The Government Censorship Agenda has the potential to provide any future president — Democrat or Republican — with unchecked power to target their political enemies with impunity, skew election funding in favor of allied candidates, enshrine voter suppression into law, and throw community groups into chaos, endangering critical services those organizations provide to children, seniors, and other vulnerable groups. 

Since taking office, this administration has launched increasingly flagrant attacks on free speech, nonprofits, and their perceived political opponents. These include:

• Targeting law firms as a form of retribution and to signal to any other firms that opposition will not be tolerated

• The FBI asking Citibank to freeze several accounts of Biden-era climate grant recipients without any proof of wrongdoing

• Threatening to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status and accusing it of supporting terrorists without any evidence

The Government Censorship Agenda is not limited to executive action. Aggressive activists are working tirelessly to pass a series of bills that have one common goal: making it impossible for community and advocacy groups to oppose the actions of the government or promote an alternate policy vision. These proposed bills would:

• Allow the Treasury Secretary to designate nonprofits as “terrorist supporting organizations,” without justification, and suspend their tax-exempt status without due process (H.R.9495/H.R.6408 - Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act)

• Revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits or advocacy organizations who make political contributions after receiving donations from non-citizens, while creating a loophole to allow contributions from foreign corporations (H.R. 8314 - No Foreign Election Interference Act)

• Allow the federal government to insert itself in state ballot initiatives and determine who is allowed to fund those campaigns – creating loopholes for foreign corporations while blocking foreign individuals (H.R.3229 - Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act)

• Force tax-exempt organizations that receive even a single dollar from non-citizens to choose between advocacy for their members or foregoing those donations (H.R.4563 - ACE Act)

• Enact significant barriers to voter registration and upend mail and online voter registration systems, disenfranchising millions of eligible Americans (H.R. 22 - SAVE Act → The House passed this bill in April. It now goes to the Senate)