The average family has lost $4,000 due to inflation since Biden came into office

⚠️ Inflation is CRUSHING American Workers: The average family has lost $4,000 since Biden came into office. "It's no wonder that union workers are angry. They should be when you have nine straight months of 8% inflation." #ampFW @RealAmVoice @RealDrGina pic.twitter.com/fXE60YKYJb

— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) December 6, 2022

Democrats are trying to silence conservative voices and independent journalists

BASEDPolitics' Hannah Cox writes, “In a 2021 Gallup poll, only 9% of Americans said they trust the mass media. That distrust has been more than earned, from covering up stories like Hunter Biden’s laptop, to running water for the intelligence community, to an egregious bias on the coronavirus response—the mainstream media has proven itself to be prejudiced, slanted, and less than ethical in its reporting. Due to that, an increasing number of Americans are turning to non-traditional media outlets to get their information.

And that has the mainstream media shooketh.

Has that made them want to change? Do better work? Examine themselves? No.

Don't let desperate Democrats sneak the JCPA into the NDAA. It has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with silencing conservative voices and independent journalism.

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 6, 2022

Instead, they’re using the oldest trick in the book and looking to Congress to crush their competitors via the Journalism Competition and Protection Act of 2022 (JCPA).

Per usual, the bill’s name is an indication that its contents do the direct opposite of what it promises. As we detailed here a few months ago, JCPA is just another flavor in Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s box of poison antitrust chocolates. It purports to be concerned with ‘fixing’ competition, when in reality it is meant to crush the plucky independent rivals of the mainstream media.

Including JCPA in the NDAA is a desperate attempt for Democrats to pass the legislation during the lame-duck session of Congress.

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 6, 2022

It does this by allowing companies like the New York Times to join with other media companies and form collective bargaining agreements that will force social media platforms to pay them for clicks. You know who that works really well for? Large old dinosaurs in the media with plenty of money and power to negotiate, and without a pressing need for organic social media traffic. You know who that doesn’t work for? Independent journalists, start-ups, nonprofits, and podcasters who will be left out of these negotiations, and who cannot command a pay-per-click entry fee to garner new views on their content.

This is intentional. Government actors liked it when there were just a few media outlets Americans could go to for information. Those companies and their employees were pretty easy to control, mislead, or garner favor with. Not so as we merge into the democratization of information free flow where anyone with a Twitter account can be a news source.”

Read the entire column.

Fauci has no regrets

Q: "Is there a moment of your career you wish you could do over?" FAUCI: "No." pic.twitter.com/22ewWF4JvC

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 5, 2022

Don't confuse trusting the experts with knowing the facts

"It’s easy to regard ourselves as being incredibly knowledgeable, but if we’re honest, it’s much more that we’re incredibly trusting. We have accepted what “authority” has told us in just about every domain, and with very little pushback." via @feeonlinehttps://t.co/3qPsfA0jwk

— Free the People (@freethepeople) December 5, 2022

'I don't recall'

According to the #FauciDeposition transcript: Dr. Fauci said “I don’t recall” 174 times - including when asked about emails that he sent, interviews that he gave, and other important documents.

— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) December 5, 2022

Repeal the Espionage Act

Assange & I were charged under a law designed to prevent fair trials—a law originally aimed at suppressing an old anti-war movement. Defendants are forbidden from mounting a public interest defense, juries prohibited from hearing⁠ it. Whatever your politics, that's an injustice https://t.co/iyYkVsS2Z9

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 4, 2022

Do you think this will be a repeat of Tiananmen Square?

Do you think this will be a repeat of Tiananmen square?#China #communist pic.twitter.com/hxpx4KVKX6

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 3, 2022

The Twitter Files: This is not how free speech works, Joe Biden

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

This is not how free speech works, @POTUS. https://t.co/GDz0v4ksrx

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) December 3, 2022

Republicans didn’t exactly have their hands clean in the censorship debacle either, but it slanted heavily left. https://t.co/6OMC9sHWzr

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) December 3, 2022

Matt Taibbi's entire thread is well worth your time.

FBI agent admits agency held weekly meetings with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election

Fox News reports, “An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss 'disinformation' on social media and ask about efforts to censor that information.

The FBI met weekly with Big Tech platforms & flagged accounts for them to remove.

This is government censorship. Officials who push these censorship schemes should face criminal penalties - I'm introducing legislation next Congress to do exactly that. https://t.co/76mK6Gqil7 — Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) December 2, 2022

On Tuesday, lawyers from the offices of Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana deposed FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan as part of their lawsuit against the Biden administration. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies 'under the guise of combating misinformation' to achieve greater censorship.

Chan, who serves in the FBI’s San Francisco bureau, was questioned under oath by court order about his alleged 'critical role' in 'coordinating with social-media platforms relating to censorship and suppression of speech on their platforms."

Read the entire story.

The COVID lockdowns were fundamentally elitist

Lockdowns Were a Betrayal of Liberal Values The whole operation was fundamentally elitist, which is telling coming from the party that claims to represent the little guy.#KibbeOnLiberty w/ guest @JenniferSey, author of Levi's Unbuttoned@theblaze @BlazeTVhttps://t.co/m8aKTyKMLH pic.twitter.com/uyxBPvKhVh

— Free the People (@freethepeople) December 1, 2022