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. 

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. 

Separately from the weekly Big Tech “industry working groups” it participated in (see Case #31), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held regular “bilateral meetings” with Big Tech platforms to coordinate censorship efforts.