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Executive Summary The MRC Censorship Investigation Project has uncovered the Biden administration’s latest effort to silence Americans. Utilizing FOIA‚ state public records laws and other investigative tools‚ MRC has learned that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have funded a censorship effort that trains teachers to “inoculate” students against conservative ideas and American ideals. It also trains educators to turn children into activists and to use censorship tools in classrooms across the nation.  This report details how the State Department began this censorship push through a year-long series of seminars coordinated by the University of Rhode Island and its German counterpart. These seminars commenced in June of 2021 and concluded in April of 2022. Part 2 of this report will detail how the Department of Homeland Security took over the administration of this endeavor and expanded it nationwide. The State Department trained educators on how to “inoculate” students against ideas not approved by the left. Over 700 educators participated in a year-long series of State Department seminars hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). These seminars provided tools to train teachers on how to censor speech. Examples include video games designed to entice children to embrace leftist narratives and to compel them to use tech platforms that collude with the government to surveil and censor.  The State Department seminars detailed how to put censorship tools Ad Fontes and NewsGuard into American classrooms.  The Media Research Center has already detailed how both Ad Fontes and NewsGuard partner with Big Tech to divert people away from conservative media and to media that promote a left-wing agenda. The State Department pushed curricula that included how to use NewsGuard’s “plug-in” (a computer program that displays the hopelessly biased rating NewsGuard gives each media site) and how to incorporate Ad Fontes’s rigged “Media Bias Chart” into lesson plans. The NewsGuard portion of the curricula was funded‚ in part‚ by activist billionaires George and Alexander Soros. A separate MRC study showed NewsGuard ranks leftist media 26 percentage points higher‚ on average‚ than right-leaning media. An MRC study found that Ad Fontes favors leftist media by a two to one margin. A session of the State Department seminars centered on how to train children as political activists. The curriculum pushed in this session included lessons promoting street protests for leftist causes and detailed instructions on how to turn school children into “media producers” who advocate against free speech. Educators were told to reward children with prizes for promoting censorship via social media posts on platforms like Instagram.   The State Department seminars were co-hosted by a German government institution and focused on bringing German indoctrination strategies into American classrooms.  It is noteworthy that Germany was chosen to co-host the seminars: the nation’s government has been the most aggressive European Union power censoring online speech and restricting individual expression. The Rhode Island Lab’s partner in Germany was the University of Würzburg‚ a controversial state entity with a long history of censorship; the curricula was often developed with German government funds and was crafted‚ in part‚ by a vice chairman of the country’s socialist ruling party.  Part 2 of this report will detail the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to bring this effort to scale and roll it out nationwide.   How the Biden Administration Pushed German Censorship to American Teachers The Biden administration has created an interconnected web of public and private actors to silence political dissent across the United States.  This network involves a dizzying array of actors: federal agencies‚ state officials‚ local politicians‚ academia‚ activist groups‚ non-profits‚ a lobby shop‚ media ratings firms‚ billionaires‚ the public school system‚ and foreign governments. The Biden regime‚ through a year-long series of State Department seminars‚ has quietly incubated this censorship project through one organization: the University of Rhode Island Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). The Rhode Island Lab has spent two decades pushing a specific strain of “media literacy‚” a rebranding of censorship for a Gen Z audience. With the Biden administration’s backing‚ the Rhode Island Lab has been able to supercharge its efforts‚ rolling out its programs nationwide to a vast and incestuous network of connected organizations for the administration to direct.  This report details the incubation part of the Biden administration’s endeavor: a year-long series of seminars hosted and funded by the State Department in Würzburg‚ Germany. It was here that the Rhode Island Lab first trained American educators on European socialist strategies for bringing indoctrination into the classroom to “inoculate” students against conservative ideas and turning students into leftist political activists. Part 2 of this report will detail how the Department of Homeland Security provided the funds necessary to implement the programs developed in Würzburg and bring them to communities and classrooms across America. I. The State Department trained educators on how to inoculate students against ideas not approved by the left. One would think that the United States Embassy to Germany would be focused on advancing the interests of the United States in Germany. Under the Biden administration‚ though‚ it was the reverse. The U.S. embassy set up a “year-long‚ cross-national professional learning community‚” dubbed the “Medialogue on Propaganda‚” in order to export German socialist ideas of censorship to American educators.  The series of seminars‚ which consisted of eleven segments and stretched from June of 2021 to April of 2022‚ were hosted virtually out of Würzburg‚ Germany. Over 700 educators were trained at the seminar‚ with a select eighteen American teachers paired with European instructors to create model “lesson plans” for use in United States classrooms. The seminars were jointly conducted by two universities and financed by the American taxpayer. On the German side was the University of Würzburg’s Media Education &; Educational Technology Lab‚ a German government entity. On the American side was Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”). Part of the University of Rhode Island‚ the Rhode Island Lab has spent two decades pushing a specific strain of “media literacy‚” a glossy rebranding of censorship for a Gen Z audience.  Despite being part of the public (and thus taxpayer-funded) University of Rhode Island‚ the Rhode Island Lab had a long history of far-left activism even before it applied for (and received) the State Department’s $30‚000 grant for a series of seminars. Among the myriad examples of the Rhode Island Lab’s activism are: In 2017‚ the Rhode Island Lab unveiled an entire lesson plan — titled “Teaching Conspiracies” — to attack the idea that Google had manipulated search results to favor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign‚ disparaging a video documenting the bias as coming from “a noted conspiracy theorist” who “was making money from the entertainment value of an anti-Hillary message.” In actuality‚ studies found Google did manipulate their algorithms to interfere in the 2016 election‚ and it has only escalated its misconduct in recent years.  In 2020‚ the Rhode Island Lab proudly promoted a warning from a Washington Informer report in which the Rhode Island Lab founder was quoted. The article equated “[then-President Donald J.] Trump supporters” to the “Klu Klux Klan” and suggested they would engage in “voter intimidation efforts in proximity to polling stations‚ especially in urban areas with an expected high turnout of Biden voters.” When no such voter intimidation occurred‚ the Rhode Island Lab still continued to tout the story. Also in 2020‚ the Rhode Island Lab promoted an article wherein the Rhode Island Lab founder boasted that “Trump is the ‘poster child’ of bad information” and that “he doesn’t value evidence.” She offered no evidence for this assertion. In 2021‚ the Rhode Island Lab held a seminar for educators on “how to teach students about the limits of freedom of expression” and how “to limit the harms of dangerous speech.” Promos for the seminar explained “domestic terrorism” was “clearly inspired” by former President Trump and featured tasteless artwork depicting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a LEGO set for children.   In September of last year‚ the Rhode Island Lab attempted to organize an event to confront the “white supremacy” of “digital blackface‚” a term for when non-black internet users feature images of black people in their avatars‚ icons or GIFs on their social media or video game accounts.   In addition to the German University of Würzburg and the Rhode Island Lab‚ the State Department included another formal member of its “Project Team.” This was the Rhode Island Lab’s grant fiscal agent‚ Media Literacy Now.  Media Literacy Now is not an academic institution. It is a lobbying group: a self-described “advocacy nonprofit” dedicated to “ensuring that media literacy is recognized by policymakers and the public as an essential part of K-12 education.” In its words‚ Media Literacy Now pursues “systemic change in K-12 education leading to media literacy in curriculum” by pressuring state legislators to mandate — and mandate funding for —  “media literacy” education in order to fight “misinformation” and “online radicalization.” It even brags of its role in the move for “media literacy” mandates‚ which have been adopted by “eighteen states” and numerous additional school districts. What is “media literacy‚” exactly? The term is nebulous and amorphous‚ providing Media Literacy Now and the Rhode Island Lab cover when they need to obfuscate their agenda. Despite the State Department grant being ostensibly for “promoting media literacy‚” the Rhode Island Lab’s final report did not define the term “media literacy” once — despite using the term sixty-four times. Elsewhere‚ Media Literacy Now pledges it is “committed to elevating media literacy education as a tool to create the society we all deserve: one that nurtures racial equity‚ social justice‚ and true democracy. Media literacy equals cultural change.” This call for “cultural change” may seem vague‚ but Media Literacy Now displayed a glossy photo to highlight what it meant. The image‚ captioned “Democracy Now” and “Media Literacy Now‚” depicted an angry mob of protestors waving a variety of presumably media literate signs. One prominently displayed banner read “ACAB‚” a profane acronym popular among Antifa rioters. Translation: All Cops Are Bastards.     Media Literacy Now’s concept of “media literacy” is based on the idea that making too much information available to the public is inherently a threat. “The devastating effects of the pandemic‚” Media Literacy Now declared in one propaganda piece‚ “have been exacerbated by an infodemic.” Media Literacy Now directed its audience to observe a September 2020 proclamation by the World Health Organization (WHO)‚ which is backed by communist China. The WHO statement explained‚ “An infodemic is an overabundance of information‚” and this overabundance could only be corrected by having “media and social media platforms … collaborate with the UN system with Member States and with each other” to censor information with which the collective disagrees.  Building on this infodemic concept‚ Media Literacy Now promotes research for “inoculation” theory‚ which posits that “[j]ust as vaccines generate antibodies to resist future viruses‚” a society can “inoculate” itself against “misinformation” before the person is even told it. Concerningly‚ this un-American theory‚ which treats information as a disease‚ has been parrotted by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security while promoting social media censorship.    The Rhode Island Lab’s marriage with Media Literacy Now is anchored by Renee Hobbs. A fixture of the paid speaking circuit as an expert in “media literacy‚” Hobbs is both an advisory board member for Media Literacy Now and the founder and CEO of the Rhode Island Lab. Through both organizations‚ she championed (failed) federal legislation that would create $60 million in subsidies for media literacy‚ writing that “[w]ith Russian operatives continuing their social media campaigns to influence voters ahead of the 2020 elections‚ there is no time to lose.” Hobbs regularly communicates with Erin McNeill‚ Media Literacy Now’s president‚ to coordinate their respective groups’ lobbying efforts. Sometimes‚ this has consisted of McNeill asking Hobbs to temper her rhetoric to achieve their goals. In 2022‚ Hobbs received criticism after a National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) group she chaired released an inflammatory proclamation demanding educators “move beyond the exclusive focus on traditional reading and writing competencies” and “productively disrupt classroom hierarchies” and “the inequalities of contemporary life‚ including structural racism‚ sexism‚ consumerism‚ and economic injustice.” McNeill wrote to Hobbs‚ asking her to “steer away from this sort of” language. When one uses such phrases‚ McNeill warned‚ “it becomes evident they have an agenda beyond literacy.”  Media Literacy Now claims to have found tremendous success in getting states to adopt “media literacy” programs but its leaders apparently disapprove of media literacy programs that don’t promote the type of systemic changes they seek. Look‚ for example‚ to Texas’s attempt to establish a “media literacy” program that tried to steer clear of political indoctrination.  In 2021‚ Media Literacy Now advocated for Texas to pass a “media literacy” mandate‚ but later lambasted the final statute. Under the law’s text‚ “teachers are not allowed to ‘require an understanding of the 1619 Project.’” Taken literally‚ this means that the 1619 Project — a discredited conspiracy theory that claims America’s founding was meant to preserve slavery — is not mandated. A few months later‚ McNeill and Hobbs emailed each other during the morning hours of Texas’s next legislative session‚ expressing dismay concerning the state’s new “media literacy” bill‚ even though it expanded professional development opportunities for “media literacy” educators. The reason? None of those funds could go to teaching “critical race theory‚” a hateful‚ Marxist ideology that preaches certain races are inherently either “privileged” or “oppressed.”    Through shared finances‚ staff‚ and projects‚ the Rhode Island Lab and Media Literacy Now are functionally one entity‚ and have been essentially treated as such by the Biden administration. They are only two thirds‚ though‚ of a dark trident of censorship. The third prong of this weapon is Ad Fontes Media. II. The State Department seminars detailed how to put censorship tools Ad Fontes and NewsGuard into American classrooms. MRC Free Speech America has previously reported on Ad Fontes Media‚ a media ratings firm that pushes a “Media Bias Chart” purporting to rank over 3‚000 media sources for “bias” and “reliability.” Ad Fontes’s methodology and analysis is rigged to strongarm the public away from media on the right and towards media on the left. Ad Fontes favors leftist media by a two to one margin. Ad Fontes’s chart similarly‚ and outlandishly‚ suggests that media on the left are ten times less likely to be “unreliable.” Ad Fontes’s hopelessly broken system traces back to its founder and CEO Vanessa Otero‚ a left-wing Colorado lawyer whose media analysts must conform to her warped worldview. Ad Fontes boasts on its website about its partnerships with Big Tech behemoths Meta and Microsoft‚ for which it steers traffic away from new media and towards left-wing legacy outlets.  Ad Fontes is cagier‚ though‚ about its partnership with Media Literacy Now.   Though Media Literacy Now is theoretically a non-profit lobbying group‚ it is entirely intertwined with for-profit censorship firm Ad Fontes through overlapping staff‚ finances and revenue-sharing agreements. The Biden administration is exploiting this incestuous relationship to push censorship. The president of Media Literacy Now’s Board of Directors is Jennifer Furlong. Furlong’s other job is as the Director of Communications for Ad Fontes (she also serves as a “right lean analyst” for the censorship firm‚ providing a supposedly conservative perspective while scoring media sources). Likewise‚ Otero‚ Furlong’s boss at Ad Fontes‚ serves on Media Literacy Now’s Advisory Council.  Media Literacy Now admits that it has a “strategic affiliation” with Ad Fontes. It lists the censorship outlet as one of its “sponsors” and “partners” (along with the Rhode Island Lab and the News Literacy Project‚ a pro-censorship activist group backed by tech giant Apple). What is less well publicized by Media Literacy Now is that Ad Fontes directs 10 percent of the income earned from its “News Nerd and News Nurturer Memberships” back to the supposedly non-profit lobbying group. Media Literacy Now then uses that money to pressure school districts into purchasing Ad Fontes products. To see this scheme in action‚ look to the State Department seminars. This series of lectures was dedicated to teaching educators how to institute “media literacy” into American public school classrooms. Unsurprisingly‚ the seminar was hosted by Hobbs. Otero spoke at the State Department seminars‚ giving her sales pitch for Ad Fontes and directions on how to include its products — such as the rigged “Media Bias Chart” — in the classroom. She also recited Media Literacy Now’s talking points for a general media literacy mandate: “Now‚ how should we teach media literacy and news literacy? Of course‚ in‚ like‚ full semesters and years and required for everyone from a very young age.”  Despite Media Literacy Now’s professed neutrality‚ Otero refused to mask her partisanship when representing her company during the seminar. She celebrated Ad Fontes’s low ratings for Fox News’s Sean Hannity and independent journalist Tucker Carlson — both noted critics of the Biden administration — while emphasizing the higher score given to disgraced left-wing newscaster Chris Cuomo.  At no point in the lecture did either Otero or Hobbs disclose the financial ties between Media Literacy Now and Ad Fontes‚ or that Media Literacy Now would likely tangibly benefit from the educators’ subscribing to Ad Fontes.    The State Department seminar demonstrated how Media Literacy Now and the Rhode Island Lab used tax-dollars to push Ad Fontes products‚ while simultaneously hiding the strong financial incentive they have to do so. The groups’ issues with transparency‚ though‚ go much further. Media Literacy Now and Ad Fontes’s leadership have repeatedly denied the media ratings firm’s connections to federal government grantees‚ even though these connections are demonstrably true. MRC Free Speech America interviewed Furlong and Otero and asked whether they worked with any “government grantees.” Otero vociferously denied that they did‚ insisting “we [Ad Fontes] don’t work with any government grantees.”  Furlong did not correct the record. Instead‚ she went on her own podcast‚ Communication TwentyFourSeven‚ and doubled down. Unprompted‚ she loudly proclaimed‚ “We have zero ties! Ad Fontes Media has zero ties to the federal government!” These statements are verifiably false. Furlong is president of Media Literacy Now’s board of directors‚ and Media Literacy Now organized the State Department-funded seminar. Otero — in her official capacity as Ad Fontes CEO — was the featured speaker at said State Department-funded seminar‚ hosted by the State Department-funded Rhode Island Lab. Otero was celebrated by the seminar host Hobbs‚ who serves with Otero on Media Literacy Now’s board. Otero then proceeded to give a lengthy sales pitch for Ad Fontes products‚ all while concealing any of these facts from the audience.   Unfortunately‚ Ad Fontes and its “Media Bias Chart” was not the only censorship tool the State Department seminars promoted. Another curriculum the Rhode Island Lab pushed‚ the “Data Detox Kit‚” repeatedly instructs teachers to install a plug-in for NewsGuard‚ which censors the media sources students can access. A competitor of Ad Fontes‚ NewsGuard is a shady for-profit business that purports to rank news on “credibility‚” but in practice disparages media critical of the left. Three MRC studies have revealed that‚ on average‚ NewsGuard rates right-leaning media significantly lower than their left-wing counterparts‚ and frequently celebrates extremist publications that traffic in demonstrably false conspiracy theories like the Russiagate hoax. The most recent MRC study‚ published Dec. 12‚ 2023‚ showed how biased media ratings firm NewsGuard ranked leftist media 26 percentage points higher‚ on average‚ than right-leaning media. III. The State Department seminars were co-hosted by a German government institution and focused on bringing German indoctrination strategies into American classrooms.  Aside from the American Otero‚ much of the seminars’ speakers were European. Conducted out of Germany by a German government institution‚ the State Department event focused on importing German socialism and German censorship into American classrooms.   One German group that received an entire State Department seminar was Tactical Tech. The anti-free speech group’s seminar was represented by “activist and science communicator” Daisy Kidd. Based in Berlin‚ Tactical Tech claims to be a non-governmental organization. However‚ it receives its funding from the European Union (EU) government and Sida‚ an agency of the Swedish government akin to USAID. Tactical Tech is also partnered with six different left-wing non-profit groups — Associacio Verificat‚ Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universad del Rosario (ISUR)‚ Data Labe‚ ForSet‚ Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) and Save the Children — which combined received over a million dollars from Open Society Foundation (OSF). Operating from the shadows‚ OSF is the organization far-left financiers George and Alexander Soros use to funnel money to their favorite extremist causes‚ such as climate change lockdowns‚ defunding local police departments‚ and—especially relevant here—mass censorship. (It should also be noted that Otero has written for the Soros-funded anti-free speech group Poynter Institute). In addition to the six Soros-funded groups‚ Tactical Tech is also partnered with the Goethe Institut (a propaganda wing of the German government) and European Schoolnet. Schoolnet is an “inclusive education” group run by a coalition of thirty-four ministries of education‚ including the controversial governments of Cyprus‚ Germany‚ Romania and Turkey.  At the State Department seminar‚ Kidd highlighted two Tactical Tech products to be pushed into American classrooms. The first was the Data Detox Kit‚ a curriculum for teaching children how to go about “tackling misinformation.” As described above‚ “The Kit” detailed how to install NewsGuard plug-ins on school computers. It also distributes a brochure created by the EU government decrying different types of supposed “conspiracy theories‚” such as “anti-vaccination” beliefs and “climate change denialism.” The “Kit” instructs students to stop using the term “fake news‚” claiming it is “used by the powerful to discredit legitimate information‚ science‚ and journalism.” The term “fake news” was widely used and popularized by former President Trump to describe the legacy media’s relentlessly left-wing bias. In addition to pushing NewsGuard‚ the “Kit” also instructs students to use Politifact and Snopes. Politifact and Snopes both purport to fact check other news sources‚ but are themselves infamous purveyors of misinformation. For example‚ both outlets aggressively attacked the New York Post’s October 2020 exposé on Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings‚ the former casting doubt on the reporting and the latter baselessly reciting false claims that the well-researched story from a century-old news publication was Russian disinformation. Though the fact checkers’ reports were themselves lacking key information and detail about the Hunter Biden bombshell reports — details even far-left outlets like CNN and The Washington Post now concede — fact checks provided cover for Big Tech platforms like Meta and Twitter (now X) to censor the story until after the election. The second Tactical Tech product Kidd used the State Department seminar to push was a curriculum titled “The Glass Room.” In one of its lessons‚ “The Glass Room” instructs students on “[t]he problem of scaling freedom of expression.” The curriculum lectures that “[a]fter the increase of content moderation on WhatsApp‚ Facebook and YouTube due to COVID-19 misinformation‚ many people moved to Telegram.” This was a problem‚ according to “The Glass Room‚” because Telegram “not only lacks any form of content moderation‚ but it also allows unlimited sharing.” The curriculum argues that the “frictionless design” of social media platforms “allows content to flow freely and far‚ creating a path for misinformation.”   “The Glass Room” also requires the use of interactive “games‚” Bad News and Go Viral!‚ wherein students are instructed how to spot and protect against “misinformation.” Go Viral! was designed by the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab to “inoculate” people against allegedly “manipulative” content and ideas that exacerbated the “infodemic.” The project was commissioned by the UK Cabinet Office and funded by the United Nations and World Health Organization — both of which are backed by communist China. The Glass Room’s own interactives profligate misinformation — albeit misinformation that favors the agenda of Biden and his far-left European allies. “The Glass Room” penalized students who said that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated with a lab leak from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Wuhan Institute of Virology‚ insisting this “has not been backed up with evidence.” In reality‚ evidence as early as March of 2020 indicated the virus originated from the Institute‚ and Biden’s own Department of Energy has now confirmed a Wuhan lab leak as COVID-19’s most likely origin.  The Glass Room also promoted an article reciting the unfounded conspiracy theory that Trump’s 2016 election victory was the result of “Russian hackers.” This is not the only place where the Rhode Island Lab baselessly suggested Trump had nefarious connections to Russia: it also distributed propaganda financed by the European Union and the Belgian Evans Foundation‚ which promoted a video implying Trump was working with or for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hobbs herself has tweeted videos suggesting Trump was “supporting Putin [sic] interests over the United States;” she added it was further evidence of (entirely unsubstantiated) “Trump-Russia” ties.  Another speaker at the State Department seminars was Maria Ranieri‚ the Vice President of the Italian Association of Media Education and an official member of the Rhode Island Lab “team.” Ranieri spoke on behalf of the European organization MEET Tolerance. The firm receives both European government and activist group funding‚ and its research largely originates in Germany. Despite its international origins‚ the project’s name is an English-language acronym: “Media Education for Equity and Tolerance.”  MEET Tolerance justifies its curriculum’s focus on media literacy by lecturing that while "[t]he Internet offers many free communication channels and has become an important tool. … It is not just progressive voices which are being spread this way‚ [as] digital activism very much concerns also the empowerment of ideologies which are based on hatred.” Elsewhere‚ MEET Tolerance teaches how to protest for “social justice” issues like open borders and against national sovereignty movements like Northern League or Brexit. It celebrated left-wing figures like London Mayor Sadiq Khan and former President Barack Obama and championed religious nones‚ contrasting those who were “self confident” with those who were “religious.” It also recited the most extreme forms of critical race theory dogma‚ claiming that when people are “denying their racism‚” they are in fact part of “racist discourses‚” as “denial of racism” (even on a personal level) is inherently racist. For support of this claim‚ MEET Tolerance directed readers to a book titled The New Racism: Conservatives and the Ideology of the Tribe. IV. A session of the State Department seminars centered on how to train children as political activists. Unlike the other seminars‚ MEET Tolerance was not videotaped and was not included on the Rhode Island Lab’s website. Perhaps unrelatedly‚ MEET Tolerance pushed a particularly disturbing curriculum: Turning children into political activists.  Several pieces of MEET Tolerance’s curriculum described how to use “children as media producers‚” where children would be “[a]dvocating intercultural values and social justice through [their] own media productions and practices.”   Most explicit was a curriculum developed by socialist German politician Konstantin von Notz. A vice chairman of the ruling Alliance 90/Greens Party‚ Von Notz is Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag’s Control Panel‚ the parliamentary organization overseeing the entirety of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Von Notz’s “No Hate Speech Movement” induced children to use predetermined and coordinated media hashtags and posts to create a seemingly grassroots push for an international censorship law‚ arguing “freedom of expression” should not protect “haters” motivated by “right wing extremism.” The movement for censorship even offered free red badges‚ “No Hate” balloons‚ and “No Hate” stickers to be distributed to children‚ encouraging the students to photograph themselves wearing the distributed apparel and then post the images on Meta’s Instagram. Von Notz’s censorship efforts in Germany have been horrifyingly effective. He helped lead a successful government effort to ban the nation’s top opposition party from accessing public financing‚ a near-necessity for winning elections in a nation with draconian limits on independent campaign funding. He proudly championed a new internet censorship package in 2019 expanding Germany’s anti-hate speech regulatory regime‚ which imposes crippling fines on Big Tech companies that do not proactively remove user speech the government could find “hateful.” Shortly after leaders of Germany’s opposition criticized the law as a “Direct Attack on Freedom of Speech” and a return to the country’s “Stasi Methods‚” Von Notz and his allies placed them under surveillance.   Through the Rhode Island Lab and the State Department’s seminars‚ Von Notz and MEET Tolerence’s German indoctrination has reached American shores. Take Palm Beach County Public Schools staff member April Leach‚ an attendee of the State Department seminars. Leach applied for and received an $8‚000 grant for the “lesson plan” she developed at the seminars with Randall Fujimoto‚ an educator and director of the activist group Game Train Learning. The project Leach and Fujimoto developed through the seminars‚ which they titled “Cyber Cafe” and designed to promote “media literacy‚” used a mod of the popular children’s game Minecraft that was roughly analogous to The Glass Room interactive games. To complete the game‚ “students … begin their inquiry with a story about contaminated drinking water and … then use multiple sources” to accomplish their mission. In order to successfully evaluate the sources‚ Leach required the students to use Ad Fontes’s so-called Media Bias Chart.  A classmate of Leach at the State Department seminars‚ Lauren McClanahan‚ became an “affiliated faculty” member for the Rhode Island Lab. McClanahan created a program at the Bellingham‚ Washington‚ school which employed her‚ naming her operation “Justice in Your Backyard.” The program‚ which required students to watch and then mimic propaganda videos‚ was eerily similar to MEET Tolerence’s “media producers” scheme. The elementary school students in McClanahan’s class were instructed to create infographic and videographic messages to be distributed online as “a call to action when it comes to topics of social justice.”  One message called for donations to Everytown for Gun Safety‚ the Michael Bloomberg-funded parent organization of the Rhode Island Lab’s partner Moms Demand Action (MDA)‚ a gun confiscation group. Another message solicited donations to the Trevor Project‚ a transgender advocacy group that ran an X-rated chatroom open to teens wherein staff discussed extreme sexual fetishes‚ including sado-masochism and coprophilia. A third message listed “microaggressions” that people should refrain from saying‚ such as “We are all just one race‚ the human race.” Multiple other messages attacked so-called “voter suppression‚” criticizing “Voter ID laws” and “Purging Registrations” and urging that readers lobby their state legislatures to ban election integrity measures. One infographic even told readers to “[d]emand the absence of police in schools.”     While State Department seminar attendees like Leach and McClanahan allowed documentation of their controversial “media literacy” activities‚ not everyone is so transparent. Multiple educators who gave testimonials on the Ad Fontes website appear to have not divulged their use of the censorship tool to their employers. Take Marlys Peck‚ a longtime professor at the public University of Central Missouri‚ for example. After Ad Fontes began offering prizes for testimonials‚ a glowing quote from Peck appeared on Ad Fontes’s website. Peck explained how she directed students to use the Ad Fontes “Media Bias Chart” in class and that the students “appreciated” it. However‚ after the MRC submitted a public records request to the University of Central Missouri‚ school administration claimed it could not find any of Peck’s communications with Ad Fontes. The administration insisted that it had been told no curriculum using Ad Fontes existed — even after being directed to the testimonial‚ which bore the university’s logo.  Similarly‚ then-Exploration Charter School Assistant Principal Nick Lind gave a testimonial for Ad Fontes‚ in which the New York grade school’s logo was clearly displayed. When the MRC submitted a public records request to Exploration Charter‚ the school administration claimed it was entirely unaware of the testimonial and Lind’s use of Ad Fontes‚ and could find neither the curriculum nor his communications. Leach‚ Lind and McClanahan are all involved in children’s education‚ and Peck is an educator of college students. But the German censorship agenda was not just limited to those classrooms. In her final piece for the State Department‚ Hobbs detailed how — with the assistance of Media Literacy Now’s Rhode Island Chapter President‚ Pam Steager — she used the seminars to perfect “media literacy” evaluations for Austin‚ Texas’s Police Academy. Hobbs received a lucrative contract to participate in an overhaul of the Police Academy structured by for-profit consulting firm Kroll Associates. This revamp was highly political‚ with Kroll going so far as to recommend a ban on flag-raising ceremonies for fallen officers because it “potentially reinforces an ‘us versus them’ mindset” — a term Hobbs herself reiterated in her State Department report.  Hobbs has a long-history of anti-cop activism‚ launching her career with a 1994 documentary sympathetic to the LA rioters. With the seminars‚ though‚ she found a way to bring her activism directly into local police trainings. Using her experience for Kroll in Austin — made possible at least in part by the State Department — Hobbs then persuaded the University of Rhode Island to pay her for both a seminar and course she titled “Copaganda.”   Conclusion Through the Rhode Island Lab‚ the State Department trained American educators on German socialist strategies for bringing indoctrination into the classroom‚ “inoculating” students against conservative ideas‚ turning students into leftist political activists‚ and putting the Ad Fontes and NewsGuard censorship tools into classrooms. The State Department provided a perfect demonstration of the Rhode Island Lab’s ability and the resources it could bring to the table. In a forthcoming follow-up report‚ the Media Research Center (MRC) will detail how‚ having honed its strategy‚ the Rhode Island Lab secured finances from the Department of Homeland Security to bring the theories discussed during the State Department seminars into action. Recommendations: While the Biden administration’s censorship agenda is permeating society‚ it is not too late to fight back: Parents should call their local school boards and check if Ad Fontes or NewsGuard have been imposed in their children’s classrooms. If so‚ parents should demand the censorship tools be removed.  State legislatures must bar taxpayer dollars from going to Ad Fontes and NewsGuard. Congress must defund all domestic censorship efforts (appropriations and authorizations). Congressmen and state attorneys general must investigate media literacy advocacy groups like Media Literacy Now for receiving potentially unlawful kickbacks from censorship firms. 

Exposed! Hunter Biden’s art deal was — as suspected — another cash-for-access scheme by Hunter to trade off his father’s name.  On Tuesday‚ Hunter Biden’s Manhattan art dealer Georges Berges testified that — contrary to White House assertions — he never worked with them to ensure buyers of Hunter’s paintings would be anonymous. According to Berges‚ Hunter Biden knew the identity of at least 70 percent of the buyers‚ one of whom obtained a presidential appointment after a purchase. Berges continued to counter White House claims when he testified that he talked to President Joe Biden on the phone‚ while he was representing his son in the art world. So how much time did the Big Three (ABC‚ CBS‚ NBC) networks devote to this latest bombshell on their Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning shows?  ZERO seconds. In a statement‚ on Tuesday‚ Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer called Biden’s “amateur art career” an “ethics nightmare” and added that the “vast majority” of Hunter’s artwork had been purchased by Democrat donors.  According to the Business Insider‚ Hunter Biden has pulled in $1.3 million from his “art” sales. On January 9 the New York Post reported:  Hunter Biden’s Manhattan art dealer said Tuesday that he never worked with the White House on an ethics pact to ensure buyers would remain anonymous — and added that the top purchasers were known to the first son‚ contrary to prior claims from President Biden’s aides. Georges Bergès also revealed that in addition to the lack of supposed anti-corruption safeguards he actually met and spoke on the phone with the president while repping his son‚ the House Oversight Committee said in a readout of a closed-door deposition. The art dealer testified that Hunter‚ 53‚ knew who bought about 70% of his art — including Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali‚ who obtained works by the first son both before and after scoring a prestigious presidential appointment. Bergès disclosed that he personally interacted with Joe Biden on multiple occasions‚ including at a closed-to-the-press White House wedding for Hunter’s daughter Naomi in 2022. The high-stakes testimony came as the Oversight Committee spearheads an impeachment inquiry into whether the elder Biden was corruptly involved with his son and brother James’s foreign ventures while vice president. Hirsh Naftali‚ who scored repeated visits to the White House during the timeframe in question‚ inked a $42‚000 sale in February 2021‚ before her appointment that July by Joe Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad‚ and then another for $52‚000 in December 2022. Bergès also confirmed that the first son was aware that Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris‚ who met Hunter at a political fundraiser in December 2019 before bankrolling his tax payments and living expenses‚ was his top patron‚ buying $875‚000 worth of art in a January 2023 deal. “The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art‚” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement. “Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication with the White House about such an agreement to make sure there was any sort of ethics compliance at all‚ and he provided information to the committee revealing how Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare.  “The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors‚ one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration‚” Comer added. “The White House has a lot of explaining to do about misleading the American people.” The White House did not immediately offer comment on Bergès’ testimony. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred questions to the White House counsel’s office during her regular briefing. It was not immediately clear if Bergès comprehensively provided buyer information after previously refusing to do so. Bergès also told committee members during the closed-door deposition that Hollywood producer Lanette Phillips‚ who has hosted fundraisers for the elder Biden‚ introduced Hunter to Bergès.  Hunter Biden has sold at least $1.3 million in art as of this past July‚ according to Business Insider. Once again the networks continue to run interference for the Biden administration and all of the Biden family scandals. Shameful.

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings marked 12 years for Gayle King as a co-host of CBS’s morning shows‚ first CBS This Morning and now CBS Mornings. Given how the third-place show centers around King and subservient co-hosts who worship her very presence‚ it was no surprise it was came up multiple times on the show with a lengthy video of her celebrity friends and accolades of how its an “honor” to sit next to a “consummate professional.” As NewsBusters has highlighted on a near-constant basis‚ it’s comical to think of her as a journalist given her status as both a Democratic donor and Obama family friend who’s vactioned with them (and saw no problem with it).     King couldn’t even get past the opening welcome before wishing herself “happy anniversary.” Following the “Eye Opener‚” co-host Tony Dokoupil made sure to point out to viewers that King had on her yellow dress she wore on her first day at CBS and for every anniversary since. So‚ of course‚ both he and co-host Nate Burleson had to congratulate her. Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers even teased his What to Watch segment with a “happy anniversary” to King‚ adding the “[d]ress looks just as good as it did day one.” Fast-forward to the second hour and they devoted an entire five-minute-and-48-second segment to her anniversary. “Today is January 9 and we are walking on sunshine because we got one more reason to celebrate the one and only Gayle King. Today‚ January 9‚ anniversary number 12 here at CBS News‚” Dokoupil began with Walkin’ on Sunshine playing in the background. Gushing her yellow dress is “quickly becoming vintage‚” King retold why she wore it and has since‚ but that talk shifted when Duthiers brought out cupcakes before a video of past interview subjects/celebrity pals to congratulate her (click “expand”): KING: I know I wore it the first day because I knew I wanted to wear yellow on my first day because you know it’s my favorite color and then I said yeah I’m going to wait and see if I’m still here next year and go wear it again. Twelve years later‚ here we are. DOKOUPIL: We are here‚ 12 years and counting. KING: Still psyched to be sitting here. DOKOUPIL: So we’re going to celebrate you with some cupcakes and –– KING: My favorite thing‚ I like anything with icing. Thank you‚ Vlad. DUTHIERS: The table is ready. KING: Thank you‚ Vlad. DOKOUPIL: — thank you very much‚ can we get a chair out here for Vlad? DUTHIERS: Look at the coloring. KING: Thank you. DOKOUPIL: A word first from some fans. BURLESON: Gayle‚ Would you like me to feed it to you? KING: No‚ no. DUTHIERS: Gayle went straight for the frosting.  DOKOUPIL: I mean‚ you can go for the whole thing. DUTHIERS: She went straight for the frosting. Charles and Cassie Kelly went first‚ thanking King for helping them share our story and for sharing the stories of so many. They were followed by Billy Crystal‚ who said “[i]t’s so great to be part of your legacy on television.” Barbra Streisand‚ actor Sebastian Maniscalco‚ and Serena Williams came next with Maniscalco swooning about her as both “a super talent” and “juggernaut in the entertainment business.” It wouldn’t be a King lovefest without an appearance from her best friend who’s most responsible for her career‚ Oprah Winfrey. For her part‚ Winfrey said she knew that‚ when King accepted the job at CBS‚ “I knew” she’d “rise” “[b]ecause nobody loves news and culture more than you do.”  Robert DeNiro‚ Angela Bassett‚ Ed Sheeran‚ and then a second Crystal appearance finally signaled the merciful end of the video and more babbling between the co-hosts with King the tributes were “a reminder that how‚ how blessed and how grateful I am that we get to do this every morning” as “I do think it’s one of the best jobs in TV.” Burleson made sure to suck up‚ saying what make the job great isn’t “us‚ though‚” but “you”. Duthiers agreed‚ saying “it’s about you” and adding “it’s our honor” to work with King. Dokoupil added his two cents‚ calling this “one of the greatest jobs in the world” and “sitting next to you adds to that and a huge honor.” “You are a consummate professional and a great teammate and we’re so happy you’re here‚” he added while Duthiers said King being their coworker makes them “the blessed” ones. To see the relevant transcript from January 9 (courtesy of Nexis)‚ click here.

As Hunter Biden showed up for his publicity stunt on Capitol Hill on Wednesday where he briefly sat in on the House Oversight Committee hearing on a vote to hold him in contempt both CNN News Central and MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports claimed that the move proves that Hunter defying his subpoena is actually proof he’s willing to comply with that same subpoena. CNN Congressional reporter Melanie Zanona recalled that‚ “Now‚ it's all fluid now‚ but this is the expectation that he is going to show up and it is similar to what he did when he was scheduled to appear for a closed door deposition in December.”     Closed door testimony was par for the course when Democrats were conducting the initial stages of their impeachment of Donald Trump‚ but neither network cared to remember that. As it was‚ Zanona continued‚ “He has said all along that he doesn't want to appear for a closed door deposition‚ he only wants to testify in a public setting. He's worried about Republicans selectively leaking his testimony and instead he did a press conference in front of the Capitol‚ but Republicans still say that was not enough for them.” Of course‚ Hunter Biden doesn’t make the rules‚ but Zanona claimed that his show of defiance actually proves he is willing to comply‚ “As I said‚ this is part of the Hunter Biden effort right now to show he is making every effort to comply with the subpoena to appear for a deposition. Time and time again he said he's willing to talk to Republicans‚ at least in a public setting.” Over on MSNBC‚ former Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian concurred‚ “I think it's his way of saying ‘I will testify. I've always said I will testify. I'm not going to do it in secret. I'm going to do it in public.’ So‚ that to me is the statement that he is making today. He has always said he will testify. He just doesn't want to do it in secret.” For Christian‚ Hunter’s spin is actually correct‚ “So‚ it’s really hard to argue that he's in contempt because he refused to testify. It's just the forum. Secret or in public for everyone to see it.” The eponymous Cabrera also affirmed Hunter’s lawyers position‚ “And that’s what his attorneys have argued all along is‚ he’s not defying a subpoena. He's just trying to make sure whatever he says‚ in its full context‚ is before the American public to hear so that-- his fear was that the committee members‚ Republicans would kind of spice and dice whatever he said behind closed doors and put out partial transcripts that would misconstrue the context.” And Hunter would try to turn a public hearing into a circus‚ just like he did on Wednesday. Here is a transcript for the January 10 shows: CNN News Central 1/10/2024 10:07 AM ET MELANIE ZANONA: Yeah. I am standing outside the House Oversight Committee right now. They are moments away from beginning this markup to hold the-- Hunter Biden -- President Biden's son in contempt of Congress for refusing to sit for a closed door deposition‚ but we just got reporting from my colleague‚ Annie Grier‚ that Hunter Biden himself is expected to show up today in front of this hearing in some capacity. Now‚ it's all fluid now‚ but this is the expectation that he is going to show up and it is similar to what he did when he was scheduled to appear for a closed door deposition in December.  He has said all along that he doesn't want to appear for a closed door deposition‚ he only wants to testify in a public setting. He's worried about Republicans selectively leaking his testimony and instead he did a press conference in front of the Capitol‚ but Republicans still say that was not enough for them. They've decided to move ahead with contempt proceedings so we're expecting both Oversight and Judiciary to markup resolutions that would refer Hunter Biden to the DOJ and hold him in contempt of Congress.  That would then head to the House floor‚ and it sounds like Hunter Biden right now might be showing up. If we want to start walking this way‚ but he could be on his way right now. As I said‚ this is part of the Hunter Biden effort right now to show he is making every effort to comply with the subpoena to appear for a deposition. Time and time again he said he's willing to talk to Republicans‚ at least in a public setting. You can see right now we have this scrum of reporters -- if you can shoot the camera over there. We have this scrum of reporters. It looks like Hunter Biden is there.  *** MSNBC Ana Cabrera Reports 1/10/2024 10:08 AM ET CATHERINE CHRISTIAN: I think it's his way of saying “I will testify. I've always said I will testify. I'm not going to do it in secret. I'm going to do it in public.” So‚ that to me is the statement that he is making today. He has always said he will testify. He just doesn't want to do it in secret. So‚ it’s really hard to argue that he's in contempt because he refused to testify. It's just the forum. Secret or in public for everyone to see it.  ANA CABRERA: And that’s what his attorneys have argued all along is‚ he’s not defying a subpoena. He's just trying to make sure whatever he says‚ in its full context‚ is before the American public to hear so that-- his fear was that the committee members‚ Republicans would kind of spice and dice whatever he said behind closed doors and put out partial transcripts that would misconstrue the context. 

Melissa Koenig at the New York Post reported that two male journalists stationed outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington D.C. were caught on an open mic cracking jokes about Donald Trump being assassinated like John F. Kennedy. Whose journalists were they? Were they merely camera operators? Are they just DC locals‚ or are they national? Will they be punished for this loose talk? Trump sat in court to hear his attorneys argue that he should be immune from charges in connection with his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss and the January 6 riot because he was not impeached and convicted for those things. These comments are worse by degree than say‚ reporter David Chalian‚ who was fired by Yahoo News after being caught on an open mic in 2012 saying the Romneys didn't care about New Orleans residents being hit by Hurricane Isaac as the Republican convention opened in Tampa. “They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.” At the beginning‚ you might think when they talk about getting a "good shot‚" they're talking about a camera shot‚ but then the done darkens quickly. “You know what the worst part is? Even if he has his window open and he’s hanging out of it‚ he will be on the other side of the street‚” one person could be heard saying on the live feed from the Associated Press. “I mean‚ if he’s driving‚ we’ve got a good shot‚” the second reporter said hopefully‚ to which the first replied: “Yeah‚ if he’s driving with the front window open.”… “Yeah‚ or if it’s a convertible‚” the second person said. “Yeah‚ I wasn’t thinking about that‚” replied the first. “Yeah‚ like if he just pulls up —” the second started to say before the first interjected and asked: “Like JFK?” “Maybe someone‚ just like they told JFK‚ ‘You know what you should do? You should take a convertible! It’s so nice out‚’” the media member continued‚ to laughter from his cohorts. What's galling is the double standard. If journalists were joking about Obama or Biden being assassinated‚ the Left would want them exposed and fired‚ and maybe banned from polite society altogether. But the idea of assassinating Republicans is grounds for dark humor or even movie treatments.  In 2006‚ CNN rolled out the red carpet to add their "buzz" to the "creative" documentary Death of a President‚ imagining the assassination of President George W. Bush because of his "war on terror."  No movie maker of CNN journalist was punished for mulling over this thought exercise in public. 

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New York‚ like much of the country‚ is beleaguered by migrants who have stolen into the nation illegally. New York City is shelling out tens of billions of dollars to address the problem — an imported problem that has overloaded its shelters‚ displaced citizen students‚ brought back once-eradicated diseases‚ driven its Democratic mayor well past the point of desperation‚ and put poor New Yorkers both out in the cold and at the back of the line. Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke‚ a radical leftist congresswoman running for re-election this year in New York's 9th District‚ made clear in an undated video that went viral this week that this avoidable crisis is not all for naught. Rather‚ she regards it as a good thing for the right people. "I'm from Brooklyn‚ New York. We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants‚" said Clarke‚ who has served on the House Committee on Homeland Security. "When I hear colleagues talk about‚ you know‚ the doors of the inn being closed — ah‚ no room at the inn — I'm saying I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes." Democrats have been fighting for years to redraw New York's congressional map to ensure Republicans no longer have a chance in two to six swing districts from Long Island to Syracuse. The New York Times noted that the New York Court of Appeals' (the state's highest court) controversial ruling last month may ultimately flip the House in Democrats' favor. More bodies will help in that regard. "And those members could clearly fit here‚" added Clarke‚ referencing illegal aliens. — (@) Conservatives and Republicans have suggested that Clarke's shocking admission amounts to confirmation that the border crisis is intentional — that Democrats' aim has‚ all along‚ been to import new voting blocs. "Here's the big scam nobody is talking about‚" wrote Vickie Paladino‚ a Republican New York City councilwoman whose district is directly impacted by the migrant influx celebrated by Clarke. "Congressional seats are allocated by population. Higher population states get more congressional seats‚ and therefore more political power in Washington." "Blue states have been LOSING seats as people flee progressive policies‚" continued Paladino. "We're set to possibly lose THREE seats by 2030 in NY. These allocations are determined by census-calculated raw population‚ including illegals. See how it works?" The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data showing nearly 1.4 million residents fled California and New York in 2022 alone. Paladino underscored that open borders and the ongoing invasion by foreign nationals serve to "bolster blue state power." "Remember‚ everything the left does is a power play‚" added the councilwoman. "They'll plunge our cities and our nation into abject chaos if it means four or five more blue congressional seats." Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded to the video‚ writing‚ "These Democrats are looking out for themselves‚ not for America." Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) insinuated Clarke's statement served to substantiate the "replacement theory‚" which holds that leftist elites seek to replace increasingly unsympathetic citizen populations with foreign nationals in hopes of cementing their hold on power‚ not only in political institutions but in cultural institutions as well. Ari Fleischer‚ former White House press secretary under President George W. Bush‚ tweeted‚ "We need more people to come to America illegally - so I can keep my job in Congress. If you want to know why Ds support illegal immigration‚ here's your sorry answer. It's stunning she said it." Various critics and pundits were similarly stunned by Clarke's forthrightness. Investigative journalist James O'Keefe wrote‚ "This is something usually said into a hidden camera." Clarke led 65 of her leftist colleagues in penning a letter in June to the Biden administration to provide "immediate relief and protection" for illegal aliens‚ specifically black people. "Ours is a nation of immigrants‚ and diversity will always be our country's strength. Our willingness to accept newcomers into our nation is a key component of our global influence and soft power‚" said the letter. While initially‚ it seemed Clarke was referring to American soft power‚ her recent admission about the political value of illegal aliens appears to indicate she meant her own. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On January 12‚ 1971‚ Archie Bunker walked through his front door at 704 Hauser Street for the first time‚ launching “All in the Family‚” which would become the intersection of discussion where 1960s-era counterculture collided with blue-collar‚ middle-class families in the early 1970s. Now‚ the house on 704 Hauser Street sits inside Stage 19 at BlazeTV studios. So why did I preserve it? For the first time in television history‚ “All in the Family” brought real topics of contention directly to American audiences in their living rooms. Issues like taxes‚ the government‚ feminism‚ and racism were all considered too controversial for TV. But “All in the Family” ran directly toward them. Archie played the part of the blue-collar‚ taxpaying worker who resisted change. Meathead‚ his son-in-law‚ played the part of the leftist freeloader who was more than comfortable living off his in-laws and staying indefinitely in college. Both sides got in their jabs and both made their points‚ but something happened then that rarely does any more: conversation. This is why I felt the need to protect this set. Can you imagine this today? We get one side of the story‚ and anything else is demonetized‚ shut down‚ or instantly labeled “misinformation.” People are vilified‚ deplatformed‚ and guilted into compliance. Have you ever listened to the lyrics of the “All in the Family” theme song? Didn’t need no welfare states. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee‚ our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days. What TV producer‚ actor‚ or director would allow those lyrics today? Or what about these? And you knew who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men. These lyrics are more relevant now than they were in the ’70s. Try to say that on YouTube without getting a strike or kicked off altogether. The song goes on: People seemed content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent … those were the days. Oh‚ how the mighty in Hollywood have fallen! Come anywhere even close to these kinds of conversations‚ and the groupthink of the arbiters of speech comes knocking. Just ask people like Tim Allen‚ Roseanne Barr‚ Jon Voight‚ James Woods‚ Gina Carano‚ Stacey Dash‚ and Kirk Cameron. The list is much longer. How many more people in Hollywood have absolutely given up or been beaten into silence? The conversations that happened in Archie and Edith Bunker's living room no longer happen. They are no longer allowed. And it’s about to get much worse.I fear that 2024 will be the year when future generations will look back and say‚ "That was the year the First Amendment was officially assassinated." The signs are everywhere. Over the past few months‚ the globalists and progressives have been telegraphing their punches. Your ability to speak your own mind and to consume the information you want to consume is a direct threat to their agenda and rule. The flurry of globalists getting caught in the act as we were preparing for the holidays was absolutely insane. Take Al Gore at COP28 as an example.If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants‚ these algorithms — they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s. They ought to be banned. They really ought to be banned. It’s an abuse of the public forum. Gore continued: And you spend too much time in the echo chamber‚ what’s weaponized is another form of AI — not artificial intelligence‚ artificial insanity. I'm serious. ... And these devices are the enemies of self-government‚ and they’re the enemies of democracy. We need reforms for both democracy and capitalism. Got it? Any information outside the mainstream media — the approved forum — is a threat to democracy‚ according to Al Gore. Didn’t Gore invent the internet? So why is he so mad? Seriously‚ does he not realize that he and his globalist comrades control nearly every outlet where we get information? They control the mainstream media. They control Big Tech and social media. They control Hollywood and entertainment. People like Al Gore are the fascists‚ looking to gobble up everything they don't have full control of yet. They fear outlets like BlazeTV because we tell you to think for yourselves. We tell you to have conversations‚ which should tell you everything you need to know about these people. They don’t control us‚ and they never will. Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights‚ top stories‚ show prep‚ and more delivered to your inbox.

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) made shocking claims that undercover assets working for the FBI operated on January 6‚ 2021‚ in the hundreds. Higgins also asserted that the assets were dressed as Trump supporters and helped those who entered the Capitol navigate the building.The Louisiana Republican appeared on "The Tucker Carlson Encounter" and told the host that he estimated at least 200 undercover FBI assets both inside and outside the Capitol building."We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd‚ outside the Capitol‚ embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of the Capitol‚" Higgins said. "Given the scope of the operation and the number of doors where entry was allowed or even encouraged — and the number of people that were actually outside the Capitol and that entered — we believe 200 [is a] conservative number‚" he continued.Carlson responded with alarm‚ replying that it was "shocking" to hear and "confirms everyone's worst suspicions.""It’s clearly true‚" the host tagged on.Higgins further explained that based on the evidence he has seen‚ FBI assets worked with local D.C. Metro Police and the Capitol Police and dressed as supporters of President Trump while inside the Capitol."The FBI assets that were dressed as Trump supporters that were inside the Capitol were there‚ I believe‚ and evidence indicates that they were there to specifically wave in the Trump supporters that had gathered outside the Capitol.""Those were the guys that knew their way around the Capitol‚" Higgins explained. "There’s no way they can come in some random door that gets opened and then get their way directly to Statuary [Hall] or the House chamber or the Senate chamber. It’s just not possible."Those who made it inside the Capitol were then allegedly directed to "the areas where the FBI‚ the DOJ‚ and the Deep State actors" could charge and prosecute them.FBI Director Christopher Wray had previously refused to answer questions from Higgins about FBI assets on January 6‚ 2021. He told Congress they "should not read anything into my decision not to share information on confidential human sources" when he refused to give details. TRUTH #5: Attorney General Merrick Garland &; FBI Director Christopher Wray have refused to say under questioning how many informants or undercover agents were embedded in the crowd on January 6.\n\n#EntrapmentDay — (@) Higgins said that the evidence "implicates [the] FBI at the highest level" and hoped that House Speaker Mike Johnson would release all documentation pertaining to the historic event."He has a responsibility to fully release that data‚ and then the American people will see for themselves what some of us have already learned‚ to our horror‚ to be true." Ep. 61 This the smartest‚ best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!