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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) strongly cautioned their colleagues in the Senate and witnesses from Big Tech against continuing past censorship of Americans in the name of combatting so-called foreign mis-, dis- and mal-information.  The Senate Intelligence Committee held a Sept. 18 hearing on “Foreign Threats to Elections in 2024” featuring President of Global Affairs for Google and Alphabet Kent Walker, Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. During the hearing, Sen. Rubio and Sen. Cotton both emphasized serious past abuses committed by Big Tech platforms allegedly in the name of fighting Russian disinformation. On Aug. 9, the MRC-led Free Speech Alliance put Big Tech on notice, calling on Big Tech executives to affirm their commitment to not censor Americans’ speech in the lead-up to the 2024 election “as so many of [them] did in 2020.” In a letter, the Free Speech Alliance listed examples of egregious past and present election interference and censorship by the platforms, most notably when Twitter and Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and when at least 10 major platforms banned then-sitting President Donald Trump from their platforms.  Sen. Cotton made the point that fears of “memes” and “YouTube videos” interfering in elections pale in comparison to “an example of election interference here in America that was so egregious, some of your companies efforts, in collusion with Joe Biden's campaign, led by the current Secretary of State to suppress the factual reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”  Sen. Rubio also mentioned the scandal, using it in his opening statement to illustrate the pitfalls of embracing government or so-called fact-checker disinformation claims. “[Fifty-one] former intelligence officials went out and said, ‘This has all of the attributes of a Russian disinformation campaign,’ and as a result, the New York Post, who posted the original story had their story censored and taken down, their account locked,” Rubio said. “[T]here was a concerted effort on the basis of that letter to silence a media outlet in the United States on something that actually turned out not to be Russian disinformation.”   How significant was this election interference? A survey commissioned by the Media Research Center found that 45.1% of Biden voters were unaware of The New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story and that 9.4% of Biden voters would have not voted for Biden if they had been aware of it. These desertions would have been enough to doom Biden in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and reelect Trump.  While discussing whether companies would censor social media users for posting memes about Trump saving ducks and cats, Sen. Cotton also pointed out that social media companies often rely on biased, leftist and even Soros-funded organizations like PolitiFact for fact-checking and beyond.  “Who is gonna draw that line? Who is gonna decide what's playful, innocuous and harmless and what is misinformation and disinformation?” Cotton asked. The Arkansas Senator added, “And I gotta say some of the people you go to like PolitiFact and Southern Poverty Law Center don't strike me as quite neutral sources." Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that the State Department be held to account to adhere to the U.S. Constitution and that Big Tech mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

ABC continued to show its virulent hatred and bias toward former President Trump on Wednesday’s World News Tonight and Thursday’s Good Morning America as, along with CBS’s respective shows (CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings) and NBC’s Today, they’ve refused to tell their viewers about a poll of Teamsters rank-and-file members showing nearly 60 percent support for Donald Trump, not Vice President Harris. Instead, the networks focused their efforts on how Teamsters leadership refused to endorse either candidate and went back to peddling more hate on Trump over Springfield, Ohio, thus rescuing Harris from a negative headline.     ABC’s chief Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott minimized the lack of a Teamsters endorsement, instead emphasizing Springfield: Between bomb threats and evacuations, the city of Springfield has been on edge ever since Donald Trump amplified those false claims about Haitian migrants who live there and officials warned that a campaign stop will make things worse. Overnight, Donald Trump telling his supporters that he plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, after amplifying false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield were eating neighborhood pets...Springfield’s mayor has warned against a visit from any candidate. The city has had least 33 bomb threats. After cheering Harris’s latest speech attacking Trump as anti-immigrant, Scott screeched that “Trump also [made] misleading claims that he won the endorsement of one of the most powerful unions in the country, the Teamsters” when “the reality” is they’re “not...endorsing” anyone. Scott went even hard to the mat for Harris on Wednesday’s World News Tonight (click “expand”): SCOTT: Tonight, the powerhouse Teamsters union announcing that, for the first time in nearly 30 years, it will not endorse in the presidential race. Union president Sean O’Brien declaring, “[U]nfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business.” Both campaigns went all-out for the teamsters, former president Donald Trump even inviting o'brien to address the Republican national convention. O’BRIEN [on 07/15/24]: At the end of the day, the teamsters are not interested if you have a D, R, or an I next to your name. We want to know one thing. What are you doing to help American workers? SCOTT: But Trump also sparking anger among unions when he praised billionaire Elon Musk for threatening to fire striking workers. TRUMP [on 08/12/24]: Well, you — you're the greatest cutter. I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in. You just say, you want to quit? They go on strike. I won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike. And you say, that's okay, you're all gone. You're all gone. So, every one of you is gone. SCOTT: The Teamsters president said that amounted to “economic terrorism.” Vice president Kamala Harris, who has worked the picket line with striking autoworkers and has the backing of major unions, including the AFL-CIO, met with the teamsters board on Monday to try and win their support. Today, her campaign said she stands by her promise to “look out for the teamsters rank and file no matter what.” This evening, trump calling the Teamsters decision not to endorse a win for him. TRUMP: It was always automatic that Democrats get the teamsters, and they said, “We won't endorse the Democrats this year." So that was an honor for me. SCOTT: But Harris tonight announcing a significant endorsement of her own. 100 Republican former national security officials now backing her, calling Trump unfit to serve. In a letter, the officials, who served under Reagan, both Presidents Bush, and Trump himself, said as commander in chief, Trump “promoted daily chaos in government, praised our enemies, and undermined our allies, politicized the military and disparaged our veterans, prioritized his personal interest above American interests, and betrayed our values, democracy, and this country's founding documents.” The Teamsters issue was a footnote on the CBS Evening News. Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion merely shared that the Teamsters wouldn’t be “backing either presidential candidate because they weren't able to make a serious commitments to the groups.” By Thursday’s CBS Mornings, Killion fretted Trump “heaped praise on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, claiming he won their endorsement” even though “the union did not endorse a presidential candidate” Thursday on Today, NBC’s Peter Alexander framed the topic as “Trump...touting a non-endorsement” and promoted Harris’s campaign claiming local Teamsters chapters have endorsed her before pivoting to cheering Harris’s speech to the Congressional Hispanic Institute and Trump’s “baseless claims about Haitian migrants” Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News had the only mention of the poll, courtesy of correspondent Garrett Haake: Between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, this story from @GarrettHaake on @NBCNightlyNews was the ONLY mention on the networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- of the @Teamsters poll showing 58% support for Trump among rank and file members pic.twitter.com/3zFEkXWqWM — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 19, 2024 To see the relevant September 19 transcripts, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

Joe and Hillary: a love story. Who knew? Hillary appeared on today's Morning Joe to promote her latest book, a fourth memoir. Scarborough began the interview by recounting how, attending his first White House picnic as a congressman, the Hillary he encountered was very different from the one he anticipated. He and other Republicans had run on the notion that Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Hillary were all Marxists. After the picnic, Joe was invited on a conservative talk radio show and asked to share his impressions of the trio. Whereas he confirmed that Bill and Gore "breathed fire," he found Hillary to be not a Marxist, but a "Midwest Methodist." That made the radio hosts' heads explode, said Scarborough. Despite saying she was reticent to talk about her faith, Hillary then proceeded to describe how central it is to her being. Scarborough said that only having met her for three minutes at the picnic, "that faith came through even then." Scarborough then broke out an early Valentine, saying: "It really has always been disconcerting to my conservative friends, how much I, I, I loved you from the start." Kamala Harris has been notoriously reluctant to do national TV interviews. But could something be worked out with Morning Joe if there were an understanding that Scarborough would profess his undying affection for the Democrat candidate? Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 9/19/24 7:41 am EDT JOE SCARBOROUGH: I read something in the book, and, you know, instead of starting on politics or foreign politics, I want to start on the book. Because it reminds me, something I read reminds me of the first time I met you and President Clinton and everybody else at the White House picnic.  And of course, we all ran against you. Hillary's a Marxist. Bill's a Marxist. Everybody's a Marxist. And after, after the picnic, I was asked by a conservative radio show to come on and talk about how horrible you all were. They said, what'd you think about the president?I was like, ah, breathes fire. What did you think about the vice president? Ah, breathes fire. And then they laugh and go, what did you think about Hillary? I go, she's a Midwest Methodist.  Their heads all exploded. I said, you want me to tell you the truth? She's a Midwest Methodist. That's what I saw in talking to her. Not a Marxist, a Midwest Methodist.  And then I saw this in your book. You're reticent in talking about your faith, but you say, "My faith has sustained me, informed me, saved me. I don't know who I would be or where I would have ended up without it." And you know, isn't it crazy? Even with all the political divide, and all the differences, that came through in you. For people who really know you, and I'd only met you for three minutes, but that faith, that came through even then. HILLARY CLINTON: Wow, Joe. That's an amazing memory. And I used to love those White House picnics and Christmas parties, because at least for a couple of hours, everybody was talking to each other and having fun together before they went back to their corners. And you know, I write about my faith, my family, my friends, obviously my politics in this new book because I do think we've got to start looking at people as the whole beings that we are.  And certainly, my faith, as I say, has been critical. It's been key to who I am, how I think about my life, the kind of service that I believe in, and I really appreciate the old memory that you just shared. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. It really has always been disconcerting to my conservative friends, how much I, I, I loved you from the start.

There’s no doubt Donald Trump is a popular candidate among patriotic Americans — but is he popular enough to win the election? In a clip on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan asked Bret Weinstein this question, and Weinstein’s answer came in the form of a warning. “Let’s imagine it is dirty, and you really can manipulate elections,” Rogan says to Weinstein. “How much can you manipulate it by? Can you manipulate it by 30%?” “To your point about how much can they cheat? I call that factor, which none of us can put a number on,” Weinstein answers, “I call it the cheat factor.” “One of the things that I’m trying to convince people of is that it’s not hopeless because they can cheat, but it means that you have to succeed at a level that exceeds their capacity to erase it,” he continues. “Like, maybe they can cheat by 10%,” Rogan responds. “Right. And what we know, and I think actually we owe Trump a huge debt of gratitude for proving something that I couldn’t have told you if it was true because he won the presidency, which is, is there still enough democracy left in the system for something to upend the plan,” Weinstein explains. Vivek Ramaswamy agrees with Weinstein and tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” that “we need a landslide” in order to win the election in the face of potential cheating. “We are skating on thin ice. I think that 50.1 is not a sufficient margin, but even for the purpose of governing, I think we’re going to need to do a lot better than that in order to really have decisive change in this country,” he adds. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A new poll shows a surge in favor for former President Donald Trump in a pivotal battleground state. According to an Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey, Trump is winning the support of 49.8% of the people in Georgia while Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is only garnering 47.2% support. 'Far more of the respondents said they disapproved [of] President Joe Biden.'The same poll found Harris was beating Trump by 1% at the end of August, meaning Trump had gained three percentage points in about three weeks. The poll found that a majority of Georgians cited the economy as the utmost of their concerns for the election. Far more of the respondents said they disapproved of the job President Joe Biden (D) was doing while far more approved of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R). The debate between Trump and Harris could have been a factor in the swing as well as the second assassination attempt on Trump's life at his golf course in Florida. Elections in battleground states are likely to determine the presidential election if the vote in the Electoral College is close, which is suggested by most polls. Biden was able to win Georgia's electoral votes in 2020 by a very small margin of about 11,700 votes, which precipitated the infamous call from Trump to Georgia's secretary of state. The former president is facing election tampering charges in Georgia, though last week, some of the charges were dropped over lack of standing. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Michigan prosecutor said a concealed carrier who killed two people with one shot at a Detroit Lions fan tailgate Sunday acted in self-defense and won't be charged. Photo by Steven King/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesCellphone video captured a fight at the Eastern Market during which the assailant, Jalen Welch, allegedly pulled a gun and threatened a 40-year-old man, WJBK-TV reported. That 40-year-old, a legal concealed pistol owner, fatally wounded Welch with one shot through his head, the station said — and that same shot also fatally wounded innocent bystander RayShawn Palmer, who also was hit in the head.'My client is very pleased he is not being charged with a crime; it was agonizing sitting in jail for three days awaiting the decision.'Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy called the shooting at act of lawful self-defense, WJBK said, adding that Palmer only tried to be the peacemaker."In this case the shooter was not involved with the physical altercation, or any crime, when Mr. Welch pulled out his weapon and threatened him with deadly force," part of Worthy's statement reads, the station noted. "It is only then that the shooter drew his weapon and fired one-time striking Mr. Welch, and unfortunately striking Mr. Palmer. A thorough review of the facts and evidence shows that the shooter acted in lawful self-defense. The shooting was justified. There is insufficient evidence to charge the shooter with any crime."The shooter's attorney told WJBK in a statement: "My client is very pleased he is not being charged with a crime; it was agonizing sitting in jail for three days awaiting the decision. He is dealing with a lot of emotions. He feels terrible for the family of the bystander and wishes to extend his condolences, but he is grateful to return to his family. His right to exercise to protect his life and others is absolute. He did nothing to forfeit that right."Palmer's family is heartbroken over his death and angry that no charges are being filed against the shooter."This is unbelievable that an individual shoots someone — even though he had a CPL — in an environment like this," Jermaine Little, Palmer's brother, told the station. "It could have been a 5-year-old. Unfortunately it was my brother, and so my whole family is here. We are grieving. We are hurt, and we want some answers."Little added to WJBK, "Our brother’s gone. This is an individual that wanted to give back, did give back, loved his family, was not a violent person, loved to dance. Just wanted to entertain and for this to happen, for trying to stop something that was happening, it’s unacceptable."Palmer’s family also told the station they will fight the no-charges ruling."We’re not going to give up," Little noted to WJBK, adding that "if we got to get out here every day, if we got to post things, if we got to march — whatever we got to do. We just want some answers. Give us some answers. ..."You can view a video report here about the incident.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Election officials in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, canceled the use of drop boxes for the election out of a concern for security and financial cost. Luzerne County manager Romilda Crocamo announced the decision Wednesday and argued that security as well as financial concerns necessitated their removal.'This lack of oversight raises significant concerns about the potential for unauthorized access and misuse.' “While I recognize that drop boxes can provide alternative means for voters to cast their ballots, I must prioritize the safety and security of our community in the current political climate,” said Crocamo.The Times Leader reported that the county had been providing four drop boxes for voters. Crocamo visited one site and documented the problems with the drop box. “Although the venue is attractive, the drop box is situated in a vestibule with an outer door that remains open 24 hours a day. Furthermore, there is no personnel stationed nearby to monitor the second entry door that requires a passcode,” Crocamo said of the drop box on a site owned by the Luzerne County Housing Authority. “This lack of oversight raises significant concerns about the potential for unauthorized access and misuse," she added. Crocamo admitted she was “particularly concerned about the potential for illegal activities, such as individuals depositing multiple ballots.”While the drop boxes are shut down, voters can still drop off their mail-in ballots at locations where election monitors can watch for multiple ballots. Pennsylvania law says voters must return their own ballots, with some exceptions for the disabled. Crocamo said the chairwoman of the election board reviewed her plan and supported it.“In conclusion, I believe this decision is in the best interest of our community,” she concluded. “I appreciate your understanding and support as we navigate these complex issues during these complex times. Together, we can ensure a safe and secure voting experience for all.”In the 2020 presidential election, the Trump-Pence Republican ticket won Luzerne County by about 12K votes over the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket, or 56.6% to 42.3%. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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