On November 29, 2025, the Trump White House launched an official government webpage titled ‘Media Offenders’ (whitehouse.gov/mediabias)—a public enemies list for journalists and news organizations that criticize the administration. Announced the previous day by Press Secretary Karoline …
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Governor Bill Lee signed legislation on August 21, 2020 that escalated penalties for camping on Tennessee state property from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony punishable by up to six years in prison and permanent disenfranchisement—a transparent effort to suppress Black Lives Matter protests that …
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On February 9, 1950, junior senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin delivered a Lincoln’s birthday address to the Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, claiming he possessed a list of communists working in the State Department. McCarthy declared: “While I cannot take …
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