Why We Exist

The Free Press was upheld, sometimes reluctantly, at America's founding to serve the public good by holding the powerful accountable to individual citizens: It was to be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people."

To Restore a Vibrant Free Press ...

“Groupthink” among “mainstream media” journalists has stifled news from legitimate sources

The free press can only thrive when competition in the marketplace of ideas is encouraged rather than limited.


... As Bequesthed By The Founders
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ....

— First Amendment

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