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** Updates From the Frontlines of Expression:
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** Recent Updates
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From art to books to protest, we are witnessing an unparalleled era of censorship and propaganda in 2025. We – the staff, board, supporters, and allies of the National Coalition Against Censorship – are working hard to ensure our free expression principles survive this moment and thrive in the next generation and beyond. Your support of the NCAC is essential and gives us the purpose and resources to fight this onslaught.

With your help, the National Coalition Against Censorship has been leading the charge against the censors with our public voice, arts advocacy, investment in community leaders, youth programming, legal strategy, coalition-building, and direct intervention in reports of censorship. And wherever possible, we do this work in coalition: this is a moment for collective action.


** “We yet cling to the hope that it is not naive to believe our good bretheren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time."
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** — Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III
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** Annual Gala
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Join us for a night of celebration and reflection at the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Annual Gala as we honor free speech champions whose tireless commitment to protecting artistic freedom, intellectual inquiry, and the fundamental right to speak one’s mind has inspired us and made us all more free.
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** Legal Advocacy
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NCAC and FIRE, along with other organizations, have submitted an amicus brief in the case Netchoice v. Fitch, challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi H.B. 1126 under the First Amendment. This law requires social media platforms to verify user ages and restricts minors from creating accounts without parental consent while mandating measures to protect minors from harmful content. Although a lower court issued injunctions against the law, the Fifth Circuit permitted its enforcement. Netchoice has appealed to the Supreme Court, asserting that H.B. 1126 restricts content-based speech and does not meet strict judicial scrutiny. The brief emphasizes that the Supreme Court's ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton permits age verification solely for obscene content, unlike the broad restrictions imposed by H.B. 1126.
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** Youth Free
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** Expression Program
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** Right to Read Night
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At a moment when books are being targeted for removal, educators and librarians are under attack, and the freedom to read is at risk, local groups are gathering together across the nation for the

Right to Read Night!

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We call on allies of the freedom to read across the country to host a local Right to Read Night during Banned Books Week (October 5 - 11, 2025). Participants will gather for a discussion of our featured selection, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson! Just one of the thousands of books targeted by censors, this deeply moving novel tells the story of an enslaved teenager’s struggle for freedom in the time of the American Revolution.

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These community conversations will invite us to think about why the book is important, what attempts to ban it mean for free expression, and how to defend the right to read.
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** Arts & Culture
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** Advocacy Program
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** Controversy at the Smithsonian
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As an organization committed to protecting the freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression, we are alarmed by reports that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery proposed amending the planned display of a painting because of fears that the work would attract the ire of President Donald Trump. The action is one more disturbing sign of the extent to which a pall of self-censorship has been cast across the country following the slew of Executive Orders and administrative actions issued earlier this year. Arts and culture institutions receiving government support are choosing to sacrifice the integrity of their programming for fear that diverging from the administration’s ideological imperatives would cost them their funding. In the case of the Smithsonian, which, though technically independent, currently receives sixty-two percent of its billion dollar plus budget from the government, such a cost could be fatal.
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We cannot fight the censors alone. In moments of repression, moral courage is essential…and contagious. We are standing up to this moment of censorship because you stand with us.

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