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Shouting out the men and women of integrity who stood up for freedom in 2023

In the spirit of Christmas cheer, here is a shout out to some of the men and women of integrity who stood up this year to advance the cause of freedom with honor.

More nails in the coffin of Biden's censorship regime

Will free speech triumph in time to prevent the feds from secretly rigging the 2024 presidential election?

NYC Dem rep. schooled on censorship of Post's Hunter Biden laptop report

A witness in a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing gave Rep. Dan Goldman a lesson about the government’s efforts to suppress The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

McCarthy's debt-ceiling deal with Biden comes up short on vow to rein in IRS

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s one debt-ceiling dealbreaker should have been his promise to defund President Biden’s massive $80 billion to turbocharge an already weaponized IRS.

IRS opened 'intimidation' probe into 'Twitter Files' dump reporter's taxes on Christmas Eve

The IRS opened an examination of journalist Matt Taibbi's 2018 tax return on Christmas Eve of last year -- three weeks after he exposed sensitive documents about censorship at Twitter.

Media’s long con to bury Hunter Biden's laptop scandal

Journalists were coached on how to shift the discussion away from newsworthy materials detrimental to a specific person (Biden) and focus instead on the means by which they were obtained.

The hypocritical major-media plot in advance to suppress The Post's Hunter Biden reporting

In 2016, internal emails from the Democratic National Committee were leaked by Russian hackers, and widely reported.

Democrat threatens ‘Twitter Files’ journalist Matt Taibbi with prison

Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) made the threat in an April 13 letter to Taibbi, accusing the Racket News journalist of contradicting his congressional testimony.

Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi 'shadow banned' by Elon Musk in Substack feud

Matt Taibbi reportedly had his official Twitter account "shadow banned" after he refused to permanently decamp from his lucrative Substack subscription newsletter site.

Musk extends Substack feud with former ally Taibbi

Elon Musk pushed back against journalist Matt Taibbi Saturday in response to his former "Twitter Files" ally’s Friday flounce from the platform. "All I can say is that I appear...

'Twitter Files' journalist Matt Taibbi leaving platform after Musk's changes over 'hostile rival' Substack Notes

Taibbi said that the move will likely “come with a price as far as any future 'Twitter Files' reports are concerned."

Biden White House silent on IRS visiting 'Twitter Files' reporter Matt Taibbi

The reporter says the IRS visited his home on the same day as he testified to Congress about the "weaponization" of government.

Is Biden, like past presidents, unleashing the IRS on his enemies?

Journalist Matt Taibbi testified March 9 before a congressional committee on the vast federally funded “censorship-industrial complex” the Twitter Files exposed.

IRS visited Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi's home same day as congressional testimony

The journalist told Jordan’s committee about the IRS agent’s visit that occurred the same day he spoke to House members before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal...

Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE 'misinformation'

The fact that the media has largely ignored the Twitter Files revelations proves either that journalists don’t read so good or that they don’t give a damn about free speech....

Bye, Democrats: I'm leaving party that disgracefully supports censorship

The latest House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing was the final straw.

The media ignore Democrats in Congress stepping on freedom of speech

Last week, Congress and the federal government stomped on press freedom and the press said nothing. 

Democrats champion censorship and smear Twitter files heroes

The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing Thursday on the Twitter Files, which are exposing pervasive federal browbeating to suppress free speech. Congressional Democrats...

Uproar at Twitter Files hearing as Dems attack 'so-called' journalists

"Twitter Files" reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger held firm Thursday against an onslaught of attacks from Democrats who referred to them as "so-called journalists."

Matt Taibbi rips Twitter, mainstream media over 'digital McCarthyism'

Journalist Matt Taibbi eviscerated Twitter and other social and mainstream media outlets during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, saying their collusion with the federal government over "disinformation” had created...