Amid a nationwide push for the Department of Justice to release all unclassified records in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a billboard campaign in support of the sex offender’s victims made its way to Pennsylvania.
World Without Exploitation – a national coalition against human trafficking and exploitation – recently launched its “Courage Is Contagious” campaign which includes billboards urging politicians to release the Epstein files.
The group unveiled a new round of electronic billboards on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, including one on I-95 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, which reads, “Courage Is Contagious: Release ALL the Epstein files.” Similar billboards were placed in Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
“We’re calling on our members of Congress to please show the leadership, humanity and courage the American people deserve,” Lauren Hersh, National Director of World Without Exploitation, said. “This isn’t about the bold names dominating headlines – like Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell or their accomplices. Rather, this moment belongs to the survivors, who are demanding justice and access to the information that’s haunted their lives for decades. We hope our elected officials courageously stand in a bi-partisan, non-partisan fashion with these brave women and their constituents, who want transparency and justice.”
Marci Hamilton, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Child USA — a think tank focused on child protection policies — supports the campaign.
“That kind of a billboard that says ‘courage is contagious’ is going to be empowering to Epstein victims but to a lot of other victims in our area,” Hamilton said. “We need to hear the names of the powerful men. We also need to know what was the relationship between Epstein and so many of these men in his sphere. This is about the public’s need as much as the survivors.”
Hamilton also served as an outside consultant for the Epstein Estates Victims Compensation Program.
“I’m feeling that this is the moment for the child sex abuse crisis,” Hamilton said. “If we can get all of these files released and any other government files outside the Department of Justice, I do believe we will have turned a corner on the secrecy, the coverups and all the cruelty that’s happened for children. If this government, however, keeps it secret, or some significant portion of it secret, we know we’ve got a lot more work to do.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) represents all of Bucks County. NBC10 reached out to Fitzpatrick’s office for a statement on the billboard and will include it once we receive one.
Congress is expected to vote on the release of the Epstein files on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Epstein case, after previously fighting the proposal amid a growing number of people in his own party who supported the release.
“We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.
Trump’s statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters.
The president’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.
It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP. In his return to office and in his second term as president, Trump has largely consolidated power in the Republican Party.
“I DON’T CARE!” Trump wrote in his social media post. “All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT.”
Lawmakers who support the bill have been predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for it, bucking the GOP leadership and the president.
In his opposition to the proposal, Trump even reached out to two of the Republican lawmakers who signed it. One, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, met last week with administration officials in the White House Situation Room to discuss it.
The bill would force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison. Information about Epstein’s victims or ongoing federal investigations would be allowed to be redacted.
Prior to President Trump’s most recent comments over the weekend, NBC10 asked Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Pa.) about whether or not he would vote for the bill.
“Yeah, I will,” Mackenzie said. “And the reason is I’ve always said we want maximum transparency.”
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