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. 

Most censorship victims are simply silenced. The most egregious manifestations of censorship, though, require others to declare something they do not wish to say. Thankfully, our Constitution prevents such censorship. As the U.S. Supreme Court…

Chairman Gary Gensler’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a compelled speech rule that simultaneously threatened companies with massive liability if they permitted speech critical of the left’s position on climate change and…

The Biden administration dismantled the free speech protections President Donald Trump’s Department of Education had instituted. 

President Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed longstanding rules to censor private speech critical of Big Labor.  

President Joe Biden and his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acted to transform a law that protected free speech into a law that assaulted it.  

Despite having no authority to regulate such matters, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) inserted itself into the heat of the 2024 election when it launched rulemaking to regulate political speech.