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							<title><![CDATA[Free Jamie Dimon (and His Employees)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-jamie-dimon-and-his-employees-6c0d61a7?st=CG34uk</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The SEC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'pay to play'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rule is an unconstitutional infringement on the right to participate in politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/20/how_left_will_defend_its_censorship_regime_against_trump_152114.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MAGA Must Avoid the Tea Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Fate
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The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Indictment a Perversion of Campaign-Finance Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-indictment-is-a-perversion-of-campaign-finance-law-alvin-bragg-hush-money-business-records-daniels-bdb5942c?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If a candidate has to pay for his own clothes, surely hush money is likewise a personal expense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Using the FEC as a Partisan Weapon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/26/democrats_are_using_the_fec_as_a_partisan_weapon_145992.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are accused of a crime. Fortunately for you, the jury rejects the prosecution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s case. But the judge disagrees with the verdict. He pretends the jury has not reached a decision, and announces that the trial will continue, but no sign of when. Sound fair?
Incredibly,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Dems' Misguided Effort to Muzzle Conservative Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/02/23/house_dems_misguided_effort_to_muzzle_conservative_media_145292.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Feb. 24, House Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' will hold a hearing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'traditional media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s role in promoting disinformation and extremism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This hearing is a dangerous threat to American democracy and goes entirely against what the Founders intended when they made a free press'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dangerous Road to Go Down on Campaign Finance Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-enquirer-and-the-threat-to-free-speech-20180823-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happens when a media organization finds itself at the center of an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations? Does it plead the Fifth, or the First?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Those Payments Are Unseemly. That Doesn't Make Them Illegal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/those-payments-to-mistresses-were-unseemly-that-doesnt-mean-they-were-illegal/2018/08/22/634acdf4-a63b-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If a candidate for public office decided to settle a private lawsuit to get it out of the news before Election Day, would that be a campaign expenditure? If a business owner ran for political office and decided to pay bonuses to his employees, in the hope that he would get good press and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Wins Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374894/free-speech-last-mccutcheon-decision-just-right-bradley-smith</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court took another step toward protecting political speech Tuesday by rejecting arbitrary campaign-finance restrictions. In McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the Court struck down an aggregate limit Americans can contribute to political figures during an election...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Connecting the Dots in the IRS Scandal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mainstream press has justified its lack of coverage over the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups because there's been no "smoking gun" tying President Obama to the scandal. This betrays a remarkable, if not willful, failure to understand abuse of power. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Citizen's Life of Political Crime]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324009304579040671355619380.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the winter of 2008, Ed Corsi decided that he was tired of stewing about the politics in his home of Geauga County, Ohio, and the country at large. He started a website, put Thomas Jefferson's quote, "The price of freedom . . . constant vigilance" at the top, dubbed the site "Geauga...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsflash: First Amendment Upheld]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704509704575019112172931620.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bradley Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday's Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court struck down a blanket government prohibition on corporate political speech, is a wonderful decision that restores political speech to the primacy it was intended to have under the First...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Fundraising Juggernaut]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302077.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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