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The Biden-era FBI’s efforts targeting traditionalist Catholics were far more extensive than previously known and involved personnel from multiple field offices, according to newly revealed documents that contradict former FBI director Christopher Wray’s congressional testimony. The FBI’s focus on traditionalist Catholics was revealed in February 2023, when a former agent published a leaked memo produced by the bureau’s Richmond, Va. field office warning against the emerging threat posed by “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology.” The Richmond memo was largely based on the findings of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has a record of maligning conservative groups as “extremist.” The memo...

The team at AMERICAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE delivered, and special thanks to the great Patrick Byrne and Juan O'Savin for their incredible generosity and tireless dedication! This is gold, and we hope to see immediate action on the status for Tina Peters. I am honored to work with so many amazing and talented people! ... Tina Peters was trying to protect the integrity of the election data and while doing so, exposed the corruption of the election systems and personnel involved. At the same time, we need to see Justice for Mike Lindell’s case which is this week. I hope to...

The US is essentially “facilitating the persecution of Christians in Ukraine by supporting the Kiev government, which has been waging a purge campaign against the nation’s canonical Orthodox church,” American journalist Tucker Carlson has said. Carlson made the statement during an interview with a former Ukrainian MP, Vadim Novinsky, released on Friday. The Ukrainian government has been cracking down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) for months, which it views as having ties to Russia.

FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday to discuss their efforts to clean up the bureau after decades of corruption and politicization. Recall that Kash Patel was former House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes’ top deputy for years and helped blow the Spygate and Russiagate stories wide open. Nobody knows the Comey-McCabe-Brennan-Clapper-Spygate scandal better than Kash Patel. On Sunday Kash Patel announced the bureau has uncovered a trove of hidden Russiagate documents. He said the documents will be released soon.

BREAKING: Kash Patel announces new evidence linked to the Russiagate hoax has been found: “I’m telling you and the American public.. We have found material, information, and people who wanted to hide it from the world since we got in these seats.”

CNN panelist and Democrat strategist Lis Smith has sparked backlash after appearing to admit on-air Donald Trump’s criminal trials were designed to upend his reelection. Ms Smith made the remarks during a recent episode of CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt. "Like we [Democrats] resisted so hard between 2017 and 2024, we impeached the guy, like, prosecuted him, convicted him on 34 felony counts, and guess what? He still got elected," she said. Republican strategist and fellow CNN panellist Scott Jennings immediately called Smith out on-air for saying the quiet part out loud. "Everybody who now touts the 34 felonies,...

A key prosecutor on the classified documents case against President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview Wednesday, .... Jay Bratt had been subpoenaed to appear before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee for a closed-door interview but did not answer substantive questions because of his Fifth Amendment constitutional right to remain silent. Bratt spent more than three decades at the Justice Department before retiring in January, just weeks before President Donald Trump took office. He was a key national security prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which in 2023 charged Trump with illegally...

SOKOTO, NIGERIA – Monday, May 12 marks three years since radical jihadists in Nigeria murdered a 22-year-old Christian woman, and new first hand testimony is shedding light on her final moments. However, the Nigerian Department of State Services detained the three journalists today for about four hours after publishing the new report. Deborah Emmanuel’s story first made international headlines when a violent Muslim mob beat her to death in 2022. Journalists identified her as a victim of a so-called “blasphemy” murder in the capital of Nigeria’s Sokoto state. Judd Saul, the founder of Equipping the Persecuted and executive director of...

After Pakistani militants attacked Indian-administered Kashmir in late April, gunning down 26 tourists and escalating a new series of offensives in the ongoing Indo-Pakistani conflict, media has drawn attention to the sectarian perspectives of Pakistani Muslims and Hindu nationalists in India, as well as more ameliorating voices in the region. The perspective of Christians in the region, however, has gone largely ignored. It is worth noting that Christians as well as Hindus were targeted for their ethno-religious status in the Kashmiri attack, and that this was by no means the first time that Christians were caught in the crossfire. Trends...

resident Donald Trump announced Thursday evening he is appointing Ed Martin to be an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice with two jobs, Pardon Attorney and Director of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group. The appointment comes just hours after Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he has capably served as interim U.S. Attorney under Trump for the past several months, in the face of Republican opposition over his support for J6ers that was led by Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The new positions do not require...

Letitia James’s lawyer dismissed the allegations as the Trump administration’s “latest act of improper political retribution."NEW YORK — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to a person familiar with the case — the first known criminal probe of a law enforcement official who took action against President Donald Trump.A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has issued subpoenas over a mortgage application in which James attested that she intended to make a single-family home in Norfolk her primary residence, said the person, who spoke...

Trial coverage brought to you by OneTaste This project is about exposing the damage left behind by a DOJ that was politicized and weaponized during the Obama-Biden years. OneTaste isn’t alone. Americans across the country have been unfairly targeted for political and cultural reasons, victims of a system that was turned against the people it was meant to protect. Nicole Daedone’s fight for freedom is bigger than her own case. It is about defending every citizen’s right to fair treatment and real justice in this country. This is Nicole’s passion and OneTaste’s mission to stand up, speak out, and fight...

A June 2021 memo obtained by Just The News reveals the Biden Regime ordered federal prosecutors to investigate conservatives who spread disinformation, gun owners and active-duty servicemembers. Per John Solomon of Just The News: A newly released memo from June 2021 shows the Biden administration authorized federal law enforcement to target Americans engaged in “concerning non-criminal behavior.” According to declassified documents, Biden officials directed law enforcement to investigate individuals such as active-duty servicemen, gun owners, and people deemed to be spreading “disinformation.” No other information about the June 2021 memo was released as of Tuesday evening. BREAKING: Biden admin ordered...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump directs the DOJ to free Gold Star mother Tina Peters from Colorado prison. 7:35 PM · May 5, 2025

Western governments undermine elections, religious freedom, free markets, and free speech. The same Western leaders who speak endlessly about “protecting Democracy” continue to rig elections, outlaw political parties, and prosecute candidates. Germany has declared Alternative for Germany — now the country’s most popular party — an “extremist group” on par with domestic terror organizations. The European Union helped Marxist globalists in Romania invalidate a presidential election and ban the winner from office. France and Brazil have followed the U.S. example of bringing ludicrous criminal charges against popular anti-Establishment politicians, and while President Trump overcame the sham prosecutions targeting him, Marine...

If you watched Donald Trump's cabinet meeting on Wednesday, you may have seen Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins hold up a photo of the Maude family of South Dakota. I'd heard a little bit about the fifth-generation ranching family before that, but I decided to learn more because I couldn't believe the story Rollins told about how the Joe Biden administration treated them. It's unbelievable. Or maybe it's not, given all we're learning about the last four years. ... Trump Admin is reversing Biden-era failures in 100 days! The U.S. Gov has dropped charges against the Maude family, victims of...

Last fall, Egor Redin was in hiding at a Baptist church in Tajikistan, two thousand miles from home. The pastor advised him not to leave the building because the secret police might be watching. Redin had hoped to apply for asylum in Tajikistan but was warned not to. If Tajik authorities found out he was Baptist, he would likely be deported back to Russia, where he would face criminal prosecution for protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a father of two little girls aged two and four who was also a pacifist (historically Russian Baptists have refused to serve in...

Fifth-generation ranchers Charles and Heather Maude make their living raising cattle and hogs on the wide plains of western South Dakota. Since 1907, Charles’s family has been on the land where they now farm thousands of acres.

The people of Colorado are flooding their governor’s office with calls for the release of Tina Peters.She is the former Mesa County clerk and recorder who is serving a nine-year sentence for election interference. In office, she was responsible for maintaining election systems in her county.The Denver Post calls the ruling “persecution” and an “example of [a] weaponized justice system.Like many Americans in 2020, she had questions about election integrity. During an election software update, she gave someone else’s election security credential to a man she trusted. This individual took pictures of source codes, which should be open anyway, and...

Ranchers and their elected representatives have won a major battle. The federal government dropped criminal charges against Charles and Heather Maude of Caputa, SD. Ben Patterson, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Federal District Court in the Western Division of South Dakota signed a motion to dismiss the indictment against Charles Maude and Heather Maude, dated April 28. South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude were indicted separately nearly a year ago on charges of theft of federal property stemming from a fenceline dispute about a fence built before either were born. Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman is pleased with the news...