| Dear Friend,  When it comes to the First Amendment, conservatives know that liberals want to apply to them one particular speech right – the right to remain silent. Miranda applies when your hands are on the hood of a car, not when you are in a classroom or the public square giving voice to your beliefs. But today's hard-core Leftists — those faithful Alinsky disciples who run amok on our campuses and throughout our culture — despise the notion that free speech can and, when necessary, should be full-bodied, full-throated, argumentative, disagreeable, and even harsh. Leftists will concede that speech can indeed be about convictions – but only their convictions. They want us to shut up, and more: Espousing the traditional thoughts and values of conservatives and religious folk is now increasingly derided as hate speech, and demands for legislation to make such criminal are afoot by liberal lawmakers and the well-funded special-interest groups they so slavishly serve. When Bill Buckley founded National Review and National Review Institute, he did so because he knew America needed a clear voice and firm bulwark against Leftism and its inherent intolerance. NRI is moved to take this Buckley mandate to stand up vigorously for the fundamental aspects of our Republic and society — free speech, free worship, free association, due process, gun ownership!) — and to empower it, to make it more consequential, through the creation of the Center for Unalienable Rights. We believe this to be a vital and necessary undertaking, and we ask for your generous financial support. And we are happy to announce: Your contribution will be matched, dollar for dollar. The Center for Unalienable Rights will be headed by NRI fellow David French, who is an American leader in defending our fundamental freedoms in the face of hostile multiculturalists. Under the Center's auspices, David will conduct impactful investigative journalism, producing long-form pieces devoted to defending our First Amendment rights. Buttressed by the resources of the Institute, these pieces will be supported by targeted media campaigns to raise awareness of threats to our liberties. And working with NRI's On Campus program, David will bring will his clear and impactful defense of our unalienable rights to America's colleges and universities. Once upon a time, extremist oppression of speech was the precinct of communists, national socialists, and fascists. On our shores, it was more so a joke, found in the hoary harangues and fevered thoughts of disperse misfits and crypto-Marxist fools. But it's no joke any longer. No, the Left's campaign of intolerance against is big and bad and very real indeed, and we conservatives, and all good people who cherish our Bill of Rights, and those freedoms with which are Creator has endowed us, need to fight back. The campaign to raise $100,000 to help launch the Center for Unalienable Rights will end this Monday, July 31st. Please see your way to making a generous tax-deductible contribution by then, done securely right here. And know that one amazing supporter — a profound friend of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — has committed to matching, dollar for dollar, every contribution made by tomorrow, up to $100,000. Currently, we are only $35,000 away from meeting this match. Help us meet this goal! Our rights may be (are!) unalienable, but as the Left has shown, they are not unassailable. Fight back. Please support National Review Institute's Center for Unalienable Rights. God bless, Jack Fowler
Trustee, National Review Institute
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