Institute for Free Speech: The nation’s largest organization dedicated solely to protecting political speech, press, assembly, and petition rights. Check out the Institute's blog: http://www.IFS.org/blog The Institute for Free Speech (IFS) promotes and defends the First Amendment rights to freely speak, assemble, publish, and petition the government through strategic litigation, communication, activism, training, research, and education. Our dedicated professional staff works tirelessly to protect political speech under these freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. We are the nation’s largest organization dedicated solely to protecting First Amendment political speech rights.