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A truck in Washington, D.C., carrying a billboard with FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s photo, and the words, “Brendan Carr censorship czar.”

Brendan Carr’s localism hoax

Trump•Newsletter

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

Published 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

Published March 27, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

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FCC chair seeks Iran-style media obedience

Trump•Newsletter

Tell Congress: Reform Section 702

Published 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

Published March 13, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Plumes of smoke rise into the night sky over buildings in Tehran, Iran, as strikes hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign on March 6, 2026

Press must be transparent about wartime censorship

Prior Restraint•Newsletter

No, Florida should not have its own CIA

Published 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

Published 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

Published Feb. 20, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Attorney regulators must push back on lawless prosecutors

Leaks•Newsletter

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

Published 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

Brought to you by leaks

Whistleblowers•Newsletter

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

Published Feb. 6, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

A person interviewing another person in a snowy area

Lemon’s arrest delivers warning shot to journalists

Arrests/Prosecutions•Newsletter

Plus: Alex Pretti’s murder was also an attack on press freedom

Published Jan. 30, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation