FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION (FIRE) is a legal-rights group that defends First Amendment rights on college campuses. It has successfully challenged "the scourge of unconstitutional speech codes" and "free-speech zones" at some campuses, and has a religious-liberty to assist people "who are helpless in the face of anti-religious double standards."

THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA is part of the nation's largest civil rights and civil liberties organization. The ACLU of PA often makes the news, and draws frequent controversy, for its staunch defense of free speech and other constitutional principles.

LET FREEDOM RING is a nonprofit, grassroots public-policy organization supporting the conservative agenda. It says it operates "at the intersection of faith and politics." The group holds workshops to encourage pastors to speak out during religious campaigns, and believes left-wing groups have stifled such expression. Hanna, its founder, is a conservative Chesco politician who has also created a controversial website WeNeedAFence.com, about immigration reform.

THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM is a think tank whose goal is to define and promote American interests in the Middle East. The Forum is headed by scholar Daniel Pipes, who has drawn controversy for his Islamist Watch and Campus Watch, which counters what it considers biased information about Israel and the West.

THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER is an independent nonprofit dedicated to increasing public understanding of, and appreciation for, the Constitution, its history, and its contemporary relevance, through an interactive, interpretive facility within Independence National Historic Park and a program of national outreach.