Dissident Project
We are a speakers bureau connecting immigrants who have fled tyrannical regimes with Americans through speeches, TV, and online media.
04/09/2026
April 2016: Ekpar Asat returned home from a U.S. State Department leadership program. The CCP welcomed him back with handcuffs. 🇨🇳
Ten years later, he’s still serving a 15-year sentence for “inciting ethnic hatred.” ⛓️
His real crime? Being Uighur.
The arbitrary detention of an entire ethnic group isn’t just a human rights violation — it’s a systematic effort to subjugate a people whose only offense is existing outside the CCP’s ideological mold.
Asat’s sister calls her family “model citizens.” The state calls them criminals.
This is what authoritarian conformity looks like in practice.
Our dissidents know this story all too well.
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03/31/2026
Tyranny doesn’t begin with violence — it begins when free people stop resisting. ⚠️
Frederick Douglass reminds us that the strength of tyrants depends on the silence of those they oppress. 🤐
Authoritarianism isn’t a distant threat.
It grows when:
🔺we get comfortable
🔺when we tune out
🔺when we assume our freedoms will defend themselves.
The real question is this: will we stay alert enough to stop it?
At the Dissident Project, our speakers know this truth firsthand. They’ve lived under authoritarian regimes — and they’re bringing those lessons to classrooms across America.📚🇺🇸
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Help the next generation understand what’s at stake.
answered questions from students in the chapter at — sharing her insight as a dissident from North Korea. 🇰🇵
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