Talk politics.

I think the bottom line here is: I don't agree with your assessment of "speech". The direct expression of opinions is speech. Anything extra that may be part of the same action - transferring money, exerting economic power, hurting other people - is not speech, and thus does not have the same first amendment protection, even if the action it resulted from contains something that can be construed as speech. When you're clearly capable of making a statement without committing other acts, don't tell me the other acts are necessarily part of speech. They are not.