads and three children on a colorful search for a rainbow dinosaur, [...]

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NCAC and Coalition Partners Urge FCC to Reverse Retaliatory Early License Renewal Order Against ABC Stations

By |2026-07-30T15:00:21-04:00July 30th, 2026|News, Press Releases|

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is once again abusing its powers to engage in unconstitutional censorship of broadcasters, continuing its nearly year-long crusade against Disney for airing Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes about the Trump administration. The FCC’s latest salvo was the unprecedented demand that 8 ABC stations undergo license renewal years earlier than required. Yesterday, NCAC, the American Civil Liberties Union, the [...]

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NCAC Joins Coalition Backing Harvard and AAUP in Academic Freedom Fight

By |2026-07-29T17:59:19-04:00July 29th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

This week, the National Coalition Against Censorship joined organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing amicus briefs in support of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and Harvard University in their challenges to the Trump administration’s violations of academic freedom. The cases center on the administration’s threats to punish Harvard and Columbia University by revoking billions of dollars in [...]

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NCAC and Coalition Stands with Disney Against FCC Censorship Campaign

By |2026-07-30T14:57:52-04:00July 29th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, Letters, News|

Dear Mr. D’Amaro, We, the undersigned civil rights, civil liberties, free speech, press freedom, consumer advocacy and pro-democracy organizations, write to stand in solidarity with the Walt Disney Company for resisting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s unprecedented abuse of its power to censor and punish Disney-owned broadcast content. The targeted campaign to punish and alter your broadcast content is [...]

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FCC Chairman Carr Threatens ABC License Review Over Trump Address

By |2026-07-28T12:02:52-04:00July 23rd, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

Yesterday, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said that the agency will consider ABC’s decision not to air President Donald Trump’s July 16 address about election security as a factor in its early review of licenses to eight ABC-owned stations. This is merely the latest attempt by Chairman Carr in the FCC’s ongoing campaign to punish broadcast licensees [...]

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NCAC Opposes OMB Rule Changes That Would Politicize Federal Grantmaking

By |2026-07-15T12:10:14-04:00July 15th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship strongly opposes the federal government’s proposed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) grant rule changes seeking to overhaul the selection and management of its research grants. The OMB claims that these changes would increase transparency and accountability, but if implemented, these changes would render federally funded programs especially vulnerable to politically driven grant decisions. [...]

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NCAC Decries White House Policy Council Report Castigating the Smithsonian

By |2026-07-13T12:57:55-04:00July 13th, 2026|News|

Today the National Coalition Against Censorship condemned “Saving America’s Story,” a recent White House report excoriating the Smithsonian Institution for not presenting a simplified and singularly optimistic view of U.S. history. The report is the latest culmination of attacks upon the Smithsonian that began in 2025, and signifies the administration’s latest attempt to control knowledge, stifle intellectual freedom, and end [...]

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NCAC Condemns Censorship & Compelled Speech of Students at Florida International University

By |2026-07-13T13:42:12-04:00July 10th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship condemns the decision by Florida International University to punish students for participating in anti-ICE demonstrations. These students were exercising constitutionally protected speech rights, and the university’s choice to punish them by withholding their diplomas and forcing them to record personal apologies violates the principles of free expression. When students wore t-shirts stating “ICE OFF [...]

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NCAC Urges Fifth Circuit to Uphold Block on Texas App Store Age Verification Law

By |2026-06-30T17:56:26-04:00June 30th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), represented by the SMU Dedman School of Law First Amendment Clinic, filed an amicus brief this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the consolidated cases of Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton and Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton. The lawsuit challenges the Texas App [...]

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Artist Feature: Van Burgo Collective (Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck)

By |2026-07-02T12:49:16-04:00June 29th, 2026|Artist Feature, News|

Monumental Resistance: Stonewall, (24 hours standing at Stonewall), still image from timelapse video, 2018 (1) In the past year and a half, the federal government’s efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ cultural expression have been unmistakeable, yet the blueprint for these censorship pressures has long been fomenting in states like Florida and Texas, where challenges to LGBTQ+ books [...]

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NCAC Urges FCC to Protect The View as Bona Fide News Program

By |2026-06-24T15:33:56-04:00June 24th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has joined The Future of Free Speech, the ACLU, and the Center for Democracy & Technology in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to declare that the television show The View is exempt from equal opportunities requirements as a bona fide news interview program. These requirements demand that broadcasters provide [...]

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National Coalition Against Censorship Brings Don’t Delete Art Into Its Arts and Culture Advocacy

By |2026-06-17T10:56:46-04:00June 16th, 2026|News, Press Releases|

Today, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is excited to announce that Don’t Delete Art (DDA) is now an official component of its Arts and Culture Advocacy work. This announcement follows NCAC’s six years of active stewardship of Don’t Delete Art as a collaborative initiative addressing issues impacting the dissemination of art online. In this new chapter, Don’t Delete [...]

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National Coalition Against Censorship Launches New Resource for Artists Facing Censorship

By |2026-06-23T14:05:00-04:00June 16th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) today launches The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom, a new resource for artists and cultural workers. Focusing on censorship prevention and response strategies, the Guide empowers artists to defend their free expression rights. It offers negotiation tactics and talking points that can help artists make a case for the retention of a contested [...]

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“Clear as Mud”: Coalition Slams NEA’s Gender Ideology Funding Rules in Federal Appeal

By |2026-06-25T14:20:14-04:00June 16th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

On Friday, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) led Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild, and lawyer Annie Dorsen in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Rhode Island Latino Arts v. National Endowment for the Arts, urging the court to affirm that the National Endowment for the Arts [...]

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The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom: Strategies and talking points for resisting art censorship

By |2026-09-25T10:32:34-04:00June 12th, 2026|Resources|

Introduction Typically, when a controversy arises (or is anticipated) regarding a particular artwork, the program organizer or curator has an implied responsibility to explain the artwork and their own original reasons for choosing it. Sometimes, however, curators are unable to defend the selection of work, whether because of inexperience or because of an implied risk to their employment status. [...]

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NCAC Celebrates Meta’s Oversight Board’s New Policy Recommendations for Account Governance

By |2026-06-04T13:02:01-04:00June 4th, 2026|News|

Today the National Coalition Against Censorship commended Meta’s Oversight Board regarding its recent decision to establish new policy recommendations for account governance. Read the full statement below. Excerpted from the full decision: Part 6:  Account Governance Good Practices: guiding principles to the industry suggested by the Meta Oversight Board. Respecting Users’ Rights to Clear and Comprehensive [...]

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Time to… Read the Constitution: Artistic Expression is Protected Speech

By |2026-07-10T12:04:30-04:00June 4th, 2026|News|

Miniluv. Mural mockup by Seth Indigo Carnes. 2025. Image courtesy of the artist. Today the National Coalition Against Censorship and Artists Equity Group condemned town officials of Rockland, NY, whose actions resulted in the censorship of a mural by a local artist. Though the mural was commissioned for an external facade of a privately-owned building, [...]

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Curating In the Shadows Of Spectacle: Strategies For Protecting Artistic Freedom

By |2026-06-16T11:49:45-04:00June 3rd, 2026|News|

Essay originally commissioned by and published for Full Bleed, Issue 08, in May, 2025 Early this year, several photographs were removed from public display at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas after attracting criticism from local officials, who declared them “indecent” and a “radical perversion.” A formal criminal investigation was launched around the works, [...]

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NCAC and Partners Sound the Alarm: HR 2616 Threatens Free Expression in Public Schools

By |2026-05-20T13:23:09-04:00May 20th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship joins six literary organizations in calling upon members of Congress to vote NO on HR 2616, ironically titled the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act.” This bill seeks to weaponize critical public school funding to chill speech related to gender and LGBTQ+ identities. If passed, it would prohibit public elementary and middle schools that [...]

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NCAC urges the Morton High School Administration to apologize for censoring student’s art and to amend school policy

By |2026-05-13T17:12:33-04:00May 13th, 2026|News|

Dear Members of the District 201 Board of Education, We are writing from the National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of national nonprofit groups dedicated to protecting freedom of expression, including the rights of K-12 students, teachers, and staff.  We write in advance of tonight's board meeting to condemn J. Sterling Morton High School District 201’s [Morton High, or [...]

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NCAC Urges Supreme Court to Protect Students’ Right to Political Expression

By |2026-05-06T14:22:26-04:00May 6th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) filed an amicus brief in D.A. v. Tri County Area Schools, a case about whether school administrators violated the First Amendment rights of students by requiring them to remove clothing bearing the words “Let’s Go Brandon.” This phrase is commonly understood on social media as a euphemism for the words “Fuck Joe Biden."  [...]

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NCAC Statement on the Indictment of the SPLC

By |2026-04-29T14:19:24-04:00April 22nd, 2026|News, Statement|

Yesterday, the Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury returned an 11-count criminal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for wire and bank fraud. The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) strongly condemns this abuse of power by President Trump's Justice Department against an American civil rights institution.   NCAC’s Executive Director Lee Rowland issued the following statement:  [...]

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NCAC reminds Quakertown School Board of their responsibility to respect student voices after walkout incident

By |2026-03-27T12:19:46-04:00March 25th, 2026|News|

In February, students at Quakertown High School in Pennsylvania had a walkout disrupted when plainclothes law enforcement aggressively confronted student protestors off-campus, arresting several students and one adult.  School officials had initially approved the walkout, but retracted that approval the morning of, after allegedly receiving "threats of violence" the night before.  Despite the administration’s concerns, students continued with their expressive [...]

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NCAC Joins Coalition Urging Supreme Court to Protect Public Employees’ Free Speech Rights

By |2026-03-25T11:04:42-04:00March 25th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined Protect the First Foundation, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and the Cato Institute in filing an amicus brief in support of the plaintiff's request that the United States Supreme Court consider the case of Lowery v. Mills. The petition asks the court to resolve whether a public employer's threats to fire, [...]

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NCAC Joins Coalition Opposing Book Bans at Rutherford County Library System

By |2026-03-24T11:21:29-04:00March 19th, 2026|News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has joined more than two dozen organizations and community leaders in urging the Rutherford County Library System Board of Directors to reject the removal of books addressing race, gender, and sexual orientation from its public library shelves. In a joint statement delivered on March 16, 2026, NCAC and co-signatories — including PEN America, [...]

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FCC Chair’s Broadcast Threat Is ‘Autocracy, Pure and Simple,’ NCAC Warns

By |2026-03-24T11:31:35-04:00March 16th, 2026|News, Statement|

On Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on abusing the power of the FCC to pressure broadcast networks, threatening to revoke the licenses of broadcasters who air “misleading” content. The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) condemns Carr's use of his position to punish viewpoints disfavored by the state.  “These threats by FCC chair Carr are dangerous, unconstitutional, [...]

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Don’t Delete Art Launches Social Media Collaboration with Free the Nipple in March 2026

By |2026-06-16T15:57:37-04:00March 4th, 2026|News|

Today, Don’t Delete Art (DDA)—an initiative uniting advocacy groups and artists in the defense of artistic freedom online—launches a two-month social media collaboration with Free the Nipple—a global body-equality campaign focused on destigmatizing nipple exposure—to support and empower artists facing censorship online for depicting female-presenting nipples.  Titled Don’t Delete Art x Free the Nipple (DDA x FTN), the initiative [...]

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NCAC Executive Director Delivers Testimony on Capitol Hill

By |2026-02-25T16:20:57-05:00February 25th, 2026|News|

On February 23, 2026, Lee Rowland, Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), delivered testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary at its spotlight hearing, “Silencing Dissent: The First Amendment Under Attack.” Her testimony documents a troubling reality: across the United States, fear of government retaliation is reshaping what artists create, what teachers teach, what students say, [...]

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“Flagrant Act of Censorship”: NCAC & ACLU of Texas Call Out UNT Over Gallery Shutdown

By |2026-02-20T14:46:20-05:00February 20th, 2026|News|

Two civil liberty organizations, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, are urging the University of North Texas (UNT) to admit its wrongdoing in abruptly canceling an exhibition that was on view in the university’s College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) Gallery.  The exhibition, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not [...]

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Amicus Brief Urges Texas High Court to Reinforce ‘Gist’ Standard in Political Defamation Case

By |2026-02-25T14:35:06-05:00February 17th, 2026|Legal Advocacy, News|

The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, the Texas Association of Broadcasters, the Texas Press Association, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the Institute for Free Speech, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in filing an amicus curiae brief in support of Paul Chabot’s petition [...]

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