Tom Olohan joined the Media Research Center as a Staff Writer for MRC Free Speech America in April 2023. Previously Tom worked for America Rising as a Field Researcher and Media Monitoring Associate and interned with Heritage Action and AIPAC. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2016 before graduating from Boston College in 2018 with an M.A. in Political Philosophy.
Leftist and legacy media leapt to cast blame on the right for political violence following the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, using absurd data from an anti-free speech researcher known for demonizing the right.