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. 

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. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a sweeping digital equity order giving itself enormous power to coerce and censor free speech.