President Donald Trump revoked a costly Biden-era regulation on Thursday, axing a green energy policy that banned an alleged &#8220;hyper-pollutant&#8221; for refrigeration systems, which led to higher grocery prices across the country. 
Trump’s move will allow businesses to make their own decisions on &#8220;the refrigeration systems that work best for them,&#8221; according to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The president delivered the announcement at the White House alongside Zeldin and National Council Director Kevin Hassett. 
Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2057491297137488141">ripped</a> the Biden administration for forcing &#8220;companies to adopt specific high-cost refrigerants, massively driving up the price of transporting and storing various goods.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans faced higher grocery prices and reduced access to critical medical supplies,&#8221; Trump added.
The Biden administration determined that hydrofluorocarbons, which are used for refrigeration and cooling, are more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. As a result, supermarkets and other businesses were only allowed to use the cooling mechanism in limited quantities, forcing them to turn to more expensive cooling methods and thus passing on higher costs to consumers. 
“Americans were right to be frustrated with the Biden-era refrigerant rules. They didn’t protect human health or the environment and instead piled on costly, unattainable restrictions beyond what the law requires,” said Zeldin. “Today, the Trump EPA is fulfilling President Trump’s promise to lower costs and is fixing every problem we can under the authority Congress gave us. Our actions allow businesses to choose the refrigeration systems that work best for them, saving them billions of dollars. This will be felt directly by American families in lower grocery prices.” 
A White House official told The Daily Wire the rollback on the alleged “hyper-pollutant,” paired with a revision to the 2024 Emissions Reduction and Reclamation rule, “are estimated to save American families and businesses more than 2.4 billion” dollars a year. The White House official added that the savings are “expected to flow directly to consumers through lower grocery prices, cheaper transportation of refrigerated goods, and more affordable home air conditioning.”
The Biden administration claimed the restrictive regulation would lead to green technological innovation, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-hfcs-reduction/technology-transitions">stating</a>, &#8220;Facilitating the transition to next-generation technologies through sector-based restrictions on HFCs is one way that EPA and stakeholders are working together to meet ambitious climate protection goals.” 
The rule <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hfc-refrigerant-chemical-air-conditioners-epa-ac01324c05ba5bf5f54bc794c1054296">mandated</a> a 40% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon use, with an 85% reduction scheduled by 2036, leading to higher costs for grocery stores that were left with no choice but to overhaul their refrigeration systems.
Trump&#8217;s move to roll back Biden&#8217;s green regulation is his latest strategy to address Americans&#8217; economic concerns amid rising energy and food prices in recent months. In April&#8217;s inflation report, grocery prices <a href="https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5888142-groceries-just-had-the-biggest-price-hike-in-years-its-about-to-get-even-worse-experts-warn/">rose</a> 2.9% year-over-year, the highest rate since 2023. 
Earlier this week, the administration temporarily paused the Jones Act, which would increase the supply of ships able to transport cargo between American ports. The Administration has also urged the Department of the Interior to explore additional energy production on Federal lands and waters, remove all regulatory requirements related to energy that are not grounded in applicable law, eliminate the electric vehicle mandate, and <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-reverses-biden-lng-pause-restores-trump-energy-dominance-agenda">reverse</a> Biden’s liquified natural gas export ban.

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Microsoft’s recruitment of former Biden officials to its payroll raises conflict of interest questions as it provides major tech services to the federal government, a watchdog organization warned. 
The American Accountability Foundation asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to probe the “revolving door” between former Biden administration officials who once “oversaw, regulated, or investigated Microsoft” but now work for the tech giant. The watchdog said the investigation is warranted specifically because the Justice Department is using Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High platform for sensitive unclassified data. 
“Public confidence in federal cybersecurity, in federal contracting, and in the impartial administration of federal law enforcement depends on the willingness of the institutions named in this letter to ask hard questions when the public record suggests they should be asked,” American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones said in a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1041005159/Microsoft-Revolving-Door?_gl=1*1tcmssc*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTY3NDU2MDUxNi4xNzc5MjE2ODYz*_ga_Z4ZC50DED6*czE3NzkyMTY4NjIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzkyMTY4NjQkajU4JGwwJGgw*_ga_8KZ8BV0P5W*czE3NzkyMTY4NjIkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzkyMTY4NjQkajU4JGwwJGgw">letter</a> obtained by The Daily Wire. 
One example flagged in the letter was that of Melinda Rogers, who works as a partner of Microsoft’s Customer Voice, focusing on federal, civilian, intelligence, defense, and defense industrial base sectors. Before joining Microsoft in June 2025, Rogers worked for the Justice Department and authorized the department’s use of the tech giant’s Government Community Cloud High platform. 
The platform is described as a highly secure cloud platform for the federal government and government contractors. Jones wrote that the DOJ should probe “whether any employment discussions or negotiations occurred during the period in which she was exercising official authority over Microsoft&#8217;s authorization.”
Microsoft has <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government">previously said</a> that there was no link between Rogers&#8217; hiring and the selection of the technology for the Justice Department. 
Jones noted that Microsoft faced several high-profile hacking incidents between 2019 and 2023 from foreign hackers. These contributed to the joint federal and private <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2022/02/03/dhs-launches-first-ever-cyber-safety-review-board">launch</a> of the Cyber Safety Review Board in February 2022, a partnership aimed at improving the nation&#8217;s cybersecurity. 
The Cyber Safety Review Board&#8217;s March 2024 <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-Summer-2023-MEO-Intrusion">report</a> on a 2023 breach of Microsoft&#8217;s systems by Chinese hackers determined that the company&#8217;s “security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul” and that a “cascade” of “avoidable errors” led to the intrusions. 
During this time, current Microsoft president of global affairs Lisa Monaco was the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. She <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/deputy-attorney-general-lisa-o-monaco-announces-new-civil-cyber-fraud-initiative">launched</a> the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative with the intention of using the False Claims Act against contractors who make misrepresentations about cybersecurity risks. 
“During her tenure, the Department brought such actions against companies whose conduct, on the public record, appears far less serious than the conduct attributed to Microsoft in the same period, including against a medical contractor, a defense contractor, a telecommunications provider, and a university. No such action was ever brought against Microsoft,” Jones wrote. 
Jones added that the DOJ’s Civil Division and the National Fraud Enforcement Division should “evaluate whether Microsoft&#8217;s representations to federal customers&#8221; concerning the security of its systems are accurate. 
President Donald Trump demanded in September 2025 that the company fire Monaco, accusing her of being a “menace” to national security. 
The American Accountability Foundation further noted that multiple individuals involved with the Cyber Safety Review board subsequently joined “Microsoft as employees or consultants, or joining firms that represent Microsoft, in close proximity to their official actions concerning the company.”
These individuals <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-Summer-2023-MEO-Intrusion">include</a> former FBI official Bryan Vorndran, who <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-vorndran-43b3025/">joined</a> Microsoft as its deputy chief information security officer in June 2025, and <a href="https://commons.erau.edu/avcysecworkshop-bios-2025/12/">Jerry Davis</a>, who became a chief security advisor for Microsoft after his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jldavisnasa/details/experience/">work</a> with the board. 
Another individual mentioned in the report is former National Security Agency Cybersecurity Director Robert Joyce, who founded a consulting firm after leaving the federal government. His firm&#8217;s page <a href="https://www.joycecyber.com/empty-page">notes</a> that he has advised Microsoft.
The individuals named in the letter are not accused of any specific violations, but Jones said the hiring pattern should face scrutiny by federal investigators to ensure transparency.  
“We do believe, however, that the cumulative public record raises questions that have not been answered, that the questions are serious, and that the public has a substantial interest in seeing them addressed by the institutions with the authority and the duty to do so,” Jones said. 
&#8220;Federal ethics rules prohibit government officials from participating in matters in which they have a financial interest, and require cooling-off periods before certain officials may represent private parties before their former agencies,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;What no investigation has yet examined is whether the prospect of future employment shaped the decisions these officials made while still in government.&#8221; 
Microsoft received The Daily Wire’s request for comment, but did not respond to questions on the letter or its ties to former Biden officials.

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Growing up, I went to church with my family every Sunday to hear my father preach. During the week, we spent time with other Christian families praying, singing hymns, and living out our faith.
We felt safe practicing our Christian faith because we serve the all-powerful God, but also because of the U.S. Constitution.
Fast forward to the Obama and, even worse, the Biden administration. It became obvious to anyone paying attention that our government disfavored Christians in almost every way. To name just a few, we were being discriminated against in government contracts, as Christian charities, in First Amendment claims, as foster parents, and even in service to the country. A high-ranking military official quietly shared with me that during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, Christian members of the military were afraid to wear Crosses due to fear of retaliation and potential withholding of promotions.
But finally, thanks to months of work and an over 200-page report from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ), we know this to be true. Last week, the DOJ published its extensive and well-documented report, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1438506/dl?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1438506/dl?utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgovdelivery&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1778090745948000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2AebOqL2v4IBjqZYIR0WoT">Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government.</a>
While it may not come as a shock to Christians that former President Biden and his cronies engaged in anti-Christian actions, what is shocking is the extent of the persecution.
During those four years, the federal government prosecuted pro-life activists under the FACE Act for peaceful protests outside abortion clinics, with the Biden DOJ pursuing more severe charges and significantly harsher sentences for peaceful pro-life defendants than violent pro-abortion defendants. The Biden Administration even colluded with abortion providers to persecute pro-life Americans.
The Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) interpreted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to mean that employers are required to accommodate an employee&#8217;s abortion, even if doing so would go against the employer&#8217;s religious beliefs, such as those of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Biden administration relied on the Supreme Court’s narrow Bostock decision to expand the definition of sex discrimination across federal policy, including Title IX and EEOC enforcement — moves that prompted legal challenges from religious employers who argued their beliefs were not adequately protected.
Thousands of religious organizations that participated in the National School Lunch Program were barred from doing so under the Biden administration unless they complied with the new definition of sex. This reduced the amount of food available to kids who relied on it.
The Biden administration attempted to prohibit so-called &#8220;conversion therapy,&#8221; a.k.a. the ability for Christian counselors to counsel those struggling with homosexuality or gender dysphoria.
At the international level, the Biden administration removed Nigeria from its list of countries of particular concern, despite the well-documented cases of Christians being raped, murdered, and tortured for their religious beliefs.
The examples are seemingly endless. The takeaway is that the Biden administration did everything it could to prohibit Christians from acting in accordance with our beliefs. The administration was willing to risk the lives of Americans for the sake of persecuting Christianity.
This should concern all Americans, Christian or not. This is not the America the Founders created, and it’s not the one I grew up with.
The government should not be in the business of persecuting anyone for their religious beliefs. Christians must be free to practice their religion without fear of being harassed by the government.
Going forward, we are grateful that the Trump DOJ has identified and exposed the depth of the anti-Christian bias toward and persecution of Christians during former President Biden’s tenure. And we are glad the DOJ is working to rectify the anti-Christian policies so that Christians’ rights are protected. We encourage the DOJ to follow through and work to restore that which was taken from Christians throughout the government, and to ensure this persecution does not happen by the federal government again.
However, the onus is on us, as Christians, to be guardians of the rights of future generations of Christian believers and members of other faiths. The Founders understood, thanks to Evangelist George Whitefield, that our rights come from God, not government. We must permit no erosion of these rights. At Concerned Women for America, we simply will not permit it. Join our efforts.
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Penny Young Nance is CEO and president of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, and author of 7 Rules for Success in Business and Life: A Woman’s Guide. <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://concernedwomen.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1778090745948000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1uPlGFLke1g6sWeIcr6wot">https://concernedwomen.org/</a>

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CNN panelists might have amnesia. It’s worse, apparently, than the former vegetable-in-chief they spent years defending.
On Wednesday&#8217;s NewsNight, a pompous and overconfident Neera Tanden, former senior Joe Biden White House official, talked over Scott Jennings, wildly gesturing and insisting that Joe Biden never went after his political opponents! She seemed personally offended by the suggestion.
Maybe she’s still living in the brain-dead Biden era, where a constant ice cream-brain freeze obscured reality. But Joe Biden’s administration almost singularly targeted conservatives, Christians, and, as it turns out, nuns — for the crime of being nuns.
That’s one way to book a direct trip to hell. 
According to a new exclusive Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-doj-lawyers-fantasized-about-prosecuting-catholic-nuns-emails-show?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Biden+DOJ+Lawyers+Fantasized+About+Prosecuting+Catholic+Nuns%2C+Emails+Show">report</a>, Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration fantasized about targeting Catholic sisters. Text messages obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show DOJ attorneys Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston salivating over a New York Times photo of religious sisters in traditional habits and veils at the January 6 rally.
“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston wrote. Cooney replied: “I’m with you. Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.” Then: “Hahaha.”
God’s not laughing.
This is the same Cooney who is now running to represent Virginia&#8217;s 7th congressional district — right in the heart of the Diocese of Arlington, one of the most traditional Catholic dioceses in the United States, serving over 430,000 faithful. The irony appears entirely lost on him. You’d have to possess a breathtaking level of arrogance to miss it.
If this sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because earlier this month, the Trump DOJ&#8217;s Weaponization Working Group released an 800-page report exposing the lengths to which the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act against peaceful pro-life defendants — mostly Christians — while barely acknowledging the firebombings, vandalism, and coordinated attacks on pregnancy centers and churches.
They called Christian beliefs “culty” in open court, screened jurors for religiosity, and dispatched 16 FBI agents to arrest Catholic father Mark Houck in front of his weeping children. All while cozying up to abortion advocacy groups who fed them dossiers on pro-life activists. 
Sure, gas was high, the economy was in the toilet, and illegal migrants were flooding our borders. But hey, at least the nuns and baby-lovers were getting prosecuted. In fact, Biden prosecutors sought an average of 26.8 months in prison for pro-lifers.
I don’t want to hear about the “weaponization of the DOJ” from a former staffer of the man who wrote the book on it.
One side note: In light of King Charles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-empty-crown-why-america-should-ignore-king-charles">jetting</a> here this week to lecture us on religious tolerance and “shared values” in his address to Congress, I ask that his majesty aim his bloody, blasphemous babbling at the previous president, please and thank you. As it was, he was the religiously intolerant one. Of Christians.
Of course, beneath all of these lies is something far more sinister. It’s the quiet part they desperately want to say aloud: a seething hatred of the entire edifice of human rights, individual liberty, limited government, and objective morality that built the richest, freest, and most innovative societies in human history. That edifice rests on one revolutionary Judeo-Christian idea — Imago Dei. Every human being is made in the image of God. That single doctrine shattered pagan hierarchies, declared that kings and peasants alike have equal dignity before the Creator, and slapped a firm moral limit on the reach of government power. 
 
They despise the religious conviction that makes abortion grotesque. The faith that gave us the work ethic and charitable impulse that built universities, hospitals, and the scientific revolution. The moral foundation that gave us a rule of law, declaring that even the president answers to a higher authority. 
John Adams wasn’t kidding when he said the Constitution only works for “moral and religious people.” Strip away that Judeo-Christian root and you don’t get neutral secularism, you get moral subjectivism, where feelings replace facts and the state becomes the new God, deciding who has rights and who gets hunted. 
The Biden DOJ was purposeful and nefarious. It was, in effect, an extinction project. They know Christianity stands in the way of total cultural control, so they smear pro-lifers as “extremists,” surveil churches, stack the DOJ with activists who openly despise traditional faith, and literally text each other about hunting nuns.
And then Neera Tanden has the audacity to sit on CNN and pretend none of it happened. 
Spare us. 
I think they’re arrogant ideologues who hold the rest of us in contempt. But I’ll still pray for them.

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A former FBI official who oversaw the agency&#8217;s production of an infamous memo targeting “Radical Traditional Catholics” joked about how it would make good fodder for a memoir, according to emails viewed by The Daily Wire. 
Stanley Meador, who now works in Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger&#8217;s administration, ran the FBI’s Richmond field office when it produced an <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fbi-anti-catholic-memo.pdf">internal memo</a> attempting to link traditional Catholic beliefs to criminal activity. After backlash to the memo, Meador downplayed it and suggested that one of the agents who produced it include it in their memoirs, according to emails released by the Justice Department. 
“No apology needed [redacted],” he wrote on July 7, 2023. “I’m glad you are on the team and thankful for your commitment. Keep that head up, this too shall pass. Will make for a great chapter in your memoirs some day!”
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The emails were included in a Justice Department report released Thursday morning on anti-Christian bias from the federal government during the Biden administration. 
The document, referred to as the “Richmond Memo,” relied on the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), now facing criminal wire fraud charges, to link racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists with what the agency called “radical-traditionalist” Catholic beliefs. The memo was retracted shortly after it was leaked in February 2023, generating outrage from Republican lawmakers and Catholics. 
Meador’s July 7 email came after one of the FBI agents involved in crafting the memo apologized over the document.
“I am terribly sorry for all that everyone has had to endure as a result of this product. Each person negatively impacted is a trusted colleague and/or supervisor whom I deeply respect and admire,” the unidentified FBI employee wrote. “I feel personally responsible as I should have known the potential DT pitfalls and the susceptibility to politicization surrounding this paper better than anyone. Thanks for supporting us and please accept my sincerest apologies.”
Meador, now <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/cabinet/name-1081469-en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secretary</a> of Public Safety and Homeland Security in Virginia, was removed from the FBI in June 2025 after serving for over two decades with the agency. 
The Richmond Memo was an FBI product known as a “Domain Perspective,” or an internal threat assessment document. The document argued that the FBI should pursue threat mitigation based on the interest in violent extremists in so-called “radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology.” Using SPLC data, the FBI identified nine of these groups.
Other documents included in Thursday&#8217;s Justice Department report showed that intelligence officers inside the FBI expressed concerns about the citation of the SPLC, but were ignored by leadership. 
“This product cites more subjective information from SPLC (a list of hate groups) without examining SPLC’s threshold for determining a hate group or explanation of how that threshold aligns with the FBI’s definition,” one intelligence officer wrote. “This product’s Source Summary Statement does not address factors that would affect the quality and credibility of SPLC as a source for subjective information, such as it previously issuing apologies and retracting its naming of individuals or groups as extremist.”
The DOJ wrote in its anti-Christian bias report that the FBI used “an unsubstantiated claim by the Southern Poverty Law Center that several traditional Catholic churches were ‘hate groups’ — as justification to launch a two-pronged attack against traditional Catholics.”
“FBI Richmond thus assessed that traditional Catholics and racially motivated violent extremists may share ‘common cause’ on issues of ‘abortion rights, immigration, affirmative action, and LGBTQ protections,’” the DOJ wrote Thursday. “In an appendix, the Domain Perspective cited to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s identification of radical traditional Catholics.”
As criticism mounted, former President Joe Biden&#8217;s FBI Director Christopher Wray said the Richmond Memo did &#8220;not reflect FBI standards.”
“We do not conduct investigations based on religious affiliation or practices, full stop,” Wray said. “We have also now ordered our inspection division to take a look at how this happened and try to figure out how we can make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”
In an interview with the task force investigating anti-Christian bias, FBI Director Kash Patel said his team did a deep dive into the Richmond Memo. 
“We came to learn that companies like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League were out there working with the FBI, giving them false information to generate a memo that allowed law enforcement a [] &#8216;justification&#8217; to go after and attack people of faith,” Patel said. 
The DOJ report also details how the Biden administration targeted pro-life Christians for peaceful protests and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers">outlines</a> other Biden-era policies that suppressed Christian expression.
The release of the report comes one day after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-doj-lawyers-fantasized-about-prosecuting-catholic-nuns-emails-show?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=Exclusive&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Biden+DOJ+Lawyers+Fantasized+About+Prosecuting+Catholic+Nuns%2C+Emails+Show">obtained text messages</a> from Biden-era DOJ prosecutors discussing their desires to target Catholic nuns. One prosecutor said he would &#8220;like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit,&#8221; when working on January 6-related cases.

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After finding out that the Justice Department official who spearheaded prosecutions against pro-life activists had been fired, one of the defendants imprisoned by the Biden administration over a peaceful protest celebrated and said he would like to attend some “firing parties.”
Calvin Zastrow, 65, who spent 100 days in federal prison for his role in a non-violent protest at an abortion facility in Tennessee, told The Daily Wire he was pleased to hear some of those involved in Biden’s crackdown on pro-lifers had been held accountable. Zastrow’s comments came after the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a bombshell report detailing how Biden officials worked closely with pro-abortion groups to monitor, track, and prosecute pro-life activists.
Before the report was released, it was announced that Sanjay Patel, the official who led the prosecutions against the pro-lifers, had been fired.
“I want to come to some firing parties, I think that&#8217;s fun to watch. That&#8217;d be a good time to celebrate,” Zastrow said. “I&#8217;d like to see accountability on the unnamed FBI agents who filed reports on us, and we still don&#8217;t know their names, who followed us, who tracked us, who messed with our family.”
Zastrow, a devout Christian who travels the country engaging in evangelism and pro-life events, was convicted in January 2024 of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a Clinton-era statute that makes it a crime to block the entrances of abortion facilities. He and 22 other pro-life activists were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoned-pro-life-activist-says-hes-running-on-adrenaline-and-the-holy-ghost-after-trump-pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> by President Donald Trump his first week in office.
The DOJ report revealed that the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act by closely working with radical groups like the National Abortion Federation to keep tabs on pro-life activists. Zastrow said he would like to see FACE repealed, saying that “the federal government shouldn&#8217;t have this big of a club.”
Emails revealed earlier this month showed abortion groups were tracking Zastrow and were working closely with Patel.
In one email included in the DOJ’s report from September 2021, Patel reached out to the National Abortion Federation to ask if they knew Zastrow’s travel plans. “Do you have any info on Zastrow and Co’s travel to Montana?” Patel wrote.
Zastrow said he wasn’t surprised that pro-abortion groups tracked him and his family, saying that had been going on for years. Yet he did agree with one thing the pro-abortionists said about him and his fellow activists.
“They&#8217;re trying to make us to be wild-eyed, religious zealots,” he said. “And that&#8217;s because we are wild-eyed, religious zealots for Jesus.”
Paul Vaughn, a Tennessee father who was placed on house arrest after being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-glorious-struggle-pro-life-father-of-11-targeted-by-biden-awaits-sentencing-over-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> on the FACE Act, also welcomed the report from the Justice Department.
“We’re thrilled the truth is coming out,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We knew that the Biden DOJ was acting inappropriately and maliciously behind the scenes.&#8221;
Vaughn’s home was raided by armed FBI agents without warning in 2022 and his young children were outside getting ready for school.
“We had no warning, we had no knowledge that we were even being investigated, let alone charged, until they showed up and arrested me at gunpoint in front of my children,” he said. “It&#8217;s just wickedness. It was designed to instill fear in a segment of the population that is pro-life that believes abortion is murder, and it believes it shouldn&#8217;t be a part of a civil society.”
In the days leading up to Vaughn’s arrest by the FBI, emails showed that the Justice Department officials discussed the optics of arresting the defendants rather than allowing self-surrender. In one email, Patel wrote that the “unspoken reason” the FBI was going to stage dramatic arrests rather than allow self-surrender was because “the FBI really likes to make arrests.”
Steve Crampton, a lawyer with the Thomas More Society who represented many of the pro-life defendants, praised the Trump administration for its extensive investigation into Biden’s use of the FACE Act.
“It is just extraordinary to me that the Trump DOJ has taken such pains to right the egregious wrongs of the previous administration,” Crampton told The Daily Wire. “I think this is, you know, the word unprecedented is overused these days, but this is unprecedented.”
He said the hundreds of pages of documents included in the report showed that the Biden administration engaged in selective prosecution, discrimination on the basis of religion, and discrimination on the basis of political allegiances.
Part of the Biden administration’s novel strategy against the pro-life defendants was to pair the FACE Act charges with conspiracy against rights, a felony charge that can be punished with over a decade in prison.
One email flagged by Crampton revealed a Justice Department official saying that the conspiracy against rights charge was specifically being used to take away the gun rights of defendants. An official said that prosecutors were “inclined” to bring the conspiracy charge so that the defendants in Detroit would have felonies and would be &#8220;barred from possessing firearms.”
Crampton added that the emails revealed the political bias of the Justice Department under Biden.
“It just exposes the ideological underpinnings of the DOJ, and it&#8217;s a love affair, really, with the poor abortion movement,” he said. “It just kind of makes my skin crawl to think that these are the folks that are charged with and empowered with the full weight of the federal government to apply the law in an even handed way.”
He said he was grateful to see Patel and three other FACE Act prosecutors cut from the DOJ on Monday.
“It&#8217;s astonishing to read and to know that this is the way it ought to be, trying to restore the rule of law is an awfully difficult undertaking after it&#8217;s been trampled underfoot by the Biden administration,” Crampton said. “But God bless President Trump and his team for trying to restore some faith in the system.”

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Pro-Lifer Imprisoned By Biden Responds To DOJ Shakeup: ‘I Want To Come To Some Firing Parties’

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Spirit Airlines might soon opt for liquidation if they are not bought out or bailed out — and the Biden administration’s opposition to its proposed merger with JetBlue may be largely to blame, one economist explained to The Daily Wire.
A federal judge ultimately dealt the death blow to the plan to have the two airlines combine, but the ruling ultimately stemmed from a 2023 lawsuit filed by the Biden-era DOJ and a handful of states. The lawsuit arguably played a key role in the airline&#8217;s demise, as Spirit now struggles to get out of bankruptcy and risks becoming a ghost of aviation&#8217;s past.
“Today’s decision by JetBlue is yet another victory for the Justice Department’s work on behalf of American consumers,” then-Attorney General <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-statements-jetblue-terminating-acquisition-spirit-airlines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> stated at the time.
“The Justice Department proved in court that a merger between JetBlue and Spirit would have caused tens of millions of travelers to face higher fares and fewer choices. We will continue to vigorously enforce the nation’s antitrust laws,” he added.
Peter St. Onge, an economist at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire that the blocked merger — along with high taxation and rising jet-fuel prices due to the ongoing conflict in Iran — have led to the airline’s woes.
“The main thing that drove them over the edge was blocking the JetBlue merger. On the day that it was denied, their stock fell 47%. And the big picture here is that the low-cost carriers can&#8217;t pass anything on, right? They have razor-thin margins, like 2 or 3%. So they need scale in order to survive,” he said.
“The Department of Justice argued that Spirit was useful because it was keeping fares low, but of course, the reason it was keeping fares low was because of that razor-thin margin. And the only way to sustain that was to get scale. So effectively the Department of Justice killed the golden goose because it was golden,” he added.
St. Onge noted that an increase in regulations under Biden added increased difficulty.
“The legacy carriers were able to pass that on. The low-cost carriers, they couldn&#8217;t pass it on,” he said.
President Donald Trump told CNBC’s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/cnbc-transcript-president-donald-trump-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Squawk Box</a>&#8221; on Tuesday that he wants to see that airline get purchased, saying “Spirit’s in trouble” and suggesting that “maybe the federal government should help that one out.”
“I don’t mind mergers. I think I’d love somebody to buy Spirit, it’s 14,000 jobs,” he said.
However, he cautioned against a floated merger between American Airlines and United Airlines, as American Airlines denied a Reuters report over the possibility, according to <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/04/21/american-airlines-has-denied-rumors-of-a-merger-wi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Motley Fool</a>.
“But with American, it&#8217;s doing fine, and United is doing very well […] I don&#8217;t like having them merge,” Trump added.
St. Onge noted that “United and American traditionally would be an absolute no-go for antitrust” due to their much larger size, noting that Trump may view Spirit as a “special case” because of their strong emphasis on “low-cost fares” for Americans who otherwise could not afford to fly.
Last week, the Department of Transportation told The Daily Wire on background that &#8220;when Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg blocked a proposed Spirit/JetBlue merger in 2024, their DOJ bragged it was &#8216;a victory for U.S. travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices.'&#8221;
&#8220;If American consumers were faced with one fewer ultra low cost carriers, they would obviously disagree,&#8221; the department added, noting that DOT is &#8220;monitoring the situation.&#8221;
Spirit Airlines did not respond to a request for comment. The airline told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/spirit-airlines-could-liquidate-as-early-as-this-week-sources-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a> last week that it does not “comment on market rumors and speculation.”

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Did Joe Biden Kill Spirit Airlines?

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Freedom to worship is never more than one election away from coming under fire. While an 800-page <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1436006/dl">report</a> released this week by the Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed what most of us in the pro-life community suspected — that the FBI under President Joe Biden actively targeted pro-life activists — it also revealed the utter disdain that some federal employees have for people of faith.
The vast majority of pro-life Americans are so because of their sincerely held religious beliefs. The Bible explicitly asserts that life is valuable from the moment of conception. From Psalm 139, “you knit me together in my mother’s womb,” to Jeremiah 1:5, “before I formed you in the womb I knew you,” God makes clear that the unborn are cherished. Combined with the commandment to not commit murder, destroying life in the womb is an abominable affront to God’s design. It is no surprise, then, when the pro-abortion movement so vigorously persecutes and attacks Christians. It is revealing, however, when they are so brazen about it.
The recently released report shows the extent to which the Biden administration and pro-abortion groups colluded to persecute peaceful pro-life activists and their families by using the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Though originally sold as legislation that would protect church-going Americans equally with those visiting abortion facilities, the FACE Act has long been used to persecute those who advocate for the unborn. In the 30 years since it was signed into law, <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-celebrates-advancement-face-act-repeal-act#:~:text=Data%20my%20office%20obtained%20from,pro%2Dlifers%20ever%20again.%E2%80%9D">97% of federal prosecutions</a> under the FACE Act have been against pro-life Americans. This, despite hundreds of attacks against pregnancy resource centers and churches during that time. Instead of arresting those responsible for threatening, defacing, or burning these ministries, instead of using the FACE Act to prosecute those who made Sunday mornings feel unsafe for millions of Christians, the Biden administration rounded up those who peacefully advocated for protecting the unborn.
It is not conjecture to say that this was based partly on a contempt for Bible-believing Americans. The report revealed that in United States v. Zastrow (Zastrow being a Catholic family heavily engaged in pro-life activism), the Biden DOJ prosecutors tried to screen out jurors based on religion by seeking “an indirect way to get some more info about religion without directly asking for it.” This led to several Christian jurors being flagged for “preemptory and for-cause strikes from the jury pool because of their faith.” The prosecutors did not inquire about jurors’ possible liberal counterviews.
In emails, DOJ employees referred to Christian pro-life views as “culty,” and in the courtroom, openly lambasted the religious beliefs of the defendants. Assistant U.S. Attorney Frances Lee Carlson complained that, in the Zastrow case, they “ended up with a very Catholic magistrate on duty this week, and he was very particular about the bond conditions and not infringing on [the defendants’] First Amendment rights.” As if protecting First Amendment rights were a negative.
Then there was the case of Mark Houck, a father of seven who was arrested for allegedly violating the FACE Act. While speaking outside of a Planned Parenthood facility, an escort mocked and ridiculed Houck’s 12-year-old son. Houck stepped in and pushed the escort away from his young son. The DOJ report reveals that Houck and his attorneys offered to accept a summons and come in voluntarily if the Biden DOJ pursued a criminal case. But the Biden FBI declined the offer from the “devout pro-life Catholic” and instead sent 16 armed FBI agents and seven vehicles to Houck’s home and put him in handcuffs in front of his family.
It is hard to imagine the DOJ admitting that a defendant is a devout member of any other religion and using that as grounds to bring the full might of the FBI to their doorstep in a clear intimidation stunt. And yet that is what happened to Houck and many other Christian pro-life advocates during the Biden administration.
The freedom to worship as we see fit is one of the most cherished of all American rights. It is that freedom that the Pilgrims pursued when they crossed the Atlantic, fleeing religious persecution in the European homeland. They were followed by the Baptists, the Quakers, the Roman Catholics, among others, all seeking the chance to practice their faith free from a tyrannical government. Yet under the Biden administration, many faithful Christians were unjustly prosecuted by a government that viewed their beliefs as less equal than those who push for a right to abortion.
As we at Concerned Women for America celebrate April as <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/faith-month/">Faith Month</a>, this is a prescient reminder that freedom of religion cannot ever be taken for granted. America was founded on the solid foundations of Christianity, on the belief that all life is created equal, even life in the womb. May we continue to hold our government accountable whenever it forgets that.
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Maggie McKneely is Director of Government Relations for <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/">Concerned Women for America</a>, the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization. On X: @CWforA

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The Biden Administration Used The FACE Act To Persecute Christian Americans

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Mark Houck was still in his pajamas when the FBI surrounded his home. Armed agents. Seven children watching from inside. His crime? Praying outside an abortion clinic. He wasn&#8217;t alone.
The Biden DOJ was actively partnering with radical abortion activists to surveil and imprison pro-lifers. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=BREAKING%3A+How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers">Emails obtained by the Daily Wire</a> reveal a top Justice Department official, Sanjay Patel, cozying up to groups like the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and Planned Parenthood. Patel called an NAF security director his &#8220;MVP&#8221; for flagging pro-life protests in real time. Abortion groups fed the DOJ dossiers packed with personal details including home addresses, family photos, driver&#8217;s license numbers, social media activity, and planned travel routes of peaceful Christian activists who hadn&#8217;t been charged with a crime.
This wasn&#8217;t sloppy governance. It was purposeful. Vengeful. For four years, the Biden Department of Justice resurrected and weaponized the FACE Act, originally designed to protect both abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers, almost exclusively against pro-lifers. Dozens faced federal charges for the &#8220;crimes&#8221; of praying, singing hymns, or sitting in front of abortion facility doors. Sentencing requests averaged 26.8 months for pro-life defendants versus just 12.3 months for pro-abortion ones. The FBI raided homes like that of Mark Houck with swarms of armed agents. Families like the Zastrows, evangelical Christians, were monitored for years before charges materialized. An 89-year-old woman and a Catholic priest were among those facing prison time.
Crickets from the media.
Can you imagine the wall-to-wall hysteria if the tables were turned? &#8220;Trump imprisons pro-abortion advocates!&#8221; It would be front-page news from coast to coast. You&#8217;d be suffocated by screaming libs. But when Christians and pro-lifers are the targets? When a grandmother faces federal prosecution for singing a hymn? The press corps is too busy carrying water for the abortion industry to notice.
Take Clare Ath, a pro-life advocate and senior policy analyst at Human Coalition, just one voice in a vast network of everyday heroes working to make abortion not only illegal, but unthinkable and unnecessary. <a href="https://www.humancoalition.org/impact/blog/how-does-childcare-affect-a-womans-abortion-decision/">Human Coalition</a> has helped rescue tens of thousands of babies through compassionate, holistic care — connecting abortion-minded moms to resources like ultrasounds, counseling, childcare vouchers, GED programs, job assistance, and long-term mentoring. They don’t just protest; they walk with women for years after that first decision to choose life.
That isn&#8217;t extremism. That&#8217;s love with a plan.
Pregnancy resource centers now outnumber abortion facilities nationally, providing hundreds of millions in free support last year: diapers, formula, parenting classes, and adoption referrals. Human Coalition&#8217;s own data supports the theory that when women receive real, substantive support, 76% say they would parent given better circumstances. They choose life. The pro-life movement at its best isn&#8217;t just defensive. It&#8217;s transformative.
The urgency is real. Over 63% of abortions in recent years have been chemical — mifepristone pills mailed via telehealth, often without proper medical oversight. These are increasingly deployed in dangerous, coercive situations: women pressured by partners, traffickers, or circumstance, with little to no follow-up care. Pro-life<a href="https://adflegal.org/article/new-study-1-in-10-abortion-drug-users-suffer-serious-complications/"> researchers have documented complication rates</a> — hemorrhaging, infections, incomplete abortions requiring surgery — far higher than the abortion industry admits. The left cheers this as &#8220;empowerment.&#8221; The women left bleeding and alone would likely describe it differently.
This week, Christians were rightly upset with President Donald Trump for both mocking the pope and depicting himself as Jesus in an AI-generated Truth Social post. As a Catholic, I was irritated and exhausted, I felt similar to <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/ben-affleck-smoking-through-the-pain-of-existence.html">Ben Affleck</a> as he smoked through the “pain of existence.” The Left, predictably, tried to leverage the moment to fracture Christian support for Trump.
However, when you remove yourself from the vacuum, you remember that there is another political party. As exasperated as Trump&#8217;s social media antics can make me, the Left reliably enrages me more. The Biden administration imprisoned Christians for peaceful prayer. It ignored <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-ad-slams-biden-inaction-continued-assault-pro-life-centers-churches">hundreds of violent attacks on churches</a> and pregnancy centers in the aftermath of Dobbs — firebombings, vandalism, explicit Jane&#8217;s Revenge threats — while the FBI was planting informants to monitor &#8220;radical traditionalist Catholics&#8221; inside their own parishes. And Democrats have spent years pushing abortion extremism that directly conflicts with core Christian teaching: taxpayer-funded late-term procedures, mandated gender ideology that violates religious conscience at every level of public life.
Meanwhile, despite his personal flaws and crude rhetoric, Trump has been a staunch defender of the Christian faith. He appointed the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/politics/conservative-catholics-gop-supreme-court">three Supreme Court justices</a> who overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a half-century of judicial tyranny, and reinstated pro-life policies like the <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/27/2026-01519/protecting-life-in-foreign-assistance">Mexico City Policy,</a> protecting billions in foreign aid from funding abortion overseas. He issued executive orders safeguarding religious liberty, spoke at the March for Life, and in his second term moved swiftly to pardon persecuted pro-lifers and create a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/">task force against anti-Christian bias</a> in government. Across the globe, his administration has prioritized persecuted Christians and <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/white-house-press-release-president-trumps-top-100-victories-for-people-faith">defended biblical values</a> on the world stage.
Democrats make it easy to forgive our own side’s imperfections. Because over there, across the aisle, the grass isn’t greener. It’s scorched.
It would behoove us all to remember how bad we once had it under Biden and how quickly we could slide back into those dire, dangerous, and despicable times. The radical Left is always waiting, ready to shut you up, shut you down, and steal your freedoms. Christians cannot afford selective amnesia. We vote not for perfection, but for the side that doesn’t treat our faith as the enemy. The stakes — over a <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2026/guttmacher-releases-full-year-2025-abortion-incidence-and-travel-data">million</a> innocent lives every year — demand nothing less.

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Joe Biden Waged All Out War On The Pro-Life Movement

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We now know that the Biden administration was literally partnering with abortion activists to track and imprison pro-lifers.
When I see President Trump and Pope Leo going at it, I think to myself, if we&#8217;re going to talk about presidents who are legitimately attacking Catholics, we should really be talking about Barack Obama, who went after the Little Sisters of the Poor and decided that he was going to mainstream every sin he could find.
We should talk about Joe Biden, who apparently was using the DOJ to go after pro-lifers, which is insane.
According to Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, President Biden&#8217;s administration relied on information gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to track, prosecute, and snoop on peaceful pro-life protesters who were later arrested by the FBI.
A DOJ report titled “The Biden Administration&#8217;s Weaponization of the FACE Act” examined more than 700,000 records.
The FACE Act is a bill that was designed to prevent people from obstructing entry to abortion clinics. The FACE Act also said that you weren&#8217;t allowed to invade churches during services. That came up in the context of Don Lemon and his friends invading and disturbing a church service in order to protest ICE.
The dossiers that the DOJ examined contained information about pro-life activists who had not yet been charged with any federal crimes, but were deemed threats by abortion groups because of their activism.
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We&#8217;ve seen this kind of pattern emerge in all of the reporting from the Biden administration, over and over and over. They were using left-wing cutout groups to do their dirty work, whether it was the Biden administration State Department contracting out to other services to promote boycotts of right-wing news outlets, or whether it was the Biden administration outsourcing its investigative pursuits to anti-life, pro-choice organizations to target pro-lifers.
The Biden administration liked to do such things.
According to the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers">reporting</a>, the weaponization can be traced to former Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s resurrection of the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers the month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
That task force was operating out of the department&#8217;s civil rights division under the direction of Sanjay Patel, who was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-fires-4-prosecutors-face-act-biden-administration/">reportedly fired</a> on Monday. Patel was on texting terms with the National Abortion Federation security team and was regularly communicating with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Feminist Majority Foundation, according to the DOJ. Members of the Biden DOJ were coordinating openly with various abortion groups and leaders in the abortion movement.
This was all part of these non-governmental organizations working hand-in-glove with the federal government under Joe Biden. Daily Wire reporting looked into the sentences that were sought by the Biden DOJ against pro-life activists, and what they found is that the Biden DOJ asked for a longer, average sentence for pro-life defendants compared to pro-abortion defendants. Actual sentences shook out to an average of 14 months for pro-life defendants, versus three months for pro-choice defendants.
This is astonishing. It demonstrates the full-scale animus that the Biden administration had for the pro-life movement.
This is nothing new. If you go back to the Clinton administration, the attempt to target political adversaries using the DOJ is perfectly obvious.
I&#8217;ve said over and over that the Left likes to say that Donald Trump broke all the rules, that he&#8217;s the one who killed the American political system.
The reality is that the American political system was already dead, and Trump stumbled upon it. Barack Obama used the IRS to go after pro-life groups, conservative groups, and Tea Party groups. Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ targeted pro-lifers.
There&#8217;s nothing new here. Democrats have been doing this for a very, very long time.
Imagine the scandal if, for example, the Trump administration were coordinating with pro-life groups to go after abortion advocates. Can you imagine the scandal? Can you imagine the front page coverage?
One of the questions here is how people who were involved in this were allowed to stay at the DOJ for so long. Sanjay Patel was still working for the DOJ all the way until Monday, which is crazy and demonstrates the truth of President Trump&#8217;s statement that there is, in fact, a deep state.
There are lifelong appointees of various administrations who are still working inside the current administration — working against the president’s priorities. That&#8217;s very real. It just goes to show you that the attempt to cleanse the administration of holdovers is an ongoing pursuit.
The Democratic Party is perfectly willing to use the auspices of government to go after religious people. They&#8217;ve been doing it over and over and over again. It’s one of the reasons I said to my family that we ought to leave California. My great fear is that states like California will effectively quasi-criminalize religious practice by essentially saying that any 501C3 that receives tax-exempt status from the state government must buy into the left-wing social agenda.
If the Democrats were able to take over the Supreme Court, they would get away with that. They would be able to use anti-discrimination law as a guise for cracking down on First Amendment religiously protected activity. That is the direction that Democrats would love to move. And if left to their own devices, they absolutely would be able to do it.
If the Democrats had won in 2024, Kamala Harris would have attempted to stack the Supreme Court and state governments everywhere would be pursuing anti-religious activity just like this.
The Biden administration was, in my opinion, the worst administration in modern American history, worse even than Obama — because Obama didn&#8217;t say the quiet part out loud.
Biden said the quiet part out loud.

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How The Biden Administration Targeted Pro-Lifers

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The Biden Justice Department helped secure private funding for a major pro-abortion group that helped the Biden administration track and imprison peaceful pro-life protesters, a shocking new report reveals.
The Trump Department of Justice on Tuesday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1436006/dl?inline">released</a> an 800-page exposé on how the Biden administration weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to target pro-life Americans. Originally designed to protect access to abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers, the Biden administration used the law largely to target peaceful pro-life protesters.
One of the most striking findings in Tuesday&#8217;s report is that a senior Biden DOJ official, identified as a key prosecutor on FACE Act cases, agreed to serve as a reference for the National Abortion Federation in a private grant application. According to the DOJ press <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reveals-biden-administrations-weaponization-federal-law-against-pro-life">release</a>, investigators “found no record of ethics approval for the attorney to take an interest in the financial outcome of a party having business before the Biden DOJ.”
Emails show direct communication between DOJ attorney Sanjay Patel and National Abortion Federation officials regarding the request. In a December 2020 email, Patel told National Abortion Federation senior security director Tara Gannon to “Feel free to use me as a reference,” even as internal DOJ discussions acknowledged potential ethical concerns.
At one point, a supervisor suggested Patel consult with an ethics officer before proceeding. However, the report states that DOJ records contain no evidence that such approval was ever sought or granted. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
On Monday, Patel, among at least three other prosecutors, was fired for “weaponizing the FACE act,” according to CBS News.
The issue resurfaced in 2023, when the National Abortion Federation again approached Biden officials for help with a funding proposal. This time, the group requested a written “impact statement” on Justice Department letterhead to support its application, explicitly asking the official to describe their working relationship and the value of National Abortion Federation security operations.
While the DOJ attorney acknowledged he would need permission before complying, internal records show no indication the request was formally approved or denied.
Beyond the grant issue, the report paints a broader picture of what it describes as a “two-way” relationship between the Biden Justice Department and pro-abortion organizations.
According to investigators, communication between Biden officials and outside groups was frequent and often initiated by the department. Advocacy organizations provided tips, intelligence, and referrals related to potential FACE Act violations, sometimes at DOJ’s request, while prosecutors, in turn, shared information and maintained ongoing coordination.
“The Biden DOJ remained in continual contact with pro-abortion groups regarding the FACE Act,” the report states. “Information flowed two ways.”
That relationship effectively extended to operational support as well. When abortion groups raised concerns or sought assistance, Biden officials reportedly helped connect them with federal law enforcement resources, including the FBI. In some cases, the Task Force Director personally facilitated introductions and follow-ups. The level of coordination raises serious questions about impartiality, particularly given the DOJ’s aggressive use of the FACE Act during the same period, often targeting pro-life activists.
The communications revealed in Tuesday&#8217;s report also appear to conflict with testimony from a senior National Abortion Federation official.
During a congressional exchange with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), National Abortion Federation chief legal and strategy officer Talcott Camp was asked whether she had communicated with the Biden Justice Department regarding FACE Act enforcement.
“I have not,” Camp initially said, before qualifying that she “may have had contact” but did not believe it involved enforcement discussions.
However, emails suggest NAF had a far more extensive relationship, including coordination on cases and ongoing communication with Biden DOJ personnel tied directly to FACE Act enforcement efforts.
The report further alleges that while pro-abortion groups enjoyed regular access and responsiveness from Biden officials, pro-life organizations were not afforded the same level of engagement. Investigators found that DOJ prosecutors shared certain information with abortion advocacy groups that was not similarly disclosed to pro-life entities, raising concerns about unequal treatment under the law.
Additionally, the department’s commitment to pursuing FACE Act cases was, according to the report, at times aligned with the priorities and interests of those same outside groups.
“The Biden DOJ committed to pursuing FACE Act cases to support these groups’ interests,” the report states.
The National Abortion Federation has yet to respond to the findings in the report and did not respond to a request for comment.

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How Top Biden Prosecutors Helped Enrich Pro-Abortion Activists

WASHINGTON—In an explosive report released on Tuesday, the Trump administration revealed the lengths to which the Justice Department went under President Joe Biden&#8217;s watch to target religious Americans who opposed abortion.
The Trump Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group reviewed over 700,000 internal records, The Daily Wire has learned, which they distilled into an 800-page report. The document, which details the Biden administration&#8217;s weaponization of federal law to target peaceful pro-life activists, also outlines how the Trump administration plans to correct the previous administration&#8217;s wrongs.
“This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Tuesday morning. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”
At the center of the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts is the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law meant to protect access to pro-abortion and pro-life facilities alike. The Biden administration infamously used the FACE Act to prosecute and imprison peaceful pro-life protesters. And Tuesday&#8217;s report found that &#8220;Biden DOJ senior leadership&#8221; and members of the Reproductive Health Care Providers Task Force &#8220;provided extensive support to abortion clinics&#8221; and &#8220;ignored and downplayed vandalism and attacks against pregnancy resource centers or houses of worship.&#8221;
The DOJ report describes how the Biden-era &#8220;Reproductive Health Care Providers Task Force&#8221; was in constant contact with pro-abortion groups and the clinics they represented while disregarding pro-life groups. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Leif Le Mahieu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=Original&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers">reported</a>, one Justice Department official often texted an abortion activist and worked to track the travel plans of Christian pro-life activists who had not been charged with any crimes. The emails also show how pro-abortion groups provided dossiers to the Biden DOJ with pictures and information — which was later used by the FBI to make arrests.
Meanwhile, the Task Force attorneys didn&#8217;t communicate with any pro-life pregnancy centers until September 2022 — months after the <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/">massive spike in violence against pregnancy centers</a> related to the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. Vandals would firebomb, attack, vandalize, or spray-paint the buildings with messages like &#8220;If abortions aren&#8217;t safe, then neither are you.&#8221;
When the Biden Justice Department did address the attacks on pregnancy centers, they merely identified possible contacts &#8220;via a quick Google search and directed Task Force leadership to schedule meetings.&#8221;
&#8220;The Task Force then had several meetings with the pro-life groups identified through that initial outreach and periodically sent them press releases,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;However, internally, CRT attorneys questioned whether to provide pregnancy resource centers with the same resources as abortion clinics, questioning whether these facilities fall under the FACE Act’s scope.&#8221;
Biden DOJ prosecutors were also engaging in inappropriate conduct, the report found. The prosecutors &#8220;knowingly withheld evidence that defense counsel requested to prepare an affirmative defense&#8221; and lied about not having that information available.
For example, in United States v. Gallagher, the defense counsel asked for historical data on FACE Act prosecutions, but the DOJ Task Force Director declined that data, saying he didn&#8217;t keep those records and that the DOJ wouldn&#8217;t provide them.
&#8220;Notably,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;he had this information readily available and decided not to share it with the defendants, despite sharing substantially identical information with NAF.&#8221;
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Video of the FBI&#8217;s arrest of Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee. DOJ charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations&#8221; for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. Paul tells me the footage was taken by his wife. <a href="https://t.co/KSDvLRSrlF">pic.twitter.com/KSDvLRSrlF</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1578464777147326464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
The Biden prosecutors also tried to screen jurors based on their religious beliefs, according to the report: in United States v. Zastrow in the Eastern District of Michigan, assistant United States attorneys allegedly tried to screen jurors based on whether they were conservative or religious &#8220;while not inquiring about liberal counterviews.&#8221;
&#8220;They referred to Christian pro-life views as &#8216;culty&#8217; and lambasted the defendants’ beliefs in the courtroom,&#8221; the report said.
Notably, those assistant United States attorneys complained that they “ended up with a very Catholic magistrate on duty this week and he was very particular about the bond conditions and not infringing on [defendants’] First Amendment rights.”
The report specifically points to the case of Mark Houck, a Catholic father of a large family whose son was attacked by an abortion clinic worker. The Biden DOJ tried to use the FACE Act to prosecute Houck, but lost the case.
In Houck&#8217;s case, &#8220;prosecutors considered and declined a request for the defendant to self-surrender.&#8221; Apparently determined to make an example of Houck, the DOJ sent &#8220;16 FBI agents&#8221; to arrest him in front of his crying children.
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Photos from the morning the FBI arrested Mark Houck in front of his children. <a href="https://t.co/NbLq5bnDQa">pic.twitter.com/NbLq5bnDQa</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1577324450902675457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;When faced with public backlash about the aggressive arrest, the Task Force Director attempted to blame the FBI, rather than address the Biden DOJ’s lack of initial guidance to law enforcement,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;The jury ultimately found Houck not guilty, and DOJ settled a civil claim to compensate for the Biden DOJ’s misconduct.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s Justice Department argues that the Biden DOJ pursued more severe charges, as well as &#8220;significantly harsher sentences,&#8221; for the peaceful pro-life defendants than the violent pro-abortion defendants, requesting an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants compared to the 12.3 months for pro-abortion ones.
&#8220;The Biden DOJ pursued significantly higher sentences (near the top range of sentencing guidelines) for pro-life defendants, while pursuing more lenient sentences against the handful of pro-abortion defendants that it charged,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;Pro-life defendants were ultimately sentenced to an average of 14 months, while pro-abortion defendants were sentenced to an average of 3 months.&#8221;
Meanwhile, as the National Abortion Federation cozied up to the Biden Justice Department, that same department &#8220;sought to provide funding to pro-abortion groups,&#8221; according to the report.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who was director of the Reproductive Health Care Provider Task Force, served as a reference for the National Abortion Federation&#8217;s application for a &#8220;large, private grant.&#8221;
&#8220;We found no record of ethics approval for a DOJ attorney to take an interest in the financial outcome of a party having business before the Biden DOJ,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Indeed, it is doubtful that the Biden DOJ could validly give any such ethical clearance for this conflict of interest.&#8221;
The Trump administration says it is determined to rectify the actions of the Biden Justice Department. Tuesday&#8217;s report highlights Trump&#8217;s &#8220;full and unconditional pardons&#8221; of the many pro-life Christians who were targeted in these Biden-era prosecutions.
The Trump Justice Department also dismissed, with prejudice, three Biden-era civil lawsuits against &#8220;non-violent pro-life demonstrators and issued a directive that, moving forward, DOJ prosecutors may only bring FACE Act civil actions and prosecutions in extraordinary circumstances or in cases presenting significant aggravating factors.&#8221;

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