The Department of Homeland Security was censoring speech before the 2020 election, new emails released by the House Judiciary Committee show. 

How? Through the favorite weapon of America’s intelligence apparatus, fake claims of disinformation. 

Stanford University’s Election Integrity Partnership was set up at the request of DHS and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, says a senior member of one of the EIP’s founding groups, and they were “in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo.”

That was in July 2020.

It’s beyond clear that this was part of battlespace prep to help Joe Biden win that November.  

The EIP came after a number of other “disinformation” operations had been deployed against then-President Donald Trump.

Most notorious was RussiaGate, a scheme in which 100%-false claims that Trump was colluding with the Russian government were laundered through the Justice Department and Congress. 

Another was the effort to suppress our reporting around Hunter Biden’s laptop (also 100% correct).

But this was about more than Trump.

It was about total control of everybody’s speech and thought. 

Per the Judiciary Committee, feds and universities “pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions.”

And guess what? The companies did.

Turns out, implicitly threatening an industry whose regulation you oversee works.

Shocking no one, “this pressure was largely directed in a way that benefitted one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors,” the committee notes.

And the overall purpose of this effort was to “censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.”

You know the rest of the story. 

Once in office, Biden kept up the censorship push. 

Recall the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, a literal Ministry of Truth the administration attempted to convene in spring 2022 that sank under the weight of its obvious unconstitutionality. 

And the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit has revealed that this censorship-via-cutout extended beyond political speech to COVID claims and other key issues. 

Most claims about a “deep state” end up sounding like conspiratorial hogwash.

But it’s increasingly hard to deny that high-powered elements of our intelligence and security apparatus were working to oust Trump — and doubled down on violating the rights of all Americans once Biden took over.