Help End Speech Codes Now!

Eleven states have passed laws banning free speech codes and free speech zones on public university and college campuses.

That’s a great start, but we need 39 more to do the same.

Americans for Prosperity believes that the purpose of a college education is not to reaffirm students’ beliefs. It is to challenge, expand and refine them. Most importantly, it is to send critically thinking students into the world with minds that are open and questioning, not closed and self-righteous. 

The whole purpose of college is to give students the tools they need so that they can make contributions to human progress. Through open inquiry and a respectful exchange of ideas, students can discover new ways to help others improve their lives. 

Universities and colleges are supposed to serve as both incubators generating new ideas and laboratories challenging accepted thinking. At their core, they should be validating those ideas that stand up to peer reviewed research and debunking those that don’t. 

Yet speech codes and speech zones on public universities have too often turned into forms of intimidation that create a climate of intellectual conformity that discourages open inquiry, debate, true learning, and discoveries that benefit society.

That’s why we are laser focused on bringing people together toward our larger objective, our North Star, which is to stop bad public policies and fight for good ones that empower every American to be able to pursue their own version of the American Dream.

Americans for Prosperity, with our 144 offices in 35 states, has played a major role in building coalitions in state after state that are demonstrating that, despite stiff opposition from the forces of cancel culture, it is possible to win these battles for free speech—but we need your help.

A critical way you can help is by contributing to support our proven-successful lobbying and grassroots efforts to enact reform in more states. AFP has a history and with the first 11 states we have shown we can win tough battles.

We must work together to end speech codes and speech zones NOW in the remaining 39 states and reawaken a love of free speech across America.

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