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David Keating, President of the Center for Competitive Politics, discusses O'Keefe v Chisholm, a lawsuit that charges prosecutors in Wisconsin with a multi-year campaign to silence and intimidate conservative groups whose political speech they don't like, the status of campaign finance law five years after the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United, and an important victory for free speech in Nevada.
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