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 repeatedly called on the U.S. Supreme Court to choose censorship and discrimination over the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.  

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the Office of the Solicitor General launched a four-year long campaign to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment so it would instead protect censorship and squash speech.

The Biden administration’s efforts to censor religious speech were not limited to guidance letters and lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court. The administration also deployed more direct, immediate methods to silence Christians.  

Under President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Census Bureau’s Trust & Safety Team focused on identifying and censoring speech the Commerce Department claimed was mis- or dis-information.

Blockchain-based speech offers exciting opportunities for new communication networks.

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…