President Trump and his allies have framed the first year of his second term as a restoration of free speech rights once threatened by Democrats. A new report shows that his “aggressive attacks on dissent” have demonstrated otherwise. Kylie Cooper/Reuters

Nora Benavidez of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press set out to catalog the Trump administration’s First Amendment infringements. She soon had a list of almost 200.

That list is part of a new report, previewed by CNN and out Monday, about President Trump and his administration’s “war on free speech.”

“While this chilling campaign is vastly unpopular and often loses in court, its speed and scale are unprecedented in U.S. history,” Benavidez wrote.

And the effect, she wrote, “is palpable as millions may think twice about core Fir

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