The fight to stop SOPA culminated in the Internet Blackout of January 18th, 2012. However, for Demand Progress and Don’t Censor the Net, the effort started nearly a year and a half earlier. Our work, in turn, was made possible by decades of activism by a number of organizations and myriad activists who’d been toiling to keep the Internet free and open. This string of essays tells the story of the effort to defeat SOPA and its predecessor and companion bills, beginning with Demand Progress’s entry into the fray in the fall of 2010.