Dan Schneider
Vice President, MRC Free Speech America and External Affairs

Dan Schneider is a lawyer, policy professional, and political strategist. Throughout his lengthy career, he has worked in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Zheng Zhou, China (also known as iPhone City). 

Dan is currently the Vice President of Free Speech America, MRC Business, and the External Affairs division. He previously served as the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC. His work in government has included roles in the White House, executive branch agencies, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. 

He was awarded a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University Law School and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Kansas.

In 1988, Dan broke the world record for the “highest elevation golf shot” when he used a five-iron at the second base camp of Annapurna in the Himalayas. Sadly and shockingly, the Guinness Book of World Records refused to certify this incredible achievement, which Dan remains “very bitter” about to this day. 

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the military was used to attack the free speech rights of Americans, chilling future dissent of his authoritarian administration.

The Biden administration manufactured a threat of violence in order to intimidate Americans from attending lawful protests — and justify surveillance of the Americans brave enough to attend. It then retaliated against the whistleblower who…

Under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) weaponized an alarming assortment of agencies to harass and silence the Biden administration’s political opponents. Even the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) became a pawn in…

In the devastating aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, multiple Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) administrators ordered their subordinates to deny assistance Florida disaster victims whose houses displayed signs supporting…

After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was caught using Big Tech platforms to create social credit scores (“risk scores”) for Americans, it promised to craft new protocols to better protect Americans’ civil liberties from government…

The national intelligence agencies of the government participated in a coordinated effort to censor the Biden family laptop scandal. This necessitated a cover-up during the Biden administration.