A State Department agency, which has been called out for allegedly blacklisting Americans and news outlets, was set to be refunded — until now.
The Global Engagement Center was included on page 139 of the CR bill that was being hammered out among lawmakers but has now been revised out of the bill.
“That’s a victory,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official who has been at the forefront of rallying against government censorship for years now.
“Thanks to you, raising your voice and telling Congress, ‘Get that out of here, there will be no censorship, no spying on the American people’ — especially a sub agency of the State Department that pretends to combat foreign disinformation and then aims its censorship tentacles at you and me,” she continues.
“But my outstanding question about the Global Engagement Center and the fact that it was in this bill, even after it had been exposed, my question is why would speaker Mike Johnson allow that provision in the first draft of the bill? Because the fact that he allowed it in the bill means that he was fine with renewing it’s authority, funding it for an additional year. Why would he be OK with that?” Wheeler asks. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
