Rumors of War

How the Government Is Accelerating Its War On the Right to Protest

Our First Amendment right has been systematically dismantled — just when we might need it most

Aaron Gell
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Published in
17 min readOct 27, 2020

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Photo illustration: Anthony Gerace; source: Ira L. Black — Corbis/Getty Images

Nobody sets out to be a political prisoner. But as Lillian House sat in a 7-by-14-foot cell, listening to the faint hum of chanting supporters in…

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Aaron Gell
GEN
Writer for

Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com