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** Updates From the Frontlines of Expression:
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** September Dispatch
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From art to books to protest, we are witnessing an unparalleled era of censorship and propaganda in 2025. We – the staff, board, supporters, and allies of the National Coalition Against Censorship – are working hard to ensure our free expression principles survive this moment and thrive in the next generation and beyond. Your support of the NCAC is essential and gives us the purpose and resources to fight this onslaught.

With your help, the National Coalition Against Censorship has been leading the charge against the censors with our public voice, arts advocacy, investment in community leaders, youth programming, legal strategy, coalition-building, and direct intervention in reports of censorship. And wherever possible, we do this work in coalition: this is a moment for collective action.


** "We must fight against antisemitism, but we equally need to protect our rights, including our right to free speech, and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed at the altar of the other."
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** Legal Advocacy
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We are standing with FIRE to defend student editor David McNicholas. After publishing editorials in The Young Warrior criticizing administrators at the Institute of American Indian Arts, McNicholas was hit with probation, housing suspension, and demands for public retractions. Punishing students for speaking out is censorship. At a public college, it’s also a violation of First Amendment rights. Protecting McNicholas means protecting every student’s right to question authority without fear.
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** Arts & Culture
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** Advocacy Program
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** Help Collective Courage Reach All 50 States!
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In May 2025, NCAC and VLC gathered cultural leaders to address threats to artistic freedom and institutional independence. This meeting resulted in a call for an alliance within the cultural sector to uphold shared values. A smaller group drafted The Statement, outlining foundational principles to unify America’s diverse arts field. It emphasizes the commitment to programmatic independence and the need to resist self-censorship, ensuring future generations inherit vibrant cultural institutions that inspire creativity and free thinking.

Hundreds of arts, culture, and free expression organizations have already signed Collective Courage, but we’re not done yet. Our goal is to have signatories from every single state— and we still have a few to go! To get there, we need your help finding organizations and individuals in the following states:

Institutions Still Missing In:
1. Alaska
2. Hawaii
3. Idaho
4. Kansas
5. Kentucky
6. Mississippi
7. Montana
8. Nebraska
9. New Hampshire
10. North Dakota
11. Oklahoma
12. Rhode Island
13. South Carolina
14. South Dakota
15. Tennessee
16. Vermont
17. West Virginia
18. Wisconsin
19. Wyoming

Individuals Still Missing In:
1. Alaska
2. Delaware
3. Hawaii
4. Mississippi
5. Nebraska
6. North Dakota
7. South Dakota
8. West Virginia
9. Wyoming

If you know organizations or colleagues in these states, please share Collective Courage with them. With your help, we can ensure voices from every corner of the country are represented.

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** Expression Program
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** Right to Read Night
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Join fellow readers in Buffalo for Right to Read Night as part of Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025). Participants will gather to discuss Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, a powerful story about an enslaved teenager’s fight for freedom — and one of the many books facing censorship today. These conversations offer a chance to reflect on why the book matters, the impact of attempts to ban it, and how we can defend the right to read.
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Can’t make it to Buffalo? Explore the map to quickly find a Right to Read Night in your community.
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** Annual Gala
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Join us for a night of celebration and reflection at the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Annual Gala as we honor free speech champions whose tireless commitment to protecting artistic freedom, intellectual inquiry, and the fundamental right to speak one’s mind has inspired us and made us all more free.
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We cannot fight the censors alone. In moments of repression, moral courage is essential…and contagious. We are standing up to this moment of censorship because you stand with us.

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