Janus showed me how to fight for my free speech

Just over a year ago, a man named Mark Janus won a monumental case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mark was a public sector worker in Illinois who wasn’t a member of the union. Despite not being a member, he was forced to pay “agency fees” in order to continue his work serving the community he cared about. The union then used those dues to lobby the government — which means that Mark was forced to pay for someone else’s political speech. The Supreme Court ruled that forcing Mark to pay these fees violated his First Amendment rights.