The rights protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are essential for the proper functioning of a responsive democracy.  As we mark the end of the first year of the Second Trump Administration, Nora Benavidez joins Lindsay Langholz to take stock of the effects of a year-long assault on free speech and discuss her recent report, Chokehold: Donald Trump's War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance.

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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Nora Benavidez, Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights, Free Press

Link: Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance

Link: I Counted Trump’s Censorship Attempts. Here’s What I Found., by Nora Benavidez

Link: Defending Academic Freedom, Episode 175 of Broken Law 

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