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🚨BREAKING — AFL has obtained thousands of pages of records exposing Biden DOJ’s SHOCKING partnership and coordination with the radical SPLC to WEAPONIZE civil rights enforcement. No daylight between DOJ and SPLC. Here’s round #1👇 https://t.co/YPvCrmUkBM
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/1🚨CRACKER BARREL SERVING UP ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION — AFL just filed civil rights complaints calling for federal and state investigations into Cracker Barrel for unlawful discrimination based on race and sex in hiring and employment. https://t.co/21wHowKuRe
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/1🚨BREAKING — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy — exposing a chilling plan to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against the American people. 🧵👇 https://t.co/su5GUkL3Ym
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/2 On April 2, AFL formally urged @DNIGabbard to declassify the Biden Administration’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy — a top-secret plan AFL uncovered through litigation against the Department of Homeland Security.
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/1🚨NEW: AFL is urging Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to declassify and release the Biden Admin’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy. The Biden Admin’s weaponization of the intelligence apparatus against Americans must be fully exposed. https://t.co/GLV9ylnwS6
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@DNIGabbard /3 This week, in direct response to AFL’s request, DNI Gabbard declassified and released the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy.
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As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Read it here: https://www.odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/dig/4064-dig-strat-impl-plan-ct-biden https://t.co/p9co00Scge
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@DNIGabbard /4 This thread breaks down the Biden Administration’s once-classified plan to surveil Americans and censor free speech in the United States.
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@DNIGabbard /5 In 2021, without any evidence, the Biden Administration declared that the greatest threat to Americans was “right-wing domestic terrorism” from supporters of President Trump.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists. The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2: https://t.co/q2HcoAe2Kd
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/6 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance strategy directed the State Department, FBI, DOJ, and CIA to “obtain from foreign partners foreign intelligence and information related to U.S.-based violent extremism.” In other words, the Biden Administration planned to outsource surveillance of Americans to foreign governments.
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/7 As a subset of that strategic goal, the Biden Administration asked the FBI, CIA, DHS, and the State Department to study how disinformation relates to the “domestic terrorism threat” — connecting the whole-of-society censorship program to the national security and intelligence apparatus.
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@DNIGabbard /8 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy pushed for “information sharing across all levels,” including with “state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners.” https://t.co/Jo3EY7I3RG
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@DNIGabbard /9 The left supports maximum information sharing with law enforcement to label conservatives as domestic terrorists… But if a local sheriff wants to work with ICE to turn over a murderous illegal alien, communication is prohibited because of “sanctuary” policies.
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/10 The classified censorship and surveillance strategy also calls for funding for “digital literacy programming.” Despite the domestic scope of this plan, the Biden Administration tapped the State Department and USAID to produce “digital literacy programming” to “combat misinformation” online.
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@DNIGabbard /11 As @MikeBenzCyber has shown, “digital literacy” is when organizations — such as NewsGuard — approve certain publications as “trustworthy” and then suppress “non-trustworthy” sources as “misinformation.”
@MikeBenzCyber - Mike Benz
"Nudge Theory" is the bedrock of an unholy new field, born after the 2016 election, called "media literacy" (also called "digital literacy") "Media literacy" means if you don't read the right news sources (aka, mainstream slop), you are "media illiterate" & must be re-educated. https://t.co/rykCF9556X
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/12 This classified strategy contains numerous parallels to documents from AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries, including the revelation that the “intelligence experts” group, led by John Brennan and James Clapper, suggested that DHS use people’s military and religious affiliations as indicators that they could be domestic terrorists.
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/4 Under the Brennan-Clapper committee’s approach to national security, when all else fails, DHS should use being “in the military” or “religious” to profile people and tag them as having “indicators of extremists and terrorism” as a pretext to allow DHS to spy on them. https://t.co/f2ucWhFgAW
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /13 The left tried to use this same tactic to smear now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, before his confirmation, suggesting he could be a white supremacist for having a tattoo of a cross. https://t.co/s4BQ5wMd45
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /14 On the left is an excerpt from the classified plan from 2021. On the right is an excerpt from the DHS meeting minutes from 2023. They are the same playbook. https://t.co/wj4cEzrRDJ
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /15 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance plan also appears to be the beginning of its push to label all domestic terrorists as “right wing” and threats to “public health.” https://t.co/hxhT2acDOF
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /16 Two years later, in a DHS “intelligence experts” group meeting, an unidentified member said this public health reclassification was important, so that mothers and teachers would feel more comfortable turning in their kids to authorities.
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/11 The very next speaker proposed another solution: reclassify “concerning” behavior into the “public health catcher’s mitt” so that “mother[s] and teacher[s]” feel comfortable coming forward. https://t.co/qQa40k0g5p
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/17 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy makes clear that the administration meant it when it said this was a “whole-of-government approach.” The same concepts and buzzwords throughout this implementation plan are used repeatedly in documents from the DHS “intelligence experts” group, which AFL sued and successfully disbanded.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 New docs reveal DHS intel group proposed: ✔️Americans should report their neighbors to the feds ✔️Reclassifying political dissent under the guise of “public health” so that “mothers and teachers” feel comfortable coming forward #DeepStateDiaries PART 1: https://t.co/oo5zP88uYo
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /18 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy outlines a plan to “share transnational approaches, good practices, and lessons learned” with “multilateral” meetings and “foreign government[s].” https://t.co/4ve0Ei2THu
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /19 AFL exposed that the Biden Administration hosted the UK Government’s “Counter Disinformation Unit” in 2021 to share its recommendations to censor speech with the White House during a meeting with the National Security Council.
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD: https://t.co/bZ9H8gYQec
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /20 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy also emphasizes the importance of “increasing faith in democracy and the government,” another recurring theme in documents released in AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries. https://t.co/PnFFyIT3zH
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /21 Two years later, Brennan and Clapper’s “intelligence experts” group discussed how DHS could “quietly make democracy work” and use covert messaging campaigns to get the American public to feel certain ways about issues. https://t.co/MD6yYF6LEF
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /22 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance plan also calls for maximum law enforcement action against domestic terrorism crimes. https://t.co/OEtvzkAzAa
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /23 Domestic terrorists — like those setting fire to Tesla dealerships, burning governors’ mansions, and engaging in political violence — should absolutely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /24 This top-secret plan was created by the same administration that released the infamous October 4 DOJ memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”
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/1 Three years ago today Attorney General Garland issued a memo weaponizing the entire DOJ against parents for speaking out at school board meetings. With @DefendingEd we created a detailed timeline and are revealing shocking new details and context about the weaponized DOJ.🧵 https://t.co/RwtkMWdAE3
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /25 The same administration that labeled Trump supporters as domestic terrorists — while turning a blind eye to pro-Hamas vandals and rioters in cities and on college campuses across the country, actively spewing hatred, engaging in violence, and supporting actual terrorists.
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/1🚨BREAKING — We just sued Biden’s Department of Education for obstructing records on pro-Hamas college rallies including foreign extremists. Many of these radical students are here on F-1 student visas. Deport. Hamas. Sympathizers. THREAD: https://t.co/t8BpOWkMFI
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /26 The Biden Administration weaponized the entire intelligence apparatus — the NSC, ODNI, CIA, FBI, DOJ, and the State Department — to target, censor, and silence the very people it was responsible for protecting.
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@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /27 AFL will continue fighting to expose and dismantle the left’s weaponization of our intelligence community against the American people.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 We obtained new docs from the Brennan-Clapper DHS intel group revealing the Biden admin developed a classified plan to expand monitoring of political dissent. #DeepStateDiaries PART 5:
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/2 Today, we are releasing the fifth tranche of internal files from the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” obtained exclusively through our litigation with @RichardGrenell against the Biden DHS:
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/1🚨VICTORY🚨 The Biden Admin will dissolve & disband its unlawful DHS Intelligence Experts Group stacked with deep state partisans like James Clapper and John Brennan following our lawsuit with @RichardGrenell They are also turning over their internal docs to our possession:
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/3 From the day President Biden took power, he has mobilized the national security state to support its censorship program…
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/4 In June 2021, the Biden Administration’s National Security Council published its first-ever “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” a 32-page plan that outlined their whole-of-government effort to work with Big Tech, state and local governments, non-profits, and others to censor political speech and surveil political dissent.
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/5 AFL has been investigating the Administration’s implementation of this “Domestic Surveillance Strategy” since 2021, including filing a lawsuit against DHS to compel the release of records relating to how DHS uses its intelligence capabilities to target conservative Americans.
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/6 You can read more about that lawsuit here: https://aflegal.org/afl-sues-the-department-of-homeland-security-for-records-about-the-biden-administrations-alliance-with-big-tech-to-spy-on-private-citizens-social-media-activity/
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/7 Today, AFL’s litigation against the DHS Intelligence Experts Group has obtained never before released documents exposing that the Biden Administration published a classified implementation plan to accompany their public-facing 2021 Domestic Surveillance Strategy.
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/8 This classified plan has not been reported publicly until today. No one in the general public knows what’s in it, what it directs departments and agencies to do, or the scope of agencies involved with it.
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/9 This is not the first time AFL has discovered the Biden Administration using classified systems to target political dissent. In January 2023, AFL’s lawsuit against the CDC uncovered that the CDC partnered with the State Department, USAID, the Census Bureau, and others on an NSC classified call to discuss censoring so-called “disinformation.”
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/10 Stay tuned for the next installment of #DeepStateDiaries https://aflegal.org/exclusive-new-docs-reveal-the-biden-admin-developed-a-classified-plan-to-expand-monitoring-of-political-dissent/
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/1🚨NEW: AFL is urging Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to declassify and release the Biden Admin’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy. The Biden Admin’s weaponization of the intelligence apparatus against Americans must be fully exposed.
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/2 In June 2021, the Biden Admin released an unprecedented 20-page “strategy” for a “whole-of-society approach” to “countering domestic terrorism.”
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/3 AFL launched an investigation into the Biden Admin’s censorship plan — and the revelations are shocking. AFL’s investigation exposed how “domestic terrorism” was used to justify the administration’s censorship agenda targeting its political and social opponents.
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America First Legal vows to shed light on this unholy marriage and fight for the privacy and the constitutional rights of all Americans. https://www.aflegal.org/news/afl-files-foia-demanding-answers-about-the-biden-administrations-domestic-surveillance-of-americans-and-collaboration-with-big-tech-companies
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/4 As part of the #DeepStateDiaries, AFL exposed how the Biden Admin had drafted a classified implementation plan — described by one official as “crisp and clear,” with “defined responsibilities” across the intelligence community.
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/5 This request is another step in AFL’s ongoing efforts to protect the American people from the Deep State and expose how the Biden Admin weaponized intelligence services and law enforcement against: ➡️ Conservatives ➡️ Military veterans ➡️ People of faith ➡️ President Trump
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/6 Here’s what AFL has already exposed…
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/7 The Biden Admin coordinated with tech companies to censor so-called “misinformation.” AFL’s findings were included in amended pleadings in Missouri v. Biden and served as the basis for significant factual discovery in the case and subsequent congressional investigations.
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/1 🚨💉THREAD: AFL lawsuit has revealed shocking documents from the CDC, revealing government collusion with Big Tech to censor free speech & promote Biden Admin propaganda. Twitter & CDC collusion⤵️: CDC sends Twitter officials a chart of tweets it deemed to be”misinformation”
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/8 The Biden Admin labeled “pro-life mothers” as potential “radicalization suspects.”
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We obtained stunning documents from the Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention at DHS. They’re describing pro-life Americans as being “radicalization suspects.” You won’t want to miss these… 👀
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DHS 'bystander' training singles out pro-lifers, government critics as 'radicalization' suspects https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dhs-bystander-training-singles-out-pro-lifers-government-critics?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social
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/9 The Biden Admin blamed “Trump supporters” for “most of the domestic terrorism threat.”
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists. The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2:
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/10 The Biden Admin planned efforts to condition Americans to “get into local communities” in “non-threatening” ways and report their neighbors to the federal government.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 New docs reveal DHS intel group proposed: ✔️Americans should report their neighbors to the feds ✔️Reclassifying political dissent under the guise of “public health” so that “mothers and teachers” feel comfortable coming forward #DeepStateDiaries PART 1:
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/11 The Biden Admin coordinated the Mar-a-Lago raid — then told Americans it was simply “routine law enforcement” — and used people speaking out against the raid as a basis to justify spying on them.
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Docs show Biden’s DHS intel group used Jan. 6 & the Mar-a-Lago raid to justify expanding surveillance of political dissent. The group advocated for “collection based on speech” — as in spying on Americans for criticizing their gov’t. #DeepStateDiaries PART 3:
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/12 The Biden Admin ran classified censorship strategy calls out of the White House Situation Room.
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/13 The Biden Admin coordinated with the UK government to censor Americans.
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD:
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/14 AFL urges DNI Gabbard to declassify and release the Biden Admin’s classified surveillance and censorship strategy plan in order to restore trust and confidence in the federal government. The Biden Admin’s weaponization of national security authorities must be fully exposed.
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/15 AFL will keep fighting to protect Americans from the Deep State and combat the left’s weaponization of our intelligence services and law enforcement against political and social conservatives, military veterans, people of faith, and President Trump.
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/1🚨BREAKING — Explosive new documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK government, and media firms to manipulate public discourse and silence Americans. https://t.co/ScJJeYoFcJ
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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL is investigating why Judge John McConnell was selected to preside over the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s spending freeze — despite his public opposition to the President and long-time ties to a group that now stands to receive millions after his ruling.
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/2 On January 28, 2025, the District of Columbia and 22 states, including Rhode Island, sued the Trump Administration over President Trump’s temporary spending freeze.
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/3 This lawsuit could have been brought in any number of jurisdictions — but it was filed in Rhode Island and assigned to Judge McConnell. The question is, why?
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/4 Judge McConnell has a long history of anti-Trump rhetoric and has been an outspoken critic of President Trump.
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LAWFARE: The Obama-appointed judge that threatened the Trump administration with arrest if funding was not restored to USAID previously likened Trump's first term to the Civil War and Jim Crow and compared Trump to a tyrant in 2021 video footage uncovered by @nataliegwinters. Judge McConnell is an activist who has no business sitting in judgement of the president or his administration.
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LAWFARE: Obama-appointed judge threatened Trump and his team with arrest if they don't restore every last dime of funding that has been paused or cancelled. If the president wants to delay any payment he will need to justify his request to the judge's personal satisfaction.
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/5 Last month, AFL uncovered that Judge McConnell has served nearly two decades on the Board of Crossroads Rhode Island, an organization that has received at least $128 million in government funding during that time.
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/1🚨BREAKING — FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY. AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze. READ ⬇️
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/6 AFL called for Judge McConnell to recuse himself from the case, given his history of opposition to President Trump and long-standing involvement with an organization that, after his ruling to keep federal funds flowing, stands to receive millions more in government funding.
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ICYMI — Judge McConnell, the federal judge blocking President Trump’s spending freeze, has served for 18 years on the board of a nonprofit that has received $128M in government funding during that time. Now, after his ruling to keep federal funds flowing, his nonprofit stands to receive millions more. Judge McConnell must recuse himself IMMEDIATELY.
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/1🚨BREAKING — FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY. AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze. READ ⬇️
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/7 Now, AFL is expanding its investigation into how Judge McConnell was selected for this case in the first place. Out of the 22 states and D.C., why was the lawsuit filed in Rhode Island? And why was Judge McConnell selected to hear the case? We intend to find out.
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/8 An impartial judiciary is the cornerstone of America’s judicial system. AFL remains steadfast in its commitment to exposing the left’s lawfare against President Trump — and holding those behind it accountable.
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/9 Read more here: https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-expands-investigation-into-forum-shopping-effort-to-bring-lawsuits-against-trump-administration-before-activist-judges/
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/1🚨BREAKING — FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY. AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze. READ ⬇️ https://t.co/mDEBDxd5hX
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/2 AFL has uncovered evidence suggesting that Judge McConnell appears to be currently serving on the Board of Directors for the non-profit NGO Crossroads Rhode Island, where he was previously the Chair of the Board and is still currently listed as the Chair-Emeritus. https://t.co/rXmdVMN3as
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/3 In fact, Judge McConnell has appeared as a Director on Crossroads’ IRS Form 990 every year since he took the federal bench in 2013. https://t.co/JfbKk7RrJC
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/4 And, for much of that time, he served as Chair of the Board, a position he held from 2011 through 2021. Prior to serving as Chair, he was the Vice Chair in 2009 and 2010 and a board member from 2006 to 2008. https://t.co/rDjsWaJlY8
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/5 According to Crossroads’ 2023 Form 990, Crossroads Rhode Island received over $18.6 million in government funding that year alone. That accounted for over half of its $30 million of revenue. https://t.co/GARJD4iQGH
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/6 AFL’s review of required disclosure forms reveals that since Judge McConnell became Vice Chair of the Board of Crossroads Rhode Island in 2009, the organization has received over $117.6 million in government funding (accounting to the end of 2023). Crossroads received over $42 million from 2020 to 2023 from government sources, including the state of Rhode Island, a named plaintiff in the lawsuit.
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/7 This year, Rhode Island government records show that Crossroads Rhode Island has already received just under $2.9 million in FY2025 to provide various programs and services to Rhode Island, one of the plaintiffs. https://t.co/GjgK4LW59t
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/8 Why is this significant? Keep reading. ⬇️
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/9 It is common practice for the federal government to disburse money to the states, which then hand it out to NGOs like Crossroads Rhode Island. Here, Judge McConnell ordered taxpayer dollars to continue flowing to the states, including Rhode Island, writing, “[s]tates rely on federal funds to provide and maintain vital programs.”
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/10 USA Spending shows that in the past 15 years, 155 federal grants to Rhode Island state and local governments list Crossroads Rhode Island as a sub-awardee. In FY2023 alone, the organization’s audit shows that more than $10 million in federal funding flowed through Rhode Island to Crossroads.
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/11 In short, in the 18 years Judge McConnell has been on the board of Crossroads Rhode Island, it has received over $128 million in government funding. When Judge McConnell ruled against the Trump Administration and required federal taxpayers to continue funding the State of Rhode Island, it seems that he also required continued funding for his pet “non-profit,” Crossroads Rhode Island.
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/12 Federal law, 28 U.S.C. § 455, requires judges to disqualify themselves “in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” https://t.co/mOSomMgwUc
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/13 The law further requires judges to disqualify themselves when they are a fiduciary or have any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding. https://t.co/snm1gzo8bW
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/14 Directors of non-profits have fiduciary responsibilities to their organizations under Rhode Island Law. 7 R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-6-22(b). The Judicial Conference of the United States imposes the same rules in the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges. https://t.co/fFsWaKTFuq
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/15 But that’s not all… ⬇️
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/16 Judges must avoid even the appearance of bias.
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/17 In the words of the Supreme Court, “An insistence on the appearance of neutrality is not some artificial attempt to mask imperfection in the judicial process, but rather an essential means of ensuring the reality of a fair adjudication. Both the appearance and reality of impartial justice are necessary to the public legitimacy of judicial pronouncements and thus to the rule of law itself.”
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/18 To recap: Judge McConnell has been on the board of an NGO for nearly 20 years, a board he still apparently sits on. In that time, that NGO has received over $128 million dollars in government funding from the state, a recipient of federal taxpayer dollars. This NGO, to which he owes a fiduciary duty, stood to lose millions of dollars based on the outcome of his decision in the case.
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/19 Given the heightened public scrutiny of this case and the profound constitutional implications inherent in binding the actions of the President of the United States, the appearance of a conflict of interest is highly problematic, to say the least.
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/20 If, as the documents suggest, Judge McConnell has been a leader of Crossroads Rhode Island, and if, as the documents also suggest, he knew or should have known that Crossroads Rhode Island would stand to benefit from his ruling against the federal taxpayers, then it seems he should have fully disclosed his entanglement with this federally funded organization up front and recused himself from the matter. He did not do these things. Now, it appears he should immediately vacate his TRO and swiftly recuse himself from this case without delay to comply with his ethical obligations.
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/1🚨BREAKING — New NARA emails further confirm that the classified documents case against President Trump was a sham prosecution that involved the Biden White House from the start — long before NARA’s official referral of classified documents to DOJ for investigation.
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/2 In 2023, AFL explained how a “special access request” from the Biden White House led to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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/1 🚨THREAD — records obtained from our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House on behalf of the DOJ. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legals-investigation-reveals-the-biden-white-house-was-involved-with-the-mar-a-lago-raid-and-that-nara-misled-congress-afl-launches-additional-investigation/
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/3 In both NARA’s response to AFL and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment against President Trump, the Biden Administration’s official position was that NARA referred the matter to DOJ for investigation in February 2022 after it received classified documents from MAL.
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/4 But by the summer of 2021, even though NARA was assured they’d “get to a resolution relatively soon” on Trump’s boxes, then-Archivist of the United States David Ferriero was “out of patience,” and NARA General Counsel Gary Stern started “working on a letter to the AG.” https://t.co/bZldIdvrK6
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/5 By September 2021, NARA had informed Biden’s WH Counsel and DOJ and drafted a letter to AG Garland seeking “assistance for the recovery of Presidential Records” even though, admittedly, the Presidential Records Act “has no explicit provision” authorizing such a procedure. https://t.co/WCTqBbOtu1
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/6 But because NARA’s ongoing engagement with President Trump’s reps “could help to clarify, if not actually resolve, the issue,” they nixed the DOJ letter. Instead, Biden’s Dep. WH Counsel devised a pretext for a “special access request” to NARA for Trump’s Presidential records. https://t.co/5BzskyKXnv
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/7 This new timeline is further proof that Biden’s FBI raid on MAL was never about securing classified documents — it was always about weaponizing the full force of the Department of Justice against President Trump by whatever means necessary.
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD:
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/2 As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring COVID-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. government in 2021 to learn about their most effective censorship techniques.
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/3 This meeting was attended by high-level staff from: 🚨White House 🚨NSC 🚨CIA 🚨FBI 🚨State Department 🚨Treasury 🚨Department of Defense 🚨Homeland Security 🚨Health and Human Services 🚨USAID 🚨Global Media 🚨Office of the Director of National Intelligence as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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/4 At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech.
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/5 During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British government to share its censorship playbook. They recommended: 🚨Creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts 🚨Passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies 🚨Enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda Keep reading…
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/6🚨A centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts: The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is a British “cross-departmental” body that coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. They “support formulation of a coordinated Government response” to the “threat” of misinformation (anything the government deems false).
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/7 The CDU coordinates the British censorship program with private companies such as social media platforms and non-profits. The CDU includes components of the U.K.’s foreign policy apparatus, domestic and foreign intelligence services, and individuals working directly for the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office’s National Security Unit.
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/8 Our separate litigation previously uncovered that the Biden-Harris Admin convened similar public-private censorship partnerships in the U.S. well into 2024.
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/9 Around election time, the CDU stood up a “Central Election Cell” to kick censorship efforts into overdrive.
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/10 During the U.S. 2022 Midterm elections, the Biden-Harris Administration similarly set up a National Election Command Post within the FBI.
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/1🚨FBI SURVEILLANCE EXPOSED: Our lawsuit just exposed that the FBI implemented extensive nationwide social media monitoring ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The FBI’s National Election Command Post received lists of “multiple Twitter accounts posting misinformation.” 🧵
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/11🚨Enacting censorship laws In the meeting, the CDU shared how their proposal would allow them to directly coerce social media platforms to ensure that the government’s censorship demands were followed. By creating a new duty of care, the proposed legislation empowers a British regulatory agency to demand the censorship of content that the U.K. government deems harmful.
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/12 The U.K. Online Safety Act came into force in October of 2023 and is the basis under which U.K. law enforcement officials have threatened to extradite and jail U.S. citizens.
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/13 The law parallels recently resurfaced comments made by then Senator Kamala Harris in 2019, which called for the DOJ to punish social media companies that allowed “disinformation” and “misinformation.”
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/14 One of our separate investigations confirmed that the Biden-Harris White House solicited policy recommendations from the British-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—the group behind the U.K. Online Safety Act—and adopted commitments to hold companies accountable through DOJ prosecutions and FTC enforcement actions for allowing “online harassment” on their platforms.
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/15🚨Establish regular lines of communication between government and social media platforms The CDU also relies heavily on “trusted flagging relationships.” Effectively, this means when the government directs social media companies to censor specific posts and individuals. This behavior of flagging posts led us to initially file the lawsuit, which resulted in the production of these documents and is at the heart of the Missouri v. Biden case, in which we filed two key Amicus Briefs on behalf of dozens of members in the House of Representatives.
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/16 Prior doc releases we obtained in this litigation revealed that the Biden-Harris admin had also engaged in this sort of “trusted relationship” partnership with social media companies even before this meeting.
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/17🚨International government pressure The presentation appears to show that the U.K. government engages its foreign policy apparatus to further its censorship agenda and encouraged the U.S. to do the same. One of the so-called “significant benefits” of this approach would be, according to the presentation, that this unified front of government pressure would “encourag[e] cooperation from platforms.”
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/18 The U.K. Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State appear to play important similar roles in this international government censorship partnership. By coordinating across left-wing authoritarian governments, they can manipulate the global population into believing that there is no alternative to massive government censorship of social media, and “industry” would “efficiently implement[] new systems and processes.” In 2021, the U.K. boasted of a close working relationship with the U.S., Australia, and Canada, as well as bilateral relationships with 20 additional countries. This begs the question: how many nations have come on board with this initiative by now?
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/19 The CDU presentation also highlights the role of multilateral institutions in this international engagement, specifically identifying the G7’s Rapid Response Mechanism and the United Nations Interagency Platform on Culture for Sustainable Development (IPCSD) under the heading: “Multilateral cooperation to counter disinformation.” The logos of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the European Center for Excellence of Countering Threats are visible under the heading, “International training and capability.”
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/20🚨Promote leftist dogma Part of the U.K. government’s presentation included a description of a U.K. initiative called the “Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme,” which was active in Eastern Europe from 2016 to 2021. According to their “Theory of Change,” one of the outcomes of this scheme was that the targeted populations would “reduce identification with pre-existing social biases” and increase “support for gender equality” and “liberal democratic values.”
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/21 These terms may sound innocuous, but in practice, they are covers for left-wing social re-engineering experiments. For instance, money from the CDMD Programme was used to fund the “Global Disinformation Index,” which runs an “advertising blacklist” for websites that they allege push “anti-trans narratives.”
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/22 These slides expose the Biden-Harris Administration’s cooperation with ideologically aligned leftist allies to push woke progressive dogmas while monitoring and censoring what Americans think and say.
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/23 This release comes on the heels of calls from House Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman, @RepNancyMace, to ensure that the 2024 election is protected from the deep state censorship that was prevalent in the 2020 election.
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🚨BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace is calling on President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris to provide all White House communications with social media companies and between federal employees about efforts to pressure social media platforms to censor online content. @RepNancyMace
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@RepNancyMace /24 Find the full slide deck linked at the bottom of our release here: https://aflegal.org/exclusive-america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collusion-in-biden-harris-government-censorship-regime/
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 AFL has obtained the academic records of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter in the first assassination attempt against President Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. This thread details the records we uncovered. 🧵 https://t.co/YOyVEEdi8K
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📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ SAT scores Crooks took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) twice. ➡️ On March 13, 2021, he scored 1390. ➡️ On March 12, 2022, he scored 1530.
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📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ high school transcript Crooks’ official transcript from Bethel Park High School, dated June 20, 2022, details his academic performance from 2018 to 2022.
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📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ AP test scores A College Board report dated July 5, 2022, lists Crooks’ Advanced Placement (AP) exam results in 2022 in: ➡️ Calculus AB ➡️ Macroeconomics ➡️ Statistics ➡️ U.S. Government and Politics
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📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ University of Pittsburgh transcript Crooks attended the University of Pittsburgh from 2018-2022. His official transcript, dated July 3, 2022, includes his academic program history.
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📄 CCAC Academic Advisor Meeting Record A record from an October 18, 2022, meeting between Thomas Matthew Crooks and an advisor at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) notes Crooks’ plan to transfer to the University of Pittsburgh to study mechanical engineering.
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📄 Thomas Matthew Crooks’ transcript from the Community College of Allegheny County Crooks attended CCAC from 2021-2024. His official transcript, dated July 14, 2024, spans all four years.
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Timeline of AFL’s legal fight to obtain these records: ➡️ July 17, 2024: AFL and counsel Wally Zimolong filed a Pennsylvania Right to Know Law (RTKL) request with the Community College of Allegheny County for Thomas Matthew Crooks’s student files. ➡️ August 18, 2024: CCAC denied AFL’s request, citing ongoing criminal investigations. ➡️ September 10, 2024: AFL appealed CCAC’s denial to the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records. ➡️ November 19, 2024: The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records issued a final determination that CCAC is required to provide AFL with the requested student records.
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AFL obtained Thomas Matthew Cooks’ academic records from the Community College of Allegheny County as part of its ongoing multi-front investigation into the first attempted assassination of President Trump.
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🚨 VICTORY: The State Department has announced it plans to shut down its Global Engagement Center (GEC)—which has been the focus of extensive work by AFL. Through litigation and oversight, AFL exposed how the GEC operated as a state-sponsored propaganda machine and leveraged private corporations to manipulate public opinion in the U.S. and across the globe. @MikeBenzCyber and @HouseForeignGOP’s efforts alongside AFL were instrumental in revealing the GEC’s nefarious censorship agenda. This is a critical victory in the fight against the federal government’s censorship-industrial complex.
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/1 🚨NEW DOCS EXPOSE THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN’S MASS RESETTLEMENT SCHEME FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS We obtained docs revealing how the admin’s open-border policies let criminal migrant gangs take over U.S. cities like Chicago and divert critical resources from U.S. citizens to illegals.
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/1🚨BREAKING — Our investigation has revealed that Senate staff appear to have shared sensitive FBI background investigation reports on nominees for Senate confirmation in beach of security protocols. The background investigation process is broken and corrupted: https://t.co/C5SvWf0p3x
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🚨🚨ATTENTION🚨🚨 In Arizona, some voters are showing up to the polls and are being told they can't vote because their registration has been suspended. This is most likely caused by the glitch that allowed 218,000 individuals to be on the voter rolls without proving citizenship. County Recorders need the list of 218,000 affected voters to address the issue, but AZ Secretary of State Adrian Fontes stubbornly refuses to share it with them. We won a court order in our lawsuit that requires Fontes to release the list by noon by Monday. County recorders need this list. All eligible voters need to be able to vote, and no noncitizens should be able to vote. It’s a win-win solution.
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/1🚨🗣️UK-based "Center for Countering Digital Hate" is leveraging its connections to the Biden-Harris Admin to illegally engage in an influence campaign to stop free speech in the U.S. They've targeted @RobertKennedyJr @elonmusk + more 🧵We filed a new complaint with the DOJ:
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/2 Based on new evidence explained in the following thread, we have formally requested that the DOJ investigate whether CCDH’s U.S. operation and leadership are “agents of a foreign principal” that must comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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/3 CCDH is a nonprofit organization established and predominantly staffed in the U.K. that has promoted unconstitutional censorship on social media platforms for years.
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/4 In London, it shares an address with “Labour Together,” a U.K. Labour Party-associated think tank that met with Kamala Harris’s campaign at the DNC in Chicago and has promoted unconstitutional censorship on social media platforms for years.
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/5 According to CCDH, its “mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online.” While CCDH is registered to operate in the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, there is no material separation between it and the original entity of the same name established in the U.K.
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/6 CCDH has been described as “[a] cut-out engaged in brazen smearing, attacking of dissenting views, deplatforming, censoring and pro-active shrinkage of the Overton window [by] strategically conflating serious voices with the fringes, mixing them together to isolate genuine actors and squash dissent.”
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/7 The leadership of CCDH includes: 🚨Imran Ahmed, who sits on the boards and serves as CEO of both CCDH U.S. and U.K. Ahmed, formerly worked for Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN), which was later incorporated into CCDH. Ahmed takes credit for the so-called “defund racism” campaign associated with Black Lives Matter to force Google to remove their ads from @FDRLST and @zerohedge. CCDH describes Ahmed as an “authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories on social media for years.”
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/8🚨Simon Clark, Chair of the CCDH Board, who also sits on the board of CCDH U.K, was a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab, which colluded with other entities involved in the so-called “Election Integrity Partnership” and “Virality Project” to conspire with the federal government and censor speech on social media. Also, as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Clark led the work to combat “white supremacy” that shaped the White House’s Domestic Terrorism strategy.
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/9 In May 2023, we filed a landmark federal class-action lawsuit against the Atlantic Council and other private entities that conspired with the federal government to censor speech…
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/10🚨Eva Hartshorn-Sanders, CCDH’s former Head of Policy, advocated for policies given to her by the CCDH U.K. and the U.K. Labour Party. As Head of Policy, Hartshorn-Sanders emailed Robert Silvers — the DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans — to “discuss research that [CCDH] released and coming up in the next couple of weeks, and…to hear about work that [DHS] ha[s] underway.” By September 2022, CCDH was directly meeting with officials from the White House, the National Safety Council, and the Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT), updating them with CCDH’s latest findings. In March 2023, the White House published its “Initial Blueprint for the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse,” highlighting federal research funding and a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement action against a gaming platform which Hartshorn-Sanders said CCDH was “able to feed in research and policy recommendations for its development.”
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/11🚨Thomas Conrad Brookes, board member of CCDH U.S. and CCDH U.K., is a British national residing in Belgium. He is the CEO of the Meliore Foundation — the leading organization focused on funding global strategic communications. Brookes is also the CEO of the Global Strategic Communications Council, working at the highest levels of the “climate change” movement, even with Greta Thunberg.
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/12🚨Kristy Jean McNeill, a board member of CCDH U.S. who was also recently on the board of CCDH U.K., is the acting Scottish Labour and Co-operative member of Parliament for Midlothian and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland.
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/13🚨Aleen Keshishian, a CCDH U.S. board member, is the founder and CEO of Lighthouse Management + Media, a firm known for representing many Hollywood celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, and Olivia Rodrigo. Keshishian apparently “directly or indirectly” engaged in “informing, advising, or in any way representing” CCDH U.K. or the U.K. Labour Party “in the public relations matter pertaining to” foreign interests in internet censorship policies.
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/14🚨Zack Morgenroth, also a CCDH U.S. board member, is a managing partner at Lighthouse Management + Media, whose client, Olivia Rodrigo, spoke at the White House on July 14, 2021, to pressure young people to receive the COVID-19 shot.
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/15 The next day, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated that the Biden-Harris White House was “flagging problematic posts for Facebook.”
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/16🚨Damian Collins, a member of the CCDH U.K. board, was a former Member of Parliament of the U.K. and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Tech and Digital Economy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, & Sport, alongside Lord Jonathan Oates, a sitting member of the House of Lords.
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/17 On March 24, 2021, the CCDH published a report labeling a group of influential COVID-19 lockdown critics as “the Disinformation Dozen,” explicitly calling for these Americans, including @RobertKennedyJr, to be de-platformed.
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@RobertKennedyJr /18 After the CCDH report, 12 attorney generals, all Democrats, sent a letter on the same day to the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook citing the CCDH report, seeking to censor the views of those American citizens.
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/19 To expose the extent of CCDH’s pernicious power on the U.S. government, we filed a series of FOIA requests on July 20, 2023, to multiple federal government agencies. On August 16, 2023, we followed up with additional requests to the twelve state attorneys general who signed onto the March 24, 2021 letter.
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ICYMI — we launched a series of state FOIA requests regarding a letter written by twelve state attorneys general, all Democrats, to the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook, seeking to censor the views of American citizens in collusion with the UK-based pro-censorship organization, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-launches-nationwide-investigation-into-state-attorneys-general-collusion-with-pro-censorship-foreign-organization-the-center-for-countering-digital-hate-to-censor-the-american-peop/
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/20 Through our investigation, it has been uncovered that, on March 16, 2021, Rowan Kane, Counselor to the Connecticut Attorney General and Deputy Director of Policy, had circulated an earlier draft of the letter citing the CCDH report before the report was published. Moreover, he asked the other state attorneys general offices for “confirmation of sign-on by COB Tuesday, 3/23” — one day before the CCDH report would be published.
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@RobertKennedyJr /21 The evidence suggests that CCDH provided a non-public version of its report to the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office before its final publication and potentially coordinated with that office in drafting the letter…
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/22 Our investigation also uncovered that some or all of the letter’s signatories have launched a “multistate” “law enforcement matter handled jointly by various state attorneys general.”
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/23 Recently leaked documents reportedly show that CCDH set up meetings with Senator Kobuchar’s team for “US policy engagement” and listed the following “Annual Priorities”: “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and “Progress towards change in USA and support for STAR.” The STAR Framework is CCDH’s “Global Standard for Regulating Social Media,” and the leaked documents appear to show how CCDH U.S. lobbies the U.S. government to adopt its proposed global standard.
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/24 We will continue to defend American citizen's right to free speech and prevent all forms of foreign influence and censorship in America. Read more about how we are taking action: https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-new-evidence-files-formal-complaint-with-the-doj-to-investigate-uk-based-center-for-countering-digital-hate-for-engaging-in-a-foreign-influence-campaign/
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🚨🗳️BREAKING NEWS — HUGE WIN We just WON our lawsuit against the AZ Secretary of State for illegally withholding his list of the 218K+ registered voters who did not provide proof of citizenship. He must produce his complete list of these voters by MONDAY — before Election Day. https://t.co/RN7G6xU6RL
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/1🚨BREAKING🚨 Following a report from @SenateCommerce @SenTedCruz, we launched multiple investigations and filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation regarding the misuse of billions of dollars in federal research funds by Biden-Harris to promote illegal DEI:
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/2 Immediately upon taking power, the Biden-Harris White House created a task force on “scientific integrity” to provide “a review of the impact on [the] scientific integrity of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices” at all science-related agencies.
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/3 Later, the White House and NSF ordered agencies to “[i]ncorporate DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] considerations into all aspects of science planning, execution, and communication.”
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/4 On October 9 @SenTedCruz, the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, issued a shocking and groundbreaking report finding that the NSF has awarded more than $2.05 billion in federal funding to thousands of scientific research projects that promoted DEI or “pushed neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle.”
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/5 The @SenateCommerce report analyzed over 32,000 Prime Award grants between January 2021 and April 2024. The data showed that only 0.29 percent of all grants with start dates in 2021 centered on DEI initiatives, but by 2024, more than a quarter (27 percent) of all new grants pushed this divisive, dangerous, and illegal perspective, totaling $2.05 billion. Of this, “social justice”-related grants totaled a staggering $1.6 billion.
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/6 Following up on the Cruz report, we are investigating: 🚨NSF’s selection process regarding five of the most egregious social justice-related grant awards highlighted in the Senate Commerce report. 🚨The political leadership at NSF was appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration. AFL initially filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for these records on May 9, 2023, but to date, has not received any substantive response from the agency. 🚨Influence by the Biden-Harris White House into federal research funding at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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/7 We also filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation for illegally concealing the employment records of the agency officials approving these grants.
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/8 The Biden-Harris Administration has hijacked billions in federal taxpayer funds meant for important scientific research to promote anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-American DEI and leftist ideology. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-targets-the-biden-harris-administration-national-science-foundation-for-wrongfully-using-billions-in-federal-research-funds-to-promote-dei-and-illegally-concealing-the-government-o/
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In January 2023, Kamala created an unlawful program called “CHNV” to fly illegal Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants directly from their country of origin into the United States. WATCH to learn more…
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More than 3 million border crossers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/more-3-million-border-crossers-cuba-haiti-nicaragua-venezuela?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
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🚨BREAKING — NEW IMAGE OF BIDEN’S IMPROPERLY REMOVED VICE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS Boxes upon boxes: https://t.co/Uej8W4o1Fi
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Since January 2023, Biden and Harris have imported 531,000+ illegal aliens on commercial flights. They're giving one-way tickets to aliens from around the globe and letting them in. Watch the video below to understand how their illegal alien importation scheme works… https://t.co/ceHnFhUWem
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America First Legal (AFL) released eleven documents highlighting and explaining the numerous errors in the phony and politically motivated prosecution of President Donald J. Trump by Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. DONATE!
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/1🚨We just sued the Biden-Harris Department of State, Commerce, and USAID for illegally concealing records related to the U.S. gov't involvement in recent efforts to suppress free speech, specifically the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and social media censorship in Brazil.
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/2 On August 29, 2024, after French authorities detained Mr. Durov and charged him with a host of crimes related to alleged illegal activity on Telegram, we launched an investigation to determine the Biden-Harris Administration’s involvement in his arrest.
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/1🔎NEW — Based on reporting from @MikeBenzCyber, we just launched investigations into the Biden-Harris State Department to determine whether the U.S. Embassy in Paris had advanced knowledge of, or may have played a role in coordinating, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov:
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/3 Telegram, which Mr. Durov founded, is a secure social media and messaging platform with nearly 1 billion users worldwide. If convicted, Mr. Durov faces up to 10 years in prison and a $550,000 fine.
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/4 Given Mr. Durov’s prominence and the implications these charges could have on free speech around the world, there is significant reason to believe that the Biden-Harris Administration may have had advance knowledge of, or even played a role in, Mr. Durov’s arrest.
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/5 On September 10, after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued an order blocking Elon Musk’s 𝕏 in Brazil, we launched an investigation to determine the Biden-Harris Administration’s role in social media censorship by Brazil’s government.
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/1🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨 Censorship is a cornerstone of U.S. policy under Biden-Harris. Following Judge Alexandre de Moraes tyrannical edict shutting down 𝕏 in Brazil, we are investigating whether the Biden-Harris admin colluded with Brazil’s government. Time for ANSWERS.🧵
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/6 Over the past few years, the Brazilian government has increasingly engaged in censorship efforts in an apparent attempt to silence political dissent. Justice Moraes has demanded that 𝕏 suspend or remove more than 150 accounts of government critics, including conservative members of the federal legislature, members of the judiciary, journalists, a gospel singer, and even a pop radio station — all for allegedly spreading “disinformation.”
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/7 Justice Moraes’ order blocking 𝕏 is a serious escalation in the Brazilian government’s use of censorship to silence critics — and an unprecedented attack on free speech.
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/8 Last week, a shocking new report by @shellenberger revealed that U.S. government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, have been “funding pro-censorship advocacy and advising the Brazilian government on how to engage in censorship.”
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@shellenberger /9 On the heels of this report, Justice Moraes lifted the ban on 𝕏 in Brazil and allowed the social media company to go back online this week.
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/10 Government censorship and attacks on free speech are fundamentally anti-American. The American people — and the world — must know if the Biden-Harris Administration supported or coordinated with the Brazilian government to censor an American social media company committed to upholding free speech.
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@shellenberger /11 Despite meeting the legal requirements to be granted expedited processing in these investigations, we have not received any communications or records from these agencies pertaining to either matter. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sues-usaid-and-the-departments-of-state-and-commerce-for-illegally-concealing-records-on-the-u-s-governments-involvement-in-global-censorship-efforts/
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ICYMI — We just took urgent legal action in Arizona… https://t.co/NYNxmOv33V
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/1‼️🗳️NEW LAWSUIT: ARIZONA ILLEGALLY COVERING UP VOTER SCANDAL Arizona is illegally withholding the list of 218,000+ registered voters who have not provided proof of citizenship as required by law. We just sued the AZ Secretary of State to obtain it: https://t.co/WSkFcnAcH4
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/1🚨BIDEN-HARRIS GIVES 22X MORE AID TO HAITIAN ILLEGALS THAN HURRICANE VICTIMS 💰$750 one-time payment for American victims of Hurricane Helene 💰$16,896 in potential free federal benefits annually for a Haitian family of four paroled in by Biden-Harris We explain...🧵 https://t.co/eRAooOBiRX
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/2 The overwhelming majority of aliens entering illegally are granted “parole” by the Biden-Harris DHS. This means that they are not only released from custody into the interior of the United States, but they are also eligible to receive additional benefits once in the United States that other illegals are not.
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/3 Upon being paroled into the United States, Haitians may begin receiving benefits from federal programs such as: 💰Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 💰Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 💰Medicaid 💰Potential housing vouchers from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 💰Refugee Resettlement programs, including health screenings, transportation, and temporary housing
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/4 These are mainly programs originally created by Congress and funded by the taxpayers to help Americans in need — yet, under Biden-Harris, these welfare benefits are doled out to illegal migrants because of how Biden-Harris illegally brought them into the United States via an illegal phone app called “CBP One” and commercial flights under the “CHNV Program” for fast-track parole.
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Kamala is using a taxpayer-funded phone app and commercial flights to mass import illegal aliens into the United States. Since January 2023: 📲765,000+ illegals have entered the country via an app ✈️520,000+ illegals have been flown to the U.S. on commercial flights https://t.co/cEjbQVzdKo
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/5 Let’s examine just two of the federal benefits that recent Haitian entrants are eligible for to give you an idea of what American taxpayers are funding…
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/6 Let’s take a look at North Carolina, where American citizens who are victims of Hurricane Helene are only receiving $750. An illegally paroled Haitian alien family of four living in North Carolina may receive more than $1,270 in federal benefits per month. 💸Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): $297 💸Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): $973
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/7 In the State of North Carolina, paroled Haitians are provided Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as follows… $973 for a Haitian family of four. https://t.co/NQ2Y2qRUsP
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/8 North Carolina's version of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides benefits as follows… Another $297 for a Haitian family of four. https://t.co/sF9Kd9btoB
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/9 Meanwhile, the victims of Hurricane Helene are offered a one-time payment of $750 by the Biden-Harris admin. https://t.co/IuKOGLu1hj
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/10 A Haitian family of four in New York may receive $1,408/month in federal benefits as follows: 💸Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): $433 💸Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): $975
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/11 In the State of New York, Haitians are provided Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as follows: https://t.co/TEHV3l8CU6
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/12 Haitians in New York are also eligible for the Family Assistance Program (TANF): https://t.co/04JiaGZXeT
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/13 Let’s take a look at Ohio. An illegally paroled Haitian alien family of four may receive more than $1,724 in federal benefits per month. 💸Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): $749 💸Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): $975
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/14 A single Haitian alien in Ohio making less than $1,632/monthly is eligible to receive $292 in SNAP benefits and $363 in cash benefits. A family of four is eligible to receive $975 in SNAP benefits and $749 in cash benefits. https://t.co/Iwms5Bsyb8
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/15 Those are just two federal benefits that Haitian entrants are eligible for, but they're potentially eligible for many more. Here are a few additional examples such as Medicaid, additional assistance from FEMA, and untraceable federal money routed through NGOs… https://t.co/koLNf63rBg
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/16 If you are an old, blind, or disabled Haitian parolee, you may also be eligible for additional federal funds through the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program from the Social Security Administration. If eligible, that’s another $973/month for an individual or $1,415/month for a couple.
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/17 In addition, FEMA has reshaped the Emergency Food and Shelter Program to fund illegal aliens with $685 million.
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/4 Moreover, the Emergency Food and Shelter Program has been reshaped to provide funding to “families and individuals encountered by the Department of Homeland Security” – aka illegal aliens. This is a SEPARATE program. $685 MILLION has been allocated to fund illegal aliens. https://t.co/QmLZvQLfYt
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/18 Note: these are only some of the benefits that migrants may be eligible for. These numbers do not include various state-specific benefits that illegals may be eligible for… For example, illegals in New York City may be eligible for the Asylee Moveout Assistance (AMA) pilot program, which grants up to $4,000 per family to secure permanent housing.
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/19 Additionally, private entities like NGOs funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegals that are not reflected in these numbers.
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‼️Exactly. 💯 Not only have they pledged to abolish the filibuster and pass legislation making illegal aliens into voting citizens, but they are ALREADY placing them on a fast-track to citizenship. Here’s how 🧵:
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- Starting point = unprecedented levels of illegal immigration since Jan. 20, 2021. But the illegals aliens don’t get deported. - The overwhelming majority of encounters with illegal aliens since 2021 have resulted in DHS “paroling” the into the United States
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- But the tens of thousands of illegal aliens crossing weren’t enough, so Biden-Harris added a phone app (unlimited each month) and he CHNV flight program (30k per month) They all get paroled into the United States.
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What does this mean? Whether “paroled” after crossing illegally, paroled through the app, or paroled through CHNV, any alien paroled can then “adjust” status INSIDE the United States based on marriage or employment. No need to leave. In other words, they can get a GREEN CARD.
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- Once they get a green card based on a job or marriage (real or immigration love), they can then become a citizen after five years. - Millions of illegal aliens who wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for this pathway are eligible because Biden-Harris paroled them
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- On top of that, any alien granted asylum (inside the United States) or refugee status (flown to the United States by DOS) can become a citizen just five years after becoming an asylee/refugee (they get credit for one year of refugee status) (They added 100k refugees last year)
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- Additionally, DHS is expediting adjudication of naturalization adjudications = DHS is fast-tracking citizenship applications for any aliens remotely eligible This fact has been widely reported.
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- Kamala has also pledged to support a pathway to citizenship for everyone here illegally. Clearly, this would also create tens of millions of additional voters across the United States.
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So within five to ten years, Biden-Harris can completely transform the electorate. Anyone who doubts their intentions or that fast-tracking is occurring has NO CLUE how the system actually works. It’s factually just a matter of time. 5, 10, 15 years. Doesn’t matter.
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- And that’s just the issue of actual pathways to citizenship. Layer on top of that the fact that anyone can register to vote by using the federal form and providing NO proof of citizenship! This means more ballots. This means more fraud. This is what the left wants.
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Anyone with a cursory understanding of the immigration laws knows this is the whole game. It’s sad that anyone would deny or doubt reality.
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You’ve heard of the DHS migrant flights, but did you know that the Biden-Harris State Dept also flew another 100,000 refugees into the USA last year alone? All with a path to citizenship. This is in addition to the DHS flights, CBP One Phone App and mass releases at the border. https://t.co/U0CsA4lf8L
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Once in the U.S., refugees immediately begin receiving federal assistance such as health insurance, food assistance, cash, employment preparation, and other benefits — all at the expense of the American taxpayer.
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/1‼️🗳️NEW LAWSUIT: ARIZONA ILLEGALLY COVERING UP VOTER SCANDAL Arizona is illegally withholding the list of 218,000+ registered voters who have not provided proof of citizenship as required by law. We just sued the AZ Secretary of State to obtain it: https://t.co/WSkFcnAcH4
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MAYORKAS: “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.” The Biden-Harris FEMA spent over $1 BILLION on funding illegal aliens. https://t.co/LseKL1sWPk
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/1⚠️MISPLACED PRIORITIES — Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety. THREAD: https://t.co/yrGTVVfd08
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🚨BREAKING — BIDEN-HARRIS DOJ SUES TO KEEP ILLEGALS ON VOTER ROLLS Yesterday, the Biden-Harris DOJ sued the State of Alabama for fighting to remove potential noncitizens and illegal aliens from their voters rolls ahead of the 2024 election. https://t.co/i2XE9i5sGv
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/1🔎📻FCC FAST-TRACKING SOROS RADIO DEAL — We’re investigating the FCC following their expedited approval of the Soros Fund Management’s acquisition of the second-largest radio network in the U.S., Audacy. Americans and Congress have concerns and so should the FCC…
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/2 Audacy is the second-largest radio network in the United States, with over 200 stations across 40 markets. It reaches over 165 million Americans and includes top conservative talk shows such as Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Dan Bongino.
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/3 In February 2024, George Soros bought $400 million of Audacy’s debt and subsequently asked the FCC to approve a change in Audacy’s ownership. https://t.co/et7Xwr48bn
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/4 Federal law generally prohibits granting licenses to or allowing foreign nationals or foreign corporations to hold such licenses. When it involves circumstances where the grant or holding of a license would involve an entity that has more than 25% foreign ownership, the FCC must determine whether “the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.” 47 U.S.C. § 310(b)(4).
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/5 The proposed Audacy transaction involves circumstances involving more than 25% foreign ownership. The FCC has a standard review practice to assess whether such a transaction would serve the public interest, which includes a review for things such as national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, or trade policy issues. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr confirmed that the FCC needs to run its full and normal review process without fast-tracking this acquisition with foreign ownership of this magnitude.
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/6 This transaction has raised alarms in Congress. On April 25, 2024, Congressman @RepChipRoy sounded the alarm on Soros’ petition to the FCC to disregard the security review of foreign ownership in the purchase of Audacy’s radio network. https://t.co/sOuurBJQ8t
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/7 On August 9, 2024, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member @SenTedCruz sent letters to FCC Commissioners Carr and Simington urging them to “insist that the transaction be reviewed by the full Commission, including any order granting a waiver of the FCC’s foreign ownership rules to transfer Audacy’s broadcast licenses to the reorganized Soros-backed entity.”
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/8 Today, Chairman of @GOPoversight @RepJamesComer @RepLangworthy launched a probe into the politicization of the FCC following the expedited review of the Soros-Audacy deal. https://t.co/PB9dCglxBa
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/9 To uncover the facts surrounding this transaction and any special treatment of it, we have requested all records relating to the FCC’s decision to delay the national security review of Audacy and information about whether the FCC has punted other national security reviews in the past.
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@GOPoversight @RepJamesComer @RepLangworthy /10 By delaying this formal review process, millions of American listeners will be affected—all in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election. We will continue to demand transparency from the government for the protection of all American citizens.
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/1‼️NEW LAWSUIT‼️ We just sued a Colorado School District for eliminating an employee’s position after he said he believes that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and refused to admit that the U.S. is “systemically racist” during a mandatory DEI training. THREAD: https://t.co/nIrvXDGuan
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/1🚨BREAKING🚨 On behalf of a group of parents and the city of Huntington Beach, CA, we just sued Governor Gavin Newsom for outlawing schools from telling parents about a child’s desire to change their sex, including as a result of peer or teacher pressure. DETAILS… https://t.co/mXmyPT91Ko
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/1🚨🗣️EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the “Counter Disinformation Unit” from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech. 🧵THREAD: https://t.co/bZ9H8gYQec
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“America First Legal (AFL) filed an amended lawsuit against Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma for failing to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.” https://t.co/WYyRzRuzL8
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/1🚨NEW LAWSUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING We are suing ALL 15 counties in Arizona for refusing to remove illegals from their voter rolls. This follows our lawsuit against Maricopa. Every county in AZ is flagrantly defying its duty under state law to expunge illegal voters: https://t.co/2B7warOhM3
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/1🚨NEW LAWSUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING We are suing ALL 15 counties in Arizona for refusing to remove illegals from their voter rolls. This follows our lawsuit against Maricopa. Every county in AZ is flagrantly defying its duty under state law to expunge illegal voters: https://t.co/2B7warOhM3
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🧵GOV'T-SPONSORED MIGRANT FLIGHTS🧵 The Biden-Harris admin is illegally importing 30,000 aliens every month on commercial flights directly into interior U.S. cities. They have already imported nearly 500,000 aliens as of last month. DETAILS: https://t.co/yFsYoHYlR1
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🚨As of April 1, there were 21,595 registered voters in Maricopa County, AZ who failed to provide proof of citizenship but were nonetheless allowed to vote in federal races. The 2020 presidential election in AZ was decided by only 10,457 votes. We just SUED Maricopa. MORE: https://t.co/yRb3i3uUSy
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/1🚨🗳️NEW LAWSUIT TO STOP ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTING We just sued Maricopa County, AZ for refusing to remove illegal aliens from their voter rolls ahead of the election. Maricopa officials are blatantly defying a state law mandate to purge ineligible voters from the rolls—so we SUED: https://t.co/T4KqapmegF
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“It turned out that this domestic CIA-cell within DHS—run by former heads of the CIA and former heads of the entire intelligence community—explicitly targeted Trump supporters.” @MikeBenzCyber discusses our series #DeepStateDiaries Read about this exposé below: https://t.co/K2iJs0aypC
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists. The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2: https://t.co/q2HcoAe2Kd
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 New docs from the Brennan-Clapper intel committee reveal the group pushed DHS to adopt covert influence campaigns and use “trusted messengers” to get the “American people to feel” a certain way about issues. #DeepStateDiaries PART 6: https://t.co/vKn7kpxQcD
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/1🚨BREAKING🚨 We are releasing documents highlighting the numerous egregious errors in the politically-motivated prosecution of President Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. This prosecution was a legal abomination and disgrace. We are exposing the grave legal errors:
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/2 For over a year, Alvin Bragg’s Office has used abusive and partisan lawfare to host a show trial persecution of President Trump. The blatant disregard for the rule of law and politicization of the legal system is evident throughout this prosecution.
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/3 To expose this abuse of prosecutorial power, AFL has systematically documented each of these issues and released them as one-page summaries.
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/4 The Bragg prosecution failed on a wide range of issues, touching nearly every portion of criminal procedure…
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/5 First, the indictment violated due process and, thus, the guarantee of a fair trial. Second, the egregious judge’s bias was one of the many misapplications of the law. Third, there were evidentiary issues that violated over a century of precedent. It is clear there were reversible errors every step of the way in the New York criminal prosecution.
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/6 To document just how egregious each issue is, AFL has released a series of documents, each focusing on a discrete issue with the Bragg case. This series explains the glaring legal errors, including…
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/7🚨Violation of President Trump’s Sixth Amendment rights requiring a unanimous jury verdict to convict:
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/8🚨How New York state lacked authority to bring violations of federal election law:
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/9🚨How the prosecution violated the Molineux Rule governing the admissibility of certain testimony against President Trump:
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/10🚨Why Judge Merchan should have recused himself, given clear biases:
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/11🚨How the prosecution violated President Trump’s Due Process rights to fair notice of the crime he was charged with:
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/12🚨How New York State Court was the incorrect court for the prosecution:
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/13🚨The double standard the court employed when it came to the testimony of Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen versus the testimony of Brad Smith, and how that was used against President Trump:
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/14🚨Omission of evidence relating to the Office of Government Ethics’ review of the classification of payments to Cohen:
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/16 Read all about these documents here: https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-documents-highlighting-glaring-legal-errors-in-alvin-braggs-prosecution-of-president-donald-j-trump/
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/1🚨BREAKING — We just renewed our request for a civil rights investigation into Disney from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission following new videos emerging about potential discrimination. THREAD:
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/1🚨BREAKING — We sent a demand letter to Disney’s CEO & Board of Directors notifying them of, and documenting, the following: ✔️Breach of fiduciary duty ✔️Misleading shareholders ✔️Intentional violations of federal civil rights law ✔️Mismanagement erasing 40% of value THREAD:
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/2 New videos published by @OKeefeMedia reportedly show senior Disney Executives candidly discussing the company’s illegal race-based hiring practices…
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/3 One executive was recorded (describing hiring for a position in business affairs) purportedly saying, “Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there’s no way we’re hiring a white male ... There are times when [that’s] spoken.”
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/4 The same executive also appears to have said, “I’ve been up for jobs internally against people who have less experience than me, and you know, I haven’t gotten them... In one or two cases, you know, I was told explicitly that it did [have to do with race].”
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/5 Given that Disney apparently disregarded the letter AFL sent to their board in February, and appears to have continued its pattern of race discrimination, AFL calls on the EEOC once again to investigate these new allegations. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-foundation-demands-follow-up-civil-rights-investigation-of-disney-based-on-recent-video-evidence/
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/1🚨BREAKING — New Lawsuit Against the Deep State: With former acting Director of National Intelligence @RichardGrenell, we sued the Biden Admin over its illegal DHS advisory committee which is stacked with partisan, deep state officials like James Clapper and John Brennan:
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/2 We continued our legal crusade against the deep state by representing ourself and former Ambassador and Acting Director of National Intelligence @RichardGrenell, in a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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/3 We sued DHS and Mayorkas for their unlawful creation of the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.” The so-called “Experts Group” was formed, in its own words, “to provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts.”
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/4 The problem lies in that the group was formed in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and is a partisan, hand-selected committee that lacks diversity in viewpoints and any credibility to speak on national security matters.
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/5 There is not one member in the group who served in the Trump Administration or has any record of advancing an America First viewpoint on national security. Keep reading to see the partisan members of this hand-selected committee:
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/6🚨John Brennan & James Clapper — two of the leaders in the “Letter of 51” who used their “intelligence credentials” to mislead the American public on the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election, stating that it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” despite the FBI having validated its authenticity the prior year.
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/7 🚨Francis Taylor — Former Obama Official who has made at least 650 political contributions, totaling over $32,000, all of which have gone to the Democrat Party or Democrat candidates for office.
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/8🚨4 of the group’s members — Asha George, Rajesh De, Caryn Wagner, and Elisa Massimino — have a combined 179 political contributions, totaling $60,000 given exclusively to Democrat candidates for political office.
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/9🚨Of the combined political contributions of those named to the group, over 98% went to Democrats. Just 1% went to Republican candidates for office.
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/10 This so-called “Experts Group” is another example of partisan lawlessness at DHS...
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/11 It is an effort by the Biden Admin to cover their tracks and obfuscate their ongoing efforts to censor the online political speech of Americans, maintain an open border, and target law enforcement at political opponents rather than criminals and illegal aliens.
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/12 AFL has previously sued the Department of Education and obtained a victory that resulted in the Biden Administration disbanding its so-called “Parents Council.”
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/13 Read about this critical lawsuit to fight the deep state: https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-and-former-acting-director-of-national-intelligence-rick-grenell-sue-the-biden-administration-over-illegal-dhs-advisory-committee-filled-with-partisan-deep-state-officials/
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/1🚨VICTORY🚨 The Biden Admin will dissolve & disband its unlawful DHS Intelligence Experts Group stacked with deep state partisans like James Clapper and John Brennan following our lawsuit with @RichardGrenell They are also turning over their internal docs to our possession:
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/2 DHS formed this so-called “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” in September 2023, in its own words, “to provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts.”
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/3 However, it was not actually intended to provide unbiased, expert advice to advance the Department of Homeland Security’s mission; instead, it was a completely partisan group designed to provide top cover for the Department’s radical agenda under the leadership of Secretary Mayorkas…
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/4 Members of this radical committee include: 🚨John Brennan and James Clapper are two of the leaders in the “Letter of 51” who used their “intelligence credentials” to mislead the American public on the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. They stated that it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” despite the FBI having validated its authenticity the prior year.
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/5 🚨Francis Taylor, a former Obama Official who has made at least 650 political contributions, totaling over $32,000, all of which have gone to the Democrat Party or Democrat candidates for office.
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/6 🚨Asha George, Rajesh De, Caryn Wagner, and Elisa Massimino, who have made a combined 179 political contributions totaling $60,000 given exclusively to Democrat candidates for political office.
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/7 In fact, of the combined political contributions of those named to the group, over 98% went to Democrats. Just 1% went to Republican candidates for office.
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/8 Immediately after DHS formed the Group in September 2023, @SenRandPaul @SenRickScott @SenRonJohnson @RogerMarshallMD sent a letter to Secretary Mayorkas demanding “DHS immediately rescind the appointments of these known purveyors of disinformation to the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.”
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@SenRandPaul @SenRickScott @SenRonJohnson @RogerMarshallMD /9 @SenHawleyPress also sent a letter demanding Secretary Mayorkas terminate the group “led by at least three individuals who helped suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story preceding the 2020 U.S. presidential election.”
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@SenRandPaul @SenRickScott @SenRonJohnson @RogerMarshallMD @SenHawleyPress /10 In the House of Representatives, @RepPfluger introduced H.R. 5729 to prohibit the use of federal funds in the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group or any other group established to carry out equivalent activities.
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@SenRandPaul @SenRickScott @SenRonJohnson @RogerMarshallMD @SenHawleyPress @RepPfluger /11 This bill followed a letter sent by @RepMarkGreen @RepPfluger in their capacities as Chairmen of the House Committee on Homeland Security @HomelandGOP and the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, respectively.
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@SenRandPaul @SenRickScott @SenRonJohnson @RogerMarshallMD @SenHawleyPress @RepPfluger @RepMarkGreen @HomelandGOP /12 In November 2023, representing former Ambassador and Acting Director of National Intelligence @RichardGrenell and itself, AFL — in partnership with co-counsel Christopher Mills — sued DHS and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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/1🚨BREAKING — New Lawsuit Against the Deep State: With former acting Director of National Intelligence @RichardGrenell, we sued the Biden Admin over its illegal DHS advisory committee which is stacked with partisan, deep state officials like James Clapper and John Brennan:
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/13 AFL alleged that the group comprised of partisan actors violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act for various reasons — including its lack of balance, the Biden Administration’s inappropriate influence over it, and its lack of public notice and participation, among other things.
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/14 In avoiding further litigation in this case, DHS agreed to: 1️⃣Disband the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” 2️⃣Provide AFL with access to its records Accordingly, DHS and AFL agreed to dismiss the case.
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/15 This is the second illegal FACA that the Biden Administration has agreed to disband following a lawsuit filed by AFL... Keep reading.
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/16 In December 2022, the Department of Education disbanded its illegal Parents Council following legal action brought by AFL on behalf of its clients, Parents Defending Education and Fight for Schools and Families.
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/17 All the details here: https://aflegal.org/victory-biden-dhs-disbands-illegal-homeland-intelligence-experts-group-including-russia-collusion-hoaxers-john-brennan-and-james-clapper-following-lawsuit-filed-by-afl-and/
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Internal docs from Biden’s DHS show their plans to target Trump supports as domestic extremists. The Brennan-Clapper intel group discussed how “most of the domestic terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president.” #DeepStateDiaries PART 2:
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/2 Today, we are releasing the second tranche of internal files from the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” obtained exclusively through our litigation with @RichardGrenell against the Biden DHS:
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/1🚨VICTORY🚨 The Biden Admin will dissolve & disband its unlawful DHS Intelligence Experts Group stacked with deep state partisans like James Clapper and John Brennan following our lawsuit with @RichardGrenell They are also turning over their internal docs to our possession:
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/3 Today’s installment exposes how the Biden Administration classifies someone as a person likely to commit “domestic violent extremist” attacks, particularly those who support President Trump, are “in the military,” or are “religious.” Keep reading…
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/4 Under the Brennan-Clapper committee’s approach to national security, when all else fails, DHS should use being “in the military” or “religious” to profile people and tag them as having “indicators of extremists and terrorism” as a pretext to allow DHS to spy on them.
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/5 According to the Group, “we should be more worried about these” individuals.
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/6 The group went on to discuss how “most of the Domestic Terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president,” i.e., Trump supporters.
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/7 Read the first installment of #DeepStateDiaries here:
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/1🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 New docs reveal DHS intel group proposed: ✔️Americans should report their neighbors to the feds ✔️Reclassifying political dissent under the guise of “public health” so that “mothers and teachers” feel comfortable coming forward #DeepStateDiaries PART 1:
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/8 Stay tuned for the next installment…https://aflegal.org/exclusive-new-docs-from-disbanded-dhs-deep-state-group-reveal-the-biden-admin-views-trump-supporters-as-domestic-terrorism-threats/
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/1🚨EXPLOSIVE LITIGATION DOCS: We sued DOD and uncovered a secret Obama memo on presidential records which shows that Jack Smith is the one subverting the law. The directive, which legally binds DOJ, vests POTUS with sole authority to determine which records are his. More…
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/2 This secretive memo established by the Obama Administration — and used through the Trump and Biden Administrations — confirms the government may have already had originals of the alleged classified documents involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sham prosecution against President Trump through the Presidential Information Technology Community (PITC).
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/3 Some background… In October 2014, Russian hackers breached the Executive Office of the President (EOP)’s network. In response, President Obama created, via executive action, PITC.
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/4 PITC includes representatives of the DOD and Homeland Security, among others. PITC effectively establishes that the President controls all the information he receives through the PITC network. We launched an investigation…
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/5 AFL Vice President @DanielZEpstein’s op-ed breaks down PITC in further detail below…
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How Obama’s Secrets Could Save Trump In His Mar-A-Lago Documents Snafu https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/01/how-obamas-secrets-could-save-trump-in-his-mar-a-lago-documents-snafu/
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/6 On April 4, 2024, we sued the DOD to compel the immediate release of documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the secretive Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC) created by former President Barack Obama.
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/7 The PITC executive order was public, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Today, AFL releases a never-before-public memo from the White House confirming the DOD has been “operating and maintaining the information resources and information systems provided to the President, Vice President, and Executive Office of the President (EOP).”
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/8🚨This memo reveals that the White House secretly created and apparently maintains an information technology community that enforced Obama’s executive order to ensure that presidents could store their records on DOD servers without losing control.
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/9 What it means is that the federal government has preserved and retained all EOP records on its servers, and therefore, consistent with Obama’s order, it likely possesses a substantial amount, if not all, of President Trump’s classified documents.
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/10 Under section 2.01 of the memo, the White House Communications Agency provides core services related to unclassified records. Under section 2.06 of the memo, the National Security Council provides classified services.
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/11 Section 2.04 of the memo concedes that all “records created, stored, used, or transmitted by, on, or through the information resources and information systems provided to the President” were stored at DOD. Thus, the White House Communications Agency and NSC at the White House simply provide services regarding records housed at DOD.
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/12 Any Congressional committee with subpoena power can now seek to determine whether the documents that Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained and claimed Trump unlawfully retained after his presidency are actually in Biden’s active possession through PITC. 🚨🚨🚨
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/13 This revelation cuts a knife through the entire indictment as it proves that many, if not all, of the documents President Trump is accused of unlawfully retaining were and are currently still retained by the Executive Branch and stored on DOD servers.
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/14 Further, because of the PITC memo’s aggressive posture that all records the President receives are subject to his control, President Trump had a clear basis for believing he had the authority to possess copies of records stored at the DOD. It would, therefore, be impossible for Trump to have retained records "without authorization" and "willfully" and "knowingly," as the Jack Smith indictment suggests.
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/15 This, of course, sets aside the point that the President of the United States has absolute discretion under the Presidential Records Act to determine which records are his, as we have long asserted:
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/16 Lastly, the secret document uncovered by AFL raises the question of why armed agents ever raided President Trump’s personal residence. The Special Counsel should have first determined what relevant records existed on the DOD systems. The failure to do so, as the Biden administration clearly knew and enforced PITC, smacks of politicization and dangerous government overreach.
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/17 Moreover, PITC explains how the President controls all the records: "This memorandum is intended to maintain the President's exclusive control of the information resources and information systems provided to the President, Vice President, and EOP." https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/19/presidential-memorandum-establishing-director-white-house-information-te
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/18 These explosive findings demand immediate action. https://aflegal.org/explosive-secret-department-of-defense-memo-reveals-the-biden-administration-may-have-already-had-original-trump-documents-before-the-mar-a-lago-raid/
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/1🚨BREAKING — We just sued Biden’s Department of Education for obstructing records on pro-Hamas college rallies including foreign extremists. Many of these radical students are here on F-1 student visas. Deport. Hamas. Sympathizers. THREAD:
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/2 On October 7, 2023, Hamas broke its long-standing ceasefire with Israel, launching a massive wave of murder, rape, and kidnapping. On October 8, 2023, weeks before any Israeli counterattack, pro-terror organizations launched a massive wave of intimidation and violence on our campuses and in our streets.
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/3 Often relying on masked extremists in the style of the Klu Klux Klan, their activities included physical attacks, vandalism, and overt advocacy for Hamas.
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/4 In some cases, Hamas terrorism was sanctioned and promoted by university staff and administrators.
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/5 The point and purpose of these activities is to threaten and intimidate pro-Israel American and American Jewish students at Columbia, USC, MIT, the University of Texas, and elsewhere. And these academic institutions are doing nothing to stop it:
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/6 Our laws have long prohibited advocacy and other material support for Hamas. Foreigners in the United States on F-1 student visas who support Hamas and terrorism should be deported.
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/7 Naturalized citizens who support Hamas and terrorism should be denaturalized and deported as well. Finally, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits universities from encouraging, facilitating, or funding anti-Semitic professors and pressure groups.
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/8 The Biden Administration, however, has refused to enforce these laws or to protect the rights of pro-Israel Americans and American Jews. Instead, it appears they have chosen to protect the pro-Hamas extremists.
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/9 On October 20, 2023, 35 members of Congress wrote to the DOJ asking to know “what steps are being taken by the Department of Justice to investigate Hamas supporters in the United States, as well as the perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence in cities and school campuses across the nation.”
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/10 The letter noted that the Attorney General had issued a memorandum on October 4, 2021, directing the FBI to target American parents for lawfully speaking out at school board meetings but “since Hamas’s recent attack on Israel, you have not issued a similar memo about the increase of anti-Semitic violence, the threats of intimidation being made against supporters of Israel, or the public rallies being held in support of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
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/11 On November 6, 2023, AFL opened an investigation of the Department of Education regarding the Biden Administration’s response to pro-Hamas activities on American college campuses.
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We are probing Biden’s Department of Education over the pro-Hamas college rallies with foreign extremists happening across the country. Many of these radical students are here on F-1 student visas. Deport them. Deport. Hamas. Sympathizers. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-probes-bidens-department-of-education-over-pro-hamas-college-rallies-with-foreign-extremists/
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/12 To date, the Department has failed to produce any records.
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/13 Today, AFL sued to end its obstruction of evidence; our citizens deserve to know why the Biden Administration has chosen to ignore our laws and to protect the viciously anti-Semitic pro-Hamas extremists and their fellow travelers. https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sues-the-department-of-education-for-obstructing-evidence-that-the-biden-administration-has-chosen-to-protect-pro-hamas-foreign-extremists-on-american-college-campuses/
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/1🚨EXPOSED: Documents show that in just one year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation poured over $30 million into DEI programs that are explicitly anti-white and anti-police. Read all the stunning details in the thread below: https://t.co/n2IWXI7i3f
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We are proud to hold Disney accountable for their alleged fiduciary duty breaches and federal securities law violations. Details in the thread below: https://t.co/3RHnlbdpWe
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/1🚨BREAKING — We sent a demand letter to Disney’s CEO & Board of Directors notifying them of, and documenting, the following: ✔️Breach of fiduciary duty ✔️Misleading shareholders ✔️Intentional violations of federal civil rights law ✔️Mismanagement erasing 40% of value THREAD: https://t.co/7tNVKAA7ZB
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/1🚨CENSORSHIP SCANDAL EXPOSED — We just unearthed evidence that Biden’s DHS and State Dept. mobilized federal counterterrorism assets to support a foreign-based organization censoring American speech: the Center for Countering Digital Hate. THREAD:
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/2 From the day it took power, the Biden Administration mobilized the national security state to support its censorship program. On June 15, 2021, Biden’s National Security Council published its first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
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/3 To justify censorship, Biden’s strategy asserted that “Internet-based communications platforms” make Americans “vulnerab[le] to domestic terrorist recruitment and other harmful content.”
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/4 Effectively, the Biden Administration turned to the national security state and its allied technology companies to censor political opponents.
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/5 In Orwellian fashion, it said: “All told, a better, more holistic, and coordinated understanding of and information sharing on today’s threat will allow a more effective and comprehensive response. That response will address not just current and imminent incarnations of the domestic terrorism threat but also its contributing factors before they can generate still more violence in the future.”
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/6 As the Biden Strategy explained, as part of its effort to control information, “We will also build a community” of “critical partners,” including “state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as foreign allies and partners, civil society, the technology sector, academia, and more.”
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/7 These “interlocking communities that can contribute information, expertise, analysis, and more” and “With the right orientation and partnerships, the Federal Government can energize, connect, and empower those communities - communities whose input was critical to the formulation of this Strategy itself.”
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/8 Accordingly, it declared that “in a global, multi-stakeholder setting - with partner governments - the United States endorses the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online.”
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/9 In 2019, the Trump Administration had refused this “call to action” on free speech grounds. In fact, on the same day that the Trump Administration announced that it was passing on this international initiative censorship initiative, it reportedly released an online tool for users to report if they suspect they’ve been the subject of “political bias” by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or other online platforms.
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/10 Biden’s government claimed that “Maximizing the Federal Government’s understanding of [domestic terrorism] means supporting and making appropriate use of the analysis performed by entities outside the government…” CCDH was one such entity.
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/11 CCDH is a United Kingdom-based nonprofit that has been encouraging censorship online for years. It originates from and is staffed with many individuals in the United Kingdom. However, it has been incorporated in the United States and registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States, effective December 11, 2020.
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/12 CCDH describes itself as a “not-for-profit non-governmental organization” that “works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation through innovative research, public campaigns and policy advocacy.”
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/13 It describes its founder and CEO, Imran Ahmed, as an “authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories.”
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/14 However, Ahmed is a leftist political operative connected to the UK Labour Party. Through his work with Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN), which was later folded into CCDH, Imran Ahmed took credit for a so-called “defund racism” campaign associated with Black Lives Matter to force Google to remove their ads from The Federalist and ZeroHedge.
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/15 CCDH is best known for its March 24, 2021 report “THE DISINFORMATION DOZEN: Why platforms must act on twelve leading online anti-vaxxers” which branded 12 Americans, including @RobertKennedyJr, “anti-vaxxers…responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms,” and called for them to be deplatformed.
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@RobertKennedyJr /16 As the Missouri v. Biden case revealed, Biden White House officials quickly pressured social media companies to deplatform and demote “the disinfo dozen.”
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/17 On July 15, 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted to “flagging problematic posts for Facebook.” Presumably citing CCDH’s report, Psaki also implied that the “12 people who are producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation [should not] remain active on Facebook.”
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@RobertKennedyJr /19 On or around March 29, 2022, Robert Silvers — the DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans who co-chaired the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board with Nina Jankowicz — connected with CCDH’s then-Head of Policy, Eva Hartshorn-Sanders, via LinkedIn.
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/20 On March 29, 2022, Eva Hartshorn-Sanders emailed Robert Silvers “to meet to discuss research that [CCDH] released and coming up in the next couple of weeks, and ... to hear about work that [DHS] ha[s] underway, including more about the strategies and plans that [the DHS] team have developed.” Eva also invited Robert to CCDH’s Global Summit and Changemakers Dinner.
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@RobertKennedyJr /21 In addition to her lead policy role at CCDH, Eva Hartshorn-Sanders separately provides “[l]eading Government advice on the response to the March 15 terrorist attacks on Christchurch mosques.”
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/22 Eva Hartshorn-Sanders promoted online censorship legislation around the world, including the UK’s Online Safety Bill, testifying before the House of Commons that “websites like The Gateway Pundit profit from Google ads to the tune of over $1 million while spreading election disinformation. That has led to real-world death threats sent to election officials and contributed to the events of 6 January. It is not something we want to see replicated in the UK.” Eva Hartshorn-Sanders also opposed a principle “that is framed negatively about preventing platforms from removing content, rather than positively about addressing content that undermines elections.”
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@RobertKennedyJr /23 Robert Silvers quickly replied, “I am copying our Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, Lucian Sikorskyj, to follow up and pursue these opportunities.”
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@RobertKennedyJr /24 The next day, on March 30, 2022, Eva Hartshorn-Sanders also invited the DHS Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism to CCDH’s Global Summit and Changemakers Dinner, and they began scheduling for a call “in the next few weeks.”
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@RobertKennedyJr /25 By June 16, 2022, a White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse was established under the leadership of the Director of the White House Gender Policy Council and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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@RobertKennedyJr /26 By September 23, 2022, CCDH was directly meeting with officials from the White House, the NSC, and the Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT), updating them with CCDH’s latest findings.
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@RobertKennedyJr /27 On September 30, 2022, CCDH formally submitted its research and policy recommendations on technology-facilitated gender-based violence to the White House Task Force.
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/28 Its submission highlighted how CCDH “studied the way anti-vaccine extremists, hate actors, climate change deniers, and misogynists weaponize platforms to spread lies and attack marginalized groups,” and developed policy and legislation to “ensure that social media platforms meet [CCDH’s framework] for addressing digital hate and disinformation, embedding Safety by Design, Transparency requirements (on algorithms, rules enforcement and economics), Accountability and Responsibility.”
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/29 On March 3, 2023, the White House published its Initial Blueprint for the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse. The Blueprint highlighted federal research funding, “Digital Equity” grants, Department of Education guidance to be issued to colleges, and an FTC enforcement action against a gaming platform.
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@RobertKennedyJr /30 According to Eva Hartshorn-Sanders, CCDH was “able to feed in research and policy recommendations for its development.”
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@RobertKennedyJr /31 Read more here… https://aflegal.org/government-documents-confirm-the-biden-administrations-mobilization-of-u-s-counterterrorism-assets-to-support-imran-ahmeds-global-censorship-campaign/
