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President Donald Trump’s helicopter flies away, with blurred images of people and an American flag in the foreground.

Whistleblower prosecution has nothing to do with national security

Leaks•Newsletter

Plus: DOJ wants to scrap the Presidential Records Act

April 10, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

A mobile billboard in Washington, D.C., featuring Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, part of a campaign by the advocacy group Free Press.

Brendan Carr’s localism hoax

Trump•Newsletter

Plus: NPR, PBS ruling explains why all Trump censorship is illegal

April 3, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

The Monitor/Valarie Gonzalez via AP, File

Tell Congress to stop newsroom raids

Search & Seizure•Newsletter

Meet the new Pentagon press policy, same as the old Pentagon press policy

March 27, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Sipa USA/Aaron Schwartz via AP Images - AP26014792483567

FCC chair seeks Iran-style media obedience

Trump•Newsletter

Tell Congress: Reform Section 702

March 20, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to reporters in Los Angeles on April 28, 1973.

Pass the Daniel Ellsberg Act!

Espionage Act•Newsletter

Plus: Free Estefany Rodríguez from ICE

March 13, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Plumes of smoke rise as strikes hit Tehran, Iran, on March 6, 2026.

Press must be transparent about wartime censorship

Prior Restraint•Newsletter

No, Florida should not have its own CIA

March 6, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Paramount Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison arrives before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026

Censorship is bad for business

Oligarchs•Newsletter

Plus, order restricting Natanson search didn’t go far enough

Feb. 27, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Baltazar Enriquez, president of the Little Village Community Council, hugs a community member at a Chicago Public School's student walkout protesting ICE agents around Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, Oct. 29, 2025.

Leakers helped exonerate Rümeysa Öztürk

ICE•Newsletter

Plus: Uber for authoritarians

Feb. 20, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk speaks to reporters after her release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in May 2025.

Attorney regulators must push back on lawless prosecutors

Leaks•Newsletter

Öztürk deportation case among America’s most blatant press freedom violations

Feb. 13, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, accompanied by Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Gustavo Villatoro, right, tours the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025

Brought to you by leaks

Whistleblowers•Newsletter

Plus: A journalist’s fight for transparency in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Feb. 6, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation