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RICHMOND, VA – Americans for Prosperity Virginia (AFP-VA) through their grassroots advocacy, were able to halt multiple unconstitutional attacks on the First Amendment this session, as well as leading the fight to protect Right to Work laws. Unfortunately, the General Assembly also passed several bills on mostly partisan lines that were strongly opposed by AFP-VA. These included: SB802 which would force […]
This is a guest blog written by Brent Gardner, chief government affairs officer at Americans for Prosperity. There are moments in our culture and our politics when the outrage is justified. This is one of them. From government failures to social fractures, people are angry — and they should be. Outrage is not a defect […]
Arlington, VA – AFP President and CEO Emily Seidel issued the following statement on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: “We are horrified by the news of the shooting at Utah Valley University that left Charlie Kirk seriously injured. Our thoughts are with Charlie, his family, and all those affected by this senseless act of violence. […]
Free speech has always been a cornerstone of the American experiment. But if you’re like most Americans, you probably think the country is headed in the wrong direction on that issue. According to a recent poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: 69% of Americans think America is heading in the wrong direction […]
AFP’s mission is to empower every American to pursue their American Dream. We do this by expanding freedom and opportunity. How? By engaging and amplifying the voices of millions of Americans to advance policy solutions from the statehouse to the White House. The hard work of advancing good policy begins after every election. But first, on November […]
The day Michael Frazier stepped beyond his campus’s allotted 10×10 “free speech zone,” he was abruptly confronted by University of Kentucky administrators and verbally chastised. It was a stark wake-up call: censorship was not just a concept that existed in distant authoritarian countries —it was thriving on American college campuses. The contrast between American values […]
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) praised the Pennsylvania Senate for passing HB 1466, a bill to protect free speech in the Commonwealth. Both chambers of the Pennsylvania general assembly voted unanimously to allow judges to dismiss Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (commonly known as SLAPP) on issues of public concern. This law raises the threshold […]
Arlington, Va. – Today, policy experts with Americans for Prosperity submitted written testimony prior to a U.S. Senate Rules Committee hearing on legislation that would crack down on the use of AI in political campaign materials. In their testimony, AFP’s James Czerniawski and Scott Blackburn pointed out deep flaws within the proposed measures, S. 2770, […]
Manchester, New Hampshire—Today the New Hampshire State Senate voted to pass a bill protecting free speech on public campuses in the Granite State. Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) Regional Director Greg Moore issued the following statement after the passage of HB 1305: “Now, more than ever it is critical that public universities maintain their commitment […]
