Newly released documents reveal that four days after Customs & Border Patrol agents in Minnesota shot and killed Alex Pretti in January of 2026, the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation – but not into the agents who shot

Today the House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed NYC activist space the People’s Forum, nonprofit media outlet BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Defending Rights & Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons has issued the following statement in

Today the U.S. State Department issued “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” a 100-page report which purportedly aims to expose “the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion” in the United States. Defending Rights & Dissent Policy Director Chip

On July 13, 2026, The Grayzone reported that their editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal was detained at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. upon return from  a reporting trip to Iran to cover the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Agents searched Blumenthal’s

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. U.S. that mobile phone users have an expectation of privacy from the government even when using apps that track their location data. Defending Rights & Dissent issued the following statement in response

Thanks to everyone who took action over the past few months to urge Congress to either enact substantive reforms or allow FISA section 702 sunset. We got the sunset! This is a major victory, but it also means there is

Defending Rights & Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons has issued the following comment in response to this weekend’s reports that the U.S. government has issued subpoenas to CodePink founder Medea Benjamin and political commentator Hasan Piker over their recent trip