Dear Ms. James, Thank you for offering me a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden Flag in exchange for a donation of $35 or more to the Heritage Foundation. Your offer made me recall the Supreme Court case Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, which came about when a Mr. Mansky wore a "Please I.D. Me" button and a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden Flag T-shirt to his Minnesota polling place. In 2018, the court declared on a 7-2 vote that it was unconstitutional to prohibit that kind of political speech at a polling place. When MVA v. Mansky was before the court, the Heritage Foundation jumped in to declare that it was all well and good for states to have "reasonable measures intended to safeguard the integrity of elections, allow voters to cast their ballots without being intimidated or pressured to support a particular side, and ensure peace and order at polling places," but neither you nor the court majority could fathom how the battle cry of voter suppression and the adopted emblem of the Tea Party could make voters feel "intimidated or pressured." Heritage argued that "neither his button nor his T-shirt bore any relation to a candidate or issue on the ballot that year. And the Gadsden Flag is a historically significant symbol of the American Revolution that was first used by the fledgling American Navy and the Continental Marines."