On Thursday, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced blowback for claiming a GOP bill &#8220;threatens&#8221; voting access for millions of married women.
Clinton, who is also a former United States senator and first lady, reacted to the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-house-dems-vote-against-bill-to-require-voters-prove-citizenship-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passing</a> the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(SAVE) Act</a>, which aims to require individuals to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office.
&#8220;Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don&#8217;t match their birth certificates,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1910394674055119300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.&#8221;
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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don&#39;t match their birth certificates. 
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it. <a href="https://t.co/cYTismZC4U">https://t.co/cYTismZC4U</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1910394674055119300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The bill, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), seeks to &#8220;amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office.&#8221; It also instructs states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls and establish a process for applicants lacking documentary proof to submit alternative evidence to verify U.S. citizenship.
Republican lawmakers responded to Clinton on X, via &#8220;quote&#8221; because she has replies turned off, by saying that her post was untrue.
&#8220;Stop. You are lying. Read the bill. And for the love of God, stop treating women like they are incapable or idiots,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/Kat_Cammack/status/1910448437075792310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL).
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Stop. You are lying. Read the bill. And for the love of God, stop treating women like they are incapable or idiots. <a href="https://t.co/7PYl361FyX">https://t.co/7PYl361FyX</a>
&mdash; Kat Cammack (@Kat_Cammack) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kat_Cammack/status/1910448437075792310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hillary Clinton argues that the SAVE Act &#8216;threatens voting access&#8217; for &#8217;69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates,'&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1910439806242267615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/128/cosponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a companion version of the bill in the Senate.
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Hillary Clinton argues that the SAVE Act “threatens voting access” for “69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates” 
If that were true—and it’s definitely not—the same women would be unemployable as they’d be unable to complete an I-9, which… <a href="https://t.co/UzC6XgismP">https://t.co/UzC6XgismP</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1910439806242267615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If that were true — and it’s definitely not — the same women would be unemployable as they’d be unable to complete an I-9, which requires proof of citizenship,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Her argument proves too much, is refuted by the plain text of the bill, and cannot withstand review.&#8221;
With a post of his own, Roy alluded to how <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1910355241658179727" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four</a> Democrats voted in support of the bill and <a href="https://x.com/chiproytx/status/1910447804234838123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Just show an ID. Why would you not want to verify citizenship?&#8221;
&#8220;This is a nasty lie,&#8221; Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/1910403295740391501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Clinton, while Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) <a href="https://x.com/virginiafoxx/status/1910411857552118152" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> a &#8220;clown face&#8221; emoji.
Other Democrats, beyond Clinton, have perpetuated the claim that the bill creates an undue burden on legitimate voters — in particular, married women.
&#8220;House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepAOC/status/1910428190939496654" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). &#8220;Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don&#8217;t have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.&#8221;
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🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don&#39;t have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
&mdash; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1910428190939496654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) shared a <a href="https://x.com/RepChuckEdwards/status/1910342646574313588" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that addressed the claim that the SAVE Act restricted married women&#8217;s right to vote.
&#8220;FACT: The SAVE Act directs states to establish a process for discrepancies, such as a name change, so that individuals can still register to vote,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;This bill lists forms of identification that a voter could provide when registering to vote, but that voter only needs to provide one document, including a driver&#8217;s license or any valid government-issued ID card.&#8221;

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A prominent diversity, equity, and inclusion nonprofit declared bankruptcy this month after its board accused its founder and top employees of stealing millions of dollars, a Daily Wire investigation found. Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are set to keynote a conference run by the alleged thief, apparently through his for-profit firm, next month.
The National Diversity Council <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.480568/gov.uscourts.txsb.480568.1.0.pdf?utm_source=www.courtwatch.news&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=118-give-us-43-minutes-your-honor&amp;_bhlid=cc0105e9be5906e96ab277c8a3c8624ccecd8545" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed for bankruptcy</a> on March 17 after its board said in a lawsuit that its founder R. Dennis Kennedy “improperly paid himself millions of dollars from NDC’s donor funds.” The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.1911128/gov.uscourts.txsd.1911128.25.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suit</a> said Kennedy “paid himself a grossly excessive salary” while using the nonprofit as a front for his for-profit diversity consulting business called Diversity &amp; Leadership Inc (D&amp;L).
The group&#8217;s 2020 <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/711037612/202202179349300715/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS disclosure</a> said Kennedy was paid $450,000 for 10 hours of work per week. In 2022, at the height of corporations&#8217; DEI hype, Kennedy, chief executive officer Ángeles Valenciano, and chief financial officer Jason deGroot also “unilaterally decided that they were owed almost $3 million in ‘back pay,’ and then paid themselves more than $1 million of donor funds,” the lawsuit said.
As board members became suspicious and determined that there was no basis for the payments, Kennedy systematically moved the nonprofit’s trademarks and web domains into his own name, and essentially created a fake organization with the same name that would trick people into paying him directly, the suit indicated.
“Kennedy, Valenciano, and deGroot conspired to protect their scheme and ill-gotten gains by attempting to destroy NDC and move its resources and partnerships to another organization where they could continue exploiting donors’ funds and the organization’s resources with minimal oversight,” it said.
The suit said the trio’s conduct “gives rise to criminal liability…at a minimum, a third degree felony.”
<a href="https://nationaldiversitycouncil.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NationalDiversityCouncil.org</a> now leads to a website of an organization that purports to be the National Diversity Council, listing Kennedy as its founder and no board. Dawn Hooper, an accountant who is managing the bankruptcy for NDC’s board, told The Daily Wire that the site is “not operated by the National Diversity Council.”
In addition to the for-profit D&amp;L Inc., Kennedy ran two Texas-based nonprofits, the Texas Diversity Council and the California Diversity Council, which were used to double-dip on salaries for the trio and siphon off consulting revenue from NDC, while using NDC staff and resources for all the groups&#8217; expenses, the lawsuit said.
According to <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/383695039/202242989349301324/full%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank">tax disclosures</a>, in 2021 Kennedy was paid $787,000 in salary by the national nonprofit and $351,113 from the Texas one; Valenciano was paid $460,000 from NDC and $133,000 from Texas; and deGroot was paid $460,000 from national and $123,000 from Texas. The IRS filings claim Valenciano and deGroot worked 40 hours a week for the Texas nonprofit while also working 35 hours a week for the national nonprofit. They also claim Kennedy worked 40 hours a week for the Texas nonprofit, which would leave little time for his many for-profit ventures or the national nonprofit.
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“Kennedy, along with his co-defendants, used NDC resources, such as their own time and the time of NDC staff, to assist with non-NDC organizations in order to benefit Kennedy’s other ventures and, ultimately, Kennedy himself,” the suit said.
Dwayne L. Mason, a lawyer for Kennedy, did not return a request for comment.
The imposter NDC website advertises a conference in Los Angeles next month from April 7-10, which it says will feature Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey. The website is vague about who is actually running the conference; on one page there is a passing reference to this year’s conference being “Hosted by Diversity First Consortium.” A web page for <a href="https://dfconsortium.com/about/staff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity First</a> Consortium says Kennedy and deGroot are on its staff. A company called DiversityFirst was incorporated by Kennedy in Texas in 2005, but its charter was revoked in February 2024 for failure to pay taxes.
A <a href="https://nationaldiversityconference.com/2025/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/w9.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax form</a> provided to help attendees pay for conference tickets indicates that the payment would go to D&amp;L Inc. According to Texas business filings, D&amp;L Inc.’s corporate registration was revoked in March 2023 for failure to pay taxes, but was reinstated two months later.
The <a href="https://nationaldiversitycouncil.org/conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fake NDC website says</a> “The National Diversity &amp; Leadership Conference celebrates its 25th year as one of the largest and most prestigious events dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. This year’s conference will feature an inspiring keynote address by Oprah Winfrey.” The conference site <a href="https://nationaldiversityconference.com/2025/speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that Bill Clinton, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, and left-wing professor Cornel West will also keynote. Conference-goers can meet them for <a href="https://nationaldiversityconference.com/2025/conference/registration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$4,999.</a>
In 2024, in what was advertised as the conference&#8217;s 21st year, Hillary Clinton, Magic Johnson, Castro, and Eric Holder <a href="https://nationaldiversityconference.com/2024/speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke.</a> For <a href="https://nationaldiversityconference.com/2024/conference/registration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$8,900</a>, participants could &#8220;take photos with each keynote speaker listed on the Speakers page except for Hillary Clinton.&#8221;
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For years, people were led to believe that the elaborate conference was part of NDC’s charity work, not Kennedy’s for-profit business. In 2020, a press release said “The National Diversity Council will <a href="https://www.3blmedia.com/news/campaign/national-diversity-leadership-conference-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> the 2020 National Diversity and Leadership Conference virtually on October 27-28, 2020, and November 4-5,2020.” A video documenting the 15th annual National Diversity &amp; Leadership conference in 2019, showing Barack Obama as its keynote speaker, had the NDC logo, introduced Kennedy with his NDC affiliation, and made no mention of any other group.
The lawsuit said “at some point during his relationship with NDC, Kennedy covertly began a scheme to utilize NDC’s trademarks, reputation, and contacts to establish and build separate for-profit and non-profit organizations designed to compete with NDC and personally benefit Kennedy—all while being compensated by NDC.”
In 2021 and 2022, Kennedy filed for 350 trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, registering NDC’s name, <a href="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97537006&amp;docId=FTK20220809105529&amp;linkId=10#docIndex=9&amp;page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initials</a>, and key program names such as the National Diversity Awards to himself personally. In some cases, Kennedy allegedly waited for notification that the NDC’s trademarks were expiring, and instead of renewing them for the organization, he re-trademarked them in his own name without telling the board. To prove that he personally owned <a href="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn90567061&amp;docId=FTK20210312090231&amp;linkId=18#docIndex=17&amp;page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the phrase</a> &#8220;National Diversity Council,&#8221; Kennedy sent USPTO a screenshot of NDC&#8217;s website, which said at the top, &#8220;National Diversity Council (NDC) is a non-partisan 501-C3 organization.&#8221;
Kennedy and deGroot bought thousands of domain names with NDC credit cards, but put them in Kennedy’s personal control. Kennedy allegedly created new websites with the same names and branding, seemingly tricking major corporations into thinking they were supporting a longstanding nonprofit instead of an imposter. Kennedy is “now directly competing with NDC for conference participants and sponsors; and, upon information and belief, is using information and materials that he misappropriated from NDC to do so,” the suit said.
In December 2023, a board member requested that they return the supposed &#8220;back pay,&#8221; saying there was never anything in NDC&#8217;s financial books justifying it. “Unbeknownst to NDC at the time, this email prompted Kennedy, deGroot, and Valenciano to conspire about ways to destroy NDC and/or remove its Board members who were seeking to exercise proper and necessary oversight over Defendants’ recent misconduct (i.e., self-dealing),” the lawsuit said.
Kennedy, who was chairman of the board, told deGroot and Valenciano to ignore the board, and deGroot began working to destroy NDC’s revenue by canceling events and causing corporate sponsors not to renew, according to emails presented in the lawsuit.
“Any deliberate attempt to suspend NDC’s partnership renewals would be detrimental for two reasons: (a) it would potentially force Board Members to roll off because their board positions are contingent upon their affiliate organizations having a partnership with NDC, leaving NDC without a governing board; and (b) it would cut off a key revenue stream for NDC,” the suit said.
On January 13, 2023, Valenciano asked a NDC employee to copy all of its documents so they could be used by another organization, according to the lawsuit, leading the employee to write that “I do not feel comfortable doing so.” Four days later, Kennedy wrote an email to the other two plotting a coup, saying he would “remove board from website &amp; Create a New Board,” and “Drop the insurance for the Board; cancel today.”
On January 22, 2023, the board voted to suspend the trio with pay, pending an investigation. When the board instructed its IT person, Jason Lee, to lock Kennedy out, Lee — who is now listed as working for Kennedy&#8217;s for-profit firm — instead helped Kennedy expropriate NDC’s documents and emails, according to the suit, which named Lee as a defendant. Valenciano and deGroot were supposed to be interviewed as part of the investigation on February 1, 2023, but the trio resigned that day instead. Shortly before resigning, deGroot transferred $200,000 to the Texas nonprofit, the suit said.
A Daily Wire review found that Kennedy is now operating a slew of purported diversity organizations, all of which appear to secretly be fronts for his for-profit firm, such as:
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<li>The <a href="http://racialjusticeinstitute.org/founder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Justice Institute</a>, which says it is holding the <a href="http://ncrsj.org/2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Conference on Racial &amp; Social Justice</a> on April 10 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles</li>
<li>The <a href="https://belonginginstitute.org/about/founders-welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Belonging Institute</a>, which says it is holding the <a href="http://belongingconference.com/2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belonging Institute Conference</a> at the same time</li>
<li>The <a href="https://theinclusionlab.org/about/founder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inclusion Lab</a>, which sells an “Inclusive Leadership Certification” for $2,499</li>
<li>The <a href="https://nesgc.org/about/founders-welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National ESG Council</a>, which sells certifications for $999</li>
<li>The <a href="https://centerdiversitycertification.com/about/founders-welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Diversity Certification</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://globaldiversitycouncil.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Diversity Council</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://nationalwomensconsortium.org/about/founders-welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Women&#8217;s Consortium</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://alabamadiversitycouncil.org/about/founders-welcome/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alabama Diversity Council</a></li>
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The groups feature near-identical websites with photos of their &#8220;founder,&#8221; Kennedy, sharing the stage with figures like Barack Obama. They all sell paid training, consulting, or certifications, and make no mention of being affiliated with any company. The sites are largely devoid of substance, instead featuring boilerplate content and pablum such as a quote from Kennedy saying “If I could inspire a movement, it would definitely be providing more opportunities for youth in inner cities to reach their full potential, while focusing on education reform.”
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In January 2025, the Texas Diversity Council changed its name to the Texas Leadership Consortium, according to a state business form filed by deGroot. Its website says it currently employs Kennedy, deGroot, and Valenciano.
Valenciano did not return a request for comment. A <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64025a29ac340305b2c7dbd1/t/6786ac4ed0350b3903266c4e/1736879182886/Updated+Angeles+M.+Valenciano+_+Media+Kit+_2024.pdf-2.pdf">bio</a> says before she “shattered glass ceilings when she assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer at the National Diversity Council (NDC), becoming the first woman to ever hold this position,” she was “the director of diversity and inclusion for 84 Lumber Company,” where she ensured that the lumberyard was “underpinned by a rich tapestry of inclusivity.”
NDC’s finances were further strained by a lawsuit in which Kennedy a decade ago accused a contractor of, ironically, conducting a similar scheme to unlawfully enrich herself using DEI trainings.
The group racked up significant legal fees going after Carmen Michelle Carter, but never recovered any money. Carter, while a full-time professor at Strayer University, took a job as a Chief Talent &amp; Diversity Officer for NDC, but arranged for a client, agriculture company Archer Daniel Midlands, to pay the $147,000 it spent on diversity consulting — including $3,375-a-day “training” — to her personally instead. Carter declared bankruptcy to try to get out of a judgment, but a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.417420/gov.uscourts.txsb.417420.30.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">judge ruled in 2018</a> that it was not dischargeable because she repeatedly perjured herself.
The lawsuit by NDC against its executives, which is still ongoing, was filed in 2023 but has not been previously reported. This month’s bankruptcy filing was first spotted by <a href="https://www.courtwatch.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CourtWatch</a>.
Kennedy, Valenciano, and DeGroot have sued the national nonprofit demanding backpay, and also sued its insurer for refusing to cover their legal fees. A judge agreed that NDC’s <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.1962577/gov.uscourts.txsd.1962577.13.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insurer should not have to pay</a> to cover executives that NDC itself alleges engaged in “fraudulent and willful misconduct… including misappropriation of donor funds and self-enrichment.”

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President Donald Trump yanked security clearances for former President Joe Biden, his family, members of his former administration, and others on Friday evening.
The president issued a memo revoking a slew of security clearances from a number of Biden administration officials, as well as people who pushed legal cases and the Russian collusion conspiracy against Trump in recent years.
The memo listed as those who would be effected by the order as “Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.&#8217;s family.”
“I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information,” the memo says. “I also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities from these individuals.”
The order specifies that if any of the affected individuals received a security clearance through work with a private entity, that entity should lose its access to protected material, as well.
“This action includes, but is not limited to, receipt of classified briefings, such as the President&#8217;s Daily Brief, and access to classified information held by any member of the Intelligence Community by virtue of the named individuals’ previous tenure in the Congress,” the memo states.
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NEW: Trump just revoked security clearances and access to secure govt facilities for
-Hillary Clinton -Kamala Harris -Joe Biden and his whole family -And many, many others <a href="https://t.co/V1QbmbCCYf">pic.twitter.com/V1QbmbCCYf</a>
&mdash; Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1903264387315507507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The move against well over a dozen people comes after Trump in January <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-bans-intel-officials-who-pushed-russian-disinfo-hoax-from-federal-buildings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> dozens of former intelligence officials from entering government facilities. The officials had previously all endorsed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of information pulled from Hunter Biden’s laptop, suggesting it was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
“These individuals no longer possess a need to access secure facilities, and as outlined in the Executive Order, do not have the appropriate security clearances to access classified information,” the January memo said.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised the specter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s disastrous &#8220;Russia reset&#8221; on Sunday.
Clinton kicked off the exchange with an X post in which she shared an article claiming that Hegseth had ordered U.S. Cyber Command to &#8220;stand down&#8221; with regard to Russia. The order, according to a report from Gizmodo, does not apply to the National Security Agency (NSA), but calls on Cyber Command to &#8220;stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.&#8221;
&#8220;Wouldn’t want to hurt Putin’s feelings,&#8221; Clinton captioned her post.
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— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1896284324615602222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
Hegseth responded with a photo — no caption necessary — of Clinton smiling as she handed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a red &#8220;reset&#8221; button in 2009.
The stated goal at the time was to bring about a &#8220;reset&#8221; to the often strained relationship between the United States and Russia. And while initial moves appeared to be positive — Russia joining the United States in sanctioning Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, for example — it soon became clear that the plan was doomed to fail.
Then-President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration was so committed to the plan — despite Russia&#8217;s obvious willingness to exploit it — that the United States quickly ended up with the short end of a few very dangerous sticks.
Missile-defense plans for Central Europe were scrapped — and Russia was able to arm itself to precarious levels after the Obama administration green-lighted the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
Five years later, Russia annexed Crimea and fomented unrest in Ukraine — and then proceeded to get involved in Syria&#8217;s civil war, joining Syrian President Bashar al Assad in attacking the rebels who opposed his regime.
And in the time since, save the four years that President Donald Trump was in the White House, Russia has continued to posture and foment unrest — all of which led up to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, sparking the ongoing war.
In sum, the &#8220;reset&#8221; has long been viewed as a total failure.
Hegseth was not the only one to respond to the recent reporting on the matter, however. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also clarified that its posture regarding Russia had not changed at all, and the mission — &#8220;to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia&#8221; &#8212; remained its top priority.
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CISA’s mission is to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia. There has been no change in our posture. Any reporting to the contrary is fake and undermines our national security.
— Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/CISAgov/status/1896360034160017551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Reset’ Button For Russia Was Even Worse Than You Remember

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sniped at the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over the recent tragic plane crash at Reagan Washington National Airport, and Duffy quickly made it clear that he had no time for her.
The exchange began with Duffy announcing that he had spoken with the DOGE team — most of whom have experience in tech fields — about helping to &#8220;upgrade our aviation system.&#8221;
Clinton snarked at Duffy over the fact that the known members of entrepreneur Elon Musk&#8217;s DOGE team are in their early 20s, have little or no government experience, and some have not finished their formal educations.
&#8220;They have no relevant experience. Most of them aren&#8217;t old enough to rent a car. And you&#8217;re going to let them mess with airline safety that&#8217;s already deteriorated on your watch?&#8221; she posted.
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They have no relevant experience. 
Most of them aren&#39;t old enough to rent a car. 
And you&#39;re going to let them mess with airline safety that&#39;s already deteriorated on your watch? <a href="https://t.co/l0fFTrYMG2">pic.twitter.com/l0fFTrYMG2</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1887246526285537644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Duffy pushed back, arguing that the problems in infrastructure dated back to long before he was confirmed as Transportation Secretary just a week prior: &#8220;Madam Secretary, with all due respect, &#8216;experienced&#8217; Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. You need to sit this one out.&#8221;
Clinton tried again, blaming &#8220;MAGA&#8221; and the current administration even though Trump took office less than three weeks ago.
&#8220;US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast,&#8221; she said.
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US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes.
Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs.
Now there have been two fatal crashes.
Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast. <a href="https://t.co/kxss1jPjgf">pic.twitter.com/kxss1jPjgf</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1887522604245712993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Duffy remained unmoved, suggesting that Clinton was lashing out to deflect from the other actions DOGE has taken to root out waste and fraud within the federal government.
&#8220;I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts,&#8221; Duffy said. &#8220;The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.&#8221;
&#8220;The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.&#8221;
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I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from… <a href="https://t.co/WOI5K4242D">https://t.co/WOI5K4242D</a>
&mdash; Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDuffy/status/1887558301908426900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee Holds Confirmation Hearing For Sean Duffy

Hillary Clinton Snipes At DOGE, But Sean Duffy Gives Her No Quarter: ‘You Need To Sit This One Out’

Hillary Clinton Snipes At DOGE, But Sean Duffy Gives Her No Quarter: 'You Need To Sit This One Out'

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> announced Saturday that he&#8217;ll award failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros, among others, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor.
The decision to award the medal to such partisan figures falls in line with Biden&#8217;s recent announcement to award J6 Select Committee leaders Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman, and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) with Presidential Citizens Medals.
In a press release, the White House cited Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;decades in public service&#8221; and her historic win as the first female presidential nominee for any major U.S. political party &#8212; which was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/democrats-rules-superdelegates-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not without controversy</a>.
Notably, Clinton took a loss to incoming President-elect Donald Trump during the 2016 election, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bitterly protested</a> the loss for years, blaming Russia, the FBI, and other factors.
Additionally, the former secretary of state has recently called for more big tech censorship, lest &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-we-lose-total-control-if-social-media-companies-dont-moderate-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we lose total control</a>,&#8221; seemingly referring to the government.
As for Soros, Biden cited the controversial figure&#8217;s philanthropy. &#8220;George Soros is an investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Open Society Foundations,&#8221; the White House release said. &#8220;Through his network of foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries, Soros has focused on global initiatives that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice.&#8221;
Recently, Republican governors, such as Florida&#8217;s Ron DeSantis, have vowed to take on the &#8220;work&#8221; of Soros, specifically the billionaire&#8217;s funding of far-Left progressive district attorneys who often execute soft-on-crime policies and <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/20/texas-rogue-prosecutors-law-jose-garza-removal-attempt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">target law enforcement</a>.
Moreover, earlier this week, Biden announced that Cheney and Thompson would be two of 20 people to be awarded the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/02/president-biden-announces-recipients-of-the-presidential-citizens-medal/#:~:text=The%20Presidential%20Citizens%20Medal%20is,country%20or%20their%20fellow%20citizens." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presidential Citizens Medal</a>, which is given U.S. citizens who&#8217;ve performed &#8220;exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.&#8221;
The partisan J6 committee, headed by Cheney and Thompson, targeted political opponents for their supposed role in the J6 Capitol breach. The committee and its suspect antics came under fire from the start, since it included only two Republicans, who happened to be fiercely anti-Trump.
A <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/politics/biden-presidential-medal-of-freedom-honorees/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Federalist said the committee was &#8220;illegally established&#8221; and was effectively a &#8220;two-year operation to frame political opponents as criminal insurrectionists and then covered up members’ own misconduct.&#8221;

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Biden To Award Hillary Clinton, George Soros With Presidential Medal Of Freedom

As the fog of battle from the 2024 presidential race is lifting, it is becoming clearer that this election was not so much a referendum on Trump vs. Biden or Harris as it was a referendum on reality vs. absurdity. It was a chance for Americans to signal that they had reached their breaking point and simply could not tolerate any more lies. It was their chance to publicly reject the many mendacities they have been asked to swallow as &#8220;truth&#8221; over the last eight years or so. 
Despite Herculean efforts by the Democrats along with their governmental agency and media allies, the mask was pulled off of simply too many of the falsehoods, making a number of things clear:
<ul>
<li>No, national security interests were not the reason Hillary Clinton took a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-hillary-clinton-hammer-private-email-server-evidence-fbi-1806046" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hammer and BleachBit</a> to her subpoenaed hard drives and phones.</li>
<li>No, Trump was not a Russian asset — and yes, the Democratic party conspired with <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_federal_government_colluded_with_social_media_to_control_content_so_what.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the media, big tech, and governmental agencies</a>, to perpetrate that false narrative.</li>
<li>No, Joe Biden was not withholding a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billion dollars of U.S. aid</a> from Ukraine because a particular public prosecutor there represented some existential threat to either Ukraine or the United States.</li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">No, Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;vast experience&#8221; in energy and finance did not warrant being paid <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-received-250k-wire-from-beijing-with-beneficiary-address-listed-as-joe-biden-delaware-home">tens of millions of dollars</a> from foreign entities.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/fbi-verified-authenticity-of-hunter-bidens-abandoned-laptop-in-november-2019-irs-whistleblower-gary-shapley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop</a> was not Russian disinformation.</li>
<li>No, the COVID virus did not mutate from a pangolin in some Chinese wet market, and most likely was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-concludes-covid-19-pandemic-came-lab-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked from a Wuhan lab</a>; and Dr. Fauci&#8217;s claim that the U.S. was not funding Gain of Function research wasn’t true either.</li>
<li>No, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/10-myths-told-by-covid-experts-now-debunked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID &#8220;vaccine&#8221;</a> will not stop you from getting the virus; no, masks and six feet of distancing will not have a significant impact on the spread of the virus; and no, not everyone should receive the vaccine – in fact, large swaths of the population should avoid it altogether.</li>
<li>No, objecting to COVID policies at a school board meeting should not make you a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-targeted-parents-via-terrorism-tools-despite-garland-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“domestic terrorist.”</a></li>
<li>No, men cannot menstruate, give birth, or change sexes because they say so or by removing their genitals; and <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2021/12/28/ban-biological-males-from-competing-as-females-restore-fairness-to-womens-sports-commentary/">men participating in women’s sports</a> is neither fair nor inclusive.</li>
<li>No, surgically <a href="https://eppc.org/publication/gender-affirming-care-neither-affirming-nor-caring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removing genitalia from minors</a> is neither “gender affirming” nor “care;” it is butchery and malpractice.</li>
<li>No, DEI policies and practices are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cigarettes-dei-and-our-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not fair or helpful</a>, do not have anything to do with diversity, equity, or inclusion, and actually have the opposite impact of what supporters contend.</li>
<li>No, defunding the police is <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-movement-to-defund-the-police-is-wrong-and-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not a good idea</a>.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/9/22826356/jussie-smollett-jurors-verdict-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> was not attacked by a group of MAGA hat-wearing white supremacists. </li>
<li>No, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Sandman</a> the teen from Covington Catholic High School did not engage in a racist attack on a Native American man.</li>
<li>No, the ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter unrest of 2020 was not comprised of merely “mostly peaceful protests;” they included riots that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days-of-protests-19-dead/?sh=7bad05ac4de4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed 19</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/more-than-700-officers-injured-in-george-floyd-protests-across-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injured hundreds</a>, attacked and burned government buildings, and destroyed <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions of dollars</a> of property.</li>
<li>No, you weren’t crazy to question the results of the <a href="https://www.regnery.com/9781684513369/rigged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 presidential election</a> or how Democrats coordinated with government agencies, the legacy media, and big tech to sway the outcome. </li>
<li>No, the January 6 protests and riots were not an insurrection, officer <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/times-corrects-record-officer-sicknick-204024018.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sicknick</a> was not bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3115584/justice-department-ordered-answer-for-jan-6-killing-ashli-babbitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashley Babbit</a> did not deserve to be killed, and <a href="https://revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ray Epps</a> was clearly more than a mere private citizen.</li>
<li>No, President Trump did not call the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis of Charlottesville <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“very fine people.”</a></li>
<li>No, the southern border is not secure, and the fact that the number of illegal immigrants may have “slowed” for a given month or two is irrelevant as compared to the 12.8 million who were already here by October 2023, and the 2.6 million <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116727/witnesses/HHRG-118-JU01-Wstate-CamarotaS-20240111.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“increase”</a> since January of 2021.</li>
<li>No, anthropogenic climate change is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not the existential threat</a> claimed, and not nearly as dangerous as the <a href="https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/the-outrageous-cost-of-the-green-new-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramifications</a> of the actions proposed and taken to supposedly counter it.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/data-far-showing-inflation-isnt-going-away-making-things-tough-fed-rcna149621" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a> was not “transient” or under control, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-big-inflation-problem-prices-are-now-up-nearly-20-since-he-took-office-080049551.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slowing an increase</a> isn’t the same as an actual decrease, and the cost of living has <a href="https://money.com/how-bad-is-inflation-under-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soared 22%</a> under Biden.</li>
<li>No, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/violent-crime-went-not-down-181230239.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crime</a> is not going down – and the false report claiming violent crime fell by 1.7% under Biden needed to be corrected to show a 4.9% increase.</li>
<li>No, Joe Biden is not &#8220;sharp as a tack&#8221; and in control.</li>
<li>No, when a full-term baby is delivered and then left to die on a delivery table it is not called abortion or reproductive rights.</li>
<li>No, only one political party is a threat to democracy, using the media, governmental agencies, and lawfare to censure, punish, attack, and imprison their political enemies specifically because they are political enemies, and it is not Trump or the Republicans.</li>
</ul>
Criticizing mistakes with hindsight is easy work of course, but the aforementioned lies and so many more were not mere mistakes. They were usually premeditated and intentional lies – created and perpetuated for the explicit purpose of deception – deception to the benefit of the deceiver – and usually to the disadvantage of the American public and the opposing party.
By November of this year, with the exposure of all of these lies and more, the bulk of the American public had surpassed their limit. Not only were they tired of having the truth hidden from them, but they were tired of being told that they were an enemy of freedom, the country and constitution, and decency if they were unwilling to believe and act in accordance with the lies. In this regard, the 2024 election had boiled down to a battle of truth vs. lies – and Americans had become exhausted with the steady and predictable stream of the latter – and from the same, predictable and discredited sources.
As one last validation that they had chosen correctly, Joe Biden extended the middle finger to America yet again, violating his vow that he would not pardon his son – a vow he didn’t break until after the election of course. Further, the usual suspects are now pushing the newest lie, that this is perfectly acceptable given the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/hunter-biden-pardon-decision.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“retribution-focused Trump administration.”</a>
Ever had one of those dreams after which you wake up and chuckle at the stupidity of your thinking in the dream – E.g., Why did I think that having a cup of coffee was a top priority when the house was on fire?” That’s where many Americans are now, asking themselves how they could have believed so many of the clear and obvious lies put in front of them – often for a period of years.
Some Americans and plenty of the media knew all of these were lies from the outset, but surely a large portion of both were shocked when each fabrication was eventually revealed. Perhaps now the public can look with clear eyes at a number of similar situations including those in the present and future.
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Dr. Greg Salsbury is former president of Western Colorado University, author of the 2006 award winning book &#8220;But What If I Live?&#8221; which predicted the 2008 meltdown, and the follow up book &#8220;Retirementology – Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy,&#8221; which topped Amazon’s “personal finance” category.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Donald Trump Campaigns In Michigan Day Before Election

The 2024 Election Was A Referendum On Reality

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department prosecuted and jailed a meme-maker for making a similar joke that comedian Jimmy Kimmel made during his show on Wednesday night — with less than a week left until the 2024 general election on November 5.
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Kimmel, who is openly opposed to former President Donald Trump, suggested on live, broadcast television that Trump voters should wait to vote until Thursday or Friday — two days after the election.
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Jimmy Kimmel: &quot;If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Il1Ch6S0eE">pic.twitter.com/Il1Ch6S0eE</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1851929090548211731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you guys know about this, but we have an election coming up on — I feel pretty relaxed about it and I&#8217;ve really been enjoying the week,&#8221; Kimmel began from his southern California studio. &#8220;In times like this, it is important to remember that cannabis is legal in our state.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to vote,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You can vote early. If you can&#8217;t vote early, vote on time. If you want to vote for Trump, vote late, vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday, maybe Friday. This will be my third time voting against Donald Trump — fifth, if you count the two times he was nominated for an Emmy for a reality show host.&#8221;
Kimmel went on to cite a CNN poll that said less than one-third of American voters believed Trump would concede if he were to lose the 2024 election. &#8220;What would give them that idea? Of course he won&#8217;t concede,&#8221; Kimmel said.
But as critics quickly noted, Kimmel&#8217;s joke mirrored a meme posted by Douglass Mackey ahead of the 2016 election. That meme, sent out to his 58,000 Twitter followers, said that voters could &#8220;avoid the line&#8221; and vote from home if they would just &#8220;text &#8216;Hillary&#8217; to 59925.&#8221; Mackey, who maintained that the meme was &#8220;a joke,&#8221; was convicted on election interference charges in March of 2023 and sentenced to seven months in prison.
&#8220;The Biden Administration sent Douglass Mackey to prison for making this exact joke. I&#8217;m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh posted in response.
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The Biden Administration sent Douglass Mackey to prison for making this exact joke. I&#39;m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules. <a href="https://t.co/SMHtwwBlAQ">https://t.co/SMHtwwBlAQ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1851982795918225682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yo…that’s straight to jail, right!? We lock people up for this. Them’s the rules now,&#8221; added &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; cohost Will Cain.
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Yo…that’s straight to jail, right!? We lock people up for this. Them’s the rules now. <a href="https://t.co/P1Mi9dHfeg">https://t.co/P1Mi9dHfeg</a>
&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1851999001425387788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Prison time. I don’t make the rules,&#8221; the Dank Knight posted.
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Prison time. I don’t make the rules
&mdash; The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) <a href="https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1851930531723612212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Biden’s DOJ put a conservative in prison for this same joke. And that one was just a meme that reached a few hundred. This reaches millions. There are two sets of rules,&#8221; he added.
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Biden’s DOJ put a conservative in prison for this same joke. And that one was just a meme that reached a few hundred. This reaches millions. 
There are two sets of rules <a href="https://t.co/gHDAupeYJu">https://t.co/gHDAupeYJu</a>
&mdash; The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) <a href="https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1851930438316507330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mackey himself even weighed in on Kimmel&#8217;s &#8220;joke,&#8221; saying, &#8220;When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts. Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same?&#8221;
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When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts.
Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same? <a href="https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i">https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i</a>
&mdash; Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) <a href="https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1851952707826819183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Twice failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said during an interview this week that many voters like former President Donald Trump because they view him as &#8220;strong.&#8221;
Clinton made the remarks Thursday night on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Source&#8221; with Kaitlan Collins while talking about the state of the upcoming election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;Well, first of all, I don’t think she has Jim Comey in the wings waiting to kneecap her,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-harris-election/index.html">said</a>. &#8220;So that’s good. And I’m very grateful for that.&#8221;
Collins asked Clinton if she thought that there was a &#8220;double standard&#8221; in the race since Harris showed up for CNN&#8217;s recent town hall while Trump declined.
&#8220;I really do, Kaitlan, and I see it as a double standard,&#8221; Clinton said, even though Trump has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-harris-tv-podcast-media-appearances-2024-election-951ba95c">far outpaced</a> Harris in the number of media interviews both candidates have given.
&#8220;Thankfully, we’ve made progress when it comes to women in politics and certainly seeking the highest office in the land,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But there still is a double standard, and I think there’s also a double standard because it still is very difficult to cover Donald Trump.&#8221;
When asked why Trump has seen a surge in support, Clinton said it&#8217;s because those who are backing him &#8220;think that he offers a better deal&#8221; for their economic future.
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She said that many like his &#8220;belligerent attitude&#8221; toward the system while others &#8220;find him to be a strong man, and that’s very attractive to certain voters.&#8221;
&#8220;They may not even agree with what he’s saying, but they think that he’s strong, and they find that appealing,&#8221; she added.
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Twice failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed this week that former President Donald Trump was trying to reenact an infamous Nazi rally in the U.S. from the 1930s with one of his upcoming political events.
Clinton made the inflammatory remarks Thursday night during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins when Collins asked Clinton if she believed Trump was a &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, Kaitlan, I do,&#8221; Clinton said, later adding, &#8220;Sadly here in America, the term fits.&#8221;
&#8220;And one other thing that you’ll see next week, Kaitlan, is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America, were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.&#8221;
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/25/us-news/trump-campaign-slams-hillary-clinton-madison-square-garden-event-will-reenact-1939-nazi-rally/">noted</a> that the venue hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1924, 1976, 1980, and 1992 — the year that former President Bill Clinton went on to win his first term in office.
&#8220;So I don’t think we can ignore it. Now, it may be a leap for some people and a lot of others may think, I don’t want to go there,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I don’t want to say that. But please, open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.&#8221;
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Clinton&#8217;s remarks come as many, including Trump, have blamed extreme remarks from the political Left for the two assassination attempts on his life this year.
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Crooked Hillary, increasingly bitter about the fact that she will never be president, says that everybody who attends President Trump&#8217;s rally at MSG on Sunday is a Nazi. <a href="https://t.co/7cUXIlNuor">pic.twitter.com/7cUXIlNuor</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1849622716439044226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Today&#8217;s Democrats, led by Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, are not just tiptoeing around the edges of censorship; they&#8217;re creating an Orwellian nightmare where the state is being called upon to regulate speech and to determine what is fit to be heard in the public square.
The Media Research Center took a stroll down <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-21st-century-democratic-presidential-nominee-supports-restricting-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memory lane</a> to measure the seismic shift in attitudes toward the First Amendment for Harris and the other Democratic nominees of the 21st century, including Biden, Hillary Clinton, Obama, John Kerry and Al Gore.
According to the MRC study, each of these six candidates previously stood for free speech rights. Now, they claim that constitutionally protected speech is a threat to democracy. Their tortuous logic is inexplicable, but their previous quotes have not yet been whitewashed by the Left’s ever-faithful tech behemoth, Google.
In 2006, Gore <a href="https://youtu.be/ZNuEKePNCgw?si=p-UifGYw5A7Fzl9c&amp;t=2643" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scolded</a> the Bush administration for allegedly trying to “silence dissenting views” by censoring information “inconsistent with its stated ideological goals.” Fast forward to 2023, and Gore <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4344366-al-gore-calls-social-media-algorithms-digital-ar-15s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggests</a> social media algorithms should be “banned,” calling them the “digital equivalent of AR-15s.”
In 2011, Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDcUQoeFxY">vowed</a> to protect free speech &#8220;with the force of law.&#8221; But just last month, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2024/09/17/hillary-maddow-americans-who-boost-trump-propaganda-are-criminals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she said</a> that Americans should be “criminally charged” for spreading what she dubbed “propaganda.” She later warned, “[i]f they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.”
In 2015, Obama <a href="https://youtu.be/mi5da2AhDCY?si=o22sDubaS4hTFrSq&amp;t=190" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirmed</a> that government propaganda “runs contrary to everything we believe.” Yet, in <a href="https://archive.is/k29vX#selection-2011.0-2014.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>, Obama called on Americans to “pick a side” regarding whether social media companies should be forced to censor Americans.
In 2015, Kerry rebuked censorship, affirming that “freedom must win out over censorship.” A year earlier, he <a href="https://youtu.be/X2JrqxACZp8?si=siES2GzodJEg2GRg&amp;t=304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the very acts committed by his own party today: “Imagine if I couldn&#8217;t talk to you today simply because my government had shut down or censored the internet.” But now Kerry unashamedly attacks the First Amendment “as a major block.”
In 2017, Biden passionately <a href="https://youtu.be/fe8iSYHOg5A?si=6HlO0KKTuQihJ4Wo&amp;t=4555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> free speech rights for all: “[W]e hurt ourselves badly when we don&#8217;t allow the speech to take place. … The First Amendment is one of the defining features of who we are in the Bill of Rights. And to shut it down in the name of what is appropriate is simply wrong.” In that same year, Harris similarly tweeted, “The free and open internet is a cornerstone of our society and must be protected at all costs.”
But like their predecessors, Biden and Harris have flip-flopped, deciding instead that the best way to combat ideas they dislike is not through debate, but through deletion. In the guise of combatting mis- and dis-information, they created the largest censorship regime in U.S. history, spanning 10 federal departments and six additional regulatory agencies.
For example, the State and Homeland Security Departments have partnered repeatedly to censor conservatives in the media. The Pentagon has also used our tax dollars to bludgeon advertisers, cajoling them not to work with conservative media outlets.
Independent agencies are at it, too. The Federal Communications Commission is punishing free-speech advocate Elon Musk while rewarding anti-free speech zealot George Soros. And the National Science Foundation is competing with the Energy Department to be the wizard behind the censorship curtain.
This isn&#8217;t about mis-information; it&#8217;s about power. Democratic leaders have traded the mantle of freedom for the chains of control, embracing the tech titans as partners and enforcers of their narrative. Once heralded as the new public square, social media platforms have become a digital dungeon where speech is policed not by law, but by algorithm.
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While elites in the Democratic Party play the role of speech censors, conservatives have joined with traditional Democrats in a coalition to protect speech rights. This coalition is led mostly by former Democrats, including Donald Trump, Elon Musk and two former presidential candidates, Robert F. Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard.
Trump’s running mate JD Vance <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-olohan/2024/10/02/vp-debate-cbs-jd-vance-denounces-true-threat-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">articulated</a> the correct perspective on speech in the vice presidential debate: “I believe we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately, it&#8217;s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about: It is the threat of censorship.”
Vance is sounding a wake-up call that resonates like the siren many of us heard as school children during nuclear-war fallout drills. We&#8217;re not just at risk of losing an argument; we&#8217;re at risk of losing America.
The next president of the United States will take the oath of office, swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The media must do their job and ask each of the candidates whether they can take this oath, without snickering and crossing fingers.
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L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center.
Dan Schneider is the vice president of Media Research Center&#8217;s Free Speech America.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Since 2020, every candidate the Democratic Party has nominated for president since 2000 has actively backed restrictions on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech</a> online, according to a new analysis from the Media Research Center shared with The Daily Wire. 
“Since the 2020 election cycle, no less than seven of the most recent 10 presidential nominees have called for censorship and/or government regulation of political speech,” MRC researcher Luis Cornelio found wrote in his analysis.
MRC Free Speech For America analyzed the comments and positions of every presidential candidate since 2000. The group found that every Democrat — and just one Republican — who ran for office in that time frame has backed some kind of restriction on speech since 2020, whether banning &#8220;misinformation&#8221; or pushing for the government to crack down on free expression.
That includes former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the last of whom has advocated censorship for years. Harris has <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1829651058269806658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for social media companies to remove posts from former President Donald Trump and demanded more government oversight and regulation for social media companies. 
“They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation, and that has to stop,” Harris told CNN in 2019. 
The report found that former President Donald Trump had taken steps to promote free speech, citing his efforts in 2020 to define Section 230 — a provision that largely gives tech companies immunity for what third parties allow on their platforms — in a way that protected the First Amendment.
Mitt Romney, who ran for president in 2012, is the only Republican the MRC found to have “voiced support for censorship and against the American principles of free speech online.” 
The Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/free-speech/gabriela-pariseau-christian-baldwin/2024/06/25/mrc-free-speech-america-exposes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> several federal agencies to censor speech related to the COVID-19 vaccine, MRC previously documented. This came as Biden claimed that Facebook was “killing people” by allowing posts critical of the COVID vaccine.
“They’re killing people — I mean they’re really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” Biden <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/07/17/networks-promote-biden-claiming-facebook-killing-people-covid">said</a> on July 16, 2021. “And they’re killing people.”
Hillary Clinton, who has long blamed her 2016 loss to Trump on so-called Russian disinformation, has proposed arresting Americans for spreading “propaganda.” 
“I think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases, criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence,” Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrngjBER3E">said</a> on MSNBC last month.
Earlier this month, Clinton urged for social media companies to “moderate” posts, <a href="https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/free-speech/donald-perkins/2024/10/07/hillary-clinton-pushes-censorship-expresses-fear-losing">saying</a> on CNN that if “they don’t moderate and monitor content, we lose total control.”
“We should be, in my view, appealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be pass-throughs that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted—but we now know that was an overly simple view,” she said.
Obama <a href="https://archive.is/k29vX">said</a> back on April 21, 2022 that protecting “democracy” meant more government regulations for online speech.
“Each of us, whether we work at a tech company or consume social media, whether we are a parent, a legislator, an advertiser on one of these platforms, now’s the time to pick a side,” Obama said at Stanford&#8217;s Cyber Policy Center. “We have a choice right now. Do we allow our democracy to wither or do we make it better?”
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Last month, John Kerry, who lost the White House to George W. Bush in 2004, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-if-democrats-win-we-can-change-first-amendment-to-fight-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> that the First Amendment was a major impediment to fighting alleged online misinformation.
“But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence,” he said during a World Economic Forum meeting.
Vice President Al Gore, who has made a fortune pushing fear about climate change, compared social media algorithms to AR-15 rifles in December 2023 and called for them to be banned if they lead people in a certain direction.
“If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants, these algorithms, they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s,” Gore said. “They ought to be banned, they really ought to be banned. It’s an abuse of the public forum.”
Romney, the only Republican on the list, was included because of comments he made during a congressional hearing in July 2023 where he seemed to endorse federal government employees pressuring tech companies to restrict certain posts.
“Employees of the federal government have First Amendment rights, too,” Romney said. “Censorship is when the government shuts something off. This is arguing to try to convince somebody else to shut it off and that’s the right people have whether they’re in government or outside of government.”

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