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/1🔎THREAD: Today, we sued the FBI and DOJ for illegally concealing federal records related to Biden government-sponsored censorship of the American people in advance of the 2022 midterm elections.

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/2 On December 16, 2022, @mtaibbi revealed in The Twitter Files, Part Six that two days before the November 2022 election, the FBI National Election Command Post (NECP) sent an email to Elvis Chan in the FBI San Francisco Field Office, flagging twenty-five accounts as election “misinformation,” including @RSBNetwork, the official Twitter account for Right Side Broadcasting Network.
/3 The NECP requested the FBI San Francisco Field Office to coordinate with Twitter to take “action” on the accounts, preserve subscriber information, and gather location information.
/4 Discovery in the Missouri v. Biden litigation revealed that leading up to election day, the FBI maintained an around-the-clock command center to ferret “disinformation” and “misinformation” and told social media platforms to have people available at all times to act and censor.
/5 During Mr. Chan’s deposition, he admitted that the FBI shared information that it believed should be censored, and the predictable effect was that social media platforms would do so.
/6 On December 29, 2022, AFL submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI, with specific search terms, seeking “All records of communications to or from the National Election Command Post (NECP) referencing the Twitter accounts that were flagged for ‘additional action due to the accounts being utilized to spread misinformation.’”
/7 On February 14, 2023, the FBI denied AFL’s request as “overly broad.”

AFL appealed and on August 23, 2023, the DOJ affirmed the FBI’s denial.
/8 Today, AFL is suing the FBI and the DOJ for illegally concealing these records and to uncover how the FBI uses “disinformation” and “misinformation” as an excuse to interfere in our elections.
/9 America First Legal will continue fighting to expose the truth about how Biden’s government is actively working to undermine the First Amendment and prevent free and fair elections. aflegal.org/america-first-…

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/1🚨NEW LAWSUIT🚨

Unelected bureaucrats are trying to undermine President Trump’s constitutional authority to remove executive branch officials.

AFL is suing the U.S. Government Accountability Office to defend the President’s executive authority and power to fire at will. Image
/2 AFL’s lawsuit against the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the first-ever challenge to GAO’s unconstitutional overreach and part of AFL’s broader effort to protect the powers of the Executive Branch from legal challenges seeking to obstruct its constitutional authority.
/3 This lawsuit stems from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request AFL filed as part of its investigation into operations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. Image
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/3 California’s Sanctuary State Laws drastically limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, shield illegal aliens, and threaten public safety. Image
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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL has filed an amicus brief in New Jersey v. Trump to protect our national security, defend our sovereignty, and support President Trump’s Executive Order ending birthright citizenship.Image
/2 AFL, partnering with Stone Hilton PLLC, filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of President Trump’s Executive Order 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”Image
/3 The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, properly interpreted, does not automatically confer citizenship to every person born on U.S. soil because it requires individuals to be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
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/1🚨📄NEW BRIEF — AFL filed an amicus brief on behalf of the State of Alabama and 21 other states defending President Trump’s Executive Orders protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation. Image
/2 AFL, on behalf of the coalition of 22 states, filed the brief in the U.S. District Court of Maryland in PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump.
/3 The coalition’s brief defends two of President Trump’s Executive Orders:

➡️ Executive Order 14187: Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation

➡️ Executive Order 14168: Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism

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AFL exposed how the UK government and other entities actively censored Americans — and even worked with the Biden Admin to do it.

Details below👇
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AFL also exposed how the UK-based “Center for Countering Digital Hate” actively works to censor Americans online.
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/3 Last year, Washington state officials threatened to sue Adams County for refusing to comply with the harmful, dangerous, and illegal sanctuary jurisdiction law fraudulently titled the “Keep Washington Working Act.”Image
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