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National Guard Lost 7,500 Service Members in Past Year, Could Lose More Amid COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: Service Officials

by USNN2020October 9, 2022February 21, 2025

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Universal Mail-In Voting Violates Delaware Constitution: Delaware Supreme Court

by USNN2020October 7, 2022October 7, 2022

Nearly 50 new government defendants have been added to the lawsuit that alleges the government induced censorship of state officials and others on social media. The second amended complaint in the case, Missouri v. Biden, includes six new agencies, bringing the total to 13, and 41 new individual defendants, bringing the total to 54. Altogether, 67 officials or agencies are accused of violating plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by participating in a “censorship enterprise” through pressuring Big Tech firms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to take action against users offering alleged misinformation. Evidence backing the claims has been produced in discovery, including exchanges between White House officials and Meta, Facebook’s parent company and messages showing meetings between administration officials and the firms. The new defendants include the FBI; former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andrew Slavitt; Dana Remus, counsel to President Joe Biden; Elvis Chan, an FBI special agent based in San Francisco; Janell Muhammed, deputy digital director at the Department of Health and Human Services; Allison Snell, an official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the State Department; and Mark Robbins, interim executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. One or more of the Big Tech firms that were subpoenaed in the case identified the officials as possibly communicating with them on content moderation relating to “COVID-19 misinformation,” the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, the administration’s since-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, and/or “election security, integrity, outcomes, and/or public confidence in election outcomes (not to include issues of foreign interference or related issues).” Slavitt was named because emails show he was in communication with Facebook regarding the combating of alleged misinformation. The messages show that Facebook was committed to censoring and de-emphasizing posts that were “departing from the government’s messaging on vaccines,” plaintiffs said. Slavitt also called for Twitter to ban Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, previously released messages show. Muhammed, meanwhile, was in touch with Facebook to ask the company to take down pages and accounts that were allegedly misrepresenting themselves as representing the government. “Absolutely,” one of the Facebook employees responded. Other discovery suggests the FDA “has participated in federally-induced censorship of private speech on social media about questions of vaccine safety and efficacy, among other subjects,” plaintiffs said. The agencies that were added to the case did not respond to requests for comment. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee overseeing the case, recently ordered defendants named in earlier complaints to comply with demands, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top medical adviser to Biden. The new documents do not include any more information from Fauci or the White House press secretary’s office.

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47 New Biden Administration Defendants Named in Government–Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit

by USNN2020October 7, 2022December 28, 2024

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by USNN2020October 7, 2022August 26, 2024

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by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 26, 2025

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by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 18, 2025

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by USNN2020October 6, 2022December 25, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022June 30, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022December 20, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022January 21, 2025

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Americans’ support for Biden’s electric car push is nearly zero

by USNN2020October 4, 2022October 4, 2022

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Hunter Biden Laptop Whistleblower Speaks Out 2 Years Later

by USNN2020October 4, 2022February 24, 2025

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House Dems Kill Budd Amendment, Say No to Switching Funds for 87,000 New IRS Agents to Hire More Border Patrol Agents

By Mark Tapscott House Rules Committee Democrats killed an amendment offered by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) that would have transferred billions of tax dollars the ...

Judge Orders Department of Justice to Respond to Requests to Unseal FBI’s Trump Warrant

By Jack Phillips The Justice Department has to respond to motions to unseal a warrant that triggered the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according ...

GOP Launches NARA Probe Over FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid

By Gary Bai Oversight GOP figures are requesting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid of former ...

‘Weaponized’ DOJ Undermines Citizens’ Faith in American Institutions: Rep. Mike Johnson

By Gary Bai The news about the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property rung vivid imageries of déjà vu in the mind of ...

Grassley Expresses Concerns to FBI Director After Mar-a-Lago Raid

By Mimi Nguyen Ly Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency’s conduct a day ...

‘Seems Political’: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Yang React to FBI Raid on Trump’s Home

By Gary Bai Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo questioned the Department of Justice for authorizing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s ...

‘Biden Knew All About This,’ Trump Says After Mar-a-Lago Home Raided by FBI

By Frank Fang Former President Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden, claiming that the administration had prior knowledge of the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort on ...

McConnell Says ‘Country Deserves Thorough and Immediate Explanation’ About Trump Residence Search

By Hannah Ng Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has called for a “thorough and immediate explanation” in the wake of the FBI’s search at former President ...

Trump Releases Dramatic Political Video After FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago

By Caden Pearson Former President Donald Trump released a dramatic political video, hours after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, in which he laments the “declining” state ...

FBI Agents Were Looking for Classified Records, Took Boxes of Documents From Trump Resort: Lawyer

By Zachary Stieber and Roman Balmakov The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on ...

After Raid, Trump Determined to ‘Straighten This Country Out’: Graham

By Zachary Stieber Former President Donald Trump is determined to fix the United States after his residence was raided by the FBI, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Aug. ...

Vought Laying Groundwork for Next GOP President to Neutralize Federal Swamp’s Bureaucracy

By Mark Tapscott Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, had a plan, but too little time left in 2020 to restore ...