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Press Protection and Human Rights Support

Democracy Dies Without a Free Press.

Technology: The Frontline of the Battle for Free Speech

Ron Williams

Resistance Media

Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

Press Protection and Human Rights Support Organizations

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  • 05/07/2025

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  • 05/02/2025

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    The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.

News

  • Featured • Recommended • Resistance • Safety

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    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Threat Management

    ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Pulled From GOP Tax Bill—For Now

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    Common Dreams

    "Because authoritarians love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing its head," warned one rights group.

    Published On: 05/19/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    The Rise of State Media in Trump’s America

    Olga Lautman

    olgalautman.substack.com

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

    Published On: 05/15/2025