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. 

Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department pursued prosecutions based on constitutionally-protected speech. 

In addition to expanding the scope of speech that courts should consider criminal (see Initiative #33), Biden’s Department of Justice also lobbied the U.S. Supreme Court to side with censorship against the First Amendment. The Biden…

When it was not possible to target a political opponent directly for his or her speech, the Biden administration would instead come up with other, pretextual grounds to launch political prosecutions. The effect of this weaponized, unequal justice…

Several of the aforementioned censorship initiatives, such as the NSBA School Board Memo (Initiative #27) and the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (Initiative #16), were predicated on the existence of a domestic terror…

In flagrant defiance of election law, the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the First Amendment, President Joe Biden’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) created two different sets of censorship laws: one for Big Tech, and one for the…

Under the First Amendment, a political campaign has a free speech right to express itself and individuals have a free speech right to express themselves by donating to it. This is because a campaign is not a piggy bank for the candidate, but…