Five Years Later, the Truth Is Louder Than Ever

Washington, DC - July 27, 2025

Five years ago today, a group of physicians in white coats stood on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court and declared war on medical tyranny.

On July 27, 2020, nineteen doctors ignited a nationwide movement for truth and medical freedom. In a single afternoon, their message—about early treatment, lockdown lies, and the hijacking of medicine by bureaucrats and billionaires—spread like wildfire. Over 20 million people watched the White Coat Summit within 24 hours. The video was on track to reach a billion.

Then Big Tech wiped it from the internet.

But the truth had already taken root—and America’s Frontline Doctors never backed down.

“Five years ago, we stood up and told the American people the truth. About hydroxychloroquine. About ivermectin. About the corruption at the highest levels of our medical and government institutions,” said Dr. Simone Gold, founder of Frontline Doctors. “And we were punished for it. Silenced, censored, investigated, and attacked. But we never stopped fighting—and we’re still standing.”

In the years since that historic day, AFLDS  has led the national resistance to medical censorship and state-sanctioned disinformation. The organization has filed legal briefs in some of the most consequential civil liberties cases of our time—Murthy v. Missouri, Kory v. Bonta, Thomas v. Harder, Chiles v. Salazar—defending physicians, counselors, and patients against weaponized medical boards and unconstitutional laws.

Frontline Doctors also helped expose the Censorship Industrial Complex—an unlawful web of collusion between the federal government, social media giants, and academic institutions aimed at silencing dissent. What began as the removal of one video quickly revealed a global architecture of suppression and surveillance.

In 2024, Dr. Gold won a major First Amendment victory when a California judge vacated a political reprimand issued by the state medical board for her advocacy of early treatment protocols. That same year, the FDA agreed to retract its infamous “You are not a horse” ivermectin tweet after being sued by physicians represented in a legal brief submitted by Frontline Doctors.

Most recently, on June 26th, Frontline Doctors filed two citizen petitions with the FDA demanding over-the-counter access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin—medications long proven to be safe, effective, and essential to the practice of honest medicine.

“The past five years have proven what we knew from the beginning: the fight was never about science—it was about control,” said Dr. Gold. “They tried to erase us, but instead they exposed themselves. The censorship only made the truth louder.”

From courtrooms to state legislatures, Frontline Doctors has been instrumental in shifting the legal and cultural tide. Several states have now passed laws protecting access to early treatment and defending the doctor-patient relationship from political interference.

“As we mark this anniversary, we remember the moment the medical freedom movement was born,” Dr. Gold added. “We stood our ground—and we’re still standing. The truth didn’t go away. It grew into a movement. And we’re just getting started.”

To learn more or support the mission of Frontline Doctors, visit www.AFLDS.org.

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