Reality Winner: The 60 Minutes Interview

Reality Winner: The 60 Minutes Interview
Air Force veteran Reality Leigh Winner was charged under the Espionage Act for leaking a report documenting cyber attacks upon U.S. election infrastructure in June 2017, during the earlier days of the Trump Administration.

Upon Reality’s arrest, Courage to Resist took the initiative to form a collective response. Along side Reality’s friends and family, we built the “Stand With Reality” campaign, created online resources, and fundraised for a Courage to Resist-hosted Reality Winner Defense Fund, with significant support from CTR contributors.

In June 2018, after in-depth discussions with Reality Winner’s mother, Billie Winner-Davis, CTR agreed that the campaign should be led by Reality’s close family and friends going forward. Later, Reality pled guilty and received a four year prison sentence, vs. the ten years she would have faced otherwise.

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Reality Winner:

“I just kept thinking, ‘My God, somebody needs to step forward and put this right. Somebody.’ … I knew it was secret. But I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people. And at that point in time, it felt like they were being led astray. … I thought this was the truth. But also, I did not betray our sources and methods. Did not cause damage. Did not put lives on the line. It only filled in a question mark that was tearing our country in half in May 2017. … I’ve had four years of just trying to say I’m not a terrorist.”
Pardon Reality Winner

Pardon Reality Winner

Sign the petition to pardon Reality Winner or to commute her sentence to time served. Reality has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for sharing a secret doc about election insecurity with the media.

Stand with Reality Campaign Update

Stand with Reality Campaign Update

Courage to Resist & the Stand with Reality campaign have made a mutual decision that the campaign will be led by close family & friends going forward.

Podcast: Billie Winner-Davis speaks out

Podcast: Billie Winner-Davis speaks out

Billie Winner-Davis is the mother of NSA contractor, and alleged whistleblower, Reality Leigh Winner. In this podcast, she shares her fears for her family as Trump’s Justice Dept. takes aim at her daughter.

On Reality Winner & Freedom

On Reality Winner & Freedom

This Forth of July, Reality Winner sits behind bars for allegedly acting upon her commitment to stand up for a government free from tyranny.

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