This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.
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Trump’s assault on freedom of speech takes many forms. See Cross Cultural Solidarity’s resource pages on:
- Attacking the Free Press.
- Attacking Academic Freedom.
- Attacking the Scientific Community.
- Attacking the Arts.
- The Erasure & Rewriting of History.
- Banning Books.
Additional Articles
2025
March 7. The New York Times: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration.
April 7. NPR: Freedom of speech is shifting under the Trump administration.
April 8. NPR: ‘Citizenship won’t save you’: Free speech advocates say student arrests should worry all.
April 9. NPR: How the powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media and ‘Murder the Truth’.
April 9. Colin Moynihan & Mitch Smith: Senate Panel Demands Information About Gaza Protest Group at Columbia: Lawmakers want the university to turn over all its records about Students for Justice in Palestine.
April 10. The New York Times:Stanford Protesters Charged With Felonies for Pro-Palestinian Occupation.
April 10. NPR: ‘What did I say in class today?’: Teachers feel watched under Trump’s anti-DEI push.
April 14. NPR: Under Trump, freedom of speech in universities takes on a new meaning.
April 15. NPR: Scientists worry about free speech rights under the Trump administration.
April 21. Clint Smith: What It Means to Tell the Truth About America: and what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”.
April 25. Naomi Nix and Sarah Ellison: U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status.