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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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FBI Sued for Withholding Records of Facebook Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

by USNN2020October 6, 2022December 25, 2024

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by USNN2020October 5, 2022June 30, 2024

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Supreme Court Directs Department of Justice to Respond to Trump Request

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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Progress on Senate Gun Control Package Stalls as Senators Fail to Reach Final Agreement

By Joseph Lord After some optimistic signs for Democrats hoping to reach a bipartisan agreement on a gun control package, progress in the negotiations has ...

Florida to Go After Parents Who Pay Cartels to Smuggle Their Children Into the US

By Charlotte Cuthbertson Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking to investigate and prosecute parents who pay transnational criminal organizations to smuggle their children illegally across ...

Reversing 2018 Ruling, Iowa Supreme Court Finds State Constitution Does Not Protect Abortion Rights

By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court of Iowa on June 17 overturned a four-year-old decision it made holding that the Iowa Constitution guarantees the right to abortion, and ...

Liberal Virginia Prosecutor Removed From Criminal Case for ‘Deliberately Misleading Court’

By Katabella Roberts A liberal prosecutor in Loudoun County, Virginia, has been removed and disqualified from a serial burglary case by a judge for allegedly “deliberately ...

Joe Biden Says He is Unpopular Because Americans Are Mentally Unwell

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Parents Rally Over ‘Malicious Misgendering’ School Policy in Northern Virginia

By Terri Wu FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—A group of parents rallied outside the Fairfax County school board meeting on Thursday night to protest the board’s new ...

US Refiners Boost Heavy Crude Imports as Biden Threatens Executive Action

By Katabella Roberts The United States has increased heavy crude imports amid Western sanctions on Russia and President Joe Biden’s letter calling on U.S. energy producers to ...

‘A Great Night!’: Trump Celebrates Primary Wins in Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina

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Senate Blocks Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul’s Resolution to Balance Federal Budget Within Five Years

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Chevron CEO: There May Never Be Another Oil Refinery Built in US Again

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