Fourteen years ago, the legislature passed vital protections for freedom of speech in the Texas Citizens Participation Act.
This week, they’re looking to gut it.
The TCPA addresses the common problem of “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or SLAPPs. These are frivolous lawsuits brought by the wealthy or powerful against private citizens to stop them from exercising their free speech rights.
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