A LETTER TO CONGRESS
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SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir or Madam,
The erosion of democratic norms begins with the systematic capture of institutions, suppression of dissent, and replacement of objective information with partisan messaging.
Buying media companies to turn them into partisan outlets while dismissing legitimate reporting as “fake news” mirrors tactics associated with countries like Hungary and Russia. Public attacks on journalists further undermine confidence in an independent press.
The same pattern extends to dissent. Protesters face threats of expulsion, deportation, terrorism charges, and excessive force. Employees have been fired for expressing compassion regarding Gaza or for refusing to embrace the rhetoric of Charlie Kirk and his weaponization of faith, reinforcing ideological conformity over free expression.
Organizations such as BentKey, TPUSA, and PragerU promote partisan political messaging to children, while Canary Mission and Project Esther fuel conspiracies, manufacture controversies, rely on straw-man arguments, and broadly weaponize accusations of antisemitism to silence criticism. Israeli propaganda campaigns have also been cited in connection with FARA.
Finally, President Trump has consistently removed individuals who do not align with his political agenda, making government institutions increasingly partisan. Taken together, these are not isolated incidents but a pattern of consolidating political power through media influence, ideological enforcement, and suppression of dissent.
The list below outlines my specific concerns. Some entries are included to provide historical context and illustrate how these patterns have developed over time.
Chronology.
1971-08-03 Virginian corporate attorney Lewis Powell wrote a confidential 8-page memo “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” outlining efforts for corporations to take over universities and media. He was later nominated by Nixon to the US Supreme Court in 1972. He sat on the Phillips-Morris board and argued cigarettes did not cause cancer.
1972-01-01 Nixon said, “The press is the enemy…the establishment is the enemy…the professors are the enemy…write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it”.
1988-01-01 Canon Press founder Doug Wilson tried to buy Christianity Today.
1990-01-01 Trump praised the Chinese government for their “strength and paramilitary action” during Tiananmen Square.
2004-10-28 The Center for Public Integrity reported that more than 95% of Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s contributions go to Republicans.
2006-04-01 A research study found that Republicans gain points in districts that broadcast Fox News.
2010-06-01 James O’Keefe founded far-right group Project Veritas, which is notorious for fabricating “gotcha” material against political opposition.
2014-07-23 Hungary’s history of media suppression and spyware contracts parallels that of the U.S. in 2025.
2016-01-01 A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower revealed harvested Facebook data was used by Trump’s 2016 campaign to build psychographic voter profiles.
2017-05-01 Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
2018-01-30 Steve Bannon told Michael Lewis, “The Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”.
2018-02-16 After LeBron James and Kevin Durant criticized conditions under Trump’s leadership, Fox News host Laura Ingraham told James to “shut up and dribble.”
2018-03-08 An MIT study concluded that social media was designed to spread lies six times faster and is incentivized to go viral when laced with anger, fear or hate.
2019-01-01 Alt-right women’s magazine Evie was founded by the Hugoboom family. Its 2024 cover featured “Ballerina Farm” and “The Importance of Being Sexy,” promoting the trad-wife movement. Hugoboom also launched the “Toxic Breakup” supplement, marketed to “detox the body” after stopping birth control. In 2022, the owners launched a menstrual-tracking app funded by Peter Thiel that drew controversy for its pro-life rhetoric.
2020-05-27 Trump wrote, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that…happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-in Ballots take root in our country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery, and theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!”.
2020-06-01 Law enforcement used excessive force to remove racial justice protestors from Lafayette Square. Trump asked if he could order law enforcement to “just shoot” the protestors.
2021-09-01 JD Vance praised Alex Jones and Peter Thiel as unconventional truth-tellers during a Teneo Retreat event presented by the Venverloh Family Foundation.
2022-01-01 Blue Check verification can be bought on X, and since then research has shown a significant increase in hate speech.
2022-01-01 PragerU announced they would “go toe-to-toe” with PBS Kids and Disney to promote conservative-only content.
2022-05-01 Allegedly Larry Ellison participated in a conference call after the 2020 election focusing on strategies for challenging the legitimacy of the vote. The call included members such as Sean Hannity, Lindsey Graham, Jay Sekulow, James Bopp.
2022-05-02 Brendan Carr posted on X, “President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That’s why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship”.
2022-05-25 Beto O’Rourke was physically removed from Governor Greg Abbott’s Uvalde shooting press conference after criticizing state gun policies.
2022-11-05 A pastor at Stuarts Draft Baptist Church was fired for delivering a sermon in opposition to Trump.
2023-02-16 In a $1.6B defamation lawsuit between U.S. Dominion v. Fox News Network, Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson allegedly did not find election fraud claims fully credible or found them “crazy” but reported election fraud claims anyways.
2023-03-29 Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies initiated a “hostile takeover” of New College of Florida as part of a political campaign.
2023-10-01 Israel reportedly launched a multi-million-dollar global propaganda campaign, paid influencers to say positive things about Israel, and funded tours for MAGA and pro-Trump influencers. In November 2025 FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) filed complaints against the Israeli government.
2023-10-16 The Daily Wire launched Bentkey, a children’s streaming service offering explicitly conservative indoctrination to children.
2023-12-30 Brendan Carr posted on X, “Free speech is the counterweight - it is democracy’s check on government control. That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream…”
2024-03-27 Governor Greg Abbott ordered colleges to revise free speech policies to target pro-Palestinian groups.
2024-04-01 In all fairness, there were multiple anti-war protests condemning the genocide in Gaza while Biden was still in office.
2024-04-05 Governor Greg Abbott threatened Texas college students with expulsion for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
2024-04-24 Mike Johnson called pro-Palestinian protestors “antisemitic”, threatened retaliatory measures to cut funding, and demanded the Columbia University president resign.
2024-05-01 During a rally in Waukesha Wisconsin, Trump referred to protestors as “radicals” and told his crowd to “save the universities for normal people”.
2024-05-02 Lauren Boebert unsuccessfully tried to tear down a Palestinian flag during a protest at George Washington University.
2024-05-02 Charlie Kirk posted on X, “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”
2024-05-30 A nurse from New York was fired after referring to the war in Gaza a genocide during her acceptance speech for the compassion award.
2024-06-03 Columbia Law refused to take down a Palestine article, so the board of directors took down the entire website.
2024-09-11 Trump was recorded on Fox News requesting preferred anchors for the debate.
2024-10-07 Pro Israel groups including Canary Mission peddled conspiracies on social media that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil helped plan Hamas attacks. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also alleged Khalil distributed fliers with a Hamas logo. On March 8 2025 the Trump administration arrested him and shipped him to Louisiana.
2024-10-07 The Heritage Foundation developed Project Esther to “help combat antisemitism”, but some believe the façade of antisemitism is covering up the true attempt to crack down on activism, create censorship, control speech, and an effort to diminish humanitarian rights.
2024-10-20 Bari Weiss said about Columbia University protests, “Those students were holding these janitors hostage at [Columbia University].” Weiss said. “How can that be construed as being on the side of social justice, I will never know. But first, what I would say is to enforce the law on all of the students … that destroyed property.” Her media company Free Press also features articles claiming the starvation in Gaza isn’t really happening.
2024-11-02 Brendan Carr accused SNL of evading the FCC Equal Time rule in an X post following the announcement that Kamala Harris will be appearing on SNL in the last episode before the presidential election.
2024-11-03 During a rally, Trump encouraged deadly violence, “to get me someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much”.
2024-11-05 Kenneth Copeland frequently meddled in elections, ordering the viewers of his America Stands organization on how to vote.
2024-12-12 Trump named Kari Lake director of Voice of America.
2025-01-13 Prediction market Kalshi named Donald Trump Jr. as their paid advisor.
2025-01-16 Trump announced that he selected three actors as his “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood to give him “insight” on what is going on in Hollywood.
2025-01-20 In a section of Project 2025 “A Demonstrated Pattern of Bias”, the publishing attacks NPR as leftist and tyrannical, and calls to eliminate their funding.
2025-01-20 Page 246 of Project 2025 villainizes public broadcasting and calls to hand over independent media to states. On September 15, 2025 Republicans passed a bill to hand independent media outlets over to State department contracts.
2025-01-20 In his inaugural address, Trump stated, “I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America” contrary to his retaliation and suppression campaign.
2025-01-30 Brendan Carr ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS. A headline for TechDirt reads, “Trump’s FCC just used a fake ‘investigation’ to shower AT&T and Elon Musk with billions in valuable spectrum”.
2025-02-13 After a series of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, The Committee on Education and Workforce targeted Columbia University, demanding case files and proposed and enacted sanctions in response to a list of alleged antisemitic incidents from April 2024 through January 2025.
2025-02-15 The White House imposed bans on specific media outlets they deem biased or not aligned with the Trump agenda. As an example, any news outlet that refused to refer to the gulf as Gulf of America was banned from the White House press pool.
2025-02-22 Lara Trump scored her own opinion segment on Fox.
2025-03-04 Trump claimed protests were illegal and threatened funding from any college which allowed them.
2025-03-14 Trump dismantled the US Agency for Global Media.
2025-03-15 After protesting the genocide, Leqaa Kordia was detained and accused of overstaying her F-1 Visa. She has been detained for over a year before being released. She reports she endured seizures, was forced to shower in chains, and was not allowed to contact family or lawyers. She said in a statement the detention centers were “built to break people and destroy their health and hope”.
2025-03-25 The administration revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa after she co-authored a pro-Palestinian article. She was detained by ICE for six weeks before a court ordered her release.
2025-03-27 Marco Rubio revoked over 300 student visas in retaliation for protests, saying, “Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa”.
2025-04-03 Tufts University confirmed that a second student’s visa was terminated without notification.
2025-04-24 Governor Kim Reynolds signed House File 472 SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) which targets cases meant to intimidate a person from exercising their First Amendment rights.
2025-05-08 Cameron Hamilton was fired from FEMA just one day after he told lawmakers the agency should not be dismantled.
2025-05-31 Trump withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be the NASA administrator for a “misalignment” with the administration’s “America First” agenda.
2025-06-02 Leaked emails exposed DHS use of the face-scanning app Mobile Fortify to add protestors to ICE databases.
2025-06-08 Stephen Miller claimed protests in Los Angeles were “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States”.
2025-06-08 Trump decried that protestors in Los Angeles should be arrested for wearing masks.
2025-06-11 Karoline Leavitt claimed that Trump was a champion for the First Amendment at the same time Trump threatened to sue or revoke licenses of networks that didn’t agree with him. She herself revoked press credentials for anyone in the press pool that didn’t refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America”.
2025-06-11 A federal judge blocked Trump from deporting Mahmoud Khalil, ruling that it was unconstitutional to detain or deport someone based on their political advocacy.
2025-06-25 Trump posted, “FAKE NEWS CNN IS SO DISGUSTING AND INCOMPETENT. SOME OF THE DUMBEST ANCHORS IN THE BUSINESS!”.
2025-07-07 Paramount and Skydance announced a merger.
2025-07-11 Pam Bondi fired Justice Department ethics chief Joseph Tirrell. Tirrell had sought to investigate Kash Patel over luxury gifts allegedly received from Conor McGregor which violated the FBI ethics codes.
2025-07-15 U.S. Army Veteran Bajin Mavalwalla was arrested at his home one month after he participated in an anti-ice protest and faced up to six (6) years in prison for alleged conspiracy to impede an ICE officer. During the protest, 93 justice attorneys received a memo demanding they prioritize prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Of the attorneys who would not comply for obvious ethical reasons, they were either ousted or forced to resign.
2025-07-17 CBS claimed they cancelled Stephen Colbert for financial reasons.
2025-07-18 As outlined in Project 2025, the Trump administration defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
2025-07-18 Trump celebrated Stephen Colbert’s dismissal and suggested Jimmy Kimmel could be next.
2025-07-22 Trump tweeted out again that he heard Jimmy Kimmel would be fired and that he wanted Jimmy Fallon fired next.
2025-07-24 Trump signed off on an $8.4B merger between Paramount and Skydance.
2025-07-24 Senators requested an investigation into corruption and bribery related to the Paramount megamerger.
2025-08-08 PragerU announced plans to totally replace PBS with conservative programming for children. Some example material includes:
2025-08-18 Teachers in California, Oklahoma, and New York are now required to pass a PragerU-developed “America First” assessment which promotes partisan ideology and includes questions that push 2020 false electoral claims.
2025-08-19 Nexstar Media (managed by conservative donor Perry Sook and Fox exec Bill Shine) announced acquisition of TEGNA for $6.2B.
2025-09-05 Paramount announced its intent to buy Free Press for $100M and make its founder Bari Weiss editor in chief of CBS.
2025-09-10 MSNBC was forced to fire Matthew Dowd for accurately pointing out that Charlie Kirk historically pushed hate rhetoric.
2025-09-11 Paramount announced its bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, which would then place two of Hollywood’s most powerful studios under the same owner.
2025-09-11 The dean of Tennessee University was fired over a ‘zero sympathy’ post about Charlie Kirk.
2025-09-13 American Airlines pilots were fired for talking negatively about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
2025-09-13 An Office Depot employee was fired for refusing to print Charlie Kirk posters, calling them propaganda.
2025-09-14 During a prayer vigil for Kirk, Kari Lake claimed the suspect was “brainwashed” by woke and then warned not to send their children to universities, which she labeled “indoctrination camps”. Kari Lake also stirred controversy in 2022 when she demanded ballots be counted by hand.
2025-09-14 Mike Lee called to restore legislation designed to silence the media, “In the coming days, I’ll be filing my previously drafted legislation to restore Smith-Mundt, and renaming it the Charlie Kirk Act. Domestic, political, government-funded propaganda must end now”. Glenn Beck responded, “100% on board. Obama made US Govt propaganda legal again. IT MUST BE BANNED. Join mike, call your senators and ask them to back the Charlie Kirk Act”.
2025-09-15 Republicans mused over censorship on social media to ban any negative commentary about Charlie Kirk. Speaker Mike Johnson said, “social media has been a toxin in politics” while White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson claimed, “President Trump is a champion for free speech”.
2025-09-15 Multiple people were fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk’s death, while Republicans openly celebrated the Pelosi assault, mocked the death of Minnesota senators, celebrated the killing of George Floyd, suggested euthanizing homeless people, and made sexual assault jokes about Kamala Harris. And then kept their jobs.
2025-09-15 JD Vance urged listeners of the Charlie Kirk podcast to call out people celebrating or minimizing Kirk’s death and added, “Call their employers”, encouraging viewers to outwardly doxx people and put their safety and well-being at risk.
2025-09-17 Sinclair Broadcasting demanded the FCC and ABC take further action on Kimmel to make a direct apology to the Kirk family and make a meaningful personal donation to Turning Point USA.
2025-09-17 Sinclair Broadcasting announced they would be replacing the Jimmy Kimmel time slot with a Kirk tribute.
2025-09-17 Trump demanded NBC fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, “Do it, NBC.”
2025-09-17 FCC Chair Brendan Carr demanded Jimmy Kimmel be indefinitely suspended after Kimmel made comments about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
2025-09-17 Brendan Carr said on a Benny Johnson podcast, “When you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible…I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action. Frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s gonna be additional war for the FCC ahead”.
2025-09-18 While on a Scott Jennings podcast Brendan Carr suggested The View could be subject to Equal Time rule violations. In a Scott Jennings podcast interview, Brendan Carr questioned whether The View on ABC still qualifies as a news program and is or isn’t subject to FCC’s Equal Time rule.
2025-09-19 All 9 Supreme Court Justices agreed that the government cannot coerce businesses to suppress views.
2025-09-19 Ted Cruz said on his podcast, “If the government gets in the business of saying…’we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives”.
2025-09-19 Trump heckled David Letterman on Truth Social, “He looks like hell, but at least he knew when to quit. LOSER!!!”.
2025-09-19 Following the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, Disney and Hulu lost 1.7 million subscribers and roughly $4B in revenue. Hulu websites began to offer $2.99 a month subscription to salvage some of their customer base.
2025-09-21 Following the sharp reaction to cancelling Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcast changed its mind about filling the Jimmy Kimmel time slot with the Kirk tribute and had it moved to YouTube.
2025-09-22 The Pentagon issued a new requirement for journalists to sign a pledge not to gather or report on any information unless it is formally authorized for release.
2025-09-23 After much backlash, the Jimmy Kimmel show was returned to television.
2025-09-23 Trump threatened ABC for re-airing Jimmy Kimmel, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back…I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative”.
2025-09-24 Allegedly Google sued Biden for censorship.
2025-09-24 JD Vance commented about Kimmel’s return, “I’m pretty sure that Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air last night, and to the extent that he’s not back on the air it’s because he’s not funny and has terrible ratings. This is not a federal government problem.”
2025-09-25 An Austin Peay State University professor was fired over a post about Charlie Kirk the school deemed too insensitive.
2025-09-26 Trump joked he would make TikTok’s algorithm “100% MAGA.”
2025-10-15 All media outlets except OAN refused to sign Pete Hegseth’s journalist pledge.
2025-10-28 A Tennessee man was arrested in Perry County and jailed for over 30 days for posting an online meme of President Trump. He wasn’t released until his arrest made headlines.
2025-10-29 Kat Abughazaleh was indicted for protesting. She called the charges “yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up”.
2025-11-03 Conservative activist Laura Loomer received Pentagon press credentials.
2025-11-19 Sixteen-year veteran of the FBI David Maltinsky was fired for displaying a Pride flag.
2025-12-03 A Colorado Springs teacher was indefinitely suspended after she disclosed upcoming revisions to limit teaching about anti-slavery activism or contributions of Frederick Douglass.
2025-12-21 Bari Weiss pulled an airing of a 60 Minutes episode covering an investigation into the CECOT detention center in El Salvador.
2025-12-25 Trump made more than 100 Christmas Day posts, including calls to revoke broadcast licenses from critical news outlets.
2026-01-05 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it would dissolve itself.
2026-01-13 The FBI searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home and seized devices after she reported on DOGE-related layoffs.
2026-01-15 Trump said he would invoke the Insurrection Act against protests in Minneapolis.
2026-01-16 The Justice Department accused Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of fraud and conspiracy related to immigration enforcement
2026-01-21 The FCC again threatened ABC’s broadcast license over programming involving Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.
2026-01-27 After TikTok’s forced sale, users reported censorship of anti-Trump, ICE, and Epstein-related content.
2026-01-30 Florida Republican James Fishback said that Don Lemon was “lucky that he’s not getting executed in the public square”.
2026-02-02 Former Army Ranger Ian Austin was arrested at a protest and charged with terrorism-related offenses.
2026-02-03 DHS submitted an administrative subpoena against a 67-year-old man from Pennsylvania after he wrote an email to them asking to “apply principles of common sense and decency” in their treatment of a man seeking asylum from Afghanistan. DHS issued the subpoena to Google just hours after the man sent the email so they could access the man’s computer and Gmail. Two weeks later, they showed up to his front door for questioning. The ACLU had to get involved to challenge the subpoena and the violation of his First Amendment rights.
2026-02-11 Gallup announced that after 88 years, it would no longer track presidential approval ratings.
2026-02-13 New York politicians proposed banning protests with a 25-foot buffer zone around every house of worship.
2026-02-14 DHS reportedly requested identifying information on online users critical of ICE.
2026-02-16 The FCC chair contacted CBS directly to warn them not to broadcast an interview with James Talarico on the Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert over equal time rules.
2026-02-18 The FCC initiated an investigation into The View for broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, also citing the equal time rule. Note: cable networks like Fox and OAN, and conservative talk radio are exempt from this rule.
2026-02-22 Trump threatened Netflix with consequences unless it removed board member Susan Rice.
2026-02-25 Paramount Skydance outbid Netflix to buy all of Warner Brothers Discovery.
2026-03-11 The Pentagon banned reporters from taking “unflattering” photos of Hegseth.
2026-03-14 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized media coverage of the Iran conflict and accused reporters of misrepresenting events. One article quoted Hegseth as saying, “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better” in reference to CNN.
2026-03-14 FCC’s Brendan Carr threatened the media and wrote on X, “Broadcasters are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!”
2026-03-18 Trump posted, “For all of the Fake News out there, it’s called the SAVE AMERICA ACT, not the SAVE ACT. Nobody knows what the Save Act means!!!”.
2026-03-26 Judge Rita Lin rejected the Pentagon’s retribution against Anthropic, writing, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government”.
2026-03-28 The White House responded to a third No Kings protest in a statement, “The only people who care about these Trump Derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them”.
2026-04-06 Gulf investors, including Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund L’imad, backed Paramount’s proposed $81 billion acquisition of Warner
2026-04-06 Trump threatened imprisonment against any journalists covering a downed-fighter-jet rescue operation.
2026-04-08 Pentagon official Elbridge Colby threatened Pope Leo XIV, saying, “The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side”.
2026-04-08 Former Fort Bragg employee Courtney Williams was charged under the Espionage Act after allegedly providing information to a journalist about sexual and race-based harassment at Fort Bragg.
2026-04-13 Hollywood actors, writers and directors signed an open letter to voice opposition for the Paramount-Warner Brothers-Discovery merger. Part of the letter reads, “The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised. Competition is essential for a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. So is thoughtful regulation and enforcement”.
2026-04-14 Turning Point USA rallies in Georgia attracted an embarrassingly small crowd, and TPUSA blamed it on left wing activists.
2026-04-14 The same DOJ that wants to fire people for speaking out about Charlie Kirk or deport people for protesting genocide MOVED TO VACATE the most serious J6 convictions by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, making it as though these most severe crimes never even happened.
2026-04-16 Tennessee enacted House Bill 1476 “Charlie Kirk Act,” restricting campus walkouts and certain protest activities.
2026-04-16 Peter Theil funded Objection, an AI tribunal judge designed to investigate media claims.
2026-04-16 Hegseth compared reporters covering the Iran war to the Pharisees, the biblical Jewish group that opposed Jesus.
2026-04-17 Former officials told The Atlantic that Kash Patel was erratic, frequently absent, and difficult to manage. Patel threatened legal action against the magazine and filed a $250M defamation lawsuit.
2026-04-20 At least 62 elderly and disabled Veterans were arrested for conducting a peaceful anti-war protest at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington D.C. organized by About Face .
2026-04-23 A Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger for $111B was approved.
2026-04-26 Trump childishly lashed out at news anchor Norah O’Donnell (60 Minutes) for reading portions of the gunman’s manifesto from the Correspondence Dinner shooting.
2026-04-27 Trump and Melania Trump made separate social media posts demanding Jimmy Kimmel’s dismissal, after which the FCC opened an investigation.
2026-04-27 The Trump administration instructed DHS and immigration officers to deny green cards to anyone who protested views that didn’t align with Trump, including criticizing Israel or supporting Palestine.
2026-04-28 Shortly after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC and Disney for DEI practices.
2026-04-30 Trump withdrew Casey Means’ nomination for Surgeon General and replaced her with a Fox News contributor. Even MAHA leaders opposed the decision.
2026-05-02 Police arrested 8 protesters in New York for protesting the violent arrest of a Nigerian man.
2026-05-03 Bay Bridge takeover by several vehicles. At least nine people were arrested and 77 vehicles were impounded.
2026-05-04 The organization Reporters Without Borders released its 2026 Press Freedom index showing the lowest level of free speech in 25 years, with U.S. ranking at number 64.
2026-05-11 The BBC censored a documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”.
2026-05-27 After Bari Weiss pulled a story from 60-Minutes about CECOT, reporting correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi wrote in a parting statement, “In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like ‘modernization’ and ‘restructuring’ to explain away my departure. Don’t be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom”.
2026-05-28 Student journalist Santiago Campos delivered a speech during a news Emmy award ceremony, “…as corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what people want is the truth. So if at any time you hesitate to utter the word ‘genocide’ or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself who is this for”.
2026-05-29 Bari Weiss and Larry Ellison hollowed out 60-Minutes.
2026-05-31 The British government banned two political commentators from entering the U.K. “on the grounds that their presence in the UK may not be conducive to the public good”. Both figures are outspoken in their criticism of Israel. Cenk Uygur posted, “I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore?”. Hasan Piker posted, “the uk has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of israel.”
2026-06-02 Hegseth classified the Pentagon press office and physically barred journalists from entering. Reporters Without Borders said, “No matter how petulant Pete gets, journalists will continue their tenacious reporting and hold the Pentagon accountable for the money, operations, and lives they impact every day”.
2026-06-03 CBS fired Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes.
2026-06-07 Trump had a tantrum during an NBC interview and stormed off the set.
2026-06-10 Trump is trying to take control over the US Postal Service.
2026-06-11 FIFA forced Haiti to change the design of their jersey because it was “too political”.
2026-06-12 Mike Bost accused the VFW of promoting political violence in their Honor the Contract campaign to oppose reducing disability compensation for veterans by $57B.
2026-06-15 In Britain four Palestine activists were sentenced as terrorists without conviction for protesting in 2024.
2026-06-15 Fox Corporation wants to buy Roku for $22BN.
2026-06-22 A federal judge quashed subpoenas to Minnesota officials, writing, “Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action – particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take – is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury process…”
2026-06-24 Eight protesters received decades-long sentences and declared terrorists for demonstrating outside detention centers, with former Marine reserivst Benjaimin Song receiving a 100-year sentence for participating.
2026-06-26 Two federal officers showed up at a polling office in Syracuse New York to threaten a woman for posting on social media criticizing ICE officers.
2026-06-30 Federal agents showed up to a man’s house in Rochester New York with threats and a letter demanding he remain silent after he emailed the ICE director in condemnation of harsh immigration policies.
2026-07-01 Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested at the Capitol for holding a sign up calling for the impeachment of Trump.
2026-07-02 Seven more people were arrested and given harsh sentences and convicted of terrorism for protesting the year prior. One person received a 50 year sentence.
2026-07-08 Salem Media Partners released a taxpayer-funded movie By Dawn’s Early Light that chastises non-Trump supporters and claims systemic bias against Christians during the Biden administration. Salem Media Partners also promoted election fraud claims in their other movie 2000 Mules.
2026-07-11 The DOJ subpoenaed New York Times reporters for reporting about Air Force One.
2026-07-17 A Colorado prison guard shot a protester.
2026-07-20 Trump’s DOJ targeted the New York Times, seeking phone records from both the journalists and their family members.
2026-07-21 The US appeals court overturned a ruling requiring release of pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi.
2026-07-21 The Trump administration demanded financial records and internal communications from BreakThrough News after they reported on ICE detention centers, foreign policy, and Palestine.
2026-07-23 The Trump administration’s Republican led House Ways and Means Committee issued subpoenas for phone records from not just Breakthrough News, but also from The People’s Forum, and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
2026-07-24 The Trump administration withdrew subpoenas for New York Times journalists’ phone records. This came after a stern reprimand from a judge.