Tim Kilcullen
MRC Senior Fellow for Free Speech America

Tim Kilcullen is MRC Senior Fellow for Free Speech America. A former field director for the Massachusetts GOP, Tim graduated from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Tim also earned a degree in Economics & English from the University of Illinois, worked as a research assistant at State & Federal Communication, and was the 2021 Republican nominee for Virginia’s 49th Assembly District. Tim joined the MRC in 2023, and is focused on fighting against censorship and for our First Amendment liberties. 

Unfortunately, the Biden administration was at least partly successful in its effort to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment (see Initiative #40). In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court aggressively limited censorship victims’…

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The Biden administration took its war on free speech to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice lobbied the Court to side with censorship and against the First Amendment. The Biden administration did…

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Whiskey tango foxtrot? Biden turned the military on his political opponents.

President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin used the military to attack the free speech rights of Americans, chilling future dissent of his…

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The Biden administration tried to annihilate the First Amendment through lawfare.

Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice (DOJ) pursued prosecutions based on constitutionally protected speech. While several of the people…

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The Biden administration funded a host of obscure censorship groups. Fact check: true.

Under President Joe Biden’s administration, the State Department and the National Science Foundation funneled millions to a motley assortment of…

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From President Donald Trump to his advisors Peter Novarro, Steve Bannon and others, the Biden administration created a weaponized, unequal justice system that chilled speech and attempted to intimidate other would-be critics into self-censorship…

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The Biden administration manufactured a spectre of fake right-wing terror to justify mass surveillance, censorship and the targeting of protected speech.

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Crypto was a victim of Biden’s censorship crusade.

Blockchain-based speech offers exciting opportunities for new communication networks. President Joe Biden’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), under Chair Gary Gensler, led a…

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The Biden administration was unrelenting in its war against free speech. 

Under President Joe Biden, the Office of the Solicitor General launched a four-year-long campaign to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to rewrite the First Amendment…

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Defending free speech has a heavy cost, even if you are the world’s wealthiest man. 

After businessman and futurist Elon Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X and declared it a haven for “free speech,” Biden-led agencies targeted Musk’s…

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The Biden administration sabotaged its own workers’ attempts to enforce laws protecting free speech.  

Under then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled and perverted antitrust law, encouraging…

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If Linda McMahon is confirmed today as President Donald Trump’s secretary of education, it is imperative that the scourge of media literacy be excised from American schools. 

The Biden administration labored to build more public,…

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Federal government taxpayer dollars were awarded to so-called media ratings firm NewsGuard.

NewsGuard first was awarded money by the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in the amount of “$25,…

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Google and Meta artificial intelligence stunningly seemed to defend CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan’s crazy assertion that free speech caused a genocide.

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Two former Democrats targeted by the DHS are now running critical government agencies. 

This week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health & Human…

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X’s own AI is disparaging the platform’s owner for allowing free speech on X.

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The leader of the Media Research Center issued a warning to Congress about a “Trojan horse for the left’s agenda.”

In a statement posted today on X, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell cautioned Congress not to pass the new version of…

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Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock.

In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice…

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The Media Research Center is asking the Federal Communications Commission to undo its creation of a lawless Soros shortcut.

 

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has come out against a sweeping censorship bill which could imperil the future of free speech on the internet.