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Ninth Circuit Issues Landmark Religious Liberty Decision

The court’s decision also reminds us of a critical truth: Faith is personal, but it is not private. Religious liberty doesn’t just protect our rights to believe in the privacy of our heads, our hearts, our homes, or our houses of worship. The First Amendment protects religious exercise, the active, practical living out of one’s deepest-held conviction, including the building and running of organizations designed to apply those convictions to the challenges and struggles of life.

U.S. Sanctions Starmer-Linked ‘Radical Activist’ NGO Boss at Centre of Censorship Scandal Against Breitbart

January 2, 2026 2

Imran Ahmed, a British citizen and the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the notorious censorship and deplatforming outfit which defined its central mission as “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and is closely linked to the inner circle of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, has been sanctioned by the United States government.

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Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant

December 30, 2025 0

The justices pointed to Google’s own privacy policy as a kind of consent form. “In the case before us, Google went beyond subtle indicators,” they wrote. “Google expressly informed its users that one should not expect any privacy when using its services.”

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Europe Declares War On Free Speech In The US

December 29, 2025 1

Is Europe gone mad? The cesspool of anti-free speech is declaring itself to be the “free world” and the US as its enemy? When I wrote just yesterday that 2026 could be the year when Free Speech dies in America, this is what I meant. Remember Nina Jankowicz who ran the Disinformation Governance Board for Biden? She’s back and she hates America all the more. Now is the time to speak up or forever hold your peace.

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When the Watchmen Are Silenced, the Gates Are Left Open

December 27, 2025 0

The Watchman’s role is moral, not political. He is accountable not for outcomes, but for truth. Every society depends on such Watchmen. They are the ones willing to speak uncomfortable truths before the threat is obvious, before it is too late to respond. Today, many of the most important Watchmen are inside the technology systems that increasingly govern our lives.

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Her ‘Game of Thrones’ GIF shut down a city meeting. She ‘lost everything’

December 26, 2025 0

A 43-page police report shows an extensive investigation by Tempe officers, but offers no smoking gun evidence that Tierney’s threat was real or that she recklessly disregarded a “substantial risk” that people would be alarmed by it — the legal qualification for speech to lose First Amendment protections.

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Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues

December 23, 2025 1

In other words, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Education … require school board members across New York to self-censor and shut down parent speech that advocates for their core values and for children’s privacy, safety, and opportunity. If school board members and parents disagree with Defendants’ viewpoint, they cannot speak. If they do speak, school board members risk being removed from their elected offices, and school board members and parents alike risk being publicly and falsely branded a bully and harasser of children.

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Trump SUSPENDS $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown

December 20, 2025 2

With the US now leveraging economic deals to push back against censorship, this suspension sends a clear message: alliances come with strings attached when basic freedoms are at stake. As Britain doubles down on policing speech, Trump is ensuring American innovation—and expression—won’t pay the price.

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We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime

December 14, 2025 0

Further, citizens in countries outside of the E.U., like the United States, are at risk of facing new levels of censorship, because the DSA applies to large online digital platforms and search engines accessed within the E.U. but that have a global presence. It explicitly states its extraterritorial applicability as it covers platforms used by people “that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services [the platforms] have their place of establishment.”

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School District Pays $650k to Teachers Fired for Opposing Gender Ideology Policy

December 13, 2025 2

“Educators are free to express opinions on fundamental issues of public concern—like gender identity education policy—that implicate the freedoms of teachers, parents, and students,” ADF Legal Counsel Matthew Hoffmann said. “The Grants Pass School District is taking the right step by acknowledging that teachers don’t give up their First Amendment rights when they set foot on school property. Public schools can’t retaliate against speech simply because they disagree with what’s said.”

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Politically Correct ‘Dignity Index’ Would Inject Social Credit Scores Into Public Education

December 9, 2025 0

An index designed to categorize speech as contemptuous or dignifying threatens to become another speech suppression and indoctrination tool.

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Clandestine Campaign To Defund ZeroHedge, The Federalist & Breitbart Traced To Kier Starmer Operation

December 6, 2025 3

Now, thanks to a new book by investigative journalist Paul Holden that builds on reporting by Matt Taibbi, Paul Thacker and others, we learn that the origin of these campaigns, launched years before the pandemic, was none other than UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s political machine, which began targeting left-wing outlets speaking critically of Starmer such as The Canary, and then went after conservative outlets in America – just in time for the 2020 US election.

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The Military vs. Technocracy’s ‘Science Of Social Engineering’ – ‘We Are Everywhere’

December 2, 2025 1

“The art of PSYOP relies on persuasion rather than physical force. The tools of the trade are logic, fear, desire and other mental factors used to evoke specific emotions, attitudes and behaviors,” according to a U.S. Army report. “The ultimate objective is to persuade enemy, neutral and friendly nations and forces to take favorable actions toward the U.S. and its allies.”

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