“Congress has advanced H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, legislation designed to stop payment card companies from assigning firearm-specific merchant category codes that many Americans believe could be used to monitor lawful firearm purchases.

In today’s video, I explain what merchant category codes are, why they became controversial, what this bill actually does, and why it matters to every American who values the Constitution, privacy, and the Second Amendment.”

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Trump Declassifies Election Documents: Here’s What We Know So Far [some of the declassified documents available so far]

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Intel Officials ‘Massaged’ Briefings to Hide China’s 2020 Election Interference.

“Veteran investigative journalist and all-around badass Catherine Herridge says newly released documents are providing fresh corroboration for claims that U.S. intelligence officials deliberately worked to suppress or downplay information about China’s wide-ranging efforts to influence the 2020 presidential election.

Herridge explained that she had already begun reviewing the materials and identified an internal November 2020 email among intelligence officials discussing how they had ‘massaged’ a President’s Daily Brief to avoid any direct connection to the election.

Wait, they kept something from the president? Say it ain’t so!

She described the effort as consistent with earlier whistleblower allegations of a coordinated, multi-domain push by Beijing involving trade, diplomacy, open-source information, and social media to shape the outcome.

Watch: [video]
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