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30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

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Supporters of the Prairieland defendants display pamphlets and artwork after their sentencing outside a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse on June 23, 2026.   Photo: Matt Sledge/The Intercept Seth Stern is the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation. Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas. The Trump administration attacking the right to publish or report information is a given at this point. The president has threatened journalists for everything from questioning the wisdom of his failed war with Iran to touching the peeled lining of his renovated reflecting pool .  Tantrums like those may now feel routine, but this week marked a new front in Trump’s war on information: Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write.…

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