Know your rights. Be ready.

Graphics we made for the topics The Speak Freely Show keeps coming back to — rights, voting, privacy, the grid, the economy, history, and getting hold of the people who represent you. Free to download, print, pin and pass on. No sign-up, no email.

What to say, and when to say nothing

If you’re stopped, detained, or out protesting: what you’re entitled to, what to say, and where to find a lawyer who won’t charge you.

What they collect, and how to take it back

Plate readers, robot dogs, data brokers and face scans — what companies and agencies hold on you, what the law lets you do about it, and the steps that actually shrink it.

A right is only as strong as whoever enforces it

Civil rights, disability rights, special education and the separation of powers: what the statutes still say, and where enforcement has thinned. Several note plainly where the argument is still in court.

Water, power, and the first seventy-two hours

Built from Ready.gov, FEMA, the CDC, the EPA and the Red Cross. General guidance — follow your local emergency officials over anything printed on a graphic.

Being counted takes about ninety seconds

The script for calling a representative, and the three questions to ask before a data centre gets its vote. Both are things one person can do in an afternoon.

Casting a ballot, and making it count

Where to go, what to do if you’re turned away or can’t get there, working the polls yourself, and what the November 3 ballot actually decides.

What each side says, does, and costs

Both parties described on their own terms, the two records side by side, and the tactics both use on you. Built to be read together — no single pin here picks a winner.

The data centre, the grid, and the bill it sends you

What data centres are for, why they’re on your power bill, who pays in a grid emergency, why Pennsylvania’s electricity is the outlier, and how to fight a rate case or a local proposal. Every figure is dated on the graphic, because these numbers move.

Paychecks, prices, and the federal books

What changed in household costs since 2024, how pay stopped tracking productivity, the wealth gap, what the top 1% pays, and the arithmetic any budget plan has to satisfy.

Food aid, health care, and what happens when it ends

How SNAP and American health coverage actually work, what the fraud numbers do and don’t say, the measured effects of people losing both, and what the end of Roe changed for care that has nothing to do with abortion.

What it is, what it isn’t, and what it’s doing

Why the alarm doesn’t depend on machines being conscious, the documented cases of AI agents getting out of their test boxes, and what slowing the industry down would actually take.

The history today’s arguments are standing on

Immigration, abortion, church and state, race, credit, the Depression and the company town — each told from the primary record, with the point where interpretation starts marked on the graphic.

What people believe, and what the law says about it

Descriptive, not theological advice. Each graphic sticks to what a tradition teaches about itself, what the courts have decided, and what the surveys count — and prints its sources.

Wars, faiths, and the reports behind the headlines

Israel and Palestine, the Iran war, and two plain explainers on Islam and halal certification. Every figure is attributed to whoever counted it, and each pin marks where interpretations differ.